scythe

English

Wikipedia

scythe (1) (larger) and sickle (smaller)

Alternative forms

• sithe (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English sythe or sithe, from Old English sīðe (“sickle”). The silent c appeared in the early 15th century because it was wrongly thought that the word was linked to Latin scissor ("carver, cutter") and scindere ("to cut").

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsaɪð/, (some accents) IPA: /ˈsaɪθ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪð, -aɪθ

Noun

scythe (plural scythes)

1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with the concave edge sharped, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
2. A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

Translations

farm tool

• Albanian: kosë (sq) f
• Armenian: գերանդի (hy) (gerandi) 
• Belarusian: каса (be) (kasá) f 
• Breton: falc'h (br)
• Bulgarian: коса (bg) (kosá) f 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐮刀 (cmn), 镰刀 (cmn) (liándāo), 大鐮刀 (cmn), 大镰刀 (cmn) (dà liándāo)

• Czech: kosa (cs) f
• Danish: le (da) c
• Dutch: zeis (nl)
• Esperanto: falĉilo (eo)
• Estonian: vikat (et)
• Finnish: viikate (fi)
• French: faux (fr)
• German: Sense (de) f
• Greek: κόσα (el) (kósa) f 
• Hungarian: kasza (hu)
• Icelandic: orf og ljár
• Ido: falchilo (io)
• Italian: falce (it) f
• Japanese: 鎌 (ja) (かま, kama)
• Jèrriais: faux f
• Ladin: fauc f

• Latin: falx foenaria
• Latvian: izkapts (lv) f
• Lombard: ranza f
• Low German: Sais (nds)
• Macedonian: коса (mk) (kósa) f
• Norwegian: ljå (no) m
• Polish: kosa (pl) f
• Portuguese: gadanha (pt)
• Romanian: coasă (ro) f
• Russian: коса (ru) (kosá) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коса f

  Roman: kosa f

• Slovak: kosa (sk) f
• Slovene: kosa (sl) f
• Spanish: guadaña (es) f
• Swahili: fyekeo (sw)
• Swedish: lie (sv) c
• Tagalog: Kalawit (tl)
• Turkish: kerenti (tr), tırpan (tr)
• Ukrainian: коса (uk) (kosá) f 
• Volapük: fod (vo)
• Welsh: pladur (cy)

blade in the wheel of a war chariot

Verb

scythe (third-person singular simple present scythes, present participle scything, simple past and past participle scythed)

1. To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

Translations

to cut with a scythe

• Belarusian: касіць (be) (kasícʹ) 
• Bulgarian: кося (bg) (kosjá) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刈 (cmn) (yì)

• Czech: kosit (cs)
• Dutch: maaien (nl)
• Estonian: niitma (et)
• Finnish: niittää (fi)
• French: faucher (fr)
• German: sensen (de), mähen (de)
• Hungarian: kaszál (hu)
• Icelandic: slá, slá með orfi og ljá
• Italian: falciare (it)

• Latvian: pļaut (lv)
• Macedonian: коси (mk) (kósi)
• Polish: kosić (pl)
• Portuguese: ceifar (pt), gadanhar (pt), segar (pt)
• Russian: косить (ru) (kosítʹ)  impf., скосить (ru) (skosítʹ)  pf.
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: косити (sh)

  Roman: kositi (sh)

• Slovak: kosiť (sk)
• Slovene: kositi (sl)
• Swedish: slå (sv), slå med lie (sv)
• Ukrainian: косити (uk) (kosýty)  impf.

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