arrowhead - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Middle English arewehede, arowhede, arowheved; equivalent to arrow + head.
arrowhead (plural arrowheads)
- The pointed part of an arrow (the weapon).
- Synonym: arrowpoint
1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
- The pointed part of an arrow (the symbol).
- Any plant in the genus Sagittaria.
- Synonyms: duck potato, wapato
- An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of a triangular fence with the point facing towards the ground.
- Synonym: chevron
the pointed part of an arrow
- Apache:
- Western Apache: besh distʼog
- Bashkir: башаҡ (başaq)
- Bulgarian: връх на стрела (vrǎh na strela)
- Chinese:
- Czech: hrot (cs) m
- Danish: pilespids c
- Finnish: nuolenkärki (fi), nuolenpää (fi)
- German: Pfeilspitze (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: αἰχμή f (aikhmḗ)
- Hungarian: nyílhegy (hu)
- Japanese: 鏃 (ja) (やじり, yajiri), 矢尻 (ja) (やじり, yajiri)
- Navajo: béésh astʼogii, kʼaabéésh
- Norwegian:
- Persian: پیکان (fa) (peykân)
- Polish: grot (pl) m
- Portuguese: ponta de flecha f
- Russian: наконе́чник (ru) m (nakonéčnik) (стрелы́), остриё (ru) n (ostrijó) (стрелы́)
- Slovak: hrot (sk) m
- Spanish: punta de flecha f
- Sundanese: paksi
- Swedish: pilspets (sv) c
- Tagalog: palaso
- Vietnamese: đầu mũi tên
symbol
plant
- Bulgarian: стрелоли́ст m (strelolíst)
- Catalan: sagitària f
- Chinese:
- Czech: šípatka f
- German: Pfeilkraut n
- Hungarian: nyílfű (hu)
- Japanese: 慈姑 (くわい, kuwai)
- Korean: 벗풀 (beotpul)
- Latin: sagitta (la) f
- Navajo: táłkááʼbéésh
- Portuguese: sagitária f
- Romanian: săgeata-apei (ro) f, săgeata-apelor (ro) f
- Russian: стрелоли́ст (ru) m (strelolíst)
- Umatilla: ɨstíˀɨstins