TO CUT

  

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TO CUT

Modern Translation: TO CUT

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 

  

(scissors), (encourage, to strain), , 縮減 (to reduce), (carry to the utmost), (erect, stab, to pare, to reduce, to scrape), , (close to, to slice), (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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