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See also: Feather

English

**Parts of a feather:**
1. vane
2. rachis, shaft
3. barbs
4. hyporachis, afterfeather
5. calamus, quill

Alternative forms

fether (archaic)

Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FEATHER Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peth₂-#FEATHER

Cognate with West Frisian fear (“feather”), Cimbrian bèdara, fòdara (“pillowcase”), vèdara (“feather”), Dutch veder, veer (“feather”), German Feder (“feather”), German Low German Fedder (“feather”), Luxembourgish Fieder (“feather”), Vilamovian faoder (“feather”), Yiddish פֿעדער (feder, “feather”), Danish fjeder, fjer (“feather”), Faroese fjøður (“feather”), Icelandic fjöður (“feather”), Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør (“feather”), Norwegian Nynorsk fjøder, fjør (“feather”), Swedish fjäder (“feather”). Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai, “to fly”), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna (“feather”), Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ, “flight”).

The sense correlated with splines and keys (noun sense 4) probably reflects analogy with the fletching sense (noun sense 3).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛð.ə(ɹ)/Category:English 2-syllable words#FEATHER Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FEATHER
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛð.ɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#FEATHER Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FEATHER
Audio (US): (file)
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Audio: (file)
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Rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɛðə(ɹ)#FEATHER Category:Rhymes:English/ɛðə(ɹ)/2 syllables#FEATHER
Hyphenation: feath‧er

Noun

feather (plural feathers)Category:English lemmas#FEATHER Category:English nouns#FEATHER Category:English countable nouns#FEATHER Category:English entries with incorrect language header#FEATHER Category:Pages with entries#FEATHER Category:Pages with 1 entry#FEATHER

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- 1873, W. K. Brooks, “A Feather”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume IV, page 687:
  Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
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- 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Beasts of Tarzan:
  Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers, adding to their wild, fierce appearance.
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- 2000, C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care, page 362:
  Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.
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Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
Synonyms: feathers, feathering, horsefeathers

Antonym: spats
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.
Coordinate terms: key, spline

Near-synonym: spline
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  I am not of that feather to shake off / My friend when he must need me.
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One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.^[1]
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- 1823, An Ecclesiastical Memoir of Essex Street Religious Society:
  To some pew purchasers he gave deeds, to others he gave, none, but both were promised security, and both it seems were equally secure, for the pew deed as Mr. Melledge declared to Mr. G. was not worth a feather.
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(hunting Category:en:Hunting#FEATHER, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
(rail transport Category:en:Rail transportation#FEATHER) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- 2020 December 30, David Allen, “Unusual signals...: Morpeth Signal M123”, in Rail, page 64:
  Signal M123 is a conventional 3-aspect colour light with three Junction Indicators - commonly known as 'feathers'.
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(cricket Category:en:Cricket#FEATHER) A faint edge.

Synonyms

plume (archaic, literary and poetic), pluma (archaic)

Derived terms

Related terms

fletchings

Translations

branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds

Category:Entries with translation boxes#FEATHER

Acehnese: buleeCategory:Terms with Acehnese translations#FEATHER
Afrikaans: veer (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#FEATHER, pluimCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#FEATHER
Ahom: 𑜁𑜤𑜃𑜫 (khun)Category:Terms with Ahom translations#FEATHER
Ainu: コンコン (konkon)Category:Terms with Ainu translations#FEATHER, コンコニ (konkoni)Category:Terms with Ainu translations#FEATHER, ラㇷ゚ (rap)Category:Terms with Ainu translations#FEATHER
Aklanon: buebueCategory:Terms with Aklanon translations#FEATHER
Albanian: pendë (sq) fCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#FEATHER, pupël (sq)Category:Terms with Albanian translations#FEATHER
Altai:
Northern Altai: ньум (nʹum)Category:Terms with Northern Altai translations#FEATHER, дьонъ (dʹonʺ)Category:Terms with Northern Altai translations#FEATHER

Southern Altai: јум (ǰum)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#FEATHER, јуҥ (ǰuŋ)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#FEATHER, тӱк (tük)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#FEATHER
Amharic: ላባ (laba)Category:Terms with Amharic translations#FEATHER
Arabic: (collective) رِيش m (rīš)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#FEATHER, (singulative) رِيشَة f (rīša)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#FEATHER
Egyptian Arabic: ريش m (rīš)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#FEATHER (collective), ريشة f (rīša)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#FEATHER (singulative)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܐܒܪܬܐ fCategory:Terms with Classical Syriac translations#FEATHER
Argobba: ላባ (laba)Category:Terms with Argobba translations#FEATHER
Armenian: փետուր (hy) (pʻetur)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#FEATHER
Aromanian: peanãCategory:Terms with Aromanian translations#FEATHER
Assamese: পাখি (pakhi)Category:Terms with Assamese translations#FEATHER
Asturian: pluma (ast) fCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#FEATHER
Avar: хӏули (ḥʳuli)Category:Terms with Avar translations#FEATHER
Azerbaijani: tük (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#FEATHER, lələk (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#FEATHER
Bangi: lisalaCategory:Terms with Bangi translations#FEATHER
Bashkir: ҡауырһын (qawırhın)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#FEATHER, ҡаурый (qawrıy)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#FEATHER; (collectively) йөн (yön)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#FEATHER
Basque: lumaCategory:Terms with Basque translations#FEATHER
Belarusian: пяро́ n (pjaró)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#FEATHER
Bengali: পালক (bn) (palok)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#FEATHER
Bhojpuri: पंख (paṅkh)Category:Terms with Bhojpuri translations#FEATHER
Central Bikol: balukag (bcl)Category:Terms with Central Bikol translations#FEATHER
Breton: pluenn (br) fCategory:Terms with Breton translations#FEATHER
Bulgarian: перо́ (bg) n (peró)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#FEATHER
Burmese: အတောင် (my) (a.taung)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#FEATHER
Buryat: үдэн (üden)Category:Terms with Buryat translations#FEATHER
Catalan: ploma (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#FEATHER
Chamicuro: pwayeCategory:Terms with Chamicuro translations#FEATHER
Chechen: пелаг (pelag)Category:Terms with Chechen translations#FEATHER
Chichewa: nthengaCategory:Terms with Chichewa translations#FEATHER
Chinese:
Cantonese: 羽毛 (jyu⁵ mou⁴)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#FEATHER

Eastern Min: 羽毛 (ṳ̄-mò̤)Category:Terms with Eastern Min translations#FEATHER

Hokkien: 羽毛 (zh-min-nan) (ú-mô͘)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#FEATHER

Mandarin: 羽毛 (zh) (yǔmáo)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#FEATHER Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#FEATHER, 羽 (zh) (yǔ)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#FEATHER

Wu: 羽毛 (⁶yu-mau)Category:Terms with Wu translations#FEATHER

Xiang: 羽毛 (y³ mau²)Category:Terms with Xiang translations#FEATHER
Choctaw: hishiCategory:Terms with Choctaw translations#FEATHER, hushi hishiCategory:Terms with Choctaw translations#FEATHER
Chuvash: тӗк (tĕk)Category:Terms with Chuvash translations#FEATHER
Cornish: pluvenCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#FEATHER
Czech: péro (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#FEATHER
Danish: fjer (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#FEATHER
Dutch: veer (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#FEATHER, veder (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#FEATHER, pluim (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#FEATHER
Erzya: толга (tolga)Category:Terms with Erzya translations#FEATHER
Esperanto: plumo (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#FEATHER
Estonian: sulg (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#FEATHER
Evenki: дэктэннэ (dəktənnə)Category:Terms with Evenki translations#FEATHER
Faroese: fjøður (fo) fCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#FEATHER
Finnish: sulka (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FEATHER, höyhen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FEATHER
French: plume (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#FEATHER
Frisian:
North Frisian: FeđerCategory:Terms with North Frisian translations#FEATHER (Sylt)

West Frisian: fearCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#FEATHER, plomCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#FEATHER, pinneCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#FEATHER
Friulian: plume fCategory:Terms with Friulian translations#FEATHER, pene fCategory:Terms with Friulian translations#FEATHER
Galician: pluma (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FEATHER, pruma fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FEATHER, pena (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FEATHER, froixel mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FEATHER, faixel mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FEATHER
Georgian: ბუმბული (bumbuli)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#FEATHER
German: Feder (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#FEATHER, Vogelfeder (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#FEATHER
Greek: φτερό (el) n (fteró)Category:Terms with Greek translations#FEATHER, πούπουλο (el) n (poúpoulo)Category:Terms with Greek translations#FEATHER
Ancient Greek: πτερόν n (pterón)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#FEATHER

Pontic Greek: φτερὀν (fterὀn)Category:Terms with Pontic Greek translations#FEATHER, φτερούγιν (fteroúgin)Category:Terms with Pontic Greek translations#FEATHER, φτερούλ’ (fteroúl’)Category:Terms with Pontic Greek translations#FEATHER, κανάτ’ (kanát’)Category:Terms with Pontic Greek translations#FEATHER, γανάτ’ (ganát’)Category:Terms with Pontic Greek translations#FEATHER
Guarani:
Mbya Guarani: agueCategory:Terms with Mbya Guarani translations#FEATHER

Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} ague (gn)Category:Terms with Paraguayan Guarani translations#FEATHER Category:Requests for review of Paraguayan Guarani translations#FEATHER (t-)
Gujarati: પીછું (pīchũ)Category:Terms with Gujarati translations#FEATHER
Haitian Creole: plimCategory:Terms with Haitian Creole translations#FEATHER
Hawaiian: huluCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#FEATHER
Hebrew: נוצה / נוֹצָה (he) f (notsá)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#FEATHER
Hindi: पंख (hi) m (paṅkh)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#FEATHER, पर (hi) m (par)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#FEATHER
Hmong:
White Hmong: plaub noogCategory:Terms with White Hmong translations#FEATHER
Hungarian: toll (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#FEATHER
Icelandic: fjöður (is) fCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#FEATHER
Ido: plumo (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#FEATHER
Indonesian: bulu (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#FEATHER
Ineseño: qapCategory:Terms with Ineseño translations#FEATHER
Ingrian: sulkaCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#FEATHER
Ingush: бедарг (bedarg)Category:Terms with Ingush translations#FEATHER
Interlingua: plumaCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#FEATHER, pennaCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#FEATHER
Iranun: bumbulCategory:Terms with Iranun translations#FEATHER
Irish: cleite mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#FEATHER
Italian: piuma (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#FEATHER, penna (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#FEATHER
Japanese: 羽 (ja) (はね, hane)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#FEATHER
Javanese: wulu (jv)Category:Terms with Javanese translations#FEATHER
Kalmyk: өдн (ödn)Category:Terms with Kalmyk translations#FEATHER, өдн (ödn)Category:Terms with Kalmyk translations#FEATHER
Kam:
Southern Kam: bienlCategory:Terms with Southern Kam translations#FEATHER
Kanakanabu: aapunguCategory:Terms with Kanakanabu translations#FEATHER
Kashubian: pióro nCategory:Terms with Kashubian translations#FEATHER
Kazakh: қауырсын (qauyrsyn)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#FEATHER
Khmer: ស្លាប (km) (slaap)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#FEATHER
Korean: 깃 (ko) (git)Category:Terms with Korean translations#FEATHER, 깃털 (ko) (git'teol)Category:Terms with Korean translations#FEATHER
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پەڕ (ckb) ? (perr)Category:Requests for gender in Central Kurdish entries#FEATHER Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations#FEATHER

Northern Kurdish: perr (ku) mCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#FEATHER, pûrt (ku) mCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#FEATHER
Kyrgyz: канаттын бир талы (kanattın bir talı)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#FEATHER, куштун бир тал жүнү (kuştun bir tal jünü)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#FEATHER
Lao: ຂົນ (lo) (khon)Category:Terms with Lao translations#FEATHER
Latgalian: spolva fCategory:Terms with Latgalian translations#FEATHER
Latin: plūma fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#FEATHER, penna fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#FEATHER
Latvian: spalva (lv) fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#FEATHER
Lingala: lonsáláCategory:Terms with Lingala translations#FEATHER, lonsalaCategory:Terms with Lingala translations#FEATHER
Lithuanian: plunksna (lt) fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#FEATHER
Low German:
German Low German: Fedder fCategory:Terms with German Low German translations#FEATHER Category:Terms with Low German translations#FEATHER
Lü: ᦃᦳᧃ (ẋun)Category:Terms with Lü translations#FEATHER
Luba-Kasai: disalaCategory:Terms with Luba-Kasai translations#FEATHER
Luba-Katanga: disalaCategory:Terms with Luba-Katanga translations#FEATHER
Luhya:
Wanga: olwoyaCategory:Terms with Luhya translations#FEATHER, omwiroCategory:Terms with Luhya translations#FEATHER (adornment), emiiro plCategory:Terms with Luhya translations#FEATHER
Lushootseed: c'ic'alCategory:Terms with Lushootseed translations#FEATHER
Luxembourgish: Fieder (lb) fCategory:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#FEATHER, Plomm fCategory:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#FEATHER
Macedonian: пердув m (perduv)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#FEATHER
Maguindanao: bumbulCategory:Terms with Maguindanao translations#FEATHER
Malay: bulu pelepahCategory:Terms with Malay translations#FEATHER
Malayalam: തൂവൽ (ml) (tūval)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#FEATHER
Maltese: rix mCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#FEATHER
Manchu: ᡩᡝᡨᡥᡝ (dethe)Category:Terms with Manchu translations#FEATHER, ᡶᡠᠩᡤᠠᡥᠠ (funggaha)Category:Terms with Manchu translations#FEATHER
Māori: huruCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, whā (mi)Category:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER (general); meremereCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER (scapular); kīraCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER (wing); hikurangiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, matakīreaCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, matakīreaCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER (primary); waitiripapāCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER (secondary); houCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, kurutouCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, rau (mi)Category:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, maekoCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, marihopeCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, hūmaekoCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, kōtoreCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER (tail), remuCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER, kururemuCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER hukumaroCategory:Terms with Māori translations#FEATHER (tail)
Maranao: bombolCategory:Terms with Maranao translations#FEATHER
Marathi: पीस n (pīsa)Category:Marathi terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#FEATHER Category:Terms with Marathi translations#FEATHER
Mongo: lonsalaCategory:Terms with Mongo translations#FEATHER
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: өд (mn) (öd)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#FEATHER, өрөвлөг (örövlög)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#FEATHER
Naga:
Khiamniungan Naga: vēukōiCategory:Terms with Khiamniungan Naga translations#FEATHER
Nahuatl:
Classical Nahuatl: tototzontliCategory:Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations#FEATHER, ihhuitlCategory:Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations#FEATHER
Nanai: дэктэчэ (dekteče)Category:Terms with Nanai translations#FEATHER
Navajo: atʼaʼCategory:Terms with Navajo translations#FEATHER
Nepali: प्वाँख (pwā̃kh)Category:Terms with Nepali translations#FEATHER
Norman: plleume fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#FEATHER (Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjær (no) m or fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#FEATHER, fjør (no) m or fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#FEATHER

Nynorsk: fjør (nn) fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#FEATHER
Occitan: pluma (oc) fCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#FEATHER
Odia: ପର (or) (para)Category:Terms with Odia translations#FEATHER
Ohlone:
Southern Ohlone: sipposCategory:Terms with Southern Ohlone translations#FEATHER
Ojibwe: miigwanCategory:Terms with Ojibwe translations#FEATHER
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: перо n (pero)Category:Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations#FEATHER
Old East Slavic: перо n (pero)Category:Terms with Old East Slavic translations#FEATHER
Old English: feþer fCategory:Terms with Old English translations#FEATHER
Old Norse: fjǫðr fCategory:Terms with Old Norse translations#FEATHER
Old Tupi: abaCategory:Terms with Old Tupi translations#FEATHER (body feather), pepóCategory:Terms with Old Tupi translations#FEATHER (flight feather)
Oromo: baalleeCategory:Terms with Oromo translations#FEATHER
Pannonian Rusyn: пирко n (pirko)Category:Terms with Pannonian Rusyn translations#FEATHER
Papiamentu: plumaCategory:Terms with Papiamentu translations#FEATHER
Pashto: پر (ps) m (par)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#FEATHER, بڼکه (ps) f (baṇᶕka)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#FEATHER
Persian:
Iranian Persian: پَر (par)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#FEATHER Category:Terms with Persian translations#FEATHER
Piedmontese: piuma fCategory:Terms with Piedmontese translations#FEATHER
Plautdietsch: Fada fCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#FEATHER, Poos fCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#FEATHER
Polabian: perü nCategory:Terms with Polabian translations#FEATHER
Polish: pióro (pl) nCategory:Terms with Polish translations#FEATHER
Portuguese: pluma (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#FEATHER, pena (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#FEATHER
Punjabi: ਖੰਭ (pa) (khambh)Category:Terms with Punjabi translations#FEATHER
Quechua: phuruCategory:Terms with Quechua translations#FEATHER, patpaCategory:Terms with Quechua translations#FEATHER
Rohingya: fóoirCategory:Terms with Rohingya translations#FEATHER
Romagnol: pióma fCategory:Terms with Romagnol translations#FEATHER
Romani: pōrCategory:Terms with Romani translations#FEATHER
Romanian: fulg (ro) nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#FEATHER, pană (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#FEATHER
Russian: перо́ (ru) n (peró)Category:Terms with Russian translations#FEATHER
Salar: mimilükCategory:Terms with Salar translations#FEATHER, sangliuCategory:Terms with Salar translations#FEATHER, tüxCategory:Terms with Salar translations#FEATHER
Samogitian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Samogitian#FEATHER
Sanskrit: पर्ण (sa) n (parṇá)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#FEATHER Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#FEATHER
Sardinian: pinna fCategory:Terms with Sardinian translations#FEATHER, pinniaCategory:Terms with Sardinian translations#FEATHER
Scottish Gaelic: ite fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#FEATHER
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пѐро (sh) nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#FEATHER

Latin: pèro (sh) nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#FEATHER
Shan: ၶူၼ် (shn) (khǔun)Category:Terms with Shan translations#FEATHER
Sicilian: pinna (scn) fCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#FEATHER
Sinhalese: පිහාටුවක් (pihāṭuwak)Category:Terms with Sinhalese translations#FEATHER
Slovak: pierko nCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#FEATHER, pero nCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#FEATHER
Slovene: perọ̑ (sl) nCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#FEATHER
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pjero nCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#FEATHER
Spanish: pluma (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#FEATHER, péndola (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#FEATHER (uncommon)
Sranan Tongo: fowruwiwiriCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#FEATHER
Swahili: unyoya (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#FEATHER
Swedish: fjäder (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#FEATHER
Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠈ (faxó)Category:Terms with Sylheti translations#FEATHER, ꠙꠣꠟꠇ (falox)Category:Terms with Sylheti translations#FEATHER
Tagalog: balahiboCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#FEATHER, bagwis (tl)Category:Terms with Tagalog translations#FEATHER, puladCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#FEATHER
Tai Dam: ꪶꪄꪙCategory:Terms with Tai Dam translations#FEATHER
Tai Nüa: ᥑᥨᥢᥴ (xón)Category:Terms with Tai Nüa translations#FEATHER
Tajik: пар (par)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#FEATHER
Tamil: சிறகு (ta) (ciṟaku)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#FEATHER
Tatar: каурый (tt) (qawrıy)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#FEATHER
Tausug: bulbulCategory:Terms with Tausug translations#FEATHER
Telugu: ఈక (te) (īka)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#FEATHER
Tetum: fulunCategory:Terms with Tetum translations#FEATHER
Thai: ขนนก (kǒn-nók)Category:Terms with Thai translations#FEATHER, ขน (th) (kǒn)Category:Terms with Thai translations#FEATHER
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Tupinambá: (s-) abaCategory:Terms with Tupinambá translations#FEATHER
Turkish: tüy (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#FEATHER
Ottoman Turkish: توی (tüy)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#FEATHER
Turkmen: ýelekCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#FEATHER
Ukrainian: перо́ n (peró)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#FEATHER
Urdu: پَنکْھ m (pankh)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#FEATHER, پَر m (par)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#FEATHER
Uyghur: پەي (pey)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#FEATHER, تۈك (tük)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#FEATHER
Uzbek: par (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#FEATHER, pat (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#FEATHER
Venetan: pena fCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#FEATHER
Vietnamese: lông vũ (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#FEATHER, lông (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#FEATHER, lông chimCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#FEATHER
Volapük: plüm (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#FEATHER, bödaplümCategory:Terms with Volapük translations#FEATHER, plümem (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#FEATHER (collective), bödaplümemCategory:Terms with Volapük translations#FEATHER (collective), pen (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#FEATHER (older term), bödapenCategory:Terms with Volapük translations#FEATHER (older term)
Walloon: pene (wa) fCategory:Terms with Walloon translations#FEATHER, plome (wa) fCategory:Terms with Walloon translations#FEATHER
Warao: huhiCategory:Terms with Warao translations#FEATHER
Welsh: plu (cy) f plCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#FEATHER, pluf (cy) m plCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#FEATHER, adain (cy) fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#FEATHER
Yaghnobi: бал (bal)Category:Terms with Yaghnobi translations#FEATHER
Yakut: куорсун (kuorsun)Category:Terms with Yakut translations#FEATHER
Yiddish: פֿעדער f (feder)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#FEATHER
Yurok: re'nohCategory:Terms with Yurok translations#FEATHER
Zazaki: purtCategory:Terms with Zazaki translations#FEATHER
Zealandic: plume fCategory:Terms with Zealandic translations#FEATHER
Zhuang: bwnsienqCategory:Terms with Zhuang translations#FEATHER, bwnCategory:Terms with Zhuang translations#FEATHER
Zulu: uphaphe class 11/10Category:Terms with Zulu translations#FEATHER

long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse

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Czech: rous mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#FEATHER
Finnish: vuohiskarvaCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#FEATHER
French: fanon (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#FEATHER
Italian: barbetta (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#FEATHER

fin or wing on the shaft of an arrow

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Bulgarian: перо́ (bg) n (peró)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#FEATHER
Finnish: sulka (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FEATHER
Russian: перо́ (ru) n (peró)Category:Terms with Russian translations#FEATHER
Tagalog: simaCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#FEATHER

longitudinal strip, spline

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Finnish: liuska (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FEATHER, liukukiilaCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#FEATHER (mechanical)

kind, nature

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Finnish: tyyppi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FEATHER
Korean: 유(類) (ko) (yu)Category:Terms with Korean translations#FEATHER, 종류(種類) (ko) (jongnyu)Category:Terms with Korean translations#FEATHER

part of stone-splitting tool

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Finnish: lehti (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FEATHER

angular adjustment of an oar as it leaves or enters the water

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An airplane wing with two propellers, of which the one on the right has been **feathered**.

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To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
  An Eagle had the ill Hap to be Struck with an Arrow Feather'd from her own Wing.
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- 1912, Frances, Object-lessons on Temperance, Or, The Indian Maiden and Her White Deer, page 117:
  Olondaw had taught Hazeleye how to use her bow and arrows, and that each might know the result of his or her own shooting, he had feathered her arrow with white and his own with red. How strange are the events of this life, […]
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- 2007, Thomas Perry, Vanishing Act, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 302:
  She feathered her arrows in the Seneca fashion, two lengths of feather tied on with a spiral twist, so they would spin in flight. The trick was to glue both sides in place with a little sticky pine sap so they would stay put while she tied them […]
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To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 28:
  A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines, or occupied in dwarf clusters the hollow plains of the moor.
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To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
The stylist feathered my hair.Category:English terms with usage examples#FEATHER
(ambitransitive Category:English transitive verbs#FEATHER Category:English intransitive verbs#FEATHER, rowing Category:en:Rowing#FEATHER) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
(aeronautics Category:en:Aeronautics#FEATHER) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.Category:English terms with usage examples#FEATHER
(carpentry Category:en:Carpentry#FEATHER, engineering Category:en:Engineering#FEATHER) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
(computer graphics Category:en:Computer graphics#FEATHER) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#FEATHER) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- 1940, Circular of the Bureau of Standards, numbers 426-451, page 50:
  Whether or not the ink feathers depends upon the paper or card, and also upon the nature of the dye in the ink.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#FEATHER) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C.
  The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#FEATHER) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
  They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#FEATHER) To tread, as a cockerel.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  Ardent in love […] He feather'd her a hundred times a day.
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(snooker Category:en:Snooker#FEATHER, billiards Category:en:Billiards#FEATHER) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
(snooker Category:en:Snooker#FEATHER, billiards Category:en:Billiards#FEATHER) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#FEATHER) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- 2001, Joan Hohl, Maybe Tomorrow, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 186:
  His breath feathered her lips; her spine, her legs weakened, went soft at the wafting warmth.
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- 2006, Gary Parker, Her Daddy's Eyes, Baker Books, →ISBN, page 143:
  A soft breeze feathered her face and hair. The smell of honeysuckle blanketed the air. She concentrated on shutting out every sound except the whisper of her heart. Gradually the inner distractions became fewer.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#FEATHER) To move softly, like a feather.
- 2005, Radclyffe, Justice Served, Bold Strokes Books Inc (→ISBN):
  She feathered her fingers through Mitchell's hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”
- 2011, L.L. Raand, Blood Hunt, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:
  “Asking me not to breathe would be simpler,” Drake said. “If I could spare you what's coming—” “No.” Drake feathered her fingers through Sylvan's hair. “We fight together.” Sylvan nodded and relaxed in her embrace. Drake didn't fear death.
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to arrange in the manner of feathers

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rowing: to rotate the oars while they are out of the water

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aeronautics: to streamline an aircraft's propeller blades when shut down

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carpentry, engineering: to finely shave or bevel an edge

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French: ^{(please verify)} emplumer (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#FEATHER Category:Requests for review of French translations#FEATHER, ^{(please verify)} empenner (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#FEATHER Category:Requests for review of French translations#FEATHER

References

↑ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Feather”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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feareth, terefah

[1] Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Feather”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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