“stop” in Akha

Meaning in English

1. (noun) the act of stopping something 2. (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey 3. (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something 4. (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube 5. (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens 6. (noun) (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes 7. (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it 8. (noun) a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations 9. (noun) the event of something ending 10. (noun) a spot where something halts or pauses 11. (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption 12. (verb) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments 13. (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of 14. (verb) seize on its way 15. (verb) render unsuitable for passage 16. (verb) come to a halt, stop moving 17. (verb) cause to end 18. (verb) interrupt a trip 19. (verb) stop from happening or developing 20. (verb) put an end to a state or an activity 21. (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

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