waist

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• /weɪst/
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• rhymes with -eɪst
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• homophone: waste (pane–pain merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: W EY1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English wast (“waist”), probably from Old English *wæst, *wǣst, *weaxt, *wæhst, from Proto-West Germanic *wahstu, from Proto-Germanic *wahstuz (“growth, development, stature, build”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2weks- (“to multiply, increase”). Cognate with Middle English wacste (“growth, increase, might, power”), Middle High German wahst (“growth”), Danish vækst (“growth”), Swedish växt (“growth, development, size”), Icelandic vöxtur (“growth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (wahstus, “growth”). Related to Old English weaxan (“to grow, increase”). More at wax.

197 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ahtna: -tlʼede — part of the body
• Albanian: bel — part of the body
• Albanian: mes — part of the body
• Chungli Ao: teperem — part of the body
• Arabic: خَصْر (ḵaṣr) — part of the body
• Arabic: وَسَط (wasaṭ) — part of the body
• Arabic: وسط (wesṭ) — part of the body
• Armenian: իրան (iran) — part of the body
• Armenian: գոտկատեղ (gotkateġ) — part of the body
• Azerbaijani: bel — part of the body
• Azerbaijani: qurşaq — part of the body
• Bashkir: бил (bil) — part of the body
• Basque: gerri — part of the body
• Belarusian: та́лія (tálija) — part of the body
• Bhojpuri: कमर (kamar) — part of the body
• Central Bikol: abayan — part of the body
• Central Bikol: iksan — part of the body
• Breton: dargreiz — part of the body
• Breton: bandenn — part of the body
• Bulgarian: та́лия (tálija) — part of the body
• Burmese: ခါး (hka:) — part of the body
• Catalan: cintura — part of the body
• Cebuano: hawak — part of the body
• Chichewa: chiuno — part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 腰 (yāo) — part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 腰部 (yāobù) — part of the body
• Coptic: ϯⲡⲓ (tipi) — part of the body
• Czech: pas — part of the body
• Danish: talje — part of the body
• Danish: liv — part of the body
• Danish: midje — part of the body
• Dutch: middel — part of the body
• Esperanto: talio — part of the body
• Estonian: vöökoht — part of the body
• Finnish: vyötärö — part of the body
• French: taille — part of the body
• Galician: cintura — part of the body
• Galician: van — part of the body
• Galician: cós — part of the body
• Georgian: წელი (c̣eli) — part of the body
• German: Taille — part of the body
• Greek: μέση (mési) — part of the body
• Ancient Greek: ἰξύς (ixús) — part of the body
• Gujarati: કમર (kamar) — part of the body
• Hawaiian: pūhaka — part of the body
• Hebrew: מֹתֶן (moten) — part of the body
• Hiligaynon: hawak — part of the body
• Hindi: कमर (kamar) — part of the body
• Hindi: कटि (kaṭi) — part of the body
• Hungarian: derék — part of the body
• Icelandic: mitti — part of the body
• Ido: tayo — part of the body
• Indonesian: pinggang — part of the body
• Ingrian: vöönkohta — part of the body
• Iquito: acajinacúraji — part of the body
• Italian: vita — part of the body
• Italian: cintura — part of the body
• Italian: cintola — part of the body
• Japanese: 胴のくびれ (dō no kubire) — part of the body
• Japanese: 腰部 (yōbu) — part of the body
• Japanese: 胴回り (dōmawari) — part of the body
• Kabuverdianu: sintura — part of the body
• Kannada: ಸೊಂಟ (soṇṭa) — part of the body
• Kapampangan: auakan — part of the body
• Kazakh: бел (bel) — part of the body
• Khmer: ចង្កេះ (cɑngkeh) — part of the body
• Kinaray-a: hawak — part of the body
• Korean: 허리 (heori) — part of the body
• Central Kurdish: کەمەر (kemer) — part of the body
• Northern Kurdish: navteng — part of the body
• Northern Kurdish: newq — part of the body
• Kyrgyz: бел (bel) — part of the body
• Ladino: ביל — part of the body
• Ladino: bel — part of the body
• Lao: ແອວ (ʼǣu) — part of the body
• Latin: media pars corporis — part of the body
• Latin: medium corpus — part of the body
• Latvian: viduklis — part of the body
• Latvian: jostasvieta — part of the body
• Lithuanian: juosmuo — part of the body
• Macedonian: појас (pojas) — part of the body
• Malay: pinggang — part of the body
• Brunei Malay: pinggang — part of the body
• Malayalam: ഇടുപ്പ് (iṭuppŭ) — part of the body
• Maltese: qadd — part of the body
• Manchu: ᡩᠠᡵᠠ (dara) — part of the body
• Manchu: ᡩᠠᡵᠠᠮᠠ (darama) — part of the body
• Mansaka: awak — part of the body
• Middle English: wast — part of the body
• Mingrelian: ოჭიში (oč̣iši) — part of the body
• Miyako: ヨーラ (jōra) — part of the body
• Mongolian: бэлхүүс (belxüüs) — part of the body
• Khiamniungan Naga: ùm — part of the body
• Navajo: anííʼ — part of the body
• Nepali: कटि (kaṭi) — part of the body
• Nepali: कम्मर (kammar) — part of the body
• Norwegian Bokmål: midje — part of the body
• Norwegian Bokmål: liv — part of the body
• Norwegian Bokmål: talje — part of the body
• Norwegian Bokmål: beltested — part of the body
• Norwegian Nynorsk: midje — part of the body
• Norwegian Nynorsk: liv — part of the body
• Norwegian Nynorsk: talje — part of the body
• Norwegian Nynorsk: beltestad — part of the body
• Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (bél) — part of the body
• Persian: کمر (kamar) — part of the body
• Plautdietsch: Kjnäp — part of the body
• Plautdietsch: Weest — part of the body
• Plautdietsch: Taulj — part of the body
• Polish: talia — part of the body
• Polish: pas — part of the body
• Portuguese: cintura — part of the body
• Romani: mashkar — part of the body
• Romanian: talie — part of the body
• Romanian: mijloc — part of the body
• Russian: та́лия (tálija) — part of the body
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan — part of the body
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏ја̄с — part of the body
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍjās — part of the body
• Sicilian: vita — part of the body
• Sicilian: cintu — part of the body
• Slovak: pás — part of the body
• Slovene: pas — part of the body
• Spanish: cintura — part of the body
• Spanish: cinto — part of the body
• Spanish: talle — part of the body
• Sundanese: angkeng — part of the body
• Svan: ლა̄რტყა (lārṭq̇a) — part of the body
• Svan: ჯაჭა̈რ (ǯač̣är) — part of the body
• Swahili: kiuno — part of the body
• Swedish: midja — part of the body
• Tagalog: baywang — part of the body
• Tagalog: bewang — part of the body
• Tajik: камар (kamar) — part of the body
• Tajik: миён (miyon) — part of the body
• Tamil: இடுப்பு (iṭuppu) — part of the body
• Lower Tanana: -tl'eda — part of the body
• Telugu: నడుము (naḍumu) — part of the body
• Thai: เอว (eeo) — part of the body
• Thai: สะเอว (sà-eeo) — part of the body
• Thai: กะเอว (gà-eeo) — part of the body
• Thai: บั้นเอว — part of the body
• Tooro: embaju class 10 — part of the body
• Turkish: bel — part of the body
• Ottoman Turkish: بل (bel) — part of the body
• Ottoman Turkish: خصر (hasr) — part of the body
• Turkmen: bil — part of the body
• Tuvan: бел кежик (bel kejik) — part of the body
• Tuvan: бел кеш (bel keş) — part of the body
• Tuvan: бел кежи (bel keji) — part of the body
• Ukrainian: та́лія (tálija) — part of the body
• Urdu: کمر (kamar) — part of the body
• Uyghur: بەل (bel) — part of the body
• Uzbek: bel — part of the body
• Vietnamese: eo — part of the body
• Vietnamese: eo lưng — part of the body
• Welsh: gwasg — part of the body
• Yakut: биил (biil) — part of the body
• Yami: kawakan — part of the body
• Yiddish: טאַליע (talye) — part of the body
• Zazaki: mér — part of the body
• Zhuang: hwet — part of the body
• Bulgarian: корсаж (korsaž) — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Danish: talje — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Finnish: vyötärö — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• French: taille — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• French: ceinture — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• German: Hüfttuch — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Hawaiian: pākana — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Icelandic: mitti — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Ingrian: vöönkohta — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Norwegian Bokmål: liv — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Norwegian Nynorsk: liv — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Polish: pas — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Russian: по́яс (pójas) — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Russian: лиф (lif) — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Sicilian: cigna — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Sicilian: curriva — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Sicilian: cintu — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Spanish: cintura — part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist
• Danish: hvepsetalje — narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects
• Finnish: vyötärö — narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects
• French: taille — narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects
• Norwegian Bokmål: vepsetalje — narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvefsetalje — narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vepsetalje — narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects
• Estonian: kesktekk — middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft
• Finnish: keskirunko — middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft
• German: Rumpf — middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft
• German: Schiffsrumpf — middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft
• Hungarian: törzs — middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft
• Russian: шкафу́т (škafút) — middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft
• Hebrew: מָתְנֵי הָאֳנִיָּה (motney haoniya) — nautical: upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle
• Finnish: keskiosa — middle part of anything
• German: Mittelteil — middle part of anything
• German: Mitte — middle part of anything