Snake
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Pronunciation
- AHD: snāk
- IPA: /sneɪk/
- SAMPA: /sneIK/
Noun
snake (pl. snakes)
- A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes.
- A tool for unplugging plumbing.
Synonyms
Translations
- reptile
- Arabic: ثُعْبَان (thoaʕbáːn) m, ثَعَابِينُ (thaʕabíːn) pl
- Bosnian: zmija f
- Breton: naer f -ed pl, sarpant m -ed pl
- Bulgarian: змия (zmija) f
- Catalan: serp f, serpent f
- Chinese Characters: 蛇
- Chinese: 蛇 (shé)
- Czech: had m
- Danish: slange
- Dutch: slang f, serpent n
- Finnish: käärme
- French: serpent m
- German: Schlange f
- Greek (Ancient): ὄφις (óphis) m, ἑρπετόν (herpetón) n
- Hebrew: נחש (nakhaš) m
- Hungarian: kígyó
- Indonesian: ular
- Italian: serpente m
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- Japanese: 蛇 (へび, hébi)
- KiSwahili: nyoka sg, nyoka pl (n.c. 9/10)
- Korean: 뱀 (baem)
- Latin: serpens m, f, vipera f
- Lithuanian: gyvatė f
- Nahuatl: coatl
- Norwegian: slange, orm
- Polish: wąż m
- Portuguese: serpente f
- Romanian: şarpe m
- Russian: змея (zmejá) f, змеи (zméi) pl
- Slovak: had m
- Slovene: kača f
- Spanish: serpiente f
- Swedish: orm
- Tok Pisin: snek
- Turkish: yılan
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- plumbing tool
See also
w:Snake
Intransitive verb
to snake (snaked, snaking)
- to move in a winding path. (The river snakes through the valley.)
Translations
- Bosnian: vijugati se, izvijati se
- Finnish: kiemurrella
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- Swedish: slingra, slingra sig, vindla
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