tusk

English




Etymology 1
From (also, ), from , , from , , from , extended form of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), 🇨🇬 and. . More at.

Noun

 * 1) One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
 * Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
 * 1) A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
 * 2) A tusk shell.
 * 3)  A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
 * 4) A sharp point.
 * 5) The share of a plough.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: ناب
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: xillə
 * Belarusian: бі́вень
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, би́вен
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chichewa: mnyanga
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dupaningan Agta: paseng
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: dentego, tusko, pikdento
 * Estonian: kihv
 * Finnish:
 * French: ;
 * Galician:, , queiro, dentequeiro
 * German: ;
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στόρθυγξ
 * Hebrew:, חטים
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:, , ,
 * Korean: 엄니,
 * Lao: ງາ, ແງ, ທັນຕາ, ໜາຍ
 * Macedonian: бивна
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maori: reiputa
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: støttann, støyttann
 * Nynorsk: støyttann
 * Old English: tūsc
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਡੰਦ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: (elephant's), клык  (walrus', boar's)
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кљо̑ва
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kel
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: (elephant's), upamba (boar's)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salimao, pangil
 * Tamil: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: མཆེ་བ
 * Tocharian B: ānkär
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ysgithr
 * West Frisian: slachttosk
 * Yoruba: eyín erin (elephant's)


 * Ukrainian: вістря

Verb

 * 1) To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
 * 2) To gore with the tusks.
 * 3)  To bare or gnash the teeth.

Noun

 * 1) A fish, the torsk.

Noun

 * 1) dog

Etymology
Related to Finnish. Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) pain

Etymology
From, from earlier , from. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) A  protruding long tooth
 * 2) Any long and sharp tooth.
 * 3)  The end of a spear.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tooth

Etymology
Borrowed from (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) depression, melancholy, grief, suffering