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piste
English
Etymology
From French piste.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st, -i?st
Noun
piste (plural pistes)
- (skiing) A downhill trail.
- (fencing) The field of play of a fencing match.
- (archaic) The track left by somebody riding a horse.
Translations
Anagrams
- IP set, piets, septi-, spite, stipe
Dutch
Etymology 1
From French piste.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pist?/
Noun
piste f (plural pistes, diminutive pistetje n)
- (skiing) piste
- (circus) circus ring
- (Belgium) trail, track
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?st?/
Verb
piste
- singular past indicative and subjunctive of pissen
Finnish
Etymology
pistää +? -e. Originally a synonym of pisto (“sting; prick, puncture”). First used to mean "period, full stop, dot" by Gustaf Renvall and "point" in geometry by Wolmar Schildt; other meanings derive from those two.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?piste?/, [?pis?t?e?(?)]
- Rhymes: -iste
- Syllabification: pis?te
Noun
piste
- (typography) point, dot, full stop, period
- (mathematics) point (zero-dimensional object)
- point (particular location)
- point (something tiny)
- point (mark or stroke above a letter)
- point (unit of scoring)
- Synonyms: (colloquial) pojo, (colloquial) pinna
- (typography) point (unit of font size or spacing)
Declension
Derived terms
- pisteyttää
Compounds
Related terms
Anagrams
- pesit, pesti, petsi, tepsi
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pist/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).
Noun
piste f (plural pistes)
- track or trail (left by an animal or person)
- track (road or other similar beaten path)
- (figuratively) lead, hint (e.g. in a police investigation)
- (aviation) runway
- (music) track (on a recording)
- racecourse
- ring in a circus
- floor (various activities such as dancing, skating, or fencing)
- (skiing) piste
Derived terms
- brouiller les pistes
- piste courte
- piste cyclable
- piste de danse
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
piste
- inflection of pister:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “piste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iste
Noun
piste f
- plural of pista
Anagrams
- pesti
Latin
Participle
piste
- vocative masculine singular of pistus
References
- piste in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Lithuanian
Participle
piste
- "manner of action" b?dinys participle of pisti.
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pist?/
Noun
piste m
- plural of pisto
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Compare Persian ????? (peste).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?s?t?/
Noun
piste f (Arabic spelling ?????)
- pistachio
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “piste”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- pissa, pisset
Verb
piste
- simple past of pisse
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mogul
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m???(?)l/, /?mo???l/
Etymology 1
Figurative use of Moghul, which originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (mughal being Persian or Arabic for "Mongol") of the Indian Subcontinent that existed between 1526 and 1857: the early Mughal emperors claimed a heritage dating back to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the storied riches of the Mughal emperors, which, for example, produced the Taj Mahal.
Noun
mogul (plural moguls)
- A rich or powerful person; a magnate.
- Synonyms: magnate, tycoon, captain of industry
Translations
Etymology 2
From dialectal German Mugel or from dialectal Norwegian mugje (“heap, mound”).
Noun
mogul (plural moguls)
- (skiing) A hump or bump on a skiing piste.
- A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs.
- A machine that forms shaped candies from syrups or gels.
Derived terms
- mogulist
Translations
Verb
mogul (third-person singular simple present moguls, present participle moguling, simple past and past participle moguled)
- (skiing) To ski over a course of humps or bumps.
Further reading
- mogul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English mogul, from Persian ????? (mu?ul, “Mongol”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mo?ul]
- Hyphenation: mo?gul
- Rhymes: -ul
Noun
mogul (plural mogulok)
- (historical) Mughal, Moghul (a member of the Mughal dynasty)
- mogul (a rich and powerful person)
Declension
Derived terms
- nagymogul
References
Further reading
- mogul in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Romanian
Etymology
From English mogul.
Noun
mogul m (plural moguli)
- mogul
Declension
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