Zompist Bboard Again

A continuation from the other board! First up:

Japanese
豆
Mame
"Beans"

German
Pflock
stake

Stake as in company or vampire?

Swahili
Mphishi
Chef

Standard Chinese
印加蘿蔔
Yìnjiāluóbo
maca

Pedant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:42 pm Stake as in company or vampire?

Vampire

Hello again, H-W!

Müller tossed me some other interesting curveballs as well. "Stanitzel" turns out to be a common Austrian German term that I simply don't remember coming across before but I still haven't been able to find a definition of "Spinnrose" anywhere and "Vinilin" took some sleuthing.

I have no idea what a Spinnrose is, either; Austrian German sometimes feels like a foreign language. From googling a bit I see that there seem to be two meanings - a type of rose and some kind of accessory or clothing; the sources for the latter meaning all seem to be 18th or 19th century texts.

Mandarin
性別友善
xìngbié yǒushàn
"gender-friendly" (≈ unisex, I guess; on the door to some public toilets)

Welsh
och(e)neidio
sighing

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:22 am Welsh
och(e)neidio
sighing

I live in Wales. I may have cause to use this one day.
Thanks.

An English monosyllable for once (for those who care about them):
flense v. 'to strip off blubber from the body of a marine mammal'

Tropylium wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 5:56 pm An English monosyllable for once (for those who care about them):
flense v. 'to strip off blubber from the body of a marine mammal'

I learned that word thanks to Sue Harrison.

IME it's much broader in use than wiktionary suggests - I've heard it used for any stripping of bodily matter more substantial than flaying. For instance, systematically removing flesh from bone, particularly of other people. I know I've seen experts talking about the distinctive cuts on bone indicating cannibalism as signs of flensing. But it may be that that's an extended usage from the concept of the flensing knife (knife for flensing, ergo whatever you use it for is flensing?).

Zaarin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 8:32 pm

Tropylium wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 5:56 pm An English monosyllable for once (for those who care about them):
flense v. 'to strip off blubber from the body of a marine mammal'

I learned that word thanks to Sue Harrison.

My credits are to Michael Fortescue.

Never seen this one before, though I guess it's common jargon: spox, "spokesperson". I'm guessing it's pronounced spoxe?

直男癌 zhínánái, character by character it's straight male cancer, but actually it's mansplaining.

díoltas "vengeance" (e.g. díoltas a dhéanamh ar to get revenge on) but also "grudge" in the construction tá díoltas agam do "I have a grudge against him".

varve

An annually-deposited sediment layer (occuring only where there was historically fresh or brackish water).

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 1:48 pmvarve

Huh. May be cognate with "wharf".