"Zweihänder" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈtsvaɪhɛndɚ/ (note: anglicised), /ˈtsvaɪ.hæn.dɚ/ (note: anglicised), /ˈtsvaɪhɛndə/ (note: like German) Forms: Zweihänder [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zweihänder (literally “two hander”), from zwei (“two”) + Hand (“hand”) + -er. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Zweihänder|lit=two hander}} German Zweihänder (literally “two hander”), {{m|de|zwei|t=two}} zwei (“two”), {{m|de|Hand|t=hand}} Hand (“hand”), {{m|de|-er}} -er Head templates: {{en-noun|Zweihänder}} Zweihänder (plural Zweihänder)
  1. (historical) A two-handed sword primarily of Renaissance Germany, up to a fathom in length, invented in the 14th century. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Swords Synonyms: Bidenhänder, Bihänder, zweihänder, Zweihander, zweihander Translations (sword): 雙手巨劍 (Chinese Mandarin), 双手巨剑 (shuāngshǒu jùjiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), ツヴァイヘンダー (tsuvaihendā) (Japanese), цвайхендер (cvajxender) [masculine] (Russian), slagsvärd [neuter] (Swedish)

Noun [German]

IPA: /ˈt͡svaɪ̯ˌhɛndɐ/ Audio: De-Zweihänder.ogg
Etymology: From zwei (“two”) + Hand (“hand”) + -er. Etymology templates: {{af|de|zwei|Hand|-er|t1=two|t2=hand}} zwei (“two”) + Hand (“hand”) + -er Head templates: {{de-noun|m}} Zweihänder m (strong, genitive Zweihänders, plural Zweihänder) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m}} Forms: Zweihänders [genitive], Zweihänder [plural], strong [table-tags], Zweihänder [nominative, singular], Zweihänder [definite, nominative, plural], Zweihänders [genitive, singular], Zweihänder [definite, genitive, plural], Zweihänder [dative, singular], Zweihändern [dative, definite, plural], Zweihänder [accusative, singular], Zweihänder [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. Zweihänder (14th century two-handed sword) Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): Swords Synonyms: Beidenhänder [obsolete], Bidenhänder [obsolete], Bihänder [obsolete]
    Sense id: en-Zweihänder-de-noun-RBUKm9He Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German terms suffixed with -er, Pages with raw sortkeys

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/De-Zweih%C3%A4nder.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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