bowstring

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

bow +‎ string

PronunciationEdit

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊstɹɪŋ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊstɹɪŋ/
Hyphenation: bow‧string

NounEdit

bowstring ‎(plural bowstrings)

The string of an archer's bow.
(historical) The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders.

Derived termsEdit

(string of an archer's bow): bowstring bridge, bowstring girder, bowstring hemp

TranslationsEdit

string of an archer's bow

Arabic: وَتَر (ar) m ‎(watar)
Armenian: աղեղնալար (hy) ‎(ałełnalar)
Azeri: kiriş
Belarusian: цеціва́ f ‎(cjecivá)
Bulgarian: тетива́ f ‎(tetivá)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 弓弦 (zh) ‎(gōngxián), 弦 (zh) ‎(xián)
Czech: tětiva (cs) f
Estonian: vibunöör
Finnish: jänne (fi)
French: corde (fr) f
German: Bogensehne f
Hindi: ज्या (hi) f ‎(jyā), प्रत्यंचा (hi) ‎(pratyañcā)
Hungarian: íjhúr (hu)
Icelandic: bogastrengur m
Japanese: 弓弦 ‎(ゆづる, yuzuru, ゆみづる, yumizuru, ゆんづる, yunzuru), 弦 (ja) ‎(つる, tsuru)
Kazakh: адырна ‎(adırna)
Korean: 궁현 ‎(gunghyeon), 활줄 ‎(hwaljul)
Kyrgyz: жаанын жиби ‎(caanın cibi)

Macedonian: тетива f ‎(tetiva)
Middle Persian: 𐭦𐭩𐭧 ‎(zīh)
Persian: زه (fa) ‎(zeh)
Plautdietsch: Boageseid f
Polish: cięciwa f
Portuguese: corda de arco f
Romanian: coardă (ro) f
Russian: тетива́ (ru) f ‎(tetivá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тетива f

Roman: tetiva (sh) f
Slovak: tetiva f
Slovene: tetiva f
Spanish: cuerda (es) f
Turkish: kiriş (tr), yay kiriş
Tuvan: кириш ‎(kïrïš)
Ukrainian: тятива́ f ‎(tjatyvá)
Uzbek: kamalak ipi
Vietnamese: dây cung

VerbEdit

bowstring ‎(third-person singular simple present bowstrings, present participle bowstringing, simple past and past participle bowstrung or bowstringed)

(transitive) To strangle with a bowstring.
- 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade":
  When the day broke […] it was high time for her to get up and be bowstrung—a thing very little more pleasant than hanging, only a trifle more genteel.