spear

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From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognates See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).

From Middle English spere (“spear”), from Old English spere (“spear”), variously intending a spearman, a spearmaker, or a person tall and thin in a way reminiscent of a spear.

Alteration of spire, from Middle English spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr (“stalk of a plant, shoot, blade”). More at spire.

271 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аԥса (apsa) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Afrikaans: spies — long stick with a sharp tip
• Dupaningan Agta: pisga — long stick with a sharp tip
• Albanian: heshtë — long stick with a sharp tip
• Albanian: ushtë — long stick with a sharp tip
• Northern Altai: дьыда (dʹïda) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Northern Altai: чыда (čïda) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Southern Altai: јыда (ǰïda) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Amharic: ጦር (ṭor) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Chungli Ao: nü — long stick with a sharp tip
• Arabic: رُمْح (rumḥ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Arabic: حَرْبَة (ḥarba) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Arabic: خشت (ḵišt) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Arabic: حربة (ḥarba) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Arabic: رمح (rimiḥ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Tunisian Arabic: دبور (dabbūr) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Armenian: նիզակ (nizak) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Asturian: llanza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Australian Kriol: barragarl — long stick with a sharp tip
• Australian Kriol: burdagul — long stick with a sharp tip
• Avar: хеч (xeč) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Azerbaijani: nizə — long stick with a sharp tip
• Azerbaijani: mizraq — long stick with a sharp tip
• Azerbaijani: cida — long stick with a sharp tip
• Bangi: likongo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Basque: lantza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Basque: azkor — long stick with a sharp tip
• Belarusian: дзі́да (dzída) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Belarusian: пі́ка (píka) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Bengali: বর্শা (borśa) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Bulgarian: кóпиe (kópie) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Burmese: လှံ (hlam) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Catalan: llança — long stick with a sharp tip
• Cebuano: bangkaw — long stick with a sharp tip
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⴰⵍⴰ (tafala) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Chechen: гоьмукъ (gömuqʼ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Chichewa: mkondo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Chinese Mandarin: 矛 (máo) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Chinese Mandarin: 槍 /枪 — long stick with a sharp tip
• Chukchi: пойгын — long stick with a sharp tip
• East Circassian: бжы (bžə) — long stick with a sharp tip
• West Circassian: пчы (pčə) — long stick with a sharp tip
• West Circassian: пщы (pśə) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ngazidja Comorian: fumu — long stick with a sharp tip
• Cornish: guw — long stick with a sharp tip
• Czech: kopí — long stick with a sharp tip
• Danish: spyd — long stick with a sharp tip
• Dutch: speer — long stick with a sharp tip
• Dutch: spies — long stick with a sharp tip
• Dutch: lans — long stick with a sharp tip
• Dutch: geer — long stick with a sharp tip
• Esperanto: lanco — long stick with a sharp tip
• Estonian: oda — long stick with a sharp tip
• Evenki: гида (gida) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Faroese: spjót — long stick with a sharp tip
• Finnish: keihäs — long stick with a sharp tip
• French: lance — long stick with a sharp tip
• Middle French: dart — long stick with a sharp tip
• Old French: dart — long stick with a sharp tip
• Saterland Frisian: Speer — long stick with a sharp tip
• West-Frisian: spear — long stick with a sharp tip
• Friulian: lance — long stick with a sharp tip
• Galician: lanza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Galician: falarica — long stick with a sharp tip
• Galician: aste — long stick with a sharp tip
• Georgian: შუბი (šubi) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Georgian: ჰოროლი (horoli) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Georgian: ლახვარი (laxvari) — long stick with a sharp tip
• German: Speer — long stick with a sharp tip
• Greek: ακόντιο (akóntio) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Greek: δόρυ (dóry) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Greek: κοντάρι (kontári) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Greek: λόγχη (lónchi) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: ἀρίγων (arígōn) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: δόρυ (dóru) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: ἐγχείη (enkheíē) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: ἔγχος (énkhos) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: κοντάριον (kontárion) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: λόγχη (lónkhē) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: μελία (melía) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: ξυστόν (xustón) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: σιβύνη (sibúnē) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: σιγύνης (sigúnēs) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: χαλκός (khalkós) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ancient Greek: αἰχμή (aikhmḗ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hausa: mashi — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hawaiian: ʻō — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hebrew: חֲנִית (khanít) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Higaonon: bangkaw — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hindi: भाला (bhālā) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hindi: शूल (śūl) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hindi: नेजा (nejā) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hindi: बरछा (barchā) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hindi: सूरी (sūrī) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hungarian: dárda — long stick with a sharp tip
• Hungarian: lándzsa — long stick with a sharp tip
• Icelandic: spjót — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ido: lanco — long stick with a sharp tip
• Indonesian: tombak — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ingrian: kopjo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ingush: гебагӏа (gebağa) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Irish: ga — long stick with a sharp tip
• Irish: sleá — long stick with a sharp tip
• Old Irish: gae — long stick with a sharp tip
• Italian: lancia — long stick with a sharp tip
• Italian: asta — long stick with a sharp tip
• Italian: alabarda — long stick with a sharp tip
• Italian: picca — long stick with a sharp tip
• Japanese: 槍 (yari) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Japanese: 鑓 (yari) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Kalmyk: җид (jid) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Kazakh: найза (naiza) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Kazakh: сүңгі (süñgı) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ket: усь — long stick with a sharp tip
• Khmer: លំពែង (lumpɛɛŋ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Kikuyu: itimũ — long stick with a sharp tip
• Korean: 창 (chang) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Koryak: пойгын (poygən) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Central Kurdish: ڕم (rim) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Northern Kurdish: rim — long stick with a sharp tip
• Kyrgyz: найза (nayza) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Lakota: wahúkheza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Lao: ຫອກ (hǭk) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Latgalian: škāps — long stick with a sharp tip
• Latgalian: dzyds — long stick with a sharp tip
• Latin: hasta — long stick with a sharp tip
• Latin: lancea — long stick with a sharp tip
• Latin: dardus — long stick with a sharp tip
• Latvian: šķēps — long stick with a sharp tip
• Lingala: likongo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Lingala: likonga — long stick with a sharp tip
• Lithuanian: ietis — long stick with a sharp tip
• Lü: ᦠᦸᧅᧈ (ḣoak1) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Macedonian: ко́пје (kópje) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Malay: lembing — long stick with a sharp tip
• Maltese: lanza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Manchu: ᡤᡳᡩᠠ (gida) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Māori: kōpeo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Marathi: भाला (bhālā) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Middle English: spere — long stick with a sharp tip
• Mongo: likonga — long stick with a sharp tip
• Mongolian: жад (žad) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Muna: pandanga — long stick with a sharp tip
• Khiamniungan Naga: lāi — long stick with a sharp tip
• Nanai: гида (gida) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Nanai: сугбэ (sugbe) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Navajo: tsiiʼdétáán — long stick with a sharp tip
• Navajo: tsin anáhálghą́hí — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ngarrindjeri: kykie — long stick with a sharp tip
• Nivkh: ӄʼаӽ (qʼaẋ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Norwegian Bokmål: spyd — long stick with a sharp tip
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spyd — long stick with a sharp tip
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spjut — long stick with a sharp tip
• Occitan: lança — long stick with a sharp tip
• Southern Ohlone: hipor — long stick with a sharp tip
• Church Slavic: копиѥ (kopije) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Church Slavic: жръдь (žrŭdĭ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Old English: spere — long stick with a sharp tip
• Old Norse: geirr — long stick with a sharp tip
• Old Norse: spjót — long stick with a sharp tip
• Oneida: áshekweʼ — long stick with a sharp tip
• Oromo: eeboo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ossetian: арц (arc) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Persian: نیزه (neyze) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Persian: ژوبین (žôbin) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Pitjantjatjara: kuḻaṯa — long stick with a sharp tip
• Plautdietsch: Spiess — long stick with a sharp tip
• Polish: dzida — long stick with a sharp tip
• Polish: włócznia — long stick with a sharp tip
• Polish: oszczep — long stick with a sharp tip
• Polish: kopia — long stick with a sharp tip
• Polish: sulica — long stick with a sharp tip
• Portuguese: lança — long stick with a sharp tip
• Rapa Nui: pātia — long stick with a sharp tip
• Romanian: lance — long stick with a sharp tip
• Romanian: suliță — long stick with a sharp tip
• Russian: копьё (kopʹjó) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Russian: пи́ка (píka) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Russian: дро́тик (drótik) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sango: likongo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sanskrit: ऋष्टि (ṛṣṭí) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sanskrit: शल्य (śalya) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sardinian: lantza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sardinian: lancia — long stick with a sharp tip
• Scottish Gaelic: sleagh — long stick with a sharp tip
• Scottish Gaelic: brod — long stick with a sharp tip
• Scottish Gaelic: gath — long stick with a sharp tip
• Serbo-Croatian: копље — long stick with a sharp tip
• Serbo-Croatian: koplje — long stick with a sharp tip
• Shan: ႁွၵ်ႇ (hàuk) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sicilian: lanza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sidamo: urde — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sinhalese: හෙල්ල (hella) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Slovak: kopija — long stick with a sharp tip
• Slovak: oštep — long stick with a sharp tip
• Slovene: kopje — long stick with a sharp tip
• Somali: waran — long stick with a sharp tip
• Spanish: lanza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Spanish: venablo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Spanish: azagaya — long stick with a sharp tip
• Sumerian: 𒀉𒁍𒁕 (A2-GID2-DA) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Swahili: mkuki — long stick with a sharp tip
• Swedish: spjut — long stick with a sharp tip
• Tai Dam: ꪬꪮꪀ — long stick with a sharp tip
• Tajik: найза (nayza) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Tatar: сөнге (sönge) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Telugu: శూలం (śūlaṁ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Telugu: బల్లెం (balleṁ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Thai: หอก (hɔ̀ɔk) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Tibetan: མདུང (mdung) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Tlingit: woosáani — long stick with a sharp tip
• Turkish: mızrak — long stick with a sharp tip
• Turkmen: naýza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Turkmen: jyda — long stick with a sharp tip
• Tuvan: узун чыда (uzun çıda) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Tuvan: копьё (kopʹyo) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎈 (mrḥ) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ukrainian: спис (spys) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Ukrainian: пі́ка (píka) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Urdu: نیز (nez) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Uzbek: nayza — long stick with a sharp tip
• Venetan: lansa — long stick with a sharp tip
• Vietnamese: thương — long stick with a sharp tip
• Vietnamese: giáo — long stick with a sharp tip
• Vilamovian: pik — long stick with a sharp tip
• Walloon: lance — long stick with a sharp tip
• Walloon: dår — long stick with a sharp tip
• Welsh: gwaywffon — long stick with a sharp tip
• Welsh: gwayw — long stick with a sharp tip
• Woiwurrung: djirra — long stick with a sharp tip
• Woiwurrung: warra-warra — long stick with a sharp tip
• Wutunhua: ddong — long stick with a sharp tip
• Xârâcùù: jö — long stick with a sharp tip
• Yakut: үҥүү (üŋüü) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Yiddish: שפּיז (shpiz) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Northern Yukaghir: йуолдэвчэ (juoldewțe) — long stick with a sharp tip
• Zulu: umkhonto — long stick with a sharp tip
• ǃXóõ: ǃōo a̰a — long stick with a sharp tip
• Bulgarian: харпун (harpun) — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Catalan: arpó — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• French: harpon — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Greek: καμάκι (kamáki) — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Hungarian: szigony — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Italian: fiocina — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Italian: arpione — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Japanese: 簎 (yasu) — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Japanese: 銛 (mori) — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Macedonian: стрела (strela) — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Polish: harpun — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Portuguese: arpão — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Russian: острога́ (ostrogá) — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Serbo-Croatian: остве (ostve) — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Spanish: arpón — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Swahili: chusa — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Turkish: zıpkın — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Welsh: tryfer — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Woiwurrung: mor rope — sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish
• Assamese: হানা (hana) — strike with any long narrow object
• Assamese: হনা (hona) — strike with any long narrow object
• Bulgarian: пронизвам (pronizvam) — strike with any long narrow object
• Finnish: keihästää — strike with any long narrow object
• Greek: λογχίζω (lonchízo) — strike with any long narrow object
• Māori: wero — strike with any long narrow object
• Māori: wewero — strike with any long narrow object
• Māori: pūrou — strike with any long narrow object
• Māori: pūrau — strike with any long narrow object
• Mokilese: doakoa — strike with any long narrow object
• Pohnpeian: doakoa — strike with any long narrow object
• Turkish: kargılamak — strike with any long narrow object
• Unami: tànkama — strike with any long narrow object
• Unami: tànkamën — strike with any long narrow object