velvet

Etymology
From, , , from , from , diminutive of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
 * 2) Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
 * 3)  A female chinchilla; a sow.
 * 4)  The drug dextromethorphan.
 * 5)  Money acquired by gambling.
 * 1)  A female chinchilla; a sow.
 * 2)  The drug dextromethorphan.
 * 3)  Money acquired by gambling.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُخْمَل, قَطِيفَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: قطيفة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: аксамі́т, ба́рхат
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 絲絨
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: veluro
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: floyal, fleyald
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ხავერდი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मख़मल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: veilbhit
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: барқыт, мақпал, қатипа
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 벨벳, 우단
 * Kumyk: махмар
 * Kyrgyz:, макмал
 * Lao: ກຳມະຫຍີ່
 * Latvian: samts
 * Lithuanian: aksomas
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: сомот, кадифе
 * Malay: baldu, beledu
 * Maltese: bellus
 * Maori: wereweti
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: v'lous
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قطیفه
 * Pashto:, مخمل
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Zaunft
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮਖਮਲ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: meileabhaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ба̀ршӯн
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: zamat
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mahameli
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pelus
 * Tajik: бахмал, махмал
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྤུ་མ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: welwet
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مخمل
 * Uyghur: مەخمەل, بەرقۇت, دۇخاۋا
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: סאַמעט


 * Finnish: (samettinen) nahka
 * French: (on skin),  (on antlers)
 * Irish: veilbhit
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: basthud


 * Estonian:
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1) To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
 * 2)  To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
 * 3) To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
 * 4) * 2014, "Top genetic selection produces biggest antlers," NZFarmer.co.nz, 12 July, 2014,
 * Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered.
 * 1)  To soften; to mitigate.
 * 2)  to retract.
 * Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered.
 * 1)  To soften; to mitigate.
 * 2)  to retract.
 * 1)  to retract.

Translations

 * German: (das Geweih) fegen, verfegen


 * German:


 * German: die Krallen einziehen

Adjective

 * 1) Made of velvet.
 * 2) Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
 * 3)  ; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
 * 4) * 2011, Javad Etaat quoted in Hooman Majd, The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge, page 39:
 * “I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”
 * 1) * 2011, Javad Etaat quoted in Hooman Majd, The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge, page 39:
 * “I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”
 * 1) * 2011, Javad Etaat quoted in Hooman Majd, The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge, page 39:
 * “I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”
 * “I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”

Translations

 * Bulgarian: кадифен
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Polish:


 * Polish:

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  fine tufted fabric
 * 2) Clothes made of velvet.