quiver

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
From, from , from 🇨🇬 (source of 🇨🇬, and cognate to 🇨🇬), from , said to be from , possibly from ; see there for more. Replaced early modern, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

Noun

 * 1)  A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
 * 2)  A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
 * He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
 * 1)  A vulva.
 * 2)  A multidigraph.
 * 1)  A vulva.
 * 2)  A multidigraph.
 * 1)  A multidigraph.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: koker
 * Albanian: kukur
 * Arabic: جَعْبَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: oxdan, oxqabı, sadaq, oxluq
 * Bashkir: һаҙаҡ
 * Belarusian: калча́н
 * Bulgarian:
 * Buryat: һаадаг
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 箭圖, 箭袋, 一袋箭, 箭筒,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kogger, pilekogger
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: sagujo
 * Estonian: nooletupp
 * Faroese: ørvahúsi, pílahúsi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: carcán, goldre, coldre, alxaba, carcás
 * Georgian:, საისრე
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φαρέτρα, βελοθήκη, γωρυτός
 * Greenlandic: qarsulivik
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: örvamælir
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 矢筒,
 * Kalmyk: саадг
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: қорамсақ
 * Khmer: បំពង់ព្រួញ
 * Korean: 화살통,, 동개(筒箇)
 * Kyrgyz: саадак
 * Lao: ແລ່ງ
 * Latin: gōrȳtos, pharetra
 * Latvian: bultu maks
 * Lithuanian: strėlinė
 * Lushootseed: ʔičəd
 * Macedonian: тул
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: pūkoro pere
 * Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭭𐭲𐭢𐭫
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: kʼaaʼ yeiłtįįh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kogger
 * Old English: cocer
 * Old Norse: örmalr
 * Ottoman Turkish: اوقلق
 * Pali: bāṇadhi
 * Pawnee: pacuuʼuʼ, raawacuuʼuʼ
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, fáretra, carcás
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то̀болац
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: tulec
 * Slovene: tul
 * Spanish:, , goldre
 * Swahili:, ziaka, pongono
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salungan, talanga
 * Tajik: тирдон, тиркаш
 * Tamil: அம்பறாத் தூணி
 * Tatar: ук савыты, садак
 * Telugu: అంబులపొద,
 * Thai: แล่ง
 * Tibetan: གཞུ་ཤུབས
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan: колчан, согун саадаа
 * Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎘𐎔𐎚
 * Ukrainian:, колча́н,
 * Urdu: تَرْکَش
 * Uzbek:, , tirdon
 * Vietnamese: ống tên, bao tên
 * West Frisian: koker
 * ǃXóõ: ǃúla


 * Finnish: arsenaali
 * Macedonian: арсена́л
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то̀болац
 * Roman:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: záchvěv, zachvění,, třesení,
 * Finnish: vapina
 * French:, , (of a person, of a voice)
 * Georgian: თრთოლა, ჟრჟოლა, კანკალი, ცახცახი
 * Greek: ,
 * Macedonian: трепе́рење, тре́пет
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Tok Pisin: guria
 * Ukrainian: тремті́ння, тре́мор
 * Yiddish: ציטער

Etymology 2
From, , from , probably related to.

Adjective

 * 1)  Nimble, active.

Etymology 3
From, probably from the adjective.

Verb

 * 1)  To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: dirre, sitre, sitre, bævre
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: tremer, fremer, trenguelear,
 * Georgian: კანკალი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τρέμω
 * Greenlandic: angaluppoq, aalaqqajuppoq
 * Hawaiian: naka
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: діріл
 * Macedonian: тре́пери
 * Maori: kurepe, ore, oreore, kūreperepe, tīkorikori, whakahokirua, kereū, aroarowhaki, ori
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дрхтати, треперити
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Tok Pisin: guria
 * Ukrainian:
 * Yiddish: ציטערן

Etymology 1
From, from ; perhaps ultimately from or. .

Noun

 * 1) A  a receptacle for arrows
 * 2)  A vulva.

Etymology 2
From, probably related to.

Adjective

 * 1) fast, speedy, rapid
 * 2) energetic, vigourous, vibrant