Lake

Etymology 1
From lake:, from  lacu:, from, from , from. Cognate with laak:,  lake:,  Lache:,  lækur:. See also,.

Despite their similarity in form and meaning, lake is not related to  lacus:,  loch:,  λάκκος:, all from. Instead, this root is represented by lagu:, through.

Noun

 * 1) Large, landlocked, naturally occurring stretch of water.
 * 2) (In the plural) an area characterised by its many lakes; e.g., the English Lake District is often shortened to The Lakes.
 * 3) A large amount of liquid: a wine lake.
 * So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline? - Robert DeNiro, Backdraft

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:lake

Derived terms

 * Great Lakes
 * interlacustrine
 * lacustrine
 * oxbow lake

Translations

 * Afrikaans: meer, pan
 * Ainu: ト (to)
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሀይቅ
 * Arabic: بحيرة
 * Aragonese: ibón, laco
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܝܡܬܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: возера
 * Bengali: হ্রদ
 * Blackfoot: mo'toyaohkii
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: lenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ကန်
 * Catalan: llac
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 湖, 湖泊
 * Cree: kihchikamiy
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:, tjørn
 * Fijian: drano
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: אגם, ימה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: laco
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 湖, 湖
 * Kannada: ಸರೋವರ, ಜಲಾಶಯ,  ಪುಷ್ಕರಿಣಿ,  ದೊಡ್ಡ ಕೆರೆ,  ಸರಸ್ಸು,  ಕೊಳ
 * Karelian:
 * Kazakh: көл
 * Khmer: បឹង
 * Korean: 호수
 * Lakota: ble
 * Lao:
 * Lakota: ble
 * Lao:


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: തടാകം, കായല്‍, പൊയ്ക, സരസ്സ്
 * Maltese: ,
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: सरोवर
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: tooh
 * Northern Sami: jávri
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Occitan: estanh
 * Ojibwe: zaaga'igan, zaaga'iganan
 * Old Church Slavonic: ,
 * Old English: ,
 * Ossetic:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਝੀਲ (jhīl)
 * Romani: baro paji
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: lai, lag, laitg, lej
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: lagu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: језеро
 * Roman: jezero
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: letsha
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: jito, majito pl (nc 5/6),
 * Swedish: sjö, insjö, tjärn, vatten
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: ஏரி
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: సరస్సు (sarassu)
 * Thai: สาบ, ทะเลสาบ
 * Tibetan: (co)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, جھیل
 * Uyghur: كۆل
 * Uzbek: ko'l
 * Vietnamese: (湖)
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: mar
 * Yiddish: אָזערע
 * Uyghur: كۆل
 * Uzbek: ko'l
 * Vietnamese: (湖)
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: mar
 * Yiddish: אָזערע

Etymology 2
From lác:,.

Noun

 * 1)  An offering, sacrifice, gift.
 * 2)  Play, sport, fun, glee.

Derived terms

 * wedlock

Verb

 * 1)  To present an offering.
 * 2)  To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Etymology 3
From lachen:

Noun

 * 1)  Fine linen.

Etymology 4
From laque: <  لاک: <  undefined: <  undefined:, referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out.

Noun

 * 1) In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.

Derived terms

 * lake-red

Translations

 * Arabic: ( l-lák)
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ­­­­­λάκη (láki)
 * Hebrew: לכה (lakah)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ニス (nísu), 漆 (うるし, urushí)


 * Korean: 래커 (raekeo)
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: fargestoff
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: лак (lak)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Thai: (khràng)

Verb

 * 1) To make lake-red.

Anagrams

 * kale
 * leak

Anagrams

 * kale

Noun

 * 1) pickle, brine
 * 2) burbot, eelpout

Verb

 * 1) To pickle.

Noun

 * 1) burbot (a freshwater fish: Lota lota)

Declension
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