Kamus: English-Indonesian/Malay Dictionary : Root

English Definition

noun

root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source: the place where something begins, where it springs into being "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance", "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation", "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River", "communism's Russian root"
root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
root: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
solution, root: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
etymon, root: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
root, tooth root: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support

verb

root: take root and begin to grow "this plant roots quickly"
root: come into existence, originate "The problem roots in her depression"
root: plant by the roots
rout, root, rootle: dig with the snout "the pig was rooting for truffles"
settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down: become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style "He finally settled down"
root: cause to take roots

Translation

Chinese	běn, dǐ, gēn, gēn běn, yuán, 本, 柢, 根, 根本, 源, 本, 柢, 根, 根本, 源
Dutch	stam, wortel, wortel schieten, aanslaan
French	racine
Greek	ρίζα
Indonesian	akar, asal
Italian	radice
Japanese	hongen, kongen, konpon, kontei, ne, nekata, nekko, nemoto, tsukene, こんげん, こんてい, こんぽん, つけね, ね, ねかた, ねっこ, ねもと, ほんげん, 付け根, 本源, 根, 根っこ, 根っ子, 根元, 根原, 根子, 根底, 根方, 根本, 根柢, 根源
Korean	기초, 뿌리, 근원, 원천
Latin	radix
Malay	akar
Norwegian	rot
Polish	źródła
Portuguese	raiz
Russian	поощрять, ободрять
Serbian	koren, temelj, koren
Spanish	raнz
Swahili	chanzo
Swedish	rot

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