flake

Etymology 1
From, from and/or  (compare 🇨🇬), from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and, as well as with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
 * 2) A scale of a fish or similar animal
 * 3)  A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
 * 4)  A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
 * 5) A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
 * 6) A flat turn or tier of rope.
 * 7)  A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
 * 8) A wire rack for drying fish.
 * 1) A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
 * 2) A flat turn or tier of rope.
 * 3)  A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
 * 4) A wire rack for drying fish.
 * 1)  A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
 * 2) A wire rack for drying fish.
 * 1)  A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
 * 2) A wire rack for drying fish.
 * 1) A wire rack for drying fish.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: bie
 * Azerbaijani: lopa
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: helbe, lible
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: floco
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: hiutale
 * Irish: cáithnín
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 플레이크
 * Latin: floccus
 * Maori:, kapu
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: یپراق
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: па̀хуља
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, hojuela, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: manipis na piraso
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Yiddish: שופּ


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pāra
 * Occitan:, esclapa
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: mảnh tước


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Italian: tirapacchi
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, proteo, inservible

Verb

 * 1) To break or chip off in a flake.
 * 2)  To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
 * 3)  To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
 * 4)  To hit (another person).
 * 5)  To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
 * 6) To lay out on a flake for drying.
 * 1)  To hit (another person).
 * 2)  To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
 * 3) To lay out on a flake for drying.
 * 1) To lay out on a flake for drying.
 * 1) To lay out on a flake for drying.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: лющя се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: loupat se
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: rehu
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Dutch: niet komen, (iemand) laten stikken
 * French: (quelqu'un)
 * Italian: tirare il pacco
 * Portuguese:

Etymology 2
A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.

Noun

 * 1)  Dogfish.
 * 2)  The meat of the gummy shark.

Etymology 3
Compare, , ,.

Noun

 * 1)  A paling; a hurdle.
 * 2) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
 * 3)  A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
 * 1)  A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.