蟠
Meanings
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- 1.to coil
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Wiktionary
- 1.to wind; to coil; to encircle
- 2.to extend everywhere
- 3.(obsolete)
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Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *boj (Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Burmese ဗွေ (bwe, “whorl; cowlick”), Jingpho [script needed] (boi, “to have a cowlick”); Tibetan བལ། (bal, “wool”) is related either to this or 綿 (OC -) ~ 棉 (OC *men, “cotton”).
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Derived terms
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Related words
蟠龙 coiled dragon蟠曲 variant of 盘曲[pán qū]蟠据 variant of 盘踞[pán jù]蟠桃 flat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach)蟠石 variant of 磐石[pán shí]蟠踞 variant of 盘踞[pán jù]虎踞龙蟠 lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain蟠根错节 variant of 盘根错节[pán gēn cuò jié]蟠尾丝虫 Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans蟠尾丝虫症 "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus