( hauts bihurtu)

du/ad.

1. (bestetu) to turn into; ura ardo \bihurtu zuen he turned water into wine

2. (itzuli, atzera eman)

a. to give back, return; liburuak \bihurtu zizkien he returned the books to them

b. (eskubidea, e.a.) to restore

c. (ordainduz) to pay back

3. (orkatila) to sprain, twist

4. (testu bat hizkuntza batera) to translate (- ra: into) da/ad.

a. (besteratu) to turn into, change into

b. to become, to turn; hauts bihurtzen da gorputza the body turns to dust ; mutila gizona \bihurtu zen the boy became a man; odolak ura \bihurtu zitzaizkion his blood ran cold

2. (itzuli)

a. to return, go back, come back, be back; atzo joan ziren eta bihar \bihurtuko dira they went yesterday and they'll be back tomorrow; bide onetara bihurtzeko in order to return to the straight and narrow

b. to revert to, go back to; bizimondu basatira \bihurtu zen he reverted to his wild ways; bere zereginetara \bihurtu zen he went back to his activities

3. (bildu) to come down to, boil down to; hiru alditan bihurtzen dira urte horiek those years boil down to three periods; lur-mota asko dira biana guztiak bitara bihurtzen dira there are many kinds of soil but they all boil down to two (kinds)

4. (I) ( aurka egin, buru egin) to resist, oppose, face up to; etsaiei bihurtzeko in order to face up to his enemies

du/ad.

1. ( hauts bihurtu) to pulverize, grind

2. (irud.) ( suntsitu) to obliterate, destroy, raze; haien hiriak eta herriak apurtu eta \haustu zituzten they demolished and razed their towns and cities da/ad.

1. ( hauts bihurtu) to turn to dust

2. ( hautseztatu) to gather dust; mahai hori, estalki gabe, haustutzen ari da without a table cloth, that table is gathering dust

iz.

a. ( gizaldia, ehun urtekoa) century; duela \mende bat a century ago; XIX. \mendearen azkenean at the end of the 19th century; XVI- XVII \mendeetako testuetan in 16th and 17th century texts; \mendeak joan eta \mendeak etorri down through the centuries; \mende honen hastean at the turn of this century; hogei \mende lehenago twenty centuries before; bostgarren \mendeko lehen urteetan in the first years of the fifth century; joan den \mendean last century; \mendez \mende down through the centuries Oharra: XX. mendean in the 20th century horrela irakurri behar da: in the twentieth century

b. ( luzaroko aldia) century; luzaroko \mendeetan down through long centuries; zeri zor dio Indiak bere \mendez \mendeko nortasun hori? what can that centuries-old identity of India's be attributed to?; mendeen joanak errotu dituen ohiturak centuries-old traditions; \menderen \mende bizi iraungo duena that which will last down through the centuries; aspaldiko \mendeetan hauts bihurtu ziren usteak beliefs which withered away down through the centuries of long ago

2. ( bizialdia, garaia) time, lifetime; aitor itzazu zure \mendean egin dituzun falta guztiak confess all the faults that you've committed in your lifetime; \mende batez ez genuke eginen lan hori we wouldn't do that work in a lifetime

iz.

a. ( agindupean) command; ofizial horren \mendean under the command of that officer

b. ( zaintzapean) gurasoen \mendean bizi diren bitartean while they are living under their parents' tutelage

c. ( kontrolpean) nola berek ez zituzten egin arauak, askok diote ez dutela onartzen haien \mendean egotea since they did not make the rules, some feel that they should not be restricted by them

2. ( eskupean) etsaien \mendean erori ziren they fell into the clutches of the enemy; errusierak kultura hori \mendean dituelako because that culture is dominated by Russian

3. ( eraginpean) kezka larri baten \mendean bizi ginen we were living under terrible stress; etorkizunaren \mendean gaude we're at the mercy of the future; bekatuaren \mendetik ateratzeko in order to save him from the grasp of sin

iz.

1. ( errua) mistake, error

b. ( kulpa, errua, hobena) fault; zure \hutsa izan da it was our fault!

c. Kir. foul, error

d. (Inp.) erratum; \hutsak errata

2. ( mentsa, eza) lack, absence, dearth ; etxean badute \huts nabarmen bat: komunik ez there's one obvious thing they lack at home: a toilet ; baten \hutsean i. with one missing ii. with one to go

b. ( beharra) need; \hutsak bete to {fill || meet} needs

3. ( akatsa)

a. flaw, mistake; \huts bat egin gabe without making a mistake | flawlessly

b. Tek. failure, breakdown

c. ( p.) shortcoming, flaw

4. ( ezereztasuna)

a. void, emptiness ; halako \huts bat sentitzen nuen bihotzean I felt such a void in my heart

b. nothing; baina akats hori \hutsa da besteen aldean but that mistake is nothing compared to others; \hutsetik hasi i. to start from scratch ii. ( hizkuntza bat ikasten) to start from the very beginning; e-r \hutsetik sortu to create sth out of nothing

c. (esa.) helburuak hauts eta \huts bihurtu zitzaizkion his goals come to absolutely nothing; \huts edo bete willynilly | any which way ; zer dira hangotarrak? — \hutsa, ezer ez gure aldean what are people from over there? — zilch, nothing compared to us ; \hutsaren hurrengoa da he's a {nothing || cypher}; \hutsera etorri to come to nothing; \hutsean eduki to look down on | to despise

5. ( zero)

a. nothing, nought (GB), zero, zip Argot., zilch Argot.

b. ( zenbakia) o, zero; zenbakia hauxe da: lau \huts \huts bi the number is: four o o two

c. Kir. nil (GB), zero; lau eta \huts four to {nil (GB) || zero (USA) } io.

1. ( ezer ez duena)

a. empty; poltsa \huts batean in an empty bag

b. ( auzoa) empty, uninhabited

c. ( intxaur, gaztaina) empty, dud

d. (esa.) \huts edo bete anywhich way | trusting to luck

2. ( besterik ez)

a. mere, simple, common; gizona abere \hutsa da man is a mere animal; pentsatze \hutsak beldurrez jartzen nau the mere thought of it scares me

b. euskara \hutsez i. in plain Basque ii. only in Basque; euskara \hutsezko egunkari bat a Basque-only newspaper | a newspaper only in Basque

c. ( p.) euskaldun \hutsa da he's {pure || absolutely} Basque; mozkor \hutsa da he's {a total || absolute} drunk; ergel \hutsa da he's a total idiot

d. ( kafea, e.a.) plain

e. ( probokazioa) sheer; adierazpen horiek probokazio \hutsa direla iruditzen zait, eta ez dugu probokazio horretan erori nahi those statements are, in my opinion, sheer provocation and we do not wish to fall in the trap of provoking

3. ( garbia)

a. pure, unadulterated; ezti \hutsa pure honey

b. poesia \hutsa {sheer ||pure} poetry

c. (esa.) gau \hutsean in pitch dark