English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From the Middle English snaile snayle Old English sneġel Proto-Germanic *snagilaz Low German Snagel Snâel Snâl ( “ snail ” ) , German Schnegel ( “ slug ” ) . Compare also Old Norse snigill 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.
(Can we date this quote by Vegetius and provide title, author's full name, and other details?) (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 . Synonyms [ edit ] 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 )
Algerian Arabic: بُوجَغلال ( bujaġlal )
Egyptian Arabic: بزاقة f ( bazzāʾa ) , قوقعة f ( ʾoʾʿa )
Gulf Arabic: صبّان f ( ṣabbān )
Iraqi Arabic: زلنطح f ( zalanṭaḥ )
Moroccan Arabic: بَبُّوش ( babbūš ) , حلزون f ( ḥalazūn ) , غلالة f ( ḡlāla )
North Levantine Arabic: بزّقة f ( bezzaʾa )
Tunisian Arabic: ببّوش f ( bebbūš )
Aragonese: caragol m
Armenian: խխունջ (hy) ( xxunǰ )
Assamese: শামুক ( xamuk )
Asturian: cascoxu m caracol m
Avar: цӏадал хӏама ( c̣adal ḥama )
Aymara: ch'uru
Azerbaijani: 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
Borôro: uruwo
Breton: melc'hwed (br)
Bulgarian: о́хлюв (bg) m ( óhljuv )
Burmese: ခရုပက်ကျိ (my) ( hka.ru.pakkyi. ) , ပက်ကျိ (my) ( pakkyi. )
Catalan: caragol (ca) m
Central Melanau: sek
Chakma: 𑄥𑄟𑄪𑄇𑄴 ( sāmuk ) , 𑄌𑄖𑄴 ( cat )
Chamicuro: shyamo
Chechen: этмаьӏиг ( etmäʿig )
Cherokee: ᎡᎳᏆ ( elaqua )
Chichewa: nkhono
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 )
Cree: ᐊᑲᐦᑿᕀ ( akahkway )
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 limaçon (fr)
Galician: cosco (gl) m cornacha f cornacho m sesillo m caxirolo m cascarolo (gl) m
Georgian: ლოკოკინა ( loḳoḳina )
German: Schnecke (de) f ( any animal of the class Gastropoda, also without shell ) , Gehäuseschnecke f Alemannic German: Schnägg m
Gilaki: راب ( rāb )
Greek: σαλιγκάρι (el) n ( saligkári )
Ancient: κόχλιας m ( kókhlias )
Greenlandic: siuteroq
Guaraní: jatyta
Haitian Creole: kalmason
Hebrew: חִלָּזוֹן (he) m ( ẖilazón ) , שַׁבְּלוּל (he) m ( shablúl )
Hindi: घोंगा (hi) m ( ghoṅgā )
Hinukh: хетІу-бисмилла
Hungarian: csiga (hu)
Icelandic: snigill (is) m
Ido: heliko (io)
Indonesian: bekicot (id) , keong (id) , siput (id)
Ingush: митал ( mital )
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) ( śambuka )
Kazakh: ұлу ( ulw )
Khinalug: илбиз ( ilbiz )
Khmer: ខ្យង (km) ( khyɑɑng )
Kimaragang: tuntul
Korean: 달팽이 (ko) ( dalpaeng-i ) , 와우 ( wau ) (蝸牛 (ko) )
Kryts: шийтІан
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
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: полжав m ( polžav )
Malagasy: lelosy (mg) , sifotra (mg)
Malay: siput
Malayalam: മന്ദഗതിക്കാരന് ( mandagatikkāranŭ )
Maltese: bebbuxu m għakrux m
Manx: crammag
Maori: pūpū
Marathi: गोगलगाय ( gogalgāy )
Mazanderani: لیسک ( lizak ) , راب ( rāb )
Mon: တု ( taoˀ )
Mongolian: эмгэн хумс ( emgen hums )
Nahuatl: tecciztli (nah)
Navajo: chʼosh chʼééh digháhii tąądee naagháii
Neapolitan: babbaluscia m
Norman: colînmachon m
Northern Sami: riipu
Northern Sotho: kgohu
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: snegl (no) m snile m
Nynorsk: snigel m
Occitan: cagaraula (oc) f
Old English: sneġel m ( snail or slug ) , ġehūsod sneġel m ( snail specifically )
Old Irish: selige m
Ossetian: сӕтӕлӕг ( sætælæg )
Pennsylvania German: Schneck m
Persian: حلزون (fa) ( halazun ) , لیسک (fa) ( līsak )
Polish: ślimak (pl) m
Portuguese: caramujo (pt) m caracol (pt) m
Quechua: ch'uru
Romagnol: lumég f
Romanian: melc (ro) m
Romansch: lindorna f
Russian: ули́тка (ru) f ( ulítka )
Samogitian: srāgis f
Scottish Gaelic: seilcheag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пу̑ж m
Roman: pȗž (sh) m
Shan: please add this translation if you can
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
Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: caracol (es) m
Swahili: konokono (sw) class 5 /6
Swazi: um-nenkhé
Swedish: snigel (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠢꠣꠝꠥꠇ ( hamuk )
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
Udi: аьлбиз ( älbiz )
Ukrainian: ра́влик m ( rávlyk )
Urdu: گھونگا ( ghõṅgā )
Uyghur: قۇلۇلە ( qulule )
Uzbek: chayon (uz)
Venetian: sciùs
Vietnamese: ốc (vi)
Volapük: snel (vo)
Walloon: caracole (wa) f
Welsh: malwoden malwen malwod f
West Coast Bajau: kesu'
West Frisian: slak
Yiddish: שנעק m ( shnek )
Yucatec Maya: urich uul
Yámana: atwel
Zazaki: seytanok c
Zhuang: sae
Zulu: umnenke (zu) class 3 /4
sluggard
Catalan: dropo (ca) m mandrós m
Czech: šnek (cs) m
Finnish: etana (fi)
Galician: nugallán (gl) m preguiceiro (gl) m larchán m arlote m manguan m lacazán (gl) m mandrión m bacaceiro m loirán m macandón m estrobán m baleigán (gl) m brégolas (gl) m gandaina (gl) m lampantín (gl) m camándula m camanduleiro m langrán (gl) m loubán (gl) m moulón m galbán (gl) m
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. Anagrams [ edit ] 
