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| Language | Translations for "TO CUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | قطع (chop off, separate, to buy a ticket). (various references) | |
Aymara | cuchuña. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鉸 (scissors), 釗 (encourage, to strain), 琢 , 縮減 (to reduce), 戩 (carry to the utmost), 削 (erect, stab, to pare, to reduce, to scrape), 剖 , 切 (close to, to slice), 刻 (oppressive, quarter, to carve, to engrave). (various references) | |
Czech | zkrátka a dobře (to cut a long story short), suma sumárum (to cut a long story short). (various references) | |
Danish | tilskære (to hit), cut (to hit), afskaere (to burn), afbraende (to burn). (various references) | |
Dutch | versnijden (blending, cutting, cutting up, shearing, to hit), afbranden (be burnt down, burn down). (various references) | |
Finnish | ojittaa (ditch, drain), kaivaa ojaa (to cut a ditch, to dig a trench, to ditch). (various references) | |
French | receper (to burn), pécou (to hit), entamer, couper (to arrest, to hit), bruler (to burn). (various references) | |
German | verschneiden (blend, castrate), verpimpeln (to hit), schneiden (cut, cutting, clip, intersect, slice), Pfaehle unter Wasser abschneiden (to burn), Pfaehle unter Wasser abbrennen (to burn), cut (morning coat, morning dress, morning suit), anschneiden (broach, cut, touch on). (various references) | |
Greek | κόβω σύρριζα (to burn), κόβω (cut, sever), καίω (burn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vág (cut), metsz (to slit), megvág (to gash, to ponce), lenyír (cut), kiszab (to levy). (various references) | |
Italian | tagliare (cut, slice), saldare (weld, welding). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 割る (to break, to divide, to halve, to separate), 切る (to carve, to chop, to hash, to saw). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たつ (dragon, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac, promoted rook, to abstain, to be built, to be erected, to cut off, to depart, to erect, to initiateaction, to lapse, to pass, to rise up, to sever, to stand, to suppress), たちきる (to block, to break off, to cut asunder, to cut off, to disconnect, to sever), おう (depression, female phoenix bird, hollow, king, monarch, old man, ruler, sovereign, sunken, to bear, to chase, to grow, to owe, to run after, to spring up, venerable), チョキチョキ (cutting sound, snipping sound), きりたてる (to slash, to slay all), きりいだす (to begin to talk, to break the ice, to bring down, to broach, to cut and carry off, to quarry), きりだす (to begin to talk, to break the ice, to bring down, to broach, to cut and carry off, to quarry), きる (to be through, to behead, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to murder, to pause, to punch, to put on, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off, to wear), かききる (to slit), かりこむ (to borrow, to clip, to dress, to prune, to trim), かる (to borrow, to buy on credit, to clip, to drive, to harvest, to have a loan, to hire, to hunt, to impel, to mow, to prune, to reap, to rent, to shear, to spur on, to trim), わる (bad person, bad thing, to break, to crack, to dilute, to divide, to halve, to rip, to separate, to smash, to split), はえる (to grow, to look attractive, to look pretty, to shine, to spring up). (various references) | |
Maori | haehae-a. (various references) | |
Maya | weh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otay utcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cortar (clip), adulterar (falsify). (various references) | |
Romany | cshinàv. (various references) | |
Sepedi | sega. (various references) | |
Spanish | trabajar (work), cortar (cut, cut off, clip, shear, slice, decapitate, pluck, tear off). (various references) | |
Swazi | kú-síka. (various references) | |
Swedish | gräva ett dike (to cut a ditch, to dig a trench, to ditch), dika (dike, ditch, dyke, gully). (various references) | |
Tahitian | t‘pupu. (various references) | |
Turkish | kestirmek (cause to cut, conjecture, doze, estimate, get some sleep, have a nap, have a snooze, nap, perceive, snooze, take a nap, zizz). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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