Veles

See also: veles, velés, vêlés, and vêles

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Veles m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Caprimulgidae – brown nightjar, of much of tropical Africa.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Caprimulgiformes - order; Caprimulgidae (nightjars) - family; Caprimulginae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Veles binotatus - sole species

References

• Veles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Veles on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Veles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

English

Proper noun

Veles

1. A city in central North Macedonia.
2. (Slavic mythology) The pagan Slavic god of the fertile earth, livestock, waters, and the underworld, often portrayed as a chimera.

   Synonym: Volos

3. HD 75898 b, an exoplanet approximately 2.71 times the mass of Jupiter in the Stribor system, ~255 ly from Earth.

Translations

a city in the Republic of Macedonia

• Bulgarian: Ве́лес m (Véles)
• Latin: Bylazora f
• Macedonian: Велес (mk) m (Veles)
• Spanish: Veles (es) m

a pagan Slavic god

• Belarusian: Вялес m (Vjaljes)
• Bulgarian: Велес m (Veles)
• French: Vélès (fr) m
• German: Veles m
• Macedonian: Велес (mk) m (Veles), Волос m (Volos)
• Old Church Slavonic: Вєлєсъ m (Velesŭ), Волосъ m (Volosŭ)
• Polish: Weles m, Wołos m
• Russian: Ве́лес (ru) m (Véles), Веле́с (ru) m (Velés)
• Serbo-Croatian: Велес m (Veles)

Anagrams

• elves, veels