whip

Etymology
From, , from and , from. Some similarity to Sanskrit root, 🇨🇬. (See Swedish and Danish ).

The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound of a whip; compare the same development in and onomatopoeias such as  and.

The political senses are from, 18th century hunting terminology.

Noun

 * 1) A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
 * 2) The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
 * 3) A blow administered with a whip.
 * 4)  A whipper-in.
 * 5)  A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
 * 6)  A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
 * 7)  The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
 * 8) Whipped cream.
 * 9)  A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
 * 10)  A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
 * 11)  A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
 * 12) A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
 * 13) The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
 * 14) Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
 * 15) A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
 * 16)  A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
 * 17)  A coach driver; a coachman.
 * 1) Whipped cream.
 * 2)  A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
 * 3)  A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
 * 4)  A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
 * 5) A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
 * 6) The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
 * 7) Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
 * 8) A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
 * 9)  A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
 * 10)  A coach driver; a coachman.
 * 1) A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
 * 2) The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
 * 3) Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
 * 4) A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
 * 5)  A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
 * 6)  A coach driver; a coachman.
 * 1)  A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
 * 2)  A coach driver; a coachman.

Synonyms

 * , dressage whip, driving whip , jumping bat , flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok , thong
 * ,,  flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok , thong

Translations

 * Afrikaans: roer,
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: سَوْط, كِرْبَاج, كُرْبَاج
 * Egyptian Arabic: كرباج
 * Moroccan Arabic: مشحاطة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: llátigu
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: сыбыртҡы, ҡамсы
 * Belarusian:, бізу́н, плётка, біч, нага́йка, дубе́ц, хлыст, бізу́н, бато́г
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: latigo
 * Chamicuro: ashpijka'chachi
 * Chechen: шадд
 * Chickasaw: ishfama'
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鞭
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: hwypp
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: piits
 * Faroese: píska
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, tralla, zurriago, zorrega, azorrague, vergallo, verdasco, , azoute
 * Georgian: შოლტი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μάστιξ
 * Gujarati: ચાબુક
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , ताज़ियाना, , , क़मची, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: baot
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: rooska
 * Inuktitut: ᐃᐱᕋᐅᑕᖅ
 * Irish: fuip
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: шилвр
 * Kazakh: қамшы
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: 채찍
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ແສ້
 * Latin: flagrum, lōrum, scutica, verber, flagellum
 * Latvian: pātaga
 * Lithuanian: botagas
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Pietsch, Sweep, Swääp
 * Luxembourgish: Baatsch
 * Macedonian: бич, камшик
 * Malay: cambok, cemeti
 * Malayalam: ചാട്ട
 * Manchu: ᡧᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ
 * Maori: wepu
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠰᠢᠭᠤᠷ
 * Navajo: bee atsxis
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: fouet
 * Northern Mansi: хо̄мси
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: pisk
 * Nynorsk: pisk
 * Occitan:, flisquet
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: бичь
 * Old East Slavic: кнутъ, бичь
 * Old English: swipu
 * Ottoman Turkish: قامچی, قرباچ, سوط
 * Papiamentu: zuip
 * Pashto:, , کمچينه
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Pitsch
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuip
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: би̏ч, ка̀нџија, ко̀рба̄ч
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: bič, korbáč
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sranan Tongo: krawasi
 * Swahili: kambaa,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: latiko, latigo
 * Tajik: химча, қамчин, тозиёна
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྟ་ལྕག
 * Tocharian B: yatwe
 * Tumbuka: chikoti
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: gamçy
 * Ukrainian:, , нага́йка, хлист, канчу́к
 * Urdu: چابک, ہنٹر
 * Uyghur: قامچا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: bat
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh: chwip
 * West Frisian: swipe
 * Yiddish: בײַטש
 * Yucatec Maya: hats'ik
 * Yup'ik: kulutaq
 * ǃXóõ: ǁn̥a̰m


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 黨鞭
 * Hokkien: 黨鞭
 * Mandarin: 黨鞭
 * Danish: indpisker
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hindi:
 * Irish: aoire
 * Malayalam: വിപ്പ്
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: innpisker
 * Nynorsk: innpiskar
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: วิป, ผู้คุมเสียงในสภา

Verb

 * 1)  To hit with a whip.
 * 2)  To hit with any flexible object.
 * 3)  To defeat, as in a contest or game.
 * 4)  To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
 * 5)  To urge into action or obedience.
 * 6)  To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
 * 7)  To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
 * 8) * 1677-1683,, Mechanick exercises
 * Its string is firmly whipt about with small Gut
 * 1)  To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
 * 2) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
 * 3)  To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
 * 4)  To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
 * 5)  To snap back and forth like a whip.
 * 6)  To move very fast.
 * 7)  To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
 * 8)  To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
 * 9)  To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
 * 10) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
 * 1)  To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
 * 2)  To snap back and forth like a whip.
 * 3)  To move very fast.
 * 4)  To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
 * 5)  To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
 * 6)  To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
 * 7) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
 * 1)  To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
 * 2)  To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
 * 3)  To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
 * 4) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
 * 1)  To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
 * 2)  To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
 * 3) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
 * 1)  To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
 * 2) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
 * 1) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.

Synonyms

 * Thesaurus:whip

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: جَلَدَ بِسَوْط, سَاطَ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: azotar
 * Azerbaijani: qamçılamaq
 * Belarusian: паро́ць, сцяба́ць, сячы́, хваста́ць
 * Bulgarian:, бия с камшик
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chickasaw: fammi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: hwyppya
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: skurĝi, vipi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German: anpeitschen,, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μαστιγόω, μαστίζω
 * Hebrew: הִלְקָה,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: failp
 * Italian:, , scudisciare, ,
 * Japanese: 鞭打つ
 * Kalmyk: шилврдх
 * Korean: 채찍질-하다
 * Latin: flagello
 * Luxembourgish: baatschen
 * Macedonian: би́чува, камши́кува
 * Maori: wepu, whiu
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: fouetter
 * Polish:, ubiczować, , or
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, бить пле́тью, , , ,
 * Shan:
 * Slovak: bičovať
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, , , ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, лупцюва́ти, , сікти́, шмага́ти, відшмага́ти, ви́шмагати
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chickasaw: fammi
 * Cornish: hwyppya
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: vipi
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: failp, gread
 * Maori: tā
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Indonesian:
 * Spanish: dar una paliza


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: šlehat
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: coip
 * Maori: whakapāhukahuka, kōheriheri, tāwhiuwhiu
 * Norman:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: anpeitschen
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: rihmata
 * Hebrew:


 * Finnish:
 * Spanish: dar velocidad


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Indonesian: balas membentak
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Spanish:


 * Esperanto: