giron
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
giron (plural girons)
- Alternative form of gyron
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Frankish *gēro (compare Old High German gēro, Middle Dutch ghere).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
giron m (plural girons)
- lap (of a person)
- (figuratively) bosom, fold
- 2023 May, Constant Léon, “L'Arménie en quête de soutien”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 12:
- L’étau se resserre autour du Haut-Karabakh, que Bakou entend ramener dans son giron
- The net is tightening around Nagorno-Karabakh, which Baku intends to bring back into its fold.
- (heraldry) gyron
- (architecture) tread, run (of a step)
Further reading[edit]
- “giron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
giron
Northern Sami[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Samic *kierōn; cognate with Inari Sami kiärun, Skolt Sami ǩeâram.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gīron
Inflection[edit]
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Nominative | gīron | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | gīrona | |||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | gīron | gīronat | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | gīrona | gīroniid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | gīrona | gīroniid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | gīronii | gīroniidda | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | gīronis | gīroniin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | gīroniin | gīroniiguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | gīronin | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Further reading[edit]
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
giron
- indefinite plural of giro
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