English
Icicles descending from a tree branch
Etymology
From Middle English isykle , isikel , equivalent to ice + ickle . Cognate with Saterland Frisian Iesjuukel ( “ icicle ” ) , German Low German Iesjökel , dialectal Danish jisegel ( “ icicle ” ) , Norwegian isjukel ( “ icicle ” ) and Elfdalian aisikkel .
Pronunciation
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Noun
icicle (plural icicles )
A drooping , tapering shape of ice .
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act II, scene i] , page 167 :Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion, / The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne, / To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred. / Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne, / Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles , / And let vs make inciſion for your loue, / To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine.
2021 February 24, “Network News: NR takes pride in track teams as effects of Storm Darcy repelled...”, in RAIL , number 925 , page 13 :Several days of sub-zero temperatures caused icicles up to 1.5 metres long to form in tunnels across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria.
Derived terms
Translations
a spear-shape of ice
Albanian: ehull (sq) m , hell (sq) m
Arabic: دَلَاة جَلِيدِيَّة f ( dalā(t) jalīdiyya )
Armenian: սառցալուլա (hy) ( saṙcʻalula ) , սառցալեզվակ (hy) ( saṙcʻalezvak )
Azerbaijani: buz lüləsi , lülə
Bashkir: боҙбармаҡ ( boźbarmaq )
Basque: izotz-burduntzi
Belarusian: лядзя́ш m ( ljadzjáš ) , лядзя́к m ( ljadzják ) , сусо́лка f ( susólka ) , сапе́ль m ( sapjélʹ )
Breton: dant-Genver (br) m
Bulgarian: вису́лка (bg) f ( visúlka )
Catalan: caramell (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 冰柱 (zh) ( bīngzhù ) , 冰錐 / 冰锥 (zh) ( bīngzhuī ) , 冰锥 (zh) ( bīngzhuī ) , 冰錐子 / 冰锥子 (zh) ( bīngzhuīzi ) , 冰锥子 (zh) ( bīngzhuīzi ) , 冰凌 (zh) ( bīnglíng ) , 冰溜 (zh) ( bīngliù )
Czech: rampouch (cs) m , střechýl (cs) m
Danish: istap (da) c
Dutch: pegel (nl) m , ijspegel (nl) m , ijskegel (nl) m
Erzya: эйзюро ( ejźuro )
Esperanto: pendglacio (eo)
Estonian: jääpurikas
Faroese: glerpípa f
Finnish: jääpuikko (fi)
French: stalactite (fr) m
Galician: carambo (gl) m , carambelo (gl) m , candea (gl) f
Georgian: ლოლუა ( lolua )
German: Eiszapfen (de) m
Greek: παγοκρύσταλλος (el) m ( pagokrýstallos )
Hungarian: jégcsap (hu)
Icelandic: grýlukerti (is) n
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Irish: briogadán m , birín seaca m , reodóg f , bior seaca m , bior siocáin m
Italian: ghiacciolo (it) m
Japanese: 氷柱 ( つらら, tsurara )
Jeju: 동곳 ( donggot )
Kannada: ಹಿಮದ ಬಿಳಲು (kn) ( himada biḷalu ) , ಹಿಮಸರಳು (kn) ( himasaraḷu )
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Kazakh: сүмелек ( sümelek ) , сүңгі ( süñgı )
Korean: 고드름 (ko) ( godeureum )
Latin: stīria f
Latvian: lāsteka f
Lithuanian: varveklis m
Low German:
German Low German: Jökel m , Iesjökel m
Macedonian: мра́зулец m ( mrázulec ) , мра́нѕул m ( mrándzul )
Manx: bwoid rioee m
Mongolian: соёо мөс ( sojoo mös )
Navajo: tin nááʼáhígíí
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: istapp m
Nynorsk: istapp m
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Oriya: please add this translation if you can
Persian: دنگاله (fa) ( dangâle )
Polish: sopel (pl) m
Portuguese: sincelo (pt) m
Romanian: țurțur (ro) m
Russian: сосу́лька (ru) f ( sosúlʹka )
Scottish Gaelic: caisean-reòta m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: леденица f , поледица f
Roman: ledenica (sh) f , poledica (sh) f
Slovak: cencúľ (sk) m
Slovene: ledena sveča (sl) f
Spanish: carámbano (es) m
Swedish: istapp (sv) c
Tagalog: kalamoko
Tibetan: ཁྱགས་དཔྱངས ( khyags dpyangs )
Turkish: buz saçağı
Ukrainian: буру́лька (uk) f ( burúlʹka )
Vietnamese: cột băng , trụ băng
Volapük: gladül
Walloon: tchandele (wa) f
Welsh: pibonwyen (cy) f , pib iâ f ( dialectal )
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