English

Noun

nose (noses )

1. organ in the face used to smell things
2. tip of an object (e.g., the nose of a fighter plane)
3. (Horse racing) The length of a horse's nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race.

Translations

• Anglo-Saxon: nosu f
• Breton: fri m -où pl
• Catalan: nas m (ca) [1]
• Chinese: 箅子 (bìzi)
• Danish: næse c
• Dutch: neus m (1,2), neuslengte f (3)
• Dyirbal: guwu
• Finnish: nenä
• French: nez m
• German: Nase f (de) [1], naselange (3)
• Greek:
  • Ancient Greek: ρίνος (rhinos) (1)
  • Modern Greek: μύτη (myti, miti), (1, 2) (el )
• Guarani: tĩ , apyngua
• Hebrew: אף f ()
• Indonesian: hidung
• Interlingua: naso
• Italian: naso m
• Japanese: 鼻 (はな, hana)
• Korean: 코 (ko)
• Latin: nasus
• Polish: nos m: nariz m
• Romanian: nas n
• Romanica: naso m
• Russian: нос n (nos)
• Slovene: nos m (1, 2)
• Spanish: nariz m
• Swedish: näsa (1, in humans) c, nos c (1, in animals) (2), noslängd c (3)
• Tok Pisin: nus
• Tupinambá: tĩ
• Ukrainian: ніс n (nis)

Intransitive verb

to nose (noses , nosed , nosing )

1. To move cautiously . (The ship nosed through the minefield.)
2. To snoop . (He was nosing around other people's business.)

Related Terms

• nasal
• nosey
• brown-nose

Translations

• German: schnüffeln
• Swedish: lägga sig i