Kowtow

Verb

 * 1)  To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
 * 2)  To bow very deeply.
 * 3)  To act in a very submissive manner.

Noun

 * 1) The act of kowtowing.

Thesaurus
apple-polish, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bending the knee, bob, bob a curtsy, bob down, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, bow to, bowing and scraping, brown-nose, butter up, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, cringe to, crouch, crouch before, curtsy, dance attendance on, dipping the colors, do homage, do obeisance, duck, fall down before, fawn, flatter, genuflect, genuflection, grovel, homage, inclination, kneel, kneel to, kneeling, knuckle to, lick the dust, lickspittle, make a leg, make a reverence, make obeisance, making a leg, nod, obeisance, obsequiousness, pander to, pay court to, play up to, presenting arms, prostration, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape, servility, shine up to, squat, standing at attention, stoop, submission, submissiveness, suck up to, supination, toadeat, toady, truckle, truckle to

Alternative forms

 * kotow

Etymology
From 叩頭: / 叩头: (kau3 tau4) kau3 ‘knock’ + tau4 ‘head’; Chinese  叩頭: / 叩头: (kòutóu)  kòu ‘knock’ + tóu ‘head’.

Verb

 * Arabic: سجد,,  ركع
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Min Nan: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: kowtow


 * French: se prosterner, s'agenouiller
 * German: knien
 * Japanese: 叩頭く
 * Russian: делать низкий поклон, пресмыкаться,  раболепствовать,  делать коутоу,  преклоняться
 * Vietnamese: (叩頭)
 * Vietnamese: (叩頭)


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: syvään


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, kumarrella


 * German: den machen, zu Kreuze kriechen

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Dutch:, kotau
 * Finnish: kowtow-
 * French:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 고두 (叩頭)
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: коутоу,
 * Swedish: koutou
 * Vietnamese: (叩頭)