Kneel

Verb

 * 1)  To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.

Derived terms

 * kneeler

Related terms

 * genuflect
 * kneel down

Adverbs for Kneel
heavily; laboriously; devoutly; submissively; reverently; blindly; prayerfully; imploringly; meekly; religiously; adoringly.

Thesaurus
bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bob, bob a curtsy, bob down, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, curtsy, duck, fall down before, fawn, flatter, genuflect, grovel, kowtow, lick the dust, lickspittle, make a leg, make a reverence, make obeisance, nod, salaam, scrape, stoop, toadeat, toady, truckle

Etymology
From cneowlian:, from cneow:; compare Goth. knussjan, Gk. gnyx "with bent knee." Past tense knelt: is a modern formation (19c.) on analogy of feel:/felt:, etc.

Translations

 * Arabic: ركع
 * Basque: belaunikatu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 下跪 (xiàguì)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: kleknout si, pokleknout, klečet
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: genui
 * Finnish:
 * French: s'agenouiller
 * German: knien
 * Greek: γονατίσει
 * Hebrew: כרע (kara`)


 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 跪く (ひざまずく, hizamazuku)
 * Korean: 꿇다 (kkulhda)
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: преклоняться, стоять на коленях
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: