velvet

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɛlvɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈvɛlvɪt/
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From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: кадифен (kadifen) — made of velvet
• Macedonian: кадифен (kadifen) — made of velvet
• Polish: aksamitny — made of velvet
• Russian: ба́рхатный (bárxatnyj) — made of velvet
• Polish: aksamitny — soft
• Polish: aksamitny — politics
• Albanian: kadife — fabric
• Arabic: مُخْمَل (muḵmal) — fabric
• Arabic: قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa) — fabric
• Arabic: قطيفة (ʔaṭīfa) — fabric
• Armenian: թավիշ (tʻaviš) — fabric
• Azerbaijani: məxmər — fabric
• Belarusian: аксамі́т (aksamít) — fabric
• Belarusian: ба́рхат (bárxat) — fabric
• Bengali: মখমল (mokhmol) — fabric
• Breton: voulouz — fabric
• Bulgarian: кадифе́ (kadifé) — fabric
• Burmese: ကတ္တီပါ (kattipa) — fabric
• Catalan: vellut — fabric
• Chinese Cantonese: 絲絨 /丝绒 (si1 jung4) — fabric
• Chinese Mandarin: 絲絨 /丝绒 (sīróng) — fabric
• Chinese Mandarin: 天鵝絨 /天鹅绒 (tiān'éróng) — fabric
• Czech: samet — fabric
• Danish: fløjl — fabric
• Dutch: fluweel — fabric
• Esperanto: veluro — fabric
• Estonian: samet — fabric
• Faroese: floyal — fabric
• Faroese: fleyald — fabric
• Finnish: sametti — fabric
• French: velours — fabric
• Galician: veludo — fabric
• Georgian: ხავერდი (xaverdi) — fabric
• German: Samt — fabric
• Greek: βελούδο (veloúdo) — fabric
• Hebrew: קְטִיפָה (k'tifá) — fabric
• Hindi: मख़मल (maxmal) — fabric
• Hungarian: bársony — fabric
• Icelandic: flauel — fabric
• Indonesian: beludru — fabric
• Irish: veilbhit — fabric
• Italian: velluto — fabric
• Japanese: ベルベット (berubetto) — fabric
• Japanese: ビロード (birōdo) — fabric
• Kazakh: барқыт (barqyt) — fabric
• Kazakh: мақпал (maqpal) — fabric
• Kazakh: қатипа (qatipa) — fabric
• Khmer: កម្ញី (kammñəy) — fabric
• Korean: 벨벳 (belbet) — fabric
• Korean: 우단 (udan) — fabric
• Kumyk: махмар (maxmar) — fabric
• Kyrgyz: баркыт (barkıt) — fabric
• Kyrgyz: макмал (makmal) — fabric
• Lao: ກໍາມະຫຍີ່ (kam ma nyī) — fabric
• Latvian: samts — fabric
• Lithuanian: aksomas — fabric
• Luxembourgish: Samett — fabric
• Macedonian: сомот (somot) — fabric
• Macedonian: кадифе (kadife) — fabric
• Malay: baldu — fabric
• Malay: beledu — fabric
• Maltese: bellus — fabric
• Māori: wereweti — fabric
• Mongolian: хилэн (xilen) — fabric
• Norman: v'lous — fabric
• Norwegian: fløyel — fabric
• Pashto: بخمل (baxmál) — fabric
• Pashto: مخمل (maxmál) — fabric
• Persian: مخمل (maxmal) — fabric
• Plautdietsch: Zaunft — fabric
• Polish: aksamit — fabric
• Portuguese: veludo — fabric
• Punjabi: ਮਖਮਲ (makhmal) — fabric
• Romanian: catifea — fabric
• Russian: ба́рхат (bárxat) — fabric
• Russian: вельве́т (velʹvét) — fabric
• Russian: аксами́т (aksamít) — fabric
• Russian: велю́р (veljúr) — fabric
• Scottish Gaelic: meileabhaid — fabric
• Serbo-Croatian: ба̀ршӯн — fabric
• Serbo-Croatian: bàršūn — fabric
• Slovak: zamat — fabric
• Slovene: žamet — fabric
• Spanish: terciopelo — fabric
• Spanish: velludo — fabric
• Spanish: veludo — fabric
• Spanish: velludillo — fabric
• Spanish: veludillo — fabric
• Swahili: mahameli — fabric
• Swedish: sammet — fabric
• Tagalog: pelus — fabric
• Tajik: бахмал (baxmal) — fabric
• Tajik: махмал (maxmal) — fabric
• Tatar: бәрхет (bärxet) — fabric
• Thai: กํามะหยี่ (gam-má-yìi) — fabric
• Tibetan: སྤུ་མ (spu ma) — fabric
• Turkish: kadife — fabric
• Ottoman Turkish: قطیفه (kadife) — fabric
• Turkmen: welwet — fabric
• Ukrainian: оксами́т (oksamýt) — fabric
• Urdu: مخمل (maxmal) — fabric
• Uyghur: مەخمەل (mexmel) — fabric
• Uyghur: بەرقۇت (berqut) — fabric
• Uyghur: دۇخاۋا (duxawa) — fabric
• Uzbek: baxmal — fabric
• Uzbek: barxit — fabric
• Uzbek: duxoba — fabric
• Vietnamese: nhung — fabric
• Volapük: veluv — fabric
• Welsh: melfed — fabric
• Yiddish: סאַמעט (samet) — fabric
• Danish: bast — fine fur
• Finnish: (samettinen) nahka — fine fur
• French: duvet — fine fur
• French: velours (on antlers) — fine fur
• Irish: veilbhit — fine fur
• Japanese: 角袋 (tsunobukuro) — fine fur
• Russian: пух (pux) — fine fur
• Russian: пушо́к (pušók) — fine fur
• Swedish: basthud — fine fur
• German: (das Geweih) fegen — to remove the velvet from a deer's antlers
• German: verfegen — to remove the velvet from a deer's antlers
• German: mildern — to soften, to mitigate
• German: die Krallen einziehen — to retract (cat's claws)