yarn

Енглески

WOTD – 20 October 2007

A basket of yarn (twisted fiber)

Етимологија

From Middle English yarne, ȝern, yarn, from the Old English ġearn (ġearn, “yarn, spun wool”), from , from , . Akin to West Frisian jern, Dutch garen (“yarn”), Немачки Garn (“yarn”), Дански garn, Шведски garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Латински hernia (“rupture”), Антички Грчки χορδή (χορδή, “string”), Санскрт हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.

===Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yân, МФА^(key): /jɑːn/
• (US) enPR: yârn, МФА^(key): /jɑɹn/

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• Риме: -ɑː(r)n

===Noun

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1. (uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
2. (nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
3. (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

Synonyms

• (story or tale): story, tale

====Derived terms

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• yarn-beam
• yarn-spinner
• yarnwindle

====Related terms

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• spin a yarn

====Translations

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fiber strand for knitting or weaving

• Arabic: خَيْط‎ (ar) m (ḵayṭ)

  Egyptian Arabic: دوبارة‎ f (dubara), خيط‎ m (xéṭ), (wool) بكرة‎ f (bakara)

  Gulf Arabic: خيط‎ (xeṭ)

• Armenian: մանվածք (hy) (manvackʿ)
• Belarusian: пра́жа f (práža)
• Bulgarian: пре́жда f (préžda)
• Catalan: fil (ca) m
• Chakma:
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 冷 (laang¹)

  Mandarin: 紗線／纱线 (zh), 纱线 (zh) (shāxiàn), 紗／纱 (zh), 纱 (zh) (shā), 毛線／毛线 (zh), 毛线 (zh) (máoxiàn)

  Min Nan: 膨紗／膨纱 (zh-min-nan), 膨纱 (phòng-se), 毛線／毛线, 毛线 (mô͘-sòaⁿ)

• Czech: příze f
• Danish: garn n
• Dutch: garen (nl) n
• Esperanto: fadeno (eo)
• Estonian: lõng (et), kedrus
• Finnish: lanka (fi), rihma (fi)
• French: fil (fr) m
• Galician: cerro (gl) m, fiado m
• Georgian: ნართი (narti), ძაფი (ʒapi)
• German: Garn (de) n
• Greek: νήμα (el) n (níma) πλεκτικής

  Ancient Greek: ἀρπεδόνη f (ἀρπεδόνη)

• Hebrew: צֶמֶר‎ (he) m (tsémer)
• Hindi: सूत (hi) m (sūt)
• Hungarian: fonál (hu), fonal (hu)
• Icelandic: garn (is) n
• Irish: abhras m, snáth m
• Italian: filo (it) m, filato (it) m
• Japanese:
• Korean: 실 (ko) (sil)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ເສັ້ນດ້າຍ (lo) (sen dāi)
• Latin: filum n, acia f
• Latvian: dzija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Goorn (nds) n

• Macedonian: пре́диво n (prédivo), пре́ѓа f (préǵa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: garn (no) n

  Nynorsk: garn n

• Ojibwe: miskogaadeyaab
• Old English: ġearn n (ġearn)
• Persian: کاموا‎ (fa) (kâmvâ), نخ‎ (fa) (nax)
• Polish: przędza (pl) f, włóczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: lã (pt) f
• Quechua: q'aytu
• Romanian: fir (ro) n, ață (ro) f
• Russian: пря́жа (ru) f (prjáža)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре̏дӣво n, пре̏ђа f

  Roman: prȅdīvo (sh) n, prȅđa (sh) f

• Slovak: priadza f, pradivo n
• Slovene: preja (sl) f
• Spanish: hilo (es) m, hilado (es) m, lana (es)
• Swedish: garn (sv) n
• Tashelhit:
• Turkish: iplik (tr)
• Ukrainian: пря́жа f (prjáža)
• Vietnamese: sợi (vi)
• Walloon: fi (wa) m (metallic), fyi (wa) m (natural, whool, etc.)
• Welsh: edau f, edafedd (cy) f pl
• Yup'ik: kistaq

nautical

• Danish: garn
• Finnish: lanka (fi)
• French: corde (fr) f
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• Italian: cordame m, cordaggio m
• Polish: skrętka (pl) m

story

• Catalan: fil (ca) m
• Finnish: tarina (fi), juttu (fi), sepustus (fi)
• Georgian: მოთხრობა (motxroba), ნაამბობი (naambobi)
• Italian: trama (it) f, fandonia (it) f
• Japanese:
• Macedonian: при́казна f (príkazna)
• Maori: kōrero paki, kōrero whakakata
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: opowieść (pl)
• Romanian: basm (ro) n, poveste (ro) f
• Russian: ба́йка (ru) f (bájka), небыли́ца (ru) f (nebylíca)
• Slovak: príbeh m
• Spanish: cuento (es) m, historia (es) f

====See also

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• hank
• twine
• thread

===Verb

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yarn (transliteration needed)

1. To tell a story or stories.
   • 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,^[1]

     “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”

   • 1942, Neville Shute, Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 7,^[2]

     They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café.

====Derived terms

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• yarner

====Translations

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To tell a story

• Georgian: ამბის მოყოლა (ambis moq̇ola)
• Macedonian: раска́жува (raskážuva)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kōrero paki
• Russian: травим байки n pl (travim bajki)

Anagrams

• N-ray, NYRA, Ryan, n-ary, nary ^{(alphagram anry)}

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Middle English

===Noun

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yarn (transliteration needed)

1. form of yarne