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Etymology 1
From, , , , from , , from , from (cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Confused in Middle English with the related noun, , , from , from ,. Related also to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Race; lineage, pedigree.
 * 2)  A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
 * 3)  Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
 * 4)  Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
 * 5) Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
 * 6)  A kind or sort (of person etc.).
 * 7)  Treasure.
 * 8)  The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
 * 1)  Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
 * 2) Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
 * 3)  A kind or sort (of person etc.).
 * 4)  Treasure.
 * 5)  The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
 * 1) Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
 * 2)  A kind or sort (of person etc.).
 * 3)  Treasure.
 * 4)  The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
 * 1)  Treasure.
 * 2)  The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
 * 1)  The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

Translations

 * Arabic: سُلَالَة
 * Belarusian: паро́да, сорт , штам
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ;  ;  sukujuuri,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: raze
 * Georgian: ჯიში, სახეობა, სახესხვაობა
 * German:, , , ,
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Kazakh: штамм
 * Occitan: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: صوی, نسل
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Sicilian:, , lignaggiu, , discinnenza
 * Spanish:,   raza (race, breed) variedad (virus, breed),
 * Ukrainian: поро́да, сорт , штам


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: щам
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ;  ;
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: შტამი
 * German:, Erregerstamm, Züchtung, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:, cepa,
 * Polish:,  ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene: sev
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: наследствена черта
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, , , , , ,
 * Italian:, , carattere ereditario, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , , disposisjon
 * Portuguese:
 * Sicilian: natura, caràttiri riditariu, riditarità
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Sicilian:, , stili,


 * Finnish:
 * German:, , ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: صوی
 * Sicilian: gèniri,, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
From, , , from (whence 🇨🇬), from.

Verb

 * 1)  To hold tightly, to clasp.
 * 2)  To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
 * 3)  To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
 * 4)  To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
 * 5)  To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
 * 6)  To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
 * 7)  To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
 * 8)  To percolate; to be filtered.
 * 9)  To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
 * 10)  To urge with importunity; to press.
 * 11)  To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
 * 1)  To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
 * 2)  To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
 * 3)  To percolate; to be filtered.
 * 4)  To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
 * 5)  To urge with importunity; to press.
 * 6)  To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
 * 1)  To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
 * 2)  To percolate; to be filtered.
 * 3)  To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
 * 4)  To urge with importunity; to press.
 * 5)  To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
 * 1)  To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
 * 2)  To urge with importunity; to press.
 * 3)  To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
 * 1)  To urge with importunity; to press.
 * 2)  To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
 * 1)  To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
 * 1)  To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
 * 1)  To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish: belaste,, trykke
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, , , , , , , ,
 * Irish: freang
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Korean:
 * Maori: riaka, whakawhēnanau, whakatoutou
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, belaste
 * Persian:
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: overstrække
 * Dutch: overstrekken
 * Finnish: venäyttää
 * French:
 * German:, , , , , , , , , ,
 * Irish: sníomh
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Maori: tanuku, whakatoutou , whakawhēnanau
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic:
 * Aromanian: stricor
 * Asturian: colar
 * Bashkir: һөҙөү
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎧᏅᏐᎸᏍᏗᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: filtri
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, , ,
 * German:, , , , , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: síothlaigh, scag
 * Italian:, , , , , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: percolō, saccō
 * Maori: tātari
 * Norman: êputher
 * Norwegian: sile
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: سوزمك
 * Persian:, ماشیوه کردن
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: suysuy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sìolaidh
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salain
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: проці́джувати, проціди́ти,
 * Venetian: cołar, colar

Noun



 * 1) The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
 * 2) * 1832, Charles Stewart Drewry (A.M.I.C.E.), A memoir on suspension bridges, page 183:
 * If the Menai Bridge, for instance, were loaded at that rate, the entire strain on the main chains would be about 2000 tons ; while the chains containing 260 square  inches of iron would bear, at 9 tons per square inch, 2340 tons, without stretching  ...
 * 1) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
 * 2) An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
 * 3)  A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
 * 4)  The track of a deer.
 * 1) An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
 * 2)  A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
 * 3)  The track of a deer.
 * 1)  A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
 * 2)  The track of a deer.
 * 1)  The track of a deer.
 * 1)  The track of a deer.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, tensió
 * Danish: pres
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, , , , , , , , , ,
 * Latin: tēnsiō
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, , , ,
 * Occitan: esperfòrç
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: разтежение
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: Überdehnung, Verdehnung,, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, venyminen
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Irish: straidhn


 * Finnish: hirven jälki
 * German: ,

Etymology 3
From, from , , , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.