wink

(Inglés)

Noun

1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
3. A brief time; an instant.
4. The smallest possible amount.
5. A subtle allusion.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To close one's eyes in sleep.
2. (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
3. (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
4. (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
6. (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwɪŋk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: wynken

Heredado de inglés antiguo: wincian

Cognado con Middle Low German: winken

Cognado con alemán: winken

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: wäänke

Cognado con neerlandés: wenken

Cognado con latín: vacillare

Cognado con lituano: véngti

Cognado con albanés: vang

Cognado con sánscrito: वङ्गति

In summary

From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”), French guigner (“to eye, sneak a look at”).

Conceptos

parpadear

guiñar

😉

guiño

😉

pestañear

parpadeo

guiñada

😉

pestañar

cerrar los ojos

parpadear con un ojo

bizcar

pestañeo

guiñar el ojo

parpadear involuntario

parpadeo y resplandor

hacer señas con los ojos

brillar intermitentemente

ahogar

papardear

bizquear

centellear

instante

tolerar

destellar

❇️

hacer del ojo

hacer la vista gorda

pestañea

titilar

periquete

guiñar con el ojo

Sinónimos

blink

twinkle

flash

flicker

nictitate

twinkling

nictate

winking

instant

close

blinking

nictitation

squint

trice

winkle

glimmer

eye blink

blink of an eye

shimmer

heartbeat

💓

nod

scintillate

eye-wink

nictation

blink away

glint

split second

sparkle

❇️

sign

shut one eye

New York minute

inkling

hint

jiffy

bat

🦇

hint given by eyes

beckon

connive

dance

💃

flare

flutter

gleam

glisten

glitter

glow

gutter

instantaneousness

moment

occult

one-eyed

Traducciones

zwinkern

blinzeln

cligner

sbattere le ciglia

ciller

ammiccare

😉

Zwinkern

knipogen

😉

αναβοσβήνω

Blinzeln

strizzare l’occhiolino

cligner de l’oeil

einen Augenwink machen

mit dem Auge zwinkern

ammiccamento