The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ".

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

Descendants with origins from Anah are commonly referred to as " Alanie ", literally meaning " the one from Anah " in Arabic.

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

Ahimsa (; IAST:, Pāli: ) is a term meaning to do no harm ( literally: the avoidance of violence – himsa ).

The word accintus meaning a soldier ( literally, " girt " as for battle ) attests this differing usage.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

Brass instruments are also called labrosones, literally meaning " lip-vibrated instruments ".

Castrati were rarely referred to as such: in the 18th century, the euphemism musico ( pl musici ) was much more generally used, although it usually carried derogatory implications ; another synonym was evirato ( literally meaning " emasculated ").

Although the word " chalcogen " is literally taken from Greek words being " copper-former ", the meaning is more in line with " copper-ore former " or more generally, " ore-former ".

* In Japan the calendar is referred to as ( 西暦, seireki ), literally meaning as it is written, " west calendar ," and sounding like, " Western calendar ," which carries no religious connotation, aside from the fact that Christianity is a Western religion.

First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")

Jesus ' words are not to be taken literally – we should seek the supercelestial meaning in which the true route to salvation is revealed.

The double-barreled shotgun is seen as a weapon of prestige and authority in rural parts of North India where it is known as ' a dunali ', literally meaning " two pipes ".

A draugr, draug or ( Icelandic ) draugur ( original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not " draugrs "), or draugen ( Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning " the draug "), also known as aptrganga (" afturgöngur " in modern Icelandic ) ( literally " after-walker ", or " one who walks after death ") is an undead creature from Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology.

The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".

The word " existence " comes from the Latin word existere meaning " to appear ", " to arise ", " to become ", or " to be ", but literally, it means " to stand out " ( ex-being the Latin prefix for " out " added to the Latin verb stare, meaning " to stand ").

Most White Ecuadorans are of colonial era Spanish origin, also known as criollos ( literally meaning " localSpaniards ", as opposed to " Peninsulares ", which were Spaniards born in the Iberian Peninsula in Spain ).

The word dandelion ( literally, tooth of lion, referring to the shape of the leaves ) is another example, being a substitute for pissenlit, meaning " wet the bed ", a possible reference to the fact that dandelion was used as a diuretic.

The Song Huiyao ( literally " Collected important documents of the Song dynasty ") covers the period 960 – 1220.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

Japanese traditions use a set of elements called the ( go dai, literally " five great ").

The Emperor is called the Tennō ( 天皇 ) in Japanese, literally meaning " heavenly sovereign ".

The current emperor on the throne is typically referred to by the title Tennō Heika ( 天皇陛下, literally " His Majesty the heavenly sovereign ") or Kinjō Heika ( 今上陛下, literally " his current majesty ") or simply Tennō when speaking Japanese.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

literally means first street in Japanese.

" In Taiwan, the term 母國 ( literally " motherland ") is also used, though that may be due to Japanese or Western influence.

In Western usage, yaoi is distinguished from shōnen-ai ( literally, " boy-love "), in which two males merely express romantic feelings for each other without actually having sexual relations ; however in current Japanese usage this term most commonly refers to pornographic shotacon for men.

The French term Boxe pieds-poings ( literally " feet-fists-boxing ") is also used in the sense of " kickboxing " in the general meaning, including French boxing ( savate ) as well as American and Japanese kickboxing, Burmese and Thai boxing, any style of full contact karate, etc.

In Japanese Shinto, Kotoamatsukami ( 別天津神, literally means " distinguishing heavenly kami ") is the collective name for the first gods which came into existence at the time of the creation of the universe.

(" 八百万 " literally means eight million, but idiomatically it expresses " uncountably many " and " all around "— like many East Asian cultures, the Japanese often use the number 8, representing the cardinal and ordinal directions, to symbolize ubiquity.

Pasta is also widespread in the Southern Cone, as well most of the rest of Brazil, mostly pervasive in the areas with mild to strong Italian roots, such as Central Argentina, and the eight southernmost Brazilian states ( where noodles are called macarrão, and more general pasta is under the umbrella term massa, literally " dough ", together with some Japanese noodles, such as bifum rice vermicelli and yakisoba, which also entered general taste ).

Other primary aspects of Japanese science fiction TV are the superhero tokusatsu ( a term literally meaning special effects ) series, pioneered by programs such as Moonlight Mask and Planet Prince.

The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 ( shōjo ), literally " little female ".

As shōjo literally means " girl " in Japanese, the equivalent of the western usage will generally include the medium: girls ' manga ( 少女漫画 shōjo manga ), or anime for girls ( 少女向けアニメ shōjo-muke anime ).

In Japanese it was known as which literally means " tent office ", and originally meant " house of the general ", and later also suggested a private government.

The dangpa was used by a few Korean marines in Admiral Yi's naval operations as " pushing " infantry, literally meaning to push back Japanese marines ; the remainder of Korean marines carried swords to board Japanese ships, or bows and arrows to attack from a distance.

After Seoul fell easily, Japanese commanders held a war council in June in Seoul and determined targets of subjugation called Hachidokuniwari ( literally, dividing the country into eight routes ) by each corps ( the First Division of Konishi Yukinaga and others from Pyeongan Province, the Second Division of Kato Kiyomasa and others from Hangyong Province, the Third Division of Kuroda Nagamasa and others from Hwanghae Province, the Forth Division of Mōri Yoshinari and others from Gangwon Province ; the Fifth Division of Fukushima Masanori and others from Chungcheong Province ; the Sixth Division by Kobayakawa Takakage and others from Jeolla Province, the Seventh Division by Mōri Terumoto and others from Gyeongsang Province, and the Eighth Division of Ukita Hideie and others from Gyeonggi Province ).

The word ( Shinjitai: 円, Traditional Chinese / Kyūjitai: 圓 ) literally means " round " in Japanese, as yuán does in Chinese or won in Korean.

The Japanese term kanji () for the Chinese characters literally means " Han characters " and is the same written term in the Chinese language to refer to the character writing system hanzi ().

Other English names for Japanese knotweed include fleeceflower, Himalayan fleece vine, monkeyweed, monkey fungus, Huzhang (, literally " tiger stick "), Hancock's curse, elephant ears, pea shooters, donkey rhubarb ( although it is not a rhubarb ), sally rhubarb, Japanese bamboo, American bamboo, and Mexican bamboo ( though it is not a bamboo ).