tendril

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• /ˈtɛn.dɹəl/
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From Middle French tendrillon (“bud, shoot, cartilage”), perhaps a diminutive of tendron (“cartilage”), from Old French tendre (“soft”) (see tender (adjective)), or else from Latin tendere (“to stretch, extend”) (see tender (verb)).

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مِحْلَاق (miḥlāq) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Bulgarian: филиз (filiz) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Bulgarian: ластар (lastar) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Catalan: circell — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Catalan: cirrus — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Chinese Mandarin: 卷鬚 /卷须 — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Czech: úponek — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Dutch: rank — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Esperanto: ĉiro — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Estonian: köitraag — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Estonian: väänel — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Finnish: kärhi — thin, spirally coiling stem
• French: vrille — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Galician: gabián — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Georgian: ულვაშა (ulvaša) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• German: Ranke — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Ancient Greek: βόστρυχος (bóstrukhos) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Ancient Greek: ὄστλιγξ (óstlinx) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Hungarian: inda — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Ilocano: kuriwawet — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Irish: teannóg — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Italian: cirro — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Korean: 덩굴손 (deonggulson) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Korean: 덩굴줄기 (deongguljulgi) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Latin: pampinus — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Macedonian: витица (vitica) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Māori: hihi — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Māori: ihi — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Māori: kawekawe — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Māori: tōihi — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Plautdietsch: Rank — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Polish: wąs — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Portuguese: gavinha — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Romanian: cârcel — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Russian: у́сик (úsik) — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Scottish Gaelic: ògan — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Slovene: vitica — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Spanish: cirro — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Spanish: manecilla — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Spanish: zarcillo — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Swedish: klänge — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Swedish: ranka — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Tocharian B: śkwarya — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Turkish: asma bıyığı — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Turkish: bıyık — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Welsh: tendril — thin, spirally coiling stem
• Finnish: korkkiruuvi — hair-like tentacle
• French: cirre — hair-like tentacle
• Italian: cirro — hair-like tentacle
• Polish: kosmyk — hair-like tentacle