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Tail
taił
and
täil
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Two ring-tailed lemurs, each with a long tail.
Pronunciation
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Received Pronunciation
General American
IPA
key
/ˈteɪ̯l/
[ˈtʰeɪ̯l]
Audio
US
file
monophthongization
IPA
key
/ˈteːl/
General Australian
IPA
key
/ˈtæ̝ɪ̯l/
Audio
file
South Australia
-vocalization
IPA
key
/ˈtæ̝ɪ̯u/
Rhymes:
-eɪl
Hyphenation:
tail
Homophones
tale
tael
Etymology 1
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Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic
*taglą
Proto-West Germanic
*tagl
Old English
tæġl
Middle English
tayl
tail
From
Middle English
tail
tayl
teil
, from
Old English
tæġl
tail
, from
Proto-West Germanic
*tagl
, from
Proto-Germanic
*taglą
hair, fiber; hair of a tail
, from
Proto-Indo-European
*doḱ-
hair of the tail
, from
Proto-Indo-European
*deḱ-
to tear, fray, shred
. Cognate with
Scots
tail
tail
Saterland Frisian
Tail
tail, end
West Frisian
teil
tail
Dutch
teil
tail, haulm, blade
Low German
Tagel
twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope
German
Zagel
tail
, dialectal
Danish
tavl
hair of the tail
Swedish
tagel
hair of the tail, horsehair
Norwegian
tagl
tail
Icelandic
tagl
tail, horsetail, ponytail
Gothic
𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻
tagl
hair
. In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between
head
and
tail
Noun
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tail
plural
tails
anatomy
The
caudal
appendage
of an
animal
that is attached to their
posterior
and near the
anus
or
cloaca
Most primates have a
tail
and fangs.
An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the
thongs
on a
cat-o'-nine-tails
; a
strand
of material hanging from something.
1672
, Gideon Harvey,
Morbus Anglicus: or the Anatomy of Consumptions
[1]
, page
112
Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those
tails
that hang on Willow Trees.
2026
, Emily Barth, “Woolly Cocoon Bags”, in
Handwoven
, volume XLVII, number 1, page
37
Using a thin tapestry needle, weave the warp
tails
back into the fabric in a warpwise direction and trim off the excess.
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
The
feathers
attached to the
pygostyle
of a
bird
The
tail-end
of any object.
1611
The Holy Bible,
King James Version
), London:
Robert Barker
→OCLC
Deuteronomy
28:13
And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the
taile,
1862
Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine
, volume
16
, page
83
It was soon over, and the unmoved magistrate calmly ordained that Deborah Williams, Elizabeth and Faith Wilson, should be tied to a cart's
tail
, and thus led through the principal streets of the town, receiving during their progress twenty lashes each, well laid on, upon the naked back.
The rear structure of an aircraft, the
empennage
astronomy
The
visible
stream
of
dust
and
gases
blown from a
comet
by the
solar wind
The latter part of a
time
period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
statistics
The part of a
distribution
most distant from the
mode
long
tail
One who
surreptitiously
follows
another.
cricket
The
lower order
of
batsmen
in the
batting order
, usually
specialist
bowlers
typography
The lower
loop
of the
letters
in the
Roman alphabet
, as in
or
Synonym:
descender
chiefly in the
plural
The side of a
coin
not bearing the
head
; normally the side on which the
monetary
value
of the coin is indicated; the
reverse
mathematics
All the last terms of a
sequence
, from some term on.
A sequence
{\displaystyle (a_{n})}
is said to be
frequently
{\displaystyle 0}
if every
tail
of the sequence contains
{\displaystyle 0}
now
colloquial
chiefly
US
The
buttocks
or
backside
1499
John Skelton
The Bowge of Courte
By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her
tayle
/ Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.
1603
Michel de Montaigne
, chapter 49, in
John Florio
, transl.,
The Essayes
, book I, London:
Val
entine
Simmes
for
Edward Blount
→OCLC
They were wont to wipe their
tailes
[translating
cul
(this vaine superstition of words must be left unto women) with a sponge, and that's the reason why Spongia in Latine is counted an obscene word
slang
The
penis
of a person or animal.
slang
uncountable
Sexual intercourse
Synonyms:
see
Thesaurus:
copulation
I'm gonna get me some
tail
tonight.
1951
July 16,
J[erome] D[avid] Salinger
, chapter 13, in
The Catcher in the Rye
, Boston, Mass.:
Little, Brown and Company
→OCLC
“Innarested in a little
tail
t’night?” “Me?” I said. Which was a very dumb answer, but it’s quite embarrassing when somebody comes right up and asks you a question like that.
1971
, “Abigail”, in
Live at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
, performed by The Corries:
On the bosom of young Abigail
Was written the price of her
tail
And on her behind
For the use of the blind
Was the same information in Braille
kayaking
The
stern
; the back of the kayak.
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
1814
, Walter Scott,
Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
[2]
, page
238
Ah! if you Saxon Duinhé-wassal (English gentleman) saw but the chief with his
tail
on.
that is, with all his usual followers
anatomy
The
distal
tendon
of a
muscle
entomology
filamentous
projection
on the
tornal
section of each
hind
wing of certain butterflies.
downy
or
feathery
appendage
of certain
achens
formed of the permanent elongated
style
surgery
A portion of an
incision
, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also
tailing
One of the strips at the end of a
bandage
formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
nautical
rope
spliced
to the strap of a
block
, by which it may be
lashed
to anything.
music
The part of a
note
which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the
stem
mining
tailing
architecture
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
colloquial
dated
tailcoat
electrical engineering
Synonym of
pigtail
a short length of twisted electrical wire
chemistry
The final
fraction
of a
distillation
run, typically containing
impurities
and
fusel oils
Synonym:
tailings
Coordinate terms:
head
heart
Hyponyms
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coattail
cocktail
magnetotail
pigtail
rattail
shirttail
Derived terms
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antitail
astrotail
at the tail
bangtail
bang tail
bang-tail
barbtail
beaver tail
beavertail
betail
bigtail
blue rat's tail
bluetail
boattail
bobtail
bonytail
box tail
bristletail
bristle-tail
broadtail
broken tail
broomtail
brown-tail moth
bucktail
burro's tail
Cameroon scaly-tail
cat-o'-nine-tails
catstail
cattail
cat-tail sedge
chase one's own tail
chase tail
cold tail
comet tail
cottontail
cowtail
cross-tail
culvertail
dead tail
de-tail
devil's tail
dogstail
dog's-tail grass
dovetail
drabble-tail
draggle-tail
dragon's tail
ducktail
emutail
e-tail
fantail
fat-tail
fat tail
feathertail
fee tail
filetail
firetail
fishtail
fish tail
fish-tail
flagtail
flangetail
flat-tail sea snake
flickertail
flufftail
forcepstail
forktail
foxtail
freetail
frozen tail
fuzztail
gilt-tail
goldentail
goldtail
grow a tail
hairtail
hangtail
hardtail
hare's-tail
haul tail
have a tiger by the tail
have one's tail up
have the tiger by the tail
have the world by the tail on a downhill pull
heads or tails
head to tail
heavy tail
heliotail
high-tail
hightail
high-tail it
hooktail
horntail
horsetail
horse tail
in two shakes of a cow's tail
in two shakes of a dog's tail
in two shakes of a duck's tail
in two shakes of a lamb's tail
jollytail
kick some tail
kicktail
kick tail
lamb's tails
lashtail
lay salt on someone's tail
lemur-tail seahorse
like a dog with two tails
limber tail
limber tail syndrome
lion's tail
lizard's tail
lizard tail
lobster-tail pot
longtail
long-tail boat
long-tail Covid
looptail
lyretail
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
make head nor tail of
make head or tail of
make neither head nor tail of
mare's tail
mare's-tail
mares' tails
metaltail
mill tail
monkey tail
monkey tail tree
mousetail
nail-tail wallaby
needletail
nose to tail
on one's tail
on someone's tail
oxtail
peacock's tail
pentail
petaltail
petticoat tail
piece of tail
pigtail
pincertail
pintail
pin the tail on the donkey
ploughtail
plowtail
plume tail
pony tail
ponytail
pseudotail
pull the devil by the tail
put salt on someone's tail
quaketail
quilltail
raccoon tail
racket-tail
racquet-tail
rat-tail
rat-tail file
rat-tail radish
rat-tail splice
redtail
red tail disease
ribbontail
ringtail
ring-tailed
roostertail
rooster-tail
roughtail
rubytail
scaletail
scissorstail
scissortail
sharptail
shavetail
sheartail
sheath-tail bat
shieldtail
shirt-tail
shorttail
silktail
silvertail
singletail
skunk tail
snake tail
Softail
softtail
spadetail
spatuletail
spiketail
spindletail
spinetail
split-tail
spread tail
sprigtail
springtail
squaretail
squirreltail
stifftail
sting in the tail
streamertail
stripetail
stubtail
swallowtail
swallow-tail
swimmer's tail
swingletail
swingtail
swordtail
tagtail
tailable
tailache
tail away
tailback
tailband
tail-bay
tail-beam
tailbeat
tail between one's legs
tailblock
tail block
tailboard
tailbone
tail bone
tail boom
tailbud
tail-buzzer
tail call
tail club
tailcoat
tail cone
tailcord
tailcuff
tailcup
tail down
taildragger
tail dragger
tailend
tail-end
tail end
tail-ender
tailer
taileron
tail event
tailfan
tailfeather
tailfin
tail flap
tailflip
tailflipping
Tailgate
tailgate
tail grape
tailgroup
tail gunner
tail-gut
tailgut
tail gut
tailhead
tailhole
tailhook
tail in
tailism
taillamp
tail lamp
tailless
tail lift
taillight
taillike
tail merging
tailmost
tail-napkin
tailnumber
tail number
tail-off
tail off
tail packing
tail pad
tailpiece
tailpin
tailpipe
tailplane
tail plug
tail-pod radish
tail-pole
tail pole
tail question
tailrace
tail recursion
tail recursive
tail rhyme
tailride
tail risk
tail rotor
tail-shedding
tailshield
tailsitter
tailskid
tail-skid
tail slate
tailslide
tail slide
tailspin
tailspot
tail stall
tailstand
tailstock
tailstrike
tailswing
tail swing
tail tap
tail valve
tail vein
tail-wagger
tailward
tailwards
tailwater
tailwheel
tailwhip
tailwind
tail wind
tailwise
tapertail
tapetail
teeter-tail
teeth-to-tail ratio
the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it
the tail wags the dog
thistletail
thorntail
threadtail
tickle the dragon's tail
tiger tail
tigertail
tiger tail seahorse
top and tail
top to tail
trendle-tail
trindle-tail
triple-tail
tripletail
trundletail
trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
T-tail
turkey tail
turntail
twintail
undertail
veiltail
wagtail
wag-tail dance
wax someone's tail
wedgetail
whale's tail
whale tail
whiptail
whitetail
white-tailed hawk
wholetail
wiretail
with one's tail up
work one's tail off
work someone's tail off
wrentail
wrytail
yellowtail
Related terms
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cat-o'-nine-tails
chase one's tail
have the world by the tail
Otter Tail County
tail covert
tail feather
tail fin
tail light
tail wagging the dog
turn tail
Descendants
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Sranan Tongo:
tere
Translations
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appendage of an animal
see also
dock
Abaga:
asog̶ontaʔe
Abkhaz:
аҵыхәа
acʼəxʷa
Acehnese:
iku
Afar:
gáydi
Afrikaans:
stert
(af)
Ahom:
𑜍𑜂𑜫
raṅ
Akan:
dua
Aklanon:
ikog
Albanian:
bisht
(sq)
Alviri-Vidari:
دمب
domb
Vidari
Amharic:
ጅራት
ǧərat
Ao:
teben
Chungli
Apinayé:
jamy
Arabic:
ذَنَب
ḏanab
ذَيْل
ḏayl
Egyptian Arabic:
ديل
dél
Hijazi Arabic:
ذيل
dēl
Moroccan Arabic:
ديل
dīl
زنطيط
zanṭīṭ
قزيبة
qazzība
شوال
šwāl
Aragonese:
coda
Armenian:
պոչ
(hy)
počʻ
Old Armenian:
ագի
agi
պոչ
počʻ
ձետ
jet
Aromanian:
coadã
Assamese:
নেজ
nez
নেগুৰ
negur
Asturian:
rabu
(ast)
Avar:
рачӏчӏ
raččʼ
рачӏ
račʼ
Avestan:
𐬛𐬎𐬨𐬀
duma
Azerbaijani:
quyruq
(az)
Bajau:
West Coast Bajau:
engko
Balinese:
buntut
hikuh
Baluchi:
دمب
dumb
Banjarese:
buntut
(bjn)
ikung
(bjn)
Bashkir:
ҡойроҡ
qoyroq
Basque:
buztan
Belarusian:
хвост
xvost
Bengali:
লেজ
(bn)
lej
Bidayuh:
Bau Bidayuh:
kuon
Big Nambas:
vli
Bikol:
Central Bikol:
ikog
(bcl)
Bulgarian:
опа́шка
opáška
Burmese:
အမြီး
(my)
a.mri:
Buryat:
һүүл
hüül
Canela:
japy
Carpathian Rusyn:
хвост
xvost
Catalan:
cua
(ca)
Cebuano:
ikog
Chakma:
please add this translation if you can
Cham:
Eastern Cham:
ꨁꨆꨭꨩ
iku'
Chechen:
цӏога
cʼoga
Chepang:
मेः
Chichewa:
mchira
Chinese:
Cantonese:
mei
Dungan:
йиба
yiba
Eastern Min:
muōi
Gan:
尾巴
ui
ba / mi
bang
Hakka:
mî
尾巴
mi
ba
Hokkien:
(zh-min-nan)
bóe, bé
尾仔
(zh-min-nan)
bóe-á, bé-á
Jin:
尾巴
ba
Mandarin:
尾巴
(zh)
wěibā
Northern Min:
mṳě
Wu:
尾巴
nyi-po;
mi-po
Xiang:
尾巴
uei
ba
Chuvash:
хӳре
hüre
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian:
utsungo
class
11
10a
Czech:
ocas
(cs)
chvost
(cs)
dated
ohon
(cs)
Old Czech:
chvost
Dalmatian:
cauda
Danish:
hale
(da)
Dolgan:
кутурук
Dutch:
staart
(nl)
Egyptian:
sd
Enga:
etenge
Erzya:
пуло
pulo
Esperanto:
vosto
(eo)
Estonian:
saba
(et)
Evenki:
ирги
irgi
Finnish:
häntä
(fi)
of cats, dogs etc.
pyrstö
(fi)
of birds and fish
of a pig
saparo
(fi)
French:
queue
(fr)
Frisian:
West Frisian:
sturt
Friulian:
code
Galician:
rabo
(gl)
cauda
(gl)
tomadía
cola
(gl)
Ge'ez:
ዘነብ
zänäb
Georgian:
კუდი
(ka)
ḳudi
German:
Schwanz
(de)
Schweif
(de)
Sterz
(de)
Stert
(de)
Zagel
(de)
Bürzel
(de)
Rute
(de)
Schwänzchen
(de)
diminutive
Schwänzlein
diminutive
Greek:
ουρά
(el)
ourá
Ancient Greek:
οὐρά
ourá
κέρκος
kérkos
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani:
(please
verify
tuguái
Gujarati:
પૂછડી
pūchḍī
Gurindji:
jawurd
Haitian Creole:
ke
tche
Hausa:
wutsiyā̀
Hebrew:
זָנָב
(he)
zanáv
Higaonon:
ikog
Hindi:
पूंछ
pūñch
पूँछ
(hi)
pū̃ch
दुम
(hi)
dum
Hmong:
White Hmong:
tw
Hungarian:
farok
(hu)
Icelandic:
hali
(is)
(of cattle, in addition to reptiles, amphibians, and basically all animals that do not fall into the other categories; also used for inanimate objects and figuratively),
skott
(is)
or
rófa
(is)
(of a cat, dog, monkey, etc.),
tagl
(is)
(of a horse),
dindill
(is)
(the small fluffy tail of sheep, rabbits, etc.),
stél
(is)
(of birds),
sporður
(is)
(of fish)
Ido:
kaudo
(io)
Indonesian:
ekor
(id)
buntut
(id)
Ingush:
цӏог
cʼog
Iranun:
ikug
Irish:
eireaball
(ga)
Italian:
coda
(it)
Iu Mien:
dueiv
Japanese:
尻尾
(ja)
しっぽ, shippo
しっぽ
(ja)
shippo
(ja)
お, o
尾っぽ
oppo
Javanese:
buntut
(jv)
Jeju:
꼴렝이
kkolleng'i
Kaingang:
my
Kaitag:
риж
riž
Kalmyk:
сүүл
süül
Kam:
Southern Kam:
sedl
Kapampangan:
iki
Kashubian:
ògón
Kayapó:
jamy
tey
of a bird
Kazakh:
құйрық
(kk)
qūiryq
Kelabit:
iur
Khakas:
хузурух
xuzurux
Khmer:
កន្ទុយ
(km)
kɑntuy
Kikuyu:
mũcuthĩ
class
Kimaragang:
noinan
Kimbundu:
mukila
Komi:
Komi-Permyak:
бӧж
böž
Kongo:
nkila
Korean:
꼬리
(ko)
kkori
Krahô:
japy
Australian Kriol:
teil
Kuna:
bunnu
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish:
کلک
kilk
Northern Kurdish:
terî
(ku)
dûv
(ku)
poç
(ku)
kilik
(ku)
boçik
(ku)
Kyrgyz:
куйрук
(ky)
kuyruk
дүм
(ky)
düm
South
Laboya:
kiku
Lao:
ຫາງ
(lo)
hāng
Latgalian:
aste
Latin:
cauda
Latvian:
aste
(lv)
Lingala:
mokondo
mokila
Lithuanian:
uodegà
(lt)
Livonian:
tabār
tabārd
of fish
Lombard:
coa
(lmo)
cua
Low German:
Steert
(nds)
Lü:
ᦠᦱᧂ
ḣaang
Luba-Kasai:
mukila
Luba-Katanga:
mukila
Macedonian:
о́пашка
ópaška
Malagasy:
rambo
(mg)
Malay:
ekor
(ms)
buntut
(ms)
Brunei Malay:
ikung
Malayalam:
വാല്
vāl
Maltese:
denb
Manchu:
ᡠᠨᠴᡝᡥᡝᠨ
uncehen
Manx:
arbyl
famman
Māori:
hiore
of animals only
whiore
of animals only
waero
of animals only
hiku
of fish and reptiles
kapu
of crayfish and prawns
Maranao:
ikog
laoi
Mari:
Eastern Mari:
поч
poč
Western Mari:
пач
pač
Megleno-Romanian:
coadă
Melanau:
Central Melanau:
ikiu
Middle English:
tayl
Minangkabau:
ikua
(min)
Moksha:
пула
pula
Mongolian:
Cyrillic:
сүүл
(mn)
süül
Mongolian script:
ᠰᠡᠭᠦᠯ
segül
Muong:
tuôi
Murut:
Tagal Murut:
iku'
Nanai:
хуйгу
hujgu
Navajo:
atseeʼ
Nepali:
पुच्छर
pucchar
Nganasan:
тәйбу
təjbu
Norman:
coue
Norwegian:
Bokmål:
hale
(no)
of a bird
stjert
Nynorsk:
hale
of a bird
stjert
Nuosu:
ꁍꎼ
pup shu
hmy
Occitan:
coa
(oc)
Odia:
ପୁଛ
(or)
pucha
Ohlone:
Northern Ohlone:
tú̄pui
Ojibwe:
its tail
ozow
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic:
хвостъ
xvostŭ
ошибь
ošibĭ
опашь
opašĭ
Old East Slavic:
хвостъ
xvostŭ
Old English:
tæġl
steort
Old Turkic:
𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰺𐰆𐰸
qud¹r¹uq̊¹
Oromo:
eegee
Oroqen:
irgi
Ossetian:
дымӕг
dymæg
къӕдзил
k’æʒil
къуди
k’udi
Paiwan:
iku
Panará:
sãnpy
Pangasinan:
ikol
Pannonian Rusyn:
хвост
xvost
Papiamentu:
rabo
rabu
Pará Gavião:
japy
Pela:
ʃă.mi⁵¹
Persian:
Dari:
دُم
dum
دُنْب
dunb
Iranian Persian:
دُم
dom
دُنْب
donb
Plautdietsch:
Zoagel
Polish:
ogon
(pl)
chwost
(pl)
dated
Portuguese:
rabo
(pt)
cauda
(pt)
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi:
ਪੂਸ਼
pūś
ਦੁਮ
dum
ਦੁੰਬ
dumb
Pykobjê:
japyyh
Quechua:
cupa
Rohingya:
les
Romagnol:
códa
Romanian:
coadă
(ro)
Romansh:
cua
Russian:
хвост
(ru)
xvost
Sambali:
ikoy
Samoan:
i‘u
Sanskrit:
शेप
(sa)
śépa
Scottish Gaelic:
earball
eàrr
or
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:
ре̑п
Latin:
rȇp
(sh)
Shan:
ႁၢင်
(shn)
hǎang
Shor:
қузуруқ
quzuruq
Sicilian:
cuda
(scn)
Sidamo:
farro
Silesian:
szwanc
Sinhalese:
අවර
(si)
awara
Slovak:
chvost
Slovene:
rep
(sl)
Somali:
dabo
(so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian:
wogon
Upper Sorbian:
wopuš
Spanish:
cola
(es)
rabo
(es)
hopo
(es)
hairy
Sranan Tongo:
tere
Sundanese:
ᮘᮥᮔ᮪ᮒᮥᮒ᮪
buntut
Suyá:
mby
Swahili:
mkia
(sw)
class
Swedish:
svans
(sv)
of bird or fish
stjärt
(sv)
Sylheti:
please add this translation if you can
Tabasaran:
рижв
riž°
Tagalog:
buntot
(tl)
Tajik:
дум
(tg)
dum
Talysh:
dum
Tamil:
வால்
(ta)
vāl
Taos:
xwę́na
Tapayuna:
wy
Tat:
düm
Tatar:
койрык
(tt)
qoyrıq
Tausug:
ikug
Telugu:
తోక
(te)
tōka
Tetum:
ikun
Thai:
หาง
(th)
hǎang
Northern Thai:
ᩉᩣ᩠ᨦ
Tibetan:
གཞུག་གུ
gzhug gu
མཇུག་མ
mjug ma
Tigrinya:
ጭራ
č̣əra
Tiwi:
tuwara
putupwarra
of reptile, dugong or fish
kimarra
of crocodile or fish
Tocharian B:
pako
Tongan:
iku
Turkish:
kuyruk
(tr)
Ottoman Turkish:
قویروق
kuyruk
ذنب
zeneb
Turkmen:
guýruk
Tuvan:
кудурук
kuduruk
Udihe:
иги
Udmurt:
быж
byž
Ugaritic:
𐎏𐎐𐎁
ḏnb
Ukrainian:
хвіст
(uk)
xvist
Ulch:
худю
Urdu:
دُم
dum
پُون٘چھ
pū̃ch
Uyghur:
قۇيرۇق
quyruq
Uzbek:
dum
(uz)
ket
(uz)
quyruq
(uz)
Venetan:
coa
(vec)
Vietnamese:
đuôi
(vi)
Volapük:
göb
(vo)
göbil
diminutive
Waigali:
ṭuṅtä
Walloon:
cawe
(wa)
Waray-Waray:
ikog
Wardaman:
mordorl
Warlpiri:
ngirnti
wipi
Welsh:
cynffon
(cy)
West Flemish:
steirt
Xavante:
bö
Xerénte:
bâ
Xokleng:
my
Yaghnobi:
дум
dum
Yakan:
engko
Yakut:
кутурук
kuturuk
Yiddish:
וויידל
veydl
שוואַנץ
shvants
Yoruba:
ìrù
Yurok:
werhlery
Zazaki:
boçık
Zealandic:
staert
Zhuang:
rieng
Zulu:
umsila
class
tail-end of a creature
Catalan:
natja
(ca)
Dutch:
achtereinde
(nl)
achterste
(nl)
achterwerk
(nl)
zitvlak
(nl)
Finnish:
pyrstö
(fi)
takamus
(fi)
ahteri
(fi)
perä
(fi)
Galician:
rabo
(gl)
cola
(gl)
German:
Hintern
(de)
Hinterteil
(de)
Gesäß
(de)
Greek:
ουρά
(el)
ourá
Hungarian:
far
(hu)
popsi
(hu)
fenék
(hu)
ülep
(hu)
segg
(hu)
hátsó
(hu)
Middle English:
tayl
Portuguese:
rabo
(pt)
Romagnol:
côda
Spanish:
nalgas
(es)
pl
maslo
(es)
penca
(es)
mástel
disused
rabadilla
(es)
curcusilla
obispillo
mitra
(es)
Turkish:
kuyruk
(tr)
Ottoman Turkish:
قویروق
kuyruk
ذنب
zeneb
rear of an aircraft
Bulgarian:
опа́шка
opáška
Catalan:
cua
(ca)
Czech:
ocas
(cs)
Dutch:
staart
(nl)
staartstuk
(nl)
Finnish:
pyrstö
(fi)
French:
queue
(fr)
empennage
(fr)
Galician:
cola
(gl)
Greek:
ουρά
(el)
ourá
Hebrew:
זָנָב
(he)
zanáv
Italian:
coda
(it)
Japanese:
尾部
びぶ, bibu
Macedonian:
о́пашка
ópaška
Polish:
ogon
(pl)
Portuguese:
cauda
(pt)
Russian:
хвост
(ru)
xvost
Spanish:
cola
(es)
popa
(es)
Swedish:
stjärt
(sv)
Turkish:
kuyruk
(tr)
Ukrainian:
хвіст
(uk)
xvist
object resembling a tail in shape
Finnish:
häntä
(fi)
pyrstö
(fi)
Galician:
rabo
(gl)
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish:
قویروق
kuyruk
ذنب
zeneb
comet tail
Arabic:
ذَنَب
ḏanab
Armenian:
պոչ
(hy)
počʻ
Bulgarian:
опа́шка
opáška
Catalan:
cua
(ca)
Czech:
ohon
(cs)
chvost
(cs)
Dutch:
staart
(nl)
Finnish:
pyrstö
(fi)
French:
queue
(fr)
Galician:
cola
(gl)
German:
Schweif
(de)
Greek:
ουρά
(el)
ourá
Hebrew:
שובל
(he)
shovál
Icelandic:
hali
(is)
Irish:
eireaball
(ga)
eireaball cóiméid
Italian:
chioma
(it)
Latvian:
aste
(lv)
Macedonian:
о́пашка
ópaška
Malayalam:
വാല്
vāl
Norwegian:
Bokmål:
hale
(no)
Polish:
ogon
(pl)
Portuguese:
rabo
(pt)
cauda
(pt)
Russian:
хвост
(ru)
xvost
Spanish:
cola
(es)
estela
(es)
Swedish:
svans
(sv)
Telugu:
తోక
(te)
tōka
latter part of a time period
Finnish:
jälkiosa
statistics: part of a distribution most distant from the mode
Finnish:
häntä
(fi)
surreptitious follower
Arabic:
ذَنَب
ḏanab
Dutch:
achtervolger
(nl)
Finnish:
varjostaja
(fi)
varjo
(fi)
Japanese:
尾行者
びこうしゃ, bikōsha
Norwegian:
Bokmål:
forfølger
Russian:
хвост
(ru)
xvost
Swedish:
förföljare
(sv)
Telugu:
తోక
(te)
tōka
cricket term
typography: lower loop of letters
Czech:
ocásek
(cs)
Dutch:
staart
(nl)
Finnish:
häntä
(fi)
Greek:
ουρά
(el)
ourá
Macedonian:
о́павче
ópavče
Portuguese:
cauda
(pt)
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish:
دامن
daman
reverse side of a coin
Armenian:
գիր
(hy)
gir
Bulgarian:
тура́
(bg)
turá
Czech:
rub
(cs)
Dutch:
munt
(nl)
Finnish:
klaava
(fi)
French:
pile
(fr)
Hebrew:
פלי
páli
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish:
خەت
xet
Macedonian:
пе́тка
pétka
Portuguese:
coroa
(pt)
Russian:
ре́шка
(ru)
réška
Swedish:
klave
(sv)
Thai:
ก้อย
(th)
gɔ̂i
Turkish:
yazı
(tr)
math: last terms of a sequence, from some term on
Finnish:
häntä
(fi)
Māori:
hiku
slang for the phallus
Czech:
ocas
(cs)
slang
Finnish:
häntä
(fi)
French:
queue
(fr)
German:
Schwanz
(de)
Hungarian:
farok
(hu)
Middle English:
tayl
Spanish:
cola
(es)
coll.
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Ido:
(please
verify
kaudo
(io)
Woiwurrung:
(please
verify
mooee boo
See also
edit
caudal
Verb
edit
tail
third-person singular simple present
tails
present participle
tailing
simple past and past participle
tailed
architecture
To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with
in
or
into
nautical
To
swing
with the
stern
in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
This vessel
tails
downstream.
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
1655
Thomas Fuller
The Church-history of Britain;
, London:
Iohn Williams
→OCLC
(please specify |book=I to XI)
Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was
tailed
, continued uncancelled.
transitive
To follow and
observe
surreptitiously
Tail
that car!
To pull or draw by the tail.
1662
(indicated as
1663
, [
Samuel Butler
], “
The First Part of Hudibras
”, in
Hudibras. The First and Second Parts.
, London:
John Martyn
and
Henry Herringman
, published
1678
; republished in
A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller
, editor,
Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars
, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:
University Press
1905
→OCLC
The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid,
First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon
tail'd
Translations
edit
to tail
Bulgarian:
следвам
(bg)
sledvam
Chinese:
Mandarin:
尾隨
尾随
(zh)
wěisuí
Czech:
sledovat
(cs)
Dutch:
schaduwen
(nl)
beschatten
Esperanto:
gvatsekvi
Finnish:
varjostaa
(fi)
German:
beschatten
(de)
Hebrew:
זינב
zinév
Hungarian:
követ
(hu)
Italian:
pedinare
(it)
Japanese:
尾行する
(ja)
びこうする, bikō suru
Macedonian:
сле́ди
slédi
Norwegian:
forfølge
(no)
skygge
(no)
Portuguese:
seguir
(pt)
Slovak:
sledovať
Vietnamese:
theo đuôi
(vi)
Etymology 2
edit
From
Anglo-Norman
, probably from a shortened form of
entail
Adjective
edit
tail
law
Limited
; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
estate
tail
Noun
edit
tail
law
Limitation of
inheritance
to certain
heirs
tail
male
limitation to male heirs
in
tail
subject to such a limitation
Related terms
edit
entail
References
edit
1852
, John Weeks Moore,
Complete Encyclopædia of Music
Anagrams
edit
ATLI
Ital
Ital.
LIAT
LITA
Lita
TILA
Ta-li
Tila
alit
alti
ital
ital.
lait
tali
Chinese
edit
Etymology
edit
Clipping
of
detail
Pronunciation
edit
Cantonese
Jyutping
teu
Cantonese
Standard Cantonese
Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Jyutping
teu
Cantonese Pinyin
teu
Sinological
IPA
key
/tʰɛːu̯²¹/
Adjective
edit
tail
Hong Kong Cantonese
detailed
Synonyms
edit
詳細
详细
xiángxì
Emilian
edit
Pronunciation
edit
IPA
key
/ˈtajl/
Noun
edit
tail
pl
plural
of
taila
Middle English
edit
Noun
edit
tail
alternative form of
tayl
Sundanese
edit
Pronunciation
edit
IPA
key
/ta.il/
Noun
edit
tail
Sundanese script
ᮒᮄᮜ᮪
tael
unit
of
weight
corresponding
to about 40
grams
References
edit
Coolsma, S (
1913
),
Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek
(in Dutch), Leiden:
A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij
"tail" in
Maman Sumantri; Atjep Djamaludin; Achmad Patoni; R.H. Moch. Koerdie; M.O. Koesman; Epa Sjafei Adisastra. (
1985
),
Kamus Sunda-Indonesia
Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary
] (in Indonesian), Jakarta:
Agency for Language Development and Cultivation
Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia
Welsh
edit
Etymology
edit
This
etymology
is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the
Etymology scriptorium
Particularly: “GPC says
Inherited
from
Middle Welsh
teil
, unclear on more distant etymology”
Pronunciation
edit
IPA
key
/tai̯l/
Rhymes:
-ai̯l
Noun
edit
tail
usually
uncountable
plural
teiliau
manure
dung
Synonyms:
tom
carthion
cach
gwrtaith
Derived terms
edit
teilo
to spread manure
Mutation
edit
Mutated forms
of
tail
radical
soft
nasal
aspirate
tail
dail
nhail
thail
Note:
Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit
D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “
tail
”, in
Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary
, Gwerin
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke,
et al.
, editors (1950–present), “
tail
”, in
Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online
(in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Retrieved from "
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Terms with Venetan translations
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