agulla

Catalan

noun
Definitions
  • needle
  • hand of a clock
  • (rail transport) UK points, US switch
  • (castells) A casteller in the pinya who stands facing one of the baixos, holds the segon's knees, and passes messages between his or her segon and the other castellers in the pinya
  • (castells) A column of one casteller per level which is constructed within the tronc in certain constructions and remains standing until the tronc has been dismantled

Etymology

Inherited from Old Occitan agulha inherited from Latin *acūcla, acus (needle, pin, sharp, a needle non-gloss definition, husk) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (sharp, pointed, edgy).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₂eḱ-

Gloss

sharp, pointed, edgy

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Property

Kanji

鋭

Emoji
🪒

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