gallows

Etymology 1
From, , plural of , , from , from , from , from ,. The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

For the pronunciation, compare ,.

Noun

 * 1) Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.
 * 2)  A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
 * 3)  The rest for the tympan when raised.
 * 4)  Suspenders; braces.
 * 5) Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
 * 6) * 1971, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (screenplay, third draft)
 * Lit by the moonlight through the window, he can see a FIGURE in the hospital bed alone in the room, and under a transparent oxygen tent. Tubes hang from a steel gallows beside the bed, and run to his nose and mouth.
 * 1) The main frame of a beam engine.
 * 1) * 1971, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (screenplay, third draft)
 * Lit by the moonlight through the window, he can see a FIGURE in the hospital bed alone in the room, and under a transparent oxygen tent. Tubes hang from a steel gallows beside the bed, and run to his nose and mouth.
 * 1) The main frame of a beam engine.

Translations

 * Arabic: مِشْنَقَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: مشنقة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: dar ağacı
 * Basque: urkamendi
 * Belarusian: шы́беніца
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 絞刑架
 * Mandarin:, 絞架,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: galge
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, pendigilo
 * Estonian: võllas
 * Faroese: gálgi
 * Finnish:, , hirttopaikka
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: სახრჩობელა
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Galge
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: croch
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: дар, дар ағашы
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Latin:, gabalus, patibulum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: kartuvės
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Galgen
 * Luxembourgish: Gaalgen
 * Macedonian: бесилка
 * Maori: pou tārore
 * Nogai: аскак
 * Norman: gibet
 * Norwegian: galge
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Gaulj
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шибеница, ве̏шала, вје̏шала
 * Roman: šibenica, ,
 * Slovak: šibenica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: чӯбаи дор,
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ши́бениця
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: giá treo cổ (架挑股), giá xử giảo (架處絞)
 * Vilamovian: guolgia
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: galge
 * Yiddish: תּליה
 * Zazaki: darağaci, darahenıki


 * Maori: tārawa