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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Old English clif.
Noun
cliff (plural cliffs)
- A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
Synonyms
Translations
a (near) vertical rock face
- Albanian: shkëmb (sq) m
- Arabic: جرف (ar) (jurf)
- Belarusian: скала (be) (skalá) f , уцёс (be) (ucjós) m / ўцёс (be) (ŭcjos) m , кліф (be) (klif) m
- Bulgarian: канара (bg) (kanara) f
- Catalan: penya-segat (ca) m
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵖⵓⵍⵉⴷ (aghulid) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 峭壁 (cmn) (qiàobì), 懸崖 (cmn), 悬崖 (cmn) (xuányá, xuányái)
- Czech: útes (cs) m
- Dutch: klip (nl) f, klif (nl) f
- Esperanto: klifo (eo)
- Faroese: klettur (fo) m, berg (fo) n, hamar (fo) m
- Finnish: kalliojyrkänne (fi), jyrkänne (fi)
- French: falaise (fr) f
- Galician: cantil (gl) m, acantilado (gl) m
- Georgian: ფრიალო კლდე (ka) (p'rialo klde) , ციცაბო კლდე (ka) (c'ic'abo klde) , კლიფი (ka) (klip'i) , ალპინისტის მთა (ka) (alpinistis mt'a)
- German: Klippe (de) f, Felsen (de) m
- Greek: βουνοπλαγιά (el) (vunoplayá) f , κλιτύς (el) (klitís) f , πρανές (el) (pranés) n , γκρεμός (el) (gremós) m
- Hebrew: צוק (he) (tsuq) m
- Hungarian: szirt (hu)
- Icelandic: klettur (is) m, berg (is) n, bjarg (is) n, hamar (is) m
- Irish: aill (ga) f
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- Italian: rupe (it) f, scogliera (it) f
- Japanese: 崖 (ja) (がけ, gake)
- Jèrriais: falaise f
- Korean: 절벽 (ko) (jeolbyeok) (絶壁 (ko))
- Latgalian: radze
- Latin: scopulus m
- Latvian: klints (lv) m
- Old Norse: klettr m, berg n, hamarr m
- Polish: klif (pl) m
- Portuguese: penhasco (pt) m
- Romanian: stâncă (ro) f, faleză (ro) f, pantă (ro) f
- Russian: скала (ru) (skalá) f , утёс (ru) (utjós) m , клиф (ru) (klif) m
- Scots: craig, cleuch
- Scottish Gaelic: creag f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: литица (sh) f, хрид (sh) m
- Roman: litica (sh) f, hrid (sh) m
- Spanish: acantilado (es) m, precipicio (es)
- Swedish: klippa (sv) c
- Turkish: uçurum (tr), yar (tr)
- Turkmen: uçut (tk)
- Ukrainian: скеля (uk) (skélja) f , кліф (uk) (klif) m
- Vietnamese: vách đá (vi)
- Welsh: garth (cy)
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
cliff (plural cliffs)
- (music) Obsolete form of clef.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
