bowstring

Noun

 * 1) The string of an archer's bow.
 * 2)  The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: kiriş
 * Belarusian: цеціва́
 * Bulgarian: тетива́
 * Burmese:
 * Cahuilla: 'alxawill
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 弓弦, 弦
 * Dungan: гунщян
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: buestreng
 * Dutch: boogpees, boogstreng
 * Estonian: vibunöör
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:, ლამბი
 * German: Bogensehne
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νευρά
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bogastrengur
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 弓弦,
 * Kazakh: адырна
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: 궁현(弓弦), 활줄, 활시위
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ژێ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: жаанын жиби
 * Lao:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: templė
 * Lü: ᦉᦻᦂᦳᧂ
 * Macedonian: тетива
 * Malayalam:, വിൽഞാൺ
 * Marathi: प्रत्यंचा
 * Middle Persian: 𐭦𐭩𐭧
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠪᠴᠢ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: buestreng
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: тѧтива
 * Old English: bogan strenġ
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Boageseid
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: corda de arco
 * Romagnol: cörda
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тѐтива
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Slovak: tetiva
 * Slovene: tetiva
 * Southern Altai: кириш
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: bågsträng
 * Tajik: зеҳ
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: wäntalyi
 * Turkish:, yay kiriş
 * Turkmen: kiriş
 * Tuvan: кириш
 * Ukrainian: тятива́
 * Uzbek: kamalak ipi
 * Vietnamese: dây cung
 * Yiddish:

Verb

 * 1)  To strangle with a bowstring.
 * 2) * 1909, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), A Municipal Report
 * I have seen (on one of my imaginary tours) the Sultan of Turkey bowstring with his own hands one of his wives who had uncovered her face in public.
 * I have seen (on one of my imaginary tours) the Sultan of Turkey bowstring with his own hands one of his wives who had uncovered her face in public.