sleigh

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: slā, IPA: /sleɪ/, X-SAMPA: /sleI/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: slay

Etymology

From Dutch slee.

Adjective

sleigh (comparative sleigher, superlative sleighest)

1. (obsolete) Sly

Translations

Translations

• German: schlau (de)

• Turkish: kurnaz (tr)

Noun

sleigh (plural sleighs)

Wikipedia

a horse-drawn sleigh

1. A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller)

   Santa travels in a sleigh.

Translations

vehicle on runners

• Asturian: trinéu (ast) m
• Catalan: trineu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: sáně (cs) f
• Danish: slæde (da) c
• Dutch: slee (nl)
• Esperanto: sledo (eo), glitveturilo (eo)
• Finnish: reki (fi)
• French: traîneau (fr) m
• Galician: zorra (gl) f
• German: Schlitten (de) m
• Greek: έλκηθρο (el) (élkethro) 
• Hebrew: מזחלת (he)
• Hungarian: szán (hu)
• Italian: slitta (it) f
• Jèrriais: traîné m

• Korean: 썰매 (ko) (sseol.mae)
• Latvian: kamanas (lv) f pl
• Macedonian: санка (mk) (sánka) f
• Mongolian: чарга (mn) (čarga) 
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slede (nb) m

  Nynorsk: slede (nn) m

• Polish: sanie pl f
• Portuguese: trenó (pt) m
• Russian: сани (ru) (sáni) pl , нарты (ru) (nárty) pl 
• Slovak: sane (sk) n
• Slovene: sani (sl) f
• Spanish: trineo (es) m
• Swedish: släde (sv)
• Turkish: kızak (tr)
• Volapük: nifavab (vo)

See also

• sled
• sledge
• toboggan

Verb

sleigh (third-person singular simple present sleighs, present participle sleighing, simple past and past participle sleighed)

1. To ride or drive a sleigh.

Derived terms

• sleigher

Anagrams

• le sigh

External links

• Sleigh in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.