yarn

Енглески

WOTD – 20 October 2007

A basket of yarn (twisted fiber)

Етимологија

From Средњи Енглески yarn, from the Стари Енглески ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Пра-Германски *garną (“yarn”), from Пра-Индо-Европски *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“tharm, guts, intestines”). Akin to Западни Фризијски jern, Холандски garen (“yarn”), Немачки Garn (“yarn”), Дански garn, Шведски garn (“yarn, thread”), Исландски garn (“yarn”), Латински hernia (“rupture”), Антички Грчки χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Санскрт हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.

Изговор

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

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• Риме: -ɑː(r)n

Именица

yarn (countable and uncountable, plural yarns)

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 ((Молимо наведите језик навода)):Категорја:Наводи са недостајућим параметром за језик

     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

• yarn-beam
• yarn-spinner
• yarnwindle

Related terms

• spin a yarn

Преводи

fiber strand for knitting or weaving

• Arabic: خَيْط‎‎ (ar) m (ḵayṭ)

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

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

  Cantonese: 冷 (laang¹)

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

  Min Nan: 膨紗 (zh-min-nan), 膨纱 (phòng-se), 毛線, 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
• German: Garn (de) n
• Greek: νήμα (el) n (níma) πλεκτικής
• 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: 糸 (ja) (いと, ito)
• Korean: 실 (ko) (sil)

• 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

• Old English: ġearn n
• 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
• Swedish: garn (sv) n
• Turkish: iplik (tr)
• Ukrainian: пря́жа f (prjáža)
• Vietnamese: sợi (vi)
• Welsh: edau f, edafedd (cy) f pl
• Yup'ik: kistaq

nautical

• Danish: garn
• Finnish: lanka (fi)
• French: corde (fr) f

• Italian: cordame m, cordaggio m
• Polish: skrętka (pl) m

story

• Catalan: fil (ca) m
• Finnish: tarina (fi), juttu (fi), sepustus (fi)
• Italian: trama (it) f
• Japanese: ほら話 (horabanashi)
• Macedonian: при́казна f (príkazna)
• Maori: kōrero paki, kōrero whakakata

• 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

• hank
• twine
• thread

Verb

yarn (third-person singular simple present yarns, present participle yarning, simple past and past participle yarned)

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

• yarner

Translations

To tell a story

• Macedonian: раскажува (raskážuva)
• Maori: kōrero paki

• Russian: травим байки n pl (travim bajki)

Anagrams

• N-ray, NYRA, Ryan, n-ary, nary

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Српски

Примери:

„1. Царевима, глава 10”

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28. И довођаху Соломуну коње из Мисира и свакојаки трг, јер трговци цареви узимаху трг различан за цену.

[[|Језек. 27:7]]

„Друга књига дневника

Глава 1”

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16. И довођаху Соломуну коње из Мисира и свакојаку робу, јер трговци цареви узимаху свакојаки трг за цену.