quiver

See also: Quiver

English

Pronunciation

A bow and quiver

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪvə/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: kwĭˈvər, IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪvɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: quiv‧er

Etymology 1

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 271:

     Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:

     Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.

2. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.

   He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.

3. (obsolete) A vulva.
4. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
5. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

Derived terms

• arrow in the quiver
• quiverful
• Quiverfull
• quiver tree

 

Translations

arrow container

• Afrikaans: koker
• Albanian: kukur
• Arabic: جَعْبَة f (jaʕba)
• Armenian: կապարճ (hy) (kaparč)
• Azerbaijani: oxdan, oxqabı, sadaq, oxluq
• Bashkir: һаҙаҡ (haźaq)
• Belarusian: калча́н (kalčán)
• Bulgarian: колча́н (bg) m (kolčán)
• Buryat: һаадаг (haadag)
• Catalan: carcaix (ca) m, buirac (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 箭圖／箭图 (jiàntú), 箭袋 (jiàndài), 一袋箭 (yī dài jiàn), 箭筒 (jiàntǒng), 箙 (zh) (fú) (literary)

• Czech: toulec (cs) m
• Danish: kogger n, pilekogger n
• Dutch: koker (nl) m, pijlkoker (nl) m
• Egyptian: (jspt)
• Esperanto: sagujo
• Estonian: nooletupp
• Faroese: ørvahúsi m, pílahúsi m
• Finnish: nuolikotelo (fi), viini (fi)
• French: carquois (fr) m
• Galician: carcán m, goldre m, coldre m, alxaba f, carcás m
• Georgian: კაპარჭი (ka) (ḳaṗarč̣i), საისრე (saisre)
• German: Köcher (de) m
• Greek: φαρέτρα (el) f (farétra)

  Ancient: φαρέτρα f (pharétra), βελοθήκη f (belothḗkē), γωρυτός m (gōrutós)

• Greenlandic: qarsulivik
• Hindi: तरकश (hi) m (tarkaś)
• Hungarian: tegez (hu), puzdra (hu)
• Icelandic: örvamælir m
• Indonesian: tarkas (id)
• Italian: faretra (it) f
• Japanese: 矢筒 (やづつ, yadzutsu), 箙 (ja) (えびら, ebira)
• Kalmyk: саадг (saadg)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: қорамсақ (qoramsaq)
• Khmer: បំពង់ព្រួញ (bɑmpŭəng pruəñ)
• Korean: 화살통 (hwasaltong), 전동(箭桐) (ko) (jeondong), 동개(筒箇) (donggae)
• Kyrgyz: саадак (saadak)
• Lao: ແລ່ງ (lǣng)
• Latin: gōrȳtos m, pharetra f
• Latvian: bultu maks m
• Lithuanian: strėlinė f
• Lushootseed: ʔičəd
• Macedonian: тул m (tul)
• Malayalam: ആവനാഴി (ml) (āvanāḻi)
• Maori: pūkoro pere c
• Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭭𐭲𐭢𐭫 (kntgl)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: саадаг (mn) (saadag)

• Navajo: kʼaaʼ yeiłtįįh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kogger n

• Old English: cocer m
• Old Norse: örmalr
• Ottoman Turkish: اوقلق (okluk)
• Pali: bāṇadhi m
• Pawnee: pacuuʼuʼ, raawacuuʼuʼ
• Persian: تیردان (fa) (tirdân), ترکش (fa) (tarkaš), تیرکش (fa) (tirkaš), شگا (fa) (šagâ)
• Polish: kołczan (pl) m
• Portuguese: aljava (pt) f, fáretra f, carcás m
• Romanian: tolbă (ro) f
• Russian: колча́н (ru) m (kolčán), (dated) тул (ru) m (tul)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: то̀болац m

  Roman: tòbolac (sh) m

• Slovak: tulec m
• Slovene: tul m
• Spanish: aljaba (es) f, carcaj (es) m, goldre m
• Swahili: podo (sw), ziaka, pongono
• Swedish: koger (sv) n
• Tagalog: salungan, talanga
• Tajik: тирдон (tirdon), тиркаш (tirkaš)
• Tamil: அம்பறாத் தூணி (ampaṟāt tūṇi)
• Tatar: ук савыты (uq sawıtı), садак (sadaq)
• Telugu: అంబులపొద (ambulapoda), తూణీరము (te) (tūṇīramu)
• Thai: แล่ง (lɛ̂ɛng)
• Tibetan: གཞུ་ཤུབས (gzhu shubs)
• Turkish: okluk (tr), sadak (tr)
• Turkmen: sagdak (tk)
• Tuvan: колчан (kolçan), согун саадаа (sogun saadaa)
• Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎘𐎔𐎚 (ủṯpt)
• Ukrainian: сагайда́к (uk) m (sahajdák), колча́н m (kolčán), ту́ла (uk) f (túla)
• Urdu: تَرْکَش m (tarkaś)
• Uzbek: o'qdon (uz), sadoq (uz), tirdon
• Vietnamese: ống tên, bao tên
• West Frisian: koker n
• ǃXóõ: ǃúla

a ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons

• Finnish: arsenaali
• Macedonian: арсена́л m (arsenál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: то̀болац m

  Roman: tòbolac (sh) m

collective noun for cobras

shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion

• Armenian: դող (hy) (doġ)
• Bulgarian: трепе́рене (bg) n (trepérene)
• Czech: záchvěv m, zachvění n, třes (cs) m, třesení n, chvění (cs) n
• Finnish: vapina
• French: tremblement (fr), frisson (fr), frémissement (fr) (of a person, of a voice)
• Georgian: თრთოლა (trtola), ჟრჟოლა (žržola), კანკალი (ḳanḳali), ცახცახი (caxcaxi)
• Greek: ρίγος (el) n (rígos), τρέμουλο (el) n (trémoulo)
• Macedonian: трепе́рење n (trepérenje), тре́пет m (trépet)
• Polish: drżenie (pl) n
• Russian: дрожь (ru) f (drožʹ), тре́пет (ru) m (trépet)
• Spanish: temblar (es), temblor (es) m
• Swedish: skakar (sv)
• Telugu: వణుకు (te) (vaṇuku), కంపించు (te) (kampiñcu)
• Tok Pisin: guria
• Ukrainian: тремті́ння (tremtínnja), тре́мор (trémor) (medical)
• Yiddish: ציטער (tsiter)

Etymology 2

From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).

Adjective

quiver (comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver)

1. (archaic) Nimble, active.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 281:

     [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.

Etymology 3

From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

Verb

quiver (third-person singular simple present quivers, present participle quivering, simple past and past participle quivered)

1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.

   Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiver

   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], line 12:

     The birds chaunt melodie on euerie buſh,
     The ſnakes^{[sic – meaning ſnake]} lies rolled in the chearefull ſunne,
     The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde,
     And make a checkerd ſhadow on the ground: [...]

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 2:

     And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 84, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 410:

     Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.

   • 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter VIII, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, page 300:

     And the moonlight on the Church seemed to shift and quiver—some pigeons perhaps had been disturbed up there.

Derived terms

• aquiver
• quivering
• quiversome

Translations

shake or move with slight and tremulous motion

• Bulgarian: треперя (bg) (treperja), вибрирам (bg) (vibriram)
• Catalan: tremolar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顫抖／颤抖 (zh) (chàndǒu)

• Czech: chvět se (cs) impf, třást se (cs) impf
• Danish: dirre, sitre, sitre, bævre
• Dutch: rillen (nl)
• Finnish: väristä (fi)
• French: frémir (fr)
• Galician: tremer, fremer, trenguelear, bracuñar (gl)
• Georgian: კანკალი (ḳanḳali)
• German: flattern (de), zittern (de), zucken (de)
• Greek: τρέμω (el) (trémo)

  Ancient: τρέμω (trémō)

• Greenlandic: angaluppoq, aalaqqajuppoq
• Hawaiian: naka
• Italian: fremere (it)
• Japanese: 揺らめく (ja) (ゆらめく, yurameku)
• Kazakh: діріл (dırıl)
• Macedonian: тре́пери (tréperi)
• Maori: kurepe, ore, oreore, kūreperepe, tīkorikori, whakahokirua (of the atmosphere), kereū, aroarowhaki, ori
• Mongolian: чичрэх (mn) (čičrex), дагжих (mn) (dagžix)
• Occitan: tremolar (oc)
• Persian: لرزیدن (fa) (larzidan)
• Polish: drżeć (pl)
• Portuguese: tremer (pt), estremecer (pt)
• Russian: дрожа́ть (ru) (drožátʹ), трепета́ть (ru) (trepetátʹ), трясти́сь (ru) (trjastísʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дрхтати, треперити

  Roman: drhtati (sh), treperiti (sh)

• Spanish: temblar (es)
• Swedish: darra (sv), skälva (sv)
• Telugu: అదురు (te) (aduru)
• Tok Pisin: guria
• Ukrainian: тремті́ти (uk) (tremtíty)
• Yiddish: ציטערן (tsitern)

Further reading

• quiver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of coker.

Alternative forms

• quyver, qwyver, qwywere, qwyvere, whyver

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwivər/

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

1. A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)
2. (rare, vulgar) A vulva.

Descendants

• English: quiver

References

• “quiver, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Etymology 2

From Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).

Alternative forms

• quyver, quyvere, cwiver

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwivər/

Adjective

quiver

1. fast, speedy, rapid
2. energetic, vigourous, vibrant

Descendants

• English: quiver

References

• “quiver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.