stalk

Etymology 1
From, , , perhaps from , , , from , , from , , diminutive of , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 in, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Related also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
 * 2) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
 * 3) Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
 * 4)  An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
 * 5) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
 * 6) A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
 * 7) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
 * 8) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
 * 9)  An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
 * 10)  Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf $$\mathcal{F}$$ on a space $$X$$, and a point $$x$$ in $$X$$, the direct limit of the sections of $$F$$ on the open neighborhoods of $$x$$ ordered by reverse inclusion. See
 * 1) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
 * 2) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
 * 3)  An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
 * 4)  Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf $$\mathcal{F}$$ on a space $$X$$, and a point $$x$$ in $$X$$, the direct limit of the sections of $$F$$ on the open neighborhoods of $$x$$ ordered by reverse inclusion. See

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: سَاق
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: һабаҡ
 * Belarusian: сцябло́
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: dagami
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, pabea ,
 * Georgian: ღერო
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καυλός
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: varsi
 * Italian:, , , caule, venatura centrale
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: pé
 * Kazakh: сабақ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: stiebas
 * Low German: Steel, Stängel, Halm
 * Macedonian: стебло
 * Makasae: bata
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tā, tātā, kaka, tō
 * Middle Persian: 𐮍𐮑𐮀𐮄
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: stengel
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, , ستاخ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: стабљика,, пeтeљка,
 * Slovak: stonka,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: bua
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: pere
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: стебло́, сте́бель
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Western Bukidnon Manobo: reɣami


 * Finnish: ;


 * Italian:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, pedicello,


 * Finnish:

Etymology 2
From, from (as in , ), from , from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 dialectal ), from ,  (compare , , ), from ,  (compare , ).

Alternate etymology connects to a frequentative form of.

Verb

 * 1)   To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
 * 2)  To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.undefined
 * 3)  To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
 * 4)  To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
 * 1)  To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
 * 2)  To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
 * 1)  To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
 * 1)  To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
 * 1)  To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.

Translations

 * Asturian: chisbar
 * Bulgarian: прокрадвам се
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: sich, sich anschleichen, sich heranschleichen
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, utánaoson, ,
 * Italian: accostarsi furtivamente,, ,
 * Japanese: 忍び寄る
 * Maori: whakamomoka, whakamokamoka, whakameto
 * Old English: bestealcian, bestelan
 * Polish: zakradać się
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: zakrádať sa, špehovať, sledovať, stopovať
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: pronásledovat,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Indonesian: kuntit, menguntit
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: whakamokamoka, whakamomoka
 * Polish:, stalkować
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a se ține scai
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: panunubaybay
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: bám đuôi,


 * Dutch:
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:

Noun

 * 1) A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
 * 2) The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.

Etymology 3
Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from, from , ; see above.

Verb

 * 1)  To walk haughtily.

Translations

 * Czech: vykračovat si
 * Finnish: kekkalehtia
 * German:, einherstolzieren, , , , steifbeinig gehen
 * Hungarian: dölyfösen jár, dölyfösen megy, peckesen jár
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1) A haughty style of walking.