flail

Etymology
From, from earlier , , , from , , from , of uncertain origin. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Possibly a native Germanic word from, from , , from ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 +. If so, related also to, ,.

Alternatively, may be an early borrowing of, diminutive of , from , ; compare 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (locally pronounced "flai"), 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
 * 2) A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
 * 1) A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
 * 1) A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
 * 1) A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
 * 1) A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
 * 1) A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.

Translations

 * Belarusian: цэп
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: цеп
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: frazial
 * Danish: plejl
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: draŝilo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , , manle
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: raaka
 * Irish: súiste
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 唐棹
 * Komi-Zyrian: вартан
 * Latin: pertica trituaria
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: чу́кало, вршилка
 * Maori: karawhiu
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: сапондо
 * Western Mari: сепанды
 * Middle English: fleyl
 * Ottoman Turkish: دوگن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: squassuir, flagè
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: це̑п, мла̑т
 * Roman: cȇp,
 * Slovak: cep
 * Slovene: cepec
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: cepy
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tiyuka
 * Tarifit: azduz
 * Udmurt: кутэс
 * Ukrainian:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ffust


 * Azerbaijani: əmud
 * Breton: freilh-brezel
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kampplejl, stridsplejl
 * Dutch: strijdvlegel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Streitflegel, Kriegsflegel
 * Hungarian: láncos buzogány
 * Irish: súiste
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フレイル, 連接棍, 連接棍棒
 * Latin: tritorium bellicum
 * Macedonian: млат, чу́кало
 * Persian: سالیخ
 * Polish: cep bojowy,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мла̀тило, мла̑т
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: remdik, řemdih
 * Slovene: mlat
 * Spanish: mayal de armas
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tarifit: azduz
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: dyrnflaidd


 * Hebrew:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To beat using a flail or similar implement.
 * 2)  To wave or swing vigorously
 * 3)  To thresh.
 * 4)  To move like a flail.
 * 1)  To thresh.
 * 2)  To move like a flail.
 * 1)  To move like a flail.

Translations

 * Maori: tuangau


 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, viuhtoa,
 * French:
 * German: wild um sich schlagen
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: размахи́вати, млата̀рати
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: вършея ръчно
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: врши, мла́ти
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мла́тити
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: