Definition
Having the quality of being flexible or capable of bending at the knee; relating to knee-flexing movement.
Etymology
From genu (knee) + flexuosus (Latin: full of bends, winding), creating an adjective describing something with the characteristic of flexible knee movement. The -uous suffix indicates fullness of that quality.
Kelly Says
Genuflexuous is so rare you might never encounter it, but it's a beautiful linguistic creation—it took the flexible, winding quality of Latin flexuosus and married it to knee-bending, creating a word for supple, bendy knees!
Translations
AMአማርኛ
እግር እንደ አንድ
egir en-de and
BNবাংলা
নমস্কার
no-mos-kar
CACatalà
genuflex
zhen-oo-fleks
CSČeština
klánějící se
klan-e-j-ee-che se
DADansk
knelende
knee-len-deh
DEDeutsch
kniend
knee-en-d
ELΕλληνικά
σκυθρωπός
skuth-ro-pos
ESEspañol
genuflexuoso
hen-oo-flek-soo-oh-so
FISuomi
polvivarsi
pol-vi-var-si
FRFrançais
genuflé
zhuh-nü-flay
GUGU
ગુણાતીત
goon-aa-tee-t
HEעברית
כופף ברכיים
kof-ef ber-kha-yim
IDBahasa Indonesia
menunduk
men-oon-duk
ITItaliano
genuflesso
zhen-oo-fles-soh
JA日本語
ひざまずく
hi-za-ma-zu-ku
KKKK
qoşqarma
qo-sh-kar-ma
KO한국어
무릎을 꿇다
mu-reup-eul-geut-da
MSBahasa Melayu
menunduk
men-oon-duk
NLNederlands
knieend
knee-end
NONorsk
knelende
knee-len-deh
PLPolski
klęczący
klen-cha-tsee
PTPortuguês
genuflexuoso
zhen-oo-flek-soo-oh-so
RORomână
genuflex
zhen-oo-fleks
RUРусский
приклонившийся
pri-klo-ni-sya-vsh-ee-y
SVSvenska
böende
bo-en-deh
SWKiswahili
kukua
koo-koo-ah
TAதமிழ்
உருண்டை
u-run-dai
TEతెలుగు
నమస్కారం
na-mas-ka-ra-m
TLTL
pumanhik
poo-man-hik
TRTürkçe
diz çökmek
diz chok-mek
UKУкраїнська
колінопреклонений
ko-li-no-pre-klo-ne-nyy
VITiếng Việt
cúi đầu
kwee dow