From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From sand + bank. Compare Dutch zandbank (“sandbank, shoal”), German Sandbank (“sandbank, sandbar, shoal”), Swedish sandbank (“sandbank, bar”).
sandbank (plural sandbanks)
- A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
- Synonyms: sandbar, sandridge
- Hypernyms: bar, shoal
ridge of sand
— see also shoal
- Albanian: ranishtë (sq) f
- Breton: traezhenn (br) f
- Bulgarian: пясъчна плитчина f (pjasǎčna plitčina)
- Catalan: banc de sorra m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 沙洲 (zh) (shāzhōu)
- Czech: písčina f
- Danish: sandbanke (da) c
- Dutch: zandbank (nl)
- French: banc de sable (fr)
- Galician: barra (gl) f, banco de area m, restinga (gl) f, taro m
- German: Sandbank (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: θίς m (thís)
- Ido: sablostrato (io)
- Igbo: ubòm
- Irish: oitir f
- Japanese: 砂州 (ja) (さす, sasu)
- Korean: 사주(砂洲) (ko) (saju)
- Latin: syrtis f
- Maori: tāhuna, ranga, tāhuna onepū
- Norman: banc d'sablion m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sandbanke m
- Nynorsk: sandbanke m
- Old English: sandhryċġ m
- Ottoman Turkish: قومسال (kumsal)
- Polish: ławica piaskowa f, mielizna (pl) f
- Portuguese: banco de areia (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਬਰੇਤਾ m (baretā)
- Russian: ба́нка (ru) f (bánka), о́тмель (ru) f (ótmelʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: oitir f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: prud (sh), prudište
- Spanish: banco de arena m, banco arenoso / arenáceo / arenisco m
- Swedish: sandbank (sv) c
- Welsh: traethell f, banc tywod m
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sand + bank
sandbank c
- a sandbank, a shoal
- a bar (at the mouth of a river)
