Thorn

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.
2. isim Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.

   “On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.”

3. isim Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

   “the white thorn”

4. isim That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

   “There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.”

5. isim A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

   “In Old English manuscripts thorn and eth did not have different phonetic values but were used positionally[.]”

6. fiil To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).

   “[…] human nature is, above all things, lazy, and needs to be thorned and goaded up those heights where it ought to fly.”

7. özel isim A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a thorn bush.
8. özel isim A hamlet in Houghton Regis parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0024).
9. özel isim A village in Maasgouw municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.
10. özel isim An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States.
11. özel isim Former name of Whitethorn, Humboldt County, California.