noose

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From Middle English nose (“noose, loop”), of unclear origin. Possibly from Old French nos or Old Occitan nous, nos, nominative singular or accusative plural of nou (“knot”), with a required change in meaning shifting from the "knot" itself to the "loop" created by the knot. If so, then cognate with French nœud (“knot”), Portuguese nó (“knot”) and Spanish nudo (“knot”). Compare node and knot. Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, borrowed from Middle Low German nȫse (“loop, noose, snare”), itself of obscure origin. Perhaps derived from an incorrect division of ēn' ȫse (literally “a loop”), from Middle Low German ȫse, from Old Saxon *ōsia, from Proto-West Germanic *ansiju (“eyelet, loop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Noose, Nouze (“loop, eyelet”) and Saterland Frisian Oose (“eyelet, loop”), potentially created via the same process.

107 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lak — adjustable loop or rope
• Arabic: حَبْل مِشْنَقَة (ḥabl mišnaqa) — adjustable loop or rope
• Arabic: أُنْشُوطَة (ʔunšūṭa) — adjustable loop or rope
• Armenian: օղակ (ōġak) — adjustable loop or rope
• Aromanian: alats — adjustable loop or rope
• Azerbaijani: ilgək — adjustable loop or rope
• Belarusian: пятля́ (pjatljá) — adjustable loop or rope
• Bengali: ফাঁসি (phãśi) — adjustable loop or rope
• Bulgarian: клуп (klup) — adjustable loop or rope
• Bulgarian: при́мка (prímka) — adjustable loop or rope
• Burmese: ညွှတ် (hnywat) — adjustable loop or rope
• Burmese: ကြိုးကွင်း (krui:kwang:) — adjustable loop or rope
• Burmese: ကွင်းလျှော (kwang:hlyau:) — adjustable loop or rope
• Catalan: llaç — adjustable loop or rope
• Chinese Mandarin: 環 /环 (huán) — adjustable loop or rope
• Chinese Mandarin: 繯 /缳 (huán) — adjustable loop or rope
• Chinese Mandarin: 絞索 /绞索 (jiǎosuǒ) — adjustable loop or rope
• Czech: oprátka — adjustable loop or rope
• Danish: løkke — adjustable loop or rope
• Dutch: strop — adjustable loop or rope
• Esperanto: maŝo — adjustable loop or rope
• Estonian: silmus — adjustable loop or rope
• Finnish: juoksusilmukka — adjustable loop or rope
• Finnish: hirttosilmukka — adjustable loop or rope
• French: nœud coulant — adjustable loop or rope
• French: lacs — adjustable loop or rope
• Georgian: მარყუჟი (marq̇uži) — adjustable loop or rope
• German: Schlinge — adjustable loop or rope
• German: Strick — adjustable loop or rope
• Greek: θηλιά (thiliá) — adjustable loop or rope
• Ancient Greek: βρόχος (brókhos) — adjustable loop or rope
• Ancient Greek: ἀγχόνη (ankhónē) — adjustable loop or rope
• Gujarati: ફાંસો (phā̃so) — adjustable loop or rope
• Hebrew: לוּלָאָה (lula'á) — adjustable loop or rope
• Hindi: फाँसी (phā̃si) — adjustable loop or rope
• Hungarian: hurok — adjustable loop or rope
• Icelandic: lykkja — adjustable loop or rope
• Icelandic: rennilykkja — adjustable loop or rope
• Indonesian: jerat — adjustable loop or rope
• Irish: dol — adjustable loop or rope
• Italian: cappio — adjustable loop or rope
• Italian: laccio — adjustable loop or rope
• Japanese: 輪縄 (wanawa) — adjustable loop or rope
• Kazakh: тұзақ (tūzaq) — adjustable loop or rope
• Kazakh: ілмек (ılmek) — adjustable loop or rope
• Khmer: រំងក (rumngɔɔk) — adjustable loop or rope
• Khmer: ក្រវិល (krɑɑvəl) — adjustable loop or rope
• Korean: 올가미 (olgami) — adjustable loop or rope
• Kyrgyz: тузак (tuzak) — adjustable loop or rope
• Kyrgyz: илмек (ilmek) — adjustable loop or rope
• Lao: ບ້ວງ (būang) — adjustable loop or rope
• Latin: laqueus — adjustable loop or rope
• Latin: trānsenna — adjustable loop or rope
• Latvian: cilpa — adjustable loop or rope
• Lithuanian: kilpa — adjustable loop or rope
• Macedonian: петља (petlja) — adjustable loop or rope
• Macedonian: јамка (jamka) — adjustable loop or rope
• Māori: kōpeti — adjustable loop or rope
• Māori: koromahanga — adjustable loop or rope
• Māori: kono — adjustable loop or rope
• Mongolian: гогцоо (gogcoo) — adjustable loop or rope
• Navajo: łoh — adjustable loop or rope
• Norman: noeud d'pendard — adjustable loop or rope
• Norwegian Bokmål: renneløkke — adjustable loop or rope
• Norwegian Bokmål: rennesnare — adjustable loop or rope
• Norwegian Bokmål: løkke — adjustable loop or rope
• Old English: grin — adjustable loop or rope
• Iranian Persian: کَمَنْد (kamand) — adjustable loop or rope
• Iranian Persian: خِفْت (xeft) — adjustable loop or rope
• Polish: pętla — adjustable loop or rope
• Polish: stryczek — adjustable loop or rope
• Portuguese: laço — adjustable loop or rope
• Portuguese: forca — adjustable loop or rope
• Romanian: laț — adjustable loop or rope
• Romanian: ștreang — adjustable loop or rope
• Russian: пе́тля (pétlja) — adjustable loop or rope
• Russian: петля́ (petljá) — adjustable loop or rope
• Scottish Gaelic: lùb — adjustable loop or rope
• Serbo-Croatian: о̏мча — adjustable loop or rope
• Serbo-Croatian: пе̏тља — adjustable loop or rope
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍmča — adjustable loop or rope
• Serbo-Croatian: pȅtlja — adjustable loop or rope
• Slovak: oprátka — adjustable loop or rope
• Slovene: zanka — adjustable loop or rope
• Spanish: dogal — adjustable loop or rope
• Swahili: kitanzi — adjustable loop or rope
• Swedish: löpsnara — adjustable loop or rope
• Swedish: rännsnara — adjustable loop or rope
• Tajik: ҳалқа (halqa) — adjustable loop or rope
• Tajik: каманд (kamand) — adjustable loop or rope
• Thai: บ่วง (bùuang) — adjustable loop or rope
• Thai: บาศ (bàat) — adjustable loop or rope
• Turkish: ilmek — adjustable loop or rope
• Turkish: kement — adjustable loop or rope
• Turkmen: ilmek — adjustable loop or rope
• Turkmen: ilgik — adjustable loop or rope
• Ukrainian: петля́ (petljá) — adjustable loop or rope
• Ukrainian: за́шморг (zášmorh) — adjustable loop or rope
• Urdu: پَھان٘سی (phā̃sī) — adjustable loop or rope
• Uyghur: ئىلماق (ilmaq) — adjustable loop or rope
• Uzbek: ilmoq — adjustable loop or rope
• Uzbek: sirtmoq — adjustable loop or rope
• Vietnamese: thòng lọng — adjustable loop or rope
• Welsh: rhaff crogwr — adjustable loop or rope
• Welsh: cwlwm rhedeg — adjustable loop or rope
• Welsh: dolen — adjustable loop or rope
• Yakut: туһах (tuhaq) — adjustable loop or rope