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Etymology [ edit ] From the Middle English snaile Old English snægel Proto-Germanic *snagilaz Old Norse snigill , from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz
Pronunciation [ edit ] snail (plural snails
Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda , having a coiled shell .
1963 , Margery Allingham , chapter 7, in 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 )
Adyghe: цӏыӏргъ c̣əʾrġ )
Albanian: kërmill (sq) m
Arabic: حَلَزُونَة f ḥalazūna )
Egyptian Arabic: قوقعة f ʾūʾaʿa )
Iraqi Arabic: زلنطح f zalanṭaḥ )
Moroccan Arabic: ببوش f bəbboušu )
Aragonese: caragol m
Armenian: խխունջ (hy) (xxunǰ )
Asturian: cascoxu m caracol m
Avar: цӏадал хӏама c̣adal ḥama )
Aymara: ch'uru
Azeri: ilbiz (az)
Basque: barraskilo
Belarusian: смоўж (be) m smoŭž ), сліма́к m slimák ), улі́тка f ulítka )
Bemba: ín-kolâ
Bengali: শামুক śamuk )
Berber:
Kabyle: ababbuc
Tashelhit: aɣwlal m aghwlal )
Borôro: uruwo
Breton: melc'hwed (br)
Bulgarian: о́хлюв (bg) m óhljuv )
Burmese: ခရုပက်ကျိ (my) (hka.ru.pakkyi. )
Catalan: caragol (ca) m
Central Melanau: sek
Chakma: 𑄥𑄟𑄪𑄇𑄴 sāmuk ), 𑄌𑄖𑄴 cat )
Chamicuro: shyamo
Chechen: этмаьӏиг etmäʿig )
Cherokee: ᎡᎳᏆ elaqua )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蝸牛 蜗牛 wo1 ngau4 )
Mandarin: 蝸牛 (zh) , 蜗牛 (zh) (wōniú, guāniú )
Min Dong: 牛母牛囝 ngù-mō̤-ngù-giāng )
Min Nan: 露螺 (zh-min-nan) (lō͘-lê )
Chuvash: шуй šuj )
Czech: hlemýžď (cs) m šnek (cs) m
Danish: snegl (da) 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
Emilian: lumèga f
Erzya: гуйтодов gujtodov )
Esperanto: heliko (eo)
Estonian: tigu
Faroese: snigil m
Finnish: kotilo (fi) , etana (fi)
Franco-Provençal: lemace f
French: escargot (fr) m
Galician: caracol (gl) m cosco (gl) m
Georgian: ლოკოკინა loḳoḳina )
German: Schnecke (de) f ( any animal of the class Gastropoda, also without shell ) , Gehäuseschnecke f
Alemannic German: Schnägg m
Greek: σαλιγκάρι (el) n salinkári )
Guaraní: jatyta
Haitian Creole: kalmason
Hebrew: שַׁבְּלוּל (he) m shablúl )
Hindi: घोंगा (hi) m ghoṅgā )
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 )
Kannada: ಬಸವನ ಹುಳು (kn) (basavana huḷu ), ಶಂಬುಕ (kn) (śaṃbuka )
Kazakh: ұлу ulw )
Khmer: ខ្យង (km) (kyɑɑng )
Kimaragang: tuntul
Korean: 달팽이 (ko) (dalpaeng-i ), 와우 wau ) (蝸牛 (ko) )
Kyrgyz: үлүл (ky) (ülül )
Lao: ຫອຍນ້ຳຈືດ (lo) (hǭi nam chư̄t )
Latgalian: glīmiezs
Latin: cochlea (la) f
Latvian: m gliemezis m
Limburgish: snaegel (li) m slak (li) f
Lithuanian: sraigė (lt) f
Lombard: lümaga f
Luxembourgish: Schleek m
Macedonian: полжав m polžav )
Malagasy: lelosy (mg) , sifotra (mg)
Malay: siput
Malayalam: മന്ദഗതിക്കാരന് mandagatikkāran )
Maltese: bebbuxu m għakrux m
Manx: crammag
Maori: pūpū
Marathi: गोगलगाय gogalgāy )
Mazanderani: لیسک lizak )
Mon: တု taoˀ )
Mongolian: эмгэн хумс emgen hums )
Nahuatl: tecciztli (nah)
Navajo: chʼosh chʼééh digháhii
Neapolitan: babbaluscia m
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: сӕтӕлӕг 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: ули́тка (ru) f ulítka )
Samogitian: srāgis f
Scottish Gaelic: seilcheag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пу̑ж m
Roman: pȗž (sh) m
Shona: hózhwe
Sicilian: babbaluciu (scn) m bucalaci (scn) m crastuni (scn) m ( edible snail ) stuppateddu (scn) m vavaluci (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
Tajik: тӯқумшуллуқ tüqumšulluq ), холазун xolazun )
Tamil: நத்தை (ta) (nattai )
Tatar: лайлач laylaç )
Telugu: నత్త (te) (natta )
Thai: หอยทาก hɔ̌i-tâak )
Tibetan: སྨུག་འབུ smug 'bu )
Turkish: salyangoz (tr)
Turkmen: ulitka
Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: ра́влик m rávlyk )
Urdu: گھونگا ghõṅgā )
Uzbek: chayon (uz)
Venetian: sciùs
Vietnamese: ốc (vi)
Volapük: ( ♂♀ hermaphroditic/nonhermaphroditic ) snel (vo) , ( ♂ nonhermaphroditic ) hisnel ( ♀ nonhermaphroditic ) jisnel ( ♂♀ offspring, hermaphroditic/nonhermaphroditic ) snelül ( ♂ offspring, nonhermaphroditic ) hisnelül ( ♀ offspring, nonhermaphroditic ) jisnelül
Walloon: caracole (wa) f
Welsh: malwoden malwen malwod f
West Coast Bajau: kesu'
West Frisian: slak
Yiddish: שנעק m shnek )
Yucatec Maya: urich uul
Zhuang: sae
Zulu: umnenke (zu) class 3 /4
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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