beach

English

Wikipedia

Stinson Beach, in California.

Alternative forms

• beech, beatch, baich, baiche, bache

Etymology

From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water”). Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -iːtʃ

• Homophone: beech

Noun

beach (plural beaches)

1. (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
2. That part of the shore of the sea or of a lake which is washed by the tide and waves; the strand.
3. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
   • 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:

     Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.

4. (figuratively) A carefree time, something easy and relaxing.

   Life's a beach!

Derived terms

• beachline

Synonyms

• (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): cove, sand, strand, surf

Antonyms

• depths

Translations

sandy shore

Afrikaans: strand (af) Ainu: エピッ (epis), シラㇻ (sirar) Albanian: plazh (sq) American Sign Language: please add this translation if you can Arabic: شاطئ (ar) (shaaTi') m. Aramaic: Syriac: ܣܦܪܐ (spārā’) m. Hebrew: ספרא (spārā’) m. Armenian: լողափ (hy) (loġap') Azeri: çimərlik (az) Balinese: please add this translation if you can Basque: hondartza, plaia Belarusian: пляж (be) (pljaž) m. Bengali: সমূদ্রতট (bn) (shômudrôtôṭ) Breton: traezhenn f., -où pl. Bulgarian: плаж (bg) (plaž) m. Burmese: ကမ်းခြေ (my) (kan:che) Catalan: platja f. Chamicuro: mas̈hkojpe Chinese: Mandarin: 海灘 (zh), 海滩 (zh) (hǎitān) Czech: pláž (cs) f. Danish: strand (da) c. Dutch: strand (nl) n. Esperanto: plaĝo (eo), strando (eo) Estonian: mererand Finnish: hiekkaranta (fi), ranta (fi) French: plage (fr) f. Galician: praia f. Georgian: ზღვის ნა­პი­რი (ka) (zğvis napiri), პლაჟი (ka) (plaži) German: Strand (de) m. Greek: αμμουδιά (el) (ammudiá) f., παραλία (el) (paralía) f., ακρογυαλιά (el) (akroyaliá) f. Gujarati: સમુદ્ર-તટ (gu) Hawaiian: kahakai, kahaone, papa kea Hebrew: חוף (he) (khof) m. Hindi: समुद्रतट (hi) (samudra-taṭ), सागरतट (hi) (sāgara-taṭ) Hungarian: part (hu), tengerpart (hu), strand (hu) Icelandic: strönd (is) f. Ido: plajo (io) Indonesian: pantai (id) Interlingua: plagia Irish: trá f., -nna pl. Italian: spiaggia (it) f. Japanese: 浜 (ja) (はま, hama), ビーチ (ja) (bīchi), 海岸 (ja) (かいがん, kaigan) Javanese: please add this translation if you can Kannada: ಕಡಲತೀರ (kn) (kaḍalatīra) Khmer: ឆ្នេរសមុទ្រ (km) (ch’nēi səmɔt) Korean: 바닷가 (ko) (badatga), 해변 (ko) (haebyeon) (海邊 (ko))

Lao: ຫາດຊາຍ (lo) (haat-saaj) Latin: litus n. (genitive: litoris), acta f. Latvian: pludmale (lv) Lithuanian: paplūdimys (lt) Luxembourgish: Plage (lb) f. Macedonian: плажа (mk) (pláža) f. Malay: pantai (ms) Malayalam: സമുദ്രതീരം, കടല്‍ക്കര, കടല്‍പ്പുറം Maltese: xatt il-baħar (mt) Maori: tātahi (mi) Marathi: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: далайн эрэг (dalayn êrêg) Nahuatl: xaltentli (nah) Navajo: tábąąh Nepali: तिर् (tir), बगर् (bagar), रेति (reti) Norwegian: strand (no) c. Occitan: plaja f. Old English: strand (ang) Oriya: please add this translation if you can Persian: ساحل (fa) (sâhel) Polish: plaża (pl) f. Portuguese: praia (pt) f. Punjabi: ਸਮੁਂਦਰ-ਤੱਟ Romanian: plajă (ro) f. Russian: пляж (ru) (pljaž) m. Samoan: faga (sm), matāfaga (sm) Sanskrit: सागरतीरं Scots: strand (sco) Scottish Gaelic: tràigh Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пла́жа (sh) f., жа̑л (sh) m., жало (sh) n. Roman: pláža (sh) f., žȃl (sh) m., žalo (sh) n. Slovak: pláž (sk) f. Slovene: plaža (sl) f. Spanish: playa (es) f. Swahili: pwani (nc 9/10) Swedish: sandstrand (sv) c., strand (sv) c. Tahitian: please add this translation if you can Tamil: கடற்கரை (ta) (kaṭaṟkarai) Telugu: బీచ్ (te) (bīc) Thai: หาด (th) (hàat), ชายหาด (th) (chaai hàat) Tongan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kumsal (tr), kıyı (tr), plaj (tr), sahil (tr) Ukrainian: пляж (uk) (pljaž) m., пляжa (uk) (pljaža) f., берег (uk) (béreh) m., надмор’я (uk) (nadmor”ja) n., узмор’я (uk) (uzmor”ja) n., обмілина (uk) (obmílyna) f., мілина (uk) (milyná) f. Urdu: ساحل سمندر (ur) Vietnamese: bãi biển (vi) Volapük: jol (vo), sabajol (vo) Welsh: traeth m., -au pl.

Verb

beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)

1. To run (something) aground on a beach.

Synonyms

• strand

Derived terms

• unbeached

Translations

run something aground on a beach

Bulgarian: засядам (bg) Dutch: stranden (nl) Finnish: rantautua (fi) German: stranden (de) Italian: spiaggiare (it) Japanese: (transitive) 浜に引き上げる (はまにひきあげる, hama ni hikiageru), (intransitive) 浜に乗り上げる (はまにのりあげる, hama ni noriageru) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: насукати (sh) Roman: nasukati (sh)

Spanish: varar (es) Swedish: stranda (sv) Tongan: mataatahi (to) Ukrainian: посадити на мілину (uk) (posadýty na milynú), направляти на берег (uk) (napravljáty na béreh), битягати на берег (uk) (vytjaháty na béreh)

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko- (compare Welsh beg-egyr (“hornet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bhei- (compare English bee).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bʲax/

Noun

beach f.

1. bee (insect)

Declension

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative beach beacha Vocative a bheach a bheacha Genitive beiche beach Dative beach beacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bheach na beacha Genitive na beiche na mbeach Dative leis an mbeach don bheach leis na beacha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
beach	bheach	mbeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms

• beachaire
• beachadóireacht
• gliú beach