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kurv

Pronunciation: /ˈkʉrʋ/

“kurv” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a container, originally woven and often having a handle, used to carry or store things; a basket
  2. a rejection, especially of a proposal of marriage or a romantic advance
  3. the contents of a basket; an amount that a basket holds
  4. a wicker bassinet or cradle for an infant
  5. the basket suspended beneath a balloon or airship, used to carry passengers or cargo
  6. the basket or hoop through which the ball is thrown
  7. an enclosed cage or platform travelling vertically in a mine shaft
  8. a pollen basket or corbicula on the body of certain insects, especially bees
  9. a capitulum; a dense flower head whose sessile flowers are borne on a flat, rounded or conical receptacle

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish kurv, from Old Danish korw, itself borrowed from Middle Low German korf, from Old Saxon *korf, from Proto-West Germanic *korb. The further origin is uncertain; a traditional connection with Latin corbis (“basket”) is disputed. The basketball sense is a semantic loan from English basket. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk korg, Faroese kurv, Icelandic korf, Swedish korg, Dutch korf and…

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