kneel
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb intransitive
P. and V. προσκυνεῖν.
kneeling on the ground: V. καθεῖσα πρὸς γαῖαν γόνυ (Euripides, Hecuba 561).
kneel to: P. and V. προσκυνεῖν (acc.), Ar. and V. προσπίπτειν (acc. or dat.); see fall at a person's knees, under knee.
Translations
Aklanon: euhod; Arabic: رَكَعَ, جَثَا; Egyptian Arabic: ركع; Armenian: ծնկի գալ, ծնկել, ծունր դնել, ծնրադրել, չոքել; Aromanian: ndzinucljedzu, ndzinuclju; Bashkir: тубыҡланыу, теҙләнеү; Basque: belaunikatu; Belarusian: укленчваць; Bulgarian: коленича; Burmese: ဒူးထောက်; Catalan: agenollar-se; Cebuano: luhod; Cherokee: ᏓᎵᏂᏆᏅᎥᏍᎦ; Chickasaw: achokmilhka, achokmíyyi'lhka; Chinese Cantonese: 跪; Mandarin: 下跪; Czech: kleknout si, pokleknout, klečet; Danish: knæle; Dutch: knielen; Esperanto: genui; Estonian: põlvitama; Faroese: leggja seg á knæ; Finnish: polvistua; French: s'agenouiller, tomber à genoux; Galician: axeonllar; Georgian: მუხლზე, მუხლის მოყრა, დაჩოქება; German: knien; Greek: γονατίζω, πέφτω στα γόνατα; Ancient Greek: γονατίζω, γονυκλινέω, γονυκλιτέω, γονυπετέω, κατακλίνω, προσκυνέω, ὑποκλάζω, ὑποκλίνομαι; Greenlandic: seeqqumiarpoq; Hebrew: כָּרַע; Higaonon: agluhod; Hiligaynon: luhod; Hungarian: térdel; Hunsrik: knïe; Icelandic: krjúpa; Indonesian: berlutut; Irish: sléacht, téigh ar do ghlúine, bí ar do ghlúine; Italian: inginocchiarsi; Japanese: 跪く; Javanese: dhengkul; Kabuverdianu: juelha; Kapampangan: siklod, siklaud; Khmer: លុត; Korean: 꿇다; Kurdish Central Kurdish: چەکبوون; Latvian: nomesties ceļos; Malay: berlutut; Malayalam: മുട്ടുകുത്തുക; Mansaka: lood; Maori: tūturi; Mongolian: өвдөг сөгдөн; Navajo: ntsideegeeh; Norman: s'agenouoilli; Northern Sami: čippostit; Norwegian: knele; Old Javanese: dĕku; Persian: زانو زدن; Polish: klęczeć; Portuguese: ajoelhar-se; Quechua: ullpukuy; Romanian: îngenunchea; Russian: преклоняться, стоять на коленях; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: клекнути, клечати; Roman: kleknuti, klečati; Slovene: poklekniti, klečati; Sorbian Lower Sorbian: klěkaś, kólenkowaś; Spanish: arrodillarse, ahinojar; Swahili: kupiga magoti; Swedish: knäböja, knäfalla, falla på knä; Tagalog: luhod; Thai: คุกเข่า; Turkish: diz çökmek; Ukrainian: клякати, вклякати, ставати на коліна; Vietnamese: quỳ; Welsh: penlinio, penglinio
