knot

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , ; (cognate with 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬); compare also 🇨🇬 > 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Probably ultimately from, compare 🇨🇬 and its Romance descendants. .
 * From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every $1/120$ of a mile.

Noun

 * 1) A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
 * 2)  A tangled clump.
 * 3) A maze-like pattern.
 * 4)  A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
 * 5) A difficult situation.
 * 6) The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
 * 7) Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
 * 8) A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
 * 9) A protuberant joint in a plant.
 * 10) Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
 * 11) The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family,.
 * 12) The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
 * 13)  A node
 * 14) A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
 * 15) A group of people or things.
 * 16) * 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
 * He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
 * 1) A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
 * 2)  A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
 * 3)  A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
 * 4)  A nautical mile.
 * 5)  The bulbus glandis.
 * 6)  In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
 * 7) * 2017, Taylor Boulware, "Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake", dissertation submitted to the University of Washington, page 155:
 * The pair cannot separate until the knot has subsided – anywhere from twenty minutes to hours, depending on the fic.
 * 1) * 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:
 * When John bites down on Sherlock's neck as his knot locks them together, the act which would otherwise be a tool for domination only reinforces the existing emotional bonds they have for each other.
 * 1) * 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
 * He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
 * 1) A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
 * 2)  A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
 * 3)  A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
 * 4)  A nautical mile.
 * 5)  The bulbus glandis.
 * 6)  In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
 * 7) * 2017, Taylor Boulware, "Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake", dissertation submitted to the University of Washington, page 155:
 * The pair cannot separate until the knot has subsided – anywhere from twenty minutes to hours, depending on the fic.
 * 1) * 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:
 * When John bites down on Sherlock's neck as his knot locks them together, the act which would otherwise be a tool for domination only reinforces the existing emotional bonds they have for each other.
 * 1)  A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
 * 2)  A nautical mile.
 * 3)  The bulbus glandis.
 * 4)  In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
 * 5) * 2017, Taylor Boulware, "Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake", dissertation submitted to the University of Washington, page 155:
 * The pair cannot separate until the knot has subsided – anywhere from twenty minutes to hours, depending on the fic.
 * 1) * 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:
 * When John bites down on Sherlock's neck as his knot locks them together, the act which would otherwise be a tool for domination only reinforces the existing emotional bonds they have for each other.
 * The pair cannot separate until the knot has subsided – anywhere from twenty minutes to hours, depending on the fic.
 * 1) * 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:
 * When John bites down on Sherlock's neck as his knot locks them together, the act which would otherwise be a tool for domination only reinforces the existing emotional bonds they have for each other.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аиқәҳәала
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عُقْدَة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: nod
 * Asturian: nuedu, ñuedu, nudu, ñudu
 * Avar: гарацӏ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: төйөн
 * Basque: lotu
 * Belarusian: ву́зел
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:, kouloum
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: шад
 * Chichewa: mfundo
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: kolm
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Elfdalian: knaut
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: sõlm
 * Faroese: knútur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: grop
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ნასკვი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἅμμα
 * Greenlandic: qilerneq
 * Haitian Creole: ne
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hnútur
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: шод
 * Interlingua: nodo
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: түйін
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گرێ
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປົມ, ເງື່ອນ
 * Latgalian: mozgys
 * Latin: nōdus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: mazgas
 * Lombard: nöd, nœud
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: јазол
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: għoqda
 * Maori: tīpona
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali:
 * Northern Sami: čuolbma
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: noset,
 * Old English: cnotta
 * Ossetian: ӕлхынцъ, сыхуыл
 * Ottoman Turkish: دوگوم
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਗੰਢ
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: nuf, nuv, nouv
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: nodu, nudu
 * Scottish Gaelic: snaidhm
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чвор
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: uzol
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: suk
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: buhol
 * Tajik: гиреҳ, тугун
 * Talysh:
 * Asalemi: انگل
 * Taos: cìʼíne
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: མདུད་པ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: düwün
 * Tuvan: доң, дүүшкүн, чүс
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: گرہ
 * Uyghur: تۈگۈن
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:, gropo
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: knoop
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: פּעקל
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu: ifindo


 * Czech: chomáč
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: კვანძი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: ગાંઠ
 * Hindi: ,
 * Icelandic: hnútur,
 * Italian:
 * Lombard: nœud
 * Macedonian: кло́пче
 * Mansaka: boko
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, of hair or fur on a living creature or person
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:, , клубо́к


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Macedonian: јазол, свиок
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sicilian: nturciniatu
 * Ukrainian:, за́круток


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: јазол
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чвор
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hårdknude
 * Dutch: de knoop, knoei(boel)
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Georgian: სიძნელე, დაბრკოლება
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: klípa
 * Italian:
 * Korean: ,
 * Norwegian: trøbbel
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: скру́та


 * Aleut: tahlidax̂
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: knast
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, oksankohta,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: cranra, dual, alt, fadharcán
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 나무옹이
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گرێ
 * Latin: nōdus
 * Latvian: māzers
 * Lithuanian: gumbas, antauga
 * Macedonian: колено
 * Maori: pūpeka, pūmanga, pūkanohi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠶᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: pluc
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чвор
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ตาไม้
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: сук
 * Welsh: cainc, cwgn


 * Czech:
 * Danish: bule, hævelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Lithuanian: gumbas
 * Macedonian: џумка, жмучка
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: flein
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: pluc
 * Sicilian: appurmuni
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian:


 * German:


 * Arabic: عُقْدَة
 * Basque: korapilo
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, knoto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: mazgas
 * Macedonian: јазол
 * Maori: noti
 * Norwegian: knop
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mìle-mara
 * Sicilian: nodu
 * Slovak: uzol
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: not

Verb

 * 1)  To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
 * 2)  To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
 * 3) To unite closely; to knit together.
 * 4)  To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
 * 5)  To form knots.
 * 6)  To knit knots for a fringe.
 * 1)  To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
 * 2)  To form knots.
 * 3)  To knit knots for a fringe.
 * 1)  To knit knots for a fringe.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:join
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:confuse
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:join
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:confuse

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Aromanian: nod, anod
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: zauzlovat
 * Danish: knytte
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: ingropâ
 * German:
 * Greek: δένω κόμπο
 * Icelandic: hnýta
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گرێدان
 * Latin: nōdō
 * Latvian: sasiet mezglā
 * Lithuanian: surišti mazgu
 * Macedonian: врзува
 * Maori: whakapōrohe
 * Northern Sami: čuolbmat
 * Norwegian: knyte
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: دوگوملمك
 * Portuguese: dar um nó, fazer um nó
 * Quechua: khipuy, iskiy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: завязывать/завязать узлом
 * Sardinian: annodare, annuai
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuir snaidhm air
 * Slovak: zauzliť
 * Slovene: vozlati, zavozlati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: funda
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: зав'язувати на вузол
 * Walloon: ,


 * Czech: svraštit
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: rypistää
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: се мурти
 * Norwegian: rynker bekymringsrynker
 * Portuguese:
 * Swahili: funda
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: мо́рщити


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: sammenbinde
 * Finnish:, solmeilla
 * Maori: whakapōrohe
 * Ukrainian: зв'я́зувати, зв'яза́ти

Etymology 2
Supposed to be derived from the name of, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.

Noun

 * 1) One of a variety of shore birds;  (variously  or ).

Translations

 * Bulgarian: исландски брегобегач
 * Catalan: territ gros
 * Czech:
 * Danish: islandsk ryle
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: íslandsgrælingur
 * Finnish: ; ,
 * German:, Knuttstrandläufer
 * Irish: cnota
 * Italian: piovanello maggiore
 * Maori: huahou
 * Norman: bécachinne dé grève
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: snipe, polarsnipe , sibirsnipe
 * Portuguese: seixoeira
 * Scottish Gaelic: luatharan-gainmhich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жалар
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: pobrežník, pobrežník hrdzavý
 * Spanish: correlimos,
 * Swedish:,  , kolymasnäppa
 * Ukrainian: побере́жник ісла́ндський, побере́жник черво́ний
 * Welsh: pibydd

Noun

 * 1) a candle wick

Etymology 1
From, , from ,.

Related to, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) A knot, bun (of hair), skein
 * 2) The top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
 * 3) A flax seed box
 * 4)  A marble to play with
 * 5) A prank, joke

Derived terms

 * (verb)
 * (verb)
 * (verb)
 * (verb)
 * (verb)
 * (verb)

Etymology 2
From the cognate English, possibly influenced by.

Noun

 * 1) The bird species  (syn. )

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) wick

Noun

 * 1) grumbling (complaining under one's breath)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) mole, talpid
 * 2)  idiot