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W

Etymology
From a modification of the letter, from the  letter , from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Its use as a symbol for tungsten is based on.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  work
 * 2)  whisper
 * 1)  work
 * 2)  whisper
 * 1)  whisper

Pronunciation

 * Name of letter
 * , sometimes reduced to.
 * , sometimes reduced to.

Etymology 2
Abbreviations of various words beginning with W.

Noun

 * 1)  sign on toilet door.
 * 2)    (statistic).
 * 3)   A win.
 * 1)    (statistic).
 * 2)   A win.
 * 1)    (statistic).
 * 2)   A win.
 * 1)    (statistic).
 * 2)   A win.
 * 1)   A win.
 * 1)   A win.
 * 1)   A win.
 * 1)   A win.

Derived terms

 * OTW
 * NNW, NW, SSW, SW, WNW, WSW
 * dub
 * C of W, W particle, W-2 employee, W-sitting, ,

Translations

 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Swedish:

 * Swedish:

 * Hungarian:
 * Swedish:

Proper noun

 * 1)   (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

Etymology 3
From noun ("win"), which is in turn from noun  ("wins" as a statistic in sport).

Adjective

 * 1)  Excellent, top-notch.

Letter

 * 1) The twentieth letter in the Afar alphabet.

Noun

 * 1) W

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Etymology

 * is from West Germanic stem-initial *w.
 * For the origin of, see.

Usage notes

 * is regularly represented by w in all systems.
 * In the German-based spelling of Moselle Franconian, is normally spelt w as it is a post-vocalic allophone of.
 * In the German-based spelling of Ripuarian, is normally spelt v, but w may be used in  after the German cognate. A phonemic distinction from  is doubtful and exists at most in very rare cases.
 * In Aachen and the Netherlands there is a clear phonemic distinction between w and v, and these are thus kept apart.

 * In the German-based spelling, w is doubled after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem. In the syllable coda, the choice between w and f may be based on internal analogy, but f is often used throughout or after the German cognate.
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, w is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open.

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-third letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Adverb

 * 1) ; west

Usage notes

 * In the Finnish alphabet, W is a variant of.
 * Used only in loanwords, old/archaic language and proper names with old spelling (e.g. ). Specifically, W was still used when Finnish was typed in fraktur (blackletter), but as the Roman type replaced it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, took its place.

Pronunciation

 * is almost invariably in  (and ). Otherwise both are in free variation; as a broad tendency  is more northern,  more southern.
 * is almost invariably in  (and ). Otherwise both are in free variation; as a broad tendency  is more northern,  more southern.
 * is almost invariably in  (and ). Otherwise both are in free variation; as a broad tendency  is more northern,  more southern.
 * is almost invariably in  (and ). Otherwise both are in free variation; as a broad tendency  is more northern,  more southern.
 * is almost invariably in  (and ). Otherwise both are in free variation; as a broad tendency  is more northern,  more southern.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-third letter of the German alphabet.

Pronunciation

 * like, or  like
 * like
 * like
 * like
 * like
 * like

Letter

 * 1) the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, called ' or ' in Italian

Usage notes

 * The letter W is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Symbol

 * 1) viva,

Letter

 * 1) the 23th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Usage notes
Only in loan words and foreign names. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of v.

Pronunciation

 * , or if devoiced

Usage notes
Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Usage notes

 * 1) The twentieth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by N and followed by H.

Letter

 * 1) the 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Etymology
and, ,. .

Letter

 * 1) the 23rd (or optional) letter of the Swedish alphabet

Usage notes

 * In some situations, such as in URLs, the pronunciation of the separate letter is identical to that of.
 * The letter is often described as an optional inclusion to the Swedish alphabet.
 * Since 2006 the letter has been categorised as a separate letter by the dictionary Svenska Akademins Ordlista (SAOL). Before that, it was viewed as a variant of the letter and sorted thereunder.

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.

Formerly, the letter was used to represent  in the Spanish-based orthography.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .

Mutation

 * W cannot be mutated but when representing a vowel, does take, for example with the word :

 * However, when it represents the semivowel /w/, W cannot be mutated.

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Wade

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
 * 1) A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
 * 1) A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
 * 1) A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.

Usage notes
Technically, Wade should only refer to the system of Chinese romanization developed by Thomas Wade prior to the contributions and adjustments made by Herbert Giles. In practice, it was often used as a shorthand for the more proper term Wade-Giles.

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) calf (of the leg)

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Wafer

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  wafer

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Wagon

Etymology
Derived either as a synonym of, i.e. , or directly from the wagonlike shape of the constellation. Compare also the synonym.

See and.

Proper noun

 * 1)   A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.

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Wal

Etymology
The root descends from and, from , from , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Although the simplex root also existed in earlier historical stages of German, Grimm claims that the simplex had fallen out of used by and was used exclusively in the compounds such as  and. The simplex later reappeared in the course of the 19th century, at first in the domain of scientific literature, as a. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) whale

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) whale

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from. The related terms below are inherited.

Noun

 * 1)  election

Etymology 3
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  forest

Noun

 * 1) wave (of water)

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Walachia

Etymology
Borrowed from

Proper noun

 * 1) Wallachia

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Walker

Proper noun

 * 1)  from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.
 * 2) A placename
 * 3) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:
 * 1) A location in the United Kingdom:

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Walker is the 31st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 523,129 individuals. Walker is most common among White (58.7%) and Black/African American (35.1%) individuals.

Etymology 2
From.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A.

Etymology
From, , from , from ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) fuller, felt-maker

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Walkman

Etymology
A trademark; from, coined in reference to an earlier product, Pressman, a portable tape recorder for journalists.

Proper noun

 * 1) A Sony portable personal compact cassette player product line
 * 2) A Sony brand for personal portable audio media players
 * 3) * 1997, , 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Chapter 1, at page 5 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):
 * Outside the toilets school parties from France and Germany stood in stiff groups photographing themselves. They talked loudly without removing their Walkmans. Their headsets sizzled and tished.
 * 1)  A street urchin.

Derived terms

 * Discman Sony CD-based device like a Walkman
 * walkman genericization

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Wall

Etymology 1
Of various origins, principally from etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from, the source of numerous other surnames such as  and  and from , from , from  or , from , from. Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German and Swedish.

Proper noun

 * 1) A placename
 * 2)  ; part of  is in the parish.
 * 1)  ; part of  is in the parish.
 * 1)  ; part of  is in the parish.

Etymology 2
See.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Berlin Wall.
 * 2)  the Trump Wall.
 * 3)  the Great Wall of China.

Etymology 3
.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Wall is the 631st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 53,794 individuals. Wall is most common among White (86.10%) individuals.

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  rampart, parapet, earthwork
 * 2)  levee, embankment
 * 3)  ridge
 * 1)  ridge
 * 1)  ridge

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Wand

Etymology
Various origins:
 * A nickname for a shy or short-sighted person, from.
 * Borrowed from, a metonymic occupational surname for a weaver or cloth cutter, from (representing modern ).
 * Borrowed from, a metonymic occupational surname for a glove maker, from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Wand is the 28049th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 854 individuals. Wand is most common among White (84.19%) individuals.

Etymology
From and, northern variant of. For the phonetic development compare.

Noun

 * 1)  wall

Usage notes

 * The plural Wänn is used in Moselle Franconian and some southern dialects of Ripuarian. The form Wäng is used in many Ripuarian dialects, including Kölsch.

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 although developing a completely distinct meaning.

Noun

 * 1) wall, partition
 * 2) vertical face of a precipice, any large vertical surface

Usage notes

 * The words Wand and are often but not always interchangeable. Even when they are synonymous, there is sometimes a preference for one of them:
 * Wand is predominant for walls that are not made of stone, concrete, or the like. Mauer usually implies masonry.
 * With stone walls, only Mauer is commonly used for freestanding ones.
 * Both words are used for the walls of buildings. However, Wand is the normal choice for when one refers to them as seen from the inside (for example, a painting is typically said to hang an der Wand, "on the wall", rather than an der Mauer).

Etymology
From and.

Noun

 * 1) wall

Etymology 1
From and.

Noun

 * 1) wind

Etymology 2
From and.

Noun

 * 1) (interior) wall

Etymology
From and. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) interior wall

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Wanderer

Noun

 * 1)  someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hiker, wayfarer one who travels on foot

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Wang

Etymology

 * From  or.
 * As a surname, from, from the above.
 * From
 * As a and  surname, from  and obsolete derivatives of.
 * As a Jewish surname, from the German sense, and also a nickname for someone from (compare 🇨🇬).
 * As a surname, spelling variant of.
 * As a surname, spelling variant of.

Proper noun

 * , a surname of Meitei origin.
 * , a surname of Meitei origin.
 * , a surname of Meitei origin.
 * , a surname of Meitei origin.
 * , derived from a common Chinese surname.
 * 1) ; variation of Vang.
 * 1) ; variation of Vang.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 王
 * Mandarin:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Manchu: ᠸᠠᠩ
 * Mongolian:
 * Classical Mongolian: ᠸᠠᠩ
 * Russian:
 * Tibetan: ཝང
 * Vietnamese: Vương

Proper noun

 * 1) . Variation of

Etymology
and. .

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Wapiti

Noun

 * 1) wapiti (elk, species of deer)

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Ward

Etymology 1

 * As an English surname, from the noun and related cognates such as,  etc.
 * As an surname, reduced from, from.
 * As a Jewish surname, adapted from, named after . Comparable to.
 * As a surname, Americanized from.

Proper noun

 * 1)   for a guard or watchman.
 * 2) A placename
 * 1) A placename

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Ward is the 79th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 260,464 individuals. Ward is most common among White (75.58%) and Black (18.50%) individuals.

Etymology 2
Shortened form

Proper noun

 * 1) ; A corruption of the name Edward

Etymology
Germanic, cognate with waard, garde etc.

Proper noun

 * 1) A given name, either as a diminutive of Edward or officially given equivalent to English Ed(dy), Ned, Ted

Related terms

 * (ke)
 * (ke)

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Ware

Proper noun

 * 1) A placename:
 * 2) A place in the United Kingdom:
 * 3)  in Dorset

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) goods, merchandise, ware

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Warren

Etymology
From the surname (de) Warenne, a reference to a place called Varenne, a hamlet near, along the river  in Normandy, from , a hydronym of / origin, from , , ultimately from ; see also the Latin river. Phonetic influence is shown by the [v] > [w].

Proper noun

 * 1) A placename:
 * , which includes the town.
 * 1) A placename:
 * , which includes the town.
 * , which includes the town.
 * , which includes the town.

Usage notes
The given name used in medieval England and returned to use in the nineteenth century, often transferred from the surname. It has been more popular in the U.S.A. than in the U.K.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Varena, Trentino, Italy

Etymology
.

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Wat

Proper noun

 * 1) A medieval English given name, short for Walter or from the Anglo-Saxon name Watt.

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Watt

Proper noun

 * 1) Watt, a king of Sussex.
 * 2) An Anglo-Saxon given name.

Etymology
Late 17th century, from, from , of unknown origin.

Noun

 * 1)  cotton wool

Etymology 1
, from.

Noun

 * 1) intertidal zone, foreshore, especially the vast mudflats at the North Sea coast

Noun

 * 1) watt (unit of power named after James Watt)

Noun

 * 1) cotton wool

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) watt (unit of power)

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) cotton wool

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) word

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Way

Etymology 1
From specific instances of. In Christian contexts, a used with that meaning in the Acts of the Apostles (for example, Acts 9:2). In Chinese contexts, a.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Christianity.
 * : the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.
 * We're walking along the Way now.
 * We're walking along the Way now.
 * We're walking along the Way now.

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Weald

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.

title: Weald


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Wear

Etymology
Probably identical with British, itself of origin.

Proper noun

 * 1) . The cities of Durham and Sunderland are situated upon its grand banks.

title: Wear


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Web

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1) The World Wide Web.

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Web; the World Wide Web

Etymology
..

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Web; the World Wide Web

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) the Web; the World Wide Web

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) web

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Web; the World Wide Web.

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Weber

Proper noun

 * 1)  from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Weber is the 283rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 109,433 individuals. Weber is most common among White (94.3%) individuals.

Etymology 1
From, from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) weaver  (someone who weaves); webster
 * 2) weaver (as a component part of multiple compound names, mainly various bird (or other animal) species)
 * 1) weaver (as a component part of multiple compound names, mainly various bird (or other animal) species)

Proper noun

Etymology 2
Named after the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Noun

 * 1) weber

Etymology
From.

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Wed

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ons
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Mit.,
 * Hindi:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ons
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Dic
 * Swahili: Jtn

title: Wed


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Weg

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) path, trail, track (usually for foot traffic)
 * 2) route, way (to get from one place to another)
 * 3) method, way (of doing something)
 * 4)  someone's planned course or path, the space needed for movement
 * 1) method, way (of doing something)
 * 2)  someone's planned course or path, the space needed for movement
 * 1)  someone's planned course or path, the space needed for movement
 * 1)  someone's planned course or path, the space needed for movement
 * 1)  someone's planned course or path, the space needed for movement

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) way
 * 2) road

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) way
 * 2) road
 * 3) direction

title: Weg


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Weiß

Etymology
From the adjective.

Noun

 * 1) white, whiteness
 * 2) powder, face powder
 * 3)  cocaine

title: Weiß


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Wellington boot

Noun

 * 1)  One of a pair of Wellington boots.

Synonyms

 * (informal)

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Weltanschauung

Etymology
, first attested in 's Kritik der Urteilskraft (, 1790).

Noun

 * 1) worldview, weltanschauung, philosophy of life, ideology

title: Weltanschauung


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Wen

Proper noun

 * 1)  of east Asian derivation.

Translations

 * Arabic: وَن, وِين
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Hebrew: וואן
 * Hindi:
 * Japanese:, ウェン
 * Korean:
 * Russian: Вэнь
 * Thai: เวิน
 * Vietnamese: Ôn
 * Yiddish: ווען

title: Wen


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Wend

Etymology
From, from , from , the same source as 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A member of a Slavic people from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub.
 * 2) A Slavic person living anywhere in the vicinity of German-speaking areas.

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: Vendo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: vender
 * Old English: Winedas
 * Old Norse: vindr, vendr
 * Polish: Wend
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, винд, вене́д
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: венд, вінд

Etymology
Probably borrowed from.

Noun

 * , one of several Slavic groups living near German-speaking areas.

title: Wend


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Wert

Etymology
From, from , from. The -t is generalised from the uninflected form, likely reinforced by the desire to distinguish from forms of (compare ). The regular -d- remains in,. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) value determinable numerical quantity
 * 2) worth, value state or degree of being estimated
 * 3)  value moral ideal or norm
 * 1) worth, value state or degree of being estimated
 * 2)  value moral ideal or norm
 * 1)  value moral ideal or norm
 * 1)  value moral ideal or norm

title: Wert


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West

Etymology

 * In most senses and as an English surname, from, the direction.
 * As a surname, Americanized from.

Proper noun

 * 1) A placename:
 * 2) The western world; i.e. Western Europe and the Americas.
 * 3)  The Western Bloc (the non-communist nations of Europe and America).
 * 4)  The Western United States (sometimes excluding the West Coast), particularly  in reference to the  Wild West.
 * 5) Regions or countries lying to the west of a specified or implied point of orientation.
 * 6) The western part of any region.
 * Senegal is a nation that lies in the West.
 * 1) One of four positions at 90-degree intervals that lies to the west or on the left of a diagram.
 * 2)  A person (as a bridge player) occupying this position during a specified activity.
 * 3)   for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village.
 * 1) Regions or countries lying to the west of a specified or implied point of orientation.
 * 2) The western part of any region.
 * Senegal is a nation that lies in the West.
 * 1) One of four positions at 90-degree intervals that lies to the west or on the left of a diagram.
 * 2)  A person (as a bridge player) occupying this position during a specified activity.
 * 3)   for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village.
 * 1)   for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: Արևմուտք
 * Bashkir: Көнбайыш
 * Belarusian: За́хад
 * Bulgarian: За́пад, Окциде́нт
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, Okcident
 * Danish: Vesten
 * Dutch:, Occident,
 * Estonian: Lääs
 * Farefare: sʋlmi-tɩŋa
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: დასავლეთი
 * German:, , , westliche Welt
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, मग़रिब
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: Батыc
 * Khmer: បច្ឆិមទិស, លោកខាងលិច
 * Korean:, , , ^구미권(歐美圈),
 * Latvian: Rietumi
 * Lithuanian: Vakarai
 * Macedonian: Запад, Окцидент
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Өрнө
 * Moore: Nasaar-tẽnga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Vesten, vesten
 * Nynorsk: Vesten, vesten
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Запад, О̀кцидент
 * Roman: Zapad, Òkcident
 * Slovak: Západ
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: Väst, ,
 * Tajik: Ғарб
 * Thai: ทิศตะวันตก
 * Ukrainian: За́хід
 * Vietnamese: phưng tây, phương Tây,
 * Volapük:

 * Bashkir: Көнбайыш
 * Danish: Vest
 * French:
 * Georgian: დასავლეთი
 * German:
 * Korean:, ^서구권(西歐圈)
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, Δυτική Ευρώπη
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:

 * French:
 * Greek: Δυτικές Πολιτείες
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

Etymology
From and, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) the west
 * 2) a wind coming from the west
 * 1) a wind coming from the west

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Western

Adjective

 * Of, situated in, or related to the West.
 * 1) * "As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine." (The Death of Nature, "Nature as Female" by Carolyn Merchant)
 * 2)  Originating from Europe.
 * 3) Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.
 * 1)  Originating from Europe.
 * 2) Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.

Translations

 * Finnish:

Noun

 * 1)  An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.
 * 1)  An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  western

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Westie

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A West Highland White Terrier.
 * 2)  An inhabitant of the western suburbs of a city or town, stereotyped as of working class status and poor.
 * 3)  An inhabitant of the western suburbs of Sydney or Melbourne.
 * 4)  An inhabitant of the western suburbs of Auckland.
 * For Aucklanders who know what it means, this person is a Westie. —
 * At least Bobs claims he's a Westie and he hasn't moved there as a social reject. —
 * 1)  An intense fan of the Christian singer Matthew West.
 * The Westies in the crowd went wild when Matthew took the stage and sang Happy.
 * 1)  A member of a criminal gang based in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan.
 * 2)  A member of the Royal Westminster Regiment.
 * For Aucklanders who know what it means, this person is a Westie. —
 * At least Bobs claims he's a Westie and he hasn't moved there as a social reject. —
 * 1)  An intense fan of the Christian singer Matthew West.
 * The Westies in the crowd went wild when Matthew took the stage and sang Happy.
 * 1)  A member of a criminal gang based in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan.
 * 2)  A member of the Royal Westminster Regiment.
 * The Westies in the crowd went wild when Matthew took the stage and sang Happy.
 * 1)  A member of a criminal gang based in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan.
 * 2)  A member of the Royal Westminster Regiment.
 * 1)  A member of the Royal Westminster Regiment.
 * 1)  A member of the Royal Westminster Regiment.

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Whetstone

Etymology
The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at a division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
 * 1)  A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
 * 1)  A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
 * 1)  A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
 * 1)  A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
 * 1)  A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.

Noun

 * 1)  A single instruction of the, often expressed as a value per second.

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Whig

Etymology
From Whiggamore, possibly from, from +.

Noun

 * 1)  A member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in Britain that was opposed to the Tories, and eventually became the.
 * 2)  A member (especially a politician) of the former  or its successor, the.
 * 3)  An advocate of war against, or independence from, Britain during the.
 * 4)  A member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party.
 * 1)  A member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party.
 * 1)  A member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party.

Translations

 * Danish: whig
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Marathi: विग
 * Ukrainian: віг

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Whiskey

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  Signal flag for the letter W.
 * 2)  UTC−10:00
 * 1)  UTC−10:00

Translations

 * Czech: Dvojité V
 * English: William
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: wiski
 * Italian:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) whiskey

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Whisky

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) whisky alcoholic drink

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Whit

Noun

 * 1) The season of Whitsuntide.

Etymology 2
Shortening of the surname of Dick Whittington, London mayor who funded the rebuilding of the prison.

Proper noun

 * 1)   in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s).

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White

Etymology 1

 * As an English surname, from, as a nickname for someone with white hair or pale complexion; in some cases from a personal name of the same meaning. See the modern adjective.
 * Also as an English surname, from, found only in placenames, a derivative of the verb ; compare.
 * As a and  surname, used as a translation of several Gaelic names containing the element  and, including  (McElwain, Kilbane),  (Galligan),  (Bane), and   (Bannon).
 * Also as a Scottish and Irish surname, an Anglicization of, itself from , , from the same source as the English surname.

Proper noun

 * 1) A locale in the United States:
 * 1) A locale in the United States:

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, White is the 24th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 660,491 individuals. White is most common among White (65.5%) and Black/African American (28.2%) individuals.

Noun

 * 1)  An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.
 * 1)  An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.
 * 1)  An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.

Etymology
From.

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Wicca

Etymology
A twentieth-century borrowing of, from ; mispronounced as instead of the correct. The modern use of the term was introduced first as Wica, mentioned briefly in chapter 10 of Gerald Gardner's book Witchcraft Today (1954), as a collective noun ("the Wica"), allegedly used as a self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft. The spelling Wicca, again as a collective noun, was introduced and popularized by Gerald Gardner's later book, The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959).

Proper noun

 * 1) A neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observance of eight Sabbats, and the performance of various rituals.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 威卡教
 * Mandarin: 威卡教
 * Esperanto: Viko, viĉo
 * Finnish: wicca
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: Γουίκα
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Wicca
 * Japanese: ウィッカ
 * Korean: 위카
 * Lithuanian: Wicca
 * Marathi: विका
 * Polish: wicca
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ви́кка
 * Spanish: wicca,, hechicería,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: Vika
 * Urdu: ویکا

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Wiccan

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to the neo-pagan religion of Wicca.

Translations

 * Esperanto: viĉa, vika
 * Finnish: wiccalainen
 * German: Wicca-
 * Irish: Wicca
 * Polish:
 * Russian: викка́нский
 * Spanish: wiccano
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) A follower of Wicca.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 威卡教徒
 * Esperanto: viĉano, vikano
 * Finnish: wiccalainen, wicca
 * Irish: bean Wicca, fear Wicca
 * Russian: викка́нин
 * Spanish: wiccano,, , hechizero,
 * Swedish:

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Wiener

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Wiener is the 6,528th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5,191 individuals. Wiener is most common among White (95.43%) individuals.

Etymology
Gender from

Noun

 * 1) An inhabitant of Vienna

Noun

 * 1) wiener, short for Wiener Würstchen

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Appendix:Colors

This is a list of English color (or colour) names. This list is not complete.

Contents

 * Alphabetical listing
 * A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Col grouping

 * Further reading

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Wild

Proper noun

 * 1)  originally referring to a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.

Etymology
From, from. Perhaps a collective form of, from.

Noun

 * 1)  game

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Wilde

Proper noun

 * 1) . A variant of Wild.

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Wile

Etymology
From, an occupational surname for a trapper or a nickname for a wily person.

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Will

Etymology
Shortened from William or, less often, from other given names beginning with Wil-, such as Wilfred or Willard.

Proper noun

 * , a shortening of William; also used as a formal given name.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 威爾
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, Willy, Wim
 * Greek: Γουίλ
 * Hebrew: וויל
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: ウィル
 * Latvian: Vilis
 * Limburgish: Wum
 * Portuguese: Gui
 * Russian: Уиллом
 * Serbo-Croatian: Vilko
 * Slovene: Vilko, Vili
 * Spanish: Guille
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: Gwil

Noun

 * 1)  A weak-side linebacker.

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Willie

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1921 George Jean Nathan, Henry Mencken: The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness. Item notes:v64:1(Jan.1921):page 4:
 * Not one of his old friends but had been taken to task, in Willie's familiar note of boyish plaintiveness: "Why don't you call me by my own name? I never did like 'Willie' - 'William' isn't so bad. But the other sounds like pinafores and bed sheets."
 * 1)  or a feminine diminutive of , often in the form.
 * Not one of his old friends but had been taken to task, in Willie's familiar note of boyish plaintiveness: "Why don't you call me by my own name? I never did like 'Willie' - 'William' isn't so bad. But the other sounds like pinafores and bed sheets."
 * 1)  or a feminine diminutive of , often in the form.
 * 1)  or a feminine diminutive of , often in the form.

Etymology
.

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Willow

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  of modern usage.

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Willy

Proper noun

 * 1) A male given name, diminutive of William.

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English or German

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English or German

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English or German

Etymology
.

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Wind

Etymology

 * As an English surname, from (both senses). This surname also appears in, , , and  with the same senses, such as . Compare.
 * Also as a German surname, variant of.

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wind
 * 2) fart
 * 3)  bragging
 * 4)  upset, disturbance
 * 1)  bragging
 * 2)  upset, disturbance

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wind; the movement of air usually caused by convection or differences of air pressure

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wind; the movement of air usually caused by convection or differences of air pressure

Etymology 1
, from, from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wind

Etymology 2
, from, from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  pulley

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Windisch

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Windisch is the 27110th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 893 individuals. Windisch is most common among White (95.3%) individuals.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Slovene language

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Windischer

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Slovene

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Wink

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wave a loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands
 * 2) sign
 * 3) hint, cue, suggestion

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Winkel

Etymology

 * (Noord-Holland) First attested as winckele in 1298. Derived from.
 * (Noord-Brabant) Derived from.

The surname derives from one of the senses of or from one of several toponyms.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  angle (measure, figure)
 * 2) corner, nook
 * 3) chevron

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) square
 * 2) angle
 * 3) corner
 * 4) gusset

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Winker

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Winker is the 34223rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 663 individuals. Winker is most common among White (95.32%) individuals.

Etymology
From winken "to wave".

Noun

 * 1) trafficator, indicator

Noun

 * 1) indicator, turn signal

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Winter

Proper noun

 * 1) A placename
 * 2) The personification of ,
 * 1) A placename
 * 2) The personification of ,
 * 1) The personification of ,
 * 1) The personification of ,
 * 1) The personification of ,

Noun

 * 1)  winter

Etymology
Literally, “winter”.

Etymology
From, , from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) winter

Etymology
From, , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) winter

Etymology
.

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Wisdom

Proper noun

 * 1)  The Wisdom of Solomon, a book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.

Translations

 * Asturian:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Σοφῐ́ᾱ Σολομῶντος
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: Leabhar na hEagna, Eagna
 * Latin: Sapientia
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: Sabiduría
 * Tagalog: Karunungan, Karunungan ni Solomon

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Wisent

Etymology
Partly inherited from, and partly a 19th-century revival of, (Brehms Tierleben, 1863–1869), from, , from. Due to the learned origin, pronounced with a full vowel in the unstressed syllable. .

Noun

 * 1) wisent, European bison

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Wo

Prefix

 * 1)  the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) balance, scales
 * 2) Libra (constellation and astrological sign)

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Wobbly

Noun

 * 1) A member of the, a militant, radical labor union.

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Wolf

Etymology 1
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) The constellation Lupus.

Etymology 2
From and  short forms of given names containing the  element "wolf".

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Lupus

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wolf
 * 2)  the constellation Lupus
 * 3) shredder, mincer
 * 4) skin abrasion (acquired on long hikes or marches, through the friction of one's clothes)

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wolf

Etymology
.

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Won

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) car

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Wonder

Noun

 * 1) Any of the Wonders of the World.

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Wonderbra

Alternative forms

 * wonderbra

Etymology
A proprietary name, from.

Noun

 * 1) A type of padded, underwired bra designed to enhance the wearer's cleavage.

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Wood

Proper noun

 * 1) An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.
 * 2)  for a woodsman.

Etymology
From, from.

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Woods

Proper noun

 * , variant of Wood. Possibly patronymic.
 * 1) A number of places:

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Woody

Etymology
.

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Wool

Noun

 * 1) well-being, weal
 * 2) good health

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Woomera

Etymology
From, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) An area of South Australia used in Australia's rocket launch program.
 * 2)  located on the Nullarbor Plain about 150 miles north of Adelaide.

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Worms

Etymology
From, from , , etc., from , from a name attested in Latin as  and  with influence from Latin  and , of  origin but usually conjectured to refer to the Celtic god Borvo or a river, spring, or other waters named for him +.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: Вормс
 * Catalan: Worms
 * Czech: Worms
 * Danish: Worms
 * Estonian: Worms
 * French:
 * German:
 * Rhine Franconian: Worms, Woʳms
 * Hebrew: וורמס
 * Italian: Vormazia, Worms
 * Latin: Vormatia, Civitas Vangionum
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Worms
 * Romanian: Worms
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: Worms
 * Welsh: Worms
 * Yiddish: וואָרמז

Etymology
From, , etc., from , from a name attested in Latin as  and  with influence from Latin  and , of  origin but usually conjectured to refer to the Celtic god Borvo or a river, spring, or other waters named for him +.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Etymology
From, from , from.

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Worship

Noun

 * 1)  A form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries
 * 2)  A form of address of a mayor.

Usage notes

 * Usually as "Your Worship" or "His Worship"

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Wort

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1)  word as an isolated unit
 * 2)  utterance, word with context
 * 3)  speech, speaking, figuratively floor
 * 4)  promise, figuratively word
 * 5)  the Word epithet for Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity
 * 6)  the Word of God, Scripture, the scriptures collectively
 * 1)  promise, figuratively word
 * 2)  the Word epithet for Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity
 * 3)  the Word of God, Scripture, the scriptures collectively
 * 1)  the Word epithet for Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity
 * 2)  the Word of God, Scripture, the scriptures collectively
 * 1)  the Word of God, Scripture, the scriptures collectively

Usage notes

 * A clear distinction is usually made in the standard language between the plural forms and  (as above). Note, however, the compound, whose plural is more commonly  rather than the expected . Generally, the distinction is much less clear in colloquial German, where  is not seldom heard for sense 1, and  is occasionally heard for sense 2.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) word

Usage notes
The plural forms are used as mentioned in the entry above.

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Wrack

Etymology
From, probably from , derived from , from , from , whence also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (from Low German).

Noun

 * 1) wreck damaged remains of a ship, airplane, etc.
 * 2) wreck physically and/or mentally unstable person
 * 1) wreck physically and/or mentally unstable person

Usage notes

 * The normal plural is Wracks. The form Wracke is rare.

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Wright

Etymology
English and Scottish occupational surname, from the archaic noun. Found as the second element of compounds such as, , etc.

Proper noun

 * 1)  from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright.
 * 2) ; also a confused anglicization of the French le droit.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Russian:

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Wright is the 35th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 458,980 individuals. Wright is most common among White (65.8%) and Black/African American (28.2%) individuals.

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Wunderkind

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) wunderkind, child prodigy highly talented person who rises to excellence in their field at a young age

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Xenon

Noun

 * 1) xenon

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: . Next:

Noun

 * 1) xenon

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Xerox

Etymology
genericized trademark

Proper noun

 * 1) An American multinational document management corporation.

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Xi

Pronunciation
Mandarin Chinese proper noun

Greek letter
 * see

Etymology 1
From the romanization of.

Proper noun

 * , the western tributary of the Pearl.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 西江
 * Mandarin:
 * Russian: Сицзя́н
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology 2
From the romanization of.

Proper noun

 * , current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–present).
 * , current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–present).

Translations

 * Arabic: شِي
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 習
 * Mandarin:
 * Hungarian: Hszi
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: Şi
 * Vietnamese: Tập (習), Xi

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Xi is the 25620th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 963 individuals. Xi is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (95.57%) individuals.

Etymology 3
From the romanization of.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Japanese:

Pronunciation

 * see

Noun

 * 1) Capital Greek letter
 * , Greek letter

Noun

 * 1) xi (Greek letter)

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Xiphias

Etymology
From, from , from. .

Hyponyms

 * - species

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Xylitol

Noun

 * 1) xylitol (an alcohol)

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Xylose

Noun

 * 1)  xylose (wood sugar)

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Y

Etymology
A late borrowing from the letter, first used to write Greek loanwords in Latin, derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph. .

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  Symbol for yttrium
 * 2)  Symbol for prefix yotta-
 * 3)  IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any pyrimidine
 * 4)  IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for tyrosine
 * 5)  The reservation booking designator for the highest level of economy air fare.
 * 6)  A Fixed-point combinator; especially Haskell Curry's combinator defined as λ f.(λ x.f (x x)) (λx.f (x x))

Noun

 * 1) A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y.
 * 2) A Y-shaped object, such as a railroad fork or a support for a telescope; a wye, a bifurcation.
 * 3)  A moth of the genus Plusia, having markings resembling the letter Y.

Etymology 2
Abbreviations.

Etymology 3
s.

Noun

 * 1)  A particular facility run by the YMCA/YWCA.

Etymology 4
See.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-second and final letter in the Afar alphabet.

Noun

 * 1) Y

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Usage notes

 * Only used rarely in loanwords, respectively after the German or Dutch cognate.

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Etymology
In particular, the use of for  follows the Swedish orthography, which in turn follows Latin.

Pronunciation

 * In Greek words generally, but in unstressed syllables alternatively (e.g. in ).
 * In other borrowings, e.g. from English,, etc.
 * Natively only in proper nouns, mostly in, both pronounced.
 * In Greek words generally, but in unstressed syllables alternatively (e.g. in ).
 * In other borrowings, e.g. from English,, etc.
 * Natively only in proper nouns, mostly in, both pronounced.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter of the German alphabet, called.

Usage notes

 * Also occurs as part of the digraphs, , , , though these are considered letters in their own right.

Letter

 * 1) the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet, called ', ' or  in Italian

Usage notes

 * The letter Y is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Noun

 * 1) fork area where something forks

Usage notes
Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Usage notes

 * 1) The twenty-second letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by H and followed by A.

Letter

 * 1) the 26th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by .

Mutation

 * Y cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take, for example with the word :

title: Y


text:
Yacht

Usage notes

 * But later it was re-allowed as an acceptable variant.

title: Yacht


text:
Yago

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. .

Etymology
, from, from , from and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. .

title: Yago


text:
Yahoo

Etymology 1
Coined by in . According to the , "[a] made name, prob[ably] meant to suggest disgust".

Noun

 * 1)  One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.

Etymology 2
From the company name ; see more on origin there.

Noun

 * 1)  An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.

title: Yahoo


text:
Yak

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) yak Asian bovine

title: Yak


text:
Yank

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England.
 * 2) * 1865, unnamed Confederate officer, according to Lieutenant Joseph E. Moody, U.S.V., “Life in Confederate Prisons”, in Civil War Papers, Volume II, Massachusetts Commandery (1900), page 368:
 * Halt! come down there, you Yanks, come down!
 * 1)  An American: someone from the United States.
 * 1)  An American: someone from the United States.
 * 1)  An American: someone from the United States.

Synonyms

 * ; see Thesaurus:American

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:

 * Esperanto: jankio
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , , ,
 * German: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Japanese:

title: Yank


text:
Yap

Proper noun

 * 1) An island in the Caroline Islands of western Micronesia.

Translations

 * Basque: Yap
 * Bulgarian: Яп
 * Catalan: Yap
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雅蒲島
 * Dutch: Yap
 * Esperanto: Yap
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: Yap
 * Indonesian: Yap
 * Italian: Yap
 * Japanese: ヤップ州
 * Lithuanian: Japas
 * Norwegian: Yap
 * Polish: Yap
 * Portuguese: Yap
 * Russian: Яп
 * Serbo-Croatian: Јап / Jap
 * Spanish: Yap
 * Swedish: Yap
 * Yapese: Waqab

Etymology 2
From or.

Etymology
..

title: Yap


text:
Yard

Proper noun

 * 1)  or
 * 2)  The
 * 3)  Jamaica

Translations

 * German: (der) Yard

Etymology
18th century,. . Masculine gender after. Feminine gender after.

Noun
or

 * 1)  yard measure of length equal to ca. 91 cm

Usage notes

 * The plural mostly follows the general German rule for units of measure (except those in ), namely that it is unchanged after numerals and optionally unchanged otherwise . However, the English-type expression  is also found in this case.

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) Jamaica

title: Yard


text:
Yay

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1) A branch of the Tai language family, spoken by the Bouyei and Giáy people.

Translations

 * Bouyei: Haausqyaix
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 布依語
 * Lao:
 * Thai: ภาษาปู้อี
 * Vietnamese: tiếng Bố Y (Bouyei language), tiếng Giáy (Giáy language)
 * Zhuang: Vahyaej

Proper noun

 * 1)  Sagittarius
 * 1)  Sagittarius

title: Yay


text:
Ye

Etymology 1
Romanization of the surname.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Ye is the 3609th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9839 individuals. Ye is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (97.02%) individuals.

Etymology 2
Shortened from.

Proper noun

 * , American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.

Usage notes

 * West legally changed his name to Ye in 2021.

title: Ye


text:
Yeddo

Proper noun

 * 1)  Tokyo

title: Yeddo


text: Yedo

title: Yedo


text:
Yen

Etymology
From, reinforced by Wade-Giles romanization: Yen¹.

Proper noun

 * 1)  (ancient kingdom)

Noun

 * 1) yen (unit of Japanese currency)

title: Yen


text:
Yeti

Noun

 * 1)  yeti; abominable snowman

title: Yeti


text: Yg

title: Yg


text:
Yi

Etymology
From.

Proper noun
†

Hyponyms

 * † - sole accepted species

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous areas of southwest China.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: (la) jioj
 * Korean: 이족(彝族)
 * Naxi: Lo'lo
 * Nuosu: ꆈꌠ
 * Russian:
 * Vietnamese: Lô Lô, Di
 * Zhuang: Yizcuz

Proper noun

 * 1) Any of a family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by this people.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, hanja: , also spelled , especially in North Korea.

Alternative forms

 * Li, Ri, and Rhee

Proper noun

 * 1) . Equivalent to Chinese

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Russian:, ,

Etymology 3
Borrowed from.

title: Yi


text:
Yoga

Proper noun

 * 1)  One of the six schools of Hindu philosophy.

Noun

 * 1)  yoga (a Hindu discipline)

title: Yoga


text:
York

Etymology
From, , from , , from , from , ultimately from (compare 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬), from. .

Proper noun

 * 1) A placename
 * 2) A place in the United Kingdom:
 * 3) A place in Canada:
 * 4) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 5) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 6)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) A place in Canada:
 * 2) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 3) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 4)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 2) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 3)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 2) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 3)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 2) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 3)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 2) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 3)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 2) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 3)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 2) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 3)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 2) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 3)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.
 * 2) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 3)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.
 * 1) A royal dukedom traditionally given to the second son of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
 * 2)  from the city or the county; See also Yorke.

Translations

 * Arabic: يورك
 * Armenian: Յորք
 * Belarusian: Ёрк
 * Bengali: ইয়র্ক
 * Bulgarian: Йорк
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 約克
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: Evrek
 * Corsican: York
 * Esperanto: Jorko
 * Finnish:
 * French:, Yorck, Yorque
 * Georgian: იორკი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: Ἐβόρακον
 * Gujarati: યૉર્ક
 * Hebrew: יורק
 * Hindi: यौर्क
 * Icelandic: Jórvík
 * Irish: Eabhrac
 * Italian: York
 * Japanese: ヨーク
 * Kannada: ಯೋರ್ಕ್
 * Kazakh: Йорк
 * Korean: 요크
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: یۆرک
 * Kyrgyz: Йорк
 * Lao: ຢອຣ໌ກ, ຢອກ
 * Latin: Eborācum, Eborāca
 * Latvian: Jorka
 * Lithuanian: Jorkas
 * Macedonian: Јо́рк
 * Malayalam: യോർൿ
 * Marathi: यॉर्क
 * Mazanderani: یورک
 * Norman: Évèroui, Éverouic
 * Occitan: York, Yòrk
 * Old English: Eoforwīċ
 * Old Norse: Jórvík
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Iorque
 * Russian:
 * Scots: York
 * Scottish Gaelic: Eabhraig
 * Sinhalese: යෝර්ක්
 * Spanish:, Yórk
 * Tamil: யார்க், யொர்க், யோர்க்
 * Telugu: యోర్క్
 * Thai: ยอร์ก
 * Ukrainian: Йорк
 * Urdu: یورک
 * Welsh: Caerefrog, Efrog
 * Western Panjabi:
 * Yiddish: יאָרק

 * Esperanto: Jorko
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: ヨーク家
 * Marathi: यॉर्क
 * Portuguese: Iorque

 * Marathi: यॉर्क

 * Marathi: यॉर्क
 * Swedish: yorkbo

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
From, a form of , from. Compare, , directly from the Old English form.

Descendants

ả====References====

Etymology
..

title: York


text: You-Know-Who

title: You-Know-Who


text:
Young

Etymology

 * As an English, Scottish, and northern Irish surname, from the adjective, used to distinguish a younger brother or son. This sense is comparable to the surnames , 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬 and , assimilated from and.
 * As a surname, spelling variant of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  for the younger of two people having the same given name.
 * 2) A placename:
 * 1) A placename:
 * 1) A placename:

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Young is the 32nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 484,447 individuals. Young is most common among White (66.3%) and Black/African American (24.7%) individuals.

Etymology
From or.

Etymology
or.

title: Young


text:
Ypocras

Proper noun

 * 1) Hippocrates
 * 2) * 13??: Olde Ypocras, Haly, and Galyen — Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue, The Canterbury Tales

title: Ypocras


text:
Ytterbium

Noun

 * 1) ytterbium

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: . Next:

Noun

 * 1) ytterbium

title: Ytterbium


text:
Yttrium

Noun

 * 1) yttrium

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: . Next:

Noun

 * 1) yttrium

title: Yttrium


text:
Yucca

Etymology
Variant of, from , because (1707–1778) and others confused it with that plant.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily

Hyponyms

 * ,, , , , - sections
 * - type species; - selected other species; see  for more species.

title: Yucca


text:
Yuki

Etymology 1
Probably from

Noun

 * 1) A Native American people from northern California.

Proper noun

 * 1) The language of this people.

Etymology 2
.

Etymology 3
.

title: Yuki


text:
Z

Etymology
From the letter, from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  zetta-
 * 2)  the impedance of an electrical circuit
 * 3)  the depth dimension in a 3D environment
 * 4)  atomic number
 * 5)  IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for either glutamine or glutamic acid
 * 6)  Zulu time

Derived terms

Pronunciation

 * Name of letter

Noun

 * 1) A member of Generation Z.
 * 2)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.

Noun

 * 1) Z

Etymology

 * is from West Germanic stem-initial, geminated or post-sonorant *t.
 * For the origin of, see.

Usage notes

 * may also be represented by, mostly when there is an intervening morpheme boundary.
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, is always represented by ts (or ds). In the German-based spelling,  is represented by  (see there).

 * In the German-based spelling, doubling of z yields tz, which is used after short vowels. (As z is already a voiceless sound there is no change in coda position.)
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, z is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open. Coda z is automatically replaced with s.

Etymology 1
Derived from.

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-sixth and last letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Adverb

 * 1) ; south

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords.

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with ts.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-sixth and last letter of the German alphabet.

Usage notes

 * Doubling of generally yields, but  is retained in loanwords (chiefly from Italian).
 * In German handwriting, the letter Z very often receives an additional stroke in the middle: Ƶ. A lack of this stroke may even make the letter look "incomplete" to a great deal of language users. However, the corresponding grapheme Ƶ is virtually never used in printing.

Pronunciation

 * Z is spelt single stem-initially and after consonants. The pronunciation is not predictable and may be or, though after -l- and -r- it is mostly . It is also spelt single post-vocalically before , where the pronunciation is mostly.
 * Between true vowels it is usually doubled as zz. The pronunciation, again, is not predictable and may be or . Chiefly in learned words it may be spelt single, in which case it is predominantly.

Symbol

 * 1) the letter zeta in the Greek alphabet

Etymology
The letter descended from the Old Italic letter in the  period, but had long fell into native disuse by the Classical period, when it came back into use, transcribing the  letter, which had formerly been transcribed  in initial position and  in medial position. In writings of the period,  frequently takes the place of  and in the third and fourth centuries often represented word-initial.

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter

Letter

 * 1) the 29th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Usage notes
Only in loan words and foreign names. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of s.

Pronunciation

 * , or if devoiced

Etymology
Sense 2 was derived from. The Z sign was initially used for vehicles targeted towards southeastern Ukraine, in a manner similar to invasion stripes used by the Allies in World War II. Later popularised by the Russian government on social media as a rallying symbol.

Symbol

 * 1) the Roman letter Z, z
 * 2)    A symbol representing support for the
 * 3) * "ru"
 * 1) * "ru"
 * 1) * "ru"

- #ZаМир, #ZаПобеду

 * 1) * "ru"

- ZOV

 * 1) * "ru"

- Zалупа, роZZия, zвери, Zло, Zомби, пиZдец

Usage notes
Russian nationalists replace instances of the Cyrillic letter and less commonly  with Z in some words and usernames, and their opponents also use Latin Z's in Russian words to mock them.

Letter

 * 1) the 27th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Usage notes

 * This letter is mostly used only in proper nouns, unadapted loanwords, or Spanish-based spellings.
 * Some purists of Tagalog replace Z in words with.

Etymology
Originated from Russian usage of the letter Z as a military symbol, as well as a symbol of support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine (see ).

Symbol

 * 1) the Roman letter Z, z
 * 2) * "uk"
 * 1) * "uk"
 * 1) * "uk"

- РоZZія

Usage notes
Often used by Ukrainian Internet users and politicians to mock or deride Russians following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

title: Z


text:
Zahl

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) number, numeral, figure
 * 2) tails side of a coin

Hyponyms

 * (definite quantity)

title: Zahl


text: Zahlen

title: Zahlen


text:
Zak

Noun

 * 1) cog

title: Zak


text:
Zar

Etymology
Borrowed both from and.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Zar is the 33530th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Zar is most common among White (69.71%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (22.79%) individuals.

Etymology
, from, from , from. Doublet of and.

Noun

 * 1) tsar, czar Russian monarch

Usage notes

 * Zar is a weak noun in the standard language, but is part of a group of nouns which have a stark tendency to be strong colloquially, so one might hear dem Zar instead of dem Zaren.

title: Zar


text:
Zarina

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Translations

 * Gujarati: ઝરિના
 * Russian:

title: Zarina


text:
Zattere

Etymology
lit. 'rafts, pontoons', from the plural of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  a street (partially a boardwalk) in Dorsoduro, Venice, alongside the Giudecca canal

title: Zattere


text:
Zealand

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Translations

 * Basque: Sjaelland
 * Bulgarian: Ше́ланд
 * Catalan: Sjælland
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: Sjælland
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Zelando
 * Estonian: Sjælland
 * Faroese: Sæland
 * Finnish: Själlanti, Sjellanti
 * French:, L'île de Sjælland
 * Galician: Selandia
 * Georgian: ზელანდია
 * German:
 * Hungarian: Sjælland
 * Icelandic: Sjáland
 * Indonesian: Sjælland
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: シェラン
 * Korean: ^셸란 섬
 * Lithuanian: Zelandija
 * Mongolian: Зеланд
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: Sjælland
 * Old Norse: Sjáland, Sjóland
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: Zealand
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Зеланд
 * Roman: Zeland
 * Slovak: Sjælland
 * Spanish: Selandia
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: Sjaelland
 * Ukrainian: Зела́ндія
 * Vietnamese: Zealand

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * , the southwestern province of the Netherlands.

title: Zealand


text:
Zebra

Noun

 * 1)  radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Z.

Etymology
17th century, from, from , , , from earlier (882),  (897), from , from. Neuter gender probably after.

Noun

 * 1) zebra

Noun

 * 1) zebra

Noun

 * 1) zebra

title: Zebra


text:
Zebu

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) zebu

Etymology
First attested in the 16th century.

title: Zebu


text:
Zelkova

Etymology
From, from.

title: Zelkova


text:
Zen

Etymology
From, from  , an abbreviation of , from. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  A school of Mahayana Buddhism characterized by sudden enlightenment achieved by indirect means and principally associated with China and Japan.
 * 2) * 1953, translating 's , p. 3:
 * For Orientals these mysterious formulae are clear and familiar truths, but for us they are completely bewildering... Dhyana Buddhism, which is known in Japan as "Zen"... is not speculation at all but immediate experience of what, as the bottomless ground of Being, cannot be apprehended by intellectual means, and cannot be conceived or interpreted even after the most unequivocal and incontestable experiences: one knows it by not knowing it.

Usage notes
In reference to a specific lineage of Buddhist teachers, Zen is sometimes inclusive of its Chinese development and masters and sometimes distinguished as the particularly Japanese form of, from the modern Mandarin pronunciation of the same character.

Translations

 * Arabic: زَن, زِن, زِن
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: Дзэн
 * Burmese: ဇင်ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien:, 禪宗
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: zena
 * Finnish:, , zenbuddhismi
 * French:
 * Georgian: ძენი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ज़ेन, झेन
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Búdachas Zen, Zen
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: Дзен
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao: ເຊັນ
 * Malayalam: സെൻ
 * Marathi: जेन, झेन
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਜ਼ੇਨ
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sinhalese: සෙන්
 * Spanish: budismo zen,
 * Telugu: జెన్
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཟེན
 * Urdu: زین
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Western Panjabi: زین
 * Yiddish: זען

Noun

 * : enlightenment and  mindful action, instruction, or behavior considered similar to Zen.

Usage notes
Similar to the proper noun, Zen’s use as a synonym for enlightenment is sometimes limited to the specific form acquired through Zen meditation. In general application, Zen can carry orientalizing overtones, particularly of smug superiority over conventional western thought. It is therefore also applied sarcastically to disparage shallow understanding, feigned wisdom, or bullshitting.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or related to Zen Buddhism.

Noun

 * 1)  zen (denomination of Buddhism)

Proper noun

 * 1)  Zen

authors: Descendants of Dragon and Immortal (con Rồng cháu Tiên)

title: Zen


text:
Zenit

Noun

 * 1) zenith

title: Zenit


text:
Zephyr

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The god of the West Wind.
 * 2)  The west wind personified.
 * 1)  The west wind personified.

Coordinate terms

 * / (north), / (south), / (east), // (west)

Translations

 * Finnish: Zefyros
 * Hungarian: Zephürosz
 * Italian: Zefiro
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: Зефи́р
 * Spanish: Céfiro
 * Swedish: Zefyros

 * Persian:
 * Russian: Зефи́р

title: Zephyr


text:
Zeppelin

Etymology
Borrowed from. Named after, whose surname derives from the German town name. .

Noun

 * 1)  A type of large dirigible rigid airship of the early 20th century, built by the German  and designed to carry passengers or bombs.
 * 2)  A rigid airship dirigible, not restricted to Germany nor the early 20th century.
 * 3)  The penis.
 * 4) * 2022, Seaward Dracula, D. Stroker, sVck
 * She shoved him back on the bed, but fear had turned his zeppelin into a deflated balloon, and try as she might, she couldn't blow any air into it.

Translations

 * Asturian:
 * Catalan: zepelí
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏫᏗᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 齊柏林飛船, 硬式飛船
 * Esperanto: zepelino
 * Estonian: tsepeliin
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: cepelín
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ツェッペリン
 * Korean: 체펠린
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: цепели́н
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: zepelin
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дирижа̀бл, цепелин
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sepelin
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, дирижа́бль

Proper noun

 * 1) A German manufacturing company, famed for building the Zeppelin airships.

Etymology
Named after.

Noun

 * 1)  rigid airship,
 * 2)  any airship

title: Zeppelin


text:
Zeta

Proper noun

 * 1)  medieval state roughly equivalent to modern Montenegro.

Noun

 * 1) A member of, a Mexican criminal syndicate.

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1) zeta (Greek letter)

title: Zeta


text: Zg

title: Zg


text:
Zia

Etymology 1
Borrowed from via Spanish.

Proper noun

 * 1)  popular among Muslims.
 * 2) A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
 * 3) A pueblo in New Mexico.

Noun

 * 1) An indigenous nation inhabiting a reservation in New Mexico, known for their pottery and use of the sun symbol.

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1) a pueblo in New Mexico

title: Zia


text:
Zither

Etymology
See late. From, from , from.

See also.

Noun

 * 1)  zither

title: Zither


text:
Zo

Noun

 * 1) An indigenous people of Burma (Myanmar) and north-east India.

Synonyms

 * Zomi

Proper noun

 * 1) A language spoken in Myanmar and India, especially in Chin State, Mizoram and Manipur, and adjoining parts of Bangladesh.

title: Zo


text:
Zoe

Etymology
From.

title: Zoe


text:
Zombie

Etymology
, ultimately of origin.

Noun

 * 1) zombie

title: Zombie


text:
Zon

Etymology
See.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Sun (closest star to the Earth)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) zone

title: Zon


text:
Zone

Etymology 1
Borrowed, partially via, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) zone

Etymology 2
Short for, the common West German name for the GDR before 1970 (and a colloquial name after it).

Proper noun

 * 1)  the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1) a promontory on the southern coast of Thrace
 * 2) a town on this promontory

title: Zone


text:
Zoo

Etymology
Originally a.

Noun

 * 1) zoo

Noun

 * 1) zoo

title: Zoo


text:
Zoom

Verb

 * 1)  To communicate with someone using the  videoconferencing software.

Noun

 * 1) A video conference using.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Videoconferencing software by Zoom Video Communications.

Etymology

 * (Gelderland) First attested as De Zoom in 1868. Derived from . See also 🇨🇬.
 * (Flevoland) Derived from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  zoom, augmentation of a view as with a camera lens

title: Zoom


text: Zs

title: Zs


text:
Zu

Proper noun

 * 1)  A lesser divinity of Akkadian mythology, and the son of the bird goddess Siris.

title: Zu


text:
Zucchini

Etymology
, plural of.

Noun

 * 1) courgette, zucchini

title: Zucchini


text:
Zuviel

Noun

 * 1) excess

title: Zuviel


text:
Zwei

Etymology
See

Noun

 * 1) two digit or figure
 * 2)  an academic grade indicating "good", corresponding roughly to a B in English-speaking countries
 * 1)  an academic grade indicating "good", corresponding roughly to a B in English-speaking countries
 * 1)  an academic grade indicating "good", corresponding roughly to a B in English-speaking countries
 * 1)  an academic grade indicating "good", corresponding roughly to a B in English-speaking countries

title: Zwei


text:
Zwieback

Etymology
From + : twice-baked, a.

Noun

 * 1) zwieback (toasted sweetened bread)

Noun

 * 1) zwieback

title: Zwieback


text:
Zwölf

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) twelve, a dozen

title: Zwölf


text:
Zygote

Noun

 * 1)  zygote fertilised egg cell

title: Zygote


text: Zêna

title: Zêna


text: Àozhōu

title: Àozhōu


text:
Ángeles

Etymology
From, shortened from María (de los) Ángeles, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as the Queen of Angels.

The city is shortened from El Pueblo de los Ángeles, after the (Santos Ángeles Custodios). Originally named Culiat.

title: Ángeles


text:
Ärger

Etymology
, verb.

Noun

 * 1) annoyance, anger
 * 2) trouble, an unpleasant or dangerous situation
 * 1) trouble, an unpleasant or dangerous situation
 * 1) trouble, an unpleasant or dangerous situation

Symbol

 * 1) The letter  in the German and Austrian spelling alphabets.

title: Ärger


text:
Å

Symbol

 * 1)  Symbol for angstrom/ångström.

Usage notes
The Unicode Standard states that is included in Unicode only for backward compatibility reasons. To represent angstroms, is preferred.

Letter

 * 1) The ultimate (29th) letter of the Danish alphabet. Before its introduction in 1948, the digraph Aa / aa was used. To distinguish between the two forms, "Å" is referred to as "bolle-å" and "Aa" as "dobbelt-a".

Etymology
From.

Usage notes

 * Despite being part of the Finnish alphabet, the letter is only used in Scandinavian names. As a result, it is often seen as a symbol of the Swedish language (which is also an official language in Finland, although not without controversy).

Letter

 * 1) the last letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Proper noun

 * , between Meldal and Rennebu
 * , in Lofoten

Etymology
From two a’s written on top of each other; compare and.

Pronunciation

 * Letter name, noun, preposition
 * Phoneme
 * Phoneme

title: Å


text:
Ål

Proper noun

 * , previously in.

title: Ål


text:
Ír

Proper noun

 * 1) an Irishman
 * 2)  the Irish

title: Ír


text:
Ð

Letter

 * 1) a letter of the Old English alphabet, representing, which was pronounced  or

Letter

 * 1) A letter of the Osage Latin alphabet.

title: Ð


text:
Ñ

Letter

 * 1)  transliterates Sanskrit ङ (or equivalent).

Etymology
.

title: Ñ


text:
Übel

Etymology
From (synonym, ); more at. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Symbol

 * 1) (in Austria) The letter  in the German spelling alphabet.
 * variants: Übermut (in Germany), uniform echo (spelling of the digraph ue)/uniform with umlaut (international)

Noun

 * 1) a problem, an unfavorable result, something causing suffering or unpleasantness, an evil
 * 2) bad (an economic good with a negative price)
 * 3)  illness; suffering
 * 1) bad (an economic good with a negative price)
 * 2)  illness; suffering
 * 1) bad (an economic good with a negative price)
 * 2)  illness; suffering

title: Übel


text:
Übermensch

Etymology
From de.

Noun

 * 1) übermensch

Usage notes

 * In Thus Spoke Zarathustra (in German, Also sprach Zarathustra), the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche explains the steps through which man can become an Übermensch (homo superior; the equivalent English translation would be 'over-man' or 'super-man').

title: Übermensch


text: Þ

title: Þ


text:
Ć

Usage notes
As the letter $⟨ć⟩$ is never the first letter of a word, the upper case form appears only when a word is written in ALL CAPS.

Pronunciation

 * , or if voiced

Etymology
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from Czech alphabet , from latin , from Etruscan , from Ancient Greek , from Phoenician. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably by analogy of  from German.

Inflection

 * Overall more common

 * More common when with a definite adjective

title: Ć


text:
Ĉinio

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) China

title: Ĉinio


text:
Češka

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Czech woman person
 * 2) Bohemian woman person

Proper noun

 * 1) Bohemia, one of the historical regions of the Czech Republic
 * 1) Bohemia, one of the historical regions of the Czech Republic

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) female Czech person
 * 2) female Bohemian person

Proper noun

 * 1) Bohemia, one of the historical regions of the Czech Republic
 * 1) Bohemia, one of the historical regions of the Czech Republic

title: Češka


text:
Œuvre

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)  oeuvre body of an artist's work

title: Œuvre


text:
Ş

Letter

 * 1) The letter s with a cedilla.

title: Ş


text:
Ɔ

Etymology

 * A reversed C, 'C' standing for.

Letter

 * 1)  The capital letter ɔ, representing.

title: Ɔ


text:
Ə

Alternative forms

 * $⟨⟩$ in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwakʼwala)

Letter

 * 1) A letter of the Osage Latin alphabet. Osage script 𐒳.

title: Ə


text:
Ɣ

Letter

 * 1) A letter of the Osage Latin alphabet.

title: Ɣ


text:
Ƣ

Usage notes
Corresponds to Anatolian Turkish Ğ, which is how it is now spelled in Azeri, Crimean Tatar and Latinized Kazakh and Turkmen; in Karakalpak it is now written $⟨Ǵ⟩$, and in Uzbek $⟨Gʻ⟩$.

title: Ƣ


text:
Ʀ

Letter

 * 1) The upper-case Old Norse letter ᛦ (ýr): the upper-case of ʀ

title: Ʀ


text:
Ʃ

Etymology
From IPA.

title: Ʃ


text: Ʊ

title: Ʊ


text: Ʒ

title: Ʒ


text:
Ƕ

Letter

 * 1) a letter used to transliterate the Gothic letter, probably representing.

title: Ƕ


text:
Ƿ

Letter

 * 1) wynn, a letter of the Old English alphabet.

title: Ƿ


text:
Άγγελος

Etymology
Related to. From, a male's surname, from a male's given name.

Related terms

 * , hypocoristic of Άντζελα
 * also ,
 * ( masculine & feminine )
 * related, but different:
 * also ,
 * ( masculine & feminine )
 * related, but different:
 * related, but different:
 * related, but different:

title: Άγγελος


text:
Έλληνας

Etymology
From, from the accusative singular. In Hellenistic Christian times: "Gentile, pagan". In Medieval Greek, the sense was either a "Greek" or a derogatory term for an "idolater" (calling himself, regaining its "Greek" sense after the 11th century. In Early Modern Greek the ethnonymic terms used instead were or.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Greek or Hellene
 * 2) for adjectival use, see
 * 1) for adjectival use, see

title: Έλληνας


text:
Α

Letter

 * 1) The first letter of the Standard Albanian Latin-script alphabet.
 * 2) The first letter of the Arvanitic Albanian Latin-script alphabet (lower case α, not a).
 * 3) The first letter of the Gheg Albanian Cyrillic-script alphabet.

 * 1) The first letter of the Arvanitic Albanian Greek-script alphabet (lower case α, not a).

Etymology
From.

Letter

 * 1) The letter, the first letter of the ancient Greek alphabet.

Usage notes
The letter represented the open front unrounded vowel:. Today, this letter is often represented by lower case, although Ancient Greek did not distinguish between upper and lower case.

Derived terms

 * a, A
 * a, A

Descendants

 * Cyrillic:
 * Old Italic:
 * Old Italic:
 * Old Italic:

Letter

 * 1) The first letter of the Cypriot Arabic alphabet.

Etymology
The letter  derived from the  letter

Pronunciation

 * In modern Greek, represents the open front unrounded vowel sound, similar to the  in.
 * In modern Greek, represents the open front unrounded vowel sound, similar to the  in.

Letter

 * 1) The letter, the first letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.

Numeral

 * 1) The number one (1).

Noun

 * 1) E,

Adjective

 * 1)  east, eastern

Coordinate terms

 * Appendix:Greek compass points

Letter

 * 1) The first letter of the Tsakonian alphabet.

title: Α


text:
Γῆ

Proper noun

 * 1) the Earth, personified as a goddess

title: Γῆ


text:
Η

Symbol

 * , the Alexandrian text-type (from Hesychius, its once-supposed editor).

Etymology
From.

Letter

 * 1) The letter eta, the seventh letter of the ancient Greek alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) The upper case letter eta (ήτα), the seventh letter of the modern Greek alphabet.

Numeral

 * 1) The number eight in Greek numerals.

Article

 * 1) the (feminine form; plural οι)

Usage notes
When accented this letter forms a conjunction.

title: Η


text:
Νίκη

Etymology
From the noun.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Nike

Proper noun

 * 1)  Nike (goddess of victory)

title: Νίκη


text:
Ο

Symbol

 * 1) originally used as a symbol for Big O notation, representing the asymptotic rate of growth of a function in mathematics

Etymology
From.

Letter

 * 1) The letter omicron, the 15th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) The upper case letter omicron (όμικρον), the 15th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.

title: Ο


text:
Π

Symbol

 * 1)  Product over a set of like terms:
 * $$\prod_{n=1}^4 n^2 = 1^2 \cdot 2^2 \cdot 3^2 \cdot 4^2 = 576$$
 * 1)  A class (in some hierarchy of formulae, like the arithmetical hierarchy or polynomial hierarchy) of those formulae whose outermost quantifiers are universal quantifiers.

Usage notes

 * Though there exists a distinct code point for the purpose of the mathematical product, the upper case pi here continues to be used for convenience.

Etymology
From.

Letter

 * 1) The letter pi, the 16th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) The uppercase letter pi (πι), the 16th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.

title: Π


text:
Ё

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Usage notes
The letter Ё usually only appears in Russian loanwords.

Letter
(italics: Ё, ё)

title: Ё


text:
Ї

Letter

 * 1) a letter in the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet

Usage notes
This letter is used as a substitute for on keyboards without Mongolian support.

Letter

 * 1) The thirteenth letter of the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet representing /ji/

title: Ї


text:
А

Usage notes
The pronunciation of the phoneme as only occurs in Persian loanwords with a front vowel later in the word in some dialects. In most dialects, this is indistinct from.

Letter
(italics: А, а)

Etymology
See Translingual section.

title: А


text:
Б

Usage notes
The phoneme is lenited to  after  or between vowels.

Letter
(italics: Б, б)

title: Б


text:
В

Usage notes
Only used in words of foreign origin.

Letter
(italics: В, в)

title: В


text:
Г

Usage notes
The phoneme becomes  or  when adjacent to back vowels (,, , and ) in non-loanwords. In loanwords, it is always.

Letter
(italics: Г, г)

title: Г


text:
Д

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter
(italics: Д, д)

Letter
(italics: Д, д)

title: Д


text:
Е

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Usage notes
The pronunciation of Е as mostly occurs in Russian loanwords.

Letter
(italics: Е, е)

Letter
(italics: Е, е)

title: Е


text:
Ж

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter
(italics: Ж, ж)

Usage notes
The letter Ж is only pronounced in Russian loanwords. It is usually pronounced.

Letter
(italics: Ж, ж)

Noun

 * : ladies' room, women's toilet

title: Ж


text:
З

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: З, з)

Letter
(italics: З, з)

Letter

 * 1) The ninth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Ž) and is followed by the letter  (I).

title: З


text:
И

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Symbol

 * 1)  electrolaryngeal speech

Letter

 * 1) The twelfth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The twelfth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: И, и)

Letter
(italics: И, и)

Etymology
From the early Cyrillic letter iže, from.

Letter

 * 1) The tenth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Z) and is followed by the letter  (J).

title: И


text:
Й

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The thirteenth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Usage notes

 * Sometimes used to replace, including in more formal contexts such as the news. Possibly due to typesetting reasons.

Letter

 * 1) The thirteenth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Й, й)

title: Й


text:
К

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The fourteenth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The fourteenth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Usage notes
The phoneme becomes  when adjacent to back vowels (,, , and ) in non-loanwords. In loanwords, it is always.

Letter
(italics: К, к)

Letter
(italics: К, к)

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  Kt (knight)

Letter

 * 1) The twelfth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (J) and is followed by the letter  (L).

title: К


text:
Кали

Proper noun

 * 1) Kali Hindu goddess

title: Кали


text:
Л

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Symbol

 * 1) The Lobachevsky function, also referred to as an uppercase Lambda.

Letter

 * 1) The sixteenth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The sixteenth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Pronunciation

 * , before,  and

Letter
(italics: Л, л)

Letter
(italics: Л, л)

Letter

 * 1) The thirteenth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (K) and is followed by the letter  (Lj).

title: Л


text:
М

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The seventeenth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The seventeenth letter of the Kazakh alphabet

Letter
(italics: М, м)

Letter
(italics: М, м)

Letter

 * 1) The fifteenth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Lj) and is followed by the letter  (N).

title: М


text:
Н

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The eighteenth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The eighteenth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Н, н)

Letter
(italics: Н, н)

Letter

 * 1) The sixteenth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (M) and is followed by the letter  (Nj).

title: Н


text:
Ном

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) God

title: Ном


text:
О

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The twentieth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The twentieth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: О, о)

Interjection

 * 1) wow (used to express approving amazement)

Letter
(italics: О, о)

Alternative forms

 * Ꙩ, Ꙫ, Ꙭ, ꙮ, Ꚙ, Ꚛ

Letter

 * 1) Capital form of the letter.

Letter

 * 1) The eighteenth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Nj) and is followed by the letter  (P).

Letter

 * 1) The nineteenth letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Ne) and is followed by the letter  (Pe).

title: О


text:
П

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-second letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-second letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: П, п)

Letter
(italics: П, п)

Letter

 * 1) The nineteenth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (O) and is followed by the letter  (R).

Letter

 * 1) The twentieth letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (O) and is followed by the letter  (Re).

title: П


text:
Р

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-third letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-third letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Р, р)

Letter
(italics: Р, р)

Letter

 * 1) The twentieth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (P) and is followed by the letter  (S).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-first letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Pe) and is followed by the letter  (Se).

title: Р


text:
С

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fourth letter of the Bashkir alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fourth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet.

Letter
(italics: С, с)

Letter
(italics: С, с)

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-first letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (R) and is followed by the letter  (T).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-second letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Re) and is followed by the letter  (Te).

title: С


text:
Солнце

Proper noun

 * 1) the Sun, Sol, Old Sol

title: Солнце


text:
Сунце

Proper noun

 * 1) Sun (the center of our solar system)

title: Сунце


text:
Т

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-sixth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet.

Letter
(italics: Т, т)

Letter
(italics: Т, т)

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-second letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (S) and is followed by the letter  (Ć).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-third letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Se) and is followed by the letter  (U).

title: Т


text:
У

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-seventh letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-sixth letter of the Kazakh alphabet

Letter
(italics: У, у)

Letter
(italics: У, у)

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fourth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Ć) and is followed by the letter  (F).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fourth letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Se) and is followed by the letter  (Ü).

title: У


text:
Ф

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-ninth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-ninth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Ф, ф)

Letter
(italics: Ф, ф)

Noun

 * : Q (queen)

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet,it is preceded by the letter  (U) and is followed by the letter  (H).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-sixth letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Ü) and is followed by the letter  (Xe).

title: Ф


text:
Х

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The thirtieth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The thirtieth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Х, х)

Letter
(italics: Х, х)

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-sixth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (F) and is followed by the letter  (C).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-seventh letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Fe) and is followed by the letter  (He).

title: Х


text:
Ц

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-second letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italic: Ц, ц)

Letter
(italic: Ц, ц)

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-seventh letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (H) and is followed by the letter  (Č).

title: Ц


text: Чад

title: Чад


text:
Щ

Letter

 * 1) Letter in several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-fifth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Щ, щ)

Usage notes

 * This letter is only used in Russian borrowings.

title: Щ


text:
Ъ

Letter

 * 1) A letter in several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-sixth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-sixth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Ъ, ъ)

Usage notes

 * Used only when writing in capital letters.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-second letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (Še) and is followed by the letter  (E). Often transcribed as " ' " or " " ", named Аломати сакта (ъайн) or Alomati Sakta ('ayn), it indicates a hard stop, or [ʔ] in IPA form.

title: Ъ


text:
Ы

Letter

 * 1) a letter in several Cyrillic alphabets

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-seventh letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-seventh letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet.

Letter
(italics: Ы, ы)

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-second letter of the Tuvan alphabet

title: Ы


text:
Ь

User note
Where Ь ь were used in Latin script, small-capital ʙ was used as the lower-case form of B.

In most languages, it was pronounced or, corresponding to Anatolian Turkish $⟨İ⟩$. The exception was Kalmuk, where it had its Cyrillic sound value of palatalization.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-eighth letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Pronunciation

 * In the digraph ЬО:

Usage notes

 * This letter is only ever used following a consonant as the digraph ьо (e.g. in ) to denote palatalization. (If a word were in all-caps then the upper case version would be used.)

Letter

 * 1) The thirth-ninth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Ь, ь)

Usage notes

 * Used only when writing in capital letters.

title: Ь


text:
Э

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-ninth letter of the Bashkir alphabet, used only at the start of the word

Letter

 * 1) The fortieth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Letter
(italics: Э, э)

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-third letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  and is followed by the letter.

title: Э


text:
Ю

Letter

 * 1) A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Symbol

 * 1)  tracheo-esophageal speech

Letter

 * 1) The forty-first letter of the Bashkir alphabet

Letter

 * 1) The forty-first letter of the Kazakh alphabet

Letter
(italics: Ю, ю)

Usage notes
This vowel represents the iotated form of both and, and can therefore be used in both back vowel and front vowel words for the purposes of vowel harmony. It is romanized as Ju when used as a back vowel, and Jü when used as a front vowel.

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1)  south

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-fourth letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter  (E) and is followed by the letter  (Ya).

title: Ю


text:
Ғ

Letter

 * 1) Ghayn or ayn: a letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

title: Ғ


text:
Ә

Letter

 * 1) Represented by و in Arabic and Ə/ə in Latin.

title: Ә


text:
Ἡ

Letter

 * 1) Η (eta) with rough breathing

title: Ἡ


text:
User talk:Inuyaroolma~enwiktionary

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title: User talk:Inuyaroolma~enwiktionary


text: hackysack

title: hackysack


text:
hackeysack

Etymology
1970s trademark, coined arbitrarily by, presumably from +.

Noun

 * 1) A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or "hack", full of rice or sand is kept from falling to the ground by using any part of the body except the arms.
 * 2) The sack used in this sport.

title: hackeysack


text:
Talk:hackysack

I think this term is spelled hacky sack, two words. Please research it and correct it, as needed. --Dvortygirl 30 June 2005 02:18 (UTC)

title: Talk:hackysack