cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pants
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pænts/
rhymes: -ænts
Forms: form: more pants
form: most pants
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)
Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)
Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn)
Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)bor.
Spanish Pantaleónder.
Italian Pantaloneder.
French pantalonbor.
English pantaloon
English pantaloons
English pants
Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. Doublet of pantsu. The verb is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?
text: 'Is that what you're going to do when you graduate?' he asked. 'Be a photographer?'
'I wish, but I'm pants at the technical stuff. ...'
ref: 2015, T. R. Richmond, What She Left, Penguin Books, page 39:
text: "Lee? How'd you manage to find your way here? You're pants with directions. You always get lost."
ref: 2019, Game Freak, Pokémon Sword and Shield, spoken by Hop:
glosses: Of inferior quality, rubbish.
pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pænts/
rhymes: -ænts
Forms: form: pantses
form: pantsing
form: pantsed
form: pantsed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)
Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)
Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn)
Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)bor.
Spanish Pantaleónder.
Italian Pantaloneder.
French pantalonbor.
English pantaloon
English pantaloons
English pants
Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. Doublet of pantsu. The verb is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.
ref: 1948, Carolina Quarterly, University of California, page 47:
text: [T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.
ref: 1980, William Hogan (author), The Quartzsite Trip, Atheneum, page 242:
text: Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.
ref: 1993, Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories, page 174:
glosses: To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
Synonyms: sense: pull someone’s pants down
word: depants
sense: pull someone’s pants down
word: de-pants
sense: pull someone’s pants down
word: debag
sense: pull someone’s pants down
word: keg
sense: pull someone’s pants down
word: dack
sense: pull someone’s pants down
word: sag
pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pænts/
rhymes: -ænts
Senses: glosses: plural of pant
pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pænts/
rhymes: -ænts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pant
translate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/
ipa: /tɹænz-/
ipa: /tɹɑːns-/
ipa: /tɹæns-/
ipa: /tɹænzˈleɪt/
ipa: /tɹæns-/
ipa: /ˈtɹænzˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæns-/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛnz.læɪt/
ipa: [ˈtʃɹʷɛ̃nzɫæe̯ʔ(t)]
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: translates
Etymology: From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).
Senses: examples: text: [F]ractions with a defining relation are nothing but linear orthogonal arrays or their translates.
ref: 1999, A. S. Hedayat, N[eil] J[ames] A[lexander] Sloane, John Stufken, “Statistical Application of Orthogonal Arrays”, in Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications (Springer Series in Statistics), New York, N.Y.; Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, section 11.5 (Two-level Fractional Factorials with a Defining Relation), page 272:
text: If L is a vector space, a linear manifold (or affine subspace) in L is a subset which is a translate of a subspace M#92;subsetL, that is, a set F of the form x#95;0#43;M for some x#95;0#92;inL. [...] The dimension of a linear manifold is the dimension of the subspace of which it is a translate.
ref: 1999, H[elmut] H[einrich] Schaefer, with M. P. Wolff, chapter I, in Topological Vector Spaces (Graduate Texts in Mathematics; 3), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.; Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, section 4 (Linear Manifolds and Hyperplanes), page 24:
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
re
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).
Senses: examples: text: Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254
text: "I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."
ref: 2020 July 24, HarryBlank, “SCP-5243”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2024:
synonyms: word: about
word: apropos
word: as for
word: about
word: anent
word: apropos
word: as far as
word: as for
word: as regards
word: as relates to
word: as respects
word: as to
word: concerned with
word: connected with
word: concerning
word: dealing with
word: in reference to
word: in regard to
word: in regards to
word: in relation to
word: in respect of
word: IRT
word: in terms of
word: on
word: re
word: referring to
word: regarding
word: relating to
word: relative to
word: respecting
word: with regard to
word: with respect to
word: WRT
word: touching
glosses: About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
Related terms: in re
in rem
re
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /ɹiː/
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: ray
Etymology: From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
re
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /ɹiː/
ipa: /ɹiː/
ipa: /ɹiː/
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: res
Etymology: From the suffix re-.
Senses: examples: text: gg, no re'
topics: video-games
glosses: Clipping of rematch.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names.
glosses: Clipping of age regressor
vis comica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originating from an inaccurate interpretation of verses attributed to Julius Caesar: “Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adiuncta foret vis, Comica ut aequato virtus polleret honore Cum Graecis …”. An erroneous interpunction lead to mistaking cōmica as tied to vīs rather than to virtūs.
Senses: examples: text: Also Steiner tells of someone who claimed that the comic elements comes about when someone has the vis comica, or "power of being comical." Again - the dormitive principle at work.
ref: 2002, Bees by Rudolf Steiner, A Review by Bobby Matherne:
glosses: Comic force.
wikipedia: Julius Caesar
mea culpa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʊl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʌl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmiː.əˈkʊl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmiː.əˈkʌl.pə/
Etymology: From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity.
Senses: synonyms: my bad
peccavi
glosses: My fault, due to my error; I am to blame.
Related terms: culpable
culpate
culprit
disculp
disculpate
exculpate
inculpate
mea maxima culpa
I stand corrected
mea culpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʊl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʌl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmiː.əˈkʊl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmiː.əˈkʌl.pə/
Forms: form: mea culpas
form: mea culpae
form: meis culpis
Etymology: From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity.
Senses: examples: text: For Example, when St. Anthony ſaid his Confiteor, which he did often enough, all the Spectators fell down on their Knees, and gave themſelves ſuch rude Mea Culpa’s as was enough to beat the breath out of their Bodies.
ref: 1692, The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the Lady ⸺ Travels into Spain: […], 2nd edition, London: […] Samuel Crouch […], page 62:
text: Basketball had been replaced by breathless commentators cross-talking and speculating, politicians on split screens eagerly interrupting each other to find scapegoats, and most mute (male) state officials, including Hawaii Gov. David Ige, opening their mouths to sputter (paraphrasing here) — golly gee, we don’t know what happened, but we plan to find out — mea culpas.
ref: 2018 January 13, Tad Bartimus, “When There’s Nuke Headed Your Way, ‘Do What You Gotta Do’”, in Civil Beat:
text: The president refused to offer any sort of mea culpa on Tuesday, even as the Taliban celebrated their “independence” from America with gunfire in the streets of Kabul.
ref: 2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear, Jim Tankersley, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: At her trial, lawyers convinced Manning to issue a mea culpa: […]
ref: 2022 October 27, Simon Parkin, “README.txt by Chelsea Manning review – secrets and spies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: peccavi
glosses: An instance of mea culpa; an apology.
mea culpa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʊl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʌl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmiː.əˈkʊl.pə/
ipa: /ˌmiː.əˈkʌl.pə/
Forms: form: mea culpa's
form: mea culpa'ing
form: mea culpa'ed
form: mea culpa'ed
Etymology: From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity.
Senses: examples: text: When it was over and he grew tired of not being invited to the good parties on the Vineyard, he mea culpa’ed his way back into the good graces of the liberals who’d abandoned old LBJ years earlier.
ref: 2013 November, Stephen Hunter, The Third Bullet: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel (Bob Lee Swagger; 8), New York, NY: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 423–424:
glosses: To apologize for something, especially excessively.
de lunatico inquirendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dē lūnāticō inquīrendō.
Senses: examples: text: But, unless the fact is withheld by the reporters out of delicacy, the ladies who have lectured on Bloomerism are not mad—not, at least, in the de lunatico inquirendo sense of the term.
ref: 1851, Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable World, or St. James's Court Register and Advertiser, for Town and Country. Of the Belles Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume 31, page 185:
topics: law
glosses: A legal document inquiring about the sanity of an individual.
Related terms: commission de lunatico inquirendo
credendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪˈdɛndəm/
Forms: form: credenda
Etymology: From Latin credendum.
Senses: examples: text: the great articles and credenda of Christianity
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
coordinate_terms: agendum
glosses: Something to be believed; an article of faith.
benzoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzolines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A benzole.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: amarine
fella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛ.lə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: fellas
form: fellah
form: feller
Etymology: From fellow.
Senses: examples: text: Am I right, fellas?
text: By the third go-around, the essence of what I wrote was, "And the same to you, fella!" I am glad that our relationship has survived that exchange.
ref: 1997, Donald Meichenbaum, “Discussion”, in Jeffrey K. Zeig, editor, The Evolution of Psychotherapy: The Third Conference, page 90:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fellow.
examples: text: This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia. Us people want our land back, we want 'em rights, we want 'em fair deal, all same longa white man. Now this fella longa Canberra, he bin talkin' about a Bran Nue Dae—us people bin waiting for dijwun for 200 years now.
ref: 1990, Jimmy Chi, “Bran Nue Dae”, in Anita Heiss, Peter Minter, editors, Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature, Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.: McGill–Queen’s University Press, published 2008, act II, page 137:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
glosses: An Internet troll engaged in information warfare against Russia, especially in regards to the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Derived terms: as the fella said
as the fella says
blackfella
Cinderfella
dat fella
goodfella
NAFO
ould fella
oul fella
oul' fella
Redfella
whitefella
fellah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: fellahs
form: fellahin
form: fellaheen
Etymology: From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”). Attested since 1743.
Senses: examples: text: Religion long kept the two races, Arab and Egyptian, apart, and when eventually the Christian fellaḥ in the neighbourhood of Cairo had become Mohammedan, the Mohammedan Arab had become a townsman with a townsman’s sense of superiority over the country bumpkin.
ref: 1920, Archibald Sayce, “Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore” in Folk-Lore 31 p. 176
text: It has the prophetic vision. Fuit Ilium! The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: 1929-1930, H P Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth
And at the last from inner Egypt came // The strange dark One to whom the fellahs bowed
text: Before her, seated half-crouching upon a wicker chair, was a big-breasted sphinx-faced fellah girl, with her skirt drawn up above her waist to expose some choice object of my friend's study.
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
text: All of them were crudely caricatured scenes of life among Moslems: a schoolmaster, ruler in hand, presiding over a class of small boys, a fellah ploughing, a drunk being ordered out of a bar.
ref: 1955, Paul Bowles, The Spider's House:
text: Lizards, reputed to be of hgih aphrodisiac potency, used to be brought by Egyptian fellahin to Cairo[.]
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 67:
text: It differed from the Ulema both in a more modernistic interpretation of Islamic dogma and in its social demands, which included the redistribution of land among the fellahs.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 39:
glosses: A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.
Derived terms: fellahdom
fellah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: fellahs
Etymology: Representing an eye dialect pronunciation of fellow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fella.
fellahin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellah
grafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: grafters
Etymology: From graft + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
glosses: An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
glosses: The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
glosses: Someone who works in market stalls.
glosses: a hard worker who puts in long hours
Related terms: graft
grafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: grafters
Etymology: From graft + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would be unpopular. His popularity is proof that the people, as a whole, are honest.
ref: 1911, The Twentieth Century Magazine, volume 4, page 335:
text: It is rather confused rhetoric to call a grafter a thief. His crime is not that he filches money from the safe but that he betrays a trust.
ref: 1980, David Mark Chalmers, The Muchrake Years, Krieger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 152:
text: 2007, Rebecca Menes, "Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand: Graft and growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930", in Edward L. Glaeser, Claudia Goldin (eds.), Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 64.
Rapid city growth rewarded the circumspect grafter with opportunities for what one famous Tammany Hall politician termed “honest graft” […].
glosses: A corrupt person, one who receives graft.
Related terms: graft
loco
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
loco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: more loco
form: most loco
Etymology: From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
Senses: examples: text: It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!
ref: 1943 April 3, Super-Rabbit, spoken by an unnamed rabbit:
text: Going loco down in Acapulco / If you stay too long / Yes, you'll be going loco down in Acapulco / The magic down there is so strong
ref: 1988, Phil Collins, “Loco in Acapulco”, in Indestructible, performed by Four Tops:
text: Who you trying to get crazy with ése? Don't you know I'm loco?
ref: 1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill:
text: Holla in New York, fo'sho they'll tell you I'm loco
ref: 2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:
text: You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy.
ref: 2003 December 15, The New Yorker, page 56:
glosses: Crazy.
synonyms: pea struck
glosses: Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
Derived terms: loc
loco moco
locoweed
loco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: locos
form: locoes
Etymology: From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
Senses: synonyms: locoweed
glosses: A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
loco
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: locos
form: locoing
form: locoed
form: locoed
Etymology: From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
Senses: glosses: To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
examples: text: They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.
ref: 1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner:
glosses: To render insane.
Related terms: locoism
loco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: locos
Etymology: Clipping of locomotive.
Senses: examples: text: A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him.
ref: 1898, Rudyard Kipling, chapter .007, in The Day's Work, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., page 243:
text: Small boys in 1963 could have traction engines with real steam coming out of the funnel, and Old Western locos had flashing lights, hooters and cow-pushers.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 94:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A locomotive.
Derived terms: diesel loco
locoman
locoshed
locospotter
steam loco
Related terms: in loco
in loco parentis
in loco parentum
handicraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændɪkɹæft/
ipa: /ˈhændɪkɹɑːft/
Forms: form: handicrafts
Etymology: For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; Old English handcræft.
Senses: examples: text: I regard the Grand Seignior , who is obliged , by an express command in the Alcoran , to learn and practise some handicraft trade
ref: 1712 April 26 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “TUESDAY, April 15, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 354; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
glosses: An artifact produced by handicraft.
examples: text: his men were all baſe handie craftes, as coblers, and curriers, and tinkers, whereof ſome had barres of yron[…]
ref: 1596, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton:
text: the Handicrafts-Shops begin to open
ref: 1672, John Dryden, The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery:
text: The M[e]chanicks, and handy-crafts were Induſtrious, Thrifty, and the main ſupporters of the Trade of France.
ref: 1691, Sam Norris, The English Spy; Or, the Intrigues, Pollicies, and Stratagems of the French King with His Secret Contrivances, for Undermining the Princes of Christendom, Discovered:
text: "Why, thou knowest, father," he said, smiling, "that we handicrafts best love the folks we live by;[…]
ref: 1828 (reprinted 1842), Sir Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth, Schlesinger:
glosses: A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.
Synonyms: handcraft
Derived terms: handicrafted
handicrafter
handicrafting
handicraftman
handicraftship
handicraftsman
handicraftswoman
polydactylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydactylisms
Etymology: From polydactyl + -ism; compare French polydactylisme.
Senses: examples: text: Devendra Harne, pictured above, (India; born January 9, 1995) also has 25 in total (12 fingers and 13 toes) as a result of the condition polydactylism.
ref: 2008, Guinness World Records — Human Body — Extreme Bodies — Most Fingers and Toes — Living Person:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The possession of more than the normal number of digits.
Synonyms: polydactyly
hyperdactyly
polydactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒl.ɪˈdak.tɪl.i/
ipa: /ˌpɑl.iˈdæk.təl.i/
Forms: form: polydactylies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos) + -y, from πολυ- (polu-, “many”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “digits”), equivalent to poly- + dactyly or polydactyl + -y.^((Etymology 3))
Senses: examples: text: 2003, Karl-Heinz Grzeschik, 66: Greig Cephalopolysyndactyly Syndrome, Mary Ann McLaughlin (supervising editor), NORD Guide to Rare Disorders, National Organization for Rare Disorders, Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins), page 201,
Postaxial polydactyly is common in the hands and preaxial polydactyly in the feet.
text: Pranamya Menaria (India; born August 10, 2005) has 25 in total (12 fingers and 13 toes). This is as a result of the condition Polydactyly and Syndactyly.
ref: 2008, “Most Fingers and Toes — Living Person”, in Guinness World Records, Human Body — Extreme Bodies:
text: The rare polydactylies, that is, not clearly only postaxial or only preaxial, are the most likely to be associated with an underlying syndrome.
ref: 2021, Leah W. Burke, “3: Genetics of Associated Syndromes”, in Donald R. Laub Jr., editor, Congenital Anomalies of the Upper Extremity, Springer, page 42:
text: Polydactyly with a triphalangeal thumb will be described in the chapter on the triphalangeal thumb.[…]The incidence of polydactyly depends on the population studied and the definition used. Region, ethnicity and combined numbers of all polydactylies, or only radial or ulnar-sided polydactyly, provide very different incidences in published series.
ref: 2023, Christianne van Nieuwenhoven, Steven Hovius, “9: Thumb Polydactyly”, in Giorgio Pajardi, editor, Pediatric Hand Surgery, Springer, page 102:
topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: A congenital condition in which a person or animal has more than the usual number of digits (fingers or toes) on at least one of the hands or feet.
Synonyms: hyperdactyly
polydactylism
Hyponyms: hexadactyly
Derived terms: nonpolydactyly
postaxial polydactyly
preaxial polydactyly
short rib-polydactyly syndrome
synpolydactyly
Related terms: cephalopolysyndactyly
ectrodactyly
polydactyl
polydactylous
polysyndactyly
syndactyly
multidigitate
polydigital
pyrargyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrargyrites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ἄργῠρος (árgŭros, “silver”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: ruby silver
glosses: A sulfosalt mineral used as a silver ore; it is dark red or black in color with a metallic adamantine luster, a sulfide of antimony and silver, Ag₃SbS₃, and occurs in rhombohedral crystals.
unvisard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: unvisards
form: unvisarding
form: unvisarded
form: unvisarded
form: unvizard
Etymology: From un- + visard.
Senses: examples: text: Wee know where the ſhoo wrings you, you fret, and are gall’d at the quick, and O what a death it is to the Prelates to be thus un-viſarded, thus unca’sd,^([sic]) to have the Periwigs pluk’t off that cover your baldneſſe, your inſide nakedneſſe thrown open to publick view.
ref: 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask.
unvizard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unvizards
form: unvizarding
form: unvizarded
form: unvizarded
Etymology: From un- + vizard.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unvisard.
hammerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerheads
Etymology: From hammer + head.
Senses: glosses: The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
Any shark of the family Sphyrnidae, which only includes the genera Sphyrna and Zygaena, with eyes set on projections from the sides of the head.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
A hogsucker, a fresh-water fish of species Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
A hammer-headed fruit bat, a fruit bat of species Hypsignathus monstrosus, with a large blunt nozzle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
A hammerkop, a bird of species Scopus umbretta.
examples: text: [The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing:
glosses: A stupid person, a dunce.
glosses: A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.
Synonyms: sense: shark
word: hammerhead shark
sense: shark
word: hammer fish
sense: shark
word: balance fish
Related terms: hammerkop
hammerhead ribozyme
hammerhead turn
unmask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈmæsk/
ipa: /ʌnˈmɑːsk/
ipa: /ʌnˈmæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
Forms: form: unmasks
form: unmasking
form: unmasked
form: unmasked
form: unmasque
form: un-mask
Etymology: From un- + mask.
Senses: glosses: To remove a mask from someone.
examples: text: The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 35–36:
glosses: To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
examples: text: But instead of a direct answer to so important a question, Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: To remove one's mask.
examples: text: […] to unmask and to assume her 'natural' role (rather than her 'fitting in' role).
ref: 2019, Sarah Cobbe, Simple Autism Strategies for Home and School: Practical Tips, Resources and Poetry, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Autistic females are trying to adhere to social expectations placed upon them, and masking and blending to fit those expectations, […] How do you unmask when you have spent a [long time masking].
ref: 2019, Barry Carpenter, Francesca Happé, Jo Egerton, Girls and Autism: Educational, Family and Personal Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: To cease engaging in masking, to cease disguising one's autism.
examples: text: He recalled his horse. This, retiring, unmasked the heavy infantry, which Hannibal called in from either flank and sent with a vigorous élan in close column across the ford against the ill-arrayed barbarians, followed by the cavalry, which had formed again in its rear.
ref: 1893, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Hannibal: a History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans […] , page 156:
text: In less than an hour the batteries were unmasked. The Confederate works were visible and at 5:08 a.m., Seymour ordered the batteries to commence firing.
ref: 2021, Stephen R. Wise, “To Capture an Island: Amphibious Operations in the Department of the South, 1861–1863”, in Theodore P. Savas, editor, Charleston: Battles and Seacoast Operations, page 10:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To expose something that was concealed or shielded from an enemy.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit.
Derived terms: unmask one's batteries
roach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: roaches
form: roach
Etymology: From Middle English roche, from Old French roche, from Middle Low German roche, ruche (“ray (fish)”), from Old Saxon *rūh, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“rough”).
Cognate with Old English ruhha ("a ray"; > Middle English rouhe, rohȝe), German Rochen (“ray (fish)”).
Senses: glosses: Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially
glosses: Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially:
A common roach (Rutilus rutilus)
glosses: Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
A California roach, of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus
Derived terms: alt: Pachychilon pictum, Leucos basak
word: Albanian roach
taxonomic: Rutilus lacustris
word: Black Sea roach
taxonomic: Scardinius erythrophthalmus
word: blue roach
alt: Hesperoleucus symmetricus
word: California roach
taxonomic: Rutilus caspicus
word: Caspian roach
taxonomic: Rutilus rutilus
word: common roach
roach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: roaches
Etymology: Back-formation from cockroach, as if it were a compound.
Marijuana-related meanings by similarity of appearance of the butt, attested since the 1930s.
Senses: glosses: A cockroach.
topics: lifestyle
smoking
glosses: The butt of a marijuana cigarette.
examples: text: In his half hour of free time between brooms it was Willie's custom to smoke his lunch in an alleyway. He'd take just half a roach, only enough to make him feel a new day was starting, no more no less.
ref: 1957, Alfred Maund, The Big Boxcar, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 106:
topics: lifestyle
smoking
glosses: An entire marijuana cigarette, blunt, or joint.
examples: text: Last toke is the yellowing fabric of the roach, containing the stuff that is less than tobacco.
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 292:
topics: lifestyle
smoking
glosses: The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Supella supellectilium
word: brown-banded roach
taxonomic: Blaptica dubia
word: dubia roach
word: Guyana spotted roach
word: kikeroach
taxonomic: Leucophaea maderae
word: Madeira roach
word: orange-spotted roach
taxonomic: Blatta orientalis
word: oriental roach
word: roach bomb
word: roach clip
word: roach coach
word: roach fogger
word: roach killer
word: roach motel
word: roach out
word: roach stomper
taxonomic: Ligia exotica
word: sea roach
word: Turkroach
word: turkroach
taxonomic: Ligia exotica
word: wharf roach
english: Cryptocercus
translation: Cryptocercus
word: wood roach
roach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: roaches
form: roaching
form: roached
form: roached
Etymology: Back-formation from cockroach, as if it were a compound.
Marijuana-related meanings by similarity of appearance of the butt, attested since the 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: Yamato roached on his best friend.
ref: 2025 February 7, Bravado, Blizzard Forums:
text: I stand by it being a horrible call, but Yamdef getting called out for roaching, there’s definitely some irony going on there.
ref: 2025 February 7, Skunkyboy, Blizzard Forums:
glosses: Synonym of roach out.
synonyms: word: roach out
roach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: roaches
Etymology: Apparently from extended or figurative use of roach (“Cyprinidae”), above. Compare the adjective roached (“styled so that the mane stands up from the neck”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Sail material that forms a concave curve rather than straight leech (aft edge) of a sail to increase the sail area over that of a simple triangular sail.
glosses: A haircut or a similar-looking kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America, often red.
Derived terms: roach-backed
roach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: roaches
form: roaching
form: roached
form: roached
Etymology: Apparently from extended or figurative use of roach (“Cyprinidae”), above. Compare the adjective roached (“styled so that the mane stands up from the neck”).
Senses: glosses: To cut or shave off the mane of a horse so that the remaining hair stands up on the neck.
glosses: To cut a person's hair so that it stands straight up.
Derived terms: roached
roach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: roaches
Etymology: Variant of roche (“rock”). Attested since the seventeenth century.
Senses: examples: text: After long Working of this Coal, it was found upon the rising Grounds, that there lay another Roach of Coal, at the Depth of 14 Yards under it
ref: 1749, Rog. Mostyn, “Mineralogy”, in Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year, volume II, London: Royal Society, →OCLC, page 379:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A bed or stratum of some mineral.
examples: text: The roach, both of the top and bottom beds, is always imperceptibly incorporated with the freestone, which is invariable situated beneath it.
ref: 1841, C.H. Smith, “Lithology; or Observations on Stone for Building”, in The Surveyor, Engineer, and Architect, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Gritty or coarse rock; especially Portland stone or similar limestone.
beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtəl/
ipa: [ˈbiɾəɫ]
rhymes: -iːtəl
homophone: Beatle
Forms: form: beetles
form: beetling
form: beetled
form: beetled
form: bittle
form: betel
form: bittil
Etymology: From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil, from Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), equivalent to bite + -le. Cognate with Old High German bicco (“beetle”), Danish bille (“beetle”), Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).
Senses: examples: text: He beetled off on his vacation.
text: I beetled across to our table, but no Pauline, no Mr Cresswell, no Mr Rudyard.
ref: 1982, A Woman of No Importance (TV programme)
text: “[…] But he seems to have beetled off somewhere as usual. […]”
ref: 1983, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, page 144:
text: In the falling darkness Harry saw small collections of lights as they passed over more villages, then a winding road on which a single car was beetling its way home through the hills. …
ref: 2003, J. K. Rowling, “The Department of Mysteries”, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, →ISBN, page 766:
text: Her eyes still closed, his aunt smiled cruelly. “I know what you are dying to say, Bertie. Go ahead—take the cheap shot. I’ll squash you like the nasty little bug you are.” ¶ Thus chastened, the little man beetled away.
ref: 2005, James Doss, The Witch's Tongue, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
Related terms: bug
chafer
firefly
ladybird
scarab
beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtəl/
ipa: [ˈbiɾəɫ]
rhymes: -iːtəl
homophone: Beatle
Forms: form: more beetle
form: most beetle
Etymology: From Middle English bitel-brouwed (“beetle-browed”). Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.
Senses: examples: text: beetle brows
glosses: Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtəl/
ipa: [ˈbiɾəɫ]
rhymes: -iːtəl
homophone: Beatle
Forms: form: beetles
form: beetling
form: beetled
form: beetled
Etymology: From Middle English bitel-brouwed (“beetle-browed”). Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.
Senses: examples: text: The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.
text: To the dreadful summit of the cliff / That beetles o'er his base into the sea.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
ref: 1822, William Wordsworth, In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhin:
text: I was indeed gently affected, and shared his fears, remembering well the bulging walls of the old house, and the toppling mass of heavy chimney work which beetled over the roof, beneath which these poor doves had made their nest.
ref: 1858 January-March, Dean of Pimlico, “A Story for the New Year”, in Dublin University Magazine reprinted in Littell's Living Age, volume 56 (volume 20 of the second series), Littell, Son & Company, page 63:
text: He stood a barehead boy upon a cliff / Pine-crowned, that hung high beetling a bleak north sea, / His long bright hair did stream like yellow silk, […]
ref: 1871, The Spectator, volume 44, page 519:
text: Impelled by some obscure quest, I ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as I did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau.
ref: 1941, Chapman Miske, The Thing in the Moonlight:
text: By the power of an imperious spirit, Peter was able to extend his meagre five feet two in space by expanding his chest, cocking his crest, inflating his whiskers, and beetling his brows.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 69:
glosses: To loom over; to extend or jut (above).
beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtəl/
ipa: [ˈbiɾəɫ]
rhymes: -iːtəl
homophone: Beatle
Forms: form: beetles
Etymology: From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat + -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).
Senses: glosses: A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
glosses: A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtəl/
ipa: [ˈbiɾəɫ]
rhymes: -iːtəl
homophone: Beatle
Forms: form: beetles
form: beetling
form: beetled
form: beetled
Etymology: From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat + -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).
Senses: glosses: To beat with a heavy mallet.
examples: text: to beetle cotton goods
glosses: To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtəl/
ipa: [ˈbiɾəɫ]
rhymes: -iːtəl
homophone: Beatle
Forms: form: beetles
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese bétele, from Malayalam വെറ്റില (veṟṟila) or Tamil வெற்றிலை (veṟṟilai).
Senses: examples: text: Scatter black sand, and offer camphor, sandal, flowers, beetle-leaves, and all sorts of fragrance.
ref: 1816, John Callaway, Yakkun Nattannawa: A Cingalese Poem, Descriptive of the Ceylon System of Demonology, page 10:
text: Beetle-leaf is absolutely a primary necessary article of life; every person consumes it daily, especially when travelling; the hindoo of caste has great difficulties in the way of cooking food, which are augmented whenever from home, and the beetle alleviates his hunger.
ref: 1835, Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine: 1835,1/6, page 547:
text: "It consists of the beetle leaf, in which the piece of an areca-nut is mixed with some lime out of the oyster and muscle shells, and so put into the mouth and chewed. Out of the beetle leaves, during the preparation, the fibres that are hard and rough are first drawn to the leaf; the form of a little horn is then given, open at the bottom, and pointed at the top, which when the areca-nut is inserted is closed, and so chewed."
ref: 1835, The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 157, E. Cave, pages 614–615:
glosses: Archaic spelling of betel.
Jammu and Kashmir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A princely state which governed the region of Kashmir, the territory of which is now de facto divided between China, India, and Pakistan.
glosses: A union territory of India. Capitals: Srinagar and Jammu.
synonyms: Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Azad Kashmir
glosses: An autonomous territory administered by Pakistan. Capital: Muzaffarabad.
Himachal Pradesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हिमाचल प्रदेश (himācal pradeś).
Senses: glosses: A state in northern India. Capital: Shimla.
Punjab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /pə̃ˈdʒaːb/
note: Indic
ipa: /panˈdʒaːb/
ipa: /pʌnˈdʒɑːb/
note: US, hyperforeign
ipa: /pʊnˈdʒɑːb/
note: US, hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈpuːn.dʒɑːb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
Forms: form: Panjab
form: Panjaub
Etymology: From Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬ / پنجاب (pañjāb), from Classical Persian پَنْجَاب (panjāb, “[Land of] the Five Rivers”), from پَنْج (panj, “five”) and آب (āb, “water”), referring to five rivers of the Punjab region: the Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Sutlej and the Beas. The Persian term is a calque of Sanskrit पञ्चनद (pañcanada, “[Land of] the Five Rivers”), from पञ्च (pañca, “five”) and नद (nada, “river”).
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of South Asia, divided (by the Radcliffe Line) between India and Pakistan. Pakistani Punjab includes the (West) Punjab Province and parts of the Islamabad Capital Territory; Indian Punjab includes (East) Punjab State and some other territories.
glosses: A state in northern India. Capital: Chandigarh. Largest city: Ludhiana.
glosses: A province in Pakistan. Capital: Lahore.
Derived terms: Punjabi
Related terms: East Punjab
West Punjab
Haryana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɹɪˈjɑːnə/
ipa: /hɑːɹɪˈjɑːnə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi हरियाणा (hariyāṇā).
Senses: glosses: A state in northern India. Capital: Chandigarh. Largest city: Faridabad.
Chandigarh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌt͡ʃʌndɪˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɑːndɪˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: [t͡ʃəɳ.ɖiː.ɡəɽʱ]
ipa: [t͡ʃɐ̃ɳ.ɖiː.ɡɐɽʱ]
Etymology: From Chandi + Garh (derived from Hindi चंडी (caṇḍī) + -गढ़ (-gaṛh)). Chandi refers to a Hindu Goddess, the warrior avatar of Goddess Parvati, while Garh means "fort". The name is derived from Chandi Mandir, an ancient temple devoted to this goddess, near the city in Panchkula District.
Senses: glosses: A city and union territory in northern India, located between Punjab and Haryana; the capital city of Haryana and Punjab.
Delhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛl.i/
homophone: deli
rhymes: -ɛli
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈdɛl.(h)i/
note: Indic
ipa: /dɪlˈ(h)iː/
Etymology: Corrupted from Hindustani دہلی (dihlī, dêhli) / देहली (dehlī), of uncertain origin. See Delhi § Toponym at Wikipedia. Compare Hindi दिल्ली (dillī).
Senses: examples: text: The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects.
ref: 2007 December 5, Randeep Ramesh, “Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.
glosses: The Indian government.
Synonyms: word: National Capital Territory
Derived terms: Delhi belly
Delhian
Delhiite
Delhi Sultanate
New Delhi