zee

See also: zée and žee

§English

§Etymology 1

1670s: variant of British English zed, believed to make it rhyme with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee and standardized by Noah Webster; from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin).

§Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iː

§Noun

zee (plural zees) (chiefly US, Newfoundland, sometimes Canada)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
2. Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.
3. (colloquial) (usually plural) Sleep (as in "get some zees").

§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 (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
• 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
• Icelandic: zeð (zeth)

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

§See also

• zeta

§Verb

zee (third-person singular simple present zees, present participle zeeing, simple past and past participle zeed) (chiefly US, Newfoundland)

1. (intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
2. (intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.

§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/, /zeː/

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§Noun

zee f (plural zeeën, diminutive zeetje n)

1. 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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§Estonian

§Noun

zee (^??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.

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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