silt

See also: šilt

English

Etymology

From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile +‎ -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

   Synonym: slitch

2. (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
3. (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Translations

fine earth deposited by water

• Afrikaans: slik (af)
• Albanian: lym (sq) m
• Arabic: غَرِين m (ḡarīn)
• Armenian: տիղմ (hy) (tiġm)
• Belarusian: іл m (il), глей m (hljej), мул m (mul)
• Bulgarian: ти́ня (bg) f (tínja)
• Catalan: llim (ca) m, llaquim m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥沙 (zh) (níshā)

• Czech: nános m, naplavenina f, bahno (cs) n
• Danish: silt (da) c
• Dutch: silt n
• Finnish: siltti (fi), liete (fi), lieju (fi)
• French: silt (fr) m, vase (fr), limon (fr)
• Georgian: შლამი (šlami)
• German: Schlamm (de) m, Schlick (de) m, Schluff (de) m
• Hebrew: טִיט (he) m (tit), טִין (he) m (tin)
• Hindi: गाद (hi) (gād)
• Hungarian: üledék (hu), iszap (hu), kőzetliszt, aleurit
• Ido: slamo (io)
• Indonesian: silt (id), debu (id)
• Irish: siolta m
• Italian: limo (it) m
• Japanese: シルト (ja) (shiruto), 沈泥 (ja) (ちんでい, chindei)
• Kapampangan: banlik
• Korean: 실트 (silteu)
• Latvian: dūņas m
• Lithuanian: dumblas m
• Maltese: ħama m
• Maori: kenepuru, kotao, parakiwai, kotae, parahua, kotae
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: silt m

  Nynorsk: silt m

• Polish: muł (pl) m, ił (pl) m
• Portuguese: sedimento (pt) m, silte (pt) m
• Russian: ил (ru) m (il)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: муљ m

  Roman: mulj (sh) m

• Slovak: nános m, silt m
• Slovene: mulj (sl) m
• Spanish: limo (es) m, sedimentos fluviales m pl, fango (es) m
• Swedish: silt (sv) c
• Tagalog: labon
• Ukrainian: мул m (mul), наму́л m (namúl), іл m (il), глей m (hlej)
• Welsh: llaid m, silt m, llifwaddod m

See also

• alluvium
• varve

Verb

silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)

1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Derived terms

• silt up
• silting
• desilt and desilting

Translations

to clog or fill with silt

• Bulgarian: затлачвам (bg) (zatlačvam)
• French: envaser (fr)
• Ido: slamizar (io)
• Serbo-Croatian: zamuljti

to become clogged with silt

• Bulgarian: затлачвам се (zatlačvam se)
• French: envaser (fr)
• Russian: заполня́ться и́лом (zapolnjátʹsja ílom)

to flow through crevices; to percolate

• Russian: проса́чиваться (ru) (prosáčivatʹsja)

Anagrams

• &lits, List, list, lits, slit, tils

Danish

Noun

silt (singular definite -en, not used in plural form)

1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

• siltsten

Dutch

Noun

silt n (plural silten)

1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

• siltsteen

Anagrams

• list, stil

French

Noun

silt m (plural silts)

1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

• siltite

Indonesian

Noun

silt (first-person possessive siltku, second-person possessive siltmu, third-person possessive siltnya)

1. (geology) silt

   Synonym: debu

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English silt.

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

Derived terms

• siltstein

References

• “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English silt.

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

Derived terms

• siltstein

References

• “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

silt c (uncountable)

1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

• siltsten

Anagrams

• list, lits, slit, stil