ski

See also: Ski, -ski, ски, and -ски

English

Etymology

From Norwegian ski, from Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (Modern English shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skiː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (UK, rare) IPA^(key): /ʃiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

ski (plural skis)

1. One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
2. (aviation) One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.

Derived terms

• cross-country ski
• downhill-ski
• heli-ski
• jet-ski
• jet ski
• mono-ski
• over one's skis
• sit-ski
• ski ballet
• ski boat
• ski boot
• ski bum
• ski bunny
• ski cap
• ski cross
• skier
• ski hat
• skiing
• ski jump
• ski-jump
• ski jumper
• ski jumping
• ski jump nose
• ski-jump nose
• ski lift
• ski lodge
• ski mask
• ski nose
• ski-nose
• ski orienteering
• ski patrol
• ski patroller
• ski pole
• ski-ramp nose
• ski ramp nose
• ski-resort
• ski resort
• ski run
• ski school
• ski skating
• ski skin
• ski slope
• ski-slope nose
• ski slope nose
• ski stick
• ski-through
• ski-thru
• ski tow
• ski track
• ski wax
• ski whiff
• surf ski
• turf ski
• water ski
• wave ski

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: スキー (sukī)
• → Korean: 스키 (seuki)
• → Okinawan: スキー
• → Thai: สกี (sà-gii)

Translations

one of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow

• Albanian: ski (sq) f
• Arabic: تَزَلُّج m (tazalluj)
• Armenian: դահուկ (hy) (dahuk)
• Azerbaijani: xizək, xizəksürmə
• Bashkir: саңғы (sañğı)
• Basque: eski (eu)
• Belarusian: лы́жа f (lýža)
• Bengali: স্কী (ski)
• Bulgarian: ска f (ska), ски (bg) f pl (ski)
• Burmese: နှင်းလျှောစီး (hnang:hlyau:ci:)
• Catalan: esquí (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 滑雪板 (waat⁶ syut³ baan²)

  Dungan: хуабан (huaban), хуабанзы (huabanzɨ)

  Mandarin: 雪板 (zh) (xuěbǎn), 滑雪板 (zh) (huáxuěbǎn)

• Chukchi: тигыт (tigyt), тэгыԓгын pl (tėgyḷgyn)
• Czech: lyže (cs) f
• Danish: ski (da) c
• Dolgan: каньыһар (kańıhar)
• Dutch: ski (nl) m
• Eastern Mari: ече (ječe)
• Erzya: сокс (soks)
• Esperanto: skio
• Estonian: suusk (et), suusad pl
• Faroese: skíð f
• Finnish: suksi (fi)
• French: ski (fr) m
• Galician: esquí m
• Georgian: თხილამური (ka) (txilamuri)
• German: Ski (de) m, Schi (de) m
• Greek: σκι (el) (ski), χιονοπέδιλο (el) n (chionopédilo)
• Hebrew: סקי (ski)
• Hindi: स्की (skī)
• Hungarian: sí (hu)
• Icelandic: skíði (is) n, andri m, öndur m
• Ido: skio (io)
• Irish: scí m
• Italian: sci (it) m
• Japanese: スキー (ja) (sukī)
• Kazakh: шаңғы (şañğy)
• Khmer: ស្គី (skii)
• Komi-Zyrian: лызь (lyź)
• Korean: 스키 (ko) (seuki)
• Kyrgyz: лыжа (lıja)
• Lao: ສະກີ (sa kī)
• Latin: narta f
• Latvian: slēpe f
• Lithuanian: slidė f
• Lule Sami: sabek
• Macedonian: скија f (skija)
• Maori: panunu
• Mari:

  Western Mari: ечӹ (ječÿ)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цана (mn) (cana)

  Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠨ᠎ᠠ (čan-a)

• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ski (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: ski f

• Okinawan: スキー (sukī)
• Persian: اسکی (fa) (eski), پاچیله (pâčile), پاچله (pâčele)
• Polish: narta (pl) f
• Portuguese: esqui (pt) m
• Romanian: schi (ro) n
• Russian: лы́жа (ru) f (lýža), лы́жи (ru) f pl (lýži)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ски̏ја f, смучка f

  Roman: skȉja (sh) f, smučka f

• Slovak: lyža f
• Slovene: smučka (sl) f, smuča f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sněgak m

• Spanish: esquí (es) m
• Swedish: skida (sv) c
• Tagalog: eski
• Tajik: лижа (liža)
• Tatar: чаңгы (tt) (çañgı)
• Thai: สกี (th) (sà-gii)
• Tibetan: གངས་ཤུར་གཏོང་ཡག (gangs shur gtong yag)
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kayak (tr)
• Turkmen: lyzha
• Ukrainian: ли́жа f (lýža)
• Urdu: سکی (skī)
• Uzbek: changʻi (uz)
• Vietnamese: xki, ván trượt tuyết
• Volapük: skiy
• Welsh: sgi
• Yakut: хайыһар (qayıhar)
• Yiddish: נאַרטע (narte)

one of a pair of long flat runners designed for being pulled by a boat over water

• Maori: reti
• Polish: narta wodna f

Verb

ski (third-person singular simple present skis or skies, present participle skiing, simple past and past participle skied)

1. (intransitive) To move on skis.
2. (transitive) To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).

   We spent the winter holidays skiing the Alps

Translations

move on skis

• Basque: eskiatu (eu)
• Bulgarian: карам ски (karam ski)
• Catalan: esquiar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑雪 (zh) (huáxuě)

• Crimean Tatar: taymaq
• Czech: lyžovat (cs)
• Dutch: skiën (nl)
• Esperanto: skii, skikuri
• Estonian: suusatama (et)
• Finnish: hiihtää (fi) (X-country), lasketella (fi) (downhill)
• French: skier (fr)
• Galician: esquiar (gl)
• German: Ski fahren, Schi fahren, Ski laufen, Schi laufen
• Greek: χιονοδρομώ (chionodromó)
• Hungarian: síel (hu)
• Icelandic: skíða
• Ido: skiagar (io), skikurar (io), skiglitar (io)
• Irish: sciáil
• Italian: sciare (it)
• Japanese: スキーをする (sukī o suru)
• Latin: moveor cum nartās, eo cum nartas
• Latvian: slēpot
• Lombard: scïar
• Maori: reti, whakareti, whakaretireti, rerehuka, retireti
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цанаар гулгах (canaar gulgax)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gå på ski

  Nynorsk: gå på ski

• Occitan: esquiar (oc)
• Old Norse: skríða
• Polish: zjeżdżać na nartach, jeździć na nartach impf
• Portuguese: esquiar (pt)
• Romanian: schia (ro)
• Russian: ката́ться на лы́жах impf (katátʹsja na lýžax)
• Slovene: smučati
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sněgakowaś

• Spanish: esquiar (es)
• Swedish: skida (sv) (especially going long distances - not necessarily downhill), åka skidor
• Tagalog: mag-eski
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kaymak (tr)
• Vietnamese: trượt tuyết (vi)
• Volapük: skiyön
• Welsh: sgio, sgïo (cy)

Anagrams

• KSI

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ski/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ski
• Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian ski.

Noun

ski m (plural ski's, diminutive skietje n)

1. ski

   Synonym: sneeuwschaats

Derived terms

• skiën
• waterski

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ski

1. inflection of skiën:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Derived terms

• skilift
• skivakantie

 

Anagrams

• sik

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian ski.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ski/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

ski m (plural skis)

1. (countable) ski
2. (uncountable) skiing (sport)

   faire du ski ― go skiing

Derived terms

• après-ski
• ballet à ski
• saut à ski
• ski acrobatique
• ski alpin
• ski attelé
• ski de fond
• ski évolutif
• ski nautique
• ski nordique
• ski para-alpin
• ski paranordique
• ski-bob
• skiabilité
• skiable
• skier
• skieur
• station de ski

 

Descendants

• → Asturian: esquí
• → Catalan: esquí
• → Galician: esquí
• → Persian: اسکی (eski)
• → Portuguese: esqui
• → Romanian: schi
• → Spanish: esquí
  • → Basque: eski
  • → Tagalog: eski

Further reading

• “ski”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ksi

Middle English

Noun

ski

1. Alternative form of sky

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Norwegian ski.

Noun

ski m

1. skiing

References

• “ski” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish ski, itself borrowed from Norwegian ski, skid, from Old Norse skíð (“snowshoe, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“billet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiː/

Noun

ski m or f (definite singular skien or skia, indefinite plural ski or skier, definite plural skiene or skia)

1. ski

   gå på ski (plural) ― to ski

Derived terms

• skibakke
• skigåer
• skigåing
• skihopper
• skihopping
• skiidrett
• skiløper
• skiløping
• skiløype
• skisenter
• skiskyting
• skispor
• skisted
• skitrekk
• skitur
• vannski

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: ski
• → Bulgarian: ски (ski)
• → Dutch: ski
• → English: ski
  • → Japanese: スキー (sukī)
  • → Korean: 스키 (seuki)
  • → Okinawan: スキー
  • → Thai: สกี (sà-gii)
• → French: ski
  • → Asturian: esquí
  • → Catalan: esquí
  • → Galician: esquí
  • → Persian: اسکی (eski)
  • → Portuguese: esqui
  • → Romanian: schi
  • → Spanish: esquí
    • → Basque: eski
    • → Tagalog: eski
• → German: Ski, Schi
  • → Hungarian: sí
• → Greek: σκι (ski)
• → Hebrew: סקי (ski)
• → Hindi: स्की (skī)
• → Italian: sci
• → Khmer: ស្គី (skii)
• → Ladino: schi
• → Lao: ສະກີ (sa kī)
• → Macedonian: скија (skija)
• → Mòcheno: ski
• → Portuguese: esqui
• → Serbo-Croatian: skija / скија
• → Urdu: سکی (skī)
• → Vietnamese: xki
• → Welsh: sgi
• →⇒ Cimbrian: skin

References

• “ski” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• skid (pre-1901 (Landsmål))
• skjítt (dialectal, Setesdal)

Etymology

From Old Norse skíð n, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“billet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiː/, /sçiː/

Noun

ski f (definite singular skia, indefinite plural ski or skier, definite plural skia or skiene)

1. ski

   gå på ski (plural) ― to ski

Derived terms

• skibakke
• skigåing
• skihopping
• skiidrett
• skilauping
• skiløping
• skiløype
• skisenter
• skiskyting
• skispor
• skitrekk
• skitur

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: ski
• → Bulgarian: ски (ski)
• → Danish: ski
• → Dutch: ski
• → English: ski
  • → Japanese: スキー (sukī)
  • → Korean: 스키 (seuki)
  • → Okinawan: スキー
  • → Thai: สกี (sà-gii)
• → French: ski
  • → Asturian: esquí
  • → Catalan: esquí
  • → Galician: esquí
  • → Persian: اسکی (eski)
  • → Portuguese: esqui
  • → Romanian: schi
  • → Spanish: esquí
    • → Basque: eski
    • → Tagalog: eski
• → German: Ski, Schi
  • → Hungarian: sí
• → Greek: σκι (ski)
• → Hebrew: סקי (ski)
• → Hindi: स्की (skī)
• → Italian: sci
• → Khmer: ស្គី (skii)
• → Ladino: schi
• → Lao: ສະກີ (sa kī)
• → Macedonian: скија (skija)
• → Mòcheno: ski
• → Portuguese: esqui
• → Serbo-Croatian: skija / скија
• → Urdu: سکی (skī)
• → Vietnamese: xki
• → Welsh: sgi
• →⇒ Cimbrian: skin

References

• “ski” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈki/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈki/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈski/

Noun

ski m (plural skis)

1. Alternative form of esqui