quiver

English

Wikipedia

bow and quiver

Pronunciation

• enPR: kwĭvər, IPA: [kʍɪvə(ɹ)], /kwɪvə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /kWIv@(r\)/, /kwIv@(r\)/
• Rhymes: -ɪvə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quiveir (compare Old French quivre, cuevre, coivre "quiver"), of Germanic origin (perhaps via Late Latin cucurum "quiver"), from Low Frankish *kokari "quiver, case for arrows" from Proto-Germanic *kukārijaz, from Proto-Germanic *kukur- (“container, case”). Akin to Old High German kohhar, kohhari "quiver" (German Köcher "quiver"), Old Saxon kokari "quiver", Old Dutch cocar "quiver" (Dutch koker "quiver"), Old English cocer, cocur "quiver, container, case, sheath". More at cocker.

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271:

     Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:

     Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.

2. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.

   He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.

3. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
4. Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
5. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

Translations

arrow container

• Arabic: جعبة (ar) (jáʿba) f
• Armenian: կապարճ (hy) (kaparč)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 箭圖 (cmn), 箭图 (cmn) (jiàntú)

• Czech: toulec (cs) m
• Danish: kogger (da), pilekogger (da)
• Dutch: koker, pijlkoker
• Esperanto: sagujo (eo)
• Finnish: nuoliviini (fi), viini (fi)
• French: carquois (fr) m
• Georgian: კაპარჭი (ka) (kaparči)
• German: Köcher (de) m
• Greek: φαρέτρα (el) (farétra) f (faretra)
• Greenlandic: qarsulivik (kl)
• Hungarian: tegez (hu)
• Icelandic: örvamælir (is) m
• Italian: faretra (it) f
• Japanese: 矢筒 (ja) (やづつ, yadzutsu)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: gōrȳtos (la) m, pharetra (la) f
• Lithuanian: strėlinė (lt) f
• Macedonian: тоболец (mk) (tóbolec) m
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can

• Maori: pūkoro pere (mi) c
• Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭭𐭲𐭢𐭫 (kantigr)
• Mongolian: чичрэх (mn) (čičreh)
• Navajo: kʼaaʼ yeiłtįįh
• Old English: cocer, bogefōdder
• Persian: تیردان (fa) (tirdân), ترکش (fa) (tarkaš), تیرکش (fa) (tirkaš)
• Polish: kołczan (pl) m
• Portuguese: aljava (pt) f, fáretra (pt) f, carcás (pt) f
• Romanian: tolbă (ro) f
• Russian: колчан (ru) (kolčán) m, (dated) тул (ru) (tul) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: то̀болац (sh) m

  Roman: tòbolac (sh) m

• Spanish: aljaba (es) f carcaj (es) m
• Swahili: podo (sw), ziaka (sw), pongono (sw)
• Swedish: koger (sv) n
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: అంబులపొద (te) (aMbulapoda), తూణీరము (te) (tooNIramu)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Tuvan: колчан (kolčan), согун саадаа (sogun saadaa)
• Ukrainian: сагайдак (uk) (sahajdák) m
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• West Frisian: koker (fy) n
• ǃXóõ: ǃúla

a ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons

• Finnish: arsenaali (fi)
• Macedonian: арсенал (mk) (arsenál) m

• Serbo-Croatian: тоболац (sh), tobolac (sh)

collective noun for cobras

shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion

• Finnish: vapina (fi)
• French: tremblement (fr), frisson (fr), frémissement (fr) (of a person, of a voice)
• Georgian: თრთოლა (ka) (t'rt'ola)
• Macedonian: треперење (mk) (trepérenje) n, трепет (mk) (trépet) m

• Polish: drżenie (pl) n
• Swedish: skakar (sv)
• Telugu: వణుకు (te) (vaNuku), కంపించు (te) (kaMpiMcu)
• Tok Pisin: guria (tpi)

Etymology 2

From Middle English cwiver, from Old English *cwifer

Adjective

quiver (comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver)

1. (archaic) Nimble, active.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:

     […] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.

Etymology 3

From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

Verb

quiver (third-person singular simple present quivers, present participle quivering, simple past and past participle quivered)

1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene III, line 12:

     The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind And make a checker'd shadow on the ground.

Translations

shake or move with slight and tremulous motion

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: dirre (da), sitre (da), sitre (da), bævre (da)
• Dutch: rillen (nl)
• Finnish: väristä (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: კანკალი (ka) (kankali)
• German: flattern (de)

• Greenlandic: angaluppoq (kl), aalaqqajuppoq (kl)
• Italian: fremere (it)
• Japanese: 揺らめく (ゆらめく, yurameku)
• Maori: kurepe (mi)
• Polish: drżeć (pl)
• Portuguese: tremer (pt), estremecer (pt)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: అదురు (aduru)
• Tok Pisin: guria (tpi)