wink

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To close one's eyes in sleep.
 * 2)  To close one's eyes.
 * 3)  Usually followed by : to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
 * 4)  To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
 * 5)  To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
 * 6)  To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
 * 7) * 1920,, Letter to Richard Murray (ca. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996):
 * Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.
 * 1)  To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
 * 2)  To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
 * 3)  To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
 * 4) * 1920,, Letter to Richard Murray (ca. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996):
 * Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.
 * 1)  To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
 * 2)  To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
 * 3) * 1920,, Letter to Richard Murray (ca. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996):
 * Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.
 * 1)  To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
 * 2) * 1920,, Letter to Richard Murray (ca. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996):
 * Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.
 * Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.

Translations

 * Arabic: غَمَزَ
 * Hijazi Arabic: غَمَز
 * Asturian: chisgar
 * Belarusian: падмо́ргваць, падмаргну́ць, падмі́гваць, падмігну́ць
 * Bikol Central: kiyat
 * Bulgarian: нами́гвам,
 * Catalan:, picar l'ullet
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: blinke
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: okulsigni
 * Finnish: iskeä silmää,
 * French:, faire un
 * Galician:, piscar,
 * Georgian: თვალის ჩაკვრა, თვალით ნიშნება
 * German: ,
 * Old High German: winchen
 * Greek: κλείνω το μάτι
 * Ancient Greek: δενδίλλω, σκαρδαμύσσω
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: blikka
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, strizzare l'occhio, fare l'occhiolino, biluxare
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: көз қысу
 * Korean: 눈-을 깜빡이다
 * Kyrgyz: көз ирмөө, көз кысуу
 * Latin: nicto, conniveo
 * Latvian: pamirkšķināt, mirkšķināt
 * Marathi: डोळा मारणे
 * Middle English: wynken
 * Norman: clyinn'ter, donner un clyîn , faithe un clyîn
 * Norwegian: blunke
 * Old English: wincian
 * Old Saxon: winkon
 * Persian: چشمک زدن
 * Polish:, puścić oko
 * Portuguese: piscar (o olho)
 * Quechua: ch'illmipakuy, ch'ipihyay
 * Romanian: face cu ochiul
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: priob, caog
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: намигнути
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: mrkať, mrknúť
 * Spanish:, picar el ojo
 * Tok Pisin: brukim ai
 * Turkish:, kaş göz etmek
 * Ukrainian: підмо́ргувати, підморгну́ти
 * Vietnamese: đá lông nheo, nháy mắt


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Latvian: mirgot
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: priob, caog
 * Turkish:


 * German: ,

Noun



 * 1) An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
 * 2) A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
 * 3) A brief time; an instant.
 * 4) The smallest possible amount.
 * 5) * 1899,, "The Men of Forty-Nine: 'Malemute Kid" Deals with a Duel," Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, second series:
 * It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime.
 * 1) A subtle allusion.
 * It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime.
 * 1) A subtle allusion.

Translations

 * Arabic: غَمْزَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: غمزة
 * Moroccan Arabic: غمزة
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: רפפא
 * Syriac: ܪܦܦܐ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: mrknutí
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, , batter d'occhio
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 윙크
 * Latvian: pamirkšķināšana, mirkšķināšana
 * Norman: clyîn, clyîn dg'yi
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: piscada
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: caogadh, priobadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ми̑г
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: žmurknutie
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: pagkindat
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon:


 * Finnish:
 * German: eine Mütze (voll) Schlaf ,


 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: רפפא
 * Syriac: ܪܦܦܐ
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, szemhunyásnyi
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latvian: acumirklis, mirklis
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: priobadh
 * Telugu:


 * Finnish: vilaus
 * German: ,


 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Polish:

Etymology 2
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Etymology 3
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