sea

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sea"

Translingual

Etymology

Most likely from English Semai

Symbol

sea

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Semai.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Semai terms

English

The sea.

Etymology

From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Swedish sjö), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”); more at sore)^[1] or derived from *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), in which case *saiwiz is from earlier *saigwiz, Pre-Germanic *soykʷ-ís.^[2]

Pronunciation

• enPR: sē, IPA^(key): /siː/

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• (obsolete) enPR: sā, IPA^(key): /seɪ/
• Homophones: C, cee, see
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

sea (plural seas)

2. A large body of salt water.

   Synonym: (UK, nautical and navy) ogin

   • 1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] ‎, 4th edition, page 252:

     God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.

   1. The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 11:9, column 2:

        These ſhal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatsoeuer hath finnes and ſcales in the waters, in the ſeas, and in the riuers, them ſhall ye eate.

      • 1719, Nicholas Rowe, “Book V”, in Lucan's Pharsalia: Translated into English Verse, Dublin: James Carson, page 183:

        At length the universal Wreck appear'd,/ To Cæsar's self, ev'n worthy to be fear'd./ Why all these Pains, this Toil of Fate (he cries)/ This Labour of the Seas, and Earth, and Skies?/ All Nature, and the Gods at once alarm'd,/ Against my little Boat and me are arm'd.

      • 1833, William Hazlitt, “Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy”, in Greenbank's Periodical Library, volume I, chapter 1, page 173:

        There is something in being near the sea, like the confines of eternity. It is a new element, a pure abstraction. The mind loves to hover on that which is endless, and forever the same. People wonder at a steam-boat, the invention of man, managed by man, that makes its liquid path like an iron railway through the sea—I wonder at the sea itself, that vast Leviathan, rolled round the earth, smiling in its sleep, waked into fury, fathomless, boundless, a huge world of water-drops.—Whence is it, whither goes it, is it of eternity, or of nothing?

      • 1922 March, J. S. Fletcher, “The Mystery of Ravensdene Court”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume XLVI, number 3, page 162:

        As we stood there watching, the long yellow light on the eastern horizon suddenly changed in color—first to a roseate flush, then to a warm crimson; the scenes round us, sky, sea, and land, brightened as if by magic.

   2. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.

      The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.

3. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

   The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.

4. The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
   • 1792, William Bligh, chapter II, in A Voyage to the South Sea, […] in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty, […], London: […] George Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 14:

     One ſea broke away the ſpare yards and ſpars out of the ſtarboard main chains. Another heavy ſea broke into the ſhip and ſtove all the boats. Several caſks of beer, that had been laſhed upon deck, were broke looſe and waſhed overboard, and it was not without great difficulty and riſk that we were able to ſecure the boats from being waſhed away entirely.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 187:

     "If they buy three cords of birch logs," said the witch, "but they must be exact measure and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the second sea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the third sea comes, then it's all over with us."

   • 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea:

     There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.

   • 2020 June 8, National Weather Service Boston, 2:38 PM EDT marine forecast

     High pressure will maintain light winds and flat seas through Tue night. ... Potential for briefly choppy 3 ft seas near South Coast...

5. (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.

   Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.

6. (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
   • 1604, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke‎, London: Nicholas Ling:

     To be, or not to be, that is the question,/ Whether tis nobler in the minde to suffer/ The slings and arrowes of outragious fortune,/ Or to take Armes against a sea of troubles,/ And by opposing, end them, to die to sleepe/ No more, and by a sleepe, to say we end/ The hart-ake, and the thousand naturall shocks/ That flesh is heire to.

   • 1980, Patria Crone, Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     Secondly, in terms of geopolitics Central Asia was a huge sea of barbarians set in the midst of interlocking continents. Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.

   • 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎:

     In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.

7. (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
8. (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

   The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.

9. (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Derived terms

Names of seas

• Adriatic Sea
• Aegean Sea
• Baltic Sea
• Banda Sea
• Barents Sea
• Beaufort Sea
• Bering Sea
• Black Sea
• Caribbean Sea
• Caspian Sea
• Celtic Sea
• Coral Sea
• Dead Sea
• East Sea
• German Sea
• Greenland Sea
• Imarpik Sea
• Inland Sea
• Ionian Sea
• Irish Sea
• Java Sea
• Kara Sea
• Labrador Sea
• Ligurian Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
• North Sea
• Norwegian Sea
• Philippine Sea
• Red Sea
• Ross Sea
• Salt Sea
• Sea of Azov
• Sea of Galilee
• Sea of Japan
• Sea of Marmara
• Sea of Okhotsk
• Sea of Sodom
• Sea of the Hebrides
• Seto Inland Sea
• South China Sea
• Tappan Sea
• Tasman Sea
• Tyrrhenian Sea
• Wadden Sea
• Weddell Sea

 

Terms derived from sea (other)

• Allhallows-on-Sea
• Arctic sea smoke
• asea
• a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
• at sea
• beam sea
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• Bexhill-on-Sea
• bigger fish in the sea
• Birchington-on-Sea
• black sea
• black sea cucumber
• blackspot sea bream
• bottom of the sea
• Caister-on-Sea
• California sea lion
• Cardiff-by-the-Sea
• Carmel-by-the-Sea
• Chelsea-on-Sea
• chicken of the sea
• chickpea of the sea
• Chilean sea bass
• cockroach of the sea
• Cortez sea chub
• countersea
• cross sea
• dead sea
• deep blue sea
• deep-sea
• deep sea
• deep-sea prawn
• Dirac sea
• drop in the sea
• European sea bass
• freedom of the seas
• Frinton-on-Sea
• from sea to shining sea
• from the river to the sea
• fruit of the sea
• fruits of the sea
• Galápagos sea lion
• Galapagos sea lion
• get in the sea
• Goring-by-Sea
• Gorleston-on-Sea
• go to sea
• Greatstone-on-Sea
• green sea
• green sea turtle
• hawksbill sea turtle
• head sea
• high sea
• high seas
• Hopton-on-Sea
• inland sea
• Japanese sea lion
• Japanese sea perch
• Kemp's ridley sea turtle
• Kingston by Sea
• Knott End-on-Sea
• law of the sea
• Leysdown-on-Sea
• Littlestone-on-Sea
• loggerhead sea turtle
• Madagascar sea-eagle
• majestic sea flap flap
• majestic sea flap-flap
• marginal sea
• Marske-by-the-Sea
• mediterranean sea
• Middleton-on-Sea
• midsea
• Milford-on-Sea
• milky sea
• Minster-on-Sea
• narrow sea
• never sick at sea
• Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
• Newton-by-the-Sea
• nonsea
• olive ridley sea turtle
• olive sea snake
• open sea
• other fishes in the sea
• other fish in the sea
• oversea
• people mountain people sea
• potato chip of the sea
• primordial sea
• put to sea
• red-backed sea eagle
• red sea
• Red Sea Hills
• rock sea lavender
• Saltburn-by-the-Sea
• sea acorn
• sea adder (Syngnathus acus)
• sea anchor
• sea anemone (Actiniaria)
• sea angel
• sea ape
• sea apple
• sea area
• sea arrow
• seabag
• sea ball
• seabank
• sea barrow
• seabase
• sea-based
• sea bass
• sea bat
• sea-bat
• seabat
• seabeach
• sea bean
• sea bear
• seabeard
• sea beaver
• seabed
• sea bed
• sea beet
• seaberry
• sea bird
• seabird
• sea biscuit
• sea blite
• sea-blubber
• sea blubber
• sea bluebell
• sea-blue histiocytosis
• seaboard
• seaboat
• sea-boot
• seaboot
• seaborn
• seaborne
• seabottom
• seabound
• sea-bow
• sea bow
• sea boy
• sea brant
• sea breach
• sea bread
• sea bream
• seabream
• Seabreeze
• sea breeze
• seabreeze
• sea brief
• sea-brink
• sea buckthorn
• sea-buckthorn
• sea bug
• seaburger
• sea butterfly
• sea cabbage
• seacalf
• sea-calf
• sea calf
• sea campion
• sea can
• sea canary
• sea cap
• sea captain
• sea card
• sea carnation
• sea cat
• sea caterpillar
• sea-catgut
• sea cauliflower
• seacave
• sea centipede
• sea-change
• sea change, seachange
• sea chanty
• sea chart
• sea chervil
• sea chest
• sea chestnut
• sea chickweed
• sea chub
• sea clam
• seacliff
• sea coal
• sea-coal
• seacoal
• seacoast
• sea cob
• seacock
• sea cock
• sea coconut
• sea colander
• sea cole
• sea colewort
• sea coot
• sea cormorant
• sea corn
• sea couch grass
• sea cow
• sea-cow
• sea cradle
• seacraft
• sea crow
• sea cucumber (Holothuroidea)
• sea dace
• sea daffodil
• sea daisy
• seaday
• sea day
• sea-day
• sea devil
• seadevil
• sea-dog
• sea dog, seadog
• sea dollar
• sea donkey
• sea dotterel
• sea dove
• sea dragon
• sea drake
• sea-drift
• seadrome
• sea duck
• seaduck
• sea duty
• sea-duty
• sea-eagle
• sea eagle (Haliaeetus)
• sea ear
• sea-ear
• sea eel
• sea elephant
• sea fairy
• sea fan
• seafare
• seafarer
• seafaring
• sea feather
• sea fennel
• sea fig
• sea fir
• sea fish
• sea floor
• seafloor
• sea-floor spreading
• seafoam
• seafolk
• seafood
• Seaford
• seafowl
• sea fox
• sea fret
• seafront
• sea-front
• seaful
• sea gherkin
• sea ginger
• sea girdles
• sea-girl
• seagirt
• sea glass
• seagoer
• seagoing
• sea-going
• sea goose
• sea-gooseberry
• sea gooseberry
• sea gown
• sea grape
• seagrass
• sea green
• sea-ground
• sea gudgeon
• sea-gull
• seagull (Laridae)
• seahabilitation
• sea hare (Anaspidea)
• seahawk
• sea heath
• sea hedgehog
• sea hen
• sea hibiscus
• sea-hog
• sea hog (Phocoenidae)
• sea holly
• sea holm
• sea horse (Hippocampus)
• sea hound
• sea hulver
• sea ice
• sea ivory
• seajack
• sea jelly
• sea kale
• seakeeping
• sea kidney
• seakindly
• sea king
• sea krait
• sealab
• sea lace
• sea-laces
• sea lamprey
• Sealand
• sea-lane
• sea lane
• sea lark
• sea lavender
• sea lawyer
• sea-lawyer
• sea legs
• sea lemon
• sea leopard
• sealess
• sea letter
• sea lettuce
• sea level
• sealife
• sealift
• sea light
• sea-light
• sealike
• sea lily
• sealine
• sea link
• sea-lion
• sea lion, sealion (Otariidae)
• sea liquor
• sea liver (Eudistoma hepaticum)
• sea loach
• sea load
• sea loch
• sealock
• sealocked
• sea-locked
• sealore
• sea louse (Caligidae)
• seamaid
• seamail
• sea mammal
• seaman
• seamare
• sea mark
• seamark
• sea mat
• seamew
• sea mile
• sea milkwort
• Sea Mills
• sea monk
• sea monkey
• sea monster
• sea moss
• sea moth
• seamount
• seamouse
• sea mouse
• sea mouth
• sea mud
• sea mustard
• sea myrtle
• sea needle
• sea nettle
• sea oats
• sea of instability
• Sea of Storms
• sea onion
• sea orange
• sea orb
• sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
• sea otter's cabbage
• sea pancake
• sea pansy
• sea panther
• sea parrot
• sea-parrot
• sea parsley
• sea parsnip
• sea partridge
• sea pass
• sea pea
• sea peach
• sea pear
• sea pen
• sea perch
• sea pheasant
• sea-pheasant
• sea pickle
• sea pie
• sea-pie
• seapiece
• sea-piece
• sea piece
• sea pig
• sea pigeon
• sea-pike
• sea pike
• sea pineapple
• sea pink
• seaplane
• sea plantain
• Sea Point
• sea poison tree
• sea-poose
• sea poppy
• sea porcupine
• sea pork (Aplidium stellatum)
• seaport
• sea potato
• sea power, seapower
• sea primrose
• sea pudding
• sea pumpkin
• seapunk
• sea-purse
• sea purse
• sea-puss
• sea puss
• sea pye
• sea quail
• seaquake
• seaquarium
• sea rat
• sea raven
• sea-reach
• sea rescue kit
• sea-rim
• sea roach
• sea robin
• sea rocket
• searocket (Cakile)
• sea room
• sea rosemary
• sea rover
• sea-ruff
• sea ruffe
• sea rush
• sea saliva
• sea salmon
• sea salt
• sea-salted
• seasand
• sea sawdust (Trichodesmium)
• sea scallop
• seascape
• sea scooter
• sea scorpion
• seascraper
• sea scurf
• sea serpent
• sea shanty
• seashell
• sea shell
• seashore
• seasick
• seasickness
• sea-sickness
• seaside
• sea silk
• sea skimmer
• sea skimming
• sea slater
• sea-sleeve
• sea slug (Nudibranchia)
• sea smoke
• seasnail (fish, Liparidae)
• sea snail (snail)
• sea snake
• sea snipe
• sea snot
• sea soldier
• seaspace
• sea sparkle
• Seaspeak
• seaspider
• sea-spider
• sea spider
• sea spleenwort
• sea sponge
• seaspray
• sea squill
• sea squirt (Ascidiacea)
• sea-stack
• sea stack
• seastained
• sea-star
• seastar
• sea-star-associated densovirus
• sea star-associated densovirus
• sea star associated densovirus
• sea star (Asteroidea)
• sea star wasting disease
• sea-star wasting disease
• sea state
• seastead
• seasteading
• sea-stick
• sea stock
• seastorm
• sea story
• seastrand
• sea strawberry
• sea swallow
• seaswept
• seaswine
• seatainer
• seatang
• sea thong
• sea thongs
• sea titling
• sea toad
• Seatown
• sea-tree
• sea trial
• seatron
• sea trout
• sea trumpet
• sea turn
• sea-turtle
• sea turtle
• sea twine
• sea unicorn
• sea urchin (Echinoidea)
• sea vegetable
• sea-view
• Seaview
• sea vomit
• sea wall
• seawall
• sea walnut
• seaward
• seawards
• seaware
• sea wasp
• sea water
• seawater
• seaway
• sea-weed
• seaweed
• sea whip coral
• sea whistle
• sea-willow
• sea willow
• seawise
• sea wolf
• seawolf (Anarhichas lupus)
• seawoman
• sea woodlouse
• sea worm
• sea wormwood
• seaworn
• sea-worthy
• seaworthy
• seawrack
• seven seas
• ship a sea
• ship a sea
• Shoreham-by-Sea
• shortsea
• short-sea shipping
• slender sea lettuce
• snuff box sea bean
• son of a sea-cook
• South American sea lion
• starlet sea anemone
• Steller sea lion
• Steller's sea cow
• St Leonards-on-Sea
• subsea
• Sutton on Sea
• termite of the sea
• territorial sea
• there are plenty more fish in the sea
• there are plenty of fish in the sea
• two lamps burning and no ship at sea
• undersea
• victory at sea
• weedy sea dragon
• Westcliff-on-Sea
• Westgate-on-Sea
• white-breasted sea eagle
• white-tailed sea eagle
• within the four seas
• worse things happen at sea

 

Translations

body of water

Abaza: амшын (amšən) Abkhaz: амшын (amŝən) Acehnese: laot, la'ôt Adyghe: хы (xə) Afar: bad Afrikaans: see (af) Ainu: アトゥイ (atuy) Akan: empo, mpo, po Akkadian: 𒀀𒁀𒈠𒌅 (abamātu) Aklanon: dagat, eawod Albanian: det (sq) Alutor: аӈӄан (aŋqan) Amharic: ባሕር (baḥr) Andi: релъо (relˢo) Antillean Creole: lanmè Arabic: بَحْر (ar) m (baḥr), يَمّ m (yamm) Gulf Arabic: بَحَر (baḥər) Hijazi Arabic: بَحَر m (baḥar) Moroccan Arabic: بحر (bḥar) Aragonese: mar m or f Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܡܐ f (yāmā) Classical Syriac: ܝܡܐ m (yammā) Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: יַמָּא m (yammā) Archi: лъат (lʰat) Armenian: ծով (hy) (cov) Aromanian: amari f, amare f, mari f Assamese: সাগৰ (xagor) Asturian: mar (ast) m or f Atayal: bcilung Avar: ралъад (ralˢad) Aymara: lamara (ay) Azerbaijani: dəniz (az) Balinese: pasih, sagara Bashkir: диңгеҙ (diñgeź) Basque: itsaso Bau Bidayuh: laut Belarusian: мо́ра (be) n (móra) Bengali: সাগর (bn) (śagor), সমুদ্র (bn) (śomudro) Bhojpuri: समुंद्र (samundra) Bislama: solwora Blackfoot: mo'toyaohkii Breton: mor (br) m Brunei Malay: laut Bulgarian: море́ (bg) n (moré) Burmese: ပင်လယ် (my) (panglai), အဏ္ဏဝါ (my) (anna.wa) Buryat: далай (dalaj) Caló: pañibaró m Carpathian Rusyn: мо́ре n (móre) Catalan: mar (ca) m or f Cebuano: dagat Central Melanau: daat Chechen: хӏорд (hord) Cherokee: ᎡᏉᏂ (equoni), ᎠᎺᏉᎯ (amequohi) Chichewa: nyanja Chinese: Cantonese: 海 (hoi2) Dungan: хэ (he) Eastern Min: 海 (hāi) Gan: 海 (hai3) Hakka: 海 (hói) Hokkien: 海 (hái) Jin: 海 (hai2) Mandarin: 海 (zh) (hǎi) Northern Min: 海 (huǒi) Wu: 海 (5he / 3he) Xiang: 海 (hai3) Chukchi: аӈӄы (aṇqy) Chuvash: тинӗс (tinĕs) Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲙ (eiom) Cornish: mor m Corsican: mari (co) m Cree: ᑭᐦᒋᑲᒥᕀ (kihcikamiy) Crimean Tatar: deñiz Czech: moře (cs) n Dalmatian: mur Danish: hav (da) n, sø (da) c Dhivehi: މޫދު (mūdu) Dolgan: байгал (baygal) Dutch: zee (nl) f Egyptian: (wꜣḏ-wr m), (ym m) Erzya: иневедь (ińeveď), моря (moŕa) Esperanto: maro (eo) Estonian: meri (et) Even: нам (nam) Evenki: ламу (lamu) Ewe: atsiaƒu n Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can Farefare: ateko Faroese: hav (fo) n, sjógvur (fo) m Fataluku: tahi Fijian: wasa (fj) Finnish: meri (fi) French: mer (fr) f Friulian: mâr Galician: mar (gl) m, ler (gl) m Ge'ez: ባሕር (baḥr) Georgian: ზღვა (ka) (zɣva) German: Meer (de) n, See (de) f Alemannic German: Meer n, See f Goguryeo: 波旦 (padan), 內米 (nami) Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 f (marei), 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 m (saiws), 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃 m (lagus) Greek: θάλασσα (el) f (thálassa), πέλαγος (el) n (pélagos), πόντος (el) m (póntos) Ancient: θάλασσα f (thálassa), ἅλς m (háls), πέλαγος n (pélagos), πόντος m (póntos) Greenlandic: imaq Guaraní: para Gujarati: સમુદ્ર (gu) m (samudra), દરિયો (gu) m (dariyo) Haitian Creole: lanmè Hawaiian: kai, moana Hebrew: יָם (he) m (yam) Higaonon: dagat Hiligaynon: dagat, laud, lawod Hindi: सागर (hi) m (sāgar), समुद्र (hi) m (samudra), समुंदर (hi) (samundar), अम्बुधि (hi) m (ambudhi), बहर (hi) m (bahar), दरिया (hi) m (dariyā), दरया (hi) f (daryā) Hittite: 𒀀𒊒𒈾𒀸 (a-ru-na-aš) Hungarian: tenger (hu) Iban: tasik Icelandic: haf (is) n, sjór (is) m, ægir (is) m (poetic), úthaf (is) n Ido: maro (io) Igbo: osịmịrị Indonesian: laut (id) Ingush: форд (ford) Interlingua: mar Iranun: kalud Irish: muir (ga) f, farraige (ga) f Old Irish: muir, fairrge f Istriot: mare Italian: mare (it) m Japanese: 海 (ja) (うみ, umi), (as a component) 海 (ja) (かい, kai) Jarawa: ullel Javanese: Carakan: ꦱꦒꦫ (sagara), ꦱꦒꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦤ꧀ (jv) (saganten) Rumi: sagara (jv) (ngoko), saganten (krama) Jeju: 바당 (badang) Jurchen:  (mədə-əri) Kabardian: хы (kbd) (xə) Kabuverdianu: mar Kalmyk: дала (dala), теңгс (teñgs) Kannada: ಅಮ್ಬುಧಿ (ambudhi), ಸಮುದ್ರ (kn) (samudra), ಕಡಲು (kn) (kaḍalu) Kapampangan: dayat Karachay-Balkar: тенгиз sg (teñiz) Karakalpak: teńiz Karelian: meri Kashubian: mòrzé n Kazakh: теңіз (kk) (teñız) Khmer: សមុទ្រ (km) (sa’mot), សាគរ (km) (saakɔɔ) Kinaray-a: baybay, kalalawdan Komi-Zyrian: море (more), саридз (saridź) Korean: 바다 (ko) (bada), 해양(海洋) (ko) (haeyang) Koryak: аӈӄан (aŋqan) Kumyk: денгиз (deñiz) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: زەریا (ckb) (zerya), دەریا (ckb) (derya), بەحر (beḧir) Northern Kurdish: dengiz (ku), derya (ku), behr (ku) f Kyrgyz: деңиз (ky) (deŋiz) Lakota: ble Lampung Api: lawok Lao: ທະເລ (tha lē), ສະມຸດ (sa mut) Latgalian: jiurys m Latin: mare (la) n, pontus, pelagus m, aequor (la) Latvian: jūra (lv) f Lezgi: гьуьл (hül) Ligurian: mâ Lingala: mbu Lithuanian: jūra (lt) f, (poetic or small sea) marios f Livonian: mer, mier Lombard: mar (lmo) Lü: ᦒᦰᦵᦟ (th!le) Luganda: ennyanja Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč Luxembourgish: Mier (lb) n Macedonian: мо́ре (mk) n (móre) Madurese: laot (mad), tasè', saghârâ Maguindanao: kaludan, ragat Malagasy: ranomasina (mg) Malay: laut (ms), tasik (ms), samudera (ms), segara (ms), bahar (ms) Malayalam: കടൽ (ml) (kaṭal) Maltese: baħar m Mambae: taisa Manchu: ᠮᡝᡩᡝᡵᡳ (mederi), ᠨᠠᠮᡠ (namu) Mansaka: dagat Manx: mooir (gv) f, faarkey m, keayn m Maori: moana (mi), tai (mi) Maranao: kalodan, ragat Marathi: समुद्र (mr) m (samudra), सागर (mr) m (sāgar) Mari: Eastern Mari: теҥыз (teŋyz) Western Mari: тангыж (tangyž) Marwari: please add this translation if you can Mazanderani: دریو Mehri: رورم Middle English: see, mere Mirandese: mar m Mòcheno: meir m Moksha: моря (moŕa) Mongolian: Cyrillic: далай (mn) (dalaj), тэнгис (mn) (tengis) Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ (dalai), ᠲᠡᠩᠭᠢᠰ (tenggis) Mori Bawah: tahi Mulam: hai³ (Dongmen, Siba) Nahuatl: hueyatl (nah), ilhuicaatl (nah) Nanai: намо (namo) Navajo: tónteel Neapolitan: mare m Nepali: सागर (ne) (sāgar) Ngarrindjeri: yarluwar Ngazidja Comorian: ɓahari class 9/10 Nivkh: кер̌ӄ (keřq), кер̌ӄн (keřqn) Norman: mé f North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) sia f, (Sylt) See c Northern Mansi: (please verify) ся̄рысь (sâ̄rysʹ) Northern Sami: mearra Norwegian: Bokmål: hav (no) n, sjø (no) m Nynorsk: hav n, sjø m Occitan: mar (oc) Odia: ସାଗର (sāgara), ସମୁଦ୍ର (samudra) Ohlone: Northern Ohlone: 'ómú' Ojibwe: gichigami, gichigamin pl Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: морѥ n (morje) Old East Slavic: море n (more) Old English: sǣ f Old Javanese: sagara Old Norse: haf n Old Occitan: mar Old Prussian: jūris Old Saxon: sēo m, holm m Oromo: garba Ossetian: денджыз (denǵyz), фурд (furd) Ottoman Turkish: دڭز (deñiz) Pali: samudda m, sāgara Pannonian Rusyn: морє n (morje) Papiamentu: laman Pashto: بحر (ps) m (bahr) Persian: Iranian Persian: دَرْیا (fa) (daryâ), بَحْر (fa) (bahr), زُو (fa) (zow), زِراه (fa) (zerâh), زَراه (fa) (zarâh) Plautdietsch: Mäa n Polish: morze (pl) n Portuguese: mar (pt) m Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਸਮੁੰਦਰ (pa) m (samundar) Quechua: mama qucha Rohingya: doria Romagnol: mêr Romani: baro pani Romanian: mare (ro) f Romansch: mar m or f, mer m Russian: мо́ре (ru) n (móre) Rwanda-Rundi: ikiyaga Saho: bad Samoan: sami, vasa, moana Sanskrit: समुद्र (sa) (samudra), धीर (sa) m (dhīra) Sardinian: mare, mari Sasak: segara Scots: se Scottish Gaelic: muir m or f, fairge f, cuan m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мо̑ре n Roman: mȏre (sh) n Shan: ပၢင်ႇလၢႆႇ (shn) (pàang làai) Sicilian: mari (scn) m Sindhi: سَمُنڊ (sd) m Sinhalese: මුහුද (si) (muhuda) Slovak: more (sk) n Slovene: morje (sl) n Somali: bad (so) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: mórjo n Upper Sorbian: morjo n Southern Altai: теҥис (teŋis), талай (talay) Spanish: mar (es) m or f, ponto (es) m, piélago (es) m Sranan Tongo: se Sumbawa: lit Sundanese: sagara (su) Swahili: bahari (sw) class 9/10 Swedish: hav (sv) n, sjö (sv) c (in some cases, not generally) Tabasaran: гьюл (hjul) Tagalog: dagat (tl) Tai Dam: ꪙꪾ꫁ꪹꪚꪸ꫁ Tajik: баҳр (tg) (bahr), дарё (tg) (daryo) Talysh: Asalemi: دریا (daryâ) Tamil: கடல் (ta) (kaṭal) Tarifit: rebḥar m Tatar: диңгез (tt) (diñgez) Tausug: dagat Tày: pé Telugu: సముద్రం (te) (samudraṁ), కడలి (te) (kaḍali) Ternate: dai Tetum: tasi Thai: ทะเล (th) (tá-lee), ห้วงน้ำ (th) (hûuang-náam), สมุทฺท (th) Tibetan: བརྐོས (brkos), རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho), མཚོ (mtsho) Tigrinya: ባሕሪ (baḥri) Tocharian A: sāmudtär Tocharian B: samudtär, lyam m Tok Pisin: solwara, wara (tpi), raunwara Tongan: tahi, vaha, moana Tupinambá: paranã, paranaã, paraná Turkish: deniz (tr), derya (tr) (large) Turkmen: deňiz Udihe: наму (namu) Udmurt: море (more), зарезь (zareź) Ukrainian: мо́ре (uk) n (móre) Urdu: سَمَنْدَر m (samandar), سَمُنْدَر (samundar), بَحْر (ur) m (bahr) Urum: дэниз (déniz) Uyghur: دېڭىز (dë'ngiz) Uzbek: dengiz (uz) Venetan: mar (vec) m, mare (vec) Veps: meri Vietnamese: biển (vi), bể (vi) Vilamovian: mjer Volapük: mel (vo) Vurës: naw Walloon: please add this translation if you can Welsh: môr (cy), gweilgi West Coast Bajau: delout West Frisian: see (fy) f Western Bukidnon Manobo: daɣat White Hmong: dej hiav txwv Wolof: gaych Xhosa: ulwandle Yagnobi: bahr Yakut: байҕал (bayğal), муора (muora) Yámana: ixa Yiddish: ים m (yam), יאַם m (yam) Yoruba: okun Yup'ik: imarpik Zazaki: derya (diq), dengız (diq) Zealandic: zeê f Zhuang: haij Zulu: ulwandle (zu) class 11/10

See also

• ocean

See also

• Sea-Tac

References

1. Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.v. "saiwiz" (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003), 314.
2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

• sea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “sea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “sea”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• -ase, AES, ASE, EAS, EAs, ESA, Esa, SAE, a**es, aes, ase, eas, esa

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German sē, from Old High German sēo, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”). Cognate with German See, English sea.

Noun

sea m

1. (Luserna) lake

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Noun

sea

1. genitive singular of siga

Garo

Verb

sea

1. to write

Derived terms

• segipa

Irish

Alternative forms

• seadh (superseded)

Etymology

is + ea (literally, "it is")

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa/

Adverb

sea

1. yes (to copula questions)
2. right, well (topic introducer)

Usage notes

This is a contraction of an affirmative response to a question, and is found in response to questions where the key verb is is or a present tense form thereof:

Q: An féidir leat cuidiú liom? — "Can you help me?" (literally, "Possible for you to help me?")

A: Sea. — "Yes."

Informally it may also be found as the answer to a question with a main verb, though this is considered incorrect. The standard response to such a question is to repeat the verb:

Q: Ar chuala tú mé? — "Did you hear me?"

A: Chuala. — "Yes" (literally, "Heard") or informally Sea.

Antonyms

• ní hea
• nach ea

Middle English

Noun

sea

1. Alternative form of see (“sea”)

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German sē, from Old High German sēo, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”). Cognate with German See, English sea.

Noun

sea m

1. lake

References

• “sea” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Old Irish

Determiner

sea

1. Alternative spelling of so

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• sīa

Etymology

From Old Norse séa (West Norse sjá), from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną.

Verb

sēa

1. to see

Conjugation

	present			past
infinitive	sēa			—
participle	sēandi, sēande			sēþer
active voice	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
iæk	sēr	sē	—	sā	sāghi, sāghe
þū	sēr	sē	sē	sāt	sāghi, sāghe
han	sēr	sē	—	sā	sāghi, sāghe
vīr	sēum, sēom	sēum, sēom	sēum, sēom	sāghum, sāghom	sāghum, sāghom
īr	sēn	sēn	sēn	sāghin	sāghin
þēr	sēa	sēn	—	sāghu, sāgho	sāghin
mediopassive voice	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
iæk	sēs	sēs	—	sās	sāghis, sāghes
þū	sēs	sēs	—	sāts	sāghis, sāghes
han	sēs	sēs	—	sās	sāghis, sāghes
vīr	sēums, -oms	sēums, sēoms	—	sāghums, sāghoms	sāghums, sāghoms
īr	sēns	sēns	—	sāghins	sāghins
þēr	sēas	sēns	—	sāghus, sāghos	sāghins

Conjugation of sēa (strong)

Descendants

• Swedish: se, sia

Plautdietsch

Adverb

sea

1. very, intensely

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsea/ [ˈse.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: se‧a

Verb

sea

1. inflection of ser:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

See also

• aunque sea
• maldita sea
• o sea

Tongan

Etymology

Borrowed from English chair.

Noun

sea

1. chair

Wolio

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səjəm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sea/

Noun

sea

1. ant

References

• Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris