curtsey

Etymology
Shortened from, 16th c.

Noun

 * 1) A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses the shin of one leg behind the calf of her other leg and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: pukrle, úklona
 * Danish: kniks, , nejning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, hnébeyging
 * Irish: umhlú
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish: dygnięcie
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кникс
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: pukrlík, úklon
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, knix
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1) To make a curtsey.
 * 2) * 1890, James Russell Lowell, Address in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
 * But DANTE was a great genius, and language curtseys to its natural Kings.
 * 1) * 1903, W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
 * He curtsied low, and then bowed almost to the ground, with an imperturbable gravity that seemed almost suspicious.
 * 1) * 1908, Caroline Crawford, Folk Dances and Games
 * The gentleman bows and the lady curtesys (measure eight).
 * 1) * 1903, W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
 * He curtsied low, and then bowed almost to the ground, with an imperturbable gravity that seemed almost suspicious.
 * 1) * 1908, Caroline Crawford, Folk Dances and Games
 * The gentleman bows and the lady curtesys (measure eight).

Translations

 * Bulgarian: правя реверанс
 * Danish: neje
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: faire la révérence,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hneigja sig
 * Italian: fare la riverenza, fare l'inchino
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: napraviti kniks
 * Spanish:, hacer una reverencia
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: reverans yapmak