bow

Etymology 1
From, from , , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun



 * 1)  A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
 * 2) A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
 * 3)  A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
 * 4) A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
 * 5)  A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
 * 6) Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
 * 7) The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
 * 8) Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
 * 9) Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
 * 10)  A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
 * 11)  Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddle tree.
 * 12) The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
 * 13) Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.
 * 1) The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
 * 2) Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.
 * 1) Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.

Translations

 * Maori: torowhiti

Verb

 * 1) To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
 * 2)  To become bent or curved.
 * 3)  To make something bend or curve.
 * 4)  To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
 * 5)  To humble or subdue, to make submit.
 * 1)  To make something bend or curve.
 * 2)  To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
 * 3)  To humble or subdue, to make submit.
 * 1)  To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
 * 2)  To humble or subdue, to make submit.
 * 1)  To humble or subdue, to make submit.
 * 1)  To humble or subdue, to make submit.

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
 * 2)  To debut.
 * 3) * 2010 (publication date), Kara Krekeler, "Rebuilding the opera house", West End Word, volume 39, number 26, December 22, 2010 – January 11, 2011, page 1:
 * SCP recently announced that How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical will bow on the newly renovated stage next December.
 * 1)  To defer (to something).
 * 2)  To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
 * 1) * 2010 (publication date), Kara Krekeler, "Rebuilding the opera house", West End Word, volume 39, number 26, December 22, 2010 – January 11, 2011, page 1:
 * SCP recently announced that How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical will bow on the newly renovated stage next December.
 * 1)  To defer (to something).
 * 2)  To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
 * 1)  To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.

Translations

 * Breton: (1)
 * Ido:
 * Korean: ,
 * Lithuanian: (1)

Noun

 * 1) A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
 * He made a polite bow as he entered the room.

Etymology 3
From, , a borrowing from and/or , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Noun



 * 1)  The front of a boat or ship.
 * 2)  The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
 * 1)  The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.

Usage notes

 * Often used in the plural, the ship being considered to have starboard and port bows, meeting at the stem.

Etymology 4
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Etymology 5
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Noun

 * 1)  ; any of several Chinese buns and breads

Derived terms
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Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) to build
 * 2)  to trust, to depend on

Noun

 * 1) woman
 * 2) wife