wolf

Anlam (İngilizce)

Noun

1. Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
2. Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
3. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
4. A wolf tone or wolf note.
5. Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
6. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
7. A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
8. A wolf spider.
9. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
10. A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.

Verb

1. To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
2. (slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
3. To hunt for wolves.

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/wʊlf/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

From Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. See also Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian волк (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe). Doublet of lobo and lupus.