English [ edit ] Wikipedia
Etymology [ edit ] From the Middle English snegge Old English snægel Proto-Germanic *snigilaz
Pronunciation [ edit ] snail (plural snails
Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda shell .
1963 , Margery Allingham , chapter 7, The China Governess [1]
‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
( informal , by extension) A slow person; a sluggard .( engineering ) A spiral cam , or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.( military , historical ) A tortoise or testudo ; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
Vegetius (in translation)
They had also all manner of gynes [engines] [ …] that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails , that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected] [ …]
The pod of the snail clover .
Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell
Abkhaz: акамыршша āḳāmərššā )
Albanian: kërmill m
Arabic: حلزونة f ḥalazūna )
Aragonese: caragol m
Armenian: խխունջ xxunǰ )
Asturian: cascoxu m caracol m
Avar: цӏадал хӏама c̣adal ḥama )
Aymara: ch'uru
Azeri: ilbiz
Basque: barraskilo
Belarusian: смоўж (be) m smoŭž ), слімак m slimák ), улітка f ulítka )
Bemba: ín-kolâ
Bengali: শামুক shamuk )
Berber:
Tashelhit: aɣwlal m aghwlal )
Borôro: uruwo
Breton: melc'hwed
Bulgarian: охлюв (bg) m óhljuv )
Burmese: ခရုပက်ကျိ (my) (hka.ru.pakkyi. )
Catalan: caragol (ca) m
Chakma: 𑄥𑄟𑄪𑄇𑄴 sāmuk ), 𑄌𑄖𑄴 cat )
Chamicuro: shyamo
Chechen: этмаьӏиг etmäʿig )
Cherokee: ᎡᎳᏆ elaqua )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蝸牛 蜗牛 (zh) (wōniú ( PRC ) ( Taiwan )
Min Dong: ngù-mō̤-ngù-giāng
Czech: hlemýžď (cs) m šnek (cs) m
Danish: snegl c this can also mean slug, so snail in Danish is more fully snegl med (da) skal (da) )
Dutch: slak (nl) f huisjesslak (nl) f
Erzya: гуйтодов gujtodov )
Esperanto: heliko (eo)
Estonian: tigu
Faroese: snigil m
Finnish: kotilo (fi) , etana (fi)
French: escargot (fr) m
Galician: caracol m cosco (gl) m
Georgian: ლოკოკინა lokokina )
German: Schnecke (de) f ( any animal of the class Gastropoda, also without shell ) , Gehäuseschnecke f
Greek: σαλιγκάρι (el) n salinkári )
Guaraní: jatyta
Haitian Creole: kalmason
Hebrew: שַׁבְּלוּל (he) m shablúl )
Hindi: घोंगा ghõṅgā )
Hungarian: csiga (hu)
Icelandic: snigill (is) m
Ido: heliko (io)
Indonesian: bekicot (id) , keong (id) , siput (id)
Interlingua: limace
Interlingue: helice
Irish: seilide (ga) m seilmide m seilche m
Isthmus Zapotec: bichubé
Italian: chiocciola (it) f lumaca (it) f
Japanese: 蝸牛 (ja) (かたつむり, katatsumuri ), カタツムリ katatsumuri )
Kazakh: ұлу ulw )
Khmer: ខ្យង (km) (kyɑɑng )
Korean: 달팽이 (ko) (dalpaeng-i )
Kyrgyz: үлүл ülül )
Lao: ຫອຍນ້ຳຈືດ (lo) (hǭi nam chư̄t )
Latin: cochlea (la) f
Latvian: m gliemezis m
Lithuanian: sraigė (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Schleek m
Macedonian: полжав m pólžav )
Malay: siput
Maltese: bebbuxu m
Manx: crammag
Maori: pūpū
Mazanderani: لیسک lizak )
Mon: တု taoˀ )
Mongolian: эмгэн хумс emgen hums )
Nahuatl: tecciztli (nah)
Navajo: chʼosh chʼééh digháhii
Norman: colînmachon m
Northern Sotho: kgohu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: snegl (no) m snile m
Nynorsk: snigel m
Occitan: cagaraula (oc) f
Old English: snægl m
Old Irish: selige m
Ossetian: сæтæлæг sætælæg )
Pennsylvania German: Schneck m
Persian: حلزون (fa) (halazun )
Polish: ślimak (pl) m
Portuguese: caramujo (pt) m caracol (pt) m
Quechua: ch'uru
Romagnol: lumég f
Romanian: melc (ro) m
Russian: улитка (ru) f ulítka )
Scottish Gaelic: seilcheag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пу̑ж m
Roman: pȗž m
Shona: hózhwe
Sicilian: babbaluciu (scn) m bucalaci (scn) m crastuni (scn) m ( edible snail ) stuppateddu (scn) m
Sinhalese: ගොළුබෙලි goḷubeli )
Slovak: slimák m
Slovene: polž (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: slinik m
Upper Sorbian: šlink m
Spanish: caracol (es) m
Swahili: konokono (sw) class 5 /6
Swazi: um-nenkhé
Swedish: snäcka (sv) c snigel (sv) c
Tagalog: kuhol
Tatar: лайлач laylaç )
Telugu: నత్త (te) (natta )
Thai: หอยทาก hŏi tâak )
Turkish: salyangoz (tr) , sümüklüböcek
Turkmen: ulitka
Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: равлик m rávlyk )
Urdu: گھونگا ghõṅgā )
Uzbek: chayon
Venetian: sciùs
Vietnamese: ốc (vi)
Volapük: ( ♂♀ hermaphroditic/nonhermaphroditic ) snel (vo) , ( ♂ nonhermaphroditic ) hisnel ( ♀ nonhermaphroditic ) jisnel ( ♂♀ offspring, hermaphroditic/nonhermaphroditic ) snelül ( ♂ offspring, nonhermaphroditic ) hisnelül ( ♀ offspring, nonhermaphroditic ) jisnelül
Welsh: malwoden malwen
West Frisian: slak
Yiddish: שׁנעק m shnek )
Yucatec Maya: urich uul
See also [ edit ] snail (third-person singular simple present snails present participle snailing simple past and past participle snailed
To move or travel very slowly
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