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Etymology 1
OE. term|swelgan|swelġan, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch term|zwelgen, German term|schwelgen, Swedish term|svälja.

Verb
en-verb

1. transitive To cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach.

#: Try not to swallow too much toothpaste.
#: The duck swallowed the frog.

1. intransitive To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagous which this entails.

#: I swallowed nervously, wondering who was outside the window.

1. transitive To take in, to consume, to absorb or cause to disappear.

#: Any extra money will be swallowed up by the mortgage repayments.

1. transitive To believe or accept.

#: I find his excuses a little hard to swallow.

Translations
trans-top|to cause pass from the mouth into the stomach
Afrikaans: sluk
Albanian: gëlltit
Arabic: ARchar|جرع unicode|(jára�a)
Bosnian: t-|bs|gutati
Catalan: engolir
Chinese: � (tūn)
Croatian: t-|hr|gutati <!-- The following tag and the corresponding perfective/imperfective forms belong in the Croatian entries: (impf.), progutati (pf.) -->
Czech: t-|cs|polknout
Dutch: slikken, doorslikken
Esperanto: gluti
Finnish: t-|fi|niellä, t-|fi|nielaista
French: t+|fr|avaler
German: t-|de|schlucken
Hungarian: t+|hu|nyel
Ido: glutar
Interlingua: glutir, inglutir, deglutir, ingurgitar
Italian: t+|it|deglutire, t+|it|inghiottire
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Japanese: 飲�込� (����, nomikomu)
Korean: t-|ko|���|trsamkida|scHang
Kurdish: t|ku|daqurtandin, t|ku|daûrandin, t|ku|dabilandin
Norwegian: svelge
Polish: po�kn��, po�yka�
Portuguese: engolir, deglutir, ingurgitar
Romanian: t-|ro|înghiţi
Russian: гло�а�� (glotát�)
Serbian: t-|sr|г��а�и|sc=Cyrl, t-|sr|gutati, <!-- The following tag and perfective/imperfective pairs belong in the Serbian entry: (impf.), п�ог��а�и (pf.) -->
Slovene: požirati, pogoltniti
Spanish: t-|es|tragar, t|es|engullir, t|es|deglutir, t|es|ingurgitar
Swedish: svälja
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See also
dysphagia

Etymology 2
Late OE. term|swelg||gulf, chasm, from Germanic (related to Etymology 1, above).

Noun
en-noun

1. archaic A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
2. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

#: He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.

Translations
trans-top|amount swallowed
Afrikaans: sluk
Bosnian: t-|bs|gutljaj|m
Croatian: t-|hr|gutljaj|m
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Serbian: t-|sr|г���а�|m|sc=Cyrl, t-|sr|gutljaj|m
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Etymology 3
wikipedia
Image:Hirundo daurica.jpg|thumb|A Red-rumped swallow
OE. term|swealwe, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch term|zwaluw, German term|Schwalbe, Swedish term|svala.

Noun
en-noun

1. A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.

Synonyms
sense|small bird of Hirundunudae martlet

Translations
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Afrikaans: swavel
Albanian: dallëndyshja
Basque: enara
Belarusian: ла��а�ка (lastauka) f
Bosnian: t-|bs|lastavica|f, t-|bs|lasta|f
Breton: gwennili-siminal
Bulgarian: �ел�ка л���ови�а (sélska ljástovitsa) f
Catalan: oreneta f
Chinese: �� (yànzi)
Crimean Tatar: karılga�
Croatian: t-|hr|lastavica|f, t-|hr|lasta|f
Czech: t-|cs|vlaštovka|f
Danish: svale, landsvale
Dutch: zwaluw f, boerenzwaluw f
Esperanto: t-|eo|hirundo|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: t+|et|pääsuke
Faroese: t-|fo|svala|xs=Faroese
Finnish: t-|fi|pääskynen
French: t-|fr|hirondelle|f
Frisian: swel, boereswel
Friulian: cisile, sisile
Galician: andoriña f
German: t+|de|Schwalbe|f
Greek: �ελιδ�νι (kheliðóni)
Hungarian: t+|hu|fecske
Icelandic: t+|is|svala, t+|is|landsvala
Ido: hirundo
Interlingua: hirundine
Irish: fáinleog
Italian: t+|it|rondine
Japanese: � (���, tsubame)
Korean: �� (jebi)
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Kurdish: KUchar|پ�����س��ک��
Ladin: rondola
Latin: t-|la|hirundo
Latvian: bezdelīga
Lithuanian: kregžd� f
Lower Sorbian: jaskolicka
Low Saxon: Swulk, Swolk, Swalk, Swölk f
Macedonian: ла��ови�а (lastovica) f
Maltese: ħuttafa
Nahuatl: cuicuizcatl
Norwegian: svale (låvesvale)
Occitan: ironda
Polish: jaskó�ka, dymówka
Portuguese: t-|pt|andorinha|f
Romanian: rândunic� f, l�stun m
Romansh: randulina
Romany: pitsagoy m, rindilashka f
Russian: t+|ru|ла��о�ка|f|trlásto�ka|scCyrl
Sami: spálfu, suorrespálfu, láhtospálfu
Sardinian: mongixedda, arrùndine, arrùndini
Scottish: aileag
Serbian: t|sr|ла��ави�а|f|scCyrl, t-|sr|lastavica|f, t|sr|ла��а|f|scCyrl, t-|sr|lasta|f
Slovak: lastovi�ka f
Slovene: lastovka f, lastovica f
Spanish: t+|es|golondrina|f
Swedish: t-|sv|svala, t+|sv|ladusvala
Turkish: kır kırlangıcı
Thai: THchar|�า��อ�� (naang àen)
Ukrainian: ла���вка (lastivka) f
Upper Sorbian: �astoj�ka
Welsh: gwennol
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