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feather

name · noun · verb · 35 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɛðə/
  • Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /ˈfɛvə/ England, th-fronting
  • Australian: /ˈfeðə/
  • Australian: [ˈfeðə] ~ [ˈfe̞ðə]
  • New-Zealand: /ˈfeðə/
  • New-Zealand: [ˈfe̝ðə] ~ [ˈfɪðə]
  • General-American: /ˈfɛðɚ/
  • General-American: [ˈfɛðɚ] ~ [ˈfɛðɹ̩]
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Scotland: /ˈfɛðəɾ/
  • rhymes with -ɛðə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: F EH1 DH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

An English surname originating as an occupation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

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2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

An anglicized Americanized German surname from German, equivalent to English Feather.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Feder

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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4

noun

Meaning 4

Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: feathers, feathering, horsefeathers

Antonyms: spats

5

noun

Meaning 5

One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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6

noun

Meaning 6

A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonym: spline

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: spline

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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8

noun

Meaning 8

One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

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9

noun

Meaning 9

The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

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10

noun

Meaning 10

Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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11

noun

Meaning 11

Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-plural

Topics: hobbies, hunting, lifestyle

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

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Synonyms: none provided

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13

noun

Meaning 13

A faint edge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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15

verb

Meaning 15

To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

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16

verb

Meaning 16

To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The stylist feathered my hair.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: ambitransitive

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, rowing, sports

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Examples

  • After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To finely shave or bevel an edge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, carpentry, construction, engineering, manufacturing, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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Synonyms: none provided

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20

verb

Meaning 20

To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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Synonyms: none provided

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21

verb

Meaning 21

Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

verb

Meaning 22

To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C. The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

23

verb

Meaning 23

To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

24

verb

Meaning 24

To tread, as a cockerel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Synonyms: none provided

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25

verb

Meaning 25

To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, snooker, sports

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Synonyms: none provided

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26

verb

Meaning 26

To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, snooker, sports

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

27

verb

Meaning 27

To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

28

verb

Meaning 28

To move softly, like a feather.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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29

noun

Meaning 29

turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: feathering

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rotation, rotary motion

30

noun

Meaning 30

the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: plume, plumage

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: body covering, animal material

Narrower terms: down, down feather, aftershaft, contour feather, bastard wing, alula, spurious wing, marabou, hackle, flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather, scapular

31

verb

Meaning 31

grow feathers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The young sparrows are fledging already

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fledge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: grow, develop, produce, get, acquire

32

verb

Meaning 32

turn the oar, while rowing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: square

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: row

33

verb

Meaning 33

turn the paddle; in canoeing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: square

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: paddle

34

verb

Meaning 34

cover or fit with feathers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cover

35

verb

Meaning 35

join tongue and groove, in carpentry

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

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Broader terms: join, conjoin

History

Etymology

* As an occupational English name, from feather, used to refer to quilt makers, feather traders, etc. * As an Americanized German surname, from Feder.

From Middle English fethere, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth2r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth2- (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fear (“feather”), Cimbrian bèdara, fòdara (“pillowcase”), vèdara (“feather”), Dutch veder, veer (“feather”), German Feder (“feather”), German Low German Fedder (“feather”), Luxembourgish Fieder (“feather”), Vilamovian faoder (“feather”), Yiddish פֿעדער (feder, “feather”), Danish fjeder, fjer (“feather”), Faroese fjøður (“feather”), Icelandic fjöður (“feather”), Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør (“feather”), Norwegian Nynorsk fjøder, fjør (“feather”), Swedish fjäder (“feather”). Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai, “to fly”), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna (“feather”), Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ, “flight”). The sense correlated with splines and keys (noun sense 4) probably reflects analogy with the fletching sense (noun sense 3).

Across languages

Translations

325 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Acehnese: bulee — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Afrikaans: veer — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Afrikaans: pluim — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ahom: 𑜁𑜤𑜃𑜫 (khun) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ainu: コンコン (konkon) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ainu: コンコニ (konkoni) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ainu: ラㇷ゚ (rap) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Aklanon: buebue — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Albanian: pendë — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Albanian: pupël — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Northern Altai: ньум (nʹum) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Northern Altai: дьонъ (dʹonʺ) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Southern Altai: јум (ǰum) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Southern Altai: јуҥ (ǰuŋ) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Southern Altai: тӱк (tük) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Amharic: ላባ (laba) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Arabic: رِيش (rīš) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Arabic: رِيشَة (rīša) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Arabic: ريش (rīš) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Arabic: ريشة (rīša) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Aramaic: ܐܒܪܬܐ — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Argobba: ላባ (laba) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Armenian: փետուր (pʻetur) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Aromanian: peanã — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Assamese: পাখি (pakhi) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Asturian: pluma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Avar: хӏули (ḥruli) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Azerbaijani: tük — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Azerbaijani: lələk — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Bangi: lisala — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Bashkir: ҡауырһын (qawırhın) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Bashkir: ҡаурый (qawrıy) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Bashkir: йөн (yön) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Basque: luma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Belarusian: пяро́ (pjaró) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Bengali: পালক (palok) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Bhojpuri: पंख (paṅkh) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Central Bikol: balukag — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Breton: pluenn — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Bulgarian: перо́ (peró) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Burmese: အတောင် (a.taung) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Buryat: үдэн (üden) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Catalan: ploma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Chamicuro: pwaye — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Chechen: пелаг (pelag) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Chichewa: nthenga — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Chinese Cantonese: 羽毛 (jyu5 mou4) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 羽毛 (ṳ̄-mò̤) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Chinese: 羽毛 (zh-min-nan) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Chinese Mandarin: 羽毛 (yǔmáo) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Chinese Mandarin: 羽 (yǔ) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Wu Chinese: 羽毛 (6yu-mau) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Xiang Chinese: 羽毛 (y3 mau2) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Choctaw: hishi — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Choctaw: hushi hishi — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Chuvash: тӗк (tĕk) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Cornish: pluven — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Czech: péro — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Danish: fjer — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Dutch: veer — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Dutch: veder — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Dutch: pluim — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Erzya: толга (tolga) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Esperanto: plumo — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Estonian: sulg — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Evenki: дэктэннэ (dəktənnə) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Faroese: fjøður — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Finnish: sulka — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Finnish: höyhen — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • French: plume — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • North Frisian: Feđer — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • West-Frisian: fear — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • West-Frisian: plom — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • West-Frisian: pinne — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Friulian: plume — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Friulian: pene — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Galician: pluma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Galician: pruma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Galician: pena — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Galician: froixel — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Galician: faixel — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Georgian: ბუმბული (bumbuli) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • German: Feder — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • German: Vogelfeder — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Greek: φτερό (fteró) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Greek: πούπουλο (poúpoulo) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ancient Greek: πτερόν (pterón) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Pontic Greek: φτερὀν (fterὀn) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Pontic Greek: φτερούγιν (fteroúgin) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Pontic Greek: φτερούλ’ (fteroúl’) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Pontic Greek: κανάτ’ (kanát’) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Pontic Greek: γανάτ’ (ganát’) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Mbya Guarani: ague — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Gujarati: પીછું (pīchũ) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Haitian Creole: plim — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Hawaiian: hulu — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Hebrew: נוצה — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Hebrew: נוֹצָה (notsá) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Hindi: पंख (paṅkh) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Hindi: पर (par) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • White Hmong: plaub noog — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Hungarian: toll — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Icelandic: fjöður — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ido: plumo — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Indonesian: bulu — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ineseño: qap — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ingrian: sulka — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ingush: бедарг (bedarg) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Interlingua: pluma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Interlingua: penna — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Iranun: bumbul — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Irish: cleite — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Italian: piuma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Italian: penna — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Japanese: 羽 (hane) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Javanese: wulu — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Kalmyk: өдн (ödn) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Southern Kam: bienl — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Kanakanabu: aapungu — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Kashubian: pióro — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Kazakh: қауырсын (qauyrsyn) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Khmer: ស្លាប (slaap) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Korean: 깃 (git) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Korean: 깃털 (git'teol) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Central Kurdish: پەڕ (perr) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Northern Kurdish: perr — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Northern Kurdish: pûrt — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Kyrgyz: канаттын бир талы (kanattın bir talı) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Kyrgyz: куштун бир тал жүнү (kuştun bir tal jünü) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Lao: ຂົນ (khon) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Latgalian: spolva — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Latin: plūma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Latin: penna — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Latvian: spalva — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Lingala: lonsálá — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Lingala: lonsala — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Lithuanian: plunksna — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Low German: Fedder — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • : ᦃᦳᧃ (ẋun) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Luba-Kasai: disala — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Luba-Katanga: disala — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Wanga: olwoya — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Wanga: omwiro — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Wanga: emiiro — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Lushootseed: c'ic'al — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Luxembourgish: Fieder — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Luxembourgish: Plomm — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Macedonian: пердув (perduv) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Maguindanao: bumbul — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Malay: bulu pelepah — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Malayalam: തൂവൽ (tūval) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Maltese: rix — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Manchu: ᡩᡝᡨᡥᡝ (dethe) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Manchu: ᡶᡠᠩᡤᠠᡥᠠ (funggaha) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: huru — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: whā — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: meremere (scapular) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: kīra — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: hikurangi — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: matakīrea — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: waitiripapā — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: hou — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: kurutou — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: rau — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: maeko — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: marihope — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: hūmaeko — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: kōtore — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: remu — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Māori: kururemu hukumaro — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Maranao: bombol — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Marathi: पीस (pīsa) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Middle English: fethere — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Mongo: lonsala — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Mongolian: өд (öd) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Mongolian: өрөвлөг (örövlög) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Khiamniungan Naga: vēukōi — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Classical Nahuatl: tototzontli — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Classical Nahuatl: ihhuitl — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Nanai: дэктэчэ (dekteče) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Navajo: atʼaʼ — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Nepali: प्वाँख (pwā̃kh) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Norman: plleume — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fjær — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fjør — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fjør — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Occitan: pluma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Odia: ପର (para) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Southern Ohlone: sippos — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ojibwe: miigwan — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Church Slavic: перо (pero) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Old East Slavic: перо (pero) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Old English: feþer — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Old Norse: fjǫðr — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Old Tupi: aba — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Old Tupi: pepó — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Oromo: baallee — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Pannonian Rusyn: пирко (pirko) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Papiamentu: pluma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Pashto: پر (par) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Pashto: بڼکه (baṇᶕka) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Iranian Persian: پَر (par) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Piedmontese: piuma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Plautdietsch: Fada — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Plautdietsch: Poos — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Polabian: perü — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Polish: pióro — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Portuguese: pluma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Portuguese: pena — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Punjabi: ਖੰਭ (khambh) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Quechua: phuru — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Quechua: patpa — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Rohingya: fóoir — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Romagnol: pióma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Romani: pōr — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Romanian: fulg — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Romanian: pană — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Russian: перо́ (peró) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Salar: mimilük — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Salar: sangliu — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Salar: tüx — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Samoan: fulu — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Sanskrit: पर्ण (parṇá) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Sardinian: pinna — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Sardinian: pinnia — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Scottish Gaelic: ite — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Serbo-Croatian: пѐро — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Serbo-Croatian: pèro — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Shan: ၶူၼ် (khǔun) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Sicilian: pinna — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Sinhalese: පිහාටුවක් (pihāṭuwak) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Slovak: pierko — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Slovak: pero — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Slovene: perọ̑ — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Lower Sorbian: pjero — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Spanish: pluma — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Spanish: péndola — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Sranan Tongo: fowruwiwiri — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Swahili: unyoya — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Swedish: fjäder — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠈ (faxó) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠟꠇ (falox) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tagalog: balahibo — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tagalog: bagwis — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tagalog: pulad — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tai Dam: ꪶꪄꪙ — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tai Nüa: ᥑᥨᥢᥴ (xón) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tajik: пар (par) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tamil: சிறகு (ciṟaku) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tatar: каурый (qawrıy) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tausug: bulbul — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Telugu: ఈక (īka) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tetum: fulun — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tewa: phó — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Thai: ขนนก (kǒn-nók) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Thai: ขน (kǒn) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tibetan: བྱ་སྒྲོ (bya sgro) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Tupinambá: (s-) aba — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Turkish: tüy — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ottoman Turkish: توی (tüy) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Turkmen: ýelek — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Ukrainian: перо́ (peró) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Urdu: پَنکْھ (pankh) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Urdu: پَر (par) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Uyghur: پەي (pey) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Uyghur: تۈك (tük) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Uzbek: par — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Uzbek: pat — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Venetan: pena — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Vietnamese: lông vũ — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Vietnamese: lông — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Vietnamese: lông chim — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Volapük: plüm — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Volapük: bödaplüm — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Volapük: plümem — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Volapük: bödaplümem — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Volapük: pen — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Volapük: bödapen — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Walloon: pene — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Walloon: plome — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Warao: huhi — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Welsh: plu — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Welsh: pluf — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Welsh: adain — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Yaghnobi: бал (bal) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Yakut: куорсун (kuorsun) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Yiddish: פֿעדער (feder) — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Yurok: re'noh — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Zazaki: purt — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Zealandic: plume — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Zhuang: bwnsienq — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Zhuang: bwn — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Zulu: uphaphe class 11/10 — branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
  • Czech: rous — long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse
  • Finnish: vuohiskarva — long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse
  • French: fanon — long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse
  • Italian: barbetta — long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse
  • Bulgarian: перо́ (peró) — fin or wing on the shaft of an arrow
  • Finnish: sulka — fin or wing on the shaft of an arrow
  • Russian: перо́ (peró) — fin or wing on the shaft of an arrow
  • Tagalog: sima — fin or wing on the shaft of an arrow
  • Finnish: liuska — longitudinal strip, spline
  • Finnish: liukukiila — longitudinal strip, spline
  • Finnish: tyyppi — kind, nature
  • Korean: 유 (yu) — kind, nature
  • Korean: 종류 (jongnyu) — kind, nature
  • Finnish: lehti — part of stone-splitting tool
  • Bulgarian: оперявам (operjavam) — to cover with feathers
  • Esperanto: plumizi — to cover with feathers
  • Finnish: peittää sulilla — to cover with feathers
  • Finnish: peittää höyhenillä — to cover with feathers
  • German: befiedern — to cover with feathers
  • Ido: plumizar — to cover with feathers
  • Swahili: nyoya — to cover with feathers
  • Finnish: sommitella höyheniksi — to arrange in the manner of feathers
  • Swahili: nyoya — to arrange in the manner of feathers
  • Finnish: kääntää lappeelleen — rowing: to rotate the oars while they are out of the water
  • Swahili: nyoya — rowing: to rotate the oars while they are out of the water
  • Finnish: lepuuttaa — aeronautics: to streamline an aircraft's propeller blades when shut down
  • Finnish: kääntää lepuutusasentoon — aeronautics: to streamline an aircraft's propeller blades when shut down
  • French: mettre en drapeau — aeronautics: to streamline an aircraft's propeller blades when shut down
  • Swahili: nyoya — aeronautics: to streamline an aircraft's propeller blades when shut down
  • Finnish: viistää — carpentry, engineering: to finely shave or bevel an edge
  • Finnish: pontata — carpentry, engineering: to finely shave or bevel an edge
  • Swahili: nyoya — carpentry, engineering: to finely shave or bevel an edge
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