form

en-noun

form (countable and uncountable, plural forms)

→ Korean: 폼 (pom)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: form

From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”).
In sense "division grouping school students" (now dated), derived from public school nomenclature later adopted by state schools. It is sometimes said to be from the sense of "bench", where students of certain ages would sit together, though this is disputed, or alternatively from the sense of "established method of expression or practice".

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imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.

1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:

As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:

The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

figure

(visible structure of a thing or person): shape; see also Thesaurus:shape; visible structure of a person

physique

A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

(heading, physical) To do with shape.
Regularity, beauty, or elegance.

(philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.

Characteristics not involving atomic components.

And there with syr Launcelot wrapped his mantel aboute his arme wel and surely and by thenne they had geten a grete fourme oute of the halle and there with all they rasshed at the dore […].

1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter iv, leaf 401v:

In the hall. One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d.

1585–1586 January 18, chapter LXIII, in [William Greenwell], editor, Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham. Part II (The Publications of the Surtees Society; XXXVIII), Durham: George Andrews, Durham; London: Whittaker and Co.; T. and W. Boone; Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons, published 1860, →OCLC, page 132:

I can see the old schoolroom yet: the broken-down desks and the worn-out forms with knots in that got stuck into your backside[…].

1981, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 10:

The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms, as benches used to be called.

2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography:

(heading, physical) To do with shape.
(dated) A long bench with no back.

To do with shape.
A long bench with no back.

(fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

(crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.


trunk

From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

the apple does not fall far from the trunk

The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.

(heading, biological) Part of a body.
The torso; especially, the human torso.

The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

en:long nose of an elephant or other animal

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.

1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 01:

A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.

To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.

I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.

2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

(Canada, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.

bak

luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car

(automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.

(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.

(US, telecommunications) A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.

1655, James Howell, “To the Lord Viscount Col. from Madrid”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

(archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter

(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.


active

en-adj

active (comparative more active, superlative most active)

more active (comparative)
most active (superlative)

Albanian: aktiv

From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin āctīv(us), from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. By surface analysis, act + -ive.

Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.

Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.


sad

sad (comparative sadder or more sad, superlative saddest or most sad)

sadder (comparative)
more sad (comparative)
saddest (superlative)
most sad (superlative)

From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“satisfied, full, sated, unable to handle more, weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *sad, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”).
Cognate to Saterland Frisian sääd, West Frisian sêd, Dutch zat, German Low German satt, German satt.

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She gets sad when he's away.

Firſt were we ſad, fearing you would not come, / Now ſadder that you come ſo vnprouided:[…]

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 219, column 2:

[…]Th’ Angelic Guards aſcended, mute and ſad[…]

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 18:

(heading) Emotionally negative.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

The puppy had a sad little face.

We need a sad man. Give us a sad man.” Tomo gave the look of a sad man, then followed with the body of a sad man. “That's it, more of that. can you manufacture a mole right here? Yes, a very ugly mole. Right here, on the chin.[…]

2010 February 9, Eric Rentschler, Itoh's Ghost, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 54:

(heading) Emotionally negative.
Appearing sorrowful.

It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.

The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.

1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse:

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:

(heading) Emotionally negative.
Causing sorrow; lamentable.

That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.

Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please[…].

1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza CXXVII, page 182:

Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.

[…]this is either uſed crude, and called ſulphur vive, and is of a ſadder colour; or after depuration, ſuch as we have in magdeleons or rols of a lighter yellow.

1650, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of Sundry Other Common Tenents, Concerning Minerall and Terreous Bodies, Which Examined, Prove Either False or Dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 69:

sad-coloured clothes

1679, Izaak Walton, The Life of Bishop Robert Sanderson:

Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of many colours, especially all sad colours.

1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.


tag

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

(heading) Physical appendage.
A small label.

(heading) Physical appendage.
A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.

A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.

A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.

накрайник

stiffening at the end of a string, or lace

(biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.

merkkipeptidi

biochemistry: short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins

For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag

1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.

(music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.

припев

music: last line or lines of a song's chorus that is repeated

Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.

2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300:

(television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.

The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.

Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.

(Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away

(Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.

(Can we date this quote?), bart_...@hotmail.com, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

(informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").

The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.

The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.

(computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.

(computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

таг

computing: keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information

The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.

(chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).

rekisterikilpi

What’s your tag?

(heading) Identity.
(slang) A person's name.

(heading) Involving being tagged physically.

(uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.

The tag was applied at second for the final out.

(baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

polttaminen

baseball: instance of touching the baserunner with the ball to rule him "out"

There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.

2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124:

Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.


stack

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

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

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But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.

c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm:

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.

A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;

1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching the Reflexion, of Sounds.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 249, page 67:

(UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)

She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.

1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less:

“We said, 'Maybe we could come up with a couple of characters doing jokes,'” Correll recalled in 1972. “We had a whole stack of jokes we used to do in these home talent shows

2005, Elizabeth McLeod, The Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial, McFarland, →ISBN, page 26:

Going back to an earlier question, which I think is very important, this question of how you use skills. It is no good having a great stack of skills in a workplace if the employer does not utilise them properly

2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education and Skills Committee, Post-16 skills: ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence, The Stationery Office →ISBN, page 42

(heading) A pile.
An extensive collection

(programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).

When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:

(computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.

A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.

(networking) An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).

A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites.

2016, John Paul Mueller, AWS For Admins For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 323:

A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.

A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.

(heading) In architecture.
A vertical drainpipe.


sink

en-verb

sink (third-person singular simple present sinks, present participle sinking, simple past sank or (dialectal) sunk, past participle sunk or (archaic) sunken)

sinks (present singular third-person)
sinking (participle present)
sank (past)
sunk (dialectal past)
sunk (participle past)
sunken (archaic participle past)

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

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A stone sinks in water.  The sun gradually sank in the west.

(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.

(ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.

into the mind запа́сти в па́м’ять

have one's spirits sink занепа́сти ду́хом

An iceberg sank the Titanic.  British battleships sank the Bismarck.

(transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.

Before installing the new surfacing material, sink any protruding nails.

1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 11:

The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.  The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.

(transitive) To push (something) into something.

To move or be moved into something.
To push (something) into something.

to sink a well in the ground

(transitive) To make by digging or delving.

To move or be moved into something.
To make by digging or delving.

My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.

2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel:

(transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.

But open converse is there none,
So much the vital spirits sink
To see the vacant chair, and think,
‘How good! how kind! and he is gone.’

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 34:

I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

Peter's heart sank. "Don't you think it is dreadful?" he asked.

1915, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:

(heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.

(intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.

to sink one's reputation

And if I have a conscience, let it sink me

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power / Has sunk thy father more than all his years.

1700, Nicholas Rowe, The Ambitious Stepmother, act II, scene ii:

(transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.

Who would sink so low as to steal change from veterans?

2013 April 24, Steve Henschel, Niagara This Week:

(intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.


corner

→ German: Corner

→ Japanese: コーナー (kōnā)

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

nurkka

business: interest that is sufficient for price manipulation

The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.

(heading) Relating to the playing field.

(baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

There are runners on the corners with just one out.

Relating to the playing field.
First base or third base.

Relating to the playing field.
A corner kick.

Relating to the playing field.
A cornerback.

(boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.

(boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.


roller

→ Welsh: rholer

* From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er.
* (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.

Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.

A cylindrical (or approximately cylindrical) item used under a heavy object to facilitate moving it; usually several are needed.

A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.

(cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.

The deposit of color on the stone is transmitted to the metal by the lithographic roller the same as for paper.

1857, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 118:

A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.

An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.

One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.

(heading) Anything that rolls.
A roller towel.

The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.

1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:

A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.

A rolling element inside a roller bearing: a small cylinder or sphere of metal.

(cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.

Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.

A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.

A cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.

(heading) Anything that rolls.
A rolling pin

He threw a beautiful roller that cut the corner perfectly and stopped just outside the circle.

(disc golf) A throw which involves the player throwing the disc in a way that makes it roll, by that being able to travel further than if thrown in the air. Only used on holes with open areas with short or no grass.

A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).

Roller

roller pigeon that somersaults backwards at high speed

Orientalische Rollertaube (compare Tümmler m, Tümmlertaube m, Werfer m, Ostpreußischer Werfer m)

Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.


Bilali

en-adj

Bilali (comparative more Bilali, superlative most Bilali)

more Bilali (comparative)
most Bilali (superlative)

(heading) Of or relating to Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ, the first muezzin