balsam

pl-noun

balsam m inan (related adjective balsamowy)

balsamowy (adjective)
balsam (nominative singular)
balsamy (nominative plural)
balsamu (genitive singular)
balsamów (genitive plural)
balsamowi (dative singular)
balsamom (dative plural)
balsam (accusative singular)
balsamy (accusative plural)
balsamem (instrumental singular)
balsamami (instrumental plural)
balsamie (locative singular)
balsamach (locative plural)
balsamie (singular vocative)
balsamy (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish balsam. Compare Kashubian balzam and Slovincian balzóm.

(historical, Egyptology) embalming substance


RE

(French politics) Abbreviation of Renaissance.


लाल

lāl (romanization)
لال (Urdu)
लाल (direct singular)
लाल (direct plural)
लाल (oblique singular)
लालों (oblique plural)
लाल (singular vocative)
लालो (plural vocative)

Inherited from Sanskrit लाल्य (lālya, “to be caressed”). Cognate with Old Awadhi लाल (lāla, “woman”).

inh+

(Hinduism) dear son: a designation of Krishna


सिंदूर

hi-noun

सिंदूर • (sindūr) m (Urdu spelling سِندور)

sindūr (romanization)
سِندور (Urdu)
सिंदूर (direct singular)
सिंदूर (direct plural)
सिंदूर (oblique singular)
सिंदूरों (oblique plural)
सिंदूर (singular vocative)
सिंदूरो (plural vocative)

a type of vermilion dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women


સિંદૂર

head

સિંદૂર • (sindūr) n

gu-noun

સિંદૂર • (sindūr) n

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सिन्दूर (sindūra).

lbor

sindoor, a type of vermilion dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women


pura

From Malay pura (“castle town”), from Sanskrit पुर (pura). Doublet of puri.
* Sense of "temple" is a semantic loan from Balinese ᬧᬸᬭ (pura) which is ultimately from same Sanskrit word.

(Hinduism) temple, a Balinese Hinduism place of worship.


krone

Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire

(historical) The currency of German-Austria and Liechtenstein after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919) until the introduction of the Austrian schilling and, in Liechtenstein, the Swiss franc.


Neptunian

From Latin Neptūnius (“of or pertaining to the Roman god Neptune”), from Neptūnus (“the Roman god Neptune”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ- (“to become damp, cloudy”)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as Neptune + -ian. The English word is cognate with French neptunien (“pertaining to the Roman god Neptune, pertaining to the sea, pertaining to Neptunism, Neptunian; proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist”), German Neptunier (“proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist”).

cog

Near-synonym: Poseidonian

The Tomb disburd'ning, whence the Ghoſt aroſe / Of great Achilles; Such when Thracian Foes / (The Prelude of thy Fates, Troy!) he o'rethrew, / And the white hair'd Neptunian Cycnus [i.e., Neptune's son] ſlew.

1679, Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e., Seneca the Younger], translated by Edward Sherburne, Troades: Or The Royal Captives. A Tragedy, Written Originally in Latin, […], London: Printed by Anne Godbid, and John Playford, for Samuel Carr, […], →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 21:

(Roman mythology) Of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh water and the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon.


fakir

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).

The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(Hinduism, more loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.


fakir

nl-noun

fakir m (plural fakirs, diminutive fakirtje n)

fakirs (plural)
fakirtje (diminutive neuter)


fakir

fakir (nominative singular)
fakirzy (nominative plural)
fakirowie (nominative plural)
fakira (genitive singular)
fakirów (genitive plural)
fakirowi (dative singular)
fakirom (dative plural)
fakira (accusative singular)
fakirów (accusative plural)
fakirem (instrumental singular)
fakirami (instrumental plural)
fakirze (locative singular)
fakirach (locative plural)
fakirze (singular vocative)
fakirzy (plural vocative)
fakirowie (plural vocative)


mogwai

From Cantonese 魔怪 (mo1 gwaai3), 魔鬼 (mo1 gwai2).

(Chinese mythology) A kind of demon held to be harmful to humans.


Hamas

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَةِ الْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”). The pronunciation with /x/ is from or influenced by Hebrew חַמַאס.

der

Hebrew חַמַאס

Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.

2009 January 13, “'Never again,' says survivor”, in Toronto Star:

[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.

2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:

A militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return.


reo

(Australia, World War I, informal) A reinforcement (additional soldiers).


PT

(Egyptology) Initialism of Pyramid Texts.


Japanimation

en-noun

Japanimation (countable and uncountable, plural Japanimations)

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

(anime, dated) Synonym of anime (“Japanese animated cartoons”).


heilige

From Middle Dutch heilige, from Old Dutch hēligo.

/ˈɦɛi̯.lə.ɣə/

(Hinduism, Buddhism) a holy man or woman, especially a priest, guru or ascetic, thought to be a miracle worker


meretrix

Nomus Marcellus has pointed out the difference between this class of prostitutes and the prostibula. "This is the difference between a meretrix (harlot) and a prostibula (common strumpet): a meretrix is of a more honorable station and calling; for meretrices are so named a merendo (from earning wages) because they plied their calling only by night; prostibulu because they stand before the stabulum (stall) for gain both by day and night."

a. 100 CE, Petronius, translated by W. C. Firebaugh, Satyricon, published 1922:

Hands grasped me like a doll, and as I dandled thus between the meretrices of Abaia, I was lifted from my broad-armed chair in the inn of Saltus; yet still, for perhaps a hundred heartbeats more, I could not rid my mind of the sea and its green-haired women.

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:

Of the two ritually important female categories, matrona and meretrix, it was the matrona that was held at a strict ritual distance. […] The domain of the meretrix was not held at a ritual distance. The boundary between male and female was not quite so stark when the female belonged to the category of prostitute.

2013, Ariadne Staples, From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins, Routledge, →ISBN:


Epicureanism

Epicureanism (usually uncountable, plural Epicureanisms)

From Epicurean + -ism. As a pejorative synonym of atheism, both from the philosophy's rejection of deontological morality and from Epicurus's specific belief that the Greek gods—if they did exist—did not concern themselves at all with mankind, its actions, or any system of reward or punishment for them. Doublet of epicurism.

(ethics) The philosophical belief that pleasure is the highest good, particularly as advocated by Epicurus with a focus on mental pleasures and on avoidance of pain (ataraxia) through moderation and common virtue.

epicureisme

system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus


Upanishad

Borrowed from Sanskrit उपनिषद् (upaniṣad).

Any of a set of authorless Hindu religious and philosophical texts considered to be an early source of the religion, found mostly as the concluding part of the Brahmanas and in the Aranyakas.


COBRA

Cabinet Office Briefing Room A
w:Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms

(UK politics) Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.

(UK politics, by extension) Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.


COBRA

(UK politics, by extension) A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room

(UK politics, by extension) A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room


AAP

(Indian politics) Initialism of Aam Aadmi Party, a political party.


NRC

Coordinate term: NPR (“National Population Register”)

National Register of Citizens
w:National Register of Citizens

(Indian politics) Initialism of National Register of Citizens.


CPS

Last year, for example, Raab wrote a paper for the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) – since the birth of Thatcherism one of the radical right's fiercest thinktanks […]

2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian:

Centre for Policy Studies
w:Centre for Policy Studies

(UK politics) Initialism of Centre for Policy Studies.


BW

Pokémon Black and White
w:Pokémon Black and White

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Black and White.


OWI

From its inception the OWI framed directives that offered guidelines for songwriters to aid them in the composition of “proper” war songs, and, in the public press, the OWI rebuked Tin Pan Alley for its uninterrupted production of “nostalgic” hit songs.

2003, Kathleen E. R. Smith, God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 81:

w:United States Office of War Information

(US, World War II) Initialism of Office of War Information.


NCP

Nationalist Congress Party
w:Nationalist Congress Party

(Indian politics) Initialism of Nationalist Congress Party.


comitia

(historical) A popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome.

comicis

a popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome


JP

(Indian politics) Initialism of Janata Party.

Justice Party (India)
w:Justice Party (India)

(Indian politics) Initialism of Justice Party (India).


WW

(World War I military slang) Initialism of wild woman, i.e. prostitute.


Jovian

en-adj

Jovian (comparative more Jovian, superlative most Jovian)

more Jovian (comparative)
most Jovian (superlative)

From Latin Iovis, genitive of Iuppiter, analysable as Jove + -ian.

Near-synonym: Zeusian

He did not admit of equals. But as a patron he was superb. With his Jovian air, his colossal condescension, his amused smile, his general suggestion of the god descending to the mortal, he could be quite overpowering in his amiability.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(Roman mythology) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.


UC

en-noun

UC (countable and uncountable, plural UCs)

(India, Hinduism) Initialism of upper caste.


KP

KP (countable and uncountable, plural KPs)

(countable, India, Hinduism) Initialism of Kashmiri Pandit.


PPE

Partido Popular Europeo
w:European People's Party

(European politics) Initialism of Partido Popular Europeo (“EPP (European People's Party)”).


DP

DP (countable and uncountable, plural DPs)

displaced person
displaced person#English

dynamic programming
dynamic programming#English

(computer science) Initialism of dynamic programming.


DP

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.


SAD

Shiromani Akali Dal
w:Shiromani Akali Dal

(Indian politics) Initialism of Shiromani Akali Dal (Indian political party)


DDS

DDS (countable and uncountable, plural DDSs or DDSes)

(Philippine politics) Initialism of Davao Death Squad.

Diehard Duterte Supporters
w:Diehard Duterte Supporters

(Philippine politics, possibly derogatory) Initialism of Diehard Duterte Supporters.


Aristotle

/ˈæɹɪˌstɒtəl/

[ˈæɹɪˌstɒtᵊɫ̩]

/ˈæɹɪˌstɑtəl/

[ˈæɹɪˌstɑɾɫ̩]

/ˈɛɹɪˌstɑtəl/

[ˈɛɹɪˌstɑɾɫ̩]

From Ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs).

An ancient Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist (382–322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

أَرِسْطُوطَالِيس

ʔarisṭūṭālīs


FCO

The FCO also disputes Fernández's claim that Britain kicked out the island's original Argentinian inhabitants.

2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
w:Foreign and Commonwealth Office

(British, UK politics) Initialism of Foreign and Commonwealth Office.


TD

TD (countable and uncountable, plural TDs)

Fianna Fáil TD Jim O'Callaghan, whose Dublin constituency is home to one of Accenture's office here, said: […]

2023 August 1, “Accenture cuts 890 more job from Irish operation”, in The Irish Times, page 1:

(Irish politics) Initialism of Teachta Dála, a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland.


PSI

Policy Studies Institute
w:Policy Studies Institute

(UK politics) Initialism of Policy Studies Institute, a British think tank.


SS

Pokémon Sword and Shield
w:Pokémon Sword and Shield

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Sword and Shield.


Atina

Atína (canonical feminine)
Ати́на (Cyrillic)
Atina (nominative singular)
Atine (genitive singular)
Atini (dative singular)
Atinu (accusative singular)
Atino (singular vocative)
Atini (locative singular)
Atinom (instrumental singular)

(Bosnia, Serbia, Greek mythology) Athena (Greek goddess)


Atina

Atina (nominative singular)
Atinalar (nominative plural)
Atina'lar (nominative plural)
Atina'yı (accusative singular)
Atinaları (accusative plural)
Atina'ları (accusative plural)
Atina'ya (dative singular)
Atinalara (dative plural)
Atina'lara (dative plural)
Atina'da (locative singular)
Atinalarda (locative plural)
Atina'larda (locative plural)
Atina'dan (ablative singular)
Atinalardan (ablative plural)
Atina'lardan (ablative plural)
Atina'nın (genitive singular)
Atinaların (genitive plural)
Atina'ların (genitive plural)

From Ottoman Turkish آتینا (Atina), ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai), the plural form of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”), the goddess.


Атина

Ати́на (canonical feminine)
Atína (romanization)
Атина (nominative singular)
Атине (genitive singular)
Атини (dative singular)
Атину (accusative singular)
Атино (singular vocative)
Атини (locative singular)
Атином (instrumental singular)


Nat

(slang, informal, UK politics) A member or supporter of the Scottish National Party.


Majorism

(UK politics) The political and economic policies of the British Conservative prime minister Sir John Major.


domino effect

An allusion to a row of dominoes in which the fall of one leads to a cascade of falling pieces.

(politics, historical) The theory that, if South Vietnam became communist, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere.


Whitehall

en-proper noun

Whitehall (countable and uncountable, plural Whitehalls)

From Middle English whit (“white”) + halgh (“corner, nook; hall”).

Britain's securocracy - Whitehall spymasters, backed up by government lawyers, engaged in the increasingly thankless task of preserving state secrets - are faced with an intriguing conundrum. What do they do when the bulwark they have been relying on for so long to protect their secrets crumbles before their eyes?

2000 July 27, Richard Norton-Taylor, “Analysis: The secret's out”, in the Guardian:

It notes: "The Welsh Government's view is that genuine 'levelling up' cannot simply mean a sprinkling of new, ad hoc rail projects decided in Whitehall, it has to be part of a strategic approach to promoting growth in all parts of the UK."

2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “When will Wales's wish for rail improvements come true?”, in Rail, page 32:

(UK politics, by extension, metonymically) The British government or civil service


RSS

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
w:Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

(Indian politics, Hindutva) Initialism of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (“Indian nationalist volunteer organization”).


PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization
w:Palestine Liberation Organization

Initialism of Palestine Liberation Organization.


Vishnu

Transliteration of Sanskrit विष्णु (viṣṇu).

translit

(Hinduism) One of the Trimurti (trinity) in Hindu mythology, and the most venerated god in Hinduism.

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Aristoteles

la-proper noun

Aristotelēs m (genitive Aristotelis or Aristotelī); third declension

Aristotelēs (canonical masculine)
Aristotelis (genitive)
Aristotelī (genitive)
Aristotelēs (nominative singular)
Aristotelēs (nominative plural)
Aristotelis (genitive singular)
Aristotelī (genitive singular)
Aristotelum (genitive plural)
Aristotelī (dative singular)
Aristotelibus (dative plural)
Aristotelem (accusative singular)
Aristotelēn (accusative singular)
Aristotelēs (accusative plural)
Aristotele (ablative singular)
Aristotelibus (ablative plural)
Aristotelēs (singular vocative)
Aristotelēs (plural vocative)

[ärɪs̠ˈt̪ɔt̪ɛɫ̪eːs̠]

From Ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs, a proper name composed of ἄριστος (áristos, “best, excellent”) + τέλος (télos, “completion, perfection”) + -ης (-ēs)).

bor

Aristotle (384–322 BCE), Greek philosopher and polymath in Ancient Greece; pupil of Plato, tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Peripatetic school

Αριστοτέλης Αριστοτέλης#Greek

a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to Greek Αριστοτέλης (Aristotélis) or English Aristotle


Aristoteles

tl-proper noun

Aristótelés (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜆᜒᜎᜒᜐ᜔)

Aristótelés (canonical)
ᜀᜇᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜆᜒᜎᜒᜐ᜔ (Baybayin)

[ʔɐ.ɾɪsˌt̪oː.t̪ɛˈlɛs]

Borrowed from Spanish Aristóteles, from Latin Aristotelēs from Ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs).

a male given name, equivalent to English Aristotle


DMA

The other law announced by the European Commission on Tuesday, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), is closer to antitrust legislation.

2020 December 15, Billy Perrigo, “European Union Announces New Big Tech Regulations”, in Time:

Digital Markets Act
w:Digital Markets Act

(EU politics) Initialism of Digital Markets Act.


amphora

en-noun

amphora (plural amphoras or amphorae or amphorai)

amphoras (plural)
amphorae (plural)
amphorai (plural)

/æmˈfɔ(ː)ɹə/

From Latin amphora (“large wine vessel, Roman unit of liquid measure”), from Ancient Greek ἀμφορεύς (amphoreús, “two-handled pitcher, Greek units of liquid measure”), ultimately from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀠𐀡𐀩𐀸 (a-pi-po-re-we, “carried on both sides”).

der

By concurrent use of panel decoration and concentric-circle ornament, and by free employment of red paint, the fully developed style of the Geometric Period attains a wide range of rich and elaborate effects. These are best displayed on the necks and shoulders of the very large amphorai which are characteristic of this period.

1914, John L[inton] Myres, Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus, New York, N.Y., page 76:

A complete set for a ten-man symposion (an ordinary size) with ten deep cups, ten shallow cups, two mixing-bowls, two wine-jugs, two hydriai, two amphorai would cost in the neighbourhood of forty drachmai, and that would not be an unreasonable price for a rich man for a special occasion.

1973, T[homas] B[ertram] L[onsdale] Webster, Athenian Culture and Society, London: Batsford, →ISBN, page 137:

Traditionally, the style of an artefact has been separated from its function. Thus, the function of a Greek pot – defined in terms of whether it was intended for transportation (hydriai or large amphorai), storage (pithoi and some kraters), distribution (oinokhoai) or consumption (cups, skyphoi and plates) – tends to be treated separately from any painted decoration on its surface.

1997, Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 133:

(chiefly historical) A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.

ܐܘܦܪܐ

large clay vessel used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing wine and oil

(historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 80 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 26 L although differing slightly over time.

(historical) A Roman unit of ship capacity, similar to tonnage.

(botany) A lower valve of a fruit that opens transversely.


amphora

la-noun

amphora f (genitive amphorae); first declension

amphorae (genitive)
amphora (nominative singular)
amphorae (nominative plural)
amphorae (genitive singular)
amphorum (genitive plural)
amphorārum (genitive plural)
amphorae (dative singular)
amphorīs (dative plural)
amphoram (accusative singular)
amphorās (accusative plural)
amphorā (ablative singular)
amphorīs (ablative plural)
amphora (singular vocative)
amphorae (plural vocative)

Catalan: àmfora

French: amphore

Galician: ánfora

Italian: anfora

Portuguese: ânfora

Spanish: ánfora

→ English: amphor

→ German: Amphore

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

From Ancient Greek ἀμφορεύς (amphoreús, “two-handled pitcher, units of liquid measure”). As a Roman unit, originally an elision of amphora quadrantal.

bor

(chiefly historical) amphora, a large vessel, especially one made of clay with two handles used for storing and transporting wine and oil


perestroika

en-noun

perestroika (countable and uncountable, plural perestroikas)

Borrowed from Russian перестро́йка (perestrójka, “restructuring”).

bor+

перестро́йка

(historical, uncountable) The period of time in the Soviet Union during which these reforms were carried out and in effect.


proletariat

/ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ət/

From French prolétariat (“proletariats as a class; state of being a proletariat”), from Latin prōlētārius (“belonging to the lowest class of citizens, whose only contribution to the state was their offspring; member of this class”) + French -at (suffix denoting actions or the results of actions). Prōlētārius is derived from prōlēs (“offspring, posterity”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, or forming nouns denoting agents of use from other nouns); prōlēs is from pro- (prefix meaning ‘bringing forth or into being; bringing into the open’) + *olēs (a variant of *oleō (“to grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”)).

proletaro

lowest class of citizens in Ancient Rome and elsewhere

(chiefly Ancient Rome, historical) The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.


proletariat

pl-noun

proletariat m inan (related adjective proletariacki)

proletariacki (adjective)
proletariat (nominative singular)
proletariatu (genitive singular)
proletariatowi (dative singular)
proletariat (accusative singular)
proletariatem (instrumental singular)
proletariacie (locative singular)
proletariacie (singular vocative)

(Ancient Rome, collective, historical) proletariat (lowest class of citizens in Rome)


Phoenician

Attested as a noun in Middle English as phenicienes (only plural); from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”).

der

The ancient civilisation of Phoenicia, and its empire

(historical) An inhabitant of Phoenicia (a country located on the shores of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean Sea around the year 1000 BCE).


glasnost

en-noun

glasnost (countable and uncountable, plural glasnosts)

Borrowed from Russian гла́сность (glásnostʹ, “openness”).

bor

Gorbachev would introduce glasnost (openness and freedom) and perestroika (economic restructuring) to Russia under his tenure, ultimately freeing thousands of political prisoners and dissidents and trying to address the shortages in food and goods that had become the hallmarks of the failing Soviet economy.

2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:

(historical) 1980s and early 1990s policy of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev to allow more government transparency; often paired with perestroika

glasnost (usually accompanied by translation)


Blairite

The Blairites came up with young country and new this, new that, but it was cosmetic.

2001 August 27, Madeleine Bunting, “The end is nigh: pessimism rules”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics, informal) A supporter of Tony Blair, British prime minister from 1997 to 2007, or his policies.


Blairite

(UK politics) Relating to Blairites or to Tony Blair's government and policies.


Helen

en-proper noun

Helen (countable and uncountable, plural Helens)

→ Danish: Helen

→ Estonian: Helen

→ Hawaiian: Helena

→ Norwegian: Helen

→ Swedish: Helen

From French Hélène, from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Elaine.

Evelyn De Morgan
Helen of Troy (painting)

Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
When with your blood you daily paint her thus.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.

Հեղինե

(Greek mythology) the daughter of Zeus and Leda


Tantal

Tantal (nominative singular)
Tantala (genitive singular)
Tantalowi (dative singular)
Tantala (accusative singular)
Tantalem (instrumental singular)
Tantalu (locative singular)
Tantalu (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Tantalus, from Ancient Greek Τάνταλος (Tántalos). Doublet of tantal.

(Greek mythology) Tantalus (condemned Phrygian king)


TCA

Labour, which has said it will not take the UK back into the EU, the single market or customs union, has, however, already committed to using the 2025 review of the TCA to try to reduce barriers to trade.

2023 February 11, Toby Helm, “Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

Trade and Cooperation Agreement
w:EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

(European politics, UK politics) Initialism of Trade and Cooperation Agreement.


IRB

Initialism of internal review board, an internal affairs division of a police department.


AV

From Japanese AV(アダルトビデオ) (adarutobideo), from English adult video.

(Japanese pornography) Initialism of adult video (“video pornography”).


कृष्ण

kŕṣṇa (romanization)
کرشن (Urdu)
कृष्ण (direct singular)
कृष्ण (direct plural)
कृष्ण (oblique singular)
कृष्णों (oblique plural)
कृष्ण (singular vocative)
कृष्णो (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa). Doublet of कान्हा (kānhā) and किशन (kiśan).

doublet

(Hinduism) Krishna, eighth avatar of Vishnu


DPA

Dewan Pertimbangan Agung
Dewan Pertimbangan Agung#Indonesian

(Indonesian politics) Initialism of Dewan Pertimbangan Agung (“Supreme Advisory Council”).


etiäinen

etiäinen (nominative singular)
etiäiset (nominative plural)
etiäinen (accusative nominative singular)
etiäiset (accusative nominative plural)
etiäisen (accusative genitive singular)
etiäiset (accusative genitive plural)
etiäisen (genitive singular)
etiäisten (genitive plural)
etiäisien (genitive plural)
etiäistä (partitive singular)
etiäisiä (partitive plural)
etiäisessä (inessive singular)
etiäisissä (inessive plural)
etiäisestä (elative singular)
etiäisistä (elative plural)
etiäiseen (illative singular)
etiäisiin (illative plural)
etiäisellä (adessive singular)
etiäisillä (adessive plural)
etiäiseltä (ablative singular)
etiäisiltä (ablative plural)
etiäiselle (allative singular)
etiäisille (allative plural)
etiäisenä (essive singular)
etiäisinä (essive plural)
etiäiseksi (singular translative)
etiäisiksi (plural translative)
etiäisettä (abessive singular)
etiäisittä (abessive plural)
etiäisin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
etiäiseni (nominative singular)
etiäiseni (nominative plural)
etiäiseni (accusative nominative singular)
etiäiseni (accusative nominative plural)
etiäiseni (accusative genitive singular)
etiäiseni (accusative genitive plural)
etiäiseni (genitive singular)
etiäisteni (genitive plural)
etiäisieni (genitive plural)
etiäistäni (partitive singular)
etiäisiäni (partitive plural)
etiäisessäni (inessive singular)
etiäisissäni (inessive plural)
etiäisestäni (elative singular)
etiäisistäni (elative plural)
etiäiseeni (illative singular)
etiäisiini (illative plural)
etiäiselläni (adessive singular)
etiäisilläni (adessive plural)
etiäiseltäni (ablative singular)
etiäisiltäni (ablative plural)
etiäiselleni (allative singular)
etiäisilleni (allative plural)
etiäisenäni (essive singular)
etiäisinäni (essive plural)
etiäisekseni (singular translative)
etiäisikseni (plural translative)
etiäisettäni (abessive singular)
etiäisittäni (abessive plural)
etiäisineni (comitative plural)
etiäisesi (nominative singular)
etiäisesi (nominative plural)
etiäisesi (accusative nominative singular)
etiäisesi (accusative nominative plural)
etiäisesi (accusative genitive singular)
etiäisesi (accusative genitive plural)
etiäisesi (genitive singular)
etiäistesi (genitive plural)
etiäisiesi (genitive plural)
etiäistäsi (partitive singular)
etiäisiäsi (partitive plural)
etiäisessäsi (inessive singular)
etiäisissäsi (inessive plural)
etiäisestäsi (elative singular)
etiäisistäsi (elative plural)
etiäiseesi (illative singular)
etiäisiisi (illative plural)
etiäiselläsi (adessive singular)
etiäisilläsi (adessive plural)
etiäiseltäsi (ablative singular)
etiäisiltäsi (ablative plural)
etiäisellesi (allative singular)
etiäisillesi (allative plural)
etiäisenäsi (essive singular)
etiäisinäsi (essive plural)
etiäiseksesi (singular translative)
etiäisiksesi (plural translative)
etiäisettäsi (abessive singular)
etiäisittäsi (abessive plural)
etiäisinesi (comitative plural)
etiäisemme (nominative singular)
etiäisemme (nominative plural)
etiäisemme (accusative nominative singular)
etiäisemme (accusative nominative plural)
etiäisemme (accusative genitive singular)
etiäisemme (accusative genitive plural)
etiäisemme (genitive singular)
etiäistemme (genitive plural)
etiäisiemme (genitive plural)
etiäistämme (partitive singular)
etiäisiämme (partitive plural)
etiäisessämme (inessive singular)
etiäisissämme (inessive plural)
etiäisestämme (elative singular)
etiäisistämme (elative plural)
etiäiseemme (illative singular)
etiäisiimme (illative plural)
etiäisellämme (adessive singular)
etiäisillämme (adessive plural)
etiäiseltämme (ablative singular)
etiäisiltämme (ablative plural)
etiäisellemme (allative singular)
etiäisillemme (allative plural)
etiäisenämme (essive singular)
etiäisinämme (essive plural)
etiäiseksemme (singular translative)
etiäisiksemme (plural translative)
etiäisettämme (abessive singular)
etiäisittämme (abessive plural)
etiäisinemme (comitative plural)
etiäisenne (nominative singular)
etiäisenne (nominative plural)
etiäisenne (accusative nominative singular)
etiäisenne (accusative nominative plural)
etiäisenne (accusative genitive singular)
etiäisenne (accusative genitive plural)
etiäisenne (genitive singular)
etiäistenne (genitive plural)
etiäisienne (genitive plural)
etiäistänne (partitive singular)
etiäisiänne (partitive plural)
etiäisessänne (inessive singular)
etiäisissänne (inessive plural)
etiäisestänne (elative singular)
etiäisistänne (elative plural)
etiäiseenne (illative singular)
etiäisiinne (illative plural)
etiäisellänne (adessive singular)
etiäisillänne (adessive plural)
etiäiseltänne (ablative singular)
etiäisiltänne (ablative plural)
etiäisellenne (allative singular)
etiäisillenne (allative plural)
etiäisenänne (essive singular)
etiäisinänne (essive plural)
etiäiseksenne (singular translative)
etiäisiksenne (plural translative)
etiäisettänne (abessive singular)
etiäisittänne (abessive plural)
etiäisinenne (comitative plural)
etiäisensä (nominative singular)
etiäisensä (nominative plural)
etiäisensä (accusative nominative singular)
etiäisensä (accusative nominative plural)
etiäisensä (accusative genitive singular)
etiäisensä (accusative genitive plural)
etiäisensä (genitive singular)
etiäistensä (genitive plural)
etiäisiensä (genitive plural)
etiäistään (partitive singular)
etiäistänsä (partitive singular)
etiäisiään (partitive plural)
etiäisiänsä (partitive plural)
etiäisessään (inessive singular)
etiäisessänsä (inessive singular)
etiäisissään (inessive plural)
etiäisissänsä (inessive plural)
etiäisestään (elative singular)
etiäisestänsä (elative singular)
etiäisistään (elative plural)
etiäisistänsä (elative plural)
etiäiseensä (illative singular)
etiäisiinsä (illative plural)
etiäisellään (adessive singular)
etiäisellänsä (adessive singular)
etiäisillään (adessive plural)
etiäisillänsä (adessive plural)
etiäiseltään (ablative singular)
etiäiseltänsä (ablative singular)
etiäisiltään (ablative plural)
etiäisiltänsä (ablative plural)
etiäiselleen (allative singular)
etiäisellensä (allative singular)
etiäisilleen (allative plural)
etiäisillensä (allative plural)
etiäisenään (essive singular)
etiäisenänsä (essive singular)
etiäisinään (essive plural)
etiäisinänsä (essive plural)
etiäisekseen (singular translative)
etiäiseksensä (singular translative)
etiäisikseen (plural translative)
etiäisiksensä (plural translative)
etiäisettään (abessive singular)
etiäisettänsä (abessive singular)
etiäisittään (abessive plural)
etiäisittänsä (abessive plural)
etiäisineen (comitative plural)
etiäisinensä (comitative plural)

(Finnic mythology) a spirit sent forth by a shaman or a person in great distress.


ara

Learned borrowing from Latin āra, from Old Latin āsa, from Proto-Italic *āzā (“altar”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHsh₂- (“hearth, fireplace”), derived from the root *h₂eHs- (“to burn; hearth”).

der

(historical, Ancient Rome) the base upon which objects were sacrificed to the gods by fire


Lorenz

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(World War II) A blind-landing aid used at German military airfields.


cunny

en-noun

cunny (countable and uncountable, plural cunnies)

(countable, fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) The vulva or vagina of a child or childlike character (loli).

(countable, synecdochically) A child or childlike character, especially when considered sexually attractive; a loli.

(uncountable, metonymically) Lolicon-themed media, especially when erotic (hentai).


Caesar

From Latin Caesar. Displaced Old English cāsere, which would have yielded *caser, *coser, and Middle English keiser, kaiser, from Old Norse and continental Germanic languages. All ultimately from the same Latin root. (See also Kaiser and tsar.)

The Caesars were an ancient and aristocratic family, which for eight generations had been prominent in the commonwealth.

1891, William Rainey Harper, Herbert Cushing Tolman, Eight Books of Caesar’s Gallic War, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, Oh., Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company, page 2:

Habel, 63 ff., believes that up to 51 the emperors bestowed priesthoods on the Caesares, using their special power of commendation; but that these Caesares were forced to wait until a place in a college was vacant; that after 51 the Caesares were elected by the senate.

1955, Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 16, page 100:

To the powerful, the Caesares were flattering, deferential, sincerely devoted, self-sacrificing, loyal, eagerly serving.

1965, Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 128:

Five of the Caesares were killed during the years 90-85 (D. G., 3, 114).

1975, Collection Latomus, volume 142, page 39:

[…] Off. 1.133 and Att. 13.19.4 do not establish the uterine relationship of Catulus and the Caesares, merely the fact that Catulus and the Caesares were regarded as fratres.

1996, Antichthon, volumes 34–36, page 56:

Of the two plebeian candidates Silanus obviously counted on the assistance of Manlius, who was in office and to whom he was related from the grandfather, but his rival, a Minucius who had become a Marcius, counted on the patrician rival Caesar and on the other consul, L. Aurelius Cotta, because the Caesares were related by marriage both with the Marcii and the Cottae; in fact, Silanus was defeated by their coalition.

1999, Friedrich Münzer, translated by Thérèse Ridley, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 319:

The Pulchri were a branch of the Clodius family, just as the Caesares were of the Julii.

2000, Richard W[alter] Hooper, Representative Chapters in Ancient History: From Romulus to Justinian, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 542:

He was joined on this commission by C. Caesar Strabo (RE Iulius no. 135), of another branch of the Caesares, who had stressed his heritage by adding the old Julian praenomen Vopiscus (see the cos. 473, MRR 1.29) to his name as a cognomen.

2009, Ernst Badian, “From the Iulii to Caesar”, in Miriam Griffin, editor, A Companion to Julius Caesar, Wiley Blackwell, →ISBN, page 15:

By about the middle of the 2nd cent., the Caesares were claiming descent from *Ascanius and, through him, from his grandmother Venus (see the coins Crawford, RRC 258, 129 bc, and 320, 103 bc, the latter with a symbolic reference to Apollo, the ancient god of the gens).

2012, Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow, editors, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 755:

An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.


Ceres

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Learned borrowing from Latin Cerēs, goddess of the bounty, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to grow, to nourish”). More at create.

der

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter.


Ceres

Cereřin (adjective relational)
Ceres (nominative singular)
Cerery (genitive singular)
Cereře (dative singular)
Cereru (accusative singular)
Cerero (singular vocative)
Cereře (locative singular)
Cererou (instrumental singular)
Ceres (nominative singular)
Ceresu (genitive singular)
Ceresu (dative singular)
Ceres (accusative singular)
Cerese (singular vocative)
Ceresu (locative singular)
Ceresem (instrumental singular)

cs:Ceres (mytologie)
cs:Ceres (trpasličí planeta)

Filón kritizuje i náboženská shromáždění a průvody k poctě bohyně Cerery, […]

2014, Mireia Ryšková, Pavel z Tarsu a jeho svět, Praha: Karolinum, →ISBN, page 436:

Philo criticises also the religious meetings and parades in honour of the goddes Ceres, […]

(Roman mythology) Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter


Ceres

la-proper noun

Cerēs f sg (genitive Cereris); third declension

Cerēs (canonical feminine singular)
Cereris (genitive)
Cerēs (nominative singular)
Cereris (genitive singular)
Cererī (dative singular)
Cererem (accusative singular)
Cerere (ablative singular)
Cerēs (singular vocative)

→ Czech: Ceres

→ Dutch: Ceres
Afrikaans: Ceres

→ English: Ceres

→ Finnish: Ceres

→ Italian: Cerere

→ Polish: Ceres

→ Portuguese: Ceres

→ Sicilian: Cèriri

→ Spanish: Ceres

→ Swahili: Ceres

→ Thai: ซีรีส (sii-rîis)

From Proto-Italic *Kerēs, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerēs, from *ḱer- (“to grow”). Cognate with creō, crēscō, Faliscan 𐌂𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌔 (ceres, “Ceres”) and Oscan Kerrí (dat. sg.).

(Roman mythology) Ceres (goddess of agriculture)


Ceres

(Roman mythology) Ceres (Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility)


Ceres

(Roman mythology) the Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter


liner

From line (noun) + -er (relational suffix) or -er (measurement suffix) (sense 5).

94 liner

(South Korean idol fandom) person born in a certain year (XX liner); person who belongs to a certain line


New Labour

From the slogan “New Labour, New Britain”, used by Tony Blair in his 1994 Labour Party Conference speech.

(UK politics) A movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism.


HUAC

w:House Un-American Activities Committee

(US, historical) Acronym of House Un-American Activities Committee.


Aghori

From Sanskrit अघोर (aghora, “fearless”).

A tribe of Hindu ascetics who are or were thought to eat the flesh of corpses.


свастика

bg-noun

сва́стика • (svástika) f

сва́стика (canonical)
svástika (romanization)
сва́стика (indefinite singular)
сва́стики (indefinite plural)
сва́стиката (definite singular)
сва́стиките (definite plural)

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svastika).


свастика

mk-noun

свастика • (svastika) f (plural свастики)

svastika (romanization)
свастики (plural)
свастика (indefinite singular)
свастики (indefinite plural)
свастиката (definite singular unspecified)
свастиките (definite plural unspecified)
свастикава (definite proximal singular)
свастикиве (definite plural proximal)
свастикана (definite distal singular)
свастикине (definite distal plural)
свастико (singular vocative)
свастики (plural vocative)


свастика

ru-noun+

сва́стика • (svástika) f inan (genitive сва́стики, nominative plural сва́стики, genitive plural сва́стик)

сва́стика (canonical)
svástika (romanization)
сва́стики (genitive)
сва́стики (nominative plural)
сва́стик (genitive plural)
сва́стика (nominative singular)
сва́стики (nominative plural)
сва́стики (genitive singular)
сва́стик (genitive plural)
сва́стике (dative singular)
сва́стикам (dative plural)
сва́стику (accusative singular)
сва́стики (accusative plural)
сва́стикой (instrumental singular)
сва́стикою (instrumental singular)
сва́стиками (instrumental plural)
сва́стике (prepositional singular)
сва́стиках (plural prepositional)


свастика

сва̀стика (canonical feminine)
svàstika (romanization)
свастика (nominative singular)
свастике (nominative plural)
свастике (genitive singular)
свастика (genitive plural)
свастици (dative singular)
свастикама (dative plural)
свастику (accusative singular)
свастике (accusative plural)
свастико (singular vocative)
свастике (plural vocative)
свастици (locative singular)
свастикама (locative plural)
свастиком (instrumental singular)
свастикама (instrumental plural)


свастика

uk-noun

сва́стика • (svástyka) f inan (genitive сва́стики, nominative plural сва́стики, genitive plural сва́стик)

сва́стика (canonical)
svástyka (romanization)
сва́стики (genitive)
сва́стики (nominative plural)
сва́стик (genitive plural)
сва́стика (nominative singular)
сва́стики (nominative plural)
сва́стики (genitive singular)
сва́стик (genitive plural)
сва́стиці (dative singular)
сва́стикам (dative plural)
сва́стику (accusative singular)
сва́стики (accusative plural)
сва́стикою (instrumental singular)
сва́стиками (instrumental plural)
сва́стиці (locative singular)
сва́стиках (locative plural)
сва́стико (singular vocative)
сва́стики (plural vocative)


chela

In fact, Gilgamesh's instructions are still-valid directions from the guru to the chela.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184:

The guru had insight. He understood his chela. The relationship between a guru and his chela was as a father to a son, as a whole person to a whole person, individual and unique.

1987, Phirozshah Dorabji Mehta, The Heart of Religion, page 36:

The guru-chela relationship was a theme in many of Nicholas's paintings. In Pearl of Searching, the guru is looking thoughtfully at a pearl necklace with his chela. This symbolizes the "pearl of great price" that gives purpose to life.

2002, Warrior of Light: The Life of Nicholas Roerich: Artist, Himalayan Explorer, and Visionary, page 52:

This, of course, is done by the guru as the result of a long process in which his consciousness must merge with that of the chela and wherein the chela is absorbed essentially into the guru.

2007, Michael Bertiaux, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook: Expanded Edition, page 455:

A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism. [from 19th c.]


Tailtiu

(Irish mythology) A presumed goddess who was the survivor of the invasion of Tuatha Dé Danann and was the foster mother of Lugh.


Tailtiu

Tailten (genitive)
Tailtiu (nominative singular)
Tailtiu (singular vocative)
Tailtin (accusative singular)
Tailten (genitive singular)
Tailtin (dative singular)
Tailtiu (dative singular)

Middle Irish: Tailtiu

Irish: Tailtin

→ English: Teltown

→ English: Tailtiu

(Irish mythology) A goddess in Irish mythology originally serving as a personification of the town.


Lugh

Borrowed from Irish Lugh, from Old Irish Lug, from Primitive Irish ᚂᚒᚌ (lug), from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.

(Irish mythology) A pre-Christian Irish deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant past: the son of Cian and Ethniu.

Samh-ildánach ()

Summer-multi-talented; skilled in many arts


Midir

(Irish mythology) The son of the Dagda of the Tuatha Dé Danann who fell in love with Étaín, receiving Aengus's help to make her his new bride.


Étaín

(Irish mythology) The lover of Midir whose rejected first wife Fuamnach became jealous and cast three spells on her, turning her into a pool of water, then into a worm, and then into a fly.


Fuamnach

(Irish mythology) Midir's rejected first wife, who became jealous of Midir's lover Étaín, casting three spells on Étain, turning her into a pool of water, then into a worm, and then into a fly.


Triton

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(Greek mythology) A god of the sea, son of Poseidon.


Triton

la-proper noun

Trītōn m (genitive Trītōnis); third declension

Trītōn (canonical masculine)
Trītōnis (genitive)

(Greek mythology) Triton (mythological sea god)


Maoism

en-noun

Maoism (usually uncountable, plural Maoisms)

From Mao (surname of Mao Zedong) + -ism.

Some of the farmers were arrested in Wuhan parks where they allegedly spoke against Maoism and the Communist dictatorship, the report said.

1973 March 4, “Starving farmers given jail terms”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

The philosophy espoused by Chinese leader Mao Zedong, a form of Marxism-Leninism that focuses on the peasantry as the revolutionary vanguard.


PN

(Malaysia, politics, uncountable) Initialism of Perikatan Nasional (“National Alliance”).


PN

Perikatan Nasional
w:ms:Perikatan Nasional

(Malaysian politics) Initialism of Perikatan Nasional (“National Alliance”).


CPM

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
w:Communist Party of India (Marxist)

(Indian politics) Initialism of Communist Party of India (Marxist), a political party.


Pamyat

Borrowed from Russian Па́мять (Pámjatʹ), ultimately Russian па́мять (pámjatʹ, “memory”).

A right-wing Russian political movement.


centenary

From Latin centēnārius (“containing 100; local official overseeing a hundred”) either directly or via French centenaire, from centēnī (“100 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from centum (“hundred”). Doublet of centenarian, centenarize, kantar, and quintal.

doublet

Of or related to the number one hundred, particularly

Lasting or aged 100 years, 100-year-old.

(historical, obsolete) Of or relating to hundreds, the administrative unit.


centenary

(historical) Synonym of hundredman: a position in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms overseeing local administration.


Zoroastrianism

/ˌzɒɹəʊˈæstɹɪəˌnɪzəm/

From Zoroastrian + -ism, influenced by Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syriac reports of Zoroaster (“Zarathustra”) as the “lawgiver” of the Iranian peoples, as reviewed in Thomas Hyde's Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis Historia, 1700.

Zarathustrianism

coined by Hermann Lommel (and popularized by Ilya Gershevitch) to denote the prophet's own doctrine as distinguished from later accretions; from Zarathustra

Zarathustricism

the teachings of Younger Avestan texts, as distinct from Zarathustrianism and also from later accretions

Mazdaism

the religion in which Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity

Parseeism

archaic: the religion of the Parsees of the Indian subcontinent, long believed to be the only surviving community of Zoroastrians

(common) Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion.

Zoroastrisme

religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster


Zoroastrian

/ˌzɒɹəʊˈæstɹɪən/


nenia

Nam vinci in amore turpissimum putant, not only living, but when their friends are dead, with tombs and monuments, nenias, epitaphs elegies, inscriptions, pyramids, obelisks, statues, images, pictures, histories, poems, annals, feasts, anniversaries, many ages after (as Plato's scholars did) they will parentare still, omit no good office that may tend to the preservation of their names, honours, and eternal memory.

1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Honest Objects of Love”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

The corpse of L’Escuyer, stretched on a bier, the ghastly head girt with laurel, is borne through the streets; with many-voiced unmelodious Nenia; funeral-wail still deeper than it is loud!

1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Avignon”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First):

And as I nodded, with forehead propped on my left hand, and the packet of pemmican cakes in my right, there was in my head, somehow, an old street-song of my childhood: and I groaned it sleepily, like coronachs and drear funereal nenias, dirging; and the packet beat time in my right hand, falling and raising, falling heavily and rising, in time.

(Ancient Rome) A funeral song; an elegy.


ming

From Chinese 命 (mìng, “destiny, fate; luck”).


Inquisition

We know from history that the Catholic Church has historically murdered, mutilated, castrated, maimed, imprisoned and flogged homosexuals. Catholic atrocities during the Inquisition are well documented and cannot be denied. The Church no longer does those things to homosexuals, but it violates their human rights in other ways.

1981 December 27, John Rupkey, “Leading The Way In Persecution”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 4:

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(historical) A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.


Uranian

en-adj

Uranian (comparative more Uranian, superlative most Uranian)

more Uranian (comparative)
most Uranian (superlative)

Aphrodite Pandemos
Aphrodite Urania
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Louvre
Plato

From Latin Ūrania (“muse of astronomy in Greek mythology”) + -an (suffix forming agent nouns). Ūrania is derived from Ancient Greek Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱ (Ourănĭ́ā, “muse of astronomy”), from οὐράνιος (ouránios, “of or relating to the sky, celestial, heavenly”) (from οὐρανός (ouranós, “the sky; heaven, home of the gods; the universe”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers- (“rain”)) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘pertaining to’).
The alternative form Ouranian is derived from Ancient Greek οὐράνιος (ouránios).
Adjective sense 2 (“homosexual”) and the noun sense (“a homosexual”) refer to Plato’s work Symposium (c. 385–370 B.C.E.), where the goddess Aphrodite, in her heavenly aspect Aphrodite Urania (see adjective sense 3) is described as inspiring a noble form of affection between older and younger men. Compare German Urning (“a homosexual, Uranian”), Urnigtum (“homosexuality”), also referring to Aphrodite Urania, coined by the German writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895) in 1864. By the 1900s, the use of the word in this sense had largely been supplanted by homosexual (see further at that entry). The term is no longer mainstream and is almost never used in modern contexts, though it has enjoyed a slight revival as a term for "gay man" as an analogue to lesbian.

der

/jʊˈɹeɪnɪən/

For assuredly are there two Venuses; one, the eldest, the daughter of Uranus, born without a mother, whom we call the Uranian; the other younger, the daughter of Jupiter and Dione, whom we call the Pandemian;—of necessity must there also be two Loves, the Uranian and Pandemian companions of these goddesses. [...] [T]he attendant on the other, the Uranian, whose nature is entirely masculine, is the Love who inspires us with affection, and exempts us from all wantonness and libertinism.

a. 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Banquet. Translated from Plato.”, in Mrs. Shelley [i.e., Mary Shelley], editor, Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, … In Two Volumes, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, published 1840, →OCLC, page 86:

That this is indeed the general tendency of his [Pausanias of Athens'] speech is made clear by two remarks that follow immediately upon his differentiating the Pandemian from the Uranian gods. [...] But what is true for Aphrodite seems to be a contradiction in terms: she is both one and two and all gods must be praised—both Uranian and Pandemian—and yet only the Uranian ought to be praised [...].

2010, Steven Berg, “Pausanias: Noble Lies and the Fulfillment of Greekness”, in Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment: On Plato’s Symposium (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Athens and Enlightenment), page 27:

(not comparable, Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of Aphrodite Urania, the heavenly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the earthly aspect known as Aphrodite Pandemos: heavenly, spiritual.

Graced by nurses (art's nurse highly grac'd him) / Who fed him with pure marrow of the Muses; / And when he list, with moisture to refresh him, / He drunke cleare Helicon: cleare from abuses, / He bent his mind to pure Vranian vses, / Vranianie him did to heau'n vpreare: / And made to man, him demi-god appeare.

1600, Cyril Tourneur, The Transformed Metamorphosis, [London]: Printed by Valentine Sims, […], →OCLC; republished in John Churton Collins, editor, The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur: […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Chatto and Windus, […], 1878, →OCLC, page 213:

Actually, this little girl-child should have been as happy as a lark. But, she wasn't. This is because her Bengali genes had her continually wish to be a Sarasvati, or Uranian Muse, to all the males who came within her ambit – incessantly inspiring them to great works of Art or Scientific discoveries.

2007, Vivek Iyer, chapter 8, in Samlee’s Daughter: A Novel, Great Britain: Polyglot Publications, →ISBN, section I:

(not comparable, Greek mythology, dated) Relating to Urania, the Muse of astronomy.


luster

en-verb

luster (third-person singular simple present lusters, present participle lustering, simple past and past participle lustered)

lusters (present singular third-person)
lustering (participle present)
lustered (participle past)
lustered (past)

From Middle French lustre, from Old Italian lustro, from Old Italian lustrare (“brighten”), from Latin lūstrō (“to purify, to brighten”), from Latin lūstrum (“purification ritual”).

(transitive, obsolete) To shed light on, to illustrate, to show.


вертухай

ru-noun+

вертуха́й • (vertuxáj) m anim (genitive вертуха́я, nominative plural вертуха́и, genitive plural вертуха́ев)

вертуха́й (canonical)
vertuxáj (romanization)
вертуха́я (genitive)
вертуха́и (nominative plural)
вертуха́ев (genitive plural)
вертуха́й (nominative singular)
вертуха́и (nominative plural)
вертуха́я (genitive singular)
вертуха́ев (genitive plural)
вертуха́ю (dative singular)
вертуха́ям (dative plural)
вертуха́я (accusative singular)
вертуха́ев (accusative plural)
вертуха́ем (instrumental singular)
вертуха́ями (instrumental plural)
вертуха́е (prepositional singular)
вертуха́ях (plural prepositional)

(slang, derogatory) turnkey, jailer, prison guard

(derogatory, politics) militiaman, policeman

Государственная автомобильная инспекция
Государственная автомобильная инспекция

employee of the "State Vehicle Inspection" / "State Patrol" (ГАИ, or Государственная автомобильная инспекция)


testudo

en-noun

testudo (plural testudos or testudoes or testudines)

testudos (plural)
testudoes (plural)
testudines (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”).

ubor

(Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.


Gordian knot

/ˈɡɔːdɪən ˈnɒt/

/ˈɡoʊɹdɪən ˈnɑt/

From the name of a legendary knot tied to a pole near the temple of Zeus in Gordium. It was prophesied that whoever loosed the knot would become ruler of all Asia. Alexander the Great solved the puzzle by slicing through the knot and took it as a sign of Zeus' favor. He then proceeded to conquer much of the known world.

(Greek mythology) The legendary knot tied to a pole near the temple of Zeus in Gordium.


goon

→ Portuguese: guna

Alice the Goon
Peter Sellers
Popeye
Spike Milligan
The Goon Show

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goon
Shortened from gooney, from obsolete gony (“simpleton”), used circa 1580, of unknown origin. Perhaps a familiar term derived from Middle English gone, a variant of gome (“man, person”). Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). The term goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921). Compare Scots goni, guni (“a bogey, bugbear, hobgoblin”), dialectal Swedish gonnar (“elves, goblins”, plural).
* Sense 1 ("hired thug"; circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character Alice the Goon from the Popeye series.
* Sense 3 ("fool") was reinforced by the popular radio program, The Goon Show, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
* Sense 5 ("guard") was influenced by both sense 1 and sense 3, though not by The Goon Show reference, which arose about 10 years after WWII.

unk

unknown

cog

(UK, World War II, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.

World War II; PoW slang; World War II; PoW slang


dinar

Learned borrowing from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of denar.

dinar (former unit of currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

dinar (former unit of currency of Croatia)

dinar (former unit of currency of South Yemen)


vrata

Transliteration of Sanskrit व्रत (vratá). Related to the group word, verb, and verve, from the same Proto-Indo-European root, *werh₁- (“to speak, say”).

transliteration

(Hinduism, Jainism) A pious observance such as fasting and pilgrimage.


Eochaid Feidlech

(Irish mythology) The High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, who deposed the former High King Fachtna Fáthach at the battle of Battle of Leitir Ruadh.


Fachtna Fáthach

(Irish mythology) The High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology who was deposed by Eochaid Feidlech at the Battle of Leitir Ruadh.


Fráech

From Middle Irish Fráech, from Old Irish Fróech, from fróech (“heather”), from Proto-Celtic *wroikos.

(Irish mythology) The Connacht hero in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology who wooed Findabair and Treblann, but was drowned in a river in a duel with Cúchulainn.


Nera

(Irish mythology) A warrior of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


Rt Hon

Right Honourable
Right Honourable#English

Members of Parliament
Member of Parliament

(UK and Commonwealth politics) Abbreviation of Right Honourable. (in the titles of Members of Parliament)


gigant

gigant (nominative singular)
giganci (nominative plural)
giganty (derogatory nominative plural)
giganta (genitive singular)
gigantów (genitive plural)
gigantowi (dative singular)
gigantom (dative plural)
giganta (accusative singular)
gigantów (accusative plural)
gigantem (instrumental singular)
gigantami (instrumental plural)
gigancie (locative singular)
gigantach (locative plural)
gigancie (singular vocative)
giganci (plural vocative)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) giant (Greek mythological creature)


Trojan horse

(Greek mythology) The hollow wooden horse by which the Greeks allegedly gained access to Ilium/Troy during the Trojan War.


Trojan horse

(business) A seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments.

sisäänheittotarjous

business: seemingly favorable offer made to trick customers

Russia thinks of an atomic authority as a Trojan horse to get behind the iron curtain and impair her defense, and there is some reason historically for this view.

1946 October, John Foster Dulles, quotee, American Bar Association Journal, volume 32, number 10, page 681:

Seen like this, huge western companies function like a Trojan horse when they are invited inside the boundaries of LDCs.

1995, Peter Saunders, Capitalism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 38:

Had the Israelis and the Americans realized that the Oslo accords were merely a “Trojan horse” designed to promote the higher goal of Palestine’s complete liberation, he argued, “they would never have opened their fortified gates and let it inside their walls.”

2003, Efraim Karsh, Arafat's War, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 64:

Indeed, it may turn out to be a Trojan horse that finally allows conservative ideologues, who have unsuccessfully laid siege to Medicare since the days of Barry Goldwater, to breach its political defenses.

2003, Krugman, Paul R., The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2004, →ISBN, page 449:

(politics) A person, organization, social movement, piece of legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions.

Troijan hevonen

politics: movement etc. with evil intentions


Trojan horse

en-verb

Trojan horse (third-person singular simple present Trojan horses, present participle Trojan horsing, simple past and past participle Trojan horsed)

Trojan horses (present singular third-person)
Trojan horsing (participle present)
Trojan horsed (participle past)
Trojan horsed (past)

You will disarm a group or person that holds simplistic attitudes—about relationships, education, financial success, morality, business ethics, religion, raising children—by giving that group or person Trojan Horsed instructions seemingly about how to do something mundane and unrelated.

1999, Gary Hoffman, Glynis Hoffman, Adios, Strunk and White, 2nd edition, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Verve Press, →ISBN, page 180:

But still, despite my initial shock at being expected to do a grownup job for my new grown-up salary, I was determined to keep the dream alive to some extent, by ticking a few of the sensible boxes while Trojan Horsing (yes, as a verb) some dot com fun in the back […]

2008, Paul Carr, Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 88:

In its place arose a bilateral treaty that spelled out in basic terms that advances made in freedom of movement would be kept, under safeguards; free trade would be advanced bilaterally; goods imported from third countries would not be Trojan horsed; and countries would cooperate in areas of common interest.

2009, Lee Rotherham, Ten Years On: Britain without the European Union, →ISBN, page 88:


амазонка

amazonka (romanization)
амазонка (indefinite singular)
амазонки (indefinite plural)
амазонката (definite singular unspecified)
амазонките (definite plural unspecified)
амазонкава (definite proximal singular)
амазонкиве (definite plural proximal)
амазонкана (definite distal singular)
амазонкине (definite distal plural)
амазонке (singular vocative)
амазонки (plural vocative)


амазонка

ru-noun+

амазо́нка • (amazónka) f anim or f inan (genitive амазо́нки, nominative plural амазо́нки, genitive plural амазо́нок, relational adjective амазо́нский)

амазо́нка (canonical)
amazónka (romanization)
амазо́нки (genitive)
амазо́нки (nominative plural)
амазо́нок (genitive plural)
амазо́нский (adjective relational)
амазо́нка (nominative singular)
амазо́нки (nominative plural)
амазо́нки (genitive singular)
амазо́нок (genitive plural)
амазо́нке (dative singular)
амазо́нкам (dative plural)
амазо́нку (accusative animate singular)
амазо́нок (accusative animate plural)
амазо́нку (accusative inanimate singular)
амазо́нки (accusative inanimate plural)
амазо́нкой (instrumental singular)
амазо́нкою (instrumental singular)
амазо́нками (instrumental plural)
амазо́нке (prepositional singular)
амазо́нках (plural prepositional)

Ru-амазонка.ogg

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn, “Amazon (mythology)”) + -ка (-ka).


kapo

kapo (nominative singular)
kapowie (nominative plural)
kapy (derogatory nominative plural)
kapa (genitive singular)
kapów (genitive plural)
kapowi (dative singular)
kapom (dative plural)
kapa (accusative singular)
kapów (accusative plural)
kapem (instrumental singular)
kapami (instrumental plural)
kapie (locative singular)
kapach (locative plural)
kapo (singular vocative)
kapowie (plural vocative)
kapy (derogatory plural vocative)

(historical, Nazism) kapo (prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor)


bara

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), the name of Japan's first modern gay men's magazine, named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

bor

(Internet slang) A genre of homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.


talar

talarek (diminutive)
talar (nominative singular)
talary (nominative plural)
talara (genitive singular)
talarów (genitive plural)
talarowi (dative singular)
talarom (dative plural)
talara (accusative singular)
talary (accusative plural)
talarem (instrumental singular)
talarami (instrumental plural)
talarze (locative singular)
talarach (locative plural)
talarze (singular vocative)
talary (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Thaler, Taler, from Sankt Joachimsthaler. Doublet of dolar.

(historical) thaler (historical monetary unit)

(historical) thaler (historical currency of Baden)


trophy

→ Japanese: トロフィー (torofī)

→ Korean: 트로피 (teuropi)

→ Malayalam: ട്രോഫി (ṭrōphi)

From Middle French trophée, from Latin trophaeum (“a sign of victory, a monument”), tropaeum, from Ancient Greek τρόπαιον (trópaion, “monument of an enemy's defeat”), from neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a rout, a turning of an enemy”).

трафе́й

object taken by a hunter or conqueror of their success

An animal killed by a trophy hunter that usually has its parts sold on the black market.


Афина

ru-proper noun+

Афи́на • (Afína) f anim (genitive Афи́ны)

Афи́на (canonical)
Afína (romanization)
Афи́ны (genitive)
Афи́на (nominative singular)
Афи́ны (genitive singular)
Афи́не (dative singular)
Афи́ну (accusative singular)
Афи́ной (instrumental singular)
Афи́ною (instrumental singular)
Афи́не (prepositional singular)


DPP

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl
w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.

Democratic Party of the Philippines
w:Democratic Party of the Philippines

(Philippine politics) Initialism of Democratic Party of the Philippines.


UG

(French politics) Abbreviation of union de la gauche.


Посейдон

Посейдо́н • (Posejdón) m anim (genitive Посейдо́на, nominative plural Посейдо́ны, genitive plural Посейдо́нов)

Посейдо́н (canonical)
Posejdón (romanization)
Посейдо́на (genitive)
Посейдо́ны (nominative plural)
Посейдо́нов (genitive plural)
Посейдо́н (nominative singular)
Посейдо́ны (nominative plural)
Посейдо́на (genitive singular)
Посейдо́нов (genitive plural)
Посейдо́ну (dative singular)
Посейдо́нам (dative plural)
Посейдо́на (accusative singular)
Посейдо́нов (accusative plural)
Посейдо́ном (instrumental singular)
Посейдо́нами (instrumental plural)
Посейдо́не (prepositional singular)
Посейдо́нах (plural prepositional)


Gilgamesh

/ˈɡɪl.ɡə.mɛʃ/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-Gilgamesh.wav

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒄑𒂆𒈦 (Gilgameš), from Sumerian 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌 (ᵈgilgameš₂ /Gilgameš/)

lbor

A semi-legendary king of Uruk, who is the hero of the Babylonian poem Epic of Gilgamesh.


Gilgamesh

[ɡiʊ̯.ɡaˈmɛʃ]

/ɡil.ɡɐˈmɛʃ/

[ɡiɫ.ɣɐˈmɛʃ]

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒄑𒂆𒈦 (Gilgameš).


Amata

From Latin amāta (“loved, beloved”); feminine perfect passive participle of amāre (“love”). It can also be interpreted as the feminine form of the saint's name Amātus.

(Roman mythology) The wife of Latinus and the mother of Lavinia.


Amata

la-proper noun

Amāta f sg (genitive Amātae); first declension

Amāta (canonical feminine singular)
Amātae (genitive)
Amāta (nominative singular)
Amātae (genitive singular)
Amātae (dative singular)
Amātam (accusative singular)
Amātā (ablative singular)
Amāta (singular vocative)

From amāta, feminine form of amātus (“beloved”).

(Roman mythology) The wife of Latinus and mother of Lavinia.


Amata

(Roman mythology) Amata (wife of Latinus and the mother of Lavinia)


Schwampel

de-noun

Schwampel f (genitive Schwampel, no plural)

Schwampel (genitive)
Schwampel (nominative singular)
Schwampel (genitive singular)
Schwampel (dative singular)
Schwampel (accusative singular)

Blend of schwarz (“black”) + Ampel(koalition) (“coalition of SPD, FDP, and the Greens”); black is the party color of the CDU.

blend

Die FDP schließt in Baden-Württemberg ein Bündnis mit Grünen und SPD aus. Eine „Schwampel“ mit einem CDU-Ministerpräsidenten lehnt die SPD ab.

2016 March 20, Benno Stieber, “Nach der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg: Grün-Schwarz in Sicht”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:

(German politics) A coalition consisting of the Christian Democratic Union, Free Democratic Party, and the Greens.


Ampel

Ampel (genitive)
Ampeln (plural)
Ampel (nominative singular)
Ampeln (definite nominative plural)
Ampel (genitive singular)
Ampeln (definite genitive plural)
Ampel (dative singular)
Ampeln (dative definite plural)
Ampel (accusative singular)
Ampeln (accusative definite plural)

→ Swedish: ampel

→ Finnish: amppeli

From Middle High German ampel, ampolle, ampulle, from Old High German ampla, ampulla (“vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *ampullā (“flask, cruse”). The sense development was vessel → hanging lamp (in or shaped like a vessel) → traffic light. Doublet of Ampulle.

inh

Alles ist möglich. Das ist bislang die Botschaft, die führende Sozialdemokraten in Berlin und in Düsseldorf verbreiten. Eine Ampel mit FDP und Grünen, eine Minderheitsregierung, Neuwahlen, […]

2010, Der Spiegel, number 22/2010, page 13:

Everything is possible. That is the message that is spread up to now by leading Social Democrats in Berlin and Düsseldorf. A "traffic light coalition" with the FDP and Green Party, a minority government, new elections, […]

Die Ampel hat es vergeigt: Die Fraktionen von SPD, Grünen und FDP im Bundestag hätten verhindern können, dass die AfD den Vorsitzenden des Innenausschusses stellt.

2021 December 8, Gareth Joswig, “Innenausschuss-Vorsitz geht an AfD: Schlecht gewählt”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:

The "traffic light" [government] screwed up: The factions of SPD, Greens, and FDP in the Bundestag [parliament] could have prevented the AfD from getting one of theirs into the position of Chief of the Committee for the Interior.

(German politics, informal) Ellipsis of Ampelkoalition.


Bundestag

/ˈbʊndəsˌtɑːɡ/

The federal/state parliament of Germany.


Bundestag

de-noun

Bundestag m (strong, genitive Bundestages or Bundestags, plural Bundestage)

Bundestages (genitive)
Bundestags (genitive)
Bundestage (plural)
Bundestag (nominative singular)
Bundestage (definite nominative plural)
Bundestages (genitive singular)
Bundestags (genitive singular)
Bundestage (definite genitive plural)
Bundestag (dative singular)
Bundestage (dative singular)
Bundestagen (dative definite plural)
Bundestag (accusative singular)
Bundestage (accusative definite plural)

Coordinate term: Landtag


SPD

Social Democratic Party of Germany
w:Social Democratic Party of Germany

(German politics) Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Germany (“Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands”).


SPD

→ English: SPD

(German politics) SPD: Initialism of Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (“Social Democratic Party of Germany”).


Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands

de-proper noun

Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands f (proper noun, definite nominative die Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, genitive Sozialdemokratischer Partei Deutschlands, definite genitive der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands)

(German politics) German Social Democratic Party


FDP

Free Democratic Party
w:en:Free Democratic Party (Germany)

(German politics) Initialism of Free Democratic Party of Germany (Freie Demokratische Partei); a German centrist classical liberal political party.


FDP

→ English: FDP

Freie Demokratische Partei
Freie Demokratische Partei#German

(German politics) FDP: Initialism of Freie Demokratische Partei (“Free Democratic Party of Germany”).


FDP

FDP (genitive)
FDP (nominative singular)
FDP (genitive singular)
FDP (dative singular)
FDP (accusative singular)

FDP.Die Liberalen
w:de:FDP.Die Liberalen

(Swiss politics) Ellipsis of FDP.Die Liberalen (“The Liberals (Switzerland)”).


Freie Demokratische Partei

Freie Demokratische Partei f (proper noun, definite nominative die Freie Demokratische Partei, genitive Freier Demokratischer Partei, definite genitive der Freien Demokratischen Partei)

die Freie Demokratische Partei (definite nominative)
Freier Demokratischer Partei (genitive)
der Freien Demokratischen Partei (definite genitive)


CDU

(German politics) Initialism of Christian Democratic Union (of Germany) (“Christlich Demokratische Union”). (a major mainstream German political party)


CDU

CDU (genitive)
CDU (nominative singular)
CDU (genitive singular)
CDU (dative singular)
CDU (accusative singular)

→ English: CDU

Christlich Demokratische Union
Christlich Demokratische Union#German

(German politics) CDU: Initialism of Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (“Christian Democratic Union of Germany”).


Christlich Demokratische Union

Christlich Demokratische Union f (proper noun, definite nominative die Christlich Demokratische Union, genitive Christlich Demokratischer Union, definite genitive der Christlich Demokratischen Union)

die Christlich Demokratische Union (definite nominative)
Christlich Demokratischer Union (genitive)
der Christlich Demokratischen Union (definite genitive)

(German politics) Christian Democratic Union of Germany


Mephistopheles

Apparently a corrupted Greek compound. The Greek particle of negation (μη (mi)) and the Greek word for love or loving (φίλος (fílos)) are the first and last terms of the compound but the middle term is more doubtful. For the middle term, three meanings have been noticed and three different etymologies have been proposed: 1) not loving light (φως (fos); the old form of the word being Mephostopheles), 2) not loving Faust, 3) akin to mephitic, a term which refers to the poisonous vapors arising from the earth in certain places destructive to human life.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 215:

When I'm at the pearly gates / This'll be on my videotape, my videotape / When Mephistopheles is just beneath / And he's reaching up to grab me

2007, “Videotape”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:

The Devil to whom Faust sold his soul in the legend.


Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles m (proper noun, strong, genitive Mephistopheles)

Mephistopheles (genitive)
Mephistopheles (nominative singular)
Mephistopheles (genitive singular)
Mephistopheles (dative singular)
Mephistopheles (accusative singular)


ankh

From Egyptian anx-Z1 (ꜥnḫ, “life, to live, symbol for life”).


PFI

Popular Front of India
w:Popular Front of India

(Indian politics) Initialism of Popular Front of India, a banned organization in India.


gaja

Audio (US)

Transliteration of Sanskrit गज (gaja, “elephant; gaja”).

translit

(Hinduism) The sacred name for the elephant


Pericles

From Latin Periclēs, from Ancient Greek Περικλῆς (Periklês, “far-famed”), from περί (perí, “around”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”).

der

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly historical usage


neoteric

From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).

Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.

1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English, page 294:

Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?

A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext and ergodic, are in order.


neoteric

(historical) any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.


Xerxes

From Ancient Greek Ξέρξης (Xérxēs), from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 (x-š-y-a-r-š-a /Xšayāršā/, “ruler among kings”). Doublet of Ahasuerus.

A male given name from Old Persian mainly applied to historical and fictional characters.


Ganesha

(Hinduism) A Hindu god of intellect, wisdom, gates, and beginnings, son of Parvati and Shiva.


Ганеш

Гане̏ш (canonical masculine)
Ganȅš (romanization)


Ganeš

Ganȅš (canonical masculine)
Гане̏ш (Cyrillic)


Church of England

The English branch of the Christian Church; (since the 16th century) specifically the established Protestant church in England which is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.


chariot

From Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”). Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).

ncog

A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.


apple of discord

en-noun

apple of discord (plural apples of discord)

A reference to the μῆλον τῆς Ἔριδος (mêlon tês Éridos, “apple of Eris”) in Greek mythology, a golden apple inscribed ‘for the fairest female’ which Eris (known as Discordia to the Romans), the goddess of discord and strife, tossed in the midst of the feast of the gods at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus. This provoked a dispute among Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera as to who was the most beautiful, and eventually led to the Trojan War.

He has determined to enter the cabinet surrounded with creatures only, and, as to the Parliament, to trust to his dexterity and strength in throwing the apple of discord, occasions for doing which will, he imagines, soon and frequently occur.

1804 May 19, “Summary of Politics”, in William Cobbett, editor, Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume V, number 20, London: Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street; published by Richard Bagshaw, Bow Street, Covent Garden; …, →OCLC, column 768:

He [Pope Pius VII] had hardly regained Rome when a domestic incident in the Bonaparte family became the immediate cause of that struggle between Pope and Emperor which only ended with the downfall of Napoleon's power. This apple of discord was the outraged honour of a Protestant girl, which the Holy Father maintained in the face of her angered Imperial brother-in-law.

1875, Mary H[elen Agnes] Allies, “The Apple of Discord”, in The Life of Pope Pius the Seventh, London: Burns and Oates, Portman Street and Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 91:

The apportionment of U.S. military assistance to Turkey and Greece has become an apple of discord almost as bitterly disputed by the recipients as the one Aphrodite received from Paris, which touched off the Trojan Wars.

1992, Monteagle Stearns, “The 70 Percent Solution to Our Military Aid Dilemma”, in Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, New York, N.Y.: Council on Foreign Relations Press, →ISBN, page 40:

As in the old days when the tribes were fighting each other over hunting grounds, territories and agricultural land, today DRC [the Democratic Republic of the Congo] is prone to many internal conflicts. Especially in the eastern part of the country today's apples of discord appear to be the much-coveted minerals such as gold, diamonds, coltan, and uranium.

2008, Anthonie Th. Polet, “Between Expectations and Reality in the DRC: Opportunities for Cimic”, in Sebastiaan J. H. Rietjens, Myriame T. I. B. Bollen, editors, Managing Civil-Military Cooperation: A 24/7 Joint Effort for Stability (Military Strategy and Operational Art), Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 123:

An object or topic which sows anger and dissension; something which causes argument, rivalry, or strife.

Greek mythology
Jacob Jordaens
Museo del Prado


changeling

/ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒlɪŋ/

The noun is derived from change + -ling (suffix with the sense ‘immature; small’). Sense 6 (“idiot, simpleton”) is from the idea that foolish children had been left by magical creatures (sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

suffix

[S]he, as her attendant, hath / A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king: / She neuer had ſo ſweete a changeling.

[c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Every Lover admires his miſtris, though ſhee be very deformed of her ſelfe, [...] her feet ſtinke, ſhee breed lice, a meere changeling, a very monſter, [...]: if he loue her once, he admires her for all this, he takes no notice of any ſuch errors, or imperfections of body or minde.

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes or Signes of Love Melancholy, in Body, Minde, Good, Bad, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 3, subsection 1, page 515:

Juſt as a Changeling ſeems below the reſt / Of Men, or rather is a two-legg’d Beaſt, / So theſe Gigantick Souls amaz'd we find / As much above the reſt of human kind.

1709, Earl of Murlgrave [i.e., John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, formerly Earl of Mulgrave], An Essay on Poetry, London: […] H. Hills, […], →OCLC, page 15:

Nothing will induce parents to show any attention to a child that they suspect of being a changeling.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 263:

It was easy enough to see that the child was a changeling, for it wasn't like other children at all it screamed and cried, as if a knife stuck in it, and it wheezed and hit about with its arms like a huldre-cat, and was as ugly as sin.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298:

His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats [...]

1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, 8th edition, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 285:

(European folklore, also figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.

خائن

infant of a magical creature secretly exchanged for a human infant


demos

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).

uder

(originally Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica (δῆμος); (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.


delict

Borrowed from Latin delictum (“fault”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking; to fail; to transgress”), from dē- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).

(civil law, Scots law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.

civil law; Scots law; civil law; Scots law


delfin

pl-noun

delfin m pers (female equivalent delfina)

delfina (feminine)
delfin (nominative singular)
delfini (nominative plural)
delfiny (derogatory nominative plural)
delfina (genitive singular)
delfinów (genitive plural)
delfinowi (dative singular)
delfinom (dative plural)
delfina (accusative singular)
delfinów (accusative plural)
delfinem (instrumental singular)
delfinami (instrumental plural)
delfinie (locative singular)
delfinach (locative plural)
delfinie (singular vocative)
delfini (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: delfin

(historical) dauphin (eldest son of king of France)


अग्नि

agni (romanization)
اگنی (Urdu)
अग्नि (direct singular)
अग्नि (oblique singular)
अग्नि (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अग्नि (agní). Doublet of आग (āg). First attested as Old Hindi अग्नि (agni).


अग्नि

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अग्नि (agní). Doublet of आग (āg). Compare Old Marathi 𑘀𑘐𑘿𑘡 (agna), 𑘀𑘐𑘿𑘡𑘲 (agnī), 𑘀𑘕𑘿𑘗𑘲 (ajñī).


अग्नि

ne-proper noun

अग्नि • (agni)

agni (romanization)
अग्नि [ʌɡni] (nominative singular)
अग्निलाई [ʌɡniläi] (accusative singular)
instrumental (accusative)
ergative (accusative)
अग्निले [ʌɡnile] (singular)
अग्निलाई [ʌɡniläi] (dative singular)
अग्निबाट [ʌɡnibäʈʌ] (ablative singular)
अग्निको [ʌɡniko] (genitive singular)
अग्निमा [ʌɡnimä] (locative singular)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अग्नि (agní). Doublet of आगो (āgo).


अग्नि

agní (romanization)
अग्निः (nominative singular)
अग्नी (dual nominative)
अग्नयः (nominative plural)
अग्ने (singular vocative)
अग्नी (dual vocative)
अग्नयः (plural vocative)
अग्निम् (accusative singular)
अग्नी (accusative dual)
अग्नीन् (accusative plural)
अग्निना (instrumental singular)
अग्न्या1 (instrumental singular)
अग्निभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
अग्निभिः (instrumental plural)
अग्नये (dative singular)
अग्निभ्याम् (dative dual)
अग्निभ्यः (dative plural)
अग्नेः (ablative singular)
अग्निभ्याम् (ablative dual)
अग्निभ्यः (ablative plural)
अग्नेः (genitive singular)
अग्न्योः (dual genitive)
अग्नीनाम् (genitive plural)
अग्नौ (locative singular)
अग्ना1 (locative singular)
अग्न्योः (dual locative)
अग्निषु (locative plural)

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hagníṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hagníš, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnís. Cognate with Latin ignis, Old Church Slavonic огнь (ognĭ), ⱁⰳⱀⱐ (ognĭ).

अ॒ग्निम्ई॒ळे पु॒रोहि॑तं य॒ज्ञस्य॑ दे॒वमृ॒त्विजं॑ ।
होता॑रं रत्न॒धात॑मं ॥
agnímīḷé puróhitaṃ yajñásya devámṛtvíjaṃ.

I glorify Agni, the high priest of the sacrifice, the divine, the ministrant, who presents the oblation (to the gods), and is the possessor of great wealth.


अग्नि

Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀅𑀕𑀺 (agi /aggi/) (see there for further descendants)

Dardic:

Kashmiri:

Arabic script: اۆگُن (ogun)

Devanagari script: ऒगुन (ogun)

Sharada script: 𑆏𑆓𑆶𑆤𑇀 (ogun)

Gandhari: 𐨀𐨒𐨁 (agi)

Pali: aggi (see there for further descendants)

→ Assamese: অগ্নি (ogni)

→ Bengali: অগ্নি (ogni) (learned)

→ English: Agni

→ Gujarati: અગ્નિ (agni)

→ Hindustani: (semi-learned)

Hindi: अगन (agan)

Urdu: اگن (agan)

→ Hindustani: (learned)

Hindi: अग्नि (agni)

Urdu: اگنی (agni)

→ Old Javanese: agni, gĕni (see there for further descendants)

→ Kannada: ಅಗ್ನಿ (agni)

→ Lao: ອັກຄະນີ (ʼak kha nī)

→ Old Marathi:

desc

Modi script: 𑘀𑘐𑘿𑘡 (agna), 𑘀𑘐𑘿𑘡𑘲 (agnī), 𑘀𑘕𑘿𑘗𑘲 (ajñī)

Devanagari script: अग्न (agna), अग्नि (agni), अज्ञी (ajñī)

→ Marwari: अगन (agan), अगनी (agnī) (semi-learned)

→ Odia: ଅଗ୍ନି (agni) (learned)

→ Russian: Агни́ (Agní)

→ Tamil: அக்கினி (akkiṉi), அக்னி (akṉi)

→ Malayalam: അഗ്നി (agni)

→ Telugu: అగ్ని (agni)

→ Thai: อัคนี (àk-ká-nii)

Semecarpus anacardium
Semecarpus anacardium#Translingual

name of various plants; Semecarpus anacardium, Plumbago zeylanica, Plumbago indica, Citrus aurantifolia

in the कातन्त्र (kātantra) grammar, name of noun-stems ending in i and u


détente

Unadapted borrowing from French détente (“relaxing”).

ubor

Analogous structural and political constraints stood in the way of a lasting détente between Germany and Britain.

2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 318:

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

2014 January 14, Stephen Kinzer, “Invading Iraq was dumb enough. Now Congress wants to derail the Iran deal”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly politics) A relaxing of tension, especially between countries.

разра́дка

a relaxing of tension, especially between countries


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012isbn=9780316221801:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


McCarthyism

From McCarthy + -ism, named after United States Senator Joseph McCarthy. Originates from a 1950 Washington Post political cartoon by Herbert Block.

named-after

An important symptom of the difference between McCarthyism and Birchism is the shift in the geographical center of gravity.

1964, Daniel Bell, The Radical Right, page 234:

The intense opposition to, and fear and suspicion of, Communism, particularly in the United States during the 1950s.


/ˌeɪt͡ʃtuːˈoʊ/

Two H initials (Hishammuddin Hussein) represented by H₂ + O for Onn, chosen to humorously match the chemical formula for water.

(Malaysia, Internet slang, humorous, politics) Hishammuddin Hussein Onn, Malaysian politician and son of Hussein Onn, third prime minister of Malaysia.


Akkadisch

de-proper noun

Akkadisch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Akkadisch or Akkadischs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Akkadische, alternative genitive Akkadischen, no plural)

Akkadisch (genitive)
Akkadischs (genitive)
Akkadische (alternative nominative)
Akkadischen (alternative genitive)


ichor

en-noun

ichor (countable and uncountable, plural ichors)

Sense 1 (“liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods”) is borrowed from Medieval Latin ichor, from Ancient Greek ῑ̓χώρ (īkhṓr, “fluid running through the veins of gods, ichor; watery part of blood, lymph, serum; watery part of milk, whey; gravy; pus; naphtha”); further etymology unknown, probably from Pre-Greek.
Sense 2.4 (“fetid, watery discharge from a sore”) is from Middle English icor, icore [and other forms], from Medieval Latin ichor; see further above.

der

This ſaid, ſhe wip’d from Venus’ wounded Palm / The ſacred Ichor, and infus’d the Balm.

1716, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book V”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 40, lines 505–506:

With his protruded ſpear her gentle hand / He wounded, piercing through her thin attire / Ambroſial, by themſelves the Graces wrought, / Her inſide wriſt, faſt by her roſy palm. / Blood follow'd, but immortal; ichor pure, / Such as the bleſt inhabitants of heav'n / May bleed, nectareous; […]

1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book V.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 121, lines 387–393:

He [Saint Peter] potter'd with his keys at a great rate, / And sweated through his apostolic skin: / Of course his perspiration was but ichor, / Or some such other spiritual liquor.

1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […], published 1823, →OCLC, stanza XXV, page 11:

(Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.


ichor

ichor (nominative singular)
ichoru (genitive singular)
ichorowi (dative singular)
ichor (accusative singular)
ichorem (instrumental singular)
ichorze (locative singular)
ichorze (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ichor.

lbor

(Greek mythology) ichor (liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods)