spear

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , from , from.

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Noun

 * 1) A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
 * 2)  A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
 * 3) A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
 * 4)  An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
 * 5)  In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
 * 6) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
 * 7) The feather of a horse.
 * 8) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
 * 9) A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
 * asparagus and broccoli spears
 * 1) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
 * 2) A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
 * asparagus and broccoli spears

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аԥса
 * Adyghe: пчы, пщы
 * Afrikaans: spies
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: رُمْح, حَرْبَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: خشت
 * Moroccan Arabic: حربة
 * North Levantine Arabic: رمح
 * Tunisian Arabic: دبور
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:
 * Asturian: llanza
 * Avar: хеч
 * Azerbaijani:, mizraq, cida
 * Basque: lantza
 * Belarusian: дзі́да, пі́ка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: кóпиe
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: bangkaw
 * Chechen: гоьмукъ
 * Chichewa: mkondo
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: пойгын
 * Cornish: guw
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dupaningan Agta: pisga
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: lanco
 * Estonian:
 * Evenki: гида
 * Faroese: spjót
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Middle French: dart
 * Old French: dart
 * Friulian: lance
 * Galician: lanza, falarica,
 * Georgian: შუბი, ჰოროლი,
 * German:
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: ἀρίγων, δόρυ, ἐγχείη, ἔγχος, κοντάριον, λόγχη, μελία, ξυστόν, σιβύνη, σιγύνης, χαλκός; secondarily: αἰχμή
 * Hausa: mashi
 * Hawaiian: ʻō
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: bangkaw
 * Hindi:, , , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kopjo
 * Ingush: гебагӏа
 * Irish: ga, sleá
 * Old Irish: gae
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: җид
 * Kazakh: найза, сүңгі
 * Ket: усь
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: itimũ
 * Korean:
 * Koryak: пойгын
 * Kriol: barragarl, burdagul
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ڕم
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lakota: wahúkheza
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: škāps, dzyds
 * Latin:, lancea, dardus
 * Latvian: šķēps
 * Lithuanian: ietis
 * Lü: ᦠᦸᧅᧈ
 * Macedonian: ко́пје
 * Malay: lembing
 * Maltese: lanza
 * Manchu: ᡤᡳᡩᠠ
 * Maori: kōpeo
 * Marathi: भाला
 * Middle English: spere
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: гида, сугбэ
 * Navajo: tsiiʼdétáán, tsin anáhálghą́hí
 * Ngarrindjeri: kykie
 * Ngazidja Comorian: fumu
 * Nivkh: ӄʼаӽ
 * Northern Altai: копьё, чыда
 * Northern Yukaghir: йуолдэвчэ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: spyd, spjut
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: копиѥ, жръдь
 * Old English: spere
 * Old Norse: geirr
 * Oneida: yeya’akta̲
 * Oromo: eeboo
 * Ossetian: арц
 * Persian: ,
 * Pitjantjatjara: kuḻaṯa
 * Plautdietsch: Spiess
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Rapa Nui: pātia
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Sardinian: lantza, lancia
 * Saterland Frisian: Speer
 * Scottish Gaelic: sleagh, brod, gath
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: копље
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sidamo: urde
 * Sinhalese: හෙල්ල
 * Slovak: kopija, oštep
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: waran
 * Southern Altai: найза, јыда
 * Southern Ohlone: hipor
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sumerian: 𒀉𒁍𒁕
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tai Dam: ꪬꪮꪀ
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: сөнге
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: མདུང
 * Tlingit: woosáani
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: naýza,
 * Tuvan: узун чыда, копьё
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎈
 * Ukrainian:, пі́ка
 * Urdu: نیز
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: lansa
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Vilamovian: pik
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: gwaywffon, gwayw
 * West Frisian: spear
 * Wutunhua: ddong
 * Xârâcùù: jö
 * Yakut: үҥүү
 * Yiddish: שפּיז
 * Zulu: umkhonto
 * ǃXóõ: ǃōo a̰a


 * Bulgarian: харпун
 * Catalan:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 簎,
 * Macedonian: стрела
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: остве
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: chusa
 * Welsh: tryfer


 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Guugu Yimidhirr: ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Slovak:,  ,

Verb

 * 1)  To pierce with a spear.
 * 2)  To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
 * 3)  To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
 * 4)  To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
 * 5)  To ignore as a social snub.
 * 1)  To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
 * 2)  To ignore as a social snub.
 * 1)  To ignore as a social snub.

Translations

 * Assamese:
 * Central: হানা
 * Eastern: হনা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Maori: wero, wewero, pūrou, pūrau

Adjective

 * 1) Male.
 * a spear counterpart
 * 1) Pertaining to male family members.
 * the spear side of the family
 * the spear side of the family

Derived terms

 * spear side

Etymology 2
Alteration of, from , , , from. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  The sprout of a plant, stalk
 * 2)  A church spire.

Etymology
From, , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  spear