ligament

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.
 * 2)  That which binds or acts as a ligament.
 * 3) * 1845, Daniel Webster, oration on Justice Joseph Story
 * Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
 * 1) * 1845, Daniel Webster, oration on Justice Joseph Story
 * Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Translations

 * Albanian: ligament
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: رباط
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: звя́зка
 * Bengali: লিগামেন্ট
 * Bulgarian:, лигаме́нт
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ledbånd
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:, მყესი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: અસ્થિબંધન
 * Haitian Creole: ligaman
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, लिगामेन्ट,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Irish: ballnasc
 * Italian:, benderella
 * Japanese:, 靱帯
 * Kazakh: байлам
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ເອັນ, ສະໜາຍຸ
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: raištis
 * Macedonian: лигаме́нт
 * Malay: ligamen
 * Maori: nape
 * Middle English: ligament
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: leddbånd
 * Persian:, لیگامان
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лига̀мент
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: väz
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: gatil
 * Tajik: пай
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , ligaman,
 * Ukrainian: зв'я́зка
 * Urdu: رباط
 * Uyghur: سىڭىر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: gewyn

Etymology
, from. Cf. also, possibly an inherited doublet.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A  or similar connecting tissue e.g. a tendon
 * 2)  That which binds.

Etymology
, itself a borrowing from, from. . Compare, an inherited doublet.