snail

English

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Garden snail.

Etymology

From the Middle English snegge, from the Old English snægel from the Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

snail (plural snails)

1. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
2. A slow person; a sluggard.
3. (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
4. (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
   • Vegetius (in translation)

     They had also all manner of gynes [engines] […] that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected] […]

5. The pod of the snail clover.

Derived terms

• snail's pace

Translations

any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: kërmill (sq)
• Arabic: حلزونة (ar) (ḥalazūna) f
• Aragonese: caragol (an) m
• Armenian: խխունջ (hy) (xxunǰ)
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Aymara: ch'uru (ay)
• Azeri: ilbiz (az)
• Basque: barraskilo (eu)
• Belarusian: смоўж (be) (smoŭž) m, слімак (be) (slimák) m, улітка (be) (ulítka) f
• Bemba: ín-kolâ
• Bengali: শামুক (bn) (shamuk)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: aɣwlal (aghwlal) m

• Borôro: uruwo
• Breton: melc'houed (br)
• Bulgarian: охлюв (bg) (óhljuv) m
• Burmese: ခရုပက်ကျိ (my) (hkăyu.petkyi.)
• Catalan: caragol (ca) m
• Chakma: 𑄥𑄟𑄪𑄇𑄴 (sāmuk)
• Chamicuro: shyamo
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Cherokee: ᎡᎳᏆ (chr) (elaqua)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蝸牛 (cmn), 蜗牛 (cmn) (wōniú (PRC) or guāniú (Taiwan))

  Min Dong: ngù-mō̤-ngù-giāng

• Czech: hlemýžď (cs) m, šnek (cs) m
• Danish: snegl (da) c (this can also mean slug, so snail in Danish is more fully snegl med (da) skal (da))
• Dutch: slak (nl) f, huisjesslak (nl) f
• Esperanto: heliko (eo)
• Estonian: tigu (et)
• Finnish: kotilo (fi); etana (fi)
• French: escargot (fr) m
• Galician: caracol (gl) m, cosco (gl) m
• Georgian: ლოკოკინა (ka) (lokokina)
• German: Schnecke (de) f (any animal of the class Gastropoda, also without shell), Gehäuseschnecke (de) f
• Greek: σαλιγκάρι (el) (saligkári) n
• Guaraní: jatyta (gn)
• Haitian Creole: kalmason
• Hebrew: שַׁבְּלוּל (he) (shablúl) m
• Hindi: घोंगा (hi) (ghõṅgā)
• Hungarian: csiga (hu)
• Icelandic: snigill (is) m
• Ido: heliko (io)
• Indonesian: bekicot (id), keong (id), siput (id)
• Interlingua: limace (ia)
• Interlingue: helice (ie)
• Irish: seilide (ga) m, seilmide (ga) m
• Isthmus Zapotec: bichubé
• Italian: chiocciola (it) f, lumaca (it) f
• Japanese: 蝸牛 (ja) (かたつむり, katatsumuri), カタツムリ (ja) (katatsumuri)
• Jèrriais: colînmachon m
• Kazakh: ұлу (kk) (ulw)
• Khmer: ខ្យង (km) (kyɑɑng)
• Korean: 달팽이 (ko) (dalpaeng-i)
• Kyrgyz: үлүл (ky) (ülül)
• Lao: ຫອຍນ້ຳຈືດ (lo) (hǭi nam chư̄t)
• Latin: cochlea (la) f
• Latvian: m, gliemezis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: sraigė (lt) f

• Luxembourgish: Schleek (lb) m
• Macedonian: полжав (mk) (pólžav) m
• Malay: siput (ms)
• Maltese: bebbuxu (mt) m
• Manx: crammag (gv)
• Maori: pūpū (mi)
• Mazanderani: لیسک
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nahuatl: tecciztli (nah)
• Navajo: chʼosh chʼééh digháhii
• Northern Sotho: kgohu
• Norwegian: snegle (no) f and m
• Occitan: cagaraula (oc) f
• Old English: snægl (ang) m
• Old Irish: seilche m, seilide m
• Ossetian: сæтæлæг (sætælæg)
• Pennsylvania German: Schneck m
• Persian: حلزون (fa) (halazun)
• Polish: ślimak (pl) m
• Portuguese: caramujo (pt) m, caracol (pt) m
• Quechua: ch'uru (qu)
• Romagnolo: lumég f
• Romanian: melc (ro) m
• Russian: улитка (ru) (ulítka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: seilcheag (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̑ж (sh) m

  Roman: pȗž (sh) m

• Shona: hózhwe (sn)
• Sicilian: babbaluciu (scn) m, bucalaci (scn) m , crastuni (scn) m (big snail), stuppateddu m (edible snail)
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: slimák (sk) m
• Slovene: polž (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: slinik m

  Upper Sorbian: šlink (hsb) m

• Spanish: caracol (es) m
• Swahili: konokono (sw) 5/6
• Swati: um-nenkhé (ss)
• Swedish: snäcka (sv) c, snigel (sv) c
• Tagalog: kuhol (tl)
• Tatar: лайлач (tt) (laylaç)
• Telugu: నత్త (te) (natta)
• Thai: หอยทาก (th) (hŏi tâak)
• Turkish: salyangoz (tr), sümüklüböcek (tr)
• Turkmen: ulitka (tk)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: равлик (uk) (rávlyk) m
• Urdu: گھونگا (ur) (ghõṅgā)
• Uzbek: chayon (uz)
• Venetian: sciùs
• Vietnamese: ốc (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀ hermaphroditic/nonhermaphroditic) snel (vo), (♂ nonhermaphroditic) hisnel (vo), (♀ nonhermaphroditic) jisnel (vo), (♂♀ offspring, hermaphroditic/nonhermaphroditic) snelül (vo), (♂ offspring, nonhermaphroditic) hisnelül (vo), (♀ offspring, nonhermaphroditic) jisnelül (vo)
• Welsh: malwoden (cy)
• West Frisian: slak (fy)
• Yiddish: שׁנעק (yi) (shnek) m
• Yucatec: urich, uul

sluggard

• Czech: šnek (cs) m
• Finnish: etana (fi)
• Georgian: ლოკოკინა (ka) (lokokina)

• Korean: 느림보 (ko)
• Spanish: tortuga (es) f

See also

• heliciculture
• slug

Anagrams

• anils
• nails
• slain