He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.
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Breastbone
Synonyms for "breastbone" (3 found)
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Translations
76 translations across 58 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- borsbeen noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- στέρνον noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Arabic
2 entries- قص noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- قَصّ noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Armenian
1 entries- կրծոսկր noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Asturian
1 entries- esternón noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Bengali
1 entries- বক্ষাস্থি noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гръдна кост noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Catalan
2 entries- estern noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- estèrnum noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Cebuano
1 entries- pitso noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Central Melanau
1 entries- tujou noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 胸骨 noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 胸骨 noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Czech
1 entries- hrudní kost noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Dhivehi
1 entries- އުރަމަތީ ކަށިގަނޑު noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Dutch
1 entries- borstbeen noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Esperanto
1 entries- sternumo noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Estonian
1 entries- rinnak noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Finnish
1 entries- rintalasta noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
French
1 entries- sternum noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Galician
1 entries- esterno noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
German
2 entries- Brustbein noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- Sternum noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Gujarati
2 entries- ઉરોસ્થિ noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- છાતીનું હાડકું noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Hebrew
2 entries- מַפְתֵּחַ הַלֵּב noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- עצם החזה noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Hindi
1 entries- उरोस्थि noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Hungarian
2 entries- mellcsont noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- szegycsont noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Icelandic
2 entries- bringubein noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- brjóstbein noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Indonesian
3 entries- sternum noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- tulang dada noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- tulang rawan noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Ingrian
1 entries- rintaluu noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Irish
2 entries- cnámh uchta noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- steirneam noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Italian
1 entries- sterno noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Japanese
1 entries- 胸骨 noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Kaurna
1 entries- kuntuwarpu noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- sākìk noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Korean
1 entries- 가슴뼈 noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Latin
1 entries- sternum noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Lithuanian
1 entries- krūtinkaulis noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Malay
4 entries- sternum noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- tulang dada noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- tulang papan noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- tulang rawan noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Marathi
2 entries- उरोस्थी noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- छातीचे हाड noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Motu
1 entries- abagoro noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Māori
1 entries- whaturei noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- hestiyê sîngê noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Old English
1 entries- brēostbān noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Persian
1 entries- جناغ noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Brostknoaken noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Polish
1 entries- mostek noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Portuguese
1 entries- esterno noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Russian
2 entries- груди́на noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- грудна́я кость noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Scots
1 entries- breestbane noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cnàimh a' chlèibh noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Slovak
1 entries- hrudná kosť noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Slovene
1 entries- pŕsnica noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Spanish
1 entries- esternón noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Swedish
1 entries- bröstben noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Tagalog
1 entries- butundibdib noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Telugu
1 entries- ఉరోస్థి noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Turkish
3 entries- göğüs kemiği noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- iman tahtası noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
- sternum noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xương ức noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
Welsh
1 entries- asgwrn dwyfron noun (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest)
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