pluck

Etymology
From, , , from , , also 🇨🇬 "to pluck, pull, snatch; pluck with desire", from , , of uncertain and disputed origin. Perhaps related to 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. More at.

An alternative etymology suggests, may have been borrowed from an assumed 🇨🇬, a derivative of Latin , from. The Oxford English Dictionary, however, finds difficulties with this and cites gaps in historical evidence.

The noun sense of "heart, liver, and lights of an animal" comes from it being plucked out of the carcass after the animal is killed; the sense of "fortitude, boldness" derives from this meaning, originally being a boxing slang denoting a prize-ring, with semantic development from "heart", the symbol of courage, to "fortitude, boldness".

Verb

 * 1)  To pull something sharply; to pull something out
 * 2)  To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
 * 3) * 1937, Labour Party (Great Britain), Report of the Annual Conference (volumes 37-40, page 281)
 * First of all, he says a lot of the promotions from the ranks are promotions of the sons of officers who have gone wrong, or got "plucked," or what not, and who are brought up again along another road for commissioned rank.
 * 1)  To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
 * 2)  To remove feathers from a bird.
 * 3)  To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
 * 4)  To play a string instrument pizzicato.
 * 5)  To pull or twitch sharply.
 * 6)  To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
 * 7) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1)  To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
 * 2)  To play a string instrument pizzicato.
 * 3)  To pull or twitch sharply.
 * 4)  To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
 * 5) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1)  To pull or twitch sharply.
 * 2)  To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
 * 3) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
 * 1) Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

Translations

 * Arabic: قَطَفَ
 * Gulf Arabic: قطف
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: পাৰা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Central Sierra Miwok: ṭupum·yufe
 * Czech:
 * Danish: plukke
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, depenar
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τίλλω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: plokka
 * Japanese:, もぐ
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: carpō, vellō
 * Latvian: plūkt, izraut
 * Lithuanian: skinti, rėkšti
 * Maori: kato, hīkaro, kopikopi, huti , tīkaro
 * Nahuatl: huihuitla
 * Norwegian:, røske
 * Old Church Slavonic: чесати
 * Oromo: rifuu
 * Polish: wyszarpnąć, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Somali: rifid
 * Southern Altai: јулар
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: brnkat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Malay: memetik
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: brzdęknąć
 * Portuguese:, palhetar ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene: ubirati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cherokee: ᎫᏯᎩᎠ
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: depenar, depenicar
 * German:, ausrupfen
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: cluimhrigh
 * Italian:, , spiumare
 * Latin: vellō
 * Latvian: plūkt
 * Macedonian: скубнува, скубне
 * Maori: huti, huhuti, hutihuti
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Occitan: esplumassar
 * Persian: پر کندن
 * Polish:, oskubać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Slovak: šklbať
 * Slovene: skubsti, oskubati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * Norwegian: loppe
 * Polish:, , , ograbić
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,

Noun

 * 1) An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
 * 2) The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
 * 3)   Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
 * 4)  Cheap wine.
 * 1)   Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
 * 2)  Cheap wine.
 * 1)  Cheap wine.
 * 1)  Cheap wine.
 * 1)  Cheap wine.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, скубане
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Latvian: plūkšana
 * Portuguese: depenagem ,
 * Romanian: ,


 * Bulgarian: карантия
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: corata,
 * Navajo: ajéí
 * Polish: podroby
 * Portuguese: fressura
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,


 * Catalan: perseverància
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:, , nervi saldi,
 * Polish: hart ducha,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * French: ,