girdle

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• General-American: /ˈɡɝdl̩/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɜːdl̩/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
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• CMU ARPABET: G ER1 D AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: qarku — circumference
• Bulgarian: окръжение (okrǎženie) — circumference
• Finnish: kehä — circumference
• French: enceinte — circumference
• Galician: cincho — circumference
• Georgian: გარშემოწერილობა (garšemoc̣eriloba) — circumference
• Greek: περιφέρεια (periféreia) — circumference
• Albanian: rrip — belt
• Old Armenian: կամար (kamar) — belt
• Bulgarian: колан (kolan) — belt
• Bulgarian: пояс (pojas) — belt
• Catalan: faixa — belt
• Chinese Cantonese: 束腰 (cuk1 jiu1) — belt
• Chinese Mandarin: 束腰 (shùyāo) — belt
• Czech: podvazkový pás — belt
• Czech: pás — belt
• Danish: hofteholder — belt
• Danish: strømpeholder — belt
• Dutch: gordel — belt
• Finnish: vyö — belt
• Finnish: sukkanauhavyö — belt
• French: gaine — belt
• Georgian: სარტყელი (sarṭq̇eli) — belt
• German: Hüfthalter — belt
• Greek: ζώνη (zóni) — belt
• Greek: περίζωμα (perízoma) — belt
• Ancient Greek: ζώνη (zṓnē) — belt
• Ancient Greek: κεστός (kestós) — belt
• Italian: cintura — belt
• Italian: fascia — belt
• Italian: corsetto — belt
• Italian: busto — belt
• Japanese: ガードル (gādoru) — belt
• Central Kurdish: کەمەربەند (kemerbend) — belt
• Latin: cingulum — belt
• Latin: cinctus — belt
• Latin: zōna — belt
• Latin: zōnula — belt
• Latin: balteus — belt
• Māori: tātua — belt
• Māori: tautiti — belt
• Māori: pihepihe — belt
• Māori: pongi — belt
• Navajo: sis — belt
• Persian: کمربند (kamarband) — belt
• Plautdietsch: Gort — belt
• Portuguese: cinta — belt
• Portuguese: cinto — belt
• Romagnol: pazénzia — belt
• Romagnol: pazenzia — belt
• Romanian: centură — belt
• Russian: по́яс (pójas) — belt
• Russian: по́яс для чуло́к (pójas dlja čulók) — belt
• Sicilian: cinta — belt
• Sicilian: cursettu — belt
• Spanish: faja — belt
• Swedish: gördel — belt
• Turkish: kemer — belt
• Ottoman Turkish: كمر (kemer) — belt
• Ottoman Turkish: نطاق (nitak) — belt
• Dutch: rondist — line of greatest circumference of a diamond
• Finnish: reunus — line of greatest circumference of a diamond
• Finnish: uuma — line of greatest circumference of a diamond
• French: rondiste — line of greatest circumference of a diamond
• Italian: cintura — line of greatest circumference of a diamond
• Sicilian: cintu — line of greatest circumference of a diamond
• Sicilian: cinta — line of greatest circumference of a diamond
• Bulgarian: опасвам (opasvam) — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Bulgarian: препасвам (prepasvam) — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Czech: opásat — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Czech: obklíčit — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Czech: obkroužit — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Finnish: ympäröidä — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Finnish: reunustaa — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Finnish: piirittää — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Georgian: გარშემორტყმა (garšemorṭq̇ma) — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Georgian: გარშემოხვევა (garšemoxveva) — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Greek: ζώνω (zóno) — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Greek: περιζώνω (perizóno) — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Italian: cingere — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Italian: circondare — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Ottoman Turkish: صارمق (sarmak) — to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means
• Finnish: kaulata — to kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark