Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
US
- RP:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|
| bulgaria | бо́бър, катеричка, бобър (bóbǎr) |
| espanja | castor |
| esperanto | kastoro |
| hollanti | bever |
| italia | castoro, figa, bivero |
| japani | ビーバー (bībā), 海狸 (かいり, kairi, うみだぬき, umidanuki) |
| kreikka | κάστορας (kástoras) |
| latina | castor, buccula |
| latvia | bebrs |
| liettua | bebras |
| norja | bever |
| portugali | castor |
| puola | bóbr |
| ranska | castor, bièvre, chatte, minou, mentonnière, foune |
| ruotsi | bäver, mus |
| saksa | Biber, Bär |
| suomi | majava, pimppi, majavahattu, karvakolmio, ryijy, tuhero, majavannahka, tummanruskea |
| tanska | bæver, mis |
| turkki | kastor, kunduz |
| tšekki | bobr |
| unkari | hód |
| venäjä | бобр (bobr), бобёр (bobjor) |
| viro | kobras, piiber |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- Butter.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- The fur of the beaver.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
Verbi
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- To work hard.
- (timber industry, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
Esimerkit
- a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
- With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
- Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver, or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
- As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!
Taivutusmuodot
The fur of the beaver.
Beaver pelts were the driving force of the North American fur trade.
(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
Range of the living beavers as of 2016 (including introduced C. canadensis populations in Europe and Patagonia, but missing C. fiber populations in Mongolia and northwestern China, as well as reintroduced populations in the United Kingdom)