From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en] (French [fr]), from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. An edict or law .
2. * [Luke]
3. * [passage=Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this DECREE ?]
4. [en] The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity .
5. [en] The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate .
6. [en] A predetermination made by God ; an act of providence .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[edict or law]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Egyptian: [wḏ]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek:
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[judicial decision]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[determination of a cause]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Arabic: [ar]
- French: [fr]
- Kurdish:
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To command by a decree.
2. * [Job]
3. * [page=55]
4. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=November 8, 2022 |author=w:Pete Wells |title=Restaurant Review: Why
Does This Tibetan Kitchen Also Cook Sichuan Food? |journal=w:The New York
Times
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108204005/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/dining/restaurant-review-sichuan-food-nha-sang-queens.html
|issn=0362-4331 |oclc=1645522 |section=Food |url2=https://archive.is/mbcJG
|text=The Nhasangs themselves are from Ngaba, which is in the Amdo region of
northeastern Tibetan, a cultural borderland where Tibetan and Sichuan
traditions meet. China has DECREED that Ngaba is within Sichuan Province.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to command by a decree]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Latin: [la]
- Old English: [ang]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]