skeleton

Etymology 1
From, from , the neuter of , from , from ; compare 🇨🇬.

Alternative forms

 * (obsolete)

Noun

 * 1)   The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
 * 2)  An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
 * 3)  A very thin person.
 * 4)  The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
 * 5)  A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
 * 6)  A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
 * 7)  The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
 * 8)  A very thin form of light-faced type.
 * 9)   A minimum or bare essentials.
 * 10)  The network of veins in a leaf.
 * 1)  A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
 * 2)  The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
 * 3)  A very thin form of light-faced type.
 * 4)   A minimum or bare essentials.
 * 5)  The network of veins in a leaf.
 * 1)   A minimum or bare essentials.
 * 2)  The network of veins in a leaf.
 * 1)  The network of veins in a leaf.
 * 1)  The network of veins in a leaf.

Synonyms

 * see also Thesaurus:thin person
 * see also Thesaurus:thin person

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аҧсыбаҩ, абаҩеибаркыра
 * Afrikaans: skelet, geraamte
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አጽም
 * Arabic: هَيْكَل عَظْمِيّ, هَيْكَل
 * Egyptian Arabic: هيكل عضمي
 * Tunisian Arabic: هيكل العظم
 * Aragonese: escleto, gosaralla
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: জঁকা, জকা
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Abjad: قفسه, النگه, اسکلت
 * Roman:, qəfəsə, ələngə
 * Bambara: kolojalan
 * Bashkir: һөлдә
 * Basque: eskeleto
 * Belarusian: шкіле́т
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: skeledenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: rames
 * Corsican: scheletru
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Cyrillic: такълет
 * Latin: taqlet
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Emilian: scailter
 * Esperanto: skeleto, ostaro
 * Estonian: skelett
 * Faroese: beinagrind
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Friulian: scarsanali
 * Galician: esquelete, arcabouzo, canfornio, agutío
 * Georgian: ჩონჩხი
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Gerigel
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκελετός
 * Gujarati: કંકાલતંત્ર
 * Haitian Creole: eskèlèt
 * Hawaiian: kinanahiwi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingrian: skiletti
 * Interlingua: skeleto
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada: ಅಸ್ಥಿಪಮ್ಜರ
 * Kapampangan: bangkala
 * Kazakh: қаңқа, сүлде
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, , 뼈대
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, hestiyepeyker
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໂຄງກະດູກ
 * Latin: ossium compāgēs, sceletus
 * Latvian: skelets, ģindenis
 * Laz:
 * Georgian: კარა
 * Roman: kara
 * Lithuanian: griaučiai, skeletas
 * Low German: Skelett
 * Lower Sorbian: skelet, kósćeńc
 * Luxembourgish: Skelett
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: skeletru
 * Maori: kōhiwihiwi, kōhī, tuahiwi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: араг яс, хэлхээ яс,
 * Nahuatl: miquiztetl
 * Norman: stchélatte, stchelette
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: skjelett, beingrind
 * Occitan:, escarcèla, ossamenta,
 * Ottoman Turkish: اسكلت, قورو, قدید
 * Pashto: هډتړ, هډ مډ, هډ ګوډ, ګرګی, ګګړه, اسکلېت
 * Persian: استخوان‌بندی,
 * Piedmontese: schèletro
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਪਿੰਜਰ
 * Quechua: saqru, karka
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: skelet
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: ossamentu
 * Scots: skelet
 * Scottish Gaelic: cnàimhneach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: скѐлет, ко̏стӯр, окостје
 * Roman:, , okostje
 * Slovak: kostra
 * Slovene: ,
 * Somali:
 * Southern Ohlone: morkinis
 * Spanish: ,
 * Svan: ჩო̈ნჩხ
 * Swahili: kiunzi cha mifupa
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: kalansay
 * Tajik:, устухонбандӣ
 * Tatar: скелет
 * Telugu: అస్థి పంజరం
 * Thai: โครงกระดูก
 * Tigrinya: ኣስከረን
 * Tocharian B: kwrāṣe
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: skelet, gaňňyl
 * Tuvan: скелет, мөчү сөөк
 * Ukrainian: скеле́т
 * Upper Sorbian: skelet, kosćowc
 * Urdu: کَن٘کال
 * Uyghur: ئىسكېلېت, ئۇستىخان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: bộ xương
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: luuvärk
 * Walloon: skèlète
 * Welsh:, ysgerbwd
 * West Frisian: bonkerak, skelet
 * White Hmong: pob txha
 * Yakut: дьардьама
 * Yiddish: סקעלעט
 * Zulu: ugobhozi


 * Finnish:
 * Polish: kościej,


 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Bashkir: һөлдә
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, vel over vlees
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: esquelete
 * German: Haut und Knochen
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κάναβος
 * Kazakh: сүлде
 * Latvian: ģindenis, kaulu kambaris
 * Malayalam:, എല്ലുംകോലി
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish:


 * Asturian:
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian: karkass
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: esquelete
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Kazakh: қаңқа
 * Malayalam:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, skeleton-olio
 * German:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:


 * Estonian:, , ,
 * Newar:
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:

Verb

 * 1)  To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.
 * 2)  To minimize.

Etymology 2
The etymology of the term is disputed between two versions.
 * From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.
 * From a type of ice sled through a bad anglicization as "skele".

Noun

 * 1)  A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: szkeleton
 * Mongolian: өврийн чарга
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) skeleton

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) skeleton