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[Fly]
** Translingual
*** Etymology
[mul] [mul] with [mul] as a placeholder.
*** Symbol
[mul-symbol]
1. [3]
*** See also
- [fly]
** English
[en] [fly (disambiguation)]
*** Pronunciation
- [flī] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with
[sco], [stq], [nl], [nds-de], [de], [da], [nb], [nn], [sv], [is].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] Any insect of the order [Diptera] ; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called [true fly] .
2. * [en]
3. [en] [en] _Especially_ , any of the insects of the family [Muscidae] , such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquito es and midge s).
4. * [chapter=5]
5. [en] Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly , butterfly , or gallfly .
6. [en] [en] A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
7. * [en]
8. [en] [en] A chest exercise performed by moving extended arm s from the sides to in front of the chest . ( _also_ flye )
9. [en] [en] The butterfly stroke ( _plural is normally_ flys ).
10. [en] A witch 's familiar .
11. * {{ RQ:Jonson Alchemist
|passage=a trifling FLY, none of your great familiars}}
1. [en] A parasite . < !--which sense?-->
2. * [en]
3. [en] A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
4. [en] A butterfly (combination of four options).
***** Hyponyms
{{col|en |barfly |blackfly |blowfly |blue-banded eggfly |botfly |butterfly
|cabbage root fly |caddis fly |cranefly |damselfly |dragonfly |drain fly
|firefly |fruit fly |gadfly |grape fly |greenfly |horn fly |horsefly |housefly
|hoverfly|reverse fly |march fly |mayfly |moth fly |phorid fly |pomace fly
|sandfly,sand fly |sawfly |tachina fly |vinegar fly |warble fly |whitefly
|wine fly }}
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|like flies on a rib roast |a closed mouth catches no flies |adder fly
|alderfly |alkali fly |and no flies |antifly |apple fly |assassin fly
|awl-fly|carrot rust fly|rust fly|shoot fly |banana fly |bar fly |bat fly |bee
fly |beetfly |Bill Gates' flower fly |black fly |blind-fly |blister fly |blow
fly |blue fly |bobfly |bot fly |bottlefly |break a fly on a wheel |break a fly
on the wheel |break a fly upon a wheel |break a fly upon the wheel |breezefly
|brine fly |Brues' soldier fly |bull-fly |burrel fly |bush fly |cabbage fly
|canker fly |carrot fly |catchfly |cheese fly |cluster fly |coffin fly |crane
fly |dance fly |dayfly |dead fly biscuit |deer fly |deerfly |deer fly fever
|die like flies |dobsonfly |dogfly |dolphin fly |drink with the flies |dry fly
|dungfly |eggfly |eye fly |face fly |fairyfly |fire-fly |fishfly |flesh-fly
|flesh fly |fleshfly |flower-fly |flower fly |fly agaric |fly amanita |fly ash
|fly-ass |flybane |fly belt |fly biscuit |fly-bitten |flyblow |fly-blown
|flyblown |flyboat |fly-boat |fly-bombed |flybook |fly box |fly-box |fly-boy
|fly-catcher |flycatcher |fly-fish |flyfish |flyfisher |flyfisherman |fly
fishing |fly-fishing |flyflap |flyflapper |fly fungus |fly-grazing |fly
grazing |fly in the buttermilk |fly in the ointment |fly killer |flyleaf
|flyless |fly line |flyloft |flymaker |flymph |flynet |fly on the wall |fly
orchid |flypaper |fly paper |fly-paper |fly-papered |fly powder |flyproof |fly
rail |flyrobin |fly rod |flyrod |fly-rod |flyscreen |fly screen |fly-sheet
|fly sheet |flysheet |fly slip |flyspeck |fly spray |flystrike |flystruck
|flyswat |fly swat |fly swatter |flyswatter |flytime |flytrap |flyweight
|flywhisk |flywire |forest fly |freeloader fly |frit fly |froth-fly |fruitfly
|garbage fly |glow fly |gout fly |green bottle fly |griffinfly |harm a fly
|harvest fly |hawk-fly |hawthorn fly |Hessian fly |hippo fly |honey catches
more flies than vinegar |honeymoon fly |hop fly |hornet fly |horse bot fly
|horse-fly |horse fly |hover-fly |hurt a fly |ichneumon fly |lady-fly |lake
fly |lanternfly |lanthorn-fly |leaf-miner fly |like a blue-arsed fly |like
flies on pie |long-legged fly |lord of the flies |louse fly |mango fly
|mantidfly |mantisfly |March fly |meat fly |Mediterranean fruit fly |mistfly
|muck fly |Mydas fly |Nairobi fly |night fly |no flies on |noon fly |olive fly
|olive fruit fly |onion fly |orl fly |owlfly |oxfly |palmfly |Paul Allen's
flower fly |penis fly trap |petroleum fly |phantom crane fly |picture-winged
fly |potato fly |rail fly |robber fly |robberfly |root fly |sac fly |sacrifice
fly |scorpionfly |scuttle fly |sedge fly |sewer fly |shadfly |shoo-fly pie
|shoofly pie |shoo-fly plant |shore fly |smother-fly |snakefly |snipe fly
|snow fly |soldier fly |Spanish fly |spider fly |squashed fly biscuit |stable
fly |stalk-eyed fly |stiletto fly |St. Mark's fly |stonefly |sugarcane
soldier fly |superfly |syrphus fly |timber fly |tsetse fly |tumbu fly |turnip
fly |urfly |Venus fly trap |wet fly |whame fly |wheat fly |willow fly |window
fly |wouldn't harm a fly |wouldn't hurt a fly |you attract more flies with
honey than vinegar |you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar |you can
catch more flies with honey than with vinegar |you catch more flies with honey
than vinegar |you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar }}
***** Translations
[insect of the order Diptera]{{multitrans|data=
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chinese:
- Chukchi: [ckt]
- Eastern Arrernte: [aer]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kriol: [rop]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Latin: [la]
- Linngithigh: [lnj]
- Low German:
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian:
- Pitjantjatjara: [pjt]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [dipterous]
- Sambali: [xsb]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Skou: [skv]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Torres Strait Creole: [tcs]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Waray-Waray: [war]
- Warlpiri: [wbp]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Western Arrernte: [are]
- Zazaki: [zza]
}} [trans-bottom]
[insect of the family Muscidae]{{multitrans|data=
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Adnyamathanha: [adt]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Alawa: [alh]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aramaic :
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Awadhi: [awa]
- Aymara: [ay]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Barngarla: [bjb]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bau Bidayuh: [sne]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Berber:
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Brunei Malay: [kxd] , [kxd]
- Budukh: [bdk]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Cahuilla: [chl]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Central Melanau: [mel]
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chukchi: [ckt]
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Coptic: [cop] [Sahidic] , [cop] [Bohairic]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dharug: [xdk]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Eastern Arrernte: [aer]
- Egyptian: [ꜥff]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Fataluku: [ddg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Franco-Provençal: [frp]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Ge'ez: [gez]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gorontalo: [gor]
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Guerrero Amuzgo: [amu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Iban: [iba]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Igbo: [ig]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Isthmus Zapotec: [zai]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Karelian: [krl]
- Kashmiri: [ks]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kaurna: [zku] , [zku] ( _blowfly_ )
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khinalug: [kjj]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kimaragang: [kqr]
- Komi-Permyak: [koi]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kriol: [rop]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Laz: [lzz]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Livonian: [liv]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Low German:
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Makasae: [mkz]
- Malagasy: [mg] , [mg]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Mansaka: [msk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mauritian Creole: [mfe]
- Mazanderani: [mzn]
- Megleno-Romanian: [ruq]
- Mingrelian: [xmf] , [xmf]
- Moksha: [mdf]
- Mongolian:
- Nahuatl:
- Nanai: [gld]
- Nanticoke: [nnt]
- Narungga: [nnr]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Ngarrindjeri: [nay] , [nay] ( _March fly_ )
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Nukunu: [nnv]
- Nupe: [nup]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Javanese: [kaw]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Pitjantjatjara: [pjt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Pontic Greek: [pnt]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Rohingya: [rhg]
- Romagnol: [rgn]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Saaroa: [sxr]
- Saho: [ssy]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Santali: [sat]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sherpa: [xsr]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tagal Murut: [mvv] , [mvv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Takia: [tbc]
- Talysh: [tly]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Taos: [twf]
- Tat: [ttt]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Tongan: [to]
- Tonkawa: [tqw]
- Torres Strait Creole: [tcs]
- Tupinambá: [tpn]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv] , [tyv]
- Tz'utujil: [tzj]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Veps: [vep]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Wakhi: [wbl]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Warlpiri: [wbp]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Coast Bajau: [bdr]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Wiradjuri: [wrh]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
- Zhuang: [za]
- ǃXóõ: [nmn]
}} [trans-bottom]
[similar, but not closely related insect] [trans-bottom]
[fishing lure]{{multitrans|data=
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Zazaki: [zza]
}} [trans-bottom]
[weightlifting exercise]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[swimming: butterfly stroke]
[checktrans-top]
- Sindhi: [sd]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
[list:extant orders of insects/en]
**** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [Muscidae]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], from [en] (compare [stq], [nl], [nds], [de], [da],
[nn]), from [en] (compare [lt] ‘to swim’), enlargement of [ine-pro]. More at
flee and flow.
**** Verb
[flies]
1. [en] To travel through the air , another gas [,] or a vacuum , without being in contact with a grounded surface.
2. * {{ RQ:Chesterton Orthodoxy
|passage=Angels can FLY because they take themselves lightly.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] To flee , to escape (from).
5. * [act=IV]
6. * [act=3]
7. * [book=5]
8. * [14]
9. * [en]
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1954 | author=w:J. R. R. Tolkien | title=w:The Fellowship of the Ring
|passage=He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the
abyss. “ FLY, you fools!” he cried, and was gone.}}
1. [en] To cause to fly [travel or float in the air] : to transport via air or the like.
2. * {{ RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Pirates of Penzance
|passage=The brave black flag I FLY.}}
1. * [en]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2015 | author=Jeromy Hopgood | title=Dance Production: Design and Technology | page=44
|passage=This area, referred to as the fly loft, should typically be two and a
half times taller than the proscenium opening in order to FLY the scenery
above the vertical sightlines of the first row of the audience.}}
1. [en] To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1645 | author=w:John Milton | title=On Time
|passage= FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.}}
1. * 1870 , [William Cullen Bryant] (translator), _The Iliad_ (originally by [Homer] )
2. *: The dark waves murmured as the ship FLEW on.
3. * [en]
4. [en] To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
5. * [chapter=The Mortals in the House]
6. * [en]
7. [en] To proceed with great success.
8. [en] To be accepted , come about or work out .
9. [en] To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
10. [en] To hunt with a hawk .
11. * [en]
12. [en] To be in the winged adult stage.
***** Conjugation
[old=1]
***** Synonyms
- [travel through air] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [flee] [en] , [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:flee
- [travel very fast] [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:move quickly
- [do an act suddenly] [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:rush
***** Antonyms
- [travel through air] [en]
- [flee] [en] , [en]
- [travel very fast] see also Thesaurus:move slowly
***** Hyponyms
{{col|en |fly a kite |flying cone |fly into a rage |fly like a bird |fly like
a rock |fly like the wind |fly off the handle |fly out the window |fly solo
|overfly }}
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|fly up|kiss and fly |afly|fly out of the blocks |as the crow flies
|as the gull flies |as the raven flies |backspot flying fish |befly |build the
plane while flying it |could eat the arse out of a low flying duck |could eat
the crotch out of a low flying duck |could eat the crutch from a low flying
duck |don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly |fill and fly
|flag-flying |flyable |fly a desk |fly and flop |fly apart |fly at |flyaway
|flyback |fly baker |flybar |fly blind |fly bomb |flyboy |flybridge |flyby
|fly by |fly-by-light |fly-by-night |fly-by-nighter |fly by the seat of one's
pants |fly-by-wire |flycatch |flycatching |flycraft |flycrank |flyer |flyey
|fly high |fly in |fly-in |fly-in fly-out |flying ace |flying army |flying
bishop |flying bomb |flying brick |flying bridge |flying camp |flying car
|flying carp |flying carpet |flying cat |flying circus |flying coffin |flying
colors |flying colours |flying disc |flying disc golf |flying doctor |flying
dragon |flying fig |flying freehold |flying frog |flying fuck |flying ginny
|flying gurnard |flying handkerchief |flying helmet |flying jenny |flying jib
|flying jib boom |flying kiss |flying knee |flying lap |flying lemur |flying
machine |flying mare |flying meet |flying monkeys |flying mouse |flying
ointment |flying party |flying phalanger |flying picket |flying purple
people-eater |flying purple people eater |flying rat |flying rod |flying rowan
|flying saucer group |flying school |flying shot |flying sport |flying
stationer |flying toilet |flying wedge |flying white |flying wing |fly in the
face of |fly into |fly low |fly off |flyoff |fly off the shelves |flyout |fly
out |fly out of the traps |flyover |fly-over |flypast |fly-past |fly-pitch
|fly-pitcher |flypost |fly-poster |fly-posting |fly the blue pigeon |fly the
coop |fly the flag |fly the freak flag |fly the kite |fly the nest |flythrough
|fly-through |fly-tip |fly-tipper |fly-tipping |fly too close to the sun
|fly-under |flyunder |fly under the radar |fly upon |flyway |flywheel |fly
with leaden wings |fly without a licence |flyworthy |free-fly |fur-flying
|give a flying fuck |go fly a kite |high-flying |if pigs had wings they would
fly |in flying colors |in flying colours |Japanese flying squid |keep the flag
flying |kite flying |let fly |make the dust fly |make the feathers fly |make
the fur fly |Malabar flying frog |Malaysian flying lemur |monkeys might fly
out of my butt |non-flying |outfly |overfly |Philippine flying lemur |pigs can
fly |pigs may fly |pigs might fly |refly |Siberian flying squirrel |sparks fly
|speed flying |straighten up and fly right |Sunda flying lemur |take a flying
fuck at a rolling donut |take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut |take a
flying leap |test-fly |the feathers fly |the fur flies |time flies |time flies
when you're having fun |unidentified flying object |upfly |watch the feathers
fly |watch the fur fly |when pigs can fly |when pigs fly |with flying colors
|with flying colours |yogic flying }}
***** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[to travel through air]{{multitrans|data=
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Atong: [aot]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Balinese: [ban] , [ban] , [ban]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [abstract] [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [concrete] [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] [abstract] , [cs] [concrete]
- Danish: [da]
- Dolgan: [dlg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [pꜣj] , [ꜥẖj] , [ꜥpj]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Even: [eve]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Faroese: [fo] , [archaic] [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl] [birds] , [kl] [aircraft]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Higaonon: [mba]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Inuktitut:
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Javanese: [jv] , [jv] , [jv]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khakas: [kjh]
- Khamnigan Mongol: [ykh]
- Khmer: [km] [aircraft] , [km] [birds, insects]
- Komi-Permyak: [koi]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Low German:
- Lutuv: [clt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Madurese: [mad]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Mansaka: [msk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Middle Mongol: [xng]
- Mongolian:
- Muong: [mtq]
- Nahuatl:
- Nanai: [gld]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Ngunawal: [xul]
- Norman: [nrf]
- North Frisian: [Mooring] [frr] , [Föhr-Amrum] [frr]
- Norwegian:
- Nǀuu: [ngh] , [ngh]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Frisian: [ofs]
- Old Javanese: [kaw] , [kaw] , [kaw]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk] , [rsk]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Pipil: [ppl]
- Pitjantjatjara: [pjt]
- Polish: [pl] [abstract] , [pl] [concrete]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu] , [qu]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Rohingya: [rhg]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru] [abstract] , [ru] [concrete] , [ru] [birds]
- Saho: [ssy]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Sherpa: [xsr]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] [abstract] , [sk] [concrete]
- Slovene: [sl] [concrete]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [circling something]
- Sundanese: [su] , [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tarantino: [roa-tar]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Ternate: [tft]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tongan: [to]
- Turkish: [aircraft] [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tày: [tyz]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk] [abstract] , [uk] [concrete]
- Unami: [unm] , [unm] [animate]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Waray-Waray: [war] , [war] [Eastern Samar]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yaghnobi: [yai]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Yurok: [yur] , [yur]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
- Zealandic: [zea]
}} [trans-bottom]
[to flee]{{multitrans|data=
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] (run)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zealandic: [zea]
}} [trans-bottom]
[to cause to travel through the air]{{multitrans|data=
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl] [aircraft]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] [aircraft] , [fr] [kite]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] [zeppelin, balloon] , [de] [airplane] , [de] [toys etc.]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] [a kite] , [mi] [a kite] , [mi] [aeroplane] , [mi] [an aeroplane] , [mi] [a flag]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] [flying vehicle, especially airplane] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [to transport by air] , [ru] [something light such as a kite; literally: to let go]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [aircraft] [tr] , [tr] , [balloon] [tr] , [tr]
- Tày: [tyz]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
}} [trans-bottom]
[to travel very fast, to hasten]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Irish: [ga]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to move suddenly with violence]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[to be accepted]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to display a flag from a flagpole]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Romanian: [ro]
[trans-bottom]
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- Guaraní: [gn]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] < !-- was " melayang " - assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->, [id] < !-- was " menerbangkan " - assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Italian: [airplane] [it] , [kite] [it]
- Tupinambá: [tpn]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 3
From [en], from [en], from [en].
**** Noun
[flys]
1. [en] The action of fly ing; flight .
2. An act of fly ing.
3. [en] A fly ball .
4. [en] [en] .
5. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent .
6. [en] The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent. < !--see Hobson-Jobson-->
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1810 | author=Thomas H. Williamson | title=The East India Vade-Mecum | page=452
|passage=[T]he main part of the operation of pitching the tent, consisting of
raising the _FLIES_, may be performed, and shelter afforded, without the
walls, &c., being present.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1816 | title=The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi | page=152
|passage=The cavalcade drew up in line, / Pitch'd the marquee, and went to
dine. / The bearers and the servants lie / Under the shelter of the FLY.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1885 | author=Elizabeth Bacon Custer | title=Boots and Saddles
|passage=After I had changed my riding-habit for my one other gown, I came out
to join the general under the tent- FLY.}}
1. [en] [en] A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers , pants , underpants , bootee s, etc.
2. * FEBRUARY 2014 Y-Front Fly (see https://web.archive.org/web/20140221194803/http://www.jfeconcepts.com/en/service/underwear-abc/y-front-fly.html)
3. *: Y-Front is a registered trademark for a special front FLY turned upside down to form a Y owned by Jockey® International. The first Y-Front® brief was created by Jockey® more than 70 years ago.
4. * JUNE 2014 The Hole In Men’s Underwear: Name And Purpose (see https://web.archive.org/web/20180223031954/http://www.dudeundies.com/news/the-hole-in-mens-underwear-name-and-purpose)
5. *: Briefs were given an opening in the front. The point of this opening (the ‘ FLY ’) was to make it easier to pee with clothes on
6. [en]
1. [en] The free edge of a flag .
2. The horizontal length of a flag.
7. [en] An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
8. The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
9. [en] That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card .
10. * [en]
11. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis , to act as a fanner , or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
12. [en] .
13. [en] A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised [en] ).
14. * [passage=A FLY carried him rapidly to Lady Clavering’s house from the station […]]
15. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1859 | author=Wilkie Collins | title=The Woman in White | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/583/583-h/583-h.htm
|passage=Can I get a FLY, or a carriage of any kind? Is it too late?<br>I
dismissed the FLY a mile distant from the park, and getting my directions from
the driver, proceeded by myself to the house.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1861 | author=Henry Mayhew; William Tuckniss | title=London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopœdia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work | volume=3 | pageurl=https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=tVtHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA359&dq=fly+carriage&cd=10#v=onepage&q=fly%20carriage&f=false | page=359
|passage=A glass coach, it may be as well to observe, is a carriage and pair
hired by the day, and a FLY a one-horse carriage hired in a similar manner.}}
1. * [passage=As we left the house in my FLY , which had been waiting, Van Helsing said:— ‘Tonight I can sleep in peace [ ... ] .’]
2. * [chapter=16]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1924 | author=w:Ford Madox Ford | title=Some Do Not… | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2012 | series=Parade's End | page=54
|passage=And, driving back in the FLY, Macmaster said to himself that you
couldn't call Mrs. Duchemin ordinary, at least.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch . [1]
4. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin , in a spinning wheel or spinning frame , to twist the yarn .
5. [en] A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk. [2]
6. [en]
1. The person who took the printed sheets from the press .
2. A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
7. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
8. * [en]
9. [en] [waste] cotton .
***** Derived terms
{{col|en |big fly |fly ash |fly ball |fly-coach |fly half |flyhawk |flyman
|flyperson |fly system |fly window |infield fly |infield fly rule |no-fly
|no-fly list,no fly list |no-fly zone |on the fly,on-the-fly |pop fly }}
***** Translations
[act of flying]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Central Sierra Miwok: [csm]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[fly ball]
[type of small, fast carriage]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[piece of canvas that covers the opening of a tent]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[strip that hides the opening of trousers/pants or
underpants]{{multitrans|data=
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] [slang] , [ja] [button] , [ja] [zipper] , [ja]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [slang]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Skolt Sami: [sms]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Welsh: [cy] [North] , [cy] [South]
}} [trans-bottom]
[free edge of a flag]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Icelandic: [is]
[trans-bottom]
[horizontal length of a flag]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 4
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To hit a fly ball ; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
***** Translations
[to hit a flyball]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 5
[en]; probably from the verb or noun.
**** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Quick-witted , alert , mentally sharp .
2. * [en]
3. [en] [clandestine] , surreptitious
4. * [en]
5. [en] Well dress ed, smart in appearance; in style, cool .
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. * [page=169]
10. * [en]
11. * [en]
12. * [en]
13. [en] Beautiful ; displaying physical beauty.
14. * [en]
15. * [en]
16. * [en]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[quick-witted]
- Finnish: [fi] [colloquial] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[well dressed]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] [colloquial] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 6
Related to [de], [nl], [sv].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A wing .
*** Etymology 7
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1880 | author=Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester | title=History of Ulster County, New York: With Illustrations and... | page=185
|passage=June 8, 1708, John Cock and William Nottingham desire 100 acres each
[...] Isaac Davis desied a conveyance for the "greenbush" FLY or swamp that he
hath drained near his land, in the Jaagh Creupel-bosh.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1924 | author=Frederick Van Wyck | title=Keskachauge: Or the First White Settlement on Long Island | page=321
|passage=[...] one certain Lot of the Long FLY, or swamp situate lying and
being [in] the Township of Flatlands [...] recorded June 15, 1876, Liber 1244
of _Conveyances_, at page 494, Kings County. The "East Division" was the Long
Vly, [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1961 | author=William Gideon Closson | title=The Josiah Closson Family of New England | page=110
|passage=[...] to a white maple stake standing in a FLY or swamp , thence N
[...] to a Hemlock Stake, [...]}}
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Knight AMD]
[2]. [R:Knight AMD]
[3]. [vlijen]
- [R:OneLook]
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language (see http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/fly)
[en] [en]
** Danish
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
*** Etymology 1
An abbreviation of [da], after [da] and [da].
**** Noun
[et]
1. airplane , aeroplane
***** Inflection
[et]
***** Derived terms
{{col4|da |flybrændstof |flykatastrofe |flyulykke |fragtfly |krigsfly
|papirfly |spionfly }}
*** Etymology 2
From [da], from [da], cognate with [en], [de], [nl].
**** Verb
[da]
1. [da] to flee
2. [da] to shun
***** Conjugation
[[da] or [da]]
*** Etymology 3
From [da], cognate with [nl], from [da], of unknown ultimate origin; possibly
related to the root of [gmw-pro], though the semantic gap is wide.[3]
**** Verb
[da]
1. [da] to hand , give
***** Conjugation
[[da] or [da]]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Knight AMD]
[2]. [R:Knight AMD]
[3]. [vlijen]
** Malay
*** Etymology
[ms].
*** Pronunciation
[flai]
*** Verb
[ms-verb]
1. [ms] to skip school or class [usually without permission]
2. * {{ quote-web | ms
| date=2019-04-14 | author=Suraya Roslan | title=[VIDEO] Kantoi ‘Fly’ Dari
Sekolah Asrama, Aksi Pelajar Buat Netizen Pecah Perut | site=Lobak Merah |
url=https://lobakmerah.com/video-kantoi-fly-dari-sekolah-asrama-aksi-pelajar-buat-netizen-pecah-perut/
|
archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250703010836/https://lobakmerah.com/video-kantoi-fly-dari-sekolah-asrama-aksi-pelajar-buat-netizen-pecah-perut/
| archivedate=2025-07-03 | text=Dia punya bijak tu sampaikan nak keluar pun,
pandai cari peluang untuk FLY. | t=They're so smart that even when they wants
to go out, they cleverly finds a way to SKIP school. }}
1. * {{ quote-web | ms
| date=2025-04-29 | author=@pepzeey | title= | site=Tiktok |
url=https://www.tiktok.com/@pepzeey/video/7498727936023989511 |
archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250703001929/https://www.tiktok.com/@pepzeey/video/7498727936023989511
| archivedate=2025-07-03 | text=rindu nk FLY kelas😔🙏🏻 | t=I miss SKIPPING
class😔🙏🏻 }}
**** Derived terms
{{col|ms | kaki fly }}
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Pronunciation
- [nb]
*** Etymology 1
Short form of [nb]
**** Noun
[nb-noun-n1]
1. plane , aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft
***** Derived terms
{{col3|nb |bombefly |dronefly |flybevegelse |flybillett |flydrivstoff
|flyforbudssone |flyfoto |flyfotografi |flyfotograf |flyfrakt |flyklubb
|flykrasj |flykropp |flyplass |flyreise |flyselskap |flystasjon |flystripe
|flyterminal |flytrafikk |flytur |flyvåpen |glidefly |jagerfly |jetfly
|kampfly |mikrofly |militærfly |modellfly |papirfly |passasjerfly |privatfly
|rutefly |seilfly |sjøfly |transportfly }}
*** Etymology 2
From [nb].
**** Alternative forms
- [nb]
**** Verb
[nb]
1. to [en]
***** Derived terms
- [nb]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Pronunciation
- [nn] [nn-pronu-note]
*** Etymology 1
[nn] [nn].
**** Noun
[nn-noun-n1]
1. [nn] plane , aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft
***** Derived terms
{{col3|nn |bombefly |dronefly |flybillett |flydrivstoff |flyfoto |flyfotografi
|flyfotograf |flyfrakt |flyklubb |flykrasj |flykropp |flyplass |flyreise
|flyselskap |flystasjon |flystripe |flyterminal |flytrafikk |flytur |flyvåpen
|jagarfly |jetfly |kampfly |modellfly |mikrofly |militærfly |papirfly
|passasjerfly |privatfly |rutefly |sjøfly |transportfly }}
*** Etymology 2
[nn] From [nn], from [nn].
**** Alternative forms
- [nn]
**** Verb
[nn]
1. [nn] [nn] to [en] (to travel through air , another gas or a vacuum , without being in contact with a grounded surface)
2. [nn] to cause to [en] : to transport via air or the like
3. [nn] to run , move fast
4. [nn] to be in heat , rutting
***** Derived terms
{{col3|nn |flygande hund |flygande festning |flygande mare |flygande tallerk
|flygande tallerken |flygar |flygebane |flygeblad |flygedyktig |flygeferdig
|flygefisk |flygefør |flygehud |flygeidé |flygeleiar |flygelem |flygemaskin
|flygemaur |flygeregistrator |flygesand |flygeskrift |flygetid |flygetur
|flygeøgle }}
***** Related terms
- [nn]
**** Adjective
[n=flytt]
1. very steep
**** Noun
[nn-noun-n1]
1. a very steep cliff
*** Etymology 3
From [nn], from [nn].
**** Verb
[nn-verb-3]
1. [nn] [nn] to escape ; flee ; run away
2. [nn] [nn] to escape from
*** Etymology 4
[nn] [nn], present participle of [nn].
**** Adverb
[nn]
1. [nn] [Used as an intensifier for the word [nn]]
*** Etymology 5
[nn] Compare with [nn] and [en].
**** Noun
[nn-noun-f1]
1. small ( flying ) insect
2. [nn] bait
*** Etymology 6
**** Noun
[nn-noun-f1]
1. speck s
*** Etymology 7
**** Noun
[nn-noun-f1]
1. mountain plateau
*** Etymology 8
[nn], though may be related to [nn].
**** Noun
[nn-noun-n1]
1. sump
*** Etymology 9
Related to, or possibly a doublet of [nn], from [nn].
**** Adjective
[n=flytt]
1. [nn] tepid
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
- [fly]
*** Anagrams
- [nn]
[nn]
** Scots
*** Adjective
[sco]
1. [sco] sneaky
2. * [1=sco]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv], [gmq-osw], from [sv], from [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Verb
[fly]
1. to flee , to run away , to escape
2. to pass , to go by (of time)
3. * [sv]
4. * [sv]
**** Conjugation
[fly]
**** Derived terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
**** Related terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
**** See also
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]
[sv]