hex

Etymology 1
First attested about 1830, from, from (compare ). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Verb

 * 1)  To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.

Translations

 * Belarusian: зачаро́ўваць, зачарава́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, začarovat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Faroese: rúna, ganda
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καταράομαι
 * Latin: exsecror, imprecor, dētestor
 * Persian: جادو کردن
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) An evil spell or curse.
 * 2) A witch.
 * 3)  A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forbandelse
 * Dutch:, , beheksing
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, Verhexung
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀρά, κατάρα
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: exsēcrātiō, imprecātiō
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Tocharian B: śāp
 * Turkish: ,


 * Arabic: ساحِرة,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: heks
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: veneficus, venefica
 * Norwegian: heks
 * Polish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * German:, Hexspruch

Etymology 2
Short for.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Greek:

Etymology 3
Short for.

Noun

 * 1) A hexagonal space on a game board.
 * 2)  a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.

Etymology 4
Short for.