sickle

English

WOTD – 28 November 2016

A scythe (larger) and a sickle (smaller)

Etymology

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-Germanic *sikilō (“ploughshare”), of uncertain origin. Possibly a borrowing from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”); or, alternatively derived as a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *seką (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *seg-, a variant of Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian systel, sisel, sizel (“sickle”), Dutch sikkel (“sickle”), German Sichel (“sickle”). Related also to West Frisian sichte (“sickle”), Dutch zicht (“sickle”), German Low German Sichte, Sicht (“sickle”), German Sech (“the blade of a sickle or scythe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkəl
• Hyphenation: sic‧kle

Noun

sickle (plural sickles)

1. (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
2. Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

Synonyms

• reap hook
• reaping hook

Coordinate terms

• scythe

Derived terms

• sickle cell
• hammer and sickle
• moonsickle

Translations

agricultural implement

• Adyghe: гъупчъ (ğʷupĉ)
• Aghul: маккал (makkal)
• Albanian: drapër (sq) m
• Arabic: مِنْجَل m (minjal)

  Egyptian Arabic: منجلة f (mangala)

  Moroccan Arabic: منجل m (manjal)

• Armenian: մանգաղ (hy) (mangaġ)
• Aromanian: seatsiri f, seatsirã f, cusor, dirpani
• Assamese: কাঁচি (kãsi)
• Asturian: foz f
• Azerbaijani: oraq (az)
• Bashkir: ураҡ (uraq)
• Basque: igitai
• Bats: ნამგალ (namgal), მანგალ (mangal)
• Belarusian: серп m (sjerp)
• Bengali: কাস্তে (kaste), কাচি (kaci)
• Bulgarian: сърп (bg) m (sǎrp)
• Burmese: တံစဉ် (my) (tamcany)
• Catalan: falç (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鐮刀／镰刀 (lim⁴ dou¹), 镰刀 (lim⁴ dou¹)

  Dungan: ляндо (li͡ando), ляндор (li͡andor)

  Mandarin: 鐮刀／镰刀 (zh) (liándāo), 镰刀 (zh) (liándāo)

  Min Nan: 鍥仔／锲仔, 锲仔 (keh-á / koeh-á / koeh-á), 鐮刀／镰刀, 镰刀 (liâm-to)

• Chuvash: ҫурла (śurla)
• Crimean Tatar: orak
• Czech: srp (cs) m
• Dalmatian: secla f
• Danish: segl (da) c
• Dutch: sikkel (nl) f, zichel f, zicht (nl) f
• Dzongkha: ཟོརཝ (zor.w)
• Erzya: тарваз (tarvaz)
• Esperanto: falĉileto, rikoltilo
• Estonian: sirp (et)
• Finnish: sirppi (fi)
• French: faucille (fr) f
• Galician: fouce f, fouciño m
• Georgian: ნამგალი (namgali)
• German: Sichel (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 f (gilþa)
• Greek: δρεπάνι (el) n (drepáni)

  Ancient: δρέπανον n (drépanon)

• Hebrew: מַגָּל (he) m (magal)
• Hindi: दरांती f (darāntī), हँसिया (hi) m (hãsiyā), हंसिया m (hansiyā), सिकल f (sikal)
• Hungarian: sarló (hu)
• Icelandic: sigð (is) f
• Indonesian: arit (id), sabit (id)
• Irish: corrán m
• Italian: falce (it) f, falcetto (it) m
• Japanese: 鎌 (ja) (かま, kama)
• Kazakh: орақ (kk) (oraq)
• Khmer: កណ្ដៀវ (km) (kɑndiəw)
• Komi-Permyak: чарла (ćarla)
• Korean: 낫 (ko) (nat)
• Kyrgyz: орок (ky) (orok)
• Lao: ກ່ຽວ (lo) (kiāu), ຄຽວ (khiāu)
• Latgalian: pļautivs m
• Latin: falx f
• Latvian: sirpis m
• Laz: მანგალი (mangali), ორაღი (oraği)
• Lezgi: мукал (mukal)
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• Lithuanian: pjautuvas m
• Lombard: seghezz m
• Luxembourgish: Séchel (lb) f
• Macedonian: срп m (srp)
• Malay: sabit
• Manx: corran m
• Maori: toronaihi
• Mazanderani: داز
• Mingrelian: მაგანა (magana)
• Mongolian: хадуур (mn) (xaduur)
• Navajo: tlʼoh bee higéshí, tlʼoh bee yilzhéhé
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Nogai: орак (orak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:sigd (no) m

• Occitan: volam (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: срьпъ m (srĭpŭ)

• Pashto: رمبي m (rambáy), کاترۍ f (kātrǝ́y), منګال m (mangãl)
• Persian: داس (fa) (dâs), منگال (mangâl) (dialectal)
• Polish: sierp (pl) m
• Portuguese: foice (pt) f
• Quechua: ichhuna
• Romanian: seceră (ro)
• Russian: серп (ru) m (serp)
• Sardinian: falche
• Scottish Gaelic: corran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срп m

  Roman: srp (sh) m

• Sinhalese: කැත්ත (si) (kætta)
• Slovak: kosák m
• Slovene: srp (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: serp m

  Upper Sorbian: serp m

• Spanish: hoz (es) f
• Svan: ნაშდა̈ქ (našdäk)
• Swahili: mundu
• Swedish: skära (sv) c
• Tagalog: karit, lingkaw, yatab
• Tajik: дос (dos)
• Tamil: ஓரளவு சுகவீனமாய் (ōraḷavu cukavīṉamāy)
• Tatar: урак (tt) (uraq)
• Telugu: కొడవలి (te) (koḍavali)
• Thai: เคียว (th) (kiao)
• Tibetan: ཟོ་ར (zo ra)
• Turkish: orak (tr)
• Turkmen: orak
• Udmurt: сюрло (śurlo)
• Ukrainian: серп m (serp)
• Urdu: ہنسیا m (hansiyā), سکل f (sikal)
• Uyghur: ئورغاق (orghaq)
• Uzbek: oʻroq (uz)
• Vietnamese: liềm (vi)
• Vilamovian: sychuł f
• Walloon: seye (wa) f, fåceye (wa) f
• Welsh: cryman m
• Yakut: сиэрпэ (sierpe)
• Yiddish: סערפּ m (serp)

Further reading

• Sickle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

A micrograph of red blood cells of a person with sickle-cell disease, which causes some cells to assume abnormal, sickle-like crescent shapes

1. (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
2. (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
3. (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

Derived terms

• (transitive: to deform): sickler

Translations

to cut with a sickle

• Belarusian: жаць impf (žacʹ)
• Bulgarian: жъна (bg) impf (žǎna)
• Finnish: leikata sirpillä
• French: fauciller (fr)
• Hebrew: קָצַר (he)
• Macedonian: жнее impf (žnee)
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• Polish: żąć (pl) impf
• Romanian: secera (ro)
• Russian: жать (ru) impf (žatʹ)
• Slovak: kosiť, pokosiť
• Ukrainian: жа́ти impf (žáty)

Adjective

sickle (comparative more sickle, superlative most sickle)

1. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.

   a sickle moon

Derived terms

• sickle cell anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia

Translations

shaped like the blade of a sickle

• Finnish: sirpinmuotoinen, sirppimäinen
• French: falciforme (fr)
• Italian: falciforme (it)
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• Macedonian: српови́ден m (srpovíden)
• Russian: серповидный (ru) (serpovidnyj)
• Spanish: falciforme (es)

crescent-shaped

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} sikkel (nl) f
• French: ^{(please verify)} serpe (fr)
• Kurdish:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} അരിവാള് (arivāḷ)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 鐮刀／镰刀 (liándāo), ^{(please verify)} 镰刀 (zh) (liándāo)

Anagrams

• Eslick, ickles