sleigh

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: slā, IPA: /sleɪ/, 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)

1. (US) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice.

Translations

vehicle on runners

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can 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.

Korean: 썰매 (ko) (sseol.mae) Macedonian: санка (mk) (sánka) f. Mongolian: чарга (mn) (čarga) 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.