serve

Etymology
From, from , from , from , which perhaps derives from (compare 🇨🇬 proper names , ), or from Proto-Indo-European.

Noun

 * 1)  An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
 * Whose serve is it?
 * 1)  A portion of food or drink, a serving.
 * 2) * 2012, Lesley Campbell, Alan L. Rubin, Type 2 Diabetes For Dummies, Australian Edition, page 117,
 * One serve of carbohydrates is approximately equal to a slice of bread, a piece of fruit, third of a cup of cooked rice, half a cup of grains, cereals, starchy vegetables or cooked pasta, 200 grams of plain yoghurt, or 300 millilitres of milk.
 * 1)  An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
 * That white eyeliner is such a serve.
 * 1) * 2012, Lesley Campbell, Alan L. Rubin, Type 2 Diabetes For Dummies, Australian Edition, page 117,
 * One serve of carbohydrates is approximately equal to a slice of bread, a piece of fruit, third of a cup of cooked rice, half a cup of grains, cereals, starchy vegetables or cooked pasta, 200 grams of plain yoghurt, or 300 millilitres of milk.
 * 1)  An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
 * That white eyeliner is such a serve.
 * One serve of carbohydrates is approximately equal to a slice of bread, a piece of fruit, third of a cup of cooked rice, half a cup of grains, cereals, starchy vegetables or cooked pasta, 200 grams of plain yoghurt, or 300 millilitres of milk.
 * 1)  An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
 * That white eyeliner is such a serve.

Synonyms

 * See serving
 * See serving

Translations

 * Bulgarian: сервис
 * Catalan:, sacada
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Faroese: serva
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: saque, servicio
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, serw,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: servis
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: пода́ча
 * Welsh: serfiad

Verb

 * 1)  To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
 * 2) * 1889,, translating , , XIV:
 * And yet this is not the office of a Priest, but of Him whom the Priest should serve.
 * 1)  To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
 * 2)  To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
 * 3)  To render service by being a servant, worker, employee, or officeholder; to hold those roles and perform their duties.
 * 4)  To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
 * 5)  To treat (someone) in a given manner.
 * 6)  To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
 * 7)  To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
 * 8)  To have a given use or purpose; to function  something or to do something.
 * 9)  To usefully take the place,  of something else.
 * 10)  To deliver a document in such a way that the recipient can be legally considered to be informed of it.
 * 11) To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
 * 12) To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
 * 13)  To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
 * 14)  To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
 * 15) * 1996, Puck Bonnier et al., Dairy Cattle Husbandry, Agromisa Foundation 2004
 * Conception means that a cow is served by a bull and that she becomes pregnant.
 * 1)  To be in military service.
 * 2)  To work, to operate (a weapon).
 * 3)  To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
 * 4)  To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
 * 5)  To perform (a public obligation).
 * I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial.
 * She served the office of mayor five years ago.
 * 1)  To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
 * 2)   To present an attractive personal appearance.
 * 3)  To present an attractive personal appearance.
 * 4)  To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
 * 5)  To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
 * 1) To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
 * 2)  To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
 * 3)  To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
 * 4) * 1996, Puck Bonnier et al., Dairy Cattle Husbandry, Agromisa Foundation 2004
 * Conception means that a cow is served by a bull and that she becomes pregnant.
 * 1)  To be in military service.
 * 2)  To work, to operate (a weapon).
 * 3)  To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
 * 4)  To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
 * 5)  To perform (a public obligation).
 * I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial.
 * She served the office of mayor five years ago.
 * 1)  To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
 * 2)   To present an attractive personal appearance.
 * 3)  To present an attractive personal appearance.
 * 4)  To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
 * 5)  To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
 * She served the office of mayor five years ago.
 * 1)  To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
 * 2)   To present an attractive personal appearance.
 * 3)  To present an attractive personal appearance.
 * 4)  To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
 * 5)  To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
 * 1)   To present an attractive personal appearance.
 * 2)  To present an attractive personal appearance.
 * 3)  To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
 * 4)  To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
 * 1)  To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
 * 1)  To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
 * 1)  To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; See also Thesaurus:serve

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خَدَمَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: خدم
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: служы́ць, паслужы́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cimbrian: diinan
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tjene
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: servî
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λατρεύω
 * Haitian Creole: sèvi
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: palvoa
 * Italian:, essere in forza, , lavorare per
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: خزمەت کردن
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: serviō
 * Luxembourgish: déngen
 * Macedonian: служи
 * Malayalam:
 * Mauritian Creole: servi
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: слѹжити
 * Old East Slavic: служити
 * Old English: þeġnian
 * Oromo: tajaajiluu
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: servir, survir, sarvir, sarveir
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sardinian: selvire, serbire, serbiri, servire, serviri
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: слу́жити
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:, ,
 * Slovak: slúžiť
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: słužyś
 * Upper Sorbian: słužić
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: служи́ти
 * Venetian: servir
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: דינען


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λατρεύω
 * Haitian Creole: sèvi
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: rumishiha
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: служи́ти
 * Yiddish: דינען


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: подчинен съм
 * Danish: tjene
 * Finnish:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Interlingua: servir
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin:, serviō
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: обслуго́вувати


 * Arabic:
 * Assamese:
 * Central: বাঢ়া
 * Eastern: বঢ়া
 * Belarusian: абно́сіць, абне́сці
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, servírovat
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: διακονέω
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Luxembourgish: zerwéieren
 * Maori: tuari
 * Ngazidja Comorian: pvahua
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: þeġnian
 * Persian: سرو کردن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: qaray
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: servis etmek ,
 * Ukrainian: подава́ти, обслуго́вувати
 * Vietnamese:, lên món


 * Latin: dapino
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: отбивам военна служба
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: essere in forza,
 * Latin: militō
 * Spanish:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: saattaa tietoon
 * French:


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Luxembourgish: verbéissen, asëtzen
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Faroese: serva
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:, den Aufschlag haben
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: serve, sørve
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: rihmata


 * Arabic: خَدَمَ
 * Bulgarian: слуга съм
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: servio
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: sevir
 * Swahili: tumika
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Malayalam:


 * Arabic: خَدَمَ
 * Finnish:
 * Ingrian: sluužia
 * Latin: servio
 * Malayalam:
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Esperanto:
 * Mongolian:, ,

Etymology
Borrowed from. . Both are ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1)  to  To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.

Noun

 * 1)  a

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) edge, brink, verge, border