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WOTD – 20 October 2007

A basket of yarn (twisted fiber)

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From Средњи Енглески yarne, ȝern, 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.

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

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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.
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Synonyms

• (story or tale): story, tale

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• yarn-beam
• yarn-spinner
• yarnwindle

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• spin a yarn

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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: 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
• 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 (arpedónē)

• 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

• Ojibwe: miskogaadeyaab
• 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, lana (es)
• Swedish: garn (sv) n
• Tashelhit: ⵜⵉⵍⵎⵉ f
• 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

• 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: 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

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• hank
• twine
• thread

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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.

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• yarner

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To tell a story

• Georgian: ამბის მოყოლა (ambis moq̇ola)
• Macedonian: раска́жува (raskážuva)

• Maori: kōrero paki
• Russian: травим байки n pl (travim bajki)

Anagrams

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

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yarn

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