arrowhead

English

A late Neolithic arrowhead

Arrowhead (plant, Sagittaria sagittifolia)

Etymology

From Middle English arewehede, arowhede, arowheved. By surface analysis, arrow +‎ head.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæɹəʊhɛd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American)
  • (without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈæɹoʊhɛd/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ(ə)ɹoʊhɛd/

Noun

arrowhead (plural arrowheads)

1. The pointed part of an arrow (the weapon).

   Synonym: arrowpoint

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

2. The pointed part of an arrow (the symbol).
3. Any plant in the genus Sagittaria.

   Synonyms: duck potato, wapato

4. An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of a triangular fence with the point facing towards the ground.

   Synonym: chevron

Derived terms

• broad arrowhead
• delta arrowhead
• leaf arrowhead

Translations

the pointed part of an arrow

• Apache:

  Western Apache: besh distʼog

• Azerbaijani: ox ucluğu
• Bashkir: башаҡ (başaq)
• Bulgarian: връх на стрела (vrǎh na strela)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 箭頭 / 箭头 (zh) (jiàntóu)，箭鏃 / 箭镞 (zh) (jiànzú)

• Czech: hrot (cs) m
• Danish: pilespids c
• Finnish: nuolenkärki (fi), nuolenpää (fi)
• French: fer de lance (fr) m
• German: Pfeilspitze (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: αἰχμή f (aikhmḗ)

• Hungarian: nyílhegy (hu)
• Japanese: 鏃 (ja) (やじり, yajiri), 矢尻 (ja) (やじり, yajiri)
• Navajo: béésh astʼogii, kʼaabéésh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pilspiss m

  Nynorsk: pilspiss m

• Persian: پیکان (fa) (peykân)
• Polish: grot (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponta de flecha f
• Russian: наконе́чник (ru) m (nakonéčnik) (стрелы́), остриё (ru) n (ostrijó) (стрелы́)
• Slovak: hrot (sk) m
• Spanish: punta de flecha f
• Sundanese: paksi
• Swedish: pilspets (sv) c
• Tagalog: palaso
• Unami: sànàkw
• Vietnamese: đầu mũi tên

symbol

• Bulgarian: знак за високо напрежение (znak za visoko napreženie)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 箭嘴 (zin³ zeoi²)

  Mandarin: 箭頭 / 箭头 (zh) (jiàntóu)

• Finnish: nuolenkärki (fi), nuolenpää (fi)
• French: fer de lance (fr) m
• German: Pfeilspitze (de) f
• Hebrew: ראש חץ m (rosh hetz)
• Hungarian: nyíl (hu)
• Portuguese: flecha (pt) f, seta (pt) f
• Russian: стре́лка (ru) f (strélka)

plant

• Bulgarian: стрелоли́ст m (strelolíst)
• Catalan: sagitària f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慈姑 (zh) (cígū)

• Czech: šípatka f
• German: Pfeilkraut n
• Hungarian: nyílfű (hu)
• Japanese: 慈姑 (ja) (くわい, kuwai)
• Korean: 벗풀 (beotpul)
• Latin: sagitta (la) f
• Navajo: táłkááʼbéésh
• Portuguese: sagitária f
• Romanian: săgeata-apei (ro) f, săgeata-apelor (ro) f
• Russian: стрелоли́ст (ru) m (strelolíst)
• Umatilla: ɨstíˀɨstins

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} strelara
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ములుకు (te) (muluku)

See also

• elf arrow

References

• arrowhead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sagittaria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Sagittaria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons