The waist is a little small.
Source: tatoeba (40093)
Waist
//weɪst//
Synonyms for "waist" (31 found)
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4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
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1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
5 entriespart of
2 entriesrelated to
48 entriesShowing 16 of 48 words.
Translations
182 translations across 114 languages.
Ahtna
1 entries- tl'ede noun (part of the body)
Albanian
2 entries- bel noun (part of the body)
- mes noun (part of the body)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἰξύς noun (part of the body)
Ao
1 entries- teperem (Chungli) noun (part of the body)
Arabic
3 entries- خَصْر noun (part of the body)
- وسط noun (part of the body)
- وَسَط noun (part of the body)
Armenian
2 entries- գոտկատեղ noun (part of the body)
- իրան noun (part of the body)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- bel noun (part of the body)
- qurşaq noun (part of the body)
Bashkir
1 entries- бил noun (part of the body)
Basque
1 entries- gerri noun (part of the body)
Belarusian
1 entries- та́лія noun (part of the body)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- कमर noun (part of the body)
Bikol Central
2 entries- abayan noun (part of the body)
- iksan noun (part of the body)
Breton
2 entries- bandenn noun (part of the body)
- dargreiz noun (part of the body)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- pinggang noun (part of the body)
Bulgarian
2 entries- корсаж noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- та́лия noun (part of the body)
Burmese
1 entries- ခါး noun (part of the body)
Catalan
1 entries- cintura noun (part of the body)
Cebuano
1 entries- hawak noun (part of the body)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- کەمەر noun (part of the body)
Chichewa
1 entries- chiuno noun (part of the body)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 腰 noun (part of the body)
- 腰部 noun (part of the body)
Coptic
1 entries- ϯⲡⲓ noun (part of the body)
Czech
1 entries- pas noun (part of the body)
Danish
3 entries- hvepsetalje noun (narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects)
- talje noun (part of the body)
- talje noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
Dutch
1 entries- middel noun (part of the body)
Esperanto
1 entries- talio noun (part of the body)
Estonian
2 entries- kesktekk noun (middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft)
- vöökoht noun (part of the body)
Finnish
4 entries- keskiosa noun (middle part of anything)
- keskirunko noun (middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft)
- vyötärö noun (part of the body)
- vyötärö noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
French
4 entries- ceinture noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- taille noun (part of the body)
- taille noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- taille noun (narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects)
Galician
3 entries- cintura noun (part of the body)
- cós noun (part of the body)
- van noun (part of the body)
Georgian
1 entries- წელი noun (part of the body)
German
4 entries- Hüfttuch noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- Mitte noun (middle part of anything)
- Mittelteil noun (middle part of anything)
- Rumpf noun (middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft)
Greek
1 entries- μέση noun (part of the body)
Gujarati
1 entries- કમર noun (part of the body)
Hawaiian
2 entries- pākana noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- pūhaka noun (part of the body)
Hebrew
1 entries- מֹתֶן noun (part of the body)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- hawak noun (part of the body)
Hindi
2 entries- कटि noun (part of the body)
- कमर noun (part of the body)
Hungarian
2 entries- derék noun (part of the body)
- törzs noun (middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft)
Icelandic
2 entries- mitti noun (part of the body)
- mitti noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
Ido
1 entries- tayo noun (part of the body)
Indonesian
1 entries- pinggang noun (part of the body)
Ingrian
2 entries- vöönkohta noun (part of the body)
- vöönkohta noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
Iquito
1 entries- acajinacúraji noun (part of the body)
Italian
3 entries- cintola noun (part of the body)
- cintura noun (part of the body)
- vita noun (part of the body)
Japanese
3 entries- 胴のくびれ noun (part of the body)
- 胴回り noun (part of the body)
- 腰部 noun (part of the body)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- sintura noun (part of the body)
Kannada
1 entries- ಸೊಂಟ noun (part of the body)
Kapampangan
1 entries- auakan noun (part of the body)
Kazakh
1 entries- бел noun (part of the body)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- ùm noun (part of the body)
Khmer
1 entries- ចង្កេះ noun (part of the body)
Kinaray-a
1 entries- hawak noun (part of the body)
Korean
1 entries- 허리 noun (part of the body)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- бел noun (part of the body)
Ladino
2 entries- bel noun (part of the body)
- ביל noun (part of the body)
Lao
1 entries- ແອວ noun (part of the body)
Latin
2 entries- media pars corporis noun (part of the body)
- medium corpus noun (part of the body)
Latvian
2 entries- jostasvieta noun (part of the body)
- viduklis noun (part of the body)
Lithuanian
1 entries- juosmuo noun (part of the body)
Lower Tanana
1 entries- tl'eda noun (part of the body)
Macedonian
1 entries- појас noun (part of the body)
Malay
1 entries- pinggang noun (part of the body)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഇടുപ്പ് noun (part of the body)
Maltese
1 entries- qadd noun (part of the body)
Manchu
2 entries- ᡩᠠᡵᠠ noun (part of the body)
- ᡩᠠᡵᠠᠮᠠ noun (part of the body)
Mansaka
1 entries- awak noun (part of the body)
Middle English
1 entries- wast noun (part of the body)
Mingrelian
1 entries- ოჭიში noun (part of the body)
Miyako
1 entries- ヨーラ noun (part of the body)
Mongolian
1 entries- бэлхүүс noun (part of the body)
Navajo
1 entries- anííʼ noun (part of the body)
Nepali
2 entries- कटि noun (part of the body)
- कम्मर noun (part of the body)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- navteng noun (part of the body)
- newq noun (part of the body)
Norwegian
1 entries- midje noun (part of the body)
Old Turkic
1 entries- 𐰋𐰃𐰠 noun (part of the body)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- بل noun (part of the body)
- خصر noun (part of the body)
Persian
1 entries- کمر noun (part of the body)
Plautdietsch
3 entries- Kjnäp noun (part of the body)
- Taulj noun (part of the body)
- Weest noun (part of the body)
Polish
3 entries- pas noun (part of the body)
- pas noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- talia noun (part of the body)
Portuguese
1 entries- cintura noun (part of the body)
Romani
1 entries- mashkar noun (part of the body)
Romanian
2 entries- mijloc noun (part of the body)
- talie noun (part of the body)
Russian
4 entries- лиф noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- по́яс noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- та́лия noun (part of the body)
- шкафу́т noun (middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- meadhan noun (part of the body)
- meadhan noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pȍjās noun (part of the body)
- по̏ја̄с noun (part of the body)
Sicilian
4 entries- cigna noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- cintu noun (part of the body)
- cintu noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- curriva noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
Slovak
1 entries- pás noun (part of the body)
Slovene
1 entries- pas noun (part of the body)
Spanish
4 entries- cinto noun (part of the body)
- cintura noun (part of the body)
- cintura noun (part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
- talle noun (part of the body)
Sundanese
1 entries- angkeng noun (part of the body)
Svan
2 entries- ლა̄რტყა noun (part of the body)
- ჯაჭა̈რ noun (part of the body)
Swahili
1 entries- kiuno noun (part of the body)
Swedish
1 entries- midja noun (part of the body)
Tagalog
2 entries- baywang noun (part of the body)
- bewang noun (part of the body)
Tajik
2 entries- камар noun (part of the body)
- миён noun (part of the body)
Tamil
1 entries- இடுப்பு noun (part of the body)
Telugu
1 entries- నడుము noun (part of the body)
Thai
4 entries- กะเอว noun (part of the body)
- บั้นเอว noun (part of the body)
- สะเอว noun (part of the body)
- เอว noun (part of the body)
Tooro
1 entries- embaju class 10 noun (part of the body)
Turkish
1 entries- bel noun (part of the body)
Turkmen
1 entries- bil noun (part of the body)
Tuvan
3 entries- бел кежи noun (part of the body)
- бел кежик noun (part of the body)
- бел кеш noun (part of the body)
Ukrainian
1 entries- та́лія noun (part of the body)
Urdu
1 entries- کمر noun (part of the body)
Uyghur
1 entries- بەل noun (part of the body)
Uzbek
1 entries- bel noun (part of the body)
Vietnamese
2 entries- eo noun (part of the body)
- eo lưng noun (part of the body)
Welsh
1 entries- gwasg noun (part of the body)
Yakut
1 entries- биил noun (part of the body)
Yami
1 entries- kawakan noun (part of the body)
Yiddish
1 entries- טאַליע noun (part of the body)
Zazaki
1 entries- mér noun (part of the body)
Zhuang
1 entries- hwet noun (part of the body)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The boy was naked to the waist.
Source: tatoeba (46335)
The little boy has grown, he comes up to my waist now!
Source: tatoeba (47458)
This is a little bit too loose around my waist.
Source: tatoeba (55951)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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