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English

Image:Leech-china.JPG|thumb|right|200px|a leech (animal)

Pronunciation
AHD|l�ch, IPA|/li�t�/, SAMPA|/li:tS/
:Rhymes:English:-i�t�|Rhymes: -i�t�

Homophones
leach

Etymology 1
Old English læ�e

Noun
en-noun|es

1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
2. A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.
3. (obsolete) A physician.

Translations
trans-top|blood-sucking annelid
trreq|Afrikaans
trreq|Albanian
trreq|Armenian
Basque: izain
Bulgarian: пи�ви�а f
CJKV Characters: �; �, �
Chinese: �� (m�huáng)
Croatian: pijavica f
Czech: pijavice f
Danish: blodigle c, igler p
Dutch: bloedzuiger m
Esperanto: hirudo
trreq|Estonian
Finnish: juotikas, iilimato
French: sangsue f
Georgian: ������� (ts�urbela)
German: Blutegel m, Egel m
Greek: βδέλλα f
trreq|Gujarati
trreq|Hawaiian
Hebrew: ע��ק� f
trreq|Hindi
Hungarian: pióca
Icelandic: blóðsuga f, iglur p
Ido: sanguisugo
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Indonesian: lintah
Italian: sanguisuga f
Japanese: �� (hiru)
Korean: 거머리 (geomeori)
Latin: hirudo f
trreq|Latvian
trreq|Lithuanian
trreq|Malay
trreq|Malayalam
trreq|Mongolian
Polish: pijawka f
Portuguese: sanguessuga f
trreq|Romanian
Russian: пи�вка (pijávka) f
Serbian: пи�ави�а f
Slovak: pijavica f
Slovene: pijavka f
Spanish: sanguijuela f, hirudíneo m
Swedish: igel c
trreq|Tamil
Thai: Thai|�า� (thàak)
Turkish: sülük
Ukrainian: п'�вка f
Vietnamese: ��a
trreq|Yiddish
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Verb
en-verb|leech|es

1. To apply a leech medicinally.
2. To drain the resources of, without giving back.

#: Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.

Etymology 2
Middle English, maybe from Old Norse lik.

Noun
leech

1. context|Nautical The vertical edge of a square sail
2. nautical The aft edge of a triangular sail

Translations
trans-top|aft edge of a triangular sail
Finnish: takaliikki
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Derived terms
leech line

Related terms
luff
foot

See also
w:parts of a sail|Wikipedia article on parts of a sail

Frisian

Adjective
leech

1. low
2. empty

Category:Frisian adjectives

Old English
rfv|why is this on the "leech" as well as the "læccan" page indicated in the headword?
Etymology
Common Germanic *lakk-

Noun
l�an

1. to seize

Category:Old English nouns

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