tow

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• Received-Pronunciation: tō
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• Received-Pronunciation: /təʊ/
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• General-American: tō
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• General-American: /toʊ/
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• Scotland: /to/
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• Wales: /tou/
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• rhymes with -əʊ
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• homophone: toe (toe–tow merger)
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• tou rare, some parts of the UK and Australia
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• /taʊ/ rare, some parts of the UK and Australia
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• CMU ARPABET: T OW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, variant of Tough, from the adjective tough. Also compare the Scottish surname Tulloch. * As a Chinese surname, converged from several Romanizations, such as 陶 (Dao), 曹 (cáo) (Cao), 杜 (dù) (Du), 蘇 /苏 (sū) (Su).

From Middle English towen, from Old English togian, from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. See also Middle High German zogen, German ziehen, Dutch tijgen, Old Norse toga.

From Middle English touw, from Old English tow- (“spinning”) (in compounds, e.g. towcræft, towhūs, towlic), from Proto-Germanic *tawwą; compare Old Norse tó (“uncleansed wool”), Dutch touw (“rope”). Perhaps cognate with Old English tawian (“prepare for use”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “do, make”).

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: теглене (teglene) — act of towing
• Bulgarian: буксир (buksir) — act of towing
• Czech: vlečení — act of towing
• Czech: tažení — act of towing
• Czech: odtažení — act of towing
• French: remorquage — act of towing
• Galician: remolque — act of towing
• German: Schleppen — act of towing
• German: Abschleppen — act of towing
• Greek: ρυμούλκηση (rymoúlkisi) — act of towing
• Latvian: vilkšana — act of towing
• Macedonian: вле́чење (vléčenje) — act of towing
• Polish: holowanie — act of towing
• Portuguese: reboque — act of towing
• Russian: буксиро́вка (buksiróvka) — act of towing
• Spanish: remolque — act of towing
• Czech: tahač — something that tows
• Czech: remorkér — something that tows
• German: Schlepper — something that tows
• Greek: ρυμουλκό (rymoulkó) — something that tows
• Latvian: vilcējs — something that tows
• Portuguese: reboque — something that tows
• Portuguese: rebocador — something that tows
• Russian: букси́р (buksír) — something that tows
• Russian: тяга́ч (tjagáč) — something that tows
• Spanish: remolque — something that tows
• Spanish: remolcador — something that tows
• Italian: rimorchio — something that is towed
• Italian: traino — something that is towed
• Portuguese: reboque — something that is towed
• Spanish: remolque — something that is towed
• Bulgarian: буксирно въже (buksirno vǎže) — cable used in towing
• Czech: vlečné lano — cable used in towing
• Dutch: sleeptouw — cable used in towing
• Dutch: trekkabel — cable used in towing
• French: câble de remorquage — cable used in towing
• French: corde de remorquage — cable used in towing
• German: Schlepptau — cable used in towing
• German: Tau — cable used in towing
• German: Seil — cable used in towing
• Latvian: virve — cable used in towing
• Polish: hol — cable used in towing
• Russian: буксиро́вочный трос (buksiróvočnyj tros) — cable used in towing
• Spanish: remolque — cable used in towing
• Spanish: cable — cable used in towing
• Spanish: cabo — cable used in towing
• Basque: iztupa — bundle of fibers
• Breton: stoub — bundle of fibers
• Bulgarian: кълчища (kǎlčišta) — bundle of fibers
• Corsican: stoppa — bundle of fibers
• Czech: koudel — bundle of fibers
• Danish: blår — bundle of fibers
• Dutch: werk — bundle of fibers
• Dutch: hede — bundle of fibers
• Esperanto: stupo — bundle of fibers
• French: étoupe — bundle of fibers
• French: filasse — bundle of fibers
• West-Frisian: hjidde — bundle of fibers
• Galician: estopa — bundle of fibers
• Galician: tomento — bundle of fibers
• German: Werg — bundle of fibers
• German: Hede — bundle of fibers
• Greek: στουπί (stoupí) — bundle of fibers
• Ancient Greek: στυππεῖον (stuppeîon) — bundle of fibers
• Ido: stupo — bundle of fibers
• Italian: capecchio — bundle of fibers
• Korean: 토우 (tou) — bundle of fibers
• Latvian: pakulas — bundle of fibers
• Māori: ngai — bundle of fibers
• Māori: pūngahungahu — bundle of fibers
• Norwegian Bokmål: stry — bundle of fibers
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stry — bundle of fibers
• Old English: heorde — bundle of fibers
• Polish: pakuły — bundle of fibers
• Portuguese: estopa — bundle of fibers
• Romanian: stupă — bundle of fibers
• Russian: па́кля (páklja) — bundle of fibers
• Russian: куде́ль (kudélʹ) — bundle of fibers
• Serbo-Croatian: ку̀чина — bundle of fibers
• Serbo-Croatian: kùčina — bundle of fibers
• Sicilian: stuppa — bundle of fibers
• Slovak: kúdeľ — bundle of fibers
• Slovak: priadza — bundle of fibers
• Swedish: drev — bundle of fibers
• Swedish: blånor — bundle of fibers
• Ottoman Turkish: استوپی (üstüpü) — bundle of fibers
• Ukrainian: кло́ччя (klóččja) — bundle of fibers
• Welsh: carth — bundle of fibers
• Welsh: breisgion — bundle of fibers
• Asturian: remolcar — pull something using a line
• Bulgarian: тегля (teglja) — pull something using a line
• Catalan: remolcar — pull something using a line
• Cebuano: guyod — pull something using a line
• Chinese Mandarin: 拖 (tuō) — pull something using a line
• Chinese Mandarin: 拉 (lā) — pull something using a line
• Chinese Mandarin: 拽 (zhuài) — pull something using a line
• Czech: vléci — pull something using a line
• Czech: táhnout — pull something using a line
• Finnish: hinata — pull something using a line
• French: tracter — pull something using a line
• French: remorquer — pull something using a line
• Galician: remolcar — pull something using a line
• Galician: abordelar — pull something using a line
• Galician: solear — pull something using a line
• Galician: toar — pull something using a line
• Galician: halar — pull something using a line
• German: ziehen — pull something using a line
• German: schleppen — pull something using a line
• German: abschleppen — pull something using a line
• German: treideln — pull something using a line
• Greek: ρυμουλκώ (rymoulkó) — pull something using a line
• Hungarian: vontat — pull something using a line
• Italian: trainare — pull something using a line
• Italian: rimorchiare — pull something using a line
• Korean: 끌다 (kkeulda) — pull something using a line
• Maltese: rmonka — pull something using a line
• Māori: tō — pull something using a line
• Māori: taki — pull something using a line
• Māori: pārete — pull something using a line
• Polish: holować — pull something using a line
• Portuguese: rebocar — pull something using a line
• Russian: букси́ровать (buksírovatʹ) — pull something using a line
• Russian: тяну́ть (tjanútʹ) — pull something using a line
• Russian: тащи́ть (taščítʹ) — pull something using a line
• Scottish Gaelic: slaod — pull something using a line
• Slovak: vliecť — pull something using a line
• Slovak: ťahať — pull something using a line
• Spanish: remolcar — pull something using a line
• Spanish: tractar — pull something using a line
• Swedish: bogsera — pull something using a line
• Turkish: yedekte çekmek — pull something using a line
• Ottoman Turkish: یدمك (yedmek) — pull something using a line