tern

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
Via an East Anglian dialect, from some Scandinavian language, related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, all from, ultimately from. .

Noun

 * 1) Any of various seabirds of the subfamily  (of the family ) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Arabic: خَرْشَنَة
 * Asturian:, ,
 * Bulgarian: морска лястовица
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: terne
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ŝterno
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: carrán
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Meerschwalbe
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κήξ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: þerna
 * Ido:
 * Irish: geabhróg, scréachóg thrá
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 제비갈매기
 * Latin: larus, sterna
 * Manx: gant Arctagh, gant cadjin, gollan marrey
 * Mokilese: pares
 * Navajo: tónteel táshchozhii
 * Norman: daûtchet
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: terne
 * Nynorsk: terne
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, mòrska lȁstavica
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, fumarel, gaviotín
 * Swedish:
 * Tiwi: martapaka, wujirrini
 * Turkish: sumrugil
 * Ukrainian: кря́чок
 * Volapük: melasval
 * Welsh: morwennol, môr-wennol
 * West Frisian: stirns
 * Wik-Mungkan: oopal

Etymology 2
The is derived from Late, from  (modern 🇨🇬), from , the    of , from  (ultimately from ) +  (from ).

The is either derived from the noun, or directly from ; see above.

Noun

 * 1)  A thing with three components; a set of three things.
 * 2)  A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.

Adjective

 * 1)  Consisting of three components; ternate, threefold, triple.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) set of three, trio
 * 2) matching three-piece suit

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  matte, lackluster, dull lacking gloss
 * 2)  colorless, pale lacking color or contrast