tuft

Etymology
From, , , an alteration of earlier (> Modern English ), from , , ,  (modern French ), from  (near Vegezio). Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from, ; akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
 * 2) A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
 * 3) A small clump of trees or bushes.
 * 4)  A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
 * 5)  A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
 * 1)  A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: guedello, guecho, caramiñola,, gavela, mostea, topete
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: dual, dlaoi, stoth
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Latin: torulus
 * Macedonian: вр́зоп, пра́мен, сноп, ки́чер
 * Maori: pūrekireki, puia
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: toupet, tun, tus
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian:, ,
 * Spanish:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Welsh: cudyn, twffyn


 * Italian: ,


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, pusikko
 * Irish: tom
 * Italian: macchia d'alberi


 * Finnish: (kultainen) tupsu
 * Italian: nappina dorata


 * Finnish: tupsulakki

Verb

 * 1)  To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
 * 2)  To form into tufts.
 * 3)  To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
 * 4)  To be formed into tufts.
 * 1)  To be formed into tufts.
 * 1)  To be formed into tufts.

Translations

 * Finnish: nukittaa ; tuftata
 * Italian: infiocchettare, ornare di ciuffi, impennacchiare


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: nukittaa, tuftata


 * Finnish: tuftata
 * Italian: trapuntare


 * Finnish: takkuuntua
 * Italian: a forma di ciuffo

Etymology
From, , from and/or. . Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) homestead, ground where a house stands
 * 2) an earth floor
 * 3) a plot, site, (building) lot
 * 1) a plot, site, (building) lot

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