"cornrow" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: cornrows [plural]
Etymology: Compound of corn + row, reflecting the figurative evocation of rows of corn in a cornfield. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Compound}} Compound, {{com+|en|corn|row}} Compound of corn + row Head templates: {{en-noun}} cornrow (plural cornrows)
  1. (chiefly in the plural) One of a set of rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp, forming a hairstyle, of African origin. Tags: in-plural Categories (topical): Hair Derived forms: row Translations (braided hair close to the scalp): 玉米壟 (Chinese Mandarin), 玉米垄 (yùmǐlǒng) (Chinese Mandarin), cornrow (Finnish), tresse africaine (French), Cornrow (German), Flechtreihe [feminine] (German), fejfonás (Hungarian), parkettafonás (Hungarian), treccine aderenti (Italian), コーンロウ (kōnrou) (Japanese), afrofletter (Norwegian), rastafletter (Norwegian), trancinha de raiz [feminine] (Portuguese), францу́зская коси́чка (francúzskaja kosíčka) [feminine] (Russian), туга́я коси́чка (tugája kosíčka) [feminine] (Russian), trenza africana [feminine] (Spanish), rastaflätor (Swedish), àdìmọ́lẹ̀ (Yoruba), irun dídì (Yoruba)
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Verb [English]

Forms: cornrows [present, singular, third-person], cornrowing [participle, present], cornrowed [participle, past], cornrowed [past]
Etymology: Compound of corn + row, reflecting the figurative evocation of rows of corn in a cornfield. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Compound}} Compound, {{com+|en|corn|row}} Compound of corn + row Head templates: {{en-verb}} cornrow (third-person singular simple present cornrows, present participle cornrowing, simple past and past participle cornrowed)
  1. To braid the hair in this fashion.
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.