crescent

English




Etymology
From, from and  (French ), from , present active participle of , from. See Old Armenian and, Ancient Greek  and , Latin  and. .

The pronunciation with is a comparatively recent innovation due to the influence of words such as  and.

Noun

 * 1) The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
 * 2) Something shaped like a crescent, especially:
 * 3) A curved pastry.
 * 4) A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
 * 5)  A representation of a crescent, used as a symbol of Islam.
 * 6)  The emblem of the waxing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
 * 7)  A crescent spanner.
 * 8)  Any of three orders of knighthood conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
 * 9) A crescentspot butterfly.
 * 1) A crescentspot butterfly.
 * 1) A crescentspot butterfly.

Translations

 * Arabic: هِلَال
 * Egyptian Arabic: هلال
 * Armenian:
 * Avestan: 𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬁𐬵
 * Azerbaijani: aypara, hilal
 * Belarusian: паўме́сяц
 * Bulgarian: полуме́сец
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: halvmåne
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: kuusirp
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μηνίσκος
 * Hebrew:, חֲצִי סַהַר
 * Hindi: अर्धचंद्र
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: жарты ай, айшық
 * Korean: 초승달
 * Latin: semiluna
 * Latvian: pusmēness
 * Lithuanian: pusmėnulis
 * Macedonian: полумесечина
 * Malay: bulan sabit
 * Middle English: cressaunt
 * Navajo: dah yiitʼą́
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: halvmåne
 * Ottoman Turkish: هلال
 * Persian:, اندرماه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̏лумесе̄ц, по̏лумјесе̄ц
 * Roman: pȍlumesēc,
 * Slovak: polmesiac
 * Slovene: polmesec
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: hilali
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gasuklay
 * Tajik: ҳилол
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: півмі́сяць
 * Urdu: ہلال
 * Uzbek: yarim oy,
 * Welsh: cilgant


 * Bulgarian: кроасан
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, sikkelvormige rij huizen
 * Finnish:, ;
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: кифла
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: ròščić,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Ottoman Turkish: هلال
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: makaava kuu
 * Middle English: cressaunt

Adjective

 * 1)  marked by an increase; waxing, like the Moon.
 * 2) Shaped like a crescent.
 * 1) Shaped like a crescent.
 * 1) Shaped like a crescent.
 * 1) Shaped like a crescent.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: vzrůstající
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Tagalog: gasuklay


 * Bulgarian: сърповиден
 * Finnish: sirpinmuotoinen
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To form a crescent shape
 * 2)  To decorate with crescents.
 * 1)  To decorate with crescents.