From en.wiktionary.org:
[chaïr]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en], [fro], from
[en], from [en], from [grc] + [grc]. Displaced native [en] and [en], which
now have more specialised senses. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [châr] , [en]
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*** Noun
[chair] [en-noun]
1. [en] An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat , legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
I sat on my CHAIR to have dinner. }}
1. * [chapter=12]
2. * [chapter=19]
3. [en] [en] [en] .
4. * {{ quote-book | en | date=March 23, 1658-9 | author= 吴语: Thomas Burton (politician) | editor=w:John Towill Rutt | title=Diary | location=London | publisher=w:Henry Colburn | year_published=1828 | page=243 | pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=eVxjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA243&lpg=PA243
|passage=The CHAIR behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many
school-boys[...]and takes a little too much on him.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=September 5, 1887 | work=The Times
|passage=It can hardly be conceived that the CHAIR would fail to gain the
support of the House.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. [en] The post or position of chairperson.
4. [en] [en] The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
5. [en] [en] A cast-iron component used on railway s to support bullhead rail s and secure them to the sleeper s.
6. * [en]
7. [en] [en] One of two possible conformer s of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat ), shaped roughly like a chair.
8. [en] [en] [en] .
9. * [1=en]
10. * [en]
11. * [en]
12. * [en]
13. * [1=en]
14. [en] [en] A distinguished professorship at a university.
15. * [en]
16. [en] A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig .
17. * [II]
18. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1777 | author=w:Richard Brinsley Sheridan | title=The School for Scandal | section=IV.iii
|passage=She always leaves her CHAIR at the milliner's in the next Street.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [page=211]
3. [en] The seat or office of a person in authority , such as a judge or bishop .
4. An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop .
5. [en] [en] < !-- team of glassblower + assistants? -->
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en |armchair |bath chair,Bath chair |birthing chair |butterfly chair
|chairholder|booster chair|Cromwellian chair|farthingale chair|Glastonbury
chair|peacock chair|Savonarola chair |chairman |chairness|almost fall of one's
chair|fall off one's chair|nearly fall off one's chair|smoker's chair
|chairwoman |chairperson| chair up|cuck chair|fireman's chair knot |deck
chair|French chair|Gainsborough chair|Martha Washington chair|rout chair |easy
chair|cantilever chair |electric chair |first chair |flag chair|cricket chair
|give someone the
chair|bedchair|chairback|chairborne|chairbound|chaircover|chairdrobe|chairfast|chairfolk|chairful|chairhood|chairlady|chairless|chairlift|chairlike|chairmaker|chairmaking|chairobics|chairoplane|chairship|chairside|chairward|chairwarmer|chairwise|chairwork|cochair|headchair|highchair|hoverchair|pool
chair|powerchair|pushchair|stairchair|stepchair|sunchair |high chair |musical
chairs| chair seat|chair seater|pool chair|potty chair|shower chair |rocking
chair |tub chair |wheelchair|chair time| Cape Cod chair|Laurentian chair |wing
chair |Adirondack chair|arm-chair|banana chair|bar chair|barber
chair|barber-chair|Barcelona chair|basket chair|beach chair|birth
chair|boatswain's chair|bosun's chair|bowl chair|camping chair|chair bed|chair
conformation|chair days|chair lift|chair mat|chair organ|chair plug|chair
rail|chair umpire|chair-lift|club chair|co-chair|confessional
chair|deck-chair|desk chair|dining chair|Eames chair|ear
chair|easy-chair|elbow chair|elbow-chair|Elijah chair|empty chair|endowed
chair|feeding chair|fighting chair|folding chair|fountain chair|game
chair|gaming chair|geri chair|geriatric chair|gestatorial chair|grandfather
chair|grandfather's chair|guest chair|half-chair|hot chair|ice cream
chair|ice-cream chair|invalid chair|Judas chair|kneeling chair|lady's
chair|lawn chair|lounge chair|massage chair|Mendlesham chair|mercy
chair|Merlin chair|monk chair|monk's chair|Morris chair|Muskoka chair|night
chair|nursing chair|office chair|papasan chair|patio chair|planter's
chair|pull up a chair|reception chair|revolving chair|rocking chair
money|rocking-chair|rocking-chair money|rolling chair|Roman chair|rotating
chair|sedan chair|semi-easy chair|side chair|sledge chair|slipper
chair|socialism of the chair|socialist of the chair|soda fountain
chair|spectator chair|steamer chair|step chair|swivel chair|swivel-chair|take
a chair|take the chair|tiger chair|tramp chair|vice chair|vice-chair|walking
chair|Windsor chair|wingback chair|X-chair}}
**** Related terms
- [furniture] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] .
**** Descendants
- [as]
- [bn]
- [bor=1]
- [syl]
- [ta]
- [tpi] , [tpi]
- [to]
**** Translations
[furniture]{{multitrans|data=
- Adyghe: [ady] , [Shapsug] [ady] , [ady]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Ahom: [aho]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bislama: [bi]
- Breton: [br]
- Brunei Malay: [kxd]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Buryat: [bua] , [bua]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb] , [ceb]
- Central Melanau: [mel]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Cheyenne: [chy]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Classical Syriac: [syc]
- Coptic: [cop]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dhivehi: [dv]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Fijian: [fj]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Gujarati: [gu] , [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hiligaynon: [hil]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Iban: [iba]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Isan: [tts]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] [as part of a sofa set]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kamba: [kam]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kapampangan: [pam] , [pam]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kikuyu: [ki]
- Kimaragang: [kqr]
- Kongo: [kg]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Ligurian: [lij]
- Limburgish: [li]
- Lingala: [ln]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo] , [lmo]
- Louisiana Creole French: [lou] , [lou] , [lou] , [lou]
- Lü: [khb]
- Luhya: [luy]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maguindanao: [mdh]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc]
- Mandinka: [mnk]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Munsee: [umu]
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Navajo: [nv] , [nv]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey] , [nrf] [Saint Ouen]
- North Frisian:
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Northern Thai: [nod]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Frisian: [ofs]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Puyuma: [pyu]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Romagnol: [rgn]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Samoan: [sm]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Saterland Frisian: [stq]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Sebop: [sib]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: [shn]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Skolt Sami: [sms]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Sotho: [st]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Southern Sami: [sma]
- Southern Thai: [sou]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
- Tai Dam: [blt]
- Tai Nüa: [tdd]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te] , [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Tonga (Zambia): [toi]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Vilamovian: [wym]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Winnebago: [win]
- Yakut: [sah] , [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
- Zhuang: [za] , [za]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[chairperson]
[distinguished professorship]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr]
- Irish: [ga]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
}} [trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Ancient Greek: [grc]
- Bavarian: [bar] , [bar]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Latin: [la]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] [en] To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
2. * [en]
3. [en] [en] To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders , especially in celebration or victory .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1896 | author=w:A. E. Houseman | chapter=To An Athlete Dying Young, | title=A Shropshire Lad
|passage=The time you won your town the race<br>We CHAIRED you through the
marketplace.}}
1. [en] [en] To award a chair to (a winning poet ) at a Welsh eisteddfod .
**** Translations
[to act as chairperson]{{multitrans|data=
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom] [to award a chair to]
- Welsh: [cy]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], [frm], from [fr], [fro] (earlier [fro]), from [fr], from [fr], from
[fr], [ine-pro]. [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. flesh
**** Derived terms
{{col3|fr|bien en chair |chair à canon |chair à plaisir |chair de poule |en
chair et en os |ni chair ni poisson }}
**** Related terms
{{col4|fr|carnage |carnaire |carné |carnier |carnifier |carnivore |charcuterie
|charnel |charnier |charnu |incarner }}
**** Descendants
- [ht]
- [sv]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Gallo
*** Verb
[roa-gal]
1. [roa-gal]
** Manx
*** Adjective
[gv]
1. [gv]
*** Noun
[gv]
1. [gv]
*** Mutation
[c]
** Middle French
*** Alternative forms
- [frm]
*** Etymology
From [frm], [fro], from [frm], accusative singular of [la].
*** Noun
[f]
1. flesh
**** Descendants
- [fr]
** Old French
*** Verb
[fro]
1. [fro]