stake

Etymology
From, from , from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
 * We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
 * 1)   A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
 * 2)  A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
 * 3)   The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
 * Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
 * 1)  A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
 * 2)  That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
 * 3) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
 * 4)   A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
 * 1)  That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
 * 2) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
 * 3)   A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
 * 1)   A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, خَازُوق
 * Hijazi Arabic: خازوق, عَامُود
 * Basque: taketa
 * Belarusian: кол
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: paliso, paliseto
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * Galician:
 * Gallurese: stantagliu
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌽𐌿𐌸𐍉
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: σκόλοψ, χάραξ, σταυρός
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: cuaille
 * Italian:, , , , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: қазық
 * Korean:
 * Latin: tālea, pālus, stilus, sudis, ridica
 * Latvian:
 * Luxembourgish: Poul
 * Macedonian: кол, колец
 * Malay:
 * Maori: tia, titi, teo, rirīwai
 * Middle English: stake
 * Norwegian:, påle
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Logudorese: albaranu, longupànte
 * Scottish Gaelic: stob
 * Serbo-Croatian: колац,
 * Slovak: kôl
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: koł
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Modern Turkish:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قازیق
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Zazaki: qazıq


 * Finnish: lopetuskeppi
 * French:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σταυρός
 * Italian:, ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Arabic: مِحْرَقَة
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: fosto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: påle
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: حِصَّة
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Slovene: delež
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Zazaki: hise


 * Arabic: رِهَان
 * Bulgarian:, ставка
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, Poule
 * Italian:, in gioco, in palio, , posta in gioco
 * Norwegian:, risiko
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:


 * Finnish: pieni alasin


 * Czech:
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Verb

 * 1)   To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
 * 2)   To pierce or wound with a stake.
 * 3)   To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
 * 4)   To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
 * 5)   To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
 * 1)   To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
 * 2)   To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
 * 3)   To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
 * 1)   To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
 * 2)   To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
 * 1)   To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
 * 1)   To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.

Translations

 * Galician: rodrigar, estacar
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ; ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Italian: mettere in gioco
 * Russian: ста́вить на карту, ста́вить на кон
 * Spanish: poner en juego


 * German:, , ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A ; wood put in the ground as a marker or support.
 * 2) A fencepost; a  used in concert to form a barrier.
 * 3) A branch or bough; an extension of a tree.
 * 4) A stave or stick; a cut (and often shaped) piece of wood.
 * 5)  A prickle or splint.
 * 6)  A metal bar or pole.
 * 7)  A stabbing feeling.

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) (short for ljusstake) candlestick
 * 2)  a hard-on (penile erection)
 * 3)  balls; courage, assertiveness
 * 1)  balls; courage, assertiveness