zee

See also: zée

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

zee (plural zees)

1. (US) The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
2. Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Synonyms

• zed (outside the US and South Asia),
• izzard (Scotland, South Asia)

Translations

name of the letter Z, z

• Arabic: زيد m (ziid), دزيتا f (dziita)
• Catalan: zeta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Czech: zet (cs)
• Dutch: zet (nl)
• Esperanto: zo (eo)
• Faroese: sett n, setta n
• Finnish: tseta (fi)
• German: Zett n
• Hawaiian: zeta
• Hindi: ज़ी (zī), ज़ेड (zeḍ)
• Hungarian: zé

• Irish: zae
• Italian: zeta (it) f
• Japanese: ゼッド (zeddo), ゼドゥ (zedu), ゼット (zetto)
• Korean: 제드 (jedeu), 지 (ko) (ji) (same as "G")
• Latin: zēta (la)
• Malay: zet
• Marathi: जेड (zeḍa)
• Persian: زد (fa) (zed), زی‌ (zi)
• Portuguese: zê (pt) m
• Russian: зэд n (zed) (English), зэт n (zet), цэт n (cet) (German)
• Spanish: zeta (es) f
• Swedish: zäta n
• Turkish: ze (tr)

See also

• zeta

Etymology 2

Article

zee

1. Eye dialect spelling of the, representing primarily French-accented English.

Anagrams

• Eze.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch see, from Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz. Compare Low German See, West Frisian see, German See, English sea, Danish sø.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː
• IPA^(key): /zeː/, /zeɪ/

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Noun

zee f (plural zeeën, diminutive zeetje n)

1. the sea

   De oude man en de zee.

   The Old Man and the Sea.

Derived terms

zeekat Zeeland zeeman zeemeermin zeemijl zeeniveau zeeschelp zeespiegel zeeslag zeevaarder zeewater zeezout binnenzee open zee vuurzee wereldzee

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Latin

Noun

zee

1. vocative singular of zeus

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Swahili

Adjective

-zee (declinable)

1. old

Related terms

• mzee
• uzee

Antonyms

• -pya

Inflection

Inflected forms of -zee

Noun class	singular	plural
M-wa class	mzee	wazee
M-mi class	mzee	mizee
Ma class	zee	mazee
Ki-vi class	kizee	vizee
N class	nzee	nzee
U class	mzee	nzee
Pa class	pazee	pazee
Ku class	kuzee	kuzee
Mu class	muzee	muzee