cross-legged

See also: crosslegged

English

Adjective

cross-legged (not comparable)

1. Having one leg over and across the other.
2. Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart.

Usage notes

In the sense “sitting in a chair, with one leg crossed over the other”, the phrase “with legs crossed” is more often used, but for sitting on the floor, one uses “cross-legged”, or a synonym (below).

Synonyms

• (of sitting on the ground): criss-cross applesauce, Indian style, pretzel style, tailor-fashion, tailorwise

Translations

having one leg over and across the other

• Finnish: jalat ristissä
• Italian: a gambe incrociate
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چوارمشقی (ckb) (çwarmişqî)

  Northern Kurdish: çarmêrkî (ku)

• Macedonian: крснозе (krsnoze)
• Maori: whiringa waewae, waewae whiri, waewae raka
• Polish: z założoną nogą na nogę
• Romanian: picior peste picior
• Tagalog: tansila

having one ankle over and across the other

• Finnish: risti-istunnassa, jalat ristissä
• Hungarian: törökülésben
• Japanese: 胡座を掻く (agura o kaku)
• Persian: چارزانو (čârzânu)
• Polish: ze skrzyżowanymi nogami

Adverb

cross-legged (not comparable)

1. In a cross-legged position.

Translations

in this manner

• Finnish: risti-istunnassa, jalat ristissä
• Greek: σταυροπόδι (el) (stavropódi), οκλαδόν (el) (okladón)
• Korean: 책상다리를 하고 (chaeksangdarireul hago)
• Polish: po turecku (pl)
• Scottish Gaelic: casa-gobhlachan