sleet

English

Etymology

According to Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, it is from Old Norse origin - slydda (whence Danish slud); akin to Middle High German sloz (German Schloße).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sliːt/, X-SAMPA: /sli:t/
• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

sleet (uncountable)

1. (chiefly UK) A mixture of rain and snow.
2. Rain which freezes before reaching the ground.

Synonyms

• ice pellets
• slush

Translations

rain which freezes before reaching the ground

• Bulgarian: суграшица (bg) (sugrašica)
• Catalan: aiguaneu f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冻雨, 霰

• Dutch: ijzel (nl)
• Finnish: jäätävä sade (fi), jäätävä tihku (fi)
• French: grésil (fr) m
• Georgian: თოვლჭყაპი (ka) (tovlchqaki)
• German: Eisregen (de) m
• Icelandic: ískorn (is) n, ísing (is) f
• Italian: nevischio (it) m
• Japanese: 霙 (みぞれ, mizore)

• Jèrriais: né fondue f
• Latvian: krusa (lv)
• Maori: waiwaha (mi)
• Persian: برف‌باران
• Polish: marznący deszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: granizo (pt) m
• Romanian: lapoviță (ro) f, fleșcăială (ro) f
• Russian: мокрый снег (ru) (mókryj sneg) m
• Scottish Gaelic: flin m
• Serbo-Croatian: susnežica (sh) f
• Slovene: sodra f
• Spanish: aguanieve f
• Welsh: eirlaw (cy) m

mixture of rain and snow

• Czech: plískanice (cs) f
• Danish: slud (da) n
• Dutch: smeltende sneeuw (nl)
• Finnish: räntä (fi), räntäsade (fi)
• Georgian: თოვლჭყაპი (ka) (tovlchqaki)
• German: Schneeregen (de) m
• Hungarian: havaseső (hu)
• Icelandic: slydda (is) f, kraparigning (is) f, bleytukafald (is) n

• Jèrriais: verglias m
• Luxembourgish: Schnéireen (lb) m
• Maori: waiwaha (mi)
• Norwegian: sludd (no) n slut (nn) n
• Polish: deszcz ze śniegiem
• Romanian: lapoviță (ro) f
• Spanish: aguanieve (es) f
• Swedish: slask (sv) n, snöblandat regn (sv) n, snöglopp (sv) n
• Welsh: eirlaw (cy) m

See also

• snow
• freezing rain
• graupel

Verb

sleet (third-person singular simple present sleets, present participle sleeting, simple past and past participle sleeted)

1. (impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.

   I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.

Translations

to be in a state in which sleet is falling

• Finnish: sataa räntää (fi)
• French: grésiller (fr)
• Icelandic: setja niður slyddu (is), vera slydda (is)

• Norwegian: sluddvær (no) n
• Romanian: lapovița (ro)
• Welsh: bwrw eirlaw (cy)

References

• AMS Glossary of Meteorology

Anagrams

• leets, steel, stele, teles

External links

• Sleet in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sleet/

Noun

sleet ? (uncountable)

1. wear

Synonyms

• slijtage

Verb

sleet

1. singular past indicative of slijten
2. second- and third-person singular present indicative of sleeën
3. plural imperative of sleeën

Anagrams

• leest, slete, steel, stele