yarn

Etymology
From, , , from the , from , from , from ,.

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also the obsolete doublet.

Noun

 * 1)  A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
 * 2)  Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
 * 3)  A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: garing
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: chngax̂
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: دوبارة, خيط, بكرة
 * Gulf Arabic: خيط
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: iplik,
 * Belarusian: пра́жа
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chakma: 𑄙𑄉
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 冷
 * Hokkien:, 毛線
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: garn
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, kedrus
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, fiado
 * Georgian: ნართი,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: ἀρπεδόνη
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: lanka
 * Irish: abhras, snáth
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: жіп
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 털실
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ເສັ້ນດ້າຍ, ດ້າຍ
 * Latin: filum, acia
 * Latvian: dzija
 * Lithuanian: verpalai
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Macedonian: предиво, преѓа, предено
 * Middle English: yarn, garn
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: garn
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: miskogaadeyaab
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: прѧжда
 * Old English: ġearn
 * Ottoman Turkish: ایپلك
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: q'aytu
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пре̏дӣво, пре̏ђа
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: priadza, pradivo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , , hilaza
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: нах,, ресмон
 * Tashelhit: ⵜⵉⵍⵎⵉ
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýüplük
 * Ukrainian: пря́жа
 * Urdu: سوت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: edau,
 * Yup'ik: kistaq
 * Zazaki: layêk
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu:


 * Danish: garn
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: cordame, cordaggio
 * Polish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Georgian: მოთხრობა, ნაამბობი
 * Hebrew: מַעֲשִׂיָּה
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ほら話
 * Macedonian: приказна
 * Maori: kōrero paki, kōrero whakakata
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: príbeh
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.
 * 2) * 1935,, ' (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in ', New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,
 * “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”
 * “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”

Translations

 * Bulgarian: разказвам небивалици
 * Georgian: ამბის მოყოლა
 * Macedonian: раска́жува
 * Maori: kōrero paki
 * Russian: травим байки

Etymology
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) Yarn; a length of fibre used to weave.