quarrel

en-noun

quarrel (countable and uncountable, plural quarrels)

PIE word
 *kʷetwóres
From Middle English quarrel (“bolt for an arbalest, crossbow, or siege engine; (figurative) seductive glance, temptation to sin; needle (possibly one square in cross-section); small (perhaps square-shaped) opening in window tracery; a cushion (perhaps square-shaped)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman quarel, quarele, quarrel, Middle French quarrel, and Old French quarel, quarrel, carrel (“crossbow bolt; floor tile or paving stone (rectangular- or square-shaped); small glass pane for windows”) (modern French carreau (“crossbow bolt; a tile; windowpane; a square”)), from Late Latin quarellus, quadrellus (“crossbow bolt; paving stone; a tile”), from Latin quadrum (“a square; square section; regular shape or form”) + -ellus (variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns, indicating small size or youth)). Quadrum is ultimately derived from quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).

nb...

quarel, quarele, quarell, quarelle, quareyll, quarrell, querel, querelle, qwarel, qwarell, (Lancashire) wharl

der

Twanged the ſtring, out flew the quarell long, / And through the ſubtile aire did ſinging pas, / It hit the knight the buckles rich among, / Wherewith his pretious girdle faſt'ned was, / It bruſed them and pearſt his hawberke ſtrong, / Some little blood downe trickled on the gras; [...]

1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Seuenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 103, page 137:

Here be two arblasts, comrade, with windlaces and quarrells—to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 281:

The small cross-bow, called the arbalet or arbalest, is said to have been invented by the Sicilians. It was carried by the foot-soldiers, and when used was charged with a quarrel or bar-bolt, that is, a small arrow with a flat head, one of which occasioned the death of Harold [Godwinson] at the battle of Hastings, [...]

1829 January–July, [Edward Augustus Kendall], “Illustrations of History. Archery.”, in The Olio; or Museum of Entertainment, volume III, London: […] Shackell and Carfrae [for] Joseph Shackell, […], →OCLC, page 174, column 2:

"What was that?" he asked, as a hissing, sharp-drawn voice seemed to whisper in his ear. The steersman smiled, and pointed with his foot to where a short heavy cross-bow quarrel stuck quivering in the boards.

1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys”, in The White Company […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 71:

(countable, archery, historical) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.

cairell

arrow or bolt for a crossbow or arbalest


boss

From Middle English bos, bose, boce, from Old French boce (“lump, bulge, protuberance, knot”), from Frankish *bottja, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to hit, strike, beat”). Doublet of beat; see there for more.

(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.


white

en-noun

white (countable and uncountable, plural whites)

Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
cognates
* West Frisian wyt
*Dutch wit
* German weiß
* German weiss
* Norwegian Bokmål hvit
* Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”).

bělásek

common name for butterflies in the subfamily Pierinae

'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.


loose

en-verb

loose (third-person singular simple present looses, present participle loosing, simple past and past participle loosed)

looses (present singular third-person)
loosing (participle present)
loosed (participle past)
loosed (past)

From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-, *lū- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.


loose

In throwing a Dart, or Iavelin, wee force back our armes, to make our loose the stronger.

1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:


loose

(archery) begin shooting; release your arrows


draw

draw (third-person singular simple present draws, present participle drawing, simple past drew, past participle drawn or (colloquial and nonstandard) drew)

draws (present singular third-person)
drawing (participle present)
drew (past)
drawn (participle past)
drew (colloquial nonstandard participle past)
draw (infinitive)

From Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, push, draw (out), go to, make, add, etc.”), from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage

snímat

cardgames: to take the top card of a deck into hand

every miller draws water to his own mill

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

(archery) To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.


draw

(archery) Pull back your bowstring in preparation to shoot.


draw

en-noun

draw (countable and uncountable, plural draws)

This configuration offered the capacity for an exceptionally long draw – Manchu archers drew all the way back to the point of the right shoulder[…]

2016 August 25, Mike Loades, The Composite Bow, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:

(archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing; the distance the strings are pulled back.


overdraw

en-verb

overdraw (third-person singular simple present overdraws, present participle overdrawing, simple past overdrew, past participle overdrawn)

overdraws (present singular third-person)
overdrawing (participle present)
overdrew (past)
overdrawn (participle past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-overdraw.wav

(archery) To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow.


pin

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: pins

→ Polish: pin

→ Spanish: pin

→ Swahili: pini

→ Swedish: pin, pins

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.
No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).

cog

For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at,
Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:

the very pin of his heart cleft

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

(archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.


anchor

→ Chuukese: angko

From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieval Latin spelling anchora. Doublet of ancora and anker.

(archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.


弨

/t͡sʰiːu̯⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰiːu̯⁵⁵/


弓

Characters in the same phonetic series (弓) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a bow. See also the original version of 射.
Possibly related to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kuːŋ (“tree, branch, stem”) (Coblin, 1986), semantically connected with the shape of a bent tree branch. Cognate with Burmese ကိုင်း (kuing:, “to bend over; to be bent”), အကိုင်း (a.kuing:, “stalk; branch”), Tedim Chin [script needed] (kung¹, “tree”), Jingpho kung (“to branch; to grow”), lakung (“branch; limb”), Lepcha ᰀᰩᰵ (kóng, “branch”), ᰀᰫᰵ (kúng, “tree”) (STEDT).
Schuessler (2007) proposes that both Old Chinese 弓 (OC *kʷɯŋ) and Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kuːŋ are derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer *koŋ, whence Nyah Kur [script needed] (kóoŋ, “bent (in the middle)”), Mon ကိုၚ် (“to be bent”), Khmer កោង (kaong, “to bend; to be bent”), Khasi pyrkhung (“to bend; to arch”), Pear kuŋ (“bend”), Vietnamese cong (“to be bent, curved”).
Also compare Proto-Tibeto-Burman *ku(ː)m (“arched; vaulted”)
Derivatives are 肱 (OC *kʷɯːŋ, “(upper) arm”) and 穹 (OC *kʰʷɯŋ, “arched; vault; sky”).


撻

挞
挞
挞
挞
挞
躂
挞

(archery) leather grip at the nocking point in a bow string


環

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (環):
* → Japanese: 環(かん) (kan)
* → Korean: 환(環) (hwan)
* → Vietnamese: hoàn (環)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷraːn): semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ).
Note similarities to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *hwaŋ (“to encircle; circular, fence”), whence Burmese ဝင်း (wang:, “enclosure, compound”).


矢

Pictogram (象形) – an arrow. More recognizable in older forms. Compare 畀 and 至. See also the bottom component of 睪 and the original versions of 弗 and 𢦏.
; arrow
; to swear, to vow

The way to Zhou was like a whetstone,
And straight as an arrow.

The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

周道如砥，其直如矢。


矢

From Old Japanese. Found in the Kojiki of 712 CE, and in the Man'yōshū completed some time after 759 CE.

光陰矢の如し。

Shine and shadow, just like an arrow. → Time flies like an arrow.

大夫之弓上振起射都流矢乎後将見人者語継金

masurao no yuzue furiokoshi itsuru ya o nochi mimu hito wa kataritsugu gane


箭

→ Vietnamese: tên

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔslens): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 前 (OC *zleːn).

Han compound

(archery, weaponry) arrow (Classifier: 支 m c mn)


的

From Old Japanese.
* May be derived from rare archaic verb いくう (ikuu, “to shoot [an arrow] at something”, archaic spelling いくふ).
: The ha element would presumably derive from the verb ending ふ (fu), which has a 未然形 (mizenkei, “incomplete form”) of ha. However, this is unlikely, as verb forms ending in -fu underwent the regular f- and h- > w- shift, which would result in a reading of *ikuwa rather than the correct ikuha.
* The above phonetic discrepancy suggests that ikuha may instead be a compound of iku + ha. The iku element probably derives from root component いく (iku) meaning “shooting [arrows]”, as found in いくう (ikuu) and also in 戦 (ikusa, “a battle”, original meaning “the shooting of arrows”). The iku element might be related to verb 射る (iru, “to shoot an arrow”), or obsolete verb 生く (iku, “to live; to make something live, to make something go”), likely cognate with 行く (iku, “to go”).
: The ha element is uncertain. It might be 端 (ha, “the edge or end of something”), from the sense “the end [of the arrow's flight]”.

的所

the location where an archery target is placed


的

From Old Japanese. Alteration of ikuha above. Compare the iku <> yuku alteration in the verb 行く (iku, yuku, “to go”).


fast

From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).

(archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target


羽

From Old Japanese.
May be cognate with 葉 (ha, “leaf”).

(archery) when a bow is strung, the distance between the grip and the serving (nocking point) on the bowstring


釦

(archery) metal loop at the nock point of a bow string


靫

靫 (canonical)
utsubo (romanization)
うつお (alternative hiragana)
utsuo (Rōmaji)
うつほ (hiragana historical)


longbow

A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew.


destino

la-verb

dēstinō (present infinitive dēstināre, perfect active dēstināvī, supine dēstinātum); first conjugation

dēstinō (canonical)
dēstināre (infinitive present)
dēstināvī (active perfect)
dēstinātum (supine)
dēstinō (active first-person indicative present singular)
dēstinās (active indicative present second-person singular)
dēstinat (active indicative present singular third-person)
dēstināmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
dēstinātis (active indicative plural present second-person)
dēstinant (active indicative plural present third-person)
dēstinābam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
dēstinābās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
dēstinābat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
dēstinābāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
dēstinābātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
dēstinābant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
dēstinābō (active first-person future indicative singular)
dēstinābis (active future indicative second-person singular)
dēstinābit (active future indicative singular third-person)
dēstinābimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
dēstinābitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
dēstinābunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
dēstināvī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
dēstināvistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
dēstināstī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
dēstināvit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
dēstināt (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
dēstināvimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
dēstināmus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
dēstināvistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
dēstināstis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
dēstināvērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstināvēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstinārunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstināveram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
dēstināram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
dēstināverās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
dēstinārās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
dēstināverat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
dēstinārat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
dēstināverāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
dēstinārāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
dēstināverātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
dēstinārātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
dēstināverant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
dēstinārant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
dēstināverō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
dēstinārō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
dēstināveris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
dēstināris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
dēstināverit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
dēstinārit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
dēstināverimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
dēstinārimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
dēstināveritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
dēstināritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
dēstināverint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstinārint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstinor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
dēstināris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
dēstināre (indicative passive present second-person singular)
dēstinātur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
dēstināmur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
dēstināminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
dēstinantur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
dēstinābar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
dēstinābāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
dēstinābāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
dēstinābātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
dēstinābāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
dēstinābāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
dēstinābantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
dēstinābor (first-person future indicative passive singular)
dēstināberis (future indicative passive second-person singular)
dēstinābere (future indicative passive second-person singular)
dēstinābitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
dēstinābimur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
dēstinābiminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
dēstinābuntur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
dēstinem (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
dēstinēs (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinet (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinēmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
dēstinētis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
dēstinent (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
dēstinārēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstināret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
dēstinārētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstinārent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstināverim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
dēstinārim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
dēstināverīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinārīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstināverit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstināverīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
dēstinārīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
dēstināverītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstinārītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstināverint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstināvissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
dēstināssem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
dēstināvissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstināssēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstināvisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstināsset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstināvissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
dēstināssēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
dēstināvissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstināssētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstināvissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstināssent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstiner (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
dēstinēris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinēre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinētur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinēmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
dēstinēminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
dēstinentur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
dēstinārēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinārēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinārētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
dēstinārēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstinārentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstinā (active imperative present second-person singular)
dēstināte (active imperative plural present second-person)
dēstinātō (active future imperative second-person singular)
dēstinātō (active future imperative singular third-person)
dēstinātōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
dēstinantō (active future imperative plural third-person)
dēstināre (imperative passive present second-person singular)
dēstināminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
dēstinātor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
dēstinātor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
dēstinantor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
dēstināre (active infinitive present)
dēstināvisse (active infinitive perfect)
dēstināsse (active infinitive perfect)
dēstinātūrum esse (active future infinitive)
dēstinārī (infinitive passive present)
dēstinātum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
dēstinātum īrī (future infinitive passive)
dēstināns (active participle present)
dēstinātūrus (active future participle)
dēstinātus (participle passive perfect)
dēstinandus (future participle passive)
dēstinandī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
dēstinandō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
dēstinandum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
dēstinandō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
dēstinātum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
dēstinātū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

Catalan: destinar

Dalmatian: destinur

English: destine

French: destiner

Galician: destinar

Italian: destinare

Occitan: destinar

Portuguese: destinar

Romanian: destina

Sicilian: distinari

Spanish: destinar

From de- + *stanō, the latter an unattested verb from Proto-Italic *stanō, from Proto-Indo-European *stnéh₂ti ~ stn̥h₂énti. Related to stō. Compare obstinō and praestinō from the same stem.


bolt

→ Irish: bolta

→ Japanese: ボルト (boruto)

→ Maltese: bolt

desctree

→ Russian: болт (bolt)
→ Azerbaijani: bolt
→ Ingrian: boltta

→ Scottish Gaelic: bolta

From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.

der

A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.


arrow

From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Latin arcus (“bow”).

The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 77–78, column 2:

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

(archery) A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.

střela f (dated, now means "projectile")

strela f (dated, now means "projectile")


limb

From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.

(archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.


side

head

side f (genitive singular sidey, plural sideyn)

sidey (genitive singular)
sideyn (plural)
side (mutation mutation-radical)
hide (lenition mutation)
after "yn" (lenition mutation)
tide (lenition mutation)

From Old Irish saiget, from Latin sagitta.


bow

From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Cognate with West Frisian boge, Dutch boog, German Bogen, Swedish båge.

strykstok

rod used for playing stringed instruments

(archery) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.


arc

Inherited from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

(music) bow (used to play string instruments)


arc

Inherited from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.


flèche

→ Dutch: flits

→ Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]

→ German: Flitz

→ English: flèche

Inherited from Middle French fleche, from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.

etymon

(archery, symbol) arrow (projectile or symbol)


ox

az-noun

ox (definite accusative oxu, plural oxlar)

oxu (accusative definite)
oxlar (plural)
ox (nominative singular)
oxlar (nominative plural)
oxu (accusative definite singular)
oxları (accusative definite plural)
oxa (dative singular)
oxlara (dative plural)
oxda (locative singular)
oxlarda (locative plural)
oxdan (ablative singular)
oxlardan (ablative plural)
oxun (definite genitive singular)
oxların (definite genitive plural)
oxum (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
oxlarım (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
oxun (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
oxların (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
oxu (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
oxları (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
oxumuz (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
oxlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
oxunuz (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
oxlarınız (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
oxu (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxları (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxları (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
oxumu (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
oxlarımı (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
oxunu (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
oxlarını (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
oxunu (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
oxlarını (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
oxumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
oxlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
oxunuzu (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
oxlarınızı (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
oxunu (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarını (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
oxuma (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
oxlarıma (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
oxuna (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
oxlarına (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
oxuna (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
oxlarına (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
oxumuza (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
oxlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
oxunuza (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
oxlarınıza (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
oxuna (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarına (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
oxumda (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
oxlarımda (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
oxunda (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
oxlarında (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
oxunda (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
oxlarında (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
oxumuzda (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
oxlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
oxunuzda (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
oxlarınızda (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
oxunda (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarında (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
oxumdan (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
oxlarımdan (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
oxundan (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
oxlarından (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
oxundan (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
oxlarından (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
oxumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
oxlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
oxunuzdan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
oxlarınızdan (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
oxundan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarından (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
oxumun (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
oxlarımın (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
oxunun (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
oxlarının (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
oxunun (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
oxlarının (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
oxumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
oxlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
oxunuzun (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
oxlarınızın (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
oxunun (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
oxlarının (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸 (q̊¹ /oq/, “arrow”), Chuvash ухӑ (uh̬ă), from Proto-Turkic *ok.


sagittarius

la-noun

sagittārius m (genitive sagittāriī or sagittārī); second declension

sagittārius (canonical masculine)
sagittāriī (genitive)
sagittārī (genitive)
sagittārius (nominative singular)
sagittāriī (nominative plural)
sagittāriī (genitive singular)
sagittārī (genitive singular)
sagittāriōrum (genitive plural)
sagittāriō (dative singular)
sagittāriīs (dative plural)
sagittārium (accusative singular)
sagittāriōs (accusative plural)
sagittāriō (ablative singular)
sagittāriīs (ablative plural)
sagittārie (singular vocative)
sagittāriī (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: săgetar

→ Albanian: shigjetar

Italo-Romance:

Old Italian: saettaio

Ibero-Romance:

Portuguese: seteiro

Spanish: saetero

Borrowings:

→ English: Sagittarius, sagittary

→ French: sagittaire, Sagittaire

→ Italian: sagittario, Sagittario

→ Portuguese: Sagitário

→ Romanian: sagitar

→ Spanish: Sagitario

[s̠äɡɪt̪ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]

From sagitta (“arrow”) + -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).


sagitta

la-noun

sagitta f (genitive sagittae); first declension

sagittae (genitive)
sagitta (nominative singular)
sagittae (nominative plural)
sagittae (genitive singular)
sagittārum (genitive plural)
sagittae (dative singular)
sagittīs (dative plural)
sagittam (accusative singular)
sagittās (accusative plural)
sagittā (ablative singular)
sagittīs (ablative plural)
sagitta (singular vocative)
sagittae (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: sãdzeatã

Romanian: săgeată

Italo-Romance:

Italian: saetta

→ Maltese: sajjetta

Sicilian: sajitta

North Italian:

Friulian: saete

Istriot: sàita

Ladin: saëta, sita

Piedmontese: sajëta

Romansch: sajetta

Venetan: sita, saéta

Gallo-Romance:

Old French: saete, saiete; sajette (latinized)

French: sagette

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: sageta

Occitan: sageta

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: saeta

Old Galician-Portuguese: saeta

Galician: seta

Portuguese: seta

Spanish: saeta

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: saitta

Ancient borrowings:

→ Albanian: shigjetë

→ Tsakonian: σογίτθα (sogíttha)

→ Greek: σαΐτα (saḯta)

→ Old Irish: saiget (see there for further descendants)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *saɣeθ (see there for further descendants)

Later borrowings:

→ Catalan: sagita

→ English: sagitta

→ Esperanto: sago

→ Italian: sagitta

→ Translingual: Sagitta

→ Spanish: sagita

→ Volapük: sagit

[s̠äˈɡɪt̪ːä]

[säˈd͡ʒit̪ːä]

Unknown etymology. Probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean language.
A minority view connects it to sāgiō (“to perceive quickly or keenly”).

the arrowhead (plant of the genus Sagittaria)


fenestra

fenestra f (genitive fenestrae); first declension

fenestrae (genitive)
fenestra (nominative singular)
fenestrae (nominative plural)
fenestrae (genitive singular)
fenestrārum (genitive plural)
fenestrae (dative singular)
fenestrīs (dative plural)
fenestram (accusative singular)
fenestrās (accusative plural)
fenestrā (ablative singular)
fenestrīs (ablative plural)
fenestra (singular vocative)
fenestrae (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: fireastrã

desctree

Romanian: fereastră, fereastă
→ Romani: felyastra

Dalmatian:

finiastra

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: finestra

Italian: finestra

Neapolitan: fenesta

Sicilian: finestra, finesra

Padanian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: fnèstra

Lombard: fenestra, finestra, fnestra

Piedmontese: fnestra, fnesta

desc

Romansch: fanestra, finiastra, fnestra, faneastra

Venetan: finestra, fenestra

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: finestra

Franco-Provençal: fenétra

Old French: fenestre (see there for further descendants)

Gascon: hrièsta, herièsta, hièstra, hiestra

Occitan: fenèstra

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: finestra

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: fẽestra
Galician: fiestra
Portuguese: fresta

Old Spanish: finiestra

Early Modern Spanish: hiniestra

Borrowings:

→ Albanian: fënjeshtër

→ Breton: prenestr, fenestr (or via French)

→ Cornish: fenester

→ English: fenestra (learned)

→ Old Irish: seinistir

→ Portuguese: fenestra (learned)

→ Proto-West Germanic: *fenestr (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: fenestra (learned)

→ Welsh: ffenestr, ffenest

Apparently from Etruscan *fnestra (and fēstra from Etruscan *fenstra), compare the personal name Etruscan [script needed] (fnes-ci) and the placename Latin Fensernia, but nothing is known about the meaning of the Etruscan base.

window of opportunity
window of opportunity

an opportunity, opening, occasion, window of opportunity


bue

buen (definite singular)
buer (indefinite plural)
buene (definite plural)

From Danish bue, from Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.

no:bue (arkitektur)
no:bue (geometri)
no:bue (våpen)


lukostrelec

sk-noun

lukostrelec m pers (female equivalent lukostrelkyňa, related adjective lukostrelecký)

lukostrelkyňa (feminine)
lukostrelecký (adjective)
nominative
lukostrelec (singular)
lukostrelci (plural)
genitive
lukostrelca (singular)
lukostrelcov (plural)
dative
lukostrelcovi (singular)
lukostrelcom (plural)
accusative
locative
lukostrelcoch (plural)
instrumental
lukostrelcom (singular)
lukostrelcami (plural)

From luk (“bow”) + -o- (“shooter”) + strelec.


лучник

ru-noun+

лу́чник • (lúčnik) m anim (genitive лу́чника, nominative plural лу́чники, genitive plural лу́чников)

лу́чник (canonical)
lúčnik (romanization)
лу́чника (genitive)
лу́чники (nominative plural)
лу́чников (genitive plural)
лу́чник (nominative singular)
лу́чники (nominative plural)
лу́чника (genitive singular)
лу́чников (genitive plural)
лу́чнику (dative singular)
лу́чникам (dative plural)
лу́чника (accusative singular)
лу́чников (accusative plural)
лу́чником (instrumental singular)
лу́чниками (instrumental plural)
лу́чнике (prepositional singular)
лу́чниках (plural prepositional)

[ˈɫut͡ɕnʲɪk]


лучник

uk-noun

лу́чник • (lúčnyk) m pers (genitive лу́чника, nominative plural лу́чники, genitive plural лу́чників)

лу́чник (canonical)
lúčnyk (romanization)
лу́чника (genitive)
лу́чники (nominative plural)
лу́чників (genitive plural)
лу́чник (nominative singular)
лу́чники (nominative plural)
лу́чника (genitive singular)
лу́чників (genitive plural)
лу́чникові (dative singular)
лу́чнику (dative singular)
лу́чникам (dative plural)
лу́чника (accusative singular)
лу́чників (accusative plural)
лу́чником (instrumental singular)
лу́чниками (instrumental plural)
лу́чникові (locative singular)
лу́чнику (locative singular)
лу́чниках (locative plural)
лу́чнику (singular vocative)
лу́чники (plural vocative)


šíp

šíp (nominative singular)
šípy (nominative plural)
šípu (genitive singular)
šípů (genitive plural)
šípu (dative singular)
šípům (dative plural)
šíp (accusative singular)
šípy (accusative plural)
šípe (singular vocative)
šípy (plural vocative)
šípu (locative singular)
šípech (locative plural)
šípem (instrumental singular)
šípy (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech šíp, from Proto-Slavic *šipъ.


šíp

sk-noun

šíp m inan (genitive singular šípu, nominative plural šípy, genitive plural šípov, declension pattern of dub)

šípu (genitive singular)
šípy (nominative plural)
šípov (genitive plural)
dub (declension-pattern-of)
šíp (nominative singular)
šípy (nominative plural)
šípa (genitive singular)
šípu (genitive singular)
šípov (genitive plural)
šípu (dative singular)
šípom (dative plural)
šíp (accusative singular)
šípy (accusative plural)
šípe (locative singular)
šípoch (locative plural)
šípom (instrumental singular)
šípmi (instrumental plural)


τόξο

tóxo (romanization)
τόξα (plural)
τόξο (nominative singular)
τόξα (nominative plural)
τόξου (genitive singular)
τόξων (genitive plural)
τόξο (accusative singular)
τόξα (accusative plural)
τόξο (singular vocative)
τόξα (plural vocative)

From Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”).


fletcher

Inherited from Middle English fleccher, from Old French flechier; equivalent to fletch + -er.

This thing, if a man take not hede on, he may chaunce have cauſe to ſay ſo of his fletcher, as in dreſſinge of meate is commonlye ſayde of cookes: and that is, that God ſendeth us good feathers, but the devill noughtye fletchers.

1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 2, page 148:

In order that distant countries should be furnished with bowyers, fletchers, and arrow head makers, any of those workmen, not being freemen of London, might be sent by the appointment of the king's council, the lord chancellor, lord privy seal, or one of them, to inhabit the city, borough or town within the realm that was destitute of such artificers.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 38:

Besides the bowyers and fletchers who made the bows and arrows, others were employed to keep them in repair: the pay of these men was sixpence a-day. Among the Tolls at Carlton Ride is the Account of the Clerk of the Privy Wardrobe, for armour, shot, &c., from 1372 to 1374; where, among many curious entries, occurs one “for the wages of two fletchers, each at vid. a-day, for going in the king's ships, and for the keeping and mending of bows and arrows in the said voyage".

1859, “The Arms, Armour and Military Usages of the Fourteenth Century”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 206, page 14:

An arrow maker is a fletcher, or, more exactly, one who feathers arrows.

1955, “Sticks and Strings (A pot-pourri on bow and arrows from an article in "Michigan Conservation")”, in The Bowhunter, number 5, page 29:

I don't like using a fletcher, the single feather ones are too slow, and the three feather ones inaccurate.

1940, Archery News, volumes 19-27, page 35:

A fletcher that mechanically takes care of gluing feathers to arrow shafts is a great help in either making or repairing arrows.

Fletching jigs are available either as a single fletch unit or as a multi-fletcher, which can fletch up to six arrows at once.

2014, Brian J. Sorrells, Guide to the Longbow: Tips, Advice, and History for Target Shooting and Hunting:

A fletcher is the tool that actually holds the arrow and sets the vane or feather in place while it is being glued.

1992, by Randolph J. Hempton, Michigan Out-of-doors, volume 46, page 72:

A device to assist in fletching or feathering arrows.

Robert Frankham of Colchester, fletcher, or maker of bows and arrowy, did, by his will, dated the 20th of July, 1577, give a yearly rent-charge of thirteen shillings and four-pence out of a tenement and six acres of land in West Bergholt, for ever;

1810, The history and antiquities of the borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex:

Very speedily the Fletcher arrived. It was his trade, the making of bows and arrows, and the marks of the various makers were as well known to him as the marks on his own.

1853, “A Narrative of Border Warfare”, in The United Service Magazine, page 402:

[…] some of the best bows were made by Elven fletchers in the nearby woods to the east of the city.

2012, Shaun Robinson, A Knights Realm: Forsaken Rise, page 13:

In the spring of 1415 Nicholas Mynot was ordered by an impatient Henry to take on another dozen fletchers at the Tower armoury workshop to step up production of the bows and arrows needed in France

2012, Nigel Jones, Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London, page 88:

Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

[…] the defendants cut down and lowered, and kept and continued so cut down and lowered, a part of the bank of the said river, situate and being between the mill of the defendants and the mill of the plaintiff, and on a part of the said bank so lowered, built and erected, and kept and continued so built and erected, a certain weir or fletcher, and by that means caused large quantities of the water of the said river, which otherwise would, and always before had, and still of right ought to have flowed to and through the plaintiff's mill, to flow in a new course or channel, […] and the said weir or fletcher, built and erected there by the defendant Inge in the month of June 1822; […]

1831, Liggins v. Inge, T. T. 1831 (court case), in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts (1832), page 289

They [some boards] had been washed away from the fletcher by the flood.

1896 September 5, Evesham Journal, quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary

You saw the river as you came along. Just above that bridge where you crossed there is a fletcher - weir, as some call them. Diver [a dog] used to cross the stream regular by running over the fletcher, and the other dogs picked up the trick from him.

1902, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 451:

(UK, dialect, possibly dated) A weir or dam.


arqueiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese arqueiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius (“of bows”), from Latin arcus (“bow”). Equivalent to arco + -eiro.


arqueiro

pt-noun

arqueiro m (plural arqueiros, feminine arqueira, feminine plural arqueiras)

arqueiros (plural)
arqueira (feminine)
arqueiras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese arqueiro, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius (“of bows”), from Latin arcus (“bow”). By surface analysis, arco + -eiro.

(archery) archer (person who practices the sport of archery)


luk

lȕk (canonical masculine)
лу̏к (Cyrillic)
luk (nominative singular)
lukovi (nominative plural)
luka (genitive singular)
lukova (genitive plural)
luku (dative singular)
lukovima (dative plural)
luk (accusative singular)
lukove (accusative plural)
luče (singular vocative)
lukovi (plural vocative)
luku (locative singular)
lukovima (locative plural)
lukom (instrumental singular)
lukovima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lukъ. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Compare Low German look, Look, German Lauch, Swedish lök, English leek.


luk

lukový (adjective)
nominative
luk (singular)
luky (plural)
genitive
luku (singular)
lukov (plural)
dative
lukom (plural)
accusative
locative
lukoch (plural)
instrumental
lukom (singular)
lukmi (plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lankas.


crossbow

→ Irish: crosbhogha (calque)

→ Japanese: クロスボウ

→ Welsh: bwa croes (calque)

From Middle English crosbowe, crossebowe, equivalent to cross + bow.

A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.


archer

from Middle English archer, archere, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Displaced native Old English sċytta.

/ˈɑː(ɹ).t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

-ɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)

One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

boogskutter

one who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow


archer

fr-noun

archer m (plural archers, feminine archère)

From arche, a variant of arc (“bow”) + -er, or from Middle French archier, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”).


лук

be-noun

лук • (luk) m inan (genitive лу́ка, nominative plural лу́кі, genitive plural лу́каў, relational adjective лу́чны)

luk (romanization)
лу́ка (genitive)
лу́кі (nominative plural)
лу́каў (genitive plural)
лу́чны (adjective relational)
лук (nominative singular)
лу́кі (nominative plural)
лу́ка (genitive singular)
лу́каў (genitive plural)
лу́ку (dative singular)
лу́кам (dative plural)
лук (accusative singular)
лу́кі (accusative plural)
лу́кам (instrumental singular)
лу́камі (instrumental plural)
лу́ку (locative singular)
лу́ках (locative plural)
лу́кі (count-form plural)

Inherited from Old East Slavic лукъ (lukŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lǫ̑kъ. Cognate with Russian and Ukrainian лук (luk).

inh+

Since her arrival at Casa del Corvo she had found no occasion to use the weapon of Diana; and her beautiful bow of Osage-orange wood, and quiver of plumed arrows, had lain neglected in the lumber-room.

1941 [1865], Mayne Reid, translated by Уладзімір Ляўданскі, Коннік без галавы, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Headless Horseman, page 101:

Since her move to Texas, she had found no occasion to get back to this hobby. Her beautiful bow of orange tree wood and plumed arrows had lain neglected in a closet.

Z tahó času jak jana pjerajexala ŭ Tjexas, u jaje nje byló jašče vypadku vjarnucca da hetaha zanjatku. Jaje pryhóžy luk z apjelʹsinavaha dreva i strely z pjerʺjami ŭ xvascje ljažali bjez spravy ŭ šafje.


лук

ru-noun+

лук • (luk) m inan (genitive лу́ка, nominative plural лу́ки, genitive plural лу́ков)

luk (romanization)
лу́ка (genitive)
лу́ки (nominative plural)
лу́ков (genitive plural)
лу́к (nominative singular)
лу́ки (nominative plural)
лу́ка (genitive singular)
лу́ков (genitive plural)
лу́ку (dative singular)
лу́кам (dative plural)
лу́к (accusative singular)
лу́ки (accusative plural)
лу́ком (instrumental singular)
лу́ками (instrumental plural)
лу́ке (prepositional singular)
лу́ках (plural prepositional)

from Old East Slavic лукъ (lukŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lankas.


лук

лу̑к (canonical masculine)
lȗk (romanization)
лу̑к (nominative singular)
лу́кови (nominative plural)
лука (genitive singular)
лу́ко̄ва̄ (genitive plural)
луку (dative singular)
луковима (dative plural)
лук (accusative singular)
лукове (accusative plural)
луче (singular vocative)
лукови (plural vocative)
луку (locative singular)
луковима (locative plural)
луком (instrumental singular)
луковима (instrumental plural)


лук

uk-noun

лук • (luk) m inan (genitive лу́ка, nominative plural лу́ки, genitive plural лу́ків)

luk (romanization)
лу́ка (genitive)
лу́ки (nominative plural)
лу́ків (genitive plural)
лук (nominative singular)
лу́ки (nominative plural)
лу́ка (genitive singular)
лу́ків (genitive plural)
лу́кові (dative singular)
лу́ку (dative singular)
лу́кам (dative plural)
лук (accusative singular)
лу́ки (accusative plural)
лу́ком (instrumental singular)
лу́ками (instrumental plural)
лу́ку (locative singular)
лу́ках (locative plural)
лу́ку (singular vocative)
лу́ки (plural vocative)

From Old Ukrainian лукъ (luk), from Old East Slavic лукъ (lukŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”).


arco

From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”).

der

suonare con arco


arco

Inherited from Latin arcus (whence English archery), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). In some senses inherited, in others borrowed directly from Latin. Cognate with English arrow, arc, and arch.

tirar con arco

(sports, Latin America) goal (structure)


yay

az-noun

yay (definite accusative yayı, plural yaylar)

yayı (accusative definite)
yaylar (plural)
yay (nominative singular)
yaylar (nominative plural)
yayı (accusative definite singular)
yayları (accusative definite plural)
yaya (dative singular)
yaylara (dative plural)
yayda (locative singular)
yaylarda (locative plural)
yaydan (ablative singular)
yaylardan (ablative plural)
yayın (definite genitive singular)
yayların (definite genitive plural)
yayım (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
yaylarım (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
yayın (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
yayların (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
yayı (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
yayları (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
yayımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
yaylarımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
yayınız (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
yaylarınız (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
yayı (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yayları (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yayları (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
yayımı (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
yaylarımı (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
yayını (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
yaylarını (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
yayını (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
yaylarını (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
yayımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
yaylarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
yayınızı (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
yaylarınızı (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
yayını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarını (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
yayıma (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
yaylarıma (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
yayına (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
yaylarına (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
yayına (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
yaylarına (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
yayımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
yaylarımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
yayınıza (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
yaylarınıza (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
yayına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarına (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
yayımda (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
yaylarımda (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
yayında (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
yaylarında (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
yayında (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
yaylarında (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
yayımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
yaylarımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
yayınızda (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
yaylarınızda (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
yayında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarında (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
yayımdan (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
yaylarımdan (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
yayından (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
yaylarından (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
yayından (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
yaylarından (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
yayımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
yaylarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
yayınızdan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
yaylarınızdan (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
yayından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarından (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
yayımın (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
yaylarımın (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
yayının (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
yaylarının (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
yayının (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
yaylarının (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
yayımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
yaylarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
yayınızın (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
yaylarınızın (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
yayının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
yaylarının (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).


quiver

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

der

Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 271:

Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

դող

shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion


quiver

English: quiver

From Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).


arbalest

From Middle English arblast, from Old French arbaleste (modern arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus + ballista.

He excelled with the arbalest steel crossbow, winning the nickname the Arbalestier and joined Bahriyya regiment, the crack soldiers who defeated the Crusaders and became known as the Turkish Lions and the Islamic Templars.

2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 329:


archery

en-noun

archery (countable and uncountable, plural archeries)

From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer + -ery.

(uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.


clout

clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)

From Middle English clout, from Old English clūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The sense “influence, especially political” originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß, and dialect Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.

der

For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at,
Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:

A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.


ok

head

ok (definite accusative oku, plural oklar)

oku (accusative definite)
oklar (plural)

From Ottoman Turkish اوق, from Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰸 (ok, “arrow”).


bowyer

From Middle English bowyere, bowȝere, variant forms of bowere (“bowyer”), equivalent to bow + -yer.

A clause of a former act directing the bowyers of London and Westminster to make four bows of different wood for one of yew, was repealed on their representation that the citizens of London would use none but yew bows, and in its place they were ordered always to have by them at least fifty bows of elm, witch-hasel, or ash.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, pages 38–39:

A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).

(archaic) A person who uses the bow, an archer.


bracer

From Middle English bracer, from Old French braceure; equivalent to brace + -er.

To prevent the bow string from hanging on the left arm, it is covered with a piece of smooth leather, fastened on the outside of the arm, this is called a bracer.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:

(archery) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string.


maali

maali (nominative singular)
maalit (nominative plural)
maali (accusative nominative singular)
maalit (accusative nominative plural)
maalin (accusative genitive singular)
maalit (accusative genitive plural)
maalin (genitive singular)
maalien (genitive plural)
maalia (partitive singular)
maaleja (partitive plural)
maalissa (inessive singular)
maaleissa (inessive plural)
maalista (elative singular)
maaleista (elative plural)
maaliin (illative singular)
maaleihin (illative plural)
maalilla (adessive singular)
maaleilla (adessive plural)
maalilta (ablative singular)
maaleilta (ablative plural)
maalille (allative singular)
maaleille (allative plural)
maalina (essive singular)
maaleina (essive plural)
maaliksi (singular translative)
maaleiksi (plural translative)
maalitta (abessive singular)
maaleitta (abessive plural)
maalein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
maalini (nominative singular)
maalini (nominative plural)
maalini (accusative nominative singular)
maalini (accusative nominative plural)
maalini (accusative genitive singular)
maalini (accusative genitive plural)
maalini (genitive singular)
maalieni (genitive plural)
maaliani (partitive singular)
maalejani (partitive plural)
maalissani (inessive singular)
maaleissani (inessive plural)
maalistani (elative singular)
maaleistani (elative plural)
maaliini (illative singular)
maaleihini (illative plural)
maalillani (adessive singular)
maaleillani (adessive plural)
maaliltani (ablative singular)
maaleiltani (ablative plural)
maalilleni (allative singular)
maaleilleni (allative plural)
maalinani (essive singular)
maaleinani (essive plural)
maalikseni (singular translative)
maaleikseni (plural translative)
maalittani (abessive singular)
maaleittani (abessive plural)
maaleineni (comitative plural)
maalisi (nominative singular)
maalisi (nominative plural)
maalisi (accusative nominative singular)
maalisi (accusative nominative plural)
maalisi (accusative genitive singular)
maalisi (accusative genitive plural)
maalisi (genitive singular)
maaliesi (genitive plural)
maaliasi (partitive singular)
maalejasi (partitive plural)
maalissasi (inessive singular)
maaleissasi (inessive plural)
maalistasi (elative singular)
maaleistasi (elative plural)
maaliisi (illative singular)
maaleihisi (illative plural)
maalillasi (adessive singular)
maaleillasi (adessive plural)
maaliltasi (ablative singular)
maaleiltasi (ablative plural)
maalillesi (allative singular)
maaleillesi (allative plural)
maalinasi (essive singular)
maaleinasi (essive plural)
maaliksesi (singular translative)
maaleiksesi (plural translative)
maalittasi (abessive singular)
maaleittasi (abessive plural)
maaleinesi (comitative plural)
maalimme (nominative singular)
maalimme (nominative plural)
maalimme (accusative nominative singular)
maalimme (accusative nominative plural)
maalimme (accusative genitive singular)
maalimme (accusative genitive plural)
maalimme (genitive singular)
maaliemme (genitive plural)
maaliamme (partitive singular)
maalejamme (partitive plural)
maalissamme (inessive singular)
maaleissamme (inessive plural)
maalistamme (elative singular)
maaleistamme (elative plural)
maaliimme (illative singular)
maaleihimme (illative plural)
maalillamme (adessive singular)
maaleillamme (adessive plural)
maaliltamme (ablative singular)
maaleiltamme (ablative plural)
maalillemme (allative singular)
maaleillemme (allative plural)
maalinamme (essive singular)
maaleinamme (essive plural)
maaliksemme (singular translative)
maaleiksemme (plural translative)
maalittamme (abessive singular)
maaleittamme (abessive plural)
maaleinemme (comitative plural)
maalinne (nominative singular)
maalinne (nominative plural)
maalinne (accusative nominative singular)
maalinne (accusative nominative plural)
maalinne (accusative genitive singular)
maalinne (accusative genitive plural)
maalinne (genitive singular)
maalienne (genitive plural)
maalianne (partitive singular)
maalejanne (partitive plural)
maalissanne (inessive singular)
maaleissanne (inessive plural)
maalistanne (elative singular)
maaleistanne (elative plural)
maaliinne (illative singular)
maaleihinne (illative plural)
maalillanne (adessive singular)
maaleillanne (adessive plural)
maaliltanne (ablative singular)
maaleiltanne (ablative plural)
maalillenne (allative singular)
maaleillenne (allative plural)
maalinanne (essive singular)
maaleinanne (essive plural)
maaliksenne (singular translative)
maaleiksenne (plural translative)
maalittanne (abessive singular)
maaleittanne (abessive plural)
maaleinenne (comitative plural)
maalinsa (nominative singular)
maalinsa (nominative plural)
maalinsa (accusative nominative singular)
maalinsa (accusative nominative plural)
maalinsa (accusative genitive singular)
maalinsa (accusative genitive plural)
maalinsa (genitive singular)
maaliensa (genitive plural)
maaliaan (partitive singular)
maaliansa (partitive singular)
maalejaan (partitive plural)
maalejansa (partitive plural)
maalissaan (inessive singular)
maalissansa (inessive singular)
maaleissaan (inessive plural)
maaleissansa (inessive plural)
maalistaan (elative singular)
maalistansa (elative singular)
maaleistaan (elative plural)
maaleistansa (elative plural)
maaliinsa (illative singular)
maaleihinsa (illative plural)
maalillaan (adessive singular)
maalillansa (adessive singular)
maaleillaan (adessive plural)
maaleillansa (adessive plural)
maaliltaan (ablative singular)
maaliltansa (ablative singular)
maaleiltaan (ablative plural)
maaleiltansa (ablative plural)
maalilleen (allative singular)
maalillensa (allative singular)
maaleilleen (allative plural)
maaleillensa (allative plural)
maalinaan (essive singular)
maalinansa (essive singular)
maaleinaan (essive plural)
maaleinansa (essive plural)
maalikseen (singular translative)
maaliksensa (singular translative)
maaleikseen (plural translative)
maaleiksensa (plural translative)
maalittaan (abessive singular)
maalittansa (abessive singular)
maaleittaan (abessive plural)
maaleittansa (abessive plural)
maaleineen (comitative plural)
maaleinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Old Swedish māl (“measure, amount; sign”) (compare Swedish mål (“target; what one aims to hit”)), from both Old Norse mál (“language, speech”) (from Proto-Germanic *maþlą) and Old Norse mál (“size, measurement, time”) (from Proto-Germanic *mēlą).

der

(archery) popinjay (target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage)


chu-ko-nu

/ˌtʃuːkəʊˈnuː/

From Mandarin 諸葛弩／诸葛弩 (Zhūgě nǔ, literally “Zhuge crossbow”) via Wade–Giles.

bor

The chu-ko-nu, equipped with a magazine to hold bolts or, as in this case, pellets, was used in China well into the twentieth century (Needham et al. 1994: 157-64; Selby 2003: 62-63).

2007, C. E. Grayson, M. French, M. J. O'Brien, Traditional Archery from Six Continents, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:

While traditional bows were all about placing carefully selected shots, the chu-ko-nu could rattle off about one shot every two seconds, raining down a shitstorm of indiscriminate crossbow fire that would scare the Fu Manchu right off the enemy.

2013, John O'Bryan, A History of Weapons, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:

Ejecting and replacing the magazine from her chu–ko–nu, she grimly fastened the ribbon holding the gruesome trophy to her belt.

2016, Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 364:


drib

en-verb

drib (third-person singular simple present dribs, present participle dribbing, simple past and past participle dribbed)

dribs (present singular third-person)
dribbing (participle present)
dribbed (participle past)
dribbed (past)

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).

inh

(transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.

(intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.

Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]

c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 2, page 519:

(transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.


fletch

A modification of fledge (“to acquire feathers”) due to the influence of fletcher (“arrow-maker”). Compare flèche.

(archery) The vane toward the back of an arrow, used to stabilise the arrow during flight.


sago

eo-head

sago (accusative singular sagon, plural sagoj, accusative plural sagojn)

sagon (accusative singular)
sagoj (plural)
sagojn (accusative plural)

From Latin sagitta. Doublet of Sagitario.


toxotes

From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toxótēs, “bowman, archer”).

uder

(historical) A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword.


arrowhead

From Middle English arewehede, arowhede, arowheved; equivalent to arrow + head.


blanco

es-adj

blanco (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancos, feminine plural blancas)

blanca (feminine)
blancos (masculine plural)
blancas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Found as early as the Cantar de Mio Cid.
Compare Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”). Cognate with English blank, Dutch blank, etc.


blanco

Chavacano: blangko, blangku

Papiamentu: blancu


arko

eo-head

arko (accusative singular arkon, plural arkoj, accusative plural arkojn)

arkon (accusative singular)
arkoj (plural)
arkojn (accusative plural)


arko

Borrowed from Esperanto arko, English arc, French arc, German Arkus, Italian arco, Russian а́рка (árka), Spanish arco.

io-bor

(weaponry, archery) Alternative form of armarko


freccia

Borrowed from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, of Frankish origin.


fistmele

From fist + mele, variant of meal (“measure”), from Old English mæl.

(archery) A traditional unit of distance equal to the width of a clenched fist with the thumb extended (approx. 6½ inches or 16½ centimetres).


boga

Irish: bogha

Manx: bow

Scottish Gaelic: bogha


bowman

From Middle English boweman, bouman, boughman, equivalent to bow + -man.

The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 4:29:

(archery) A man who uses a bow; an archer.


tiller

From Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).

der

You can shoot in a tiller.

c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:

(archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.


strela

strela (nominative singular)
strelat (nominative plural)
strelan (genitive singular)
strelloin (genitive plural)
strellaa (partitive singular)
streloja (partitive plural)
strellaa (illative singular)
strelloi (illative plural)
strelas (inessive singular)
strelois (inessive plural)
strelast (elative singular)
streloist (elative plural)
strelalle (allative singular)
streloille (allative plural)
strelal (adessive singular)
streloil (adessive plural)
strelalt (ablative singular)
streloilt (ablative plural)
strelaks (singular translative)
streloiks (plural translative)
strelanna (essive singular)
strellaan (essive singular)
streloinna (essive plural)
strelloin (essive plural)
strelant (exessive singular)
streloint (exessive plural)

Höö evät pitäneet vaatetta, koit oltii tehty oksist ja lehtiist, oltii voruƶoitettu streloil ja kopjoil.

1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 56:

They didn't wear any clothes, their homes were made of branches and leaves, they were armed with arrows and spears.


strela

stréla (canonical feminine)
стре́ла (Cyrillic)
strela (nominative singular)
strele (nominative plural)
strele (genitive singular)
strela (genitive plural)
streli (dative singular)
strelama (dative plural)
strelu (accusative singular)
strele (accusative plural)
strelo (singular vocative)
strele (plural vocative)
streli (locative singular)
strelama (locative plural)
strelom (instrumental singular)
strelama (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *strěla, from Proto-Indo-European *strel-, *strēl-, from *ster- (“line, streak, stripe; jet, spurt; beam”).


fletching

en-noun

fletching (countable and uncountable, plural fletchings)

قذة

A set of fins attached to the tail of a projectile

The process of attaching fins, such as halved feathers, to a projectile in order to stabilize its flight.


стрела

bg-noun

стрела́ • (strelá) f

стрела́ (canonical)
strelá (romanization)
стрела́ (indefinite singular)
стрели́ (indefinite plural)
стрела́та (definite singular)
стрели́те (definite plural)
стре́ло (singular vocative)
стрели́ (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

стрела́<(v)>

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic стрѣла (strěla), from Proto-Slavic *strěla.


стрела

strela (romanization)
стрела (indefinite singular)
стрели (indefinite plural)
стрелата (definite singular unspecified)
стрелите (definite plural unspecified)
стрелава (definite proximal singular)
стреливе (definite plural proximal)
стрелана (definite distal singular)
стрелине (definite distal plural)
стрело (singular vocative)
стрели (plural vocative)


стрела

ru-noun+

стрела́ • (strelá) f inan (genitive стрелы́, nominative plural стре́лы, genitive plural стрел, diminutive стре́лка or стре́лочка)

стрела́ (canonical)
strelá (romanization)
стрелы́ (genitive)
стре́лы (nominative plural)
стрел (genitive plural)
стре́лка (diminutive)
стре́лочка (diminutive)
стрела́ (nominative singular)
стре́лы (nominative plural)
стрелы́ (genitive singular)
стре́л (genitive plural)
стреле́ (dative singular)
стре́лам (dative plural)
стрелу́ (accusative singular)
стре́лы (accusative plural)
стрело́й (instrumental singular)
стрело́ю (instrumental singular)
стре́лами (instrumental plural)
стреле́ (prepositional singular)
стре́лах (plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: strela


стрела

стре́ла (canonical feminine)
stréla (romanization)
стрела (nominative singular)
стреле (nominative plural)
стреле (genitive singular)
стрела (genitive plural)
стрели (dative singular)
стрелама (dative plural)
стрелу (accusative singular)
стреле (accusative plural)
стрело (singular vocative)
стреле (plural vocative)
стрели (locative singular)
стрелама (locative plural)
стрелом (instrumental singular)
стрелама (instrumental plural)


grot

grot (nominative singular)
groty (nominative plural)
grotu (genitive singular)
grotów (genitive plural)
grotowi (dative singular)
grotom (dative plural)
grot (accusative singular)
groty (accusative plural)
grotem (instrumental singular)
grotami (instrumental plural)
grocie (locative singular)
grotach (locative plural)
grocie (singular vocative)
groty (plural vocative)


arcus

la-noun

arcus m (genitive arcūs); fourth declension

arcūs (genitive)
arcus (nominative singular)
arcūs (nominative plural)
arcūs (genitive singular)
arcuum (genitive plural)
arcuī (dative singular)
arcubus (dative plural)
arcum (accusative singular)
arcūs (accusative plural)
arcū (ablative singular)
arcubus (ablative plural)
arcus (singular vocative)
arcūs (plural vocative)

Aromanian: arcu

English: arch

Esperanto: arko

desctree

Old French: arc
→ Middle English: ark, arke
English: arc
French: arc

Padanian:

Friulian: arc

Ligurian: erco

Piedmontese: erch, erche

Romansch: artg, arch

Middle Low German: ark

Low German: ark

Norwegian Bokmål: ark

Occitano-Romance:

Occitan: arc

Catalan: arc

Romanian: arc

Russian: а́рка f (árka)

Sardinian: alcu, arcu

Italo-Dalmatian:

Italian: arco

Sicilian: arcu

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: arcu

Old Spanish: arco

Spanish: arco

Old Galician-Portuguese: arco, arquo
Fala: arcu, alcu
Galician: arco
Portuguese: arco

From Proto-Italic *arkuos (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Cognate to Old English earh, whence English arrow, as well as Proto-Slavic *orkyta (“willow”) and Ancient Greek ἄρκευθος (árkeuthos, “juniper”), owing to juniper and willow twigs being used to make bows due to their flexibility.

cog

bow (arc-shaped weapon used for archery)


tir

→ Belarusian: цір (cir)

→ Russian: тир (tir)

→ Ukrainian: тир (tyr)

tir précis

tir au canon

tir à l’arc ― archery

shot, shooting (of a weapon) [from 1660]

Un tir a été établi pour les archers dans un des fossés qui se rapprochent de la ville.

1854, Gérard de Nerval, “Angélique”, in Les Filles du feu [The Daughters of Fire]:

A range was set up for the archers in one of the ditches that approach the city.


riser

From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.


noce

it-noun

noce f (plural noci, diminutive nocìna, augmentative nocióna)

noci (plural)
nocìna (diminutive)
nocióna (augmentative)

Inherited from Latin nucem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.


crossbowman

Why did Richard I die at the hands of a crossbowman, clutching a frying pan, on the outskirts of Limoges?

2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 73:

Someone (usually a soldier) equipped with a crossbow.


popinjay

/ˈpɑpənˌd͡ʒeɪ/

From Middle English popinjay, popyngeay, popingay, popejay, from Anglo-Norman papegai, papejoie et al., (northern) Old French papejai (“parrot”), probably from Old Occitan papagay (compare Occitan papagai, Catalan papagai), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, “parrot”), of imitative origin.

(archery) A target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage.


kisser

(archery) A button on a bowstring that indicates consistent height when drawing a bow, for example by being placed against the archer's mouth .


tirer

tirer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
tirant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
tiré (participle past)
tire (first-person indicative present singular)
tires (indicative present second-person singular)
tire (indicative present singular third-person)
tirons (first-person indicative plural present)
tirez (indicative plural present second-person)
tirent (indicative plural present third-person)
tirais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
tirais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
tirait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
tirions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
tiriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
tiraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
tirai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
tiras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
tira (historic indicative past singular third-person)
tirâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
tirâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
tirèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
tirerai (first-person future indicative singular)
tireras (future indicative second-person singular)
tirera (future indicative singular third-person)
tirerons (first-person future indicative plural)
tirerez (future indicative plural second-person)
tireront (future indicative plural third-person)
tirerais (conditional first-person singular)
tirerais (conditional second-person singular)
tirerait (conditional singular third-person)
tirerions (conditional first-person plural)
tireriez (conditional plural second-person)
tireraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
tire (first-person present singular subjunctive)
tires (present second-person singular subjunctive)
tire (present singular subjunctive third-person)
tirions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
tiriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
tirent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
tirasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
tirasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
tirât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
tirassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
tirassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
tirassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tire (imperative second-person singular)
tirons (first-person imperative plural)
tirez (imperative plural second-person)

Haitian Creole: tire

Louisiana Creole: tiré

From Middle French tirer, from Old French tirer, from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre.


kusza

kusza (nominative singular)
kusze (nominative plural)
kuszy (genitive singular)
kusz (genitive plural)
kuszy (dative singular)
kuszom (dative plural)
kuszę (accusative singular)
kusze (accusative plural)
kuszą (instrumental singular)
kuszami (instrumental plural)
kuszy (locative singular)
kuszach (locative plural)
kuszo (singular vocative)
kusze (plural vocative)

Unknown. Perhaps borrowed from Czech kuše.

crossbow (mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow)


butte

→ English: butte

(archery) a mound of dirt upon which targets were placed to practice shooting


sagittary

/ˈsæd͡ʒɪtəɹi/

From Latin sagittarius, from sagitta (“arrow”). Doublet of Sagittarius.

Born till Crassus perished by them, at which time a Sagittary was blazoned in their Royal Standard: [...] Darius being stamped on the one side and a Sagittary (his coat-armour) on the other; memorized by Plutarch in the life of Agesilaus, who complained that his design of conquering Asia was prevented by thirty thousand Sagittaries; meaning a Bribe of so many[…]

1677, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Years Travels Into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, page 301:

(archaic) An archer; by extension, a coin used in ancient Persia and Greece featuring an archer.


pana

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq. Compare Malay panah.


tir à l'arc

archery (practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow)


toxophilite

From Toxophilus, the title of a 1545 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) + φίλος (phílos, “love”) + -ite.

What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some "desirable" young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs?

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:


toxophilite

Here the gardens of the place encroached with a somewhat wide sweep upon the paddock, and gave ample room for the doings of the toxophilites. Miss Thorne got together such daughters of Diana as could bend a bow, and marshalled them to the targets.

1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 100:

Someone keen on or an expert at archery; a lover or practitioner of archery.


Bolzen

de-noun

Bolzen m (strong, genitive Bolzens, plural Bolzen)

Bolzens (genitive)
Bolzen (plural)
Bolzen (nominative singular)
Bolzen (definite nominative plural)
Bolzens (genitive singular)
Bolzen (definite genitive plural)
Bolzen (dative singular)
Bolzen (dative definite plural)
Bolzen (accusative singular)
Bolzen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German bolz, from Old High German bolz, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt. Compare Dutch bout, English bolt, Danish bolt, Icelandic bolti.


bogi

fo-noun

bogi m (genitive singular boga, plural bogar)

boga (genitive singular)
bogar (plural)
bogi (indefinite nominative singular)
bogin (definite nominative singular)
bogar (indefinite nominative plural)
bogarnir (definite nominative plural)
boga (accusative indefinite singular)
bogan (accusative definite singular)
bogar (accusative indefinite plural)
bogarnar (accusative definite plural)
boga (dative indefinite singular)
boganum (dative definite singular)
bogum (dative indefinite plural)
bogunum (dative definite plural)
boga (genitive indefinite singular)
bogans (definite genitive singular)
boga (genitive indefinite plural)
boganna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.


bogi

is-noun

bogi m (genitive singular boga, nominative plural bogar)

boga (genitive singular)
bogar (nominative plural)
bogi (indefinite nominative singular)
boginn (definite nominative singular)
bogar (indefinite nominative plural)
bogarnir (definite nominative plural)
boga (accusative indefinite singular)
bogann (accusative definite singular)
boga (accusative indefinite plural)
bogana (accusative definite plural)
boga (dative indefinite singular)
boganum (dative definite singular)
bogum (dative indefinite plural)
bogunum (dative definite plural)
boga (genitive indefinite singular)
bogans (definite genitive singular)
boga (genitive indefinite plural)
boganna (definite genitive plural)

bogaháls

the place where the bowstring is fastened, the tip of the bow

Skjóta af boga.


nock

From Middle English nokke, attested since the 14th century, probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic language (compare Swedish nock (“notch”), but compare Dutch nok, from Middle Dutch nocke (“tip, point”). Both could be related to nook (“corner, recess”).

He took his arrow by the nock.

[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

(archery) The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.


nock

(archery) fit the arrow to your bowstring


nock

Borrowed from Middle Low German nok, nokke. Cognate of Dutch nok. Likely cognate of Icelandic hnokki. Compare origin of nocka, nucka.


bowstring

(historical) The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders.


stops

stops (nominative singular)
stopi (nominative plural)
stopu (accusative singular)
stopus (accusative plural)
stopa (genitive singular)
stopu (genitive plural)
stopam (dative singular)
stopiem (dative plural)
stopu (instrumental singular)
stopiem (instrumental plural)
stopā (locative singular)
stopos (locative plural)
stop (singular vocative)
stopi (plural vocative)

From the same stem as the verb stiept (“to stretch, to pull”) (q.v.); the original meaning was probably “(something) stretched,” “(something) made tight by stretching.”

stopu gatavošana prasīja daudz darba un pacietības

the making of a crossbow demanded much work and patience

Griģis veikli rīkojās ar stopu, un viņa bultas droši skrēja mērķim pretī

Griģis quickly acted with (his) crossbow, and his arrows surely flew toward the goal

crossbow (an old mechanical weapon based on the bow and arrows, used to shoot bolts)


aljaba

Borrowed from Arabic الجَعْبَة (al-jaʕba).


جعبة

ar-noun

جَعْبَة or جُعْبَة • (jaʕba or juʕba) f (plural جِعَاب (jiʕāb))

جَعْبَة (canonical)
جُعْبَة (canonical)
jaʕba (romanization)
juʕba (romanization)
جِعَاب (plural)
جَعْبَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
جُعْبَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْجَعْبَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
الْجُعْبَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
جَعْبَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
جُعْبَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
جَعْبَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
جُعْبَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْجَعْبَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
الْجُعْبَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
جَعْبَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
جُعْبَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
جَعْبَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
جُعْبَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
الْجَعْبَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
الْجُعْبَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
جَعْبَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
جُعْبَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
جَعْبَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
جُعْبَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْجَعْبَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
الْجُعْبَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
جَعْبَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
جُعْبَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
جَعْبَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
جُعْبَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْجَعْبَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
الْجُعْبَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
جَعْبَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
جُعْبَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
جَعْبَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
جُعْبَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْجَعْبَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
الْجُعْبَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
جَعْبَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
جُعْبَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
جَعْبَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
جُعْبَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْجَعْبَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
الْجُعْبَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
جَعْبَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
جُعْبَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
جَعْبَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
جُعْبَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْجَعْبَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
الْجُعْبَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
جَعْبَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
جُعْبَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
جِعَاب (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْجِعَاب (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
جِعَاب (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
جِعَابٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْجِعَابُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
جِعَابُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
جِعَابًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْجِعَابَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
جِعَابَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
جِعَابٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْجِعَابِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
جِعَابِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

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→ Old Galician-Portuguese: aljava
Galician: alxaba
Portuguese: aljava

→ Persian: جعبه (ja'ba)

→ Spanish: aljaba

From the root ج ع ب (j-ʕ-b), meaning “to overturn”, “to pour out or empty”; from the pouring out of ammunition.