obelisk

Etymology


From, from , from , of. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
 * 2)  A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant.
 * 3) A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date.
 * 1)  A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant.
 * 2) A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date.

Usage notes
Regarding sense 2, was used in Middle English, but thereafter was displaced by  until the 19th century when both words began to be used with equal regularity.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مِسَلَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: obelisk
 * Belarusian: абелі́ск
 * Bulgarian: обели́ск
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: obelisk
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: obelisko
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: obelisco
 * Georgian: ობელისკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ओबिलिस्क
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: oibilisc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: オベリスク, 方尖柱
 * Kazakh: обелиск
 * Korean: 오벨리스크, 방첨탑(方尖塔)
 * Kyrgyz: обелиск
 * Latin: obeliscus
 * Latvian: obelisks
 * Lithuanian: obeliskas
 * Macedonian: обелиск
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: obelisk
 * Persian: ابلیسک
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: обѐлиск
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: obelisk
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: obelisko
 * Tajik: обелиск
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: обелі́ск
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: tượng đài


 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: miodóg
 * Latin: obeliscus
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To adopt the obelisk posture; to point the tip of the abdomen towards the sun.

Etymology
, from, from , from , diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1) an