Image:Anaconda jaune 34.JPG|thumb|right|A snake ([[anaconda).]]
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English
Etymology
From Middle English < Old English snaca < Proto-Germanic *snakon < Proto-Indo-European base *snag-, *sneg- (to crawl, a creeping thing).
Pronunciation
AHD|sn�k
IPA|/sneɪk/
SAMPA|/sneIK/
audio|en-us-snake.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
en-noun
- A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
- A treacherous person.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
Synonyms
reptile
joe blake
serpent
plumbing tool
auger
plumber's snake
tool for cable pulling
wirepuller
Derived terms
snakebite
snake oil
Translations
trans-top|reptile
trreq|Afrikaans
Albanian: gjarpër m
Arabic: Arab|ثعباÙ�|Ø«Ù�عÙ�بÙ�اÙ� unicode|(θoaÊ�báË�n) m, Arab|ثعابÙ�Ù�|Ø«Ù�عÙ�ابÙ�Ù�Ù�Ù� unicode|(θaÊ�abÃË�n) p
Aramaic:
Armenian: �ձ (�dz)
trreq|Basque
trreq|Bengali
Bosnian: t-|bs|zmija|f
Breton: naer f, naered p, sarpant m, sarpanted p
Bulgarian: t-|bg|зми�|f|trzmija|scCyrl
trreq|Burmese
Catalan: serp f, serpent f
CJKV Characters: �
Chinese: � (shé)
Cree: á�á��á�±á� (kinepik)
Croatian: t-|hr|zmija|f
Czech: t-|cs|had|m
Danish: slange g|Danish
Dutch: t+|nl|slang|f, t+|nl|serpent|n
Esperanto: t-|eo|serpento|xs=Esperanto
trreq|Estonian
Fijian: gata
Finnish: t+|fi|käärme
French: t+|fr|serpent|m
Georgian: ����� (gveli)
German: t+|de|Schlange|f, t+|de|Wurm|m italbrac|poetic
Greek
Hebrew: t-|he|× ×�ש|m|trnakhaÅ¡|scHebr
trreq|Hindi
Hungarian: t+|hu|kÃgyó
Icelandic: t+|is|snákur|m, t+|is|slanga|f
Indonesian: t+|id|ular|xs=Indonesian
Interlingua: serpente
Isthmus Zapotec: beendaʼ
Italian: t+|it|serpente|m, t+|it|serpe|f, t-|it|biscia|f
Japanese: � (��, hébi)
trreq|Kannada
Khmer: KMchar|��� (bpūah)
Korean: � (baem)
Kuna: naibe
Kurdish: t+|ku|mar, t-|ku|�ار|sc=KUchar
Lakota: zuzeca
trans-mid
trreq|Lao
Latin: t-|la|serpens|m|f, t-|la|vipera|f
Latvian: �ūska f
Lithuanian: gyvat� f
Lower Sorbian: had m
Macedonian: зми�а f
Malay: ular
trreq|Malayalam
Marathi: साप (s�p)
Nahuatl: coatl
trreq|Nepali
Northern Sami: gearpmaš
Norwegian: t-|no|slange|m, t-|no|orm|m
Ojibwe: á�á��á�±á�� (ginebig)
Old English: snaca, wyrm g|Old English
trreq|Oriya
Persian: FAchar|�ار (m�r)
Pitjantjatjara: liru, wami
Polish: t+|pl|w�ż|m
Portuguese: t+|pt|serpente|f
Powhatan: askok
Proto-Polynesian: *�ata
trreq|Punjabi
Romanian: t-|ro|�arpe|m
Romani: sap
Russian: зме� (zmejá) f, змеи (zméi) p
trreq|Sanskrit
Scottish Gaelic: nathair f
Serbian:
Slovak: t-|sk|had|m
Slovene: t+|sl|ka�a|f
Spanish: serpiente f, culebra f, sierpe italbrac|archaic, vÃbora italbrac|colloquial|Mexico
Swahili: nyoka sg/pl (noun 9/10)
Swedish: t+|sv|orm|c
Tagalog: ahas
Tamil பாம�ப� (pAmbu)
Telugu: పామ� (paamu)
Thai: t-|th|�ู|scThai|xsThai
Turkish: t+|tr|yılan
Upper Sorbian: wuž m
Ukrainian: зм�� (zmijá) f
Vietnamese: t+|vi|xà |xsVietnamese, t+|vi|rắn|xsVietnamese
Warlpiri: warna
trreq|Welsh
Yiddish: ש×�×�Ö·× ×� (shlang) f
trans-bottom
trans-top|plumbing tool
Norwegian: stakefjær c
trans-mid
trans-bottom
Verb
en-verb|snak|ing
- intransitive: To move in a winding path.
#: The river snakes through the valley.
- context|transitive|AU|slang To steal slyly.
#: He snaked my DVD!
- transitive To clean using a plumbing snake.
Translations
Bosnian: vijugati se, izvijati se
Danish: sno, slange
Finnish: kiemurrella
French: serpenter
German: winden, sich winden, schlängeln
Greek: ελί��ομαι (elisome)
Italian: serpeggiare
mid
Portuguese: t-|pt|serpentear
Spanish: culebrear, serpentear, hacer culebra
Swedish: slingra, slingra sig, vindla
Telugu: మ�లి�ల� తిర��� (melikalu tirugu)
Thai: THchar|à¹�ลืà¹�à¸à¸¢
Related terms
anguine
Anagrams
sneak
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