discus

Etymology
1656. From, from. .

Noun

 * 1) A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
 * 2)  The athletics event of discus throw.
 * 3)  A discus fish (genus )
 * 4)  A chakram.
 * 1)  A discus fish (genus )
 * 2)  A chakram.
 * 1)  A discus fish (genus )
 * 2)  A chakram.
 * 1)  A chakram.

Usage notes

 * Although an alternative Latinate plural is often cited, it is hardly ever used in practice.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قُرْص
 * Basque: disko
 * Belarusian: дыск
 * Bengali:, ডিস্ক
 * Bulgarian: диск
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: diskos
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: disko
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: klingra
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დისკი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: δίσκος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , डिस्क
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ຈັກ
 * Latin: discus
 * Latvian: disks
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: диск
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: diskos
 * Nynorsk: diskos
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: диск
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: disk
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, ดิสก์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ڈسکس
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:


 * Bulgarian: мята́не на диск
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: lanzamento de disco
 * German:
 * Hebrew: הטלת דיסקוס
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: diskoskast
 * Nynorsk: diskoskast
 * Portuguese: arremesso de disco
 * Russian: мета́ние ди́ска
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: diskudijedam

Etymology
Borrowed from, from. First attested in the eighteenth century.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * a, quoit
 * 1) a dish shaped like a discus
 * 2) disc of a sundial
 * 3) a plate
 * 4)  table, a piece of furniture with a flat surface to eat from or write upon