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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS:
    • IPA: /ɹəˈtæn/
  • UK:
    • IPA: /ɹəˈtan/
    • IPA: /ˈɹatan/
KieliKäännökset
italiamalacca
portugalirota
ranskarotin, jonc
ruotsirotting
suomirottinkipalmu, rottinki

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
  2. (uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
  3. (by extension) A cane made from this material.

Verbi

  1. (transitive) To beat with a rattan cane.

Esimerkit

  • He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
  • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • [...]the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkorattans

Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.

Calamus thwaitesii in southwestern India

(uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.

Wild-harvested rattan canes being treated and dried in Palawan, Philippines

(by extension) A cane made from this material.

Worker harvesting rattan from an old-growth forest in the Philippines