lens

Etymology
Borrowed from, with later taking on the sense of “lens”, a.

Noun

 * 1) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
 * 2) A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
 * 3)  A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
 * 4)  A genus of the legume family; its bean.
 * 5)  The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
 * 6)  A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
 * 7)  A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
 * 8)  A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
 * 1)  A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
 * 2)  A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.

Translations

 * Albanian: lente
 * Arabic: عَدَسَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: leiar
 * Belarusian: лі́нза, аб'екты́ў
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: lääts
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ლინზა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: lionsa
 * Italian: lentille,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: линза
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: линза
 * Lao: ,
 * Latvian: lēca
 * Lithuanian: lęšis
 * Macedonian: ле́ќа, објектив
 * Malay:, lensa
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: linse,
 * Nynorsk: linse, objektiv
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Brellenglauss
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: со̏чӣво, објѐктӣв
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: šošovka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: lensi
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: paningob, lente
 * Tajik: линза
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: linza
 * Ukrainian: лі́нза, об'єкти́в, сочка
 * Urdu: مَنْظُور, عَدْسَہ
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: lente, lenta, lent
 * Vietnamese:


 * Basque: leiar
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: poikkeutuskela
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Latvian: lēca
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Ukrainian: со́чка


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Russian:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ოსპი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Khmer: មសូរ
 * Latvian: lēcas
 * Macedonian: леќа
 * Norwegian: linse
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: عَدَسَة اَلْعَيْن
 * Bulgarian: кристалин
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, kristallens
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ლინზა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: hawêne
 * Latvian: lēca
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: linse
 * Nynorsk: linse
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:


 * Esperanto:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Persian:
 * Slovak: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Yiddish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To film, shoot.
 * 2)  To become thinner towards the edges.
 * 1)  To become thinner towards the edges.

Translations

 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:
 * Romanian:

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  optical
 * 2) crystalline lens in the

Etymology 2
Probably related to.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of barbless harpoon used for killing whales.

Etymology 3
From, of origin. Perhaps a variant of 🇨🇬 (see ), or perhaps a dialectal borrowing from, , from , related to 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) empty
 * 2) weak, flaccid

Etymology 1
la, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform. May also be related to 🇨🇬.

If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is virtually impossible because cultivation of lentil was widespread in the region since the Neolithic.

Noun

 * 1) lentil
 * 2)  lens

Etymology 2
la. According to de Vaan, perhaps a deformed form of what is found as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (gen. ), 🇨🇬; he proposes >   >  >. However, like the 🇨🇬 cognates, it may be of origin.

Noun

 * 1) nit (egg of a louse)

Descendants

 * Gallo-Romance:

Etymology
From ; ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) contact lens

Synonyms

 * kontakt/