hand

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from.

See also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Perhaps compare Old Swedish, 🇨🇬; and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
 * 2) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
 * 3) A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
 * 4) An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
 * 5) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
 * 6)   The set of cards held by a player.
 * 7) A round of a card game.
 * 8)  A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
 * 9)   A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
 * 10)  In linear measurement:
 * 11)  Four inches, a hand's breadth.
 * 12)  Three inches.
 * 13) A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
 * 14) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
 * 15)  An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
 * 16) A performer more or less skilful.
 * 17) An instance of helping.
 * 18) ; style of penmanship.
 * 19) A person's autograph or signature.
 * 20) Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
 * 21) * Montague Summers (editor), The Works of Aphra Behn, volume V, page 132:
 * They once made Mourning and Fasting for the Death of the English Governor, who had given his Hand to come on such a Day to 'em, and neither came nor sent; believing, when a Man's Word was past, nothing but Death could or should prevent his keeping it: And when they saw he was not dead, they ask'd him what Name they had for a Man who promis'd a Thing he did not do?
 * 1) Personal possession; ownership.
 * 2)  Management, domain, control.
 * 3)  A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
 * 4) Applause.
 * 5)  A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
 * 6)  The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
 * 7) A whole rhizome of ginger.
 * 8) The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
 * 9)  Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
 * 10)  Agency in transmission from one person to another.
 * 11)  Rate; price.
 * 1) ; style of penmanship.
 * 2) A person's autograph or signature.
 * 3) Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
 * 4) * Montague Summers (editor), The Works of Aphra Behn, volume V, page 132:
 * They once made Mourning and Fasting for the Death of the English Governor, who had given his Hand to come on such a Day to 'em, and neither came nor sent; believing, when a Man's Word was past, nothing but Death could or should prevent his keeping it: And when they saw he was not dead, they ask'd him what Name they had for a Man who promis'd a Thing he did not do?
 * 1) Personal possession; ownership.
 * 2)  Management, domain, control.
 * 3)  A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
 * 4) Applause.
 * 5)  A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
 * 6)  The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
 * 7) A whole rhizome of ginger.
 * 8) The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
 * 9)  Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
 * 10)  Agency in transmission from one person to another.
 * 11)  Rate; price.
 * They once made Mourning and Fasting for the Death of the English Governor, who had given his Hand to come on such a Day to 'em, and neither came nor sent; believing, when a Man's Word was past, nothing but Death could or should prevent his keeping it: And when they saw he was not dead, they ask'd him what Name they had for a Man who promis'd a Thing he did not do?
 * 1) Personal possession; ownership.
 * 2)  Management, domain, control.
 * 3)  A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
 * 4) Applause.
 * 5)  A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
 * 6)  The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
 * 7) A whole rhizome of ginger.
 * 8) The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
 * 9)  Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
 * 10)  Agency in transmission from one person to another.
 * 11)  Rate; price.
 * 1)  A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
 * 2)  The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
 * 3) A whole rhizome of ginger.
 * 4) The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
 * 5)  Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
 * 6)  Agency in transmission from one person to another.
 * 7)  Rate; price.
 * 1) The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
 * 2)  Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
 * 3)  Agency in transmission from one person to another.
 * 4)  Rate; price.
 * 1)  Agency in transmission from one person to another.
 * 2)  Rate; price.
 * 1)  Rate; price.
 * 1)  Rate; price.

Usage notes
Hand is used figuratively for a large variety of acts or things, in the doing, or making, or use of which the hand is in some way employed or concerned; also, as a symbol to denote various qualities or conditions, as,
 * (a) Activity; operation; work; — in distinction from the head, which implies thought, and the heart, which implies affection.
 * His hand will be against every man. — Genesis 16:12
 * (b) Power; might; supremacy; — often in the Scriptures.
 * With a mighty hand . . . will I rule over you. — Ezekiel 20:33.
 * (c) Fraternal feeling; for example to give, or take, the hand; to give the right hand
 * (d) Contract; — commonly of marriage; for example to ask the hand; to pledge the hand

Etymology 2
From, , from the noun (see above); and also from (> 🇨🇬), from , , from , from , from the noun (see above). Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, (in derivatives), 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
 * 2)  To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
 * 3)  To manage.
 * 4)  To seize; to lay hands on.
 * 5)  To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
 * 6)  To furl (a sail).
 * 7)  To cooperate.
 * 1)  To seize; to lay hands on.
 * 2)  To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
 * 3)  To furl (a sail).
 * 4)  To cooperate.
 * 1)  To furl (a sail).
 * 2)  To cooperate.
 * 1)  To cooperate.
 * 1)  To cooperate.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:  afgee (hand away)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cebuano: hatag
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎥᏏ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: enmanigi,
 * Faroese: handa
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὀρέγω
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: donar, passar
 * Italian:, ,
 * Norwegian: overrekke,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, , räcka över
 * Vietnamese:


 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: ;
 * German:
 * Indonesian:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: käydä käsiksi, ottaa haltuun


 * Guaraní:
 * Tupinambá:

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A.

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A  of a human, other simian or other animal with fingers.

Etymology
. Compare from.

Noun

 * 1) the sport handball

Etymology
From and, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from

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Noun

 * 1)  A.

Etymology
From, from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * (in some dialects)
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Noun

 * 1)  A.

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A.

Descendants

 * Westphalian:
 * Westmünsterländisch:
 * Lippisch:
 * Ravensbergisch:
 * Lippisch:
 * Ravensbergisch:

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A hand
 * 2) A direction
 * 3) A behalf
 * 4) A sort, kind.

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A.
 * 2)  A ; the set of cards held by a player.
 * 1)  A ; the set of cards held by a player.

Declension
The definite plural händren is archaic.

Synonyms

 * (colloquial)