The sea.
Etymology
Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea, lake”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See), probably from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ei-u̯o- 'to be fierce, afflict' (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian saiwe (“itch”), Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”)).[1] More to sore.
Pronunciation
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Noun
sea (plural seas)
- A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity; a vast amount.
- A sea of faces stared back at the singer.
- 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, New York Times:
- In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.
Synonyms
- the ogin (UK, nautical and navy)
Derived terms
Translations
body of water
- Afrikaans: see (af)
- Akkadian: abamātu
- Albanian: det (sq)
- Antillean Creole: lanmè
- Arabic: بَحْر (ar) (baḥr) m
- Aragonese: mar (an) m and f
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܝܡܐ (yamā’) m
- Hebrew: ימא (yamā’) m
- Archi: лъат
- Armenian: ծով (hy) (çov)
- Aromanian: amare (rup)
- Asturian: mar (ast) m and f
- Aymara: lamara (ay)
- Azeri: dəniz (az), dərya (az)
- Bashkir: диңгеҙ (diŋgeð)
- Basque: itsaso (eu)
- Belarusian: мора (be) (móra) n
- Bengali: সাগর (bn) (shagôr), সমুদ্র (bn) (shômudrô)
- Blackfoot: mo'toyaohkii
- Breton: mor (br) m, morioù (br) pl
- Bulgarian: море (bg) (morè) n
- Burmese: ပင်လယ် (my) (pin le), အဏ္ဏဝါ (my) (annăwa)
- Campidanese: mari m
- Catalan: mar (ca) m and f
- Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏉᎯ (chr) (amequohi)
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 海 (cmn) (hǎi)
- Corsican: mari (co) m
- Cree: kihchikamiy (cr)
- Czech: moře (cs) n
- Dalmatian: mur
- Danish: hav (da) n, sø (da) c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: zee (nl) f
- Esperanto: maro (eo)
- Estonian: meri (et)
- Evenki: lämu
- Ewe: atsiaƒu n
- Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: hav (fo) n, sjógvur (fo) m
- Fijian: wasa (fj)
- Finnish: meri (fi)
- French: mer (fr) f
- Friulian: mâr
- Galician: mar (gl) m
- Georgian: ზღვა (ka) (zḡva)
- German: Meer (de) n, See (de) f
- Goguryeo: 波旦 (padan), 內米 (nami)
- Greek: θάλασσα (el) (thálassa) f, πέλαγος (el) (pélagos) n
- Greenlandic: imaq (kl)
- Guaraní: para (gn)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: יָם (he) (yam) m
- Hindi: सागर (hi) (sāgar) m, समुद्र (hi) (samudr) m, समुंदर (hi)
- Hungarian: tenger (hu)
- Icelandic: haf (is), sjór (is), ægir (is) (poetic), úthaf (is)
- Ido: maro (io)
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: laut (id)
- Interlingua: mar (ia)
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: muir (ga) f, farraige (ga) f
- Old Irish: muir
- Italian: mare (it) m
- Japanese: 海 (ja) (うみ, úmi), (as a component) 海 (ja) (かい, kai)
- Javanese: segara (jv)
- Jèrriais: mé f
- Kannada: ಅಮ್ಬುಧಿ (kn) (ambudhi), ಸಮುದ್ರ (kn) (samudra)
- Kazakh: теңіз (kk) (teñiz)
- Khmer: សមុទ្រ (km) (sa’mot)
- Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
- Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 바다 (ko) (bada), 해양 (ko) (haeyang) (海洋 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: دهریا (ku)
- Kyrgyz: деңиз (ky) (deñiz)
- Lakota: ble
- Lao: ທະເລ (lo) (thalē)
- Latgalian: jiurys m
- Latin: mare (la) n, pelagus (la) m
- Latvian: jūra (lv) f
- Lithuanian: jūra (lt) f, (poetic or small sea) marios (lt) f
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- Lojban: xamsi (jbo)
- Luganda: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: Mier (lb)
- Macedonian: море (mk) (móre) n
- Malay: laut (ms), samudera (ms), segara (ms), bahar (ms), muhit (ms)
- Malayalam: കടൽ (ml) (kaṭal)
- Maltese: baħar (mt) m
- Maori: moana (mi), tai (mi)
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mazanderani: دریو
- Mirandese: mar m
- Mongolian: далай (mn) (dalaj)
- Neapolitan: mare m
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Ngarrindjeri: yarluwar
- Norwegian: hav (no) n
- Occitan: mar (oc)
- Ojibwe: gichigami, gichigamin pl
- Old English: sǣ (ang) m, holm (ang) m
- Old Norse: haf
- Old Provençal: mar
- Old Saxon: sēo m, holm m
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Ossetic: денджыз (dendžyz), фурд (furd)
- Papiamentu: laman
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: دریا (fa) (daryâ), بحر (fa) (bahr)
- Polish: morze (pl) n
- Portuguese: mar (pt) m
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Rohingya: doria
- Romagnol: mêr
- Romani: baro paji
- Romanian: mare (ro) f
- Romansch: mar (rm) m and f, mer (rm) m
- Russian: море (ru) (móre) n
- Samoan: vasa (sm)
- Sanskrit: समुद्र (sa)
- Sardinian: mare (sc), mari (sc)
- Scots: please add this translation if you can
- Scottish Gaelic: muir (gd) m and f, fairge (gd) f, cuan (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: море (sh) n
- Roman: more (sh) n
- Shan: ပၢင်ႇလၢႆႇ (paang2 laaj2)
- Sicilian: mari (scn) m
- Sindhi: سَمُنڊ (sd) m
- Sinhalese: මුහුද (si) (mūhūda)
- Slovak: more (sk) n
- Slovene: morje (sl) n
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mórjo n
- Spanish: mar (es) m and f
- Swahili: bahari (sw) 9/10
- Swedish: sjö (sv) c, hav (sv) n
- Tagalog: dagat (tl)
- Tajik: баҳр (tg) (bahr), дарё (tg) (daryo)
- Talysh:
- Asalemi: دریا (daryâ)
- Tamil: கடல் (ta) (kaṭal)
- Tatar: диңгез (tt) (diñgez)
- Telugu: సముద్రం (te) (samudraṁ)
- Thai: ทะเล (th) (tháleh)
- Tok Pisin: solwara (tpi), wara (tpi), raunwara (tpi)
- Tupinambá: paranã, paranaã, paraná
- Turkish: deniz (tr), derya (tr)
- Turkmen: deňiz (tk)
- Ukrainian: море (uk) (móre) n
- Urdu: سمندر (ur) (samandar) m, بحر (ur) (bahr)
- Urum: дэниз (déniz)
- Uyghur: دېڭىز (ug) (dëngiz)
- Uzbek: dengiz (uz)
- Venetian: mar m
- Vietnamese: biển (vi), hải (vi) (海 (vi)), pei (vi)
- Volapük: mel (vo)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: môr (cy), gweilgi (cy)
- West Frisian: see (fy) f
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: ים (yi) (yam) m
- Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: ulwandle (zu) 11/10
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See also
References
- ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.v. "saiwiz" (Louden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003), 314.
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