quick

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from , from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; and (from Indo-European) with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, , , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Adjective

 * 1) Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
 * 2) Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
 * 3) Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
 * 4) Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
 * 5)  Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
 * 6)  Alive, living.
 * 7)  At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
 * 8) * Section 316, Penal Code (Cap. 224, 2008 Ed.) (Singapore)
 * Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
 * 1)  Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
 * 2)  Flowing, not stagnant.
 * 3)  Burning, flammable, fiery.
 * 4)  Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
 * 5)  productive; not "dead" or barren
 * 1)  At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
 * 2) * Section 316, Penal Code (Cap. 224, 2008 Ed.) (Singapore)
 * Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
 * 1)  Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
 * 2)  Flowing, not stagnant.
 * 3)  Burning, flammable, fiery.
 * 4)  Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
 * 5)  productive; not "dead" or barren
 * 1)  Flowing, not stagnant.
 * 2)  Burning, flammable, fiery.
 * 3)  Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
 * 4)  productive; not "dead" or barren
 * 1)  Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
 * 2)  productive; not "dead" or barren
 * 1)  productive; not "dead" or barren

Synonyms

 * ,, , ; see also Thesaurus:speedy
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:witty or Thesaurus:intelligent
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:alive
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:pregnant
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:flowing
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:flowing

Translations

 * Albanian: shpjertë
 * Arabic: سَرِيع
 * Egyptian Arabic: سريع
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: খৰ
 * Bashkir: тиҙ, шәп
 * Belarusian:, бы́стры
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 快, 快手
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, kvik
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: nobe
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, roudo, , lampeiro, andarengo
 * Georgian: სწრაფი, მკვირცხლი, მარდი, ცქვიტი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ταχύς, θοός
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ingrian: selvä, sukkela, kiire, huima, huimakas
 * Interlingua: rapide
 * Irish: luath, sciobtha, mear
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: gelis
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Lao: ໄວ, ປຽວ
 * Latgalian: dreiži, mudri, kruši
 * Latin:, rapidus, properus
 * Latvian:, ašs, straujš, žigls, knašs, nasks
 * Luxembourgish: séier
 * Macedonian: брз
 * Maori: pekepeke, tere, kama, horo, kerakera, pahuhu , pakē , korakora , tūkawikawi
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:, kvikk
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: schwind, flinkj,
 * Polabian: astĕ
 * Polish:, , , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: grad
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: брз
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: rýchly
 * Slovene: hiter
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tuvan: дүрген
 * Ukrainian: швидки́й, хутки́й, прудки́й,
 * Urdu:, جلد, تند, , عجول, عاجل, چابک
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:, , , , subtil
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: פֿלינק, גיך, שנעל


 * Arabic: سَرِيعٌ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Danish:, kvik
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Galician:, pasadío, vertixinoso
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: rapide
 * Irish: pras
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: брз
 * Norwegian:, kvikk
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: grad
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: ско́рий, швидки́й
 * Walloon:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: kvik,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Galician:, roudo, , lampeiro, andarengo,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: tráthúil, mear
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: жив, би́стар
 * Norwegian: kvikk
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, vioaie, ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: grad
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: kvik,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Galician:, roudo, , lampeiro, andarengo,
 * Georgian:, მიხვედრილი, ალღოიანი
 * German: schnell von Begriff
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: би́стар, до́сетлив, остро́умен
 * Norwegian: kvikk
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Walloon:, subtile


 * Finnish:, äkkivihainen, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Arabic:
 * Danish: frisk og rask
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: жив
 * Norwegian: frisk og rask
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic:
 * Danish:
 * Romanian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: herkästi syttyvä
 * Romanian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Ido:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Telugu:

Adverb

 * 1) Quickly, in a quick manner.
 * 2) Answer quickly.
 * 1) Answer quickly.
 * 1) Answer quickly.
 * 1) Answer quickly.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَرِيعًا, بِسُرْعَةٍ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Walloon:, , , , , ,

Noun

 * 1) Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
 * 2) Plants used in making a quickset hedge
 * 3) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
 * 4) Quitchgrass.
 * 5)  A fast bowler.
 * 1) Quitchgrass.
 * 2)  A fast bowler.
 * 1) Quitchgrass.
 * 2)  A fast bowler.
 * 1)  A fast bowler.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: carn viva
 * Dutch: levend vlees
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kvik
 * Spanish: carne viva
 * Swedish: nagelbädd
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * 1)  To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
 * 2)  To quicken.
 * 3) * 1917,, At the Word 'Farewell'
 * I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) quick waltz

Etymology
, from, from , from ; also a Central Franconian form. , which see for more.

Adjective

 * 1)  lively

Usage notes

 * Much more common than the simplex is the pleonastic compound.