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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English snāke, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-Germanic *snakô (compare dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), dialectal Low German Schnaak (“snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”)), from *snakanan 'to crawl' (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *snag-, *sneg- 'to crawl; a creeping thing' (compare Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “snake”)).
Pronunciation [edit]
snake (plural snakes)
- A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
- A treacherous person.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby[2]:
- Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- (slang) A trouser snake; the penis.
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Terms derived from snake (noun)
Translations [edit]
legless reptile
- Abkhaz: амаҭ (ab) (amaţ)
- Afrikaans: slang (af)
- Ainu: ウェンペサニ (wempesani)
- Albanian: gjarpër (sq) m
- Amis: 'oner
- Arabic: ثُعْبَان (ar) (ṯuʿbān) m, ثَعَابِينُ (ar) (ṯaʿābīn) pl
- Egyptian Arabic: تعبان (tiʿbān) m
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܚܘܝܐ (khewyā, khewyo) m, ܚܘܘܝܬܐ (khwāwīthā, khwowītho) f
- Hebrew: חויא (khewyā, khewyo) m, חוויתא (khwāwīthā, khwowītho) f
- Arawak: ori
- Armenian: օձ (hy) (òj)
- Aromanian: sharpe (rup)
- Asturian: culiebra (ast) f
- Atayal: mqu
- Azeri: ilan (az)
- Baluchi: مار (már)
- Bashkir: йылан (yılan)
- Basque: suge (eu)
- Belarusian: змяя (be) (zmjajá) f
- Bengali: সাপ (bn) (shap)
- Breton: naer (br) f, sarpant (br) m
- Bulgarian: змия (bg) (zmijá) f
- Bunun: ivut
- Burmese: မြွေ (my) (mwe)
- Catalan: serp (ca) f, serpent (ca) f
- Chamicuro: sokopleye
- Chechen: лаьхьа (läẋa)
- Cherokee: ᎢᎾᏛ (chr) (inadv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蛇 (cmn) (shé)
- Chuvash: ҫӗлен (śĕlen)
- Coptic: ϩⲟϥ (hof)
- Cornish: sarf (kw)
- Cree: ᑭᓀᐱᐠ (cr) (kinepik)
- Czech: had (cs) m
- Danish: slange (da) c
- Dongxiang: mohëi
- Dutch: slang (nl) f, serpent (nl) n
- Esperanto: serpento (eo)
- Estonian: madu (et)
- Evenki: kulïn
- Faroese: slanga (fo) f, ormur (fo) m
- Fijian: gata (fj)
- Finnish: käärme (fi)
- French: serpent (fr) m
- Friulian: sarpint
- Gagauz: yılan
- Galician: serpe (gl) f
- Georgian: გველი (ka) (gveli)
- German: Schlange (de) f, Wurm (de) m (poetic)
- Greek: φίδι (el) (fídi) n
- Ancient: ὄφις (óphis) m
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Haitian Creole: koulèv
- Hebrew: נחש (he) (nakhaš) m
- Hindi: साँप (hi) (sām̐p) m
- Hopi: taaho
- Hungarian: kígyó (hu)
- Icelandic: snákur (is) m, slanga (is) f
- Indonesian: ular (id)
- Acehnese: uleue
- Balinese: lelipi
- Buginese: ula
- Javanese: ula (jv), ulo (jv)
- Madurese: olar
- Minangkabau: ula
- Sundanese: oray (su)
- Interlingua: serpente (ia)
- Interlingue: colubre (ie), serpente (ie)
- Irish: nathair (ga) f
- Isthmus Zapotec: beendaʼ
- Italian: serpente (it) m, serpe (it) f, biscia (it) f
- Japanese: 蛇 (ja) (へび, hebi), ヘビ (ja) (hebi)
- Kamasau: ghati
- Kamba: nzoka
- Kannada: ಹಾವು (kn) (hāvu)
- Karachay-Balkar: жылан (cılan), джылан (cılan)
- Kavalan: sikkay
- Kazakh: жылан (kk) (jılan)
- Khakas: чылан (çılan)
- Khmer: ពស់ (km) (bpūah)
- Korean: 뱀 (ko) (baem)
- Kulon-Pazeh: ezet
- Kumyk: йылан (yılan)
- Kuna: naibe
- Kurdish: mar (ku), مار (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жылан (ky) (cılan)
- Lakota: zuzeca
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- Lao: ງູ (lo) (nguu)
- Latgalian: čyuška, tuorps
- Latin: anguis (la) m serpēns (la) m and f, vipera (la) f, colūbra (la) f
- Latvian: čūska (lv) f
- Lithuanian: gyvatė (lt) f
- Lower Sorbian: had m
- Luhya: endemu
- Macedonian: змија (mk) (zmíja) f
- Malay: ular (ms)
- Malayalam: പാന്പ് (ml), സര്പ്പം (ml), പന്നഗം (ml), ഉരഗം (ml)
- Manx: aarnieu (gv), ardnieu (gv)
- Maori: neke (mi), naakahi (mi)
- Marathi: साप (mr) (sāp)
- Meriam: tábo
- Mongolian: могой (mn) (mogoj)
- Nahuatl: coatl (nah)
- Navajo: tłʼiish, naʼashǫ́ʼii
- Neapolitan: sierpe f
- Nepali: साँप (ne) (sām̐pa), साप (ne) (saapa)
- Ngarrindjeri: krayi
- Northern Sami: gearpmaš
- Norwegian: slange (no) m, orm (no) m
- Occitan: sèrp (oc) f
- Ojibwe: ᑭᓀᐱᒃ (ginebig)
- Old Church Slavonic: змиꙗ (zmija) f
- Old English: snaca (ang) m, wyrm (ang) m
- Old Portuguese: coobra f
- Oriya: ସାପ (or) (sāpa)
- Ossetian: калм (kalm)
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: مار (fa) (mâr), مر (fa) (mor) (dialectal)
- Pipil: kuat, cúat
- Pitjantjatjara: liru, wami
- Polish: wąż (pl) m
- Portuguese: cobra (pt) f, serpente (pt) f, ofídio (pt)
- Powhatan: askok
- Punjabi: ਸੱਪ (pa) (sapp)
- Romagnol: bìssa
- Romani: sap
- Romanian: șarpe (ro) m
- Romansch: serp (rm) f, siarp (rm) f, zearp (rm) f, zerp (rm), serpent (rm) m, serpaint (rm) m
- Russian: змея (ru) (zmejá) f, змеи (ru) (zméi) pl
- Saaroa: vuhli'i
- Saisiyat: Siba:i'
- Sanskrit: सर्प (sa) (sarpa) m, नाग (sa) (nāga)
- Scottish Gaelic: nathair (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: змија (sh) f
- Roman: zmija (sh) f
- Shor: чылан (çılan)
- Sicilian: serpenti (scn) m
- Sinhalese: සර්පයා (si) (sarpayā)
- Slovak: had (sk) m
- Slovene: kača (sl) f
- Sotho: noha (st)
- Southern Altai: јылан (cılan)
- Spanish: serpiente (es) f, culebra (es) f, sierpe (es) (archaic), víbora (es) (colloquial, Mexico)
- Swahili: tnyoka (sw) 9/10 sg/pl, nyoka (sw)
- Swedish: orm (sv) c
- Tagalog: ahas (tl)
- Tai Dam: ʻngú
- Tajik: мор (tg) (mor)
- Tamil: பாம்பு (ta) (pAmbu)
- Taroko: quyu
- Tatar: елан (tt) (elan)
- Telugu: పాము (te) (pāmu)
- Thai: งู (th) (nguu)
- Thao: qlhuran
- Tsou: fkoi
- Tswana: noga (tn)
- Turkish: yılan (tr)
- Turkmen: ýylan (tk)
- Tuvan: чылан (çılan)
- Ukrainian: змія (uk) (zmijá) f
- Upper Sorbian: wuž (hsb) m
- Urdu: سانپ (ur) (sãp) m
- Uyghur: يىلان (ug) (yilan)
- Uzbek: ilon (uz)
- Vietnamese: xà (vi), rắn (vi)
- Volapük: (male or female) snek (vo), (male) hisnek (vo), (female) jisnek (vo), (offspring, young) snekül (vo)
- Warlpiri: warna
- Welsh: neidr (cy) f
- West Frisian: slange (fy)
- Wolof: jaan ji (wo)
- Yakut: моҕой (moğoy)
- Yami: voley
- Yiddish: שלאַנג (yi) (shlang) f
- Zulu: inyoka (zu) 9/10
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snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- The path snaked through the forest.
- 1996 September 24, Mark Addinall, “Football fever...”, aus.personals, Usenet:
- Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?
- The river snakes through the valley.
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- He snaked my DVD!
- 2001 April 5, Hyena, “Home made supercharger ?”, aus.cars, Usenet:
- Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier. […] Someone already has :) […] F*CK ME !! Snaked again !
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
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to move in a winding path
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