quill

Etymology
From late, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from and , possibly ultimately from.

Compare 🇨🇬, which is derived from the Low German term.

Noun

 * 1) The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
 * 2) A pen made from a feather.
 * 3)  Any pen.
 * 4) A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
 * 5) A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
 * 6) The pen of a squid.
 * 7)  The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
 * 8)  The tube of a musical instrument.
 * 9) Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or  a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
 * 1) A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
 * 2) The pen of a squid.
 * 3)  The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
 * 4)  The tube of a musical instrument.
 * 5) Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or  a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
 * 1) Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or  a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

Translations

 * Albanian: therrë
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Erzya: толга
 * Esperanto:, kalamo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ღეპეპი, ფრთის ღერო
 * German:
 * Icelandic: fjaðurstafur
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tuaka, tā
 * Navajo: atʼákaz
 * Plautdietsch: Poos
 * Russian: ство́л пера́
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , калем, батрљица
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ปากกาขนนก
 * White Hmong: koob
 * ǃXóõ: gǃqhàẽ


 * Albanian: therrë
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: пяро́
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鵝毛筆,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fjerpen
 * Esperanto: anserplumo
 * Faroese:, fjøðurpennur, fjaðurpennur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, péndola
 * Georgian: ბატის ფრთა
 * German: Schreibfeder, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: fjaðurpenni
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: pero
 * Italian:, penna d'oca
 * Japanese: 羽根ペン, 羽ペン
 * Kalmyk: өдн
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: перо, перо
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fjærpenn
 * Polish:, gęsie pióro
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, гуси́ное перо́
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: перо
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: pero
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: gåspenna, ,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: перо́
 * Volapük: penamaleplüm


 * Esperanto:, inkoskribilo
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic:, شَوْكَة
 * Belarusian: калю́чка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: боцка
 * Ottoman Turkish: اوق
 * Punjabi: ਤੱਕਲ਼ਾ
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , бодља, бодљика
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: го́лка


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: selkäkilpi


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1) To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
 * 2)  To write.
 * 3) To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
 * 4) To decorate with quillwork.
 * 5)  To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
 * 1) To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
 * 2) To decorate with quillwork.
 * 3)  To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
 * 1)  To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
 * 1)  To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).

Translations

 * Bulgarian:


 * Bulgarian:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) gnat