coward

Etymology
From, from , ( > 🇨🇬), from , coe + ; , coe is in turn from. The reference seems to be to an animal “turning tail”, or having its tail between its legs, especially a dog. Compare the expression. Unrelated to. Displaced native (surviving in northern dialect ).

Noun

 * 1) A person who lacks courage.
 * 2) * 1856:, , Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
 * He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
 * He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Afrikaans: lafaard, papbroek
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡурҡаҡ
 * Basque: koldar
 * Belarusian: баязлі́вец, баязлі́ўка, палахлі́вец, палахлі́ўка
 * Bulgarian:, страхли́вка
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: talawan
 * Chakma: 𑄛𑄘𑄢
 * Chamicuro: s̈hamle'c̈homa
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Chukchi: айыԓгыԓьын
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Czech:, zbabělkyně, ,
 * Danish: bangebuks, kujon, kryster
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Erzya: тандаль
 * Esperanto: malkuraĝulo, timemulo, timulo, poltrono
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: bloyta, ræðuskítur, rædduskítur, bløka, ónytta
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , , , ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: მშიშარა, მხდალი, ლაჩარი, ჯაბანი, ქვეშაჯვია
 * German:, ,  , ,  ,
 * Greek:, , , , ,
 * Ancient: δειλός, δειλή
 * Haitian Creole: kapon
 * Hebrew:, פחדנית,
 * Hindi:, , बुज़दिल,
 * Hungarian: gyáva (alak)
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Ilocano: natakrot
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cladhaire
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Ivatan: matahaw
 * Japanese:, 怖がり, 怖がり屋, 腰抜け, , 卑怯者
 * Kapampangan: bayugin, galgawu, mataloti
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: អ្នកកំសាក,
 * Korean:, 비겁자(卑怯者), 겁꾸러기, 겁보, 겁부(怯夫)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , , , ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຄົນຕາຂາວ, ຄົນຂີ້ຢ້ານ
 * Latvian: gļēvulis, gļēvule
 * Lithuanian: bailys
 * Luxembourgish: Feigling
 * Macedonian: кука́вица, страшливец
 * Malagasy: fananga
 * Malay: pengecut
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: aggleydagh
 * Maori: tautauhea, tautauwhea, tautauā, whiore hume, hukehuke, hamo pango, poromataku
 * Maranao: talaw
 * Middle English: coward
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: аймхай хүн, хулчгар хүн
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, reddhare
 * Nynorsk: feiging, reddhare
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: earg
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Schietstremp
 * Polish:, strachajło, bojaźliwiec
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cladhaire, gealtaire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ку̏кавица
 * Roman:
 * Shan: ၵူၼ်းၶီႈယၢၼ်ႈ
 * Shor: қортуқ
 * Slovak: zbabelec, zbabelkyňa, bojazlivec, ustrašenec
 * Slovene:, strahopetnica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: тарсу,, номард, буздил
 * Tatar: куркак
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: คนขี้ขลาด,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, , страхополо́х
 * Uyghur: قورقۇنچاق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:,  hidredöfan,  jidredöfan,  dredajiedan,  dredahijiedan,  dredajijiedan
 * Welsh: cachadur,, cachwr, llwfrgi, llyfrgi, cilgi
 * West Frisian: fiich, leffert
 * Yiddish: פּחדן, פּחדנטע, טרוס

Adjective



 * 1) Cowardly.
 * 2) * c. 1605,, , Act II, Scene 4,
 * He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
 * 1)  Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
 * 1)  Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
 * 1)  Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.

Verb

 * 1)  To intimidate.

Etymology 1

 * equivalent to . Compare.

Noun

 * , knave
 * 1)  idiot, simpleton

Adjective

 * 1) cowardly
 * 2)  stupid