different between onion vs gorilla

English

Alternative forms

• onyon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English onyon, union, oinyon, borrowed from Anglo-Norman union et al. and Old French oignon, from Latin ?ni?nem, accusative of ?ni? (“onion, large pearl”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as ynne, ynnel?ac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Also displaced Middle English knelek (“onion”) and the inherited term ramsons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nj?n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /???j?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n

Noun

onion (plural onions)

1. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
2. The bulb of such a plant.
   • 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:

     dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

3. (uncountable) The genus as a whole.
4. (obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
5. (colloquial, chiefly archaic) A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

Synonyms

• (vegetable): violet (UK dialect)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• chive
• scallion
• shallot

Welsh

Noun

onion m (singulative onionyn)

1. Alternative form of wynwyn (“onion”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “wynwyn, wnion, winion, winiwn, &c.”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (Górillai, “Gorillai (a tribe of hairy women)”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?????l.?/
• Rhymes: -?l?
• Homophone: guerrilla

Noun

gorilla (plural gorillas)

1. The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for their trait of knuckle-walking.
2. A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian.
3. (informal) A powerful person or organization; a heavyweight or behemoth.
   • 1977, Computerworld (volume 11, number 19, page 58)

     The two industry gorillas — IBM and AT&T — will get together to decide who will provide different communications services, Biddle stated.

Derived terms

Related terms

• Godzilla
• Gorillai

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Gorilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o??r?.la?/
• Hyphenation: go?ril?la
• Rhymes: -?la?

Noun

gorilla m (plural gorilla's, diminutive gorillaatje n)

1. gorilla, primate of the genus Gorilla

Derived terms

• berggorilla
• laaglandgorilla

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??oril??/, [??o?ril??]
• Rhymes: -oril??
• Syllabification: go?ril?la

Noun

gorilla

1. gorilla

Declension

Compounds

• vuorigorilla

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??oril??]
• Hyphenation: go?ril?la
• Rhymes: -l?

Noun

gorilla (plural gorillák)

1. gorilla

Declension

Italian

Noun

gorilla m (invariable)

1. gorilla

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (Górillai, “a tribe of hairy women”)

Noun

gorilla m (definite singular gorillaen, indefinite plural gorillaer, definite plural gorillaene)

1. a gorilla

References

• “gorilla” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (Górillai, “a tribe of hairy women”)

Noun

gorilla m (definite singular gorillaen, indefinite plural gorillaer or gorillaar, definite plural gorillaene or gorillaane)

1. a gorilla

References

• “gorilla” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

gorilla c

1. gorilla

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

gorilla c (plural gorilla's)

1. gorilla