girdle

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , from , equivalent to.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence , a doublet of girdle), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
 * 2) A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
 * 3) A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
 * 4) The zodiac; also, the equator.
 * 5) The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
 * 6)  A thin bed or stratum of stone.
 * 7) The clitellum of an earthworm.
 * 8) The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
 * 1) The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
 * 2)  A thin bed or stratum of stone.
 * 3) The clitellum of an earthworm.
 * 4) The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
 * 1)  A thin bed or stratum of stone.
 * 2) The clitellum of an earthworm.
 * 3) The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: окръжение
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: cincho
 * Georgian: გარშემოწერილობა
 * Greek:


 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: կամար
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 束腰
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: hofteholder, strømpeholder
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ; sukkanauhavyö
 * French:
 * Georgian: სარტყელი
 * German: Hüfthalter
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ζώνη, κεστός
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کەمەربەند
 * Latin: cingulum, cinctus, zōna, zōnula, balteus
 * Maori: tātua, tautiti, pihepihe, pongi
 * Navajo: sis
 * Ottoman Turkish: كمر
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Gort
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romagnol: pazénzia, pazenzia
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, по́яс для чуло́к
 * Sicilian: cinta, cursettu
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch: rondist
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Sicilian: cintu, cinta


 * Hebrew: (Biblical)

Verb

 * 1)  To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
 * 2)  To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
 * 1)  To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: opásat,, obkroužit
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Georgian: გარშემორტყმა, გარშემოხვევა
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: صارمق


 * Finnish: kaulata