text:
abash

Etymology
Attested from 1303, as, , , from the later 14th-century also transitive "to make ashamed, to perplex or embarrass"; from , from , , from , (French ), from + , from , from  + , an  word imitating a yawn, see also 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
 * 2)  To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
 * 1)  To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
 * 1)  To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
 * 1)  To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
 * 1)  To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:abash

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: utandırmaq, xəcalət vermək,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: zahanbit
 * Danish: skamme ud, gøre forlegen
 * Dutch:, in verlegenheid brengen, van zijn stuk brengen
 * Finnish: saattaa häpeilemään, saattaa hämille, saattaa hämilleen
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: confunder
 * Italian:, imbarazzare,
 * Japanese:
 * Lakota: iṡtélya
 * Macedonian: збунува
 * Manx: cur nearey, nearee
 * Norwegian: gjøre skamfull
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , приводи́ть в замеша́тельство
 * Samoan: fa'ama
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, збентежити, соромити, присоромити
 * Vietnamese:,  ,  ,

 * Finnish:
 * Russian:, , прийти́ в замеша́тельство

title: abash


text:
abashedly

Adverb

 * 1) In an abashed manner.

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title: abashedly


text:
abashment

Etymology
From, from alteration of , from  +. Compare 🇨🇬. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: засраменост,
 * Dutch:, moeilijk parket
 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: cotadh
 * Italian:, ,
 * Manx: nearey
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,

title: abashment


text:
abassi

Noun

 * 1)  abbasi historical Persian silver coin

title: abassi


text:
abatable

Adjective

 * 1) Capable of being abated.
 *  an abatable writ or nuisance.

Translations

 * Arabic: قَابِل لِلتَخْفِيف
 * Dutch: vatbaar voor prijsverlaging
 * Finnish: vähennettävissä oleva, kumottavissa oleva
 * German: abschaffbar
 * Portuguese:

title: abatable


text:
abate

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

The is derived from, from , , , , , , , , , from , from  + , from older , ultimately from ).

The is derived from the verb.

Verb

 * 1) To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
 * 2) To reduce (something) in amount or size.
 * 3) To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
 * 4) To lower (something) in price or value.
 * 5) To demolish or level to the ground (a building or other structure).
 * 6) To give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception.
 * 7)  To dull (an edge, point, etc.); to blunt.
 * 8) To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
 * 9) To put an end to (a nuisance).
 * 10)  To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 11) To curtail or end (something); to cause to cease.
 * 12) To give (someone) a discount or rebate; also, to relieve (someone) of a debt.
 * 13) To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status.
 * 14) Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract.
 * 15) Chiefly followed by of: to deprive (someone or something of another thing).
 * 16) To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
 * 17) To decrease in amount or size.
 * 18) To lower in price or value;  specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
 * 19)  Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
 * 20)  Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
 * 21)  Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 22) To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
 * 23) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 24) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
 * 1)  To dull (an edge, point, etc.); to blunt.
 * 2) To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
 * 3) To put an end to (a nuisance).
 * 4)  To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 5) To curtail or end (something); to cause to cease.
 * 6) To give (someone) a discount or rebate; also, to relieve (someone) of a debt.
 * 7) To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status.
 * 8) Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract.
 * 9) Chiefly followed by of: to deprive (someone or something of another thing).
 * 10) To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
 * 11) To decrease in amount or size.
 * 12) To lower in price or value;  specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
 * 13)  Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
 * 14)  Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
 * 15)  Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 16) To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
 * 17) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 18) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
 * 1) To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status.
 * 2) Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract.
 * 3) Chiefly followed by of: to deprive (someone or something of another thing).
 * 4) To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
 * 5) To decrease in amount or size.
 * 6) To lower in price or value;  specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
 * 7)  Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
 * 8)  Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
 * 9)  Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 10) To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
 * 11) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 12) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
 * 1) To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
 * 2) To decrease in amount or size.
 * 3) To lower in price or value;  specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
 * 4)  Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
 * 5)  Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
 * 6)  Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 7) To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
 * 8) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 9) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
 * 1) To decrease in amount or size.
 * 2) To lower in price or value;  specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
 * 3)  Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
 * 4)  Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
 * 5)  Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 6) To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
 * 7) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 8) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
 * 1)  Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
 * 2)  Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
 * 3)  Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 4) To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
 * 5) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 6) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
 * 1)  Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
 * 2) To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
 * 3) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 4) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
 * 1) To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
 * 2) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 3) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
 * 1) To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
 * 2) Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:destroy

Translations

 * Arabic: ضَعُفّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: ضعف
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: abâtya, slackya
 * Czech: zmírnit, ztlumit, zeslabit
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , ,
 * German:, storm, , , ,
 * Irish: laghdaigh
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: pāngū
 * Norwegian:, avta, minke,
 * Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:,  ,  , , , ,

 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Irish: laghdaigh
 * Italian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,

 * Czech: odečíst, odpočítat, (cenu)
 * French:
 * Irish: laghdaigh
 * Italian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق
 * Spanish:

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, hävittää maan tasalle,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Vietnamese:, , làm mất hết, ,

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, pois lukien, poislukien
 * German: absehen von,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish:

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Manx: lhaggee, meeinee
 * Swedish:

 * Czech:
 * Italian:, ,

 * Finnish:
 * Swedish:

 * Arabic: أْضْعَفّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: بهدل
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: physically,  mentally,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: physically,,  mentally
 * German:, , ,
 * Norwegian: slå ned physically, mentally
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, nedbringa
 * Vietnamese:

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: dra av
 * Vietnamese: ,

 * Finnish:
 * Swedish: ,

 * Czech: zeslábnout,
 * Finnish:, , , , , ,
 * Italian:, ridursi,
 * Manx: lhaggee, sloat , traih , tuitt

 * Finnish:, halventua, ,
 * Italian: ridursi

 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: снизити,
 * Latin:

 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Swedish:

 * Finnish: ,
 * Swedish:

 * Arabic:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:, , , , , , ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Dutch:, , , (pijn)
 * German:
 * German:, , ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Lakota:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,   đi, (làm)
 * Vietnamese:

Noun

 * 1)  Abatement; reduction;  an instance of this.
 * 2)  Deduction; subtraction;  an instance of this.
 * 1)  Deduction; subtraction;  an instance of this.

Etymology 2
From, probably an alteration of and ,  (compare 🇨🇬), from , ,  + ,  (from , , the    of ; see further at etymology 1). The English word was probably also influenced by the abate.

Verb

 * 1)  To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.

Etymology 3
Borrowed from, from , the  of , from , a variant of , from , from , ultimately  of a child’s word for “father”. The English word is a.

Noun

 * 1) An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.

Translations

 * Italian:

Etymology 1
A genericized trademark of a trademark.

Noun

 * 1) a powdered larvacide, see  for further information.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  broken wood

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) abbot

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * : abbess the female superior of a Catholic abbey or nunnery

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) slaughter

Etymology 1
, from.

Verb

 * 1) to stray, derogate, deviate, divert from, digress
 * 2) to change paths, swerve from, wander from
 * 3)  to stop
 * 4) to dissuade
 * 5) to knock down
 * 1) to dissuade
 * 2) to knock down

Etymology 2
, from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) abbot

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

Noun

 * 1)  abbot

Etymology 1
From. .

Noun

 * 1)  a clergyman from Italy or France, or that has resided there.

Etymology
, from, from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) abbé

title: abate


text:
abatement

Etymology
From, from (from ), + ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
 * 2)  The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation in calculating the cost of the operation.
 * 3)  The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
 * 4)  The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
 * 5) An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
 * 6)   A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
 * 7)  Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
 * 8) A beating down, a putting down.
 * 9) A quashing, a judicial defeat, the rendering abortive by law.
 * 10) Forcible entry of a stranger into an inheritance when the person seised of it dies, and before the heir or devisee can take possession; ouster.
 * 11) rebatement, real or imaginary marks of disgrace affixed to an escutcheon.
 * 1) rebatement, real or imaginary marks of disgrace affixed to an escutcheon.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . See also Thesaurus:diminution

Translations

 * Arabic: تَقْلِيل, إِنْقَاص, إضْعَاف
 * Egyptian Arabic: تقليل, تنقيص, اضعاف
 * Dutch:, , , , ,
 * Finnish:, lievennys
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Interlingua: diminution
 * Irish: laghdú, lagú
 * Italian:
 * Manx: lhaggaghey, meeinaghey, sloateil, tuittym, traih
 * Maori: māwhetanga, tāngangaotanga
 * Norwegian: minking,, det å avta, bekjempelse
 * Occitan: abatement
 * Ottoman Turkish: اكرام
 * Portuguese:, extenuação
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

 * French:
 * Italian:, ,

 * French:, , , , ,
 * Italian: ,

 * French:

title: abatement


text:
abater

Etymology
From. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) One who, or that which, abates.
 * 2) * 1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p.6,
 * As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.
 * 1) * 1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p.6,
 * As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.

Translations

 * Manx: meeineyder
 * Portuguese: diminuidor

Etymology
From (13th century, ), from, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to bend, lower
 * 2) to bring the grapevine and its tendrils to the beams and props prepared for growing it
 * 3)  to overthrow, to throw down
 * 4)  to defeat
 * 5)  to bend, lean
 * 6)  to become dispirited
 * 1)  to become dispirited

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

Verb

 * 1)  to collapse
 * 2)  to topple
 * 3)  to slaughter
 * 4)  to abate, weaken
 * 5)  to reduce

title: abater


text:
abatis

Etymology
From, , from. See.

Pronunciation

 * singular, plural
 * ; also singular, plural

Noun

 * 1) A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.
 * 2)  In the Middle Ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.
 * 3) In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.

Translations

 * Arabic: حِظَار
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: forhugning
 * Dutch: verhakking,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, rytövarustus
 * German:, Baumverhau
 * Ido:
 * Irish: leagarnach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鹿砦, 逆茂木
 * Latin: concaedēs
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: abatis
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: förhuggning,
 * Tamil:
 * Vietnamese: ,

Noun

 * 1)  fortification formed by felled trees with sharpened branches

title: abatis


text:
abatised

Adjective

 * 1) Provided with an abatis.

title: abatised


text:
abator

Etymology 1
From. From.

Noun

 * 1)  a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee

Translations

 * Dutch: ,

Etymology 2
From. From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance

Translations

 * Dutch: iemand die een ongerief uit de weg ruimt,

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) abattoir

title: abator


text:
abattoir

Etymology
Borrowed from, from (cognate to ) +.

Noun

 * 1) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
 * 2) A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.
 * 1) A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.

Translations

 * Afan Oromo: lafqalii qeeraa
 * Afrikaans: slaghuis
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَسْلَخ, مَجْزَر
 * Egyptian Arabic: سلخانة, مدبح
 * Moroccan Arabic: ڭرنة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: sallaqxana
 * Basque: hiltegi
 * Belarusian: бо́йня, разні́ца
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: slagteri
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: buĉejo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: macel
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სასაკლაო
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, वधशाला, , वधस्थली
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sláturhús
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: rumah jagal,
 * Irish: teach coscartha, seamlas
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , 畜殺場
 * Kazakh: қасапхана
 * Khmer:, វធភូមិ, សត្វឃាតស្ថាន
 * Korean: 도살장
 * Kyrgyz: кушкана
 * Lao: ໂຮງຂ້າສັດ
 * Latvian: lopkautuve
 * Lithuanian: skerdykla
 * Louisiana Creole French: abatwa
 * Macedonian: кланица
 * Malay: rumah sembelihan, rumah potong, rumah sembelih, pejagalan, pembantaian, penjagalan
 * Manx: thie buitçhoorys
 * Maori: wharepatu, whare patu kararehe, whare patu mīti
 * Middle English: bocherie
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, slaktehus,
 * Ottoman Turkish: سلخانه, مزبع
 * Pashto: مسلخ, مزبع
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Schlachthus
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: taigh-spadaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: клаоница
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: jatka
 * Slovene: klavnica
 * Spanish:, desolladero, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: bahay-katayan, lapaan
 * Tajik: кушторгоҳ, саллоххона, маслах
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, kesimevi, ,
 * Turkmen: gassaphana
 * Ukrainian:, скотобі́йня, ,
 * Urdu: بوچڑخانہ
 * Uyghur: قۇشخانا
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: maseło, maçelo
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:

 * Dutch:
 * Ido:
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: ,

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * , slaughterhouse

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) abattoir, slaughterhouse place where animals are slaughtered
 * 2)  abattoir, slaughterhouse place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed
 * 1)  abattoir, slaughterhouse place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  an

title: abattoir


text:
abature

Etymology
From, from the verb. See abate.

Noun

 * 1)  Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

title: abature


text: abatvoix

title: abatvoix


text:
abawed

Etymology
Perhaps past participle of a verb from, from +.

Adjective

 * 1) astonished, abashed

title: abawed


text:
abaxial

Etymology
.

Pronunciation

 * or

Adjective

 * 1)  Of a side that is facing away from the axis or central line, such as the underside of a leaf; or the back of an animal.
 * 2)  Not in the axis. Applied to an embryo placed out of the axis of the seed.
 * 1)  Not in the axis. Applied to an embryo placed out of the axis of the seed.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: levélfonák, abaxiális
 * Irish: allaiseach
 * Malayalam: അബാക്സിയൽ, അപാക്ഷം
 * Polish: odosiowy
 * Portuguese:

 * Czech: nesouosý

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) abaxial

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)   away from the axis

Etymology
.

Etymology
From.

title: abaxial


text:
abay

Etymology
From, , from , , , from the verb.

Noun

 * 1)  Barking or baying of dogs at their prey.

Etymology 1
.

Verb

 * 1) to do something together
 * 2) to accompany; to usher
 * 1) to accompany; to usher

Noun

 * 1) waistband
 * 2) sash
 * 3) belt
 * 1) belt

Noun

 * 1)  grandmother

Usage notes

 * Corresponding word in a standard Crimean Tatar: qartana

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to enter; join
 * 2) to associate; mingle

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being defenceless against one's enemies.
 * 2)  The baying of hounds in order to stop prey from escaping.

Etymology
From Proto-Central Philippine *abay, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) best man; groomsman
 * 2) maid of honor; bridesmaid
 * 3) escort; attendant; retainer
 * 4)  pal; friend; partner; companion
 * 1)  pal; friend; partner; companion

Adjective

 * 1) lying or sitting close to each other

title: abay


text:
abb

Etymology
From, , from , , , from +.

Noun

 * 1) A type of yarn for the warp.
 * 2) A rough wool from the inferior parts of the fleece, used for the woof or weft.
 * 3)  A filling pick used in weaving.

Translations

 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Manx: snaie 'sy choigee

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) help

Etymology
From, , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  abbot

Noun

 * 1)  impediment, hindrance, objection

Verb

 * 1) to hinder

title: abb


text:
abba

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from /; see.

Noun

 * 1)  Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

Etymology 2
Variant forms.

Etymology
From, from a nursery word. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) father
 * 2) chief
 * 3) director

Etymology
Borrowing from the Khoemana/Korana word abba which means to carry someone, especially a child, on your back.

Verb

 * 1)  to carry on one's back

Etymology
. The of the demonstrative pronoun assimilates with the  of the suffix.

Pronoun

 * 1)  pointing at the inside of an object that is farther away from the speaker

Etymology
, from, from /. .

Etymology
, from /, whence also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) father
 * 2) abbot
 * 1) abbot

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  dynamite

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , ultimately an onomatopoeic nursery word. and.

Noun

 * 1)  Abba or Father

Interjection

 * 1) g'day

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) abbot

Etymology
Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) father
 * 2) chief

Etymology
From. Compare with the 🇨🇬 phonetic variation. Compare also with the 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  water
 * 2)   rain
 * 3)  amniotic fluid, waters
 * 1)  amniotic fluid, waters
 * 1)  amniotic fluid, waters

title: abba


text:
abbacy

Etymology
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto:, abata jurisdikcio
 * Finnish: apotin virka, apotin arvo
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: abacht, abdhaine
 * Old Irish: apdaine
 * Italian:
 * Manx: abbaght
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abbedverdighet
 * Nynorsk: abbeddømme, abbedgjeld
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: abaideachd, luamhnachd
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: chức vị trưởng tu viện, quyền hạn trưởng tu viện, chức vị viện chủ tu viện, quyền hạn viện chủ tu viện
 * Welsh: abadaeth, abadiaeth

Etymology
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) abbey

title: abbacy


text:
abbatial

Etymology
From, from , from , from +.

Adjective

 * 1) Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess.

Translations

 * Arabic: دَيْرِيّ, دَيْرَانِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cornish: abasel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: abata, abateja
 * Finnish: luostarin
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Ido:, abadeyala
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: abbātiālis
 * Manx: abbagh, abbanagh
 * Norwegian: abbed-, abbedisse-, abbedi-
 * Occitan: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: abațial
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: trưởng tu viện, viện chủ tu viện
 * Welsh: abadaidd, abadol

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) the quarters of the abbot and monks within an abbey

title: abbatial


text: abbatical

title: abbatical


text:
abbess

Etymology
From, from (French ), from  or , feminine of ,.

Noun

 * 1)  A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks.
 * 2)  A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.
 * 1)  A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.

Translations

 * Arabic: رَئِيسِيَّة دَيْر
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: abadesa
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: абаты́са
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: игуменка
 * Catalan:
 * Cornish:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: abatino
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French: abeesse
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აბატისა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: Abbatessa
 * Irish: ban-ab, máthairab
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 尼僧院長
 * Latin: abbātissa
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: опатица, игуменија
 * Manx: ard-chaillagh, ard-chaillagh ghoo, ard-ven reill, ben abb, moir abb
 * Norman: abbêsse
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: abbedisse
 * Occitan:
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: abadessa
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, настоя́тельница (монастыря́),
 * Scottish Gaelic: ban-aba
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: abadesa
 * Turkish: başrahibe
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: ,/
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:

title: abbess


text:
abbey

Etymology
From A.D. 1250 in, (compare archaic English ), itself borrowed from , , ,  (Modern French ) from  or , from Classical Latin. . See.

Noun

 * 1) The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
 * 2) A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
 * 3) The church of a monastery.
 * 4)  A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
 * 1)  A residence that was previously an abbatial building.

Translations

 * Afan Oromo:
 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic: دَيْر
 * Egyptian Arabic: دير
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: abadía
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: аба́цтва
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 隱修院
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: abatti
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სააბატო
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gullah: aa’bay
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, , , )
 * Latin: abbatia
 * Latvian: abatija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Abtei
 * Macedonian: опатија, игуменија
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: abbatija
 * Manx: abban, mannishter
 * Norman: abbaye
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: abbedi
 * Occitan:
 * Old Portuguese: abadia
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: abaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: опа̀тија
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: batìa
 * Slovak: opátstvo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: abbottkloster
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Zazaki: manastır, cayge

 * Afrikaans: kloosterkerk
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: манастирска църква
 * Catalan:
 * Cornish: abatti
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Lakota: wic‘áṡa wak‘aŋ t‘ipi
 * Macedonian: игуменија
 * Maltese: abbatija
 * Manx: keeill abban, keeill vaynagh, keeill vannishter
 * Norman: abbaye
 * Norwegian:, klosterkirke
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: abaid
 * Sicilian: batìa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:

 * Breton:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Slovak:
 * Volapük:

Etymology
, from or. .

Noun

 * 1) An abbey a building or monastic institution.
 * 2) The church located inside a monastery.
 * 3)  Abbotship; abbacy.

title: abbey


text:
abbot

Etymology
From, , , from , , , from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
 * The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.
 * 1) The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
 * 2) A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
 * 3)  A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
 * 4)  A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ab
 * Albanian: kryemurg
 * Arabic: رَئِيس الدَّيْر
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Asturian: abá
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: аба́т
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: abas
 * Crimean Tatar: abbat
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: abbati
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gullah: aabut
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: abbate
 * Irish: ab, luamh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 修道院長,
 * Korean: 승정(僧正), 수도원장(修道院長)
 * Latin: abbās, archimandrīta
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Abt
 * Macedonian: опат, игумен
 * Malay: abbas
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: abb, fer-reill abban
 * Maori: apota
 * Mongolian:
 * Neapolitan: abbate
 * Norman: abbé
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: abade
 * Pali: saṅghaṇāyaka
 * Persian: راهب بزرگ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: abêt
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: игуман,, опат,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: / ,
 * Volapük:,  hilepädan
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: abt, abbet
 * Zulu:

Etymology
From, , , , from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) an

title: abbot


text:
abbotship

Etymology
From, ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Abtschaft
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abbedverdighet
 * Portuguese: abadiado,
 * Welsh: abadaeth

title: abbotship


text:
abbreviate

Etymology 1
From, from , perfect passive participle of , formed from + , from. Alternatively, a. .

Verb

 * 1)  To shorten by omitting parts or details.
 * 2)  To speak or write in a brief manner.
 * 3)  To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
 * 4)  To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
 * 5)  To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
 * 1)  To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
 * 2)  To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
 * 1)  To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: скарача́ць, скараці́ць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: berrhe
 * Czech: zkracovat,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: mallongigi
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: लघु करना
 * Icelandic:, stytta
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: mempersingkat, ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 略す, , ,
 * Korean:, , 약생(略省)하다), 단축(短縮)하다
 * Latin: abbreviō
 * Macedonian: скратува
 * Manx: girree, aagherr, giar, jean ny s'girrey
 * Maori: whakapoto
 * Norman: rap'tichi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, forkorte
 * Persian: مختصر کردن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: giorraich
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: скоро́чувати, скороти́ти
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Hindi: संक्षिप्तकरना
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Vietnamese: ,

Etymology 2
From, perfect passive participle of.

Adjective

 * 1)  Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
 * 2)  Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
 * 1)  Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese: ,

 * Finnish:
 * Vietnamese: tương đối ngắn

Noun

 * 1)  An abridgment.

Adjective

 * 1) Being abbreviated.

title: abbreviate


text:
abbreviated

Adjective

 * 1) Shortened; made briefer.
 * The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
 * 1) Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
 * 2) Scanty, as in clothing.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُخْتَصَر
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 简略的
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: mallongiga
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 단축 된
 * Manx: girrit, giare, aagherrit, jeant ny s'girrey
 * Polish: skrócony
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük: pebrefüköl

title: abbreviated


text:
abbreviation

Etymology
First attested 1400–50. From, from , from , from + , from. Morphologically.

Noun
, used with for or of

 * 1) The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
 * 2)  A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
 * 3) The process of abbreviating.
 * 4)  A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
 * 5)  One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
 * 6) Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
 * 7) * 1946-1947, President Truman's committee on Civil Rights
 * The phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships.
 * 1)  Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
 * 2)  Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
 * 1)  Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic: اِخْتِصَار
 * Egyptian Arabic: اختصار
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: abbreviatura
 * Belarusian: абрэвіяту́ра, скарачэ́нне, скарачэ́ньне
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: berrheans
 * Crimean Tatar: qısqartma
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: stytting
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აბრევიატურა, შემოკლება
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: ἀποκοπή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: संक्षिप्तीकरण
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:, nod
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kazakh: қысқарған сөз, аббревиатура
 * Khmer: ពាក្យកាត់
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latin: abbreviātiō
 * Latvian: abreviatūra, saīsinājums
 * Lithuanian:, sutrumpinimas
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: кратенка,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: abbrevjazzjoni
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, forkorting, , , abbreviering
 * Nynorsk: forkorting, abbreviatur
 * Occitan: abreviacion
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romagnol: abreviaziôn
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: скра̑ћеница, абревија́ција, кра̀тица
 * Roman: skrȃćenica, abrevijácija,
 * Slovak: skratka
 * Slovene:, okrajšava
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: skrotconka, krotceńka
 * Upper Sorbian: skrótšenka
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kifupisho
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagdadaglat
 * Telugu: సంక్షేపం
 * Thai:, คำย่อ,
 * Turkish:
 * Udmurt: вакчиятон
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: مُخَفَّف
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ôfkoarting

 * Afrikaans:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 요약본(要約本)
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oppsummering,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Vietnamese: bài tóm tắt

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: zkrácení
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, lyhennös, ,
 * German:, Kürzen
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: giorrú
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: abbreviātiō
 * Malay: penyingkatan
 * Maltese: abbrevjazzjoni
 * Maori: poronga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, forkorting
 * Nynorsk: forkorting,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абревија́ција, кра̀тица
 * Roman: abrevijácija,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Vietnamese: (sự) tóm tắt, sự rút ngắn
 * Volapük:

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

 * Finnish: lyhennysmerkki
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: krácení
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: (sự) ước lược, sự rút gọn

 * Burmese:
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: (3)
 * Manx:
 * Persian:
 * Slovak: (2, 3)
 * Swahili:
 * Welsh:

title: abbreviation


text:
abbreviator

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A person who abbreviates or shortens.
 * 2)  One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُخْتَصِر
 * Dutch: afkorter
 * Polish: abrewiator
 * Portuguese: abreviador

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abbreviator
 * Portuguese: breviador

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  an

Etymology
.

title: abbreviator


text:
abbreviatory

Adjective

 * 1) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * Portuguese: abreviatório, abreviativo

title: abbreviatory


text:
abbreviature

Etymology
From, from. See also.

Noun

 * 1) An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
 * 2)  An abbreviated state or form.
 * 3) A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
 * 4)  The process of abbreviating.
 * 1)  The process of abbreviating.
 * 1)  The process of abbreviating.

Translations

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Spanish:

 * Crimean Tatar:

title: abbreviature


text: abb wool

title: abb wool


text:
abdal

Etymology
From, plural of , from.

Noun

 * 1) A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

Translations

 * Portuguese: abdalá,
 * Rajasthani: अबदाळ

Etymology
From, plural of , from.

Noun

 * 1) an ignorant person, blockhead
 * 2)  dervish
 * 1)  dervish

Etymology
(whence 🇨🇬), from, plural of , from.

Noun

 * 1) fool, idiot
 * 2) naïf
 * 3) simpleton

Etymology
, from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A religious devotee in radical Sufism who has attained a high level of spirituality comparable to a sannyasi in Hinduism

Usage notes
When used as an honorific, the term is added after a person’s name, as in ””.

title: abdal


text:
Abderian

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or belonging to Abdera or its people.

Translations

 * Polish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) An inhabitant or native of Abdera.

title: Abderian


text:
Abderite

Etymology
From, , from.

Noun

 * 1) An inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace.
 * 2)  Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.
 * 1)  Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.
 * 1)  Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

Usage notes
Ancient belief was that "the people of Abdera are fools and madmen" (stulti et insani Abderitae).

Translations

 * Finnish: abderalainen
 * German:, Abderitin
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abderitt
 * Occitan: abderita
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: abderita
 * Swedish:

title: Abderite


text:
abdest

Etymology
Borrowed from (modern 🇨🇬), from, compound of  and.

Noun

 * 1)   The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.

Coordinate terms

 * (place where wudu is performed, South Asia)

Etymology
, from. .

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From, from , compound of and.

Noun

 * 1)  abdest

title: abdest


text:
abdicable

Adjective

 * 1) Capable of being abdicated.

Translations

 * Dutch: neerlegbaar
 * Portuguese: abdicável

title: abdicable


text:
abdicant

Adjective

 * 1)  Abdicating; renouncing.

Usage notes

 * Typically followed by the word of.

Translations

 * Portuguese: abdicante, abdicador

Noun

 * 1) One who abdicates.

Translations

 * French:
 * Portuguese: abdicador, abdicante

title: abdicant


text:
abdicate

Etymology
From, perfect passive participle of , formed from + , akin to.

Verb

 * 1)  To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
 * 2)  To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
 * 3)  To depose.
 * 4)  To reject; to cast off; to discard.
 * 5)  To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
 * Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
 * 1)  To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
 * Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
 * 1)  To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
 * 1)  To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
 * 1)  To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
 * 1)  To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
 * 1)  To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: се откажува
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fornekte
 * Nynorsk: fornekte
 * Portuguese: deserdar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: ,

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: abdicar
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: avvise
 * Nynorsk: avvise
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:

 * Bulgarian: отказвам се от
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: afstand doen
 * Esperanto: eksreĝiĝi
 * Finnish: luopua kruunusta ; erota virasta, erota tehtävästä
 * French:
 * Georgian: გადადგომა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: tabhair suas
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Maori: whakataka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: frasi seg,
 * Nynorsk: fråseie seg
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: слагать полномочия
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абдици́рати
 * Roman: abdicírati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: magbitiw
 * Vietnamese:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: abdisere
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: abdichêr
 * Russian:, (от престола)
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абдици́рати
 * Roman: abdicírati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: magdimiti
 * Vietnamese:, từ ngôi

 * Manx:, ,  ,
 * Slovak: , ,

title: abdicate


text:
abdication

Etymology
First attested in 1552. From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
 * 2)  The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
 * 3) The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.
 * 4)  The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
 * 5)  The action of being deposed from the seat of power.
 * 1)  The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
 * 2)  The action of being deposed from the seat of power.

Translations

 * Asturian: abdicación
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: abdicació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, (troons)afstand
 * Dzongkha: སྐུ་དབང་བློས་བཏང
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: tabhairt suas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: abdicātiō
 * Malay: ,
 * Jawi: ابديکاسي
 * Rumi:
 * Maori: whakatakanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, frasigelse, tronfrasigelse
 * Nynorsk: abdikasjon, fråseiing
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абдика́ција
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Vilamovian: odaonka

Etymology
.

title: abdication


text:
abdicative

Adjective

 * 1)  Causing, or implying, abdication.

Translations

 * French:
 * German:
 * Latin: abdicativus
 * Portuguese: abdicativo

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A reasoning from the negative

Etymology 1
From.

Adverb

 * 1) negatively

title: abdicative


text:
abdicator

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A person supporting the abdication of another.
 * 2) One who abdicates.
 * King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom was an abdicator.

Translations

 * Portuguese: abdicador, abdicante
 * Serbo-Croatian: abdìkant

title: abdicator


text:
abditive

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  Having the quality of hiding

title: abditive


text:
abditory

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A concealed location used for storage or to hide items.

Translations

 * Norwegian: gjemmested
 * Portuguese: escondrijo,

title: abditory


text:
abdomen

Etymology
First attested in 1541. Borrowed from, from , possibly from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  The fat surrounding the belly.
 * 2)  The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions.
 * 3)  The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
 * 4)  The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other.
 * 1)  The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other.
 * 1)  The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian: abdomen,
 * Amharic: ሆድ
 * Arabic: بَطْن,
 * Egyptian Arabic: بطن
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Baluchi: لاپ
 * Basque: sabel, sabelalde, abdomen
 * Belarusian: жыво́т
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, , ,
 * Chamicuro: sye'ki
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 腹部, 腹
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Coptic: ϩⲏ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bug,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἦτρον
 * Gujarati: ઉદર
 * Haitian Creole: vant
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kvið,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: vatsa
 * Interlingua: abdomine
 * Iranun: tian
 * Irish: abdóman, bolg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kapampangan: atian, atyan
 * Kazakh: іш, құрсақ
 * Khmer:, ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سِک, زِک,
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Southern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ທ້ອງ
 * Latin: abdōmen
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: pilvas
 * Luxembourgish: Ënnerläif
 * Macedonian: мев, стомак
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:, അടിവയർ
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: bolg
 * Maori: pūuruuru, kona
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: abid, adidlą́
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , , abdomen
 * Nynorsk: buk, mage, abdomen
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قارن, شكم, بطن
 * Pashto:, ,
 * Pennsylvania German: Bauch
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian:
 * European:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Inari: čuávji
 * Northern: čoavji
 * Skolt: čåu´jj
 * Southern: tjåejjie
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian: abdomen
 * Cyrillic: тр̀бух
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, abdomen
 * Sotho: mpa
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: ondrobere
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: aɛeddis
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: katso
 * Tooro: enda
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: garyn
 * Tuvan: хырын
 * Ukrainian: живі́т, че́рево
 * Urdu: پیٹ
 * Uyghur: قورساق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:, götöp , lugötöp , diskoap
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: bûk
 * Xhosa: isisu
 * Yiddish: בויך
 * Zhuang: dungx
 * Zulu:

 * Afrikaans: buikholte
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: bughule
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: მუცლის ღრუ
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: zikekelên
 * Latvian: vēdera dobums
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: adidlą́
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bukhule
 * Nynorsk: bukhole
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian:
 * European:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абдо́мен
 * Roman: abdómen
 * Slovak: brušná dutina
 * Slovene: trebušna votlina
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan:
 * Vietnamese: bụng dạ

 * Afrikaans:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: bagkrop
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abdomen, bakkropp
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian:
 * European:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абдо́мен
 * Roman: abdómen
 * Slovene: zadek
 * Thai:

Etymology
From.

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
From, from , from , possibly from , from +.

Noun

 * 1) abdomen
 * 2)  The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions
 * 3)  the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity
 * 4)  the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other
 * 1)  the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other

Etymology
Of unclear origin; often suggested to be from, though de Vaan doesn't find this convincing.

Noun

 * 1)  belly,
 * 2)  gluttony

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  (belly)

Etymology
From, possibly from both , from , from , from , from (+ the ending , from )  + and from , from , from.

Noun

 * , belly (or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis)
 * 1)   (the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other )
 * 1)   (the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other )
 * 1)   (the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other )
 * 1)   (the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other )
 * 1)   (the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other )

Etymology
..

Etymology
.

Noun

 * , belly

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From.

title: abdomen


text:
abdominal

Etymology
First attested in 1746. From, from. Equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral.
 * 2)  Having the ventral fins under the abdomen and behind the pectoral fins.
 * 3)  Ventral, in describing a fin.
 * 4)  Belonging to the order Abdominales of fish.
 * 1)  Ventral, in describing a fin.
 * 2)  Belonging to the order Abdominales of fish.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَطْنِيّ
 * Asturian:
 * Belarusian: брушны́, чарэўны́, абдаміна́льны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἠτριαῖος
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: abdómain, boilg, bolgach
 * Italian:
 * Latin: abdominalis
 * Macedonian: абдомина́лен, трбушен
 * Manx: bolgey
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тр̀бушнӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: trebušen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: pantiyan
 * Turkish: karın ile ilgili
 * Ukrainian: черевни́й,
 * Welsh:
 * Zazaki: pizane

 * Dutch: buikvinnig
 * Finnish: vatsaevällinen
 * Tagalog: pantiyan

Noun

 * 1)  A fish of the order Abdominales.
 * 2)  An abdominal muscle.

Etymology
.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) ; of the abdomen

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) abdominal

Etymology
Ultimately, from.

Adjective

 * 1) abdominal

Etymology
From, from (with the suffix , from , possibly from ), possibly from both , from , from , from , from  (+ the ending , from )  + and from , from , from.

Equivalent to, first part from , possibly from both , from , from , from , from (+ the ending , from )  + and from , from , from. Last part from, from , from , from , from.

Adjective

 * abdominalt støttebelte ved brokk
 * abdominal support belt for hernia
 * abdominalt støttebelte ved brokk
 * abdominal support belt for hernia

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) sit-up

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  muscle
 * 2) sit-up

Etymology
.

title: abdominal


text:
abdominales

Noun

 * 1)  series of any abdominal exercises

title: abdominales


text:
abdominalia

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A group of cirriped crustaceans having abdominal appendages.

title: abdominalia


text:
abdominoscopy

Noun

 * 1)  Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease, using an endoscope.

Translations

 * Georgian:
 * Greek:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: абдоминоскопия
 * Turkish: abdominoskopi

title: abdominoscopy


text:
abdominothoracic

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

title: abdominothoracic


text:
abdominous

Adjective

 * 1) Having a protuberant belly; potbellied.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: шкембелия
 * Dutch:, , dikbuikig
 * French:
 * Portuguese:, barrigudo
 * Swedish:, rundmagad, tjockmagad, ,
 * Ukrainian: пузатий

title: abdominous


text:
abduce

Etymology
(1530's) From, formed from +.
 * See, and compare.

Verb

 * 1)  To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
 * 2)  To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.
 * 1)  To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abdusere
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Spanish:

title: abduce


text:
abduct

Etymology
From, perfect passive participle of , from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
 * 2)  To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.
 * 1)  To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.
 * 1)  To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.
 * 1)  To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: يَخْطِفّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: يخطف
 * Belarusian: выкрадаць, выкрасці
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: denladra, dengibya
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, kidnappe
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: forrabi
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: fuadaigh
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 誘拐する
 * Korean: ,
 * Lakota: wiínaḣma
 * Latin: raptō
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: pagrobti
 * Macedonian: одветува
 * Malay:
 * Maori: kāhaki, kāwhaki, mautāhae
 * Norman: enlever
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bortføre, kidnappe
 * Old English: forstelan
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, отети
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: dukot
 * Thai: ลักพา,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:, cuỗm đi, lừa đem đi
 * Welsh:

 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * German: abspreizen,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abdusere
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: abduce
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: rẽ ra, giạng ra

title: abduct


text:
abduction

Etymology
From, from , from +. Equivalent to.
 * From, from.
 * Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Leading away; a carrying away.
 * 2)   The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
 * 3) * 2013, Jain, MD, MSPH; Wilcox, PT; Katz, MD, MS; Higgins, MD, "Clinical Examination of the Rotator Cuff", PM&R Journal, retrieved from PubMed Central on 21 Jan 2018.
 * Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.
 * 1)  A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
 * 2)  The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
 * 3)  alien abduction
 * 1)  alien abduction
 * 1)  alien abduction

Usage notes

 * In Gregg shorthand (version: Centennial, Series 90, DJS, Simplified, Anniversary, Pre-Anniversary) the word is represented: a - b - d - u - k - sh

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اِخْتِطَاف
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: выкрада́нне
 * Bulgarian: отвли́чане,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bortføring
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: forrabo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: poisvienti,
 * French:
 * Georgian: მოტაცება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latin: abductiō, raptiō
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: киднапи́рање
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bortførsel, bortførelse, bortføring
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̀тмица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: únos
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ви́крадення, викрада́ння
 * Vietnamese:

 * Bulgarian: абду́кция
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: abduktion
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: loitonnus,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abduksjon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

 * Danish: abduktion
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, abduktiivinen päättely
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: fráleiðsla
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abduksjon
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian: отвличане
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bortføring, kidnappning
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: kidnapo, forkapto
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: fuadach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bortførsel, bortførelse, bortføring, kidnapping
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: adam kaçırma

 * Interlingua:
 * Tamil:

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  abductive movement; abduction
 * 2)  abductive reasoning; abduction

Etymology
From, from.

title: abduction


text:
abductor

Noun

 * 1) One who abducts; a kidnapper.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُخْتَطِف
 * Belarusian: выкрада́льнік, выкрада́льніца
 * Bulgarian:, похити́телка
 * Catalan: raptor, raptora, segrestador, segrestadora
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 拐子佬
 * Mandarin: 誘拐者, 綁架者, 劫持者
 * Czech: únosce, únoskyně
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: inimröövija
 * Finnish:, , ihmisryöstäjä
 * French:, abducteuse, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 誘拐犯
 * Korean:, 납치범(拉致犯), 랍치범(拉致犯)
 * Latin: raptor
 * Macedonian: грабнувач, грабнувачка, киднапе́р, киднапе́рка
 * Malay: penculik
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, barnerøver , kidnapperske
 * Polish:, porywaczka, uprowadziciel, uprowadzicielka
 * Portuguese: raptor,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: únosca, únoskyňa
 * Slovene: ugrabitelj, ugrabiteljica
 * Southern Altai: уурчы
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: викрада́ч, викрада́чка

Etymology 2
From, from +.

Noun

 * 1)   A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body
 * the abductor oculi draws the eye outward.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: abductor
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: abduktoro, abdukcimuskolo, abdukcia muskolo
 * Estonian:, ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek: απαγωγός μυς
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: fráfærir
 * Irish: matán abduchtach
 * Korean:
 * Latin: musculus abductor, abductor
 * Lithuanian: atitraukiamasis raumuo,
 * Malay: abduktor
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abduktor
 * Polish:, mięsień odwodziciel, , mięsień odwodzący
 * Portuguese: abdutor
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, отводя́щая мы́шца
 * Spanish:
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  abductor

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) abductive

Etymology
, from +.

title: abductor


text:
abeam

Adverb

 * 1)  On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative.
 * 2)  Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
 * 1)  Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
 * 1)  Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: отстрани, перпендикулярно на кила на кораба
 * Finnish: suoraan sivulla
 * German: Querab
 * Vietnamese:

 * Bulgarian: в траверс
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, kyljittäin

Adjective

 * 1)  Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
 * The island was directly abeam of us.
 * The island was directly abeam of us.
 * The island was directly abeam of us.

Preposition

 * 1)  Alongside.
 * She came abeam the crippled ship.

Adjective

 * 1) Beaming, shining (especially with reference to a person's face or eyes).
 * 2) * 1876, William Davidson, Sermons on the Parables, Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, Sermon1, p.41,
 * the hearts of the saints [will] be all attention and their faces all abeam for the consolation;

title: abeam


text:
abear

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

Verb

 * 1)  To put up with; to endure; to bear.
 * 2)  To bear; to carry.
 * 3)  To behave; to comport oneself.
 * 1)  To bear; to carry.
 * 2)  To behave; to comport oneself.

Usage notes

 * Used in the negative nowadays.

Noun

 * 1)  Bearing, behavior.

title: abear


text:
abearance

Noun

 * 1)  Behavior.

title: abearance


text:
abearing

Noun

 * 1)  Behaviour.

title: abearing


text:
abecedarian

Etymology
From (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + ). Equivalent to. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) Someone who is learning the alphabet.
 * 2) An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
 * 3)  Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
 * 4)  A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
 * 1)  A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:beginner

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
 * 2) Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
 * 3) Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
 * 4) Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
 * 1) Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

title: abecedarian


text:
abecedary

Etymology 1
From, from , from , formed from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet +. .

Noun

 * 1)  The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium.
 * 2) One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian.
 * 1) One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian.

Translations

 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Urdu: حُرُوْفِ اَبْجَد, حُرُوْفِ اَلِف

Etymology 2
From. .

Adjective

 * 1) Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian.

title: abecedary


text:
abed

Etymology
From, , from. Equivalent to.

Adverb

 * 1)  In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
 * 2)  To childbed
 * 1)  To childbed
 * 1)  To childbed
 * 1)  To childbed
 * 1)  To childbed

Translations

 * Bulgarian: на легло
 * Dutch: te bed,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: zu Bett, im Bett
 * Italian: a letto
 * Norwegian: i seng
 * Portuguese: deitado (na cama)
 * Russian: в посте́ли
 * Spanish: en cama,
 * Turkish: yatakta

title: abed


text: abegge

title: abegge


text:
abele

Etymology
From, from , , from , diminutive of. Some forms after, from Old French.

Noun

 * 1) The white poplar.

title: abele


text:
abelian

Etymology
Name of the Norwegian mathematician.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of an algebraic structure (usually a group or algebra), having a commutative defining operation.
 * 2)  Of a binary function, commutative.
 * 1)  Of a binary function, commutative.

Translations

 * Armenian: աբելյան
 * Basque: abeldar
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: Abelova, abelovská, komutativní
 * Danish: abelsk
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: abela
 * Estonian:, kommutatiivne
 * Finnish: abelinen,, Abelin
 * French:, , ,
 * German: abelsch,
 * Icelandic: Abel-, abelskur
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abelsk, kommutativ
 * Polish: abelowa, przemienna
 * Portuguese: abeliano
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: abeliano, conmutativo
 * Swedish: ,

title: abelian


text:
abelmosk

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the.
 * 2) The tropical evergreen shrub  itself.
 * 3)  Other members of the genus, such as okra.
 * 1) The tropical evergreen shrub  itself.
 * 2)  Other members of the genus, such as okra.
 * 1)  Other members of the genus, such as okra.
 * 1)  Other members of the genus, such as okra.

Usage notes
Formerly considered a species of hibiscus, but since distinguished as part of a separate genus.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: мускусен слез
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黄葵, 麝香槿, 香葵
 * Dutch: abelmos
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: abelmosco
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: abelmoskus
 * Portuguese: abelmosco
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kastuli

title: abelmosk


text:
aberr

Etymology
, from.

Verb

 * 1)  To go astray; to err.
 * 2)  Distort; aberrate.

title: aberr


text:
aberrance

Etymology
From, from +.

Noun

 * 1) State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: aberrantia
 * Portuguese:, aberrância
 * Romanian: aberanță
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1)  character of what is aberrant
 * 2)  an aberration or anomaly

title: aberrance


text:
aberrant

Etymology
From, present active participle of , from +. See aberr.

Adjective

 * 1) Differing from the norm.
 * 2)  Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
 * 3)  Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
 * 1)  Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
 * 2)  Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
 * 1)  Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
 * 1)  Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: avvikende,, , , aberrant
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: aberrante
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian: отклоняващ се
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: harhautunut, harhaileva, hairahtunut
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Lakota: šikšíl
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:, ابیراه
 * Portuguese: aberrante
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: сби́вшийся с пути́
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese:

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: aberující
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: aberrant
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: aberrante
 * Russian: отклоня́ющийся от но́рмы,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese:

 * Dutch: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: сби́вшийся с пути́

Noun

 * 1) A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
 * 2)  A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:anomaly

Translations

 * Dutch: vreemde apostel, rare snuiter
 * German: /, /
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: aberrant

Etymology 1
, present active participle of.

Adjective

 * 1)   indicating an organ or other tissue which is not in its expected location
 * 1)   indicating an organ or other tissue which is not in its expected location

Etymology
From, stem of , present active participle of.

Adjective

 * , abnormal or anomalous
 * 1)  which is impossible according to the norms or rules

Etymology
, present active participle of.

Adjective

 * 1) aberrant

Etymology
From, present active participle of , from both , from , from , from + and from , from , from , from. .

The noun is a substantivisation of the adjective, with the same etymology.

Noun

 * 1)  an

title: aberrant


text:
aberrate

Etymology
From, perfect passive participle of , formed from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.
 * 2) * 1765,, letter to dated 7 February, 1765, in , Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55,
 * the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis
 * 1) * 1839,, “Lake Reminiscences: No. V, Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge” originally published in , August 1839, in (editor), The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, London: A. & C. Black, 1896, Volume 2, Chapter 5, pp. 340-341,
 * the barriers, which to them limit the view, and give to it, together with the contraction, all the distinctness and definite outline of limitation, are, in nine cases out of ten, the product of their own defective and aberrating vision, and not real barriers at all.
 * 1)  To distort; to cause aberration of.
 * 2) * 1893,, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104,
 * He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.
 * 1) * 1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in , 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”) and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,
 * sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.
 * 1) * 1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in , 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”) and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,
 * sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.
 * 1) * 1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in , 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”) and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,
 * sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.

Usage notes

 * The transitive sense is chiefly used in the past participle form (as aberrated).

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Hungarian:
 * Persian: ابیراهیدن
 * Portuguese:

 * Hungarian:

title: aberrate


text:
aberration

Etymology
A, first attested in 1594, from , from +. Compare 🇨🇬. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
 * 2)  The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point.
 * 3)  A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
 * 4)  The tendency of light rays to preferentially strike the leading face of a moving object (the effect underlying the above phenomenon).
 * 5) A partial alienation of reason.
 * 6)  Any creature with supernatural powers not found in the organized classes of beings in a given setting.
 * 7) A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character.
 * 8)  Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ.
 * 9)  A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
 * 10)  A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.
 * 1)  Any creature with supernatural powers not found in the organized classes of beings in a given setting.
 * 2) A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character.
 * 3)  Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ.
 * 4)  A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
 * 5)  A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.
 * 1)  A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
 * 2)  A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:, , абера́ция
 * Catalan: aberració
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , eksyminen, , harhautuminen,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ცდომილება, გადახრა
 * German:, , , Verirrung
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: seachrán, iomrall
 * Italian: ,
 * Khmer: ការភ្លាត់ភ្លាំង
 * Norwegian: avvik
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian: odstupanje, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,

 * Bulgarian: абера́ция
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aberacio
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Irish: iomrall
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: аберрация
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:

 * Bulgarian: абера́ция
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aberacio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: iomrall
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: аберрация
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: aberrasjon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: tính sai

 * Catalan: aberració
 * Finnish:, , harhapolku
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: seachrán, iomrall
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: saobhadh
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , , ,

 * Bulgarian: абера́ция
 * Dutch:, afwijkend exemplaar
 * Finnish: harhamuunnos,
 * German: ,
 * Irish: iomrall
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: аберрация
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
From,.

Noun

 * 1) the state of being aberrant
 * 2)  aberration
 * 3)  aberration
 * 4)  aberration or mutation
 * 1)  aberration or mutation

title: aberration


text:
aberrational

Adjective

 * 1) Characterized by aberration.

Translations

 * Dutch: met aberratie
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: aberrativo, aberratório
 * Romanian: ,

title: aberrational


text:
aberuncate

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1)  To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.

title: aberuncate


text:
aberuncator

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.

title: aberuncator


text:
abet

Etymology
From, , from , from + , either from  or from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Alternate etymology traces the Middle English and Old French words through 🇨🇬, from +, from the same source.

See also,.

Verb

 * 1)  To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
 * 2)  To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.
 * 3)  To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
 * 4)  To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
 * 1)  To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.
 * 2)  To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
 * 3)  To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
 * 1)  To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.
 * 2)  To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
 * 3)  To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
 * 1)  To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
 * 2)  To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
 * 1)  To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
 * 2)  To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
 * 1)  To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.

Translations

 * Afan Oromo:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, napomáhat, podněcovat, navádět
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: წაქეზება, წახალისება
 * German:, ,
 * Icelandic: aðstoða
 * Interlingua: incitar, incorariar
 * Irish: neartaigh le
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 煽動する
 * Persian: همدستی کردن
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: xúi bẩy, ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, napomáhat,
 * Dutch:, , meehelpen aan
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Vietnamese:

 * Norwegian: ,

Noun

 * 1)  Fraud or cunning.
 * 2)  An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) fir

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) behavior; attitude

Etymology
From.

Phrase

 * 1) An expression of doubt

Etymology
, from, from.

Noun

 * 1) behaviour

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) religious habit

Noun

 * 1) behaviour.

title: abet


text:
abetment

Etymology
First attested from 1350 to 1470, from, from , from +. See.

Noun

 * 1)  The act of abetting or assisting in a crime, wrongdoing etc.
 * 2) Encouragement or assistance.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Gehilfenschaft
 * Hindi: दुष्प्रेरण
 * Indonesian:
 * Malay: persubahatan

title: abetment


text:
abettal

Noun

 * 1)  abetment

title: abettal


text:
abetter

Etymology
.

Usage notes

 * Abetter is rarely used in the legal sense.

Translations

 * Finnish: avunantaja
 * Korean: 교사자

title: abetter


text:
abevacuation

Etymology
From +.

Noun

 * 1)  An abnormal evacuation.
 * 2)  Metastases.

title: abevacuation


text:
abeyance

Etymology
First attested in 1528. From, from from , , , from  + , , from.

Noun

 * 1)  Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
 * 2) Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
 * 3) Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
 * 1) Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
 * 2) Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
 * 1) Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
 * 1) Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
 * 1) Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
 * 1) Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: временно бездействие, изчакване
 * Dutch: onbeslistheid,, onbeheerdheid
 * Finnish:, jäädytettynä
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Lakota: iŋyaŋke ṡni
 * Norwegian: uavklart
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: состоя́ние неопределённости
 * Spanish:, ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, lykättynä
 * French: ,
 * Irish: fionraí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian: utsettelse
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: lepääminen, lepäämässä
 * French:
 * Portuguese:, , vagatura

 * Interlingua:
 * Vietnamese:, , , , , , ,

title: abeyance


text:
abeyancy

Noun

 * 1)  Abeyance.

title: abeyancy


text:
abeyant

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) Being in a state of abeyance; suspended.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 中止的, 未定的
 * Italian: in sospeso
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,

title: abeyant


text:
abhal

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The berry of the juniper,.

title: abhal


text:
abhominable

Etymology
First attested in the 1300s, a variant of, influenced by + ; compare. The unnecessary addition of h to words was once common; compare abholish (abolish). Abandoned by the 1600s. Compare also.

title: abhominable


text:
abhominal

Etymology
From, from + , but in practice from , which was erroneously folk-etymologized as this word, leading to this spelling and , which see for more.

Adjective

 * 1)  Inhuman;
 * 2) * 1826, Thomas Wright (of Ludlow.), The history and antiquities of ... Ludlow; with lives of the presidents, and accounts of gentlemen's seats, &c, page 65:
 * Tyrrel was, on the accession of Henry VII. arraigned, and after a full confession beheaded on Tower hill; and King Richard himself, "after this abhominal dede dooen never was quiet in his minde, he never ...

title: abhominal


text:
abhor

Etymology
First attested in 1449, from, borrowed from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
 * 2)  To fill with horror or disgust.
 * 3)  To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
 * 4)  To protest against; to reject solemnly.
 * 5)  To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to);.
 * 6)  Differ entirely from.
 * 1)  To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
 * 2)  To protest against; to reject solemnly.
 * 3)  To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to);.
 * 4)  Differ entirely from.
 * 1)  To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to);.
 * 2)  Differ entirely from.
 * 1)  Differ entirely from.
 * 1)  Differ entirely from.

Translations

 * Afan Oromo:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, гнуся
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, walgen van, gruwen van
 * Esperanto:, malamegi
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στυγέω
 * Hebrew: תיעב
 * Hindi: घृणा करना
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: adhfhuathaigh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: abhorreō, abōminor
 * Maori: konekone, whakahouhou
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: czuć odrazę,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, пита́ть отвраще́ние
 * Scottish Gaelic: gràinich, fuathaich
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, เกลียดชัง, ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: морально ненавидіти
 * Urdu: گھرنا کرنا
 * Vietnamese:, ghét cay ghét đắng
 * Welsh: cashau

 * Dutch: ,
 * Romanian: respinge cu dispreț

title: abhor


text:
abhorrence

Noun

 * 1)  Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing.
 * 2)  An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II.
 * 3)  A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing.
 * 1)  An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II.
 * 2)  A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing.

Synonyms

 * abhorrition

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:, malamego
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ზიზღი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: fuath
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: abhorare, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: gnušanje,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: відра́за

 * Dutch:, afgrijselijke zaak
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Swedish:

 * Ido: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Vietnamese:, ,

title: abhorrence


text:
abhorrency

Noun

 * 1)  Aberrancy.
 * 2)  Quality of being abhorrent; feeling of abhorrence.
 * 3)  something that elicits abhorrence; a detestable thing.

title: abhorrency


text:
abhorrent

Etymology
Borrowed from, present active participle of. Equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1)  Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.
 * 2) Contrary to something; discordant.
 * 3) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
 * 4)  Detestable or repugnant.
 * 1) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
 * 2)  Detestable or repugnant.
 * 1) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
 * 2)  Detestable or repugnant.

Usage notes

 * abhorrent is typically followed by from.
 * abhorrent is followed by to.

Collocations

 * abhorrent behavior
 * abhorrent act
 * abhorrent crime
 * abhorrent practice
 * abhorrent thing

Translations

 * Afan Oromo:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German: unverträglich
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Turkish: uyuşmaz,

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ristiriidassa ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Turkish:

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, abgescheut
 * Italian:, ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian: abhorând
 * Russian: испытывающий отвращение
 * Turkish: tiksinmiş

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στυγνός
 * Ido: ,
 * Irish: gráiniúil
 * Marathi: घृणास्पद
 * Plautdietsch: wadalich
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

 * Interlingua: ,
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Vietnamese:, , , , ,

title: abhorrent


text:
abhorrently

Adverb

 * 1) In a manner, or to a degree, that is abhorrent; with abhorrence.

title: abhorrently


text:
abhorrer

Noun

 * 1) One who abhors.
 * 2)  A nickname given in the early 17th century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
 * 1)  A nickname given in the early 17th century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
 * 1)  A nickname given in the early 17th century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
 * 1)  A nickname given in the early 17th century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
 * 1)  A nickname given in the early 17th century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
 * 1)  A nickname given in the early 17th century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.

Etymology
, borrowed from. Cf. also the Old French inherited form.

Verb

 * 1) to abominate, to abhor, to loathe

Etymology
Borrowed from, present active infinitive of. Displaced earlier. .

Verb

 * 1) to abhor

title: abhorrer


text:
abhorrible

Adjective

 * 1)  Detestable.

title: abhorrible


text:
abhorring

Noun

 * 1) Detestation.
 * 2) A detested thing.

title: abhorring


text:
Abib

Etymology
From, hence “the season of beginning barley-crop”, because the grains start ripening at that time of year.

Proper noun

 * 1) The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to the Gregorian April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.

Translations

 * Irish: Áibíb

title: Abib


text:
abidance

Etymology
From, from , from +   + ance.

Noun

 * 1) The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling.
 * 2) Adherence; compliance; conformity.

Translations

 * Dutch:, nakomen van,

title: abidance


text:
abide

Etymology
From, from , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The sense of pay for is due to influence from.

Verb

 * 1)  To endure without yielding; to withstand.
 * 2)  To bear patiently.
 * 3)  To pay for; to stand the consequences of.
 * 4)  To wait in expectation.
 * 5)  To pause; to delay.
 * 6)  To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
 * 7)  To have one's abode.
 * 8)  To endure; to remain; to last.
 * 9)  To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
 * 10)  To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
 * 11)  To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
 * 1)  To wait in expectation.
 * 2)  To pause; to delay.
 * 3)  To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
 * 4)  To have one's abode.
 * 5)  To endure; to remain; to last.
 * 6)  To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
 * 7)  To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
 * 8)  To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
 * 1)  To pause; to delay.
 * 2)  To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
 * 3)  To have one's abode.
 * 4)  To endure; to remain; to last.
 * 5)  To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
 * 6)  To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
 * 7)  To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
 * 1)  To endure; to remain; to last.
 * 2)  To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
 * 3)  To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
 * 4)  To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
 * 1)  To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
 * 2)  To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
 * 3)  To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
 * 1)  To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
 * 2)  To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
 * 1)  To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
 * 2)  To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
 * 1)  To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.

Usage notes

 * The negative form can't abide is used to indicate strong dislike.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: holde ut
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: vytrvať
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Vietnamese:, , chống đỡ được

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: tolerere
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: strpieť
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, stå ut med,
 * Vietnamese:, chịu được

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: kohdata seuraukset
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Spanish:, apechugar con

 * Arabic: خَلَدَ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,

 * Arabic: يَبْقَى
 * Egyptian Arabic: يفضل, يستنا
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ναίω
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: possideo
 * Malay: tinggal dalam,
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: forbli
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: walāk-
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: منتظر بودن
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,

 * Interlingua:
 * Old English:

Etymology 1
, from, from , active participle of. The sense of first attested around 1908 with respect to the  then under construction in Istanbul.

Noun

 * 1) something of monumental importance
 * 2) monument

title: abide


text:
abider

Noun

 * 1)  One who abides, or continues.
 * 2) One who dwells or stays; a resident.
 * 3) * 1640,, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150,
 * Much spends the traveller more than the abider.
 * 1) * 1640,, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150,
 * Much spends the traveller more than the abider.

title: abider


text:
abiding

Etymology 1
Present participle or participial adjective from ; or, from participle form of,.

Adjective

 * 1) Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:lasting

Translations

 * Bulgarian: траен, постоянен
 * Dutch: ,
 * French: ,
 * Italian: ,

 * Vietnamese:, ,

Etymology 2
From, , [ verbal noun of ,  ] , from ; or, verbal noun from.

Noun

 * 1) The action of one who abides; the state of an abider.
 * 2)  An abode.

title: abiding


text:
abidingly

Adverb

 * 1) In an abiding manner; permanently.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:lastingly

title: abidingly


text:
Abies

Etymology
From.

Pronunciation

 * English:

Proper noun

 * , characterized by the erect cones and the flattened, needlelike, leaves not jointed at the base. They are natives of north  regions and are related to the cedars  and hemlocks.

Hyponyms

 * ,, , , , , , , , - sections
 * (silver fir), (Pacific silver fir),  (balsam fir),,  (white fir),  (grand fir),  (sacred fir),  (red fir),  (noble fir)

title: Abies


text:
abietene

Etymology

 * From.
 * From.

Noun

 * 1)  A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine.

title: abietene


text:
abietic

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees
 * 2)  Of or pertaining to abietic acid or its derivatives

Translations

 * Italian: abietico

 * Italian: abietico
 * Portuguese: abiético

title: abietic


text:
abietin

Etymology
See.

Noun

 * 1)   A resin obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether.

Translations

 * Italian: abietina
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: abietina

title: abietin


text:
abietinic

Adjective

 * 1)   Of or pertaining to abietin.

Translations

 * Polish:

title: abietinic


text:
abietite

Etymology
From and.

Noun

 * 1)  A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe.

title: abietite


text:
abigail

Etymology
From the name, as given to a waiting-maid in Beaumont and Fletcher's play .

Noun

 * 1)  A lady's maid.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kamarineito
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

title: abigail


text: abiliment

title: abiliment


text:
ability

Etymology
First attested in the 1300s. From, from , from , from ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  Suitableness.
 * 2)  The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
 * 3) The legal wherewithal to act.
 * 4)  Physical power.
 * 5)  Financial ability.
 * 6)  A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
 * 7)  A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.
 * 1)  Physical power.
 * 2)  Financial ability.
 * 3)  A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
 * 4)  A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:skill
 * See Thesaurus:skill

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vermoë
 * American Sign Language: S@Sternumhigh-PalmDown-S@Sternumhigh-PalmDown S@Chesthigh-PalmDown-S@Chesthigh-PalmDown
 * Arabic: قُدْرَة, مَقْدِرَة, اِسْتِطَاعَة, وُسْع
 * Egyptian Arabic: قدرة, مقدرة, إستطاعة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: capacidá, habilidá
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: һәләт
 * Basque: gaitasun, trebetasun, abilezia
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: gallos
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: povo
 * Estonian: võime,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: შესაძლებლობა, უნარი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish: ábaltacht,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: សមត្ថភាព,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دەرەقەت, لەدەس ھاتن
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lakota: wóokihi
 * Latin: prudentia, calliditas, solertia,, , sollers acumen, , potentia, habilitas
 * Lithuanian: gebėjimas
 * Macedonian: способност
 * Malay: کبوليهن
 * Maltese: abilità
 * Manx: jargaght
 * Maori: āheitanga
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua:
 * Romagnol: abilitê
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: abeelity
 * Scottish Gaelic: dìorachd, murrachas, murraiche, abaltachd, foladh, acmhaing
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: спосо́бно̄ст
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: zmožnost
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kakayahan
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ནུས་པ
 * Urdu: یوگیتا, یوگیتو
 * Vietnamese: (能力)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:

 * Afrikaans: bekwaamheid, vermoë
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: مَوْهِبَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Crimean Tatar: qabiliyet
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: abilite
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Maltese:
 * Maori:, āheitanga, āheinga
 * Mongolian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: صنعت, هنر
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, вјештина
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Volapük:

 * Afrikaans: talente, knapheid
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, pericia, mestría
 * Greek:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:, , , mestria
 * Romagnol: abilitê
 * Romanian:
 * Tagalog:

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:

 * Gothic:
 * Vietnamese:, , , , , ,

title: ability


text:
abime

Etymology
From.

Etymology
, from from, a superlative of , from.

Usage notes

 * Often used as if it were plural only.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to damage
 * 2) to spoil

title: abime