cushion

Etymology
From, from later (modern ), from , derived from  (with the suffix possibly after ), ultimately from.

Noun



 * 1) A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
 * 2)  A throw pillow.
 * 3) A thin, flat pad used on hard chairs and sometimes toilet seats.
 * 4) Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
 * 5) A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
 * 6) A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
 * 7)   The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
 * 8) The pillow used in making bone lace.
 * 9) An engraver's pad.
 * 10)  The rubber of an electrical machine.
 * 11)  A pad supporting a woman's hair.
 * 12)  a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
 * 13)  Money kept in reserve.
 * 14)  The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
 * 1)  Money kept in reserve.
 * 2)  The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
 * 1)  Money kept in reserve.
 * 2)  The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
 * 1)  The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
 * 1)  The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, kultër,
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:, , , نُمْرُقَة, نِمْرِقَة, نَمْرَقَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: مسند, مخدة
 * Aragonese: coxín
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: coxín
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: мендәр
 * Belarusian: паду́шка
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 墊子, 箍臣, 咕順
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Coptic: ϣϣⲟⲧ
 * Crimean Tatar: minder
 * Czech: polštářek,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: sohvapadi
 * Faroese: koddi, púta
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: cussin
 * Galician: coxín, chumazo, troxo,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τύλη, κνέφαλλον, στοιβή
 * Gujarati:
 * Hausa: kushin
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: púði
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: kushọn
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: aluspoduška
 * Interlingua: cossino, cossinetto
 * Irish: adhartán, cúisín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: көпшік, жастық
 * Khmer:, ខ្នល់ខ្នើយ, ខ្នើយកែប
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ,
 * Latin: cervīcal, culcita, pulvīnus, cubital
 * Latvian: spilvens
 * Lithuanian: pagalvė
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: пе́рниче
 * Malay: kusyen
 * Maori: kuihana
 * Middle English: quysshyn, pilwe
 * Mirandese:
 * Norman: couossi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English:
 * Ottoman Turkish: یاصدق, بالش
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: pillean
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ја̀стук
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: barkin
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:, такъя, болиш
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: tsummet, tsunta
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གདན་སྒོར, འབོལ་གདན
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýassyk
 * Ukrainian: поду́шка
 * Urdu: تَکْیَہ, تَکِیَہ, بالِش, مَسْنَد
 * Uyghur: ياستۇق
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קישן


 * Bulgarian: бу́фер
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: stuáil, pillín
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بالیف
 * Macedonian: по́длога, ле́гло
 * Maori: aupuru
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, amortiguante
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Armenian: բիլիարդի սեղանի եզր
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: cúisín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Breton:
 * Esperanto:
 * Indonesian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu:
 * Volapük: ,

Verb

 * 1) To furnish with cushions.
 * to cushion a sofa
 * 1) To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
 * 2) To absorb or deaden the impact of.
 * to cushion a blow
 * 1) * 1903, Edward Porritt, "Poynings' Law", The Unreformed House of Commons Vol.II p.429 (CUP):
 * the development of popular interest in Parliament made it less possible for the Privy Council in Dublin to cushion a bill which the Commons had presented to the Lord Lieutenant
 * 1) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
 * 1) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: vypoltářovat
 * Danish: polstre
 * Esperanto: amortizi
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: обжити, убла́жити
 * Roman: obžiti,
 * Slovene: oblaziniti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ztlumit, zmírnit
 * Danish: afbøde
 * Esperanto: dampi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: убла́жува
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: смягча́ть уда́р
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: убла́жити
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: (udarec)
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Breton:
 * Interlingua:
 * Volapük: