noose

See also: Noose

English

A noose

Alternative forms

• nooze (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English nose (“noose, loop”), of unclear origin.

Possibly from Old French nos or Old Occitan nous, nos, nominative singular or accusative plural of nou (“knot”), with a required change in meaning shifting from the "knot" itself to the "loop" created by the knot. If so, then cognate with French nœud (“knot”), Portuguese nó (“knot”) and Spanish nudo (“knot”). Compare node and knot.

Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, borrowed from Middle Low German nȫse (“loop, noose, snare”), itself of obscure origin. Perhaps derived from an incorrect division of ēn' ȫse (literally “a loop”), from Middle Low German ȫse, from Old Saxon *ōsia, from Proto-West Germanic *ansiju (“eyelet, loop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Noose (“loop, eyelet”) and Saterland Frisian Oose (“eyelet, loop”), potentially created via the same process.

Pronunciation

• enPR: noo͞s, IPA^(key): /nuːs/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈnʉs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

noose (plural nooses)

1. An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of a lasso.

   Put someone's head in a noose

Derived terms

• hangman's noose
• slip noose

 

Translations

adjustable loop or rope

• Albanian: lak (sq) m
• Arabic: حَبْل مِشْنَقَة (ḥabl mišnaqa)
• Aromanian: alats
• Belarusian: пятля f (pjatlja)
• Bulgarian: клуп (bg) m (klup), примка (bg) (primka)
• Burmese: ညွှတ် (my) (hnywat), ကြိုးကွင်း (my) (krui:kwang:), ကွင်းလျှော (my) (kwang:hlyau:)
• Catalan: llaç (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環／环 (zh) (huán), 繯／缳 (zh) (huán),绞索 (zh) (jiăosuǒ)

• Czech: oprátka (cs) f
• Danish: løkke
• Dutch: strop (nl)
• Esperanto: maŝo (eo)
• Finnish: juoksusilmukka (type of knot); hirttosilmukka (fi) (hangman's noose)
• French: nœud coulant (fr) m, lacs (fr) m
• German: (generally) Schlinge (de) f; (in hanging often) Strick (de) m (properly the rope)
• Greek: θηλιά (el) f (thiliá)

  Ancient: βρόχος m (brókhos), ἀγχόνη f (ankhónē)

• Hindi: फाँसी (hi) f (phā̃si)
• Hungarian: hurok (hu)
• Icelandic: lykkja (is) f, rennilykkja f
• Irish: dol
• Italian: cappio (it) m, laccio (it) m
• Japanese: 輪縄 (わなわ, wanawa)
• Latin: laqueus (la) m, transenna f
• Maori: kōpeti, koromahanga, kono
• Navajo: łoh
• Norman: noeud d'pendard m
• Norwegian: renneløkke c, rennesnare c, løkke (no) f
• Old English: grin m
• Persian: خفت (fa) (xeft)
• Polish: pętla (pl) f, stryczek (pl) m
• Portuguese: laço (pt) m, forca (pt) f
• Romanian: laț (ro), ștreang (ro) n
• Russian: пе́тля (ru) f (pétlja), петля́ (ru) f (petljá)
• Scottish Gaelic: lùb f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: омча f, петља f

  Roman: omča (sh) f, petlja (sh) f

• Slovak: oprátka f
• Slovene: zanka (sl) f
• Spanish: dogal (es) m
• Swahili: kitanzi (sw)
• Swedish: löpsnara c, rännsnara c
• Ukrainian: петля́ f (petljá), за́шморг m (zášmorh)
• Welsh: dolen (cy) f
• Yakut: туһах (tuhaq)

Verb

noose (third-person singular simple present nooses, present participle noosing, simple past and past participle noosed)

1. (transitive) To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare.

Anagrams

• osone, soone

Middle English

Noun

noose (plural nooses)

1. Alternative form of nose