turtle

Etymology 1
Modification of, , from (under the influence of , , see Etymology 2 below), from  (compare 🇨🇬), the same source of  (see there for more). Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1)  Any land or marine reptile of the order, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also .
 * 2)  A marine reptile of that order.
 * 3)  An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
 * 4)  A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
 * 5)  An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
 * 6)  The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
 * 7)  A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare.
 * 8)  A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
 * 9)  A low stand for a lamp etc.
 * 10) * Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television
 * Using an appropriate turtle allows the full range of pan and tilt adjustments on the luminaire and avoids possible heat damage to floor coverings.
 * 1)  A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
 * 2)  A low stand for a lamp etc.
 * 3) * Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television
 * Using an appropriate turtle allows the full range of pan and tilt adjustments on the luminaire and avoids possible heat damage to floor coverings.

Translations

 * Abenaki: tolba
 * Abkhaz: акәуа
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ahom: 𑜄𑜧
 * Akkadian: 𒁄𒄀, 𒃻𒅮𒈾
 * Albanian:
 * Alviri-Vidari: لوک‌پشت
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: سلحفة
 * Gulf Arabic: حمسة
 * Hijazi Arabic: سلحفة
 * Moroccan Arabic: فكرون, سلحفة
 * North Levantine Arabic: زِلْحفِة (Lebanon)
 * South Levantine Arabic: سلحفاة, سلحفة (Gaza), كركعة (Ramallah, Amman)
 * Tunisian Arabic: فكرون
 * Aragonese: tartuga
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܪܩܐ, ܣܠܘܦܝܬܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: broascã tsãstoasã
 * Assamese: কাছ
 * Asturian:
 * Atayal: ksipa
 * Avar: щурункъверкъ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Baoule: abu
 * Bashkir: ташбаҡа, гөбөргәйел
 * Basque:
 * Bau Bidayuh: ponyu
 * Belarusian: чарапа́ха
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bikol Central: baho
 * Blackfoot: spopii
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Catawba: káia
 * Cebuano: bao
 * Central Melanau: panyok
 * Chamicuro: majpolo
 * Chechen: уьнтӏепхьид
 * Cheyenne: ma'ëno
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 龜, 烏龜
 * Dungan: бегэ, бе
 * Eastern Min: 烏龜, 龜
 * Hokkien:, 龜
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Wu: 烏龜
 * Choctaw: luksi
 * Coptic: ⲕⲁⲑⲓⲣⲟⲥ
 * Cornish: kronek ervys mor, morgroban
 * Cree: ᒥᐢᑭᓈᕁ
 * Crimean Tatar: qapulbaqa
 * Crow: basáxa
 * Czech:
 * Dakota: keya
 * Danish:
 * Darkinjung: kutumung
 * Daur: xabil
 * Drung: chvkop
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: бака
 * Esperanto:, kelonio
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: skjaldbøka
 * Fijian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French: wecle
 * Galician:, sapoconcho
 * Georgian: ზღვის კუ,
 * German:
 * Gilbertese: tabwakea
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χέλυς, χελώνη
 * Greenlandic: saaniluk
 * Guaraní: karumbe
 * Gullah: cootuh
 * Haitian Creole: tòti
 * Hawaiian: honu
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: bao-o
 * Hindi:
 * Hopi: yöngösona
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: cerepaha
 * Irish: turtar
 * Italian:
 * Iu Mien: doc
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Jeju: 거북
 * Kamta: পানীমাছ
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kapampangan: pau, pawu
 * Kazakh: тасбақа
 * Khmer:
 * Kimaragang: borungai
 * Klamath-Modoc: ngak
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lakota: khéya
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: brūnisrupucs
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦎᧁᧈ
 * Luxembourgish: ,
 * Macedonian: же́лка
 * Makasae: fenu
 * Malay:, labi-labi , , akah
 * Malecite-Passamaquoddy: cihkonaqc, mikcikc
 * Maltese: fekruna
 * Mam: petz
 * Manchu: ᡝᡳᡥᡠᠮᡝ
 * Mansaka: bao
 * Manx: shligganagh marrey, turtyl
 * Maori: honu
 * Maranao: bao'o
 * Mauritian Creole: torti
 * Mi'kmaq: migjigj
 * Mongolian: яст мэлхий
 * Nahuatl:
 * Nanai: аян
 * Navajo: chʼééh digháhii, tsisteeł
 * Nivkh: ая
 * Northern East Cree: ᑖᐦᑖᐤ
 * Northern Sami: galbarihcci
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: skjelpadde
 * Nuosu: ꀌꀠꎭꉻ
 * Nyunga: yarkan
 * Occitan:
 * Okinawan: 亀
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: желꙑ
 * Old East Slavic: желꙑ
 * Old English: byrdling
 * Oromo: qocaa
 * Ossetian: уӕртджын хӕфс
 * Pali: kacchapa
 * Papiamentu: turtuga
 * Pashto:
 * Penobscot: dolba
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Schiltkjrät
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: charapa
 * Rapa Nui: honu
 * Romanian: broască țestoasă
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: crùban-coille, sligeanach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: корњача
 * Roman:
 * Seychellois Creole: torti
 * Shan:
 * Sinhalese: කැස්බෑවා
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:, qubo
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: nopawa, žołw
 * Southern Altai: таш-бака
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: sekrepatu
 * Sudovian: zelvīs
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠐ꠆ꠐꠥꠀ
 * Tagalog: pagong
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: išfar, tišfart
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Ternate: ori
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རུས་སྦལ
 * Tocharian B: kaccāp
 * Tsonga: gamba
 * Tswana: khudu
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: pyşbaga
 * Tuvan: языты-мелегей, мелегей
 * Ukrainian: черепа́ха
 * Unami: tahkox
 * Urdu: کچھوا
 * Uyghur: تاشپاقا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: tortug
 * Welsh: crwban
 * West Coast Bajau: akah, penu
 * West Frisian: skyldpod
 * White Hmong: vaub kib
 * Wolof: mbonnat
 * Yámana: uštakáluš
 * Yiddish: שילדקרעט, טשערעפּאַכע
 * Yoruba: ìjàpá
 * Yucatec Maya: aak
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang: duzgvi, gvi


 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: ترسة
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: baot vor
 * Bulgarian: морска костенурка
 * Cebuano: pawikan
 * Darkinjung: kutumung
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, merikilpikonna
 * French: tortue de mer
 * Greek:
 * Ilocano: pawikan
 * Irish: turtar mara
 * Japanese:
 * Kashmiri: کرٕٛم
 * Macedonian: мо́рска же́лка
 * Malay:
 * Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼééh digháhii
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, havskilpadde
 * Nynorsk: skjelpadde, havskjelpadde
 * Pangasinan: pawikan
 * Polish: żółw wodny
 * Portuguese:, tartaruga marinha
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pawikan
 * Tatar:
 * Volapük: melatortug
 * Welsh: môr-grwban


 * Finnish: kilpikonnamuodostelma
 * French:
 * Macedonian: же́лка
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: piirustusrobotti
 * Polish:


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Interlingua:

Verb

 * 1)  To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
 * 2) * 1919, Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32, page 48
 * Were speeding when car turtled Auto crashed into curb and turtled.
 * 1)  To move along slowly.
 * 2)  To turn and swim upside down.
 * 3)  To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
 * 4)  To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
 * 1)  To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
 * 2)  To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
 * 1)  To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: преобръщам се
 * Finnish: kääntyä ympäri
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: envorcar
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:, dar una vuelta de campana


 * Finnish: kääntää ympäri


 * Finnish: metsästää kilpikonnia
 * French:

Etymology 2
From, , , , from , , ultimately from , of imitative origin.

Noun

 * 1)  A turtle dove.

Derived terms

 * , turtlish
 * ,, , turtlize
 * , turtlish
 * ,, , turtlize

Etymology
Ultimately from, of imitative origin.

Noun

 * 1)  turtle dove