boast

Etymology 1
From, from , probably of  origin, ultimately from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 (from 🇨🇬). Related to 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also dialectal 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
 * 2) Something that one brags about.
 * 3)  A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
 * 1)  A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, gopçuluq, öyüngənlik, öyünmə
 * Belarusian: хвальба́, самахва́льства
 * Bikol Central:, ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: samochvála
 * Danish: pral
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fanfaronaĵo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: chufa
 * German: Angeben, Prahlen
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καύχημα, κόμπος
 * Hebrew: התרברבות, התפארות
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: mont, gort, sjálfshól
 * Irish: braig
 * Italian: vanteria, guasconeria,
 * Japanese: 自慢する
 * Khmer:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: фалење
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠢᠢᠷᠬᠠᠬᠤ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skryt
 * Old English: ġielp
 * Persian: خودستایی, ,
 * Piedmontese: vant
 * Polish: przechwałki,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: anchaykachay
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: chvastanie
 * Slovene: hvalisanje, bahanje
 * Spanish:, , fanfarronada, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, iftihar etme,
 * Ukrainian: хва́стощі, хвастовство́, похваля́ння,, ви́хвалка, самохва́льство
 * Vietnamese:


 * French: double-mur


 * Ewe: aɖegbeƒoƒo

Verb

 * 1)  To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
 * 2)  (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
 * 3)  To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
 * 4)  To play a boast shot.
 * 5)  To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
 * 1)  To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
 * 2)  To play a boast shot.
 * 3)  To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
 * 1)  To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تَبَاهَى
 * Armenian:, գլուխ գովալ
 * Azerbaijani:, lovğalanmaq, maxtanmaq
 * Belarusian: хвалі́цца, пахваля́цца, выхваля́цца, хіста́цца
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:, , ,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cebuano: hambug
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: chlubit, vychloubat se,
 * Danish: prale
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fieri, fanfaroni
 * Estonian: praalima, hooplema, kiitlema
 * Ewe: ƒo aɖegbe
 * Finnish:,  , , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: chufar, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: καυχάομαι, κομπάζω, μεγαληγορέω
 * Hebrew: התרברב, הִתְפָּאֵר
 * Hindi: डींग मारना
 * Hungarian:, , , , , ,
 * Ingrian: kiissellä
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: ar·báigi
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:, , ,
 * Korean:, , 뽐내다
 * Lao: ເວົ້າອາດ, ຄຸຍໂມ້, ຄຸຍໂຕ
 * Latin: glorior
 * Latvian: lielīties, dižoties, plātīties
 * Lithuanian: didžiuotis
 * Macedonian: се фали
 * Malayalam: വീമ്പടിക്കുക
 * Maori: whakamānunu, whakatāwāhi, tamarahi, whakanuka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skryte
 * Occitan: se bragar, se vantar, se conflejar
 * Old English: ġielpan
 * Ottoman Turkish: قبارمق, صاتمق
 * Polish: przechwalać s,, ,
 * Portuguese:, exibir-se,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хвалити
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: chvastať, vychvaľovať, pýšiť, vystatovať, vyťahovať, chváliť
 * Slovene:, bahati
 * Spanish:, , , , ,  , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, คุยโว, โอ้อวด
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Tày: ảng
 * Ukrainian: хизува́тися, хвали́тися, хва́статися
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Welsh: ,


 * Catalan: ,
 * French: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: glōriō, vānitō
 * Portuguese: gabar-se, vangloriar-se, jactar-se,
 * Spanish:, , fardar de,


 * Spanish: contar con

Verb

 * 1)  To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
 * 2)  To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.