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sail (countable and uncountable, plural sails)
- (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
- (nautical,uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
- Take in sail: a storm is coming.
- (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
- A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- Let's go for a sail.
- (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
- Twenty sail were in sight.
- The blade of a windmill.
- A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
- The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
- (fishing) A sailfish.
- We caught three sails today.
- (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
- Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
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a piece of fabric attached to a boat
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- Afrikaans: seil
- Albanian: vel (sq)
- Amharic: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
- Arabic: شِرَاع m (širāʿ)
- Aragonese: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
- Armenian: առագաստ (hy) (aṙagast)
- Aromanian: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
- Asturian: vela f
- Azerbaijani: yelkən (az)
- Bashkir: елкән (yelkän)
- Belarusian: па́рус m (párus), ве́тразь m (vjétrazʹ)
- Bengali: পাল (pal)
- Breton: gouel (br) f
- Bulgarian: платно́ (bg) n (platnó), ветри́ло (bg) n (vetrílo)
- Burmese: လင်းယဉ် (my) (lang:yany)
- Catalan: vela (ca) f
- Central Melanau: layah
- Chamicuro: wela
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 帆 (faan4), 𢃇 (lei5)
- Dungan: фынҗонзы
- Mandarin: 帆 (zh) (fān), 風帆/风帆 (zh), 风帆 (zh) (fēngfān)
- Min Nan: 篷 (phâng)
- Czech: plachta (cs) f
- Dalmatian: vaila f
- Danish: sejl (da) n
- Dutch: zeil (nl) n
- Erzya: мевть (mevtʹ)
- Esperanto: velo (eo)
- Estonian: puri (et)
- Faroese: segl n
- Finnish: purje (fi)
- French: voile (fr) f
- Friulian: vele f
- Galician: vela (gl) f
- Georgian: აფრა (apra), იალქანი (ialkani)
- German: Segel (de) n
- Greek: πανί (el) n (paní), ιστίο (el) n (istío), άρμενο (el) n (ármeno)
- Ancient: ἱστίον n (histíon)
- Gujarati: આભેસ (ābhes)
- Hawaiian: lā
- Hebrew: מִפְרָשׂ (he) m (mifrás)
- Hindi: पाल (hi) m (pāl)
- Hungarian: vitorla (hu)
- Hunsrik: Sehl n
- Icelandic: segl (is) n
- Ido: seglo (io)
- Indonesian: layar (id)
- Irish: seol m
- Italian: vela (it) f
- Japanese: 帆 (ja) (ほ, ho)
- Kalmyk: җилк (jilk)
- Kannada: ಹಾಯಿ (kn) (hāyi)
- Kazakh: желкен (jelken)
- Khmer: ក្ដោង (km) (kdaoŋ)
- Korean: (배의) 돛 (dot)
- Kyrgyz: парус (ky) (parus), желкин (ky) (celkin)
- Lao: ໃບລົມ (bai lom), ໃບ (bai)
- Latin: vēlum n
- Latvian: bura (lv) f
- Lithuanian: burė (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: Segel n
- Macedonian: платно n (platno)
- Malay: layar
- Malayalam: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
- Maltese: qlugħ m
- Maori: rā, rāwhara, kōmaru
- Mirandese: ala f, bela f
- Mongolian: дарвуул (mn) (darvuul), далбаа (mn) (dalbaa)
- Mwani: tanga
- Nogai: елкен (yelken)
- Norman: vaile f
- Norwegian: seil (no)
- Occitan: vela (oc) f
- Old English: seġl n
- Oriya: ପାଲ (or) (palô)
- Pashto: بادبان (ps) m (bādbān), بادوان (ps) m (bādwãn)
- Persian: بادبان (fa) (bâdbân)
- Polish: żagiel (pl) m
- Portuguese: vela (pt) f
- Romanian: velă (ro) f, pânză (ro) f
- Romansch: tenda f, vela f, vel
- Russian: па́рус (ru) m (párus), ветри́ло (ru) n (vetrílo) (obsolete)
- Sardinian: vela f, bela f
- Scottish Gaelic: seòl m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: једро n
- Roman: jedro (sh) n
- Sinhalese: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
- Slovak: plachta f
- Slovene: jadro (sl) n
- Spanish: vela (es) f
- Swedish: segel (sv) n
- Tagalog: layag
- Tajik: бодбон (bodbon)
- Tamil: கப்பற்பாய் (ta) (kappaṟpāy)
- Tatar: җилкән (tt) (cilkän)
- Telugu: తెరచాప (te) (teracāpa)
- Thai: ใบเรือ (bai rʉʉa), ใบ (th) (bai)
- Turkish: yelken (tr)
- Turkmen: ýelken
- Ukrainian: вітри́ло n (vitrýlo), па́рус m (párus)
- Urdu: پال m (pāl)
- Uyghur: يەلكەن (yelken)
- Uzbek: yelkan (uz)
- Vietnamese: buồm (vi)
- Volapük: sail (vo)
- Welsh: hwyl
- West Frisian: seil n
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- Yiddish: זעגל (zegl)
- Zhuang: gangfung
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a tower-like structure found on the topside of a submarine
floating organ of siphonophores
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Etymology 2
From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English siġlan (“to sail”), from *siglijaną. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Холандски zeilen, Немачки segeln, Шведски segla, Icelandic sigla.
Verb
sail
- To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
- To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
- To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
- We sail for Australia tomorrow.
- To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
- Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Romeo
- Шаблон:RQ:YGO FRM
- [flavor text of the card "Spirit of the Winds"]
- A spirit of the wind that freely sails the skies.
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- (intransitive) To move briskly.
- The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.
Derived terms
Translations
to ride in a boat, especially sailboat
- Arabic: أَبْحَرَ (ʾabḥara)
- Egyptian Arabic: أبحر (ʔabḥar), ركب (rekeb)
- Asturian: navegar
- Belarusian: (abstract) пла́ваць impf (plávacʹ), папла́ваць pf (paplávacʹ), (concrete) плыць impf (plycʹ), паплы́ць pf (paplýcʹ)
- Catalan: navegar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 行船 (zh) (xíngchuán), 航行 (zh) (hángxíng), 航海 (zh) (hánghǎi)
- Czech: plavit (cs) se, plout (cs)
- Danish: sejle (da)
- Dutch: zeilen (nl)
- Finnish: purjehtia (fi), seilata (fi)
- French: (intransitive) voguer (fr), (transitive) gouverner (fr), faire du bateau, faire de la voile, naviguer (fr)
- Galician: navegar
- German: segeln (de)
- Greek: πλέω (el) (pléo)
- Ancient: πλέω (pléō)
- Hebrew: שט (he) (shat), הפליג (hiflíg)
- Hunsrik: sehle
- Icelandic: sigla (is)
- Interlingua: navigar
- Italian: navigare a vela, veleggiare, condurre (it)
- Japanese: 航海する (ja) (こうかいする, kōkai-suru), 帆走する (ja) (はんそうする, hansō-suru)
- Latin: velificor, nāvigō
- Luxembourgish: segelen
- Malay: berkelana
- Maori: wharau
- Norman: navidgi
- Norwegian: seile (no)
- Old Church Slavonic: плавати (plavati)
- Old English: siġlan
- Portuguese: velejar (pt)
- Romanian: naviga (ro)
- Russian: плыть под паруса́ми (plytʹ pod parusámi), плыть (ru) (plytʹ)
- Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|प्लवते}
- Scottish Gaelic: seòl
- Serbo-Croatian: jèdriti (sh), plòviti (sh)
- Sicilian: navigari (scn)
- Slovene: jadrati
- Spanish: navegar (es)
- Swedish: segla (sv)
- Venetian: navegar (vec)
- Volapük: sailön (vo)
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to move briskly and gracefully through the air
Anagrams
- Alis, Isla, LIAs, LISA, Lias, Lisa, SiAl, ails, lais, lias, sial (alphagram ails)
Basque
Noun
sail
- area
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески sail. Дублети of zeil
Pronunciation
Noun
sail n (plural sails)
- (nautical) The fin or sail of a submarine.
- Синоним: toren
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish sal, from Proto-Celtic *salā.
Pronunciation
Noun
sail f (genitive singular saile)
- dirt, dross, impurity
- sail mhiotail ― metal dross
- stain, defilement
- sail pheaca ― the stain of sin
Declension
Шаблон:ga-decl-f2-nopl
Derived terms
Related terms
Mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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sail
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shail after an, tsail
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not applicable
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- “sal” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- “sal” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 589.
- "sail" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “sail” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Volapük
Noun
sail (nominative plural sails)
- (nautical) sail
Declension
Derived terms
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from Латински solea (“sole”).
Noun
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- base, basis, foundation
- Синоним: sylfaen
Derived terms
Mutation
References
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