The term " soke ", unlike " sake ", sometimes applied to the district over which the right of jurisdiction extended ( compare Soke of Peterborough.

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

A bain-marie (; also known as a water bath in English,,, or ) is a French term for a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently and gradually to fixed temperatures, or to keep materials warm over a period of time.

Jihad (; ), an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims.

The Hebrew term Midrash (; plural midrashim, " story " from " to investigate " or " study ") also " Interpretation " or " Exposition " is a homiletic method of biblical exegesis.

Nirvāṇa (;, nibbāna ; ) is an ancient Sanskrit term used in Indian religions to describe the profound peace of mind that is acquired with moksha ( liberation ).

Quisling (; ) is a term used in reference to fascist and collaborationist political parties and military and paramilitary forces in occupied Allied countries which collaborated with Axis occupiers in World War II, as well as for their members and other collaborators.

The Firangi (; derived from the Arabic term for a Western European a " Frank ") was a sword type which used blades manufactured in Western Europe and imported by the Portuguese, or made locally in imitation of European blades.

The Israelite people generally used the term “ king ,” because their desire, 1 Samuel recounts, was to be like the other nations (; ).

Later, the term Tiele (; Turkic: Tele ) itself was used.

Bessarabia (;, Bessarabiya ) is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west.

(; plural: ) is an Arabic term meaning " deity ".

Taiwanization (; Pe ̍ h-oē-jī: Tâi-oân pún-thó ͘- hòa ūn-tōng ), also known as the Taiwanese localization movement, is a political term used in Taiwan to emphasize the importance of a separate Taiwanese culture rather than to regard Taiwan as solely an appendage of China.

A eunuch (; ) is a man who ( by the common definition of the term eunuch ) may have been castrated, typically early enough in his life for this change to have major hormonal consequences.

The Holy Land (; Eretz HaQodesh ; Arabic: ) is a term which in Judaism refers to the Kingdom of Israel as defined in the Tanakh.

A neologism (; ) is defined as a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language.

The Municipal Council (; ; ) is the representative assembly of the municipality and consists of members directly elected for a term of office of six years.

Ma Ying-jeou (; born 13 July 1950 ) is a Chinese politician and the 12th and 13th term President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), and the Chairman of the Kuomintang, also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party.

The term " district " is also used to refer to the type of administrative division of the Sakha Republic — ulus (; ).

While the term Peranakan is most commonly used among the ethnic Chinese for those of Chinese descent also known as Straits Chinese (; named after the Straits Settlements ), there are also other, comparatively small Peranakan communities, such as Indian Hindu Peranakans ( Chitty ), Indian Muslim Peranakans ( Jawi Pekan ) ( Jawi being the Javanised Arabic script, Pekan a colloquial contraction of Peranakan ) and Eurasian Peranakans ( Kristang ) ( Kristang = Christians ).

Baal teshuva or ba ' al teshuvah (; for a woman, בעלת תשובה, baalat teshuva ; plural, בעלי תשובה, baalei teshuva ), sometimes abbreviated to BT, is a term that often refers to a Jew who turns to embrace Orthodox Judaism.

Enallage (;, enallagḗ, " interchange ") is a term used to mean the substitution of one grammatical form for another ( possibly incorrect ) one.

The term passacaglia (; ; Italian: passacaglia, passacaglio, passagallo, passacagli, passacaglie ) derives from the Spanish pasar ( to walk ) and calle ( street ).

Messiah (; mashiah, moshiah, mashiach, or moshiach, " anointed ") is a term used in the Hebrew Bible to describe priests and kings, who were traditionally anointed with holy anointing oil as described in Exodus 30: 22-25.

Proponents of the term " East Turkestan " argue that the name Xinjiang (; Postal map spelling: Sinkiang ) is arrogant, because if the individual Chinese characters are to be taken literally and not as a proper name, then Xinjiang means " New Territory ".

In China, the term Western Regions (; Uyghur: Qurighar ) referred to the regions west of the Yumen Pass, and more specifically the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang that had come under the Han Dynasty's control since 60 BC.

David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

is an Icelandic ( and equivalently Old Norse ) term consisting of two parts.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".

A Goði or Gothi ( plural goðar ) is the historical Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain in Norse paganism.

Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

The " cow " derivation depends most immediately on the Old Irish legal term for " outsider :" amboue, from proto-Celtic * ambouios, " not a cattle owner.

The term is now applied generally to many other related plants such as Old World soybeans, peas, chickpeas ( garbanzos ), vetches, and lupins.

The Old French term crossed into English around 1300, referring to one belonging to the lowest stage of knighthood.

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

The word " community " is derived from the Old French communité which is derived from the Latin communitas ( cum, " with / together " + munus, " gift "), a broad term for fellowship or organized society.

Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

Cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning " large tube ", which came from Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα ( kanna ), " reed ", and then generalized to mean any hollow tube-like object ; cognate with Akkadian term qanu and Hebrew qāneh, meaning " tube " or " reed ".

Large crucifixes high across the central axis of a church are known by the Old English term rood.

Compare the ingredients listed ( spirits, sugar, water, and bitters ) with the ingredients of an Old Fashioned, which originated as a term used by late 19th century bar patrons to distinguish cocktails made the “ old-fashioned ” way from newer, more complex cocktails.

Deuterocanonical books is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages of the Christian Old Testament that are not part of the Hebrew Bible.

The term is used as a matter of convenience by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and other Churches to refer to books of their Old Testament which are not part of the Masoretic Text.

Deuterocanonical is a term coined in 1566 by the theologian Sixtus of Siena, who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism, to describe scriptural texts of the Old Testament considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but which are not present in the Hebrew Bible, and which had been omitted by some early canon lists, especially in the East.

Outside of the Roman Catholic Church, the term deuterocanonical is sometimes used, by way of analogy, to describe books that Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy included in the Old Testament that are not part of the Jewish Tanakh, nor the Protestant Old Testament.

The term deuterocanonical is sometimes used to describe the canonical antilegomena, those books of the New Testament which, like the deuterocanonicals of the Old Testament, were not universally accepted by the early Church, but which are now included in the 27 books of the New Testament recognized by almost all Christians.