"ankh" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Anglais]

IPA: \æŋk\, \ɑːŋk\, \ɑŋk\, ɑŋk Audio: en-us-ankh.ogg Forms: ankhs [plural]
  1. Ankh.
    Sense id: fr-ankh-en-noun-2q5zumyv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ansate cross, crux ansata, Egyptian cross, key of life

Noun [Français]

IPA: \ɑ̃k\, \ɑ̃k\, ɑ̃k Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Mathsou-ankh.wav Forms: ankhs [plural], ânkh, anke
Rhymes: \ɑ̃k\
  1. Croix ansée, signe hiéroglyphique de la vie, signifiant en égyptien le verbe « vivre » ou le nom « vie ».
    Sense id: fr-ankh-fr-noun-Wkca-mhJ Categories (other): Exemples en français, Lexique en français de la mythologie égyptienne
  2. Caractère unicode U+2625, ☥. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: fr-ankh-fr-noun-WzCkiDNI Categories (other): Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: clé de vie, clé du Nil, croix ansée, croix égyptienne Translations: Anch (Allemand), ankh (Anglais), 生命之符 (shēngmìngzhīfú) (Chinois), anj [masculine] (Espagnol), ankh (Finnois), ankh (Italien), アンク (Japonais), crux ansata (Latin), ankh (Lituanien), ankh (Norvégien), ankh (Néerlandais), anch (Polonais), Ankh (Portugais), анх (Russe), ankh (Suédois)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "Hank"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kahn"
    },
    {
      "word": "Khan"
    },
    {
      "word": "khan"
    },
    {
      "word": "khân"
    },
    {
      "word": "nakh"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en français issus d’un mot en égyptien ancien",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots parfois masculins ou féminins en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rimes en français en \\ɑ̃k\\",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en allemand",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en chinois",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en espagnol",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en finnois",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en italien",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en japonais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en latin",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en lituanien",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en norvégien",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en néerlandais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en polonais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en portugais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en russe",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en suédois",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Français",
      "orig": "français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "De l’égyptien ancien 𓋹𓈖𓐍, ʽnḫ (« vie »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ankhs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ânkh"
    },
    {
      "form": "anke",
      "sense": "nom féminin"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "notes": [
    "La forme masculine semble légèrement prédominer."
  ],
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en français",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en français de la mythologie égyptienne",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              191,
              196
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Lawrence Durrell, Justine, traduit de l'anglais par Roger Giroux, Buchet-Chastel, 1959, réédition Le Livre de poche, 2000, page 219",
          "text": "Nessim contempla longuement son propre reflet dans le miroir, sans la moindre complaisance. Puis il poussa un soupir et tira de la poche de sa robe de chambre une petite clef d'or, en forme d'ankh."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              387,
              391
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Olivier Rolin, Méroé, Éditions du Seuil, 1998, réédition Points, 1999, page 176",
          "text": "Mais regardez comme c’est étrange, étrangement parfait : à l’origine du chemin qui allait me mener au Soudan, il y eut les parures d’or d’une reine de Méroé, pillées par un Italien et fourguées par lui au roi de Prusse. Ensuite, je m’en suis éloigné, et voici qu’à présent, par le hasard d’une découverte, ma route va se terminer là où elle avait commencé. J’aurai accompli le dessin du ankh, cette sorte de boucle, ou de nœud, qui est la clé de vie égyptienne. La clef de vie, il y a de quoi rire…"
        }
      ],
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        "Croix ansée, signe hiéroglyphique de la vie, signifiant en égyptien le verbe « vivre » ou le nom « vie »."
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
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          "name": "Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en français",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Caractère unicode U+2625, ☥."
      ],
      "id": "fr-ankh-fr-noun-WzCkiDNI",
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɑ̃k\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɑ̃k\\",
      "rhymes": "\\ɑ̃k\\"
    },
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      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Mathsou-ankh.wav",
      "ipa": "ɑ̃k",
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      ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "clé de vie"
    },
    {
      "word": "clé du Nil"
    },
    {
      "word": "croix ansée"
    },
    {
      "word": "croix égyptienne"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "feminine",
    "masculine"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Anch"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Chinois",
      "lang_code": "zh",
      "roman": "shēngmìngzhīfú",
      "word": "生命之符"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espagnol",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anj"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnois",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italien",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Japonais",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "word": "アンク"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "word": "crux ansata"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Lituanien",
      "lang_code": "lt",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Norvégien",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Polonais",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "word": "anch"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "Ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russe",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "word": "анх"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Suédois",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "word": "ankh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ankh"
}

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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "De l’égyptien ancien anx-n:x ʽnḫ (« vie »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ankhs",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɑːŋks\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Ankh."
      ],
      "id": "fr-ankh-en-noun-2q5zumyv"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\æŋk\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(Royaume-Uni)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɑːŋk\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(Royaume-Uni)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɑŋk\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(États-Unis)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-ankh.ogg",
      "ipa": "ɑŋk",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-us-ankh.ogg/En-us-ankh.ogg.mp3",
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      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ansate cross"
    },
    {
      "word": "crux ansata"
    },
    {
      "word": "Egyptian cross"
    },
    {
      "word": "key of life"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ankh"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "De l’égyptien ancien anx-n:x ʽnḫ (« vie »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ankhs",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɑːŋks\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Ankh."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\æŋk\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(Royaume-Uni)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɑːŋk\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(Royaume-Uni)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɑŋk\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(États-Unis)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-ankh.ogg",
      "ipa": "ɑŋk",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-us-ankh.ogg/En-us-ankh.ogg.mp3",
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      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "ansate cross"
    },
    {
      "word": "crux ansata"
    },
    {
      "word": "Egyptian cross"
    },
    {
      "word": "key of life"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ankh"
}

{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "Hank"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kahn"
    },
    {
      "word": "Khan"
    },
    {
      "word": "khan"
    },
    {
      "word": "khân"
    },
    {
      "word": "nakh"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en français",
    "Mots en français issus d’un mot en égyptien ancien",
    "Mots parfois masculins ou féminins en français",
    "Noms communs en français",
    "Rimes en français en \\ɑ̃k\\",
    "Traductions en allemand",
    "Traductions en anglais",
    "Traductions en chinois",
    "Traductions en espagnol",
    "Traductions en finnois",
    "Traductions en italien",
    "Traductions en japonais",
    "Traductions en latin",
    "Traductions en lituanien",
    "Traductions en norvégien",
    "Traductions en néerlandais",
    "Traductions en polonais",
    "Traductions en portugais",
    "Traductions en russe",
    "Traductions en suédois",
    "français"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "De l’égyptien ancien 𓋹𓈖𓐍, ʽnḫ (« vie »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ankhs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ânkh"
    },
    {
      "form": "anke",
      "sense": "nom féminin"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "notes": [
    "La forme masculine semble légèrement prédominer."
  ],
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français",
        "Lexique en français de la mythologie égyptienne"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              191,
              196
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Lawrence Durrell, Justine, traduit de l'anglais par Roger Giroux, Buchet-Chastel, 1959, réédition Le Livre de poche, 2000, page 219",
          "text": "Nessim contempla longuement son propre reflet dans le miroir, sans la moindre complaisance. Puis il poussa un soupir et tira de la poche de sa robe de chambre une petite clef d'or, en forme d'ankh."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              387,
              391
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Olivier Rolin, Méroé, Éditions du Seuil, 1998, réédition Points, 1999, page 176",
          "text": "Mais regardez comme c’est étrange, étrangement parfait : à l’origine du chemin qui allait me mener au Soudan, il y eut les parures d’or d’une reine de Méroé, pillées par un Italien et fourguées par lui au roi de Prusse. Ensuite, je m’en suis éloigné, et voici qu’à présent, par le hasard d’une découverte, ma route va se terminer là où elle avait commencé. J’aurai accompli le dessin du ankh, cette sorte de boucle, ou de nœud, qui est la clé de vie égyptienne. La clef de vie, il y a de quoi rire…"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Croix ansée, signe hiéroglyphique de la vie, signifiant en égyptien le verbe « vivre » ou le nom « vie »."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Mythologie égyptienne"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en français"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Caractère unicode U+2625, ☥."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɑ̃k\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɑ̃k\\",
      "rhymes": "\\ɑ̃k\\"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Mathsou-ankh.wav",
      "ipa": "ɑ̃k",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ae/LL-Q150_(fra)-Mathsou-ankh.wav/LL-Q150_(fra)-Mathsou-ankh.wav.mp3",
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        "Reims (France)"
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "clé de vie"
    },
    {
      "word": "clé du Nil"
    },
    {
      "word": "croix ansée"
    },
    {
      "word": "croix égyptienne"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "feminine",
    "masculine"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Anch"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Chinois",
      "lang_code": "zh",
      "roman": "shēngmìngzhīfú",
      "word": "生命之符"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espagnol",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anj"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnois",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italien",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Japonais",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "word": "アンク"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "word": "crux ansata"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Lituanien",
      "lang_code": "lt",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Norvégien",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "word": "ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Polonais",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "word": "anch"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "Ankh"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russe",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "word": "анх"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Suédois",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "word": "ankh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ankh"
}

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