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Most places get their name from bends in rivers.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhendh-der. Proto-Germanic *bindaną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *bandijaną Proto-West Germanic *bandijan Old English bendan Middle English benden English bend From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bandijan, from Proto-Germanic *bandijaną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhendh- (“to bind, tie”). Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). Related to bind, band, bond.

359 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kthesë — curve
• Albanian: kthyerje — curve
• Northern Altai: каш (kaš) — curve
• Southern Altai: каш (kaš) — curve
• Bashkir: ҡаш (qaş) — curve
• Bulgarian: завой (zavoj) — curve
• Czech: ohyb — curve
• Dutch: bocht — curve
• Esperanto: klino — curve
• Finnish: mutka — curve
• French: virage — curve
• Galician: volta — curve
• Galician: curva — curve
• Galician: anco — curve
• German: Kurve — curve
• German: Biegung — curve
• Greek: στροφή (strofí) — curve
• Ancient Greek: καμπή (kampḗ) — curve
• Ancient Greek: ἄγκος (ánkos) — curve
• Hindi: मोड़ (moṛ) — curve
• Ingrian: mutka — curve
• Italian: curva — curve
• Karachay-Balkar: къаш (qaş) — curve
• Karakalpak: qas — curve
• Kazakh: бүгіс (bügıs) — curve
• Kazakh: қас (qas) — curve
• Khakas: хас (xas) — curve
• Khalaj: qâş — curve
• Kumyk: къаш (qaş) — curve
• Kyrgyz: каш (kaş) — curve
• Latin: curvāmen — curve
• Latin: flexus — curve
• Latin: campter — curve
• Lithuanian: vingis — curve
• Māori: hawe — curve
• Māori: hawhe (in a fenceline) — curve
• Māori: whawhe (in a fenceline) — curve
• Māori: noninga — curve
• Marathi: वळण (vaḷaṇ) — curve
• Ngarrindjeri: tagalang — curve
• Nogai: кас (kas) — curve
• Norwegian Bokmål: kurve — curve
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kurve — curve
• Occitan: corba — curve
• Old English: byġe — curve
• Portuguese: curva — curve
• Sanskrit: अङ्कस् (aṅkas) — curve
• Scottish Gaelic: bogha — curve
• Scottish Gaelic: lùb — curve
• Scottish Gaelic: bogha — curve
• Slovene: zavoj — curve
• Spanish: curva — curve
• Spanish: recodo — curve
• Spanish: quingo — curve
• Spanish: doblegamiento — curve
• Spanish: doblegadura (disused) — curve
• Swedish: kurva — curve
• Swedish: krök — curve
• Swedish: böj — curve
• Tatar: каш (qaş) — curve
• Turkish: viraj — curve
• Turkish: dönemeç — curve
• Turkish: kıvrım — curve
• Ottoman Turkish: اكری (eğri) — curve
• Ottoman Turkish: كوشه (köşe) — curve
• Turkmen: gāş — curve
• Uyghur: قاش (qash) — curve
• Yiddish: אויסבייג (oysbeyg) — curve
• Albanian: nye — knot
• Bulgarian: възел (vǎzel) — knot
• Dutch: verbindingsknoop — knot
• Finnish: kytky — knot
• French: nœud — knot
• Hebrew: רֶכֶס (rekhes) — knot
• Hindi: गाँठ (gā̃ṭh) — knot
• Italian: nodo — knot
• Occitan: nos — knot
• Occitan: nosèl — knot
• Occitan: laç — knot
• Sanskrit: ग्रन्थि (granthi) — knot
• Swedish: knop — knot
• Catalan: banda — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Czech: břevno pokosem — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Dutch: schuinbalk — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Finnish: palkki — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• French: bande — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• German: Schrägbalken — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Irish: bandán — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Italian: banda — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Polish: skos — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Portuguese: banda — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Spanish: banda — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Swedish: balk — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Swedish: snedbjälke — heraldry: one of the ordinaries
• Finnish: tarkoitus — turn; purpose; inclination; ends
• Hindi: झुकाव (jhukāv) — turn; purpose; inclination; ends
• Hindi: मोड़ (moṛ) — turn; purpose; inclination; ends
• Finnish: anturanahka — best quality of sole leather
• Finnish: parras — nautical: thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides
• Finnish: kaaret — nautical: frames or ribs that form the ship's body
• Afrikaans: buig — to cause to shape into a curve
• Albanian: ep — to cause to shape into a curve
• Albanian: lakoj — to cause to shape into a curve
• Albanian: përkul — to cause to shape into a curve
• Aleut: kahngil — to cause to shape into a curve
• Arabic: ثَنَى (ṯanā) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Armenian: ծռել (cṙel) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Azerbaijani: bükmək — to cause to shape into a curve
• Azerbaijani: əymək — to cause to shape into a curve
• Belarusian: згіна́ць (zhinácʹ) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Belarusian: гнуць (hnucʹ) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Bulgarian: извивам (izvivam) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Bulgarian: превивам (previvam) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Chechen: сатта (satta) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Chinese Mandarin: 彎 /弯 (wān) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Cornish: plegya — to cause to shape into a curve
• Czech: ohnout — to cause to shape into a curve
• Danish: bøje — to cause to shape into a curve
• Dutch: buigen — to cause to shape into a curve
• Dutch: plooien — to cause to shape into a curve
• Esperanto: kurbigi — to cause to shape into a curve
• Esperanto: fleksi — to cause to shape into a curve
• Esperanto: klini — to cause to shape into a curve
• Finnish: taivuttaa — to cause to shape into a curve
• French: courber — to cause to shape into a curve
• French: tordre — to cause to shape into a curve
• Galician: curvar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Georgian: მოხრა (moxra) — to cause to shape into a curve
• German: beugen — to cause to shape into a curve
• Greek: λυγίζω (lygízo) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Ancient Greek: κάμπτω (kámptō) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Greek: καμπύλλω (kampúllō) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Hebrew: כופף (koféf) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Hindi: झुकाव (jhukāv) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Hindi: प्रवृत्ति (pravŕtti) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Hungarian: hajlít — to cause to shape into a curve
• Hungarian: görbít — to cause to shape into a curve
• Hungarian: kanyarít — to cause to shape into a curve
• Icelandic: beygja — to cause to shape into a curve
• Ingrian: painaa — to cause to shape into a curve
• Ingrian: painuttaa — to cause to shape into a curve
• Ingush: соттае (sottaje) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Italian: curvare — to cause to shape into a curve
• Italian: piegare — to cause to shape into a curve
• Japanese: 曲げる (mageru) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Korean: 구부리다 (guburida) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Central Kurdish: چەماندن (çemandin) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Latgalian: salīkt — to cause to shape into a curve
• Latgalian: puorlīkt — to cause to shape into a curve
• Latin: flectō — to cause to shape into a curve
• Latin: sinuō — to cause to shape into a curve
• Latin: curvō — to cause to shape into a curve
• Latvian: saliekt — to cause to shape into a curve
• Lithuanian: sulenkti — to cause to shape into a curve
• Malayalam: വളയ്ക്കുക (vaḷaykkuka) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Māori: ngawaki — to cause to shape into a curve
• Māori: whakapiko — to cause to shape into a curve
• Māori: whatiwhati — to cause to shape into a curve
• Māori: whakariroi — to cause to shape into a curve
• Middle English: croken — to cause to shape into a curve
• Classical Nahuatl: cuēloā — to cause to shape into a curve
• Classical Nahuatl: cuelpachoā — to cause to shape into a curve
• Norwegian: bøye — to cause to shape into a curve
• Occitan: corbar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Occitan: plegar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Old English: bīeġan — to cause to shape into a curve
• Persian: خماندن (xamândan) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Polish: zgiąć — to cause to shape into a curve
• Polish: zginać — to cause to shape into a curve
• Polish: giąć — to cause to shape into a curve
• Portuguese: dobrar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Portuguese: curvar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Romanian: îndoi — to cause to shape into a curve
• Romanian: curba — to cause to shape into a curve
• Russian: сгиба́ть (sgibátʹ) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Russian: изгиба́ть (izgibátʹ) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Russian: гнуть (gnutʹ) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Scottish Gaelic: crom — to cause to shape into a curve
• Scottish Gaelic: lùb — to cause to shape into a curve
• Serbo-Croatian: saviti — to cause to shape into a curve
• Sikkimese: ཀུག (kug) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Slovene: upogniti — to cause to shape into a curve
• Lower Sorbian: gibaś — to cause to shape into a curve
• Lower Sorbian: chyliś — to cause to shape into a curve
• Spanish: cimbrar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Spanish: cimbrear — to cause to shape into a curve
• Spanish: escarzar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Spanish: cimblar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Spanish: doblegar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Spanish: redoblegar — to cause to shape into a curve
• Sranan Tongo: beni — to cause to shape into a curve
• Swahili: pinda — to cause to shape into a curve
• Swahili: kunja — to cause to shape into a curve
• Swedish: böja — to cause to shape into a curve
• Tày: bjắt — to cause to shape into a curve
• Thai: งอ (ngɔɔ) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Turkish: bükmek — to cause to shape into a curve
• Ottoman Turkish: بوكمك (bükmek) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Ottoman Turkish: اكمك (eğmek) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Ukrainian: згина́ти (zhynáty) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Ukrainian: гну́ти (hnúty) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Vietnamese: uốn cong — to cause to shape into a curve
• Walloon: ployî — to cause to shape into a curve
• Welsh: plygu — to cause to shape into a curve
• Yiddish: בייגן (beygn) — to cause to shape into a curve
• Albanian: përthy — to become curved
• Armenian: ծռվել (cṙvel) — to become curved
• Bulgarian: извивам се (izvivam se) — to become curved
• Dutch: buigen — to become curved
• Dutch: plooien — to become curved
• Esperanto: kurbiĝi — to become curved
• Esperanto: kliniĝi — to become curved
• Finnish: taipua — to become curved
• French: se courber — to become curved
• French: se tordre — to become curved
• German: biegen — to become curved
• German: durchbiegen — to become curved
• Ancient Greek: κάμπτω (kámptō) — to become curved
• Greek: καμπύλλω (kampúllō) — to become curved
• Hebrew: התכופף (hitkoféf) — to become curved
• Hindi: झुकना (jhuknā) — to become curved
• Hindi: मुड़ना (muṛnā) — to become curved
• Ido: kurveskar — to become curved
• Japanese: 曲がる (magaru) — to become curved
• Middle English: croken — to become curved
• Occitan: se corbar — to become curved
• Occitan: se plegar — to become curved
• Old English: būgan — to become curved
• Polish: zginać się — to become curved
• Polish: zgiąć się — to become curved
• Portuguese: dobrar-se — to become curved
• Portuguese: curvar-se — to become curved
• Russian: гну́ться (gnútʹsja) — to become curved
• Russian: изгиба́ться (izgibátʹsja) — to become curved
• Scottish Gaelic: crom — to become curved
• Scottish Gaelic: lùb — to become curved
• Slovene: upogniti se — to become curved
• Spanish: doblarse — to become curved
• Spanish: pandear — to become curved
• Swahili: pinda — to become curved
• Swedish: böja — to become curved
• Swedish: krokna — to become curved
• Thai: โค้ง (kóong) — to become curved
• Thai: เบน (been) — to become curved
• Thai: ลู่ (lûu) — to become curved
• Turkish: bükmek — to become curved
• Ukrainian: гну́тися (hnútysja) — to become curved
• Ukrainian: погну́тися (pohnútysja) — to become curved
• Ukrainian: згина́тися (zhynátysja) — to become curved
• Ukrainian: зігну́тися (zihnútysja) — to become curved
• Walloon: ployî — to become curved
• Walloon: verdjî — to become curved
• Yiddish: בייגן זיך (beygn zikh) — to become curved
• Albanian: kthej — to cause to change direction
• Bulgarian: отклонявам (otklonjavam) — to cause to change direction
• Bulgarian: отклоня (otklonja) — to cause to change direction
• Finnish: kääntää — to cause to change direction
• Hindi: मुड़ना (muṛnā) — to cause to change direction
• Old English: bīeġan — to cause to change direction
• Thai: เบน (been) — to cause to change direction
• Albanian: kthehem — to change direction
• Bulgarian: завивам (zavivam) — to change direction
• Bulgarian: отклонявам се (otklonjavam se) — to change direction
• Bulgarian: отклоня се (otklonja se) — to change direction
• Chinese Mandarin: 轉彎 /转弯 — to change direction
• Dutch: afbuigen — to change direction
• Dutch: buigen — to change direction
• Dutch: draaien — to change direction
• Dutch: gaan — to change direction
• Finnish: kääntyä — to change direction
• French: tourner — to change direction
• Hindi: मुड़ना (muṛnā) — to change direction
• Italian: piegarsi — to change direction
• Italian: curvarsi — to change direction
• Latin: vergō — to change direction
• Occitan: virar — to change direction
• Old English: būgan — to change direction
• Portuguese: virar — to change direction
• Portuguese: curvar — to change direction
• Scottish Gaelic: lùb — to change direction
• Swahili: pinda — to change direction
• Thai: เบน (been) — to change direction
• Esperanto: alkliniĝi — to be inclined; to direct itself
• Finnish: taipua — to be inclined; to direct itself
• Finnish: suuntautua — to be inclined; to direct itself
• Bulgarian: накланям се (naklanjam se) — to stoop
• Bulgarian: навеждам се (naveždam se) — to stoop
• Bulgarian: наведа се (naveda se) — to stoop
• Finnish: kumartua — to stoop
• French: se baisser — to stoop
• French: se pencher — to stoop
• Old English: būgan — to stoop
• Sanskrit: नमति (namati) — to stoop
• Spanish: agacharse — to stoop
• Spanish: inclinarse — to stoop
• Thai: ก้มตัว — to stoop
• Albanian: përkul — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Albanian: gjunjëzo — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Albanian: Albanian: Pre gui — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Bulgarian: прекланям се (preklanjam se) — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Bulgarian: преклоня се (preklonja se) — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Catalan: inclinar-se — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Finnish: kumartua — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• French: s'incliner — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Interlingua: inclinar se — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Middle English: croken — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Old English: būgan — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Sanskrit: नमति (namati) — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Spanish: inclinarse — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Spanish: enarcarse — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Spanish: arquearse — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Spanish: prosternarse — to bow in prayer, or in token of submission
• Bulgarian: подчинявам (podčinjavam) — to force to submit
• Bulgarian: подчиня (podčinja) — to force to submit
• Dutch: onderwerpen — to force to submit
• Finnish: taivuttaa — to force to submit
• French: faire plier — to force to submit
• French: soumettre — to force to submit
• Occitan: far plegar — to force to submit
• Occitan: obligar — to force to submit
• Old English: bīeġan — to force to submit
• Portuguese: obrigar — to force to submit
• Spanish: doblegar — to force to submit
• Spanish: someter — to force to submit
• Swahili: kunja — to force to submit
• Swedish: kuva — to force to submit
• Turkish: bükmek — to force to submit
• Walloon: fé ployî — to force to submit
• Walloon: ployî — to force to submit
• Bulgarian: подчинявам се (podčinjavam se) — to submit
• Bulgarian: подчиня се (podčinja se) — to submit
• Bulgarian: прекланям глава (preklanjam glava) — to submit
• Bulgarian: преклоня глава (preklonja glava) — to submit
• Finnish: antaa periksi — to submit
• French: se plier — to submit
• French: se soumettre — to submit
• Old English: būgan — to submit
• Spanish: someterse — to submit
• Finnish: suunnata — to apply to a task or purpose
• Finnish: suuntautua — to apply oneself to a task or purpose
• Finnish: taipua — to adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary
• Finnish: myöntyä — to adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary
• Bulgarian: връзвам (vrǎzvam) — to tie a line
• Catalan: envergar — to tie a line
• Dutch: knopen — to tie a line
• Dutch: bevestigen — to tie a line
• Dutch: vastmaken — to tie a line
• Finnish: sitoa — to tie a line
• Finnish: kiinnittää — to tie a line
• Italian: ammanigliare — to tie a line
• Swedish: binda — to tie a line
• Dutch: buigen — to change the pitch
• Dutch: corrigeren — to change the pitch
• Finnish: taivuttaa — to change the pitch
• Swedish: glida — to change the pitch
• Albanian: përthy — to swing the body when rowing
• Dutch: buigen — to swing the body when rowing
• Finnish: taivuttaa — to swing the body when rowing
• German: beugen — to swing the body when rowing