waist

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
 * 2)  A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
 * 3) The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).
 * 4) The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.
 * 5)  That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
 * 6) The middle part of anything.
 * 1) The middle part of anything.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خَصْر, وَسَط
 * Egyptian Arabic: وسط
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: бил
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: та́лія
 * Breton: ,
 * Brunei Malay: pinggang
 * Bulgarian: та́лия
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: hawak
 * Chichewa: chiuno
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Coptic: ϯⲡⲓ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: talje
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vöökoht
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , cós
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἰξύς
 * Gujarati:
 * Hawaiian: pūhaka
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: hawak
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: vöönkohta
 * Iquito: acajinacúraji
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 胴のくびれ,, 胴回り
 * Kabuverdianu: sintura
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: awakan
 * Kazakh: бел
 * Khmer:
 * Kinaray-a: hawak
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کەمەر
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: ביל, bel
 * Lao:
 * Latin: media pars corporis, medium corpus
 * Latvian: viduklis, jostasvieta
 * Lithuanian: juosmuo
 * Macedonian: појас
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: qadd
 * Manchu: ᡩᠠᡵᠠ, ᡩᠠᡵᠠᠮᠠ
 * Mansaka: awak
 * Maori:
 * Middle English: wast
 * Mingrelian: ოჭიში
 * Miyako: ヨーラ
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: anííʼ
 * Nepali: ,
 * Norwegian: midje
 * Odia:
 * Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐰠
 * Ottoman Turkish: بل, خصر
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Kjnäp, Weest, Taulj
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: mashkar
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: meadhan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̏ја̄с
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:, cintu
 * Slovak: pás
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: angkeng
 * Svan: ლა̄რტყა, ჯაჭა̈რ
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, , ,
 * Tibetan:
 * Tooro: embaju
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan: бел кежик, бел кеш, бел кежи
 * Ukrainian: та́лія
 * Urdu: کمر
 * Uyghur: بەل
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: gwasg
 * White Hmong:
 * Yakut: биил
 * Yami: kawakan
 * Yiddish: טאַליע
 * Zazaki: mér
 * Zhuang: hwet


 * Bulgarian: корсаж
 * Danish: talje
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Hawaiian: pākana
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: vöönkohta
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: meadhan
 * Sicilian:, curriva, cintu
 * Spanish:


 * Danish: hvepsetalje
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Estonian: kesktekk
 * Finnish: keskirunko
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: keskiosa


 * Breton:
 * Dutch:
 * Italian:

Etymology
, probably from, , from , form.