sickle

See also: Sickle

English

WOTD – 28 November 2016

A sickle (smaller) and a scythe (larger)

Etymology

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkəl
• Hyphenation: sic‧kle

Noun

sickle (plural sickles)

2. (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
3. Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

Synonyms

• reap hook
• reaping hook

Coordinate terms

• scythe

Derived terms

• chain sickle
• chicken sickle
• hammer and sickle
• moonsickle
• sickle-billed vanga
• sickle cell
• sickle moon

Translations

agricultural implement

• Adyghe: гъупчъ (ğʷupĉ)
• Aghul: маккал (makkal)
• Albanian: drapër (sq) m, kmesë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِنْجَل m (minjal)

  Egyptian Arabic: منجلة f (mangala)

  Moroccan Arabic: منجل m (manjal)

• Aragonese: falz
• Armenian: մանգաղ (hy) (mangaġ)
• Aromanian: seatsiri f, seatsirã f, cusor, dirpani
• Assamese: কাচি (kasi)
• Asturian: foz f
• Atong (India): khatchi
• Azerbaijani: oraq (az)
• Bashkir: ураҡ (uraq)
• Basque: igitai
• Bats: ნამგალ (namgal), მანგალ (mangal)
• Belarusian: серп m (sjerp)
• Bengali: কাস্তে (bn) (kaste), কাচি (bn) (kaci)
• Bhojpuri: दरांती (darāntī)
• Breton: falz (br) f
• Budukh: чин (čin)
• Bulgarian: сърп (bg) m (sǎrp)
• Burmese: တံစဉ် (my) (tamcany)
• Catalan: falç (ca) f
• Chechen: марс (mars)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鐮刀 / 镰刀 (lim⁴ dou¹)

  Dungan: ляндо (li͡ando), ляндор (li͡andor)

  Hokkien: 鍥仔 / 锲仔 (keh-á / koeh-á / koeh-á), 鐮刀 / 镰刀 (liâm-to)

  Mandarin: 鐮刀 / 镰刀 (zh) (liándāo)

• Chuvash: ҫурла (śurla)
• Crimean Tatar: orak
• Czech: srp (cs) m
• Dalmatian: secla f
• Danish: segl (da) c
• Dargwa: мирш (mirš)
• Daur: xaduur
• Dutch: sikkel (nl) f, zichel f, zicht (nl) f
• Dzongkha: ཟོརཝ (zor.w)
• Egyptian: (ẖꜣb m), (ꜣzḫ m)
• Erzya: тарваз (tarvaz)
• Esperanto: falĉileto, rikoltilo
• Estonian: sirp (et)
• Finnish: sirppi (fi)
• French: faucille (fr) f
• Galician: fouce f, fouciño m, fouzaña f
• Georgian: ნამგალი (ka) (namgali)
• German: Sichel (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 f (gilþa)
• Greek: δρεπάνι (el) n (drepáni)

  Ancient: δρέπανον n (drépanon), δρεπάνη f (drepánē)

• Hebrew: מַגָּל (he) m (magál)
• Hindi: दरांती f (darāntī), हँसिया (hi) m (hãsiyā)
• Hungarian: sarló (hu)
• Icelandic: sigð (is) f
• Indonesian: arit (id), sabit (id)
• Ingush: марс (mars)
• Irish: corrán m
• Italian: falce (it) f, falcetto (it) m
• Japanese: 鎌 (ja) (かま, kama)
• Kannada: ಕುಡುಗೋಲು (kn) (kuḍugōlu)
• Kazakh: орақ (oraq)
• Khinalug: чин (čin)
• Khmer: កណ្ដៀវ (km) (kɑndiəw)
• Komi-Permyak: чарла (ćarla)
• Korean: 낫 (ko) (nat)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: داس (ckb) (das)

  Northern Kurdish: das (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: орок (ky) (orok)
• Lak: мухӏ (muħ), мирхь (mirx̂)
• Lao: ກ່ຽວ (lo) (kiāu), ຄຽວ (khiāu)
• Latgalian: pļautivs m
• Latin: falx (la) f
• Latvian: sirpis m
• Laz: მანგალი (mangali), ორაღი (oraği)
• Lezgi: мукал (mukal)
• Lithuanian: pjautuvas m
• Lombard: seghezz m
• Luxembourgish: Séchel (lb) f
• Macedonian: срп m (srp)
• Malay: sabit
• Malayalam: അരിവാൾ (ml) (arivāḷ)
• Manchu: ᡥᠠᡩᡠᡶᡠᠨ (hadufun)
• Manx: corran m
• Maori: toronaihi
• Mazanderani: داز
• Mingrelian: მაგანა (magana)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хадуур (mn) (xaduur)

• Navajo: tlʼoh bee higéshí, tlʼoh bee yilzhéhé
• Nepali: हँसिया (hãsiyā), करौती (karautī)
• Nogai: орак (orak)
• Northern Altai: оргак (orgak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sigd (no) m

  Nynorsk: sigd m

• Occitan: volam (oc), fauç (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: срьпъ m (srĭpŭ)

• Oromo: haamtuu
• Ottoman Turkish: اوراق (orak), داس (das), منجل (mincel)
• Pashto: رمبي m (rambáy), کاترۍ f (kātrǝ́y), منګال m (mangãl)
• Persian: داس (fa) (dâs), منگال (mangâl) (dialectal)
• Plautdietsch: Säakjel n
• Polish: sierp (pl) m
• Pontic Greek: δρεπάνιν (drepánin)
• Portuguese: foice (pt) f
• Quechua: ichhuna
• Romanian: seceră (ro) f
• Russian: серп (ru) m (serp)
• Sardinian: falche
• Scottish Gaelic: corran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ср̑п m

  Roman: sȓp (sh) m

• Sinhalese: කැත්ත (si) (kætta)
• Slovak: kosák m
• Slovene: srp (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: serp m

  Upper Sorbian: serp m

• Southern Altai: оргок (orgok), серип (serip)
• Spanish: hoz (es) f, falce (es) f, segur f, echona (es) f
• Svan: ნაშდა̈ქ (našdäk)
• Swahili: mundu
• Swedish: skära (sv) c
• Tagalog: karit, lingkaw, yatab
• Tajik: дос (dos)
• Tamil: அரிவாள் (ta) (arivāḷ)
• Tarifit: amjar m
• Tatar: урак (tt) (uraq)
• Telugu: కొడవలి (te) (koḍavali)
• Thai: เคียว (th) (kiao)
• Tibetan: ཟོ་ར (zo ra)
• Turkish: orak (tr)
• Turkmen: orak
• Udmurt: сюрло (śurlo)
• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎓𐎕𐎄 (mʿṣd)
• Ukrainian: серп m (serp)
• Urdu: ہَن٘سِیا m (hansiyā), سکل f (sikal), درانتی (daranti)
• Uyghur: ئورغاق (orghaq)
• Uzbek: oʻroq (uz)
• Vietnamese: liềm (vi)
• Vilamovian: sychuł f
• Walloon: seye (wa) f, fåceye (wa) f
• Welsh: cryman m
• Yakut: сиэрпэ (sierpe)
• Yiddish: סערפּ m (serp)
• Zazaki: qaloç f

Further reading

• Sickle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

A micrograph of red blood cells of a person with sickle-cell disease, which causes some cells to assume abnormal, sickle-like crescent shapes

sickle (third-person singular simple present sickles, present participle sickling, simple past and past participle sickled)

1. (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
2. (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
3. (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

Derived terms

• (transitive: to deform): sickler

Translations

to cut with a sickle

• Belarusian: жаць impf (žacʹ)
• Bulgarian: жъна (bg) impf (žǎna)
• Finnish: leikata sirpillä
• French: fauciller (fr)
• Hebrew: קָצַר (he)
• Macedonian: жнее impf (žnee)
• Polish: żąć (pl) impf
• Romanian: secera (ro)
• Russian: жать (ru) impf (žatʹ)
• Slovak: kosiť, pokosiť
• Ukrainian: жа́ти impf (žáty)

Adjective

sickle (comparative more sickle, superlative most sickle)

1. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.

   a sickle moon

Derived terms

• sickle cell anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia

Translations

shaped like the blade of a sickle

• Bulgarian: сърповиден (sǎrpoviden)
• Finnish: sirpinmuotoinen, sirppimäinen
• French: falciforme (fr)
• Italian: falciforme (it)
• Macedonian: српови́ден m (srpovíden), српест (srpest)
• Polish: sierpowaty (pl)
• Russian: серповидный (ru) (serpovidnyj)
• Spanish: falciforme (es), drepanocítico

crescent-shaped

• Macedonian: српест (srpest)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} sikkel (nl) f
• French: ^{(please verify)} serpe (fr)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} داس (das)

• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} അരിവാള് (arivāḷ)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 鐮刀 / 镰刀 (zh) (liándāo), ^{(please verify)} 镰刀 (zh) (liándāo)

Anagrams

• Celiks, Eslick, Ickles, Leicks, ickles