rod

Etymology
From, from or  (attested in dative plural ), of  origin, but probably from , from. Compare 🇨🇬. For the root, compare 🇨🇬. Presumably unrelated to.

Noun

 * 1) A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
 * 2) A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
 * 3)  A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
 * 4) A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
 * 5) An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
 * 6) A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
 * 7)  A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, $1/undefined$ chain, $5 1/2$ yards, $16 1/2$ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
 * 8) An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern  engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, $5 1/2$ yards.
 * 9)  A unit of area equal to a square rod, $30 1/4$ square yards or $1/undefined$ acre.
 * 10) A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
 * 11)  A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
 * 12)  Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
 * 13)  A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and $1/undefined$ to $1/undefined$ inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
 * 14)  A pistol; a gun.
 * 15)  The penis.
 * 16)  A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
 * 17)  A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
 * 18)  A.
 * 19)  A  or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
 * 1) A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
 * 2)  A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
 * 3)  Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
 * 4)  A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and ⇭⇭⇭ to ⇭⇭⇭ inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
 * 5)  A pistol; a gun.
 * 6)  The penis.
 * 7)  A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
 * 8)  A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
 * 9)  A.
 * 10)  A  or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
 * 1)  A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
 * 2)  A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
 * 3)  A.
 * 4)  A  or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
 * 1)  A.
 * 2)  A  or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
 * 1)  A.
 * 2)  A  or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
 * 1)  A  or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:stick
 * See also Thesaurus:penis

Translations

 * Arabic: عَصًا
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: veargã
 * Basque: haga
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: stang
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: ati
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კვერთხი
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ῥάβδος
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Higaonon: songkod
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: virga
 * Irish: liúr
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: tālea, pertica
 * Latvian:, stienis
 * Macedonian: стап, прат, шипка, прачка
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tari, pihi, matira, tia
 * Mongolian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: دگنك
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: па̏лица, ши̏пка
 * Roman: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pšut
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:, ,


 * Bulgarian: рейка
 * German:, , Zeltstab,
 * Maori: kauawhi


 * Abkhaz: аҵәгәыр
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: canya de pescar
 * Chechen: мӏара
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: stang
 * Dutch: hengelroede, visgarde
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ანკესი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Ingush: зӏак
 * Italian:, canna da pesca
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: baculum
 * Latvian: makšķerkāts
 * Macedonian: трска, стап
 * Maori: manana, matira, tautara
 * Polabian: prǫt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пе̏ца̄љка, у̏дица
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, balık oltası, balık çomağı
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: metla
 * Danish: stav, spanskrør,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: ati
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Zuchtrute
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: virga
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: прачка, стап
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пру̑т, шта̑п, ро̀зга, ши̏ба, ба̀тина
 * Roman:, , , ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pšut
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:, , meetstok
 * Finnish: mittakeppi
 * German:, , Meßstab, Messstab
 * Hebrew: קנה מידה
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: стап
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шта̑п, мо̏тка
 * Roman: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pšut
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pšut


 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * Bulgarian: рейка, стержен
 * Danish: stang
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , , Ankerbolzen, , , , Haltearm, Halterarm, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: шипка, осови́на
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ши̏пка
 * Roman:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: пръчица
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, תא קנה
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 杆体, 桿体
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: stavbakterie
 * Finnish:
 * German: Stäbchenbakterien, Stäbchenbakterium, Stäbchenbakterie
 * Japanese: ,
 * Macedonian: стапче
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: бъркалка
 * Finnish: sekoitussauva
 * German: Rührstab, Rührstäbchen
 * Italian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Turkish:, karıştırma çubuğu


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ; ; ; ; ;
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: стап
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:
 * Tibetan:

Verb

 * 1)  To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
 * 2)  To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
 * 3)  To penetrate sexually.
 * 4)  To hot rod.
 * 1)  To hot rod.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Etymology
, from. .

Noun

 * 1) family, stock, lineage
 * 2)  genus
 * 3)  gender
 * 4)  voice

Etymology 1
From, from , from. 🇨🇬 is borrowed from Old Norse.

Noun

 * 1) root
 * 2) yob
 * 3)  root, zero (element $$x$$ in the domain of a function such that $$f(x)=0$$)

Etymology 2
From the verb.

Noun

 * 1) disorder, mess, muddle

Adjective

 * 1) red

Alternative forms

 * root (rot)

Etymology
From, from , from , from <. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  red

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

Adjective

 * 1) red

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) sex gender (male or female)
 * 2) lineage, family
 * 3)  gender

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) fish skin

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) praise, fame, honour

Related terms
Male given names:

Female given names:

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) cross (method of execution)
 * 2) a measure of land length, equal to a perch
 * 3) a measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre

Usage notes

 * An archaic locative singular form, ᚱᚩᛞᛁ, appears on the inscription.

Descendants

 * (length)
 * (length)
 * (length)

Etymology
From, from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Ultimately from <.

Adjective

 * 1) red

Descendants

 * Hamburgisch:
 * Westphalian
 * Sauerländisch:, , , ,
 * Westmünsterländisch:
 * Sauerländisch:, , , ,
 * Westmünsterländisch:

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) rhodium

Etymology 1
, from.

Noun

 * 1) fruit
 * 2)  fruit advantageous result

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) gender
 * 2)  genus
 * 3) relative, relation
 * 4) fruit, crop, extraction
 * 5) family, stock, lineage, kin, race

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) fishbone

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) kind, race, breed