Sleep - Wiktionary

See also: Sleep

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:sleepWikipedia

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: slēp, IPA(key): /sliːp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Received Pronunciation); “to sleep”:

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• (General American) IPA(key): /slip/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iːp

Etymology 1

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From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan (West Saxon slǣpan), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.

Verb

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sleep (third-person singular simple present sleeps, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slept)

1. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep You should sleep eight hours a day.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain) We sleep in the bedroom.
2. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with). Last night we slept together for the first time.
3. (transitive) To accommodate in beds. This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.
4. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
   • 1706 October 9 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 407:We ſleep over our Happineſs, Great as it is, and want to be rous'd into a quick and thankful ſenſe of it, either by an actual Change of Circumſtances, or by a Compariſon of our Own caſe with that of other Men.
5. (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, column 2:For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:It was that of a man in advanced life, with a long grizzled beard, and also robed in white, probably the husband of the lady, who, after surviving her many years, came at the last to sleep once more for good and all beside her.
6. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant. a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 182, column 2:How ſweet the moone-light ſleepes vpon this banke,[…]
7. (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action. After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.
8. (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
   • 2009, Mike Lee, Scott Meyers, Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard, page 91:Even when you have reasons not to sleep the computer, it's still a good idea to sleep the display after a period of time.
9. (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.
   • 1854, Anne E. Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases:A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.
10. (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
    • 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters, page 158:Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.

Troponyms

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• (rest in a state of reduced consciousness): nap, doze, snooze

Derived terms

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• besleep
• coldsleep
• colorless green ideas sleep furiously
• does Dolly Parton sleep on her back
• forsleep
• how can you sleep at night
• how do you sleep at night
• hypersleep
• outsleep
• oversleep
• sleep around
• sleep-at-noon
• sleep a wink
• sleep-eat
• sleep flower
• sleep-fuck
• sleep funny
• sleep in
• sleeping bag
• Sleeping Beauty
• sleeping pill
• sleep in heavenly peace
• sleepiphany
• sleep it off
• sleep it out
• sleep like a baby
• sleep like a dog
• sleep like a log
• sleep like a mouse
• sleep like a rock
• sleep like a top
• sleep off
• sleep on
• sleep one off
• sleep out
• sleep over
• sleep rough
• sleep together
• sleep under the same bridge
• sleepwalk
• sleep well
• sleep with
• sleep with one eye open
• sleep with one's fathers
• sleep with the fishes
• sleepwort
• undersleep
• whatever helps you sleep at night

 

Descendants

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• Sranan Tongo: sribi

Translations

[edit] to rest in state of reduced consciousness

Afrikaans: slaap (af) Ahom: 𑜃𑜨𑜃𑜫 (non) Aiton: ꩫွꩫ် (non) Akan: deda, da Akatek: wey Albanian: fle (sq) Aleut: sagakux Ambonese Malay: sono, tidor Andi: кьихинну (kkˡʼixinnu) Arabic: نَامَ (nāma), رَقَدَ (raqada) Egyptian Arabic: نام (nām) Hijazi Arabic: نام (nām), رقد (ragad), انخمد (anḵamad) (vulgar) Moroccan Arabic: نعس (nʕas), رقد (rqad) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܕܡܟ (dəmeḵ), ܢܡ (nām) Armenian: քնել (hy) (kʻnel), ննջել (hy) (nnǰel), նիրհել (hy) (nirhel) Aromanian: dormu Assamese: শো (xü) Asturian: dormir (ast), adormir (ast) Avar: кьижизе (kkˡʼižize) Azerbaijani: yatmaq (az), uyumaq, yuxulamaq Balantak: royot Bashkir: йоҡлау (yoqlaw), (Eastern) йоҡтау (yoqtaw) Basque: lo egin Belarusian: спаць (be) impf (spacʹ) Bengali: শোয়া (bn) (śōẇa), ঘুমানো (bn) (ghumanō) Bhojpuri: सुतल (sutal) Breton: kousket (br) Bulgarian: спя (bg) impf (spja) Burmese: အိပ် (my) (ip) Catalan: dormir (ca) Cebuano: tulog Chakma: please add this translation if you can Chavacano: dormi Chechen: тхъанг (txʔang) Cherokee: ᎦᏟᎭ (gatliha) Cheyenne: -énome Chichewa: gona Chickasaw: nosi Chinese: Cantonese: 睏 / 困 (fan3), 瞓 / 𰥛 (fan3), 睏覺 / 困觉 (fan3 gaau3), 瞓覺 / 𰥛觉 (fan3 gaau3) Dungan: фи (fi) Eastern Min: 睏 / 困 (káung) Gan: 睏 / 困 (kun3), 睏覺 / 困觉 (kun3 'gau4) Hakka: 睡目 (soi-muk) Hokkien: 睏 / 困 (zh-min-nan) (khùn) Mandarin: 睡覺 / 睡觉 (zh) (shuìjiào), 眠 (zh) (mián), 睡眠 (zh) (shuìmián) Northern Min: 目䁒 (mì-chĭ / mì→mi̿-chĭ) Wu: 睏 / 困 (1khuen), 睏覺 / 困觉 (1khuen 5kau; 1khuen-kau; 5khuen-kau) Xiang: 睏覺 / 困觉 (kun4 gau4) Chukchi: йыԓӄэтык (jyḷqėtyk) Chuvash: ҫывӑр (śyvăr) Classical Nahuatl: cochi Coptic: ⲉⲛⲕⲟⲧ (enkot) Cornish: koska, hunya, (restlessly) tergoska Crimean Tatar: yuqlamaq Czech: spát (cs) impf Dalmatian: dormer Danish: sove (da) Dutch: slapen (nl) Egyptian: (qdd), (sḏr) Elfdalian: såvå Erzya: удомс (udoms) Esperanto: dormi (eo) Estonian: magama (et) Evenki: а- (a-) Farefare: gĩse Faroese: sova (fo) Fataluku: caia Finnish: nukkua (fi) French: dormir (fr) Friulian: durmî Galician: durmir (gl) Gallurese: drummí Gamilaraay: baabili Georgian: ძილი (ʒili) German: schlafen (de) Alemannic German: schlaaffe, schlooffe, schlofe, schlaafä, schloafen, schlàfu Gilbertese: matu Gothic: 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐌰𐌽 (slēpan) Greek: κοιμάμαι (el) (koimámai) Ancient: καθεύδω (katheúdō), κοιμάομαι (koimáomai), κνώσσω (knṓssō), εὕδω (heúdō), δαρθάνω (darthánō) (Epic) Greenlandic: sinippoq Guaraní: ke Gujarati: ઊંઘવું (ū̃ghavũ) Gurani: وتەی (wtey) Haitian Creole: dòmi Hawaiian: moe, hiamoe Hebrew: יָשֵׁן (he) (yashén) Higaonon: hiduga Hiligaynon: tulug Hindi: सोना (hi) (sonā) Hungarian: alszik (hu) Ibanag: katurug Icelandic: sofa (is) Ido: dormar (io) Ilocano: turug Indonesian: tidur (id) Interlingua: dormir Inuktitut: Inuttut: sinik South Baffin: ᓯᓂᑦᑐᖅ (sinittoq) Irish: codail Istro-Romanian: durmi Italian: dormire (it) Iu Mien: bueix Japanese: 寝る (ja) (ねる, neru), 眠る (ja) (ねむる, nemuru), お休みになる (おやすみになる, o-yasumi ni naru) (honorific) Jarai: pĭt Javanese: turu (jv) Jingpho: yup Karo Batak: medem Kashubian: spac Kazakh: ұйықтау (ūiyqtau) Khiamniungan Naga: sàih Khmer: ដេក (km) (deek) Khün: ᨶᩬᩁ Kongo: kulala Korean: 자다 (ko) (jada), 잠자다 (ko) (jamjada), 주무시다 (ko) (jumusida) (honorific) Kumyk: юхламакъ (yuxlamaq) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: خەوتن (ckb) (xewtin), نووستِن (nûstin) Laki: ھوەتِن (hwetin) Northern Kurdish: nivistin (ku), raketin (ku), razan (ku), veketin (ku), xewtin (ku) Southern Kurdish: خەفتِن (xeftin) Kyrgyz: укта (ky) (ukta) Lao: ນອນ (nǭn) Latgalian: gulēt Latin: dormiō (la), cubō Latvian: gulēt (lv), dusēt (poetic) Lenape: Unami: kawi Limburgish: slaope (li) Lithuanian: miegoti (lt) Livonian: maggõ Lombard: dormì (lmo), durmì Low German: slapen (nds) Lü: ᦓᦸᧃ (noan) Luxembourgish: schlofen Macedonian: спие impf (spie) Makasae: ta'e Malay: tidur (ms) Malayalam: ഉറങ്ങുക (ml) (uṟaṅṅuka) Maltese: raqad Manado Malay: tidor Manchu: ᠠᠮᡤᠠᠮᠪᡳ (amgambi) Maori: moe (mi), korohiko (restlessly), moe takarerewa (lightly), moe toropuku (restlessly), kaihewa (uneasily), kaikaru Marathi: झोपणे (mr) (jhopṇe), निजणे (nijṇe) Mirandese: drumir Mòcheno: schloven Moksha: удомс (udoms) Mongolian: Cyrillic: унтах (mn) (untax) Mongolian: ᠤᠨᠲᠠᠬᠤ (untaqu) Nahuatl: cochi (nah) Nanai: ао- (ao-) Navajo: ałhosh Neapolitan: dormì, dorme Nepali: सुत्नु (sutnu) Norman: dormi North Frisian: (Mooring dialect) släipe, sliip (Sylt) Northern Sami: oađđit Northern Thai: ᨶᩬᩁ Norwegian: Bokmål: sove (no) Nynorsk: sova Occitan: dormir (oc) Odia: ନିଦ୍ରାଯିବା (or) (nidrājibā) Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: съпати impf (sŭpati) Old East Slavic: съпати impf (sŭpati) Old English: sƿefan Old French: dormir Old Javanese: turu Old Tupi: ker Old Turkic: 𐰆𐰑𐰃 (udï-) Ossetian: хуыссын (x°yssyn) Ottoman Turkish: اویومق (uyumak) Pannonian Rusyn: спац impf (spac) Papiamentu: drumi Pashto: اوده کېدل (udǝ́ kedǝ́l) Pela: ja̠p⁵⁵ Persian: Iranian Persian: خوابیدَن (xâbidan), خُفْتَن (xoftan) (archaic) Pipil: kuchi, cuchi Polish: spać (pl) impf Portuguese: dormir (pt) Punjabi: ਸੌਣਾ (pa) (sauṇā) Quechua: puñuy (qu), puñui Rapa Nui: moe Rohingya: gúm za- Romagnol: durmir Romani: sovel Romanian: dormi (ro) Romansch: durmir Russian: спать (ru) impf (spatʹ), поспа́ть (ru) pf (pospátʹ) Sami: Kildin Sami: вуэдтӭ (vuedt’e) Samoan: moe Sanskrit: स्वपिति (sa) (svapiti), सस्ति (sasti), निद्राति (sa) (nidrāti), द्रायति (sa) (drāyati), प्रस्वपिति (prasvapiti) Sardinian: Campidanese: dòrmiri Sassarese: drummí Scottish Gaelic: caidil Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: спа́вати impf, спа̏ти impf Roman: spávati (sh) impf, spȁti (sh) impf Shan: ၼွၼ်း (shn) (náun) Sherpa: གཟིམས (gzims) Shor: узурға (uzurğa) Sicilian: dòrmiri (scn) Simalungun Batak: modom Sinhalese: නිදියනවා (nidiyanawā), බුදියනවා (budiyanawā), නින්ද (ninda) Slovak: spať (sk) impf Slovene: spati (sl) impf Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: spaś impf Upper Sorbian: spać impf Spanish: dormir (es) Sranan Tongo: sribi Sundanese: kulem Swahili: kulala Swedish: sova (sv) Sylheti: ꠢꠥꠔꠣ (huta) Tagalog: matulog Tai Dam: ꪙꪮꪙ Tajik: хобидан (tg) (xobidan) Tamil: தூங்கு (ta) (tūṅku), உறங்கு (ta) (uṟaṅku) Tarantino: durmè Tatar: йокларга (tt) (yoqlarga) Tausug: tūg Telugu: నిద్రించు (te) (nidriñcu), కునుకుట (kunukuṭa) Ternate: hotu Thai: นอน (th) (nɔɔn), หลับ (th) (làp) Tibetan: ཉལ་བ (nyal ba), གཟིམས (gzims), གཟིམ (gzim), གཟིམ་པ (gzim pa) Toba Batak: modom Tocharian B: klänts- Tongan: mohe Tumbuka: gona Turkish: uyumak (tr) Turkmen: ýatmak, uklamak Tuvan: удуур (uduur) Tyap: kai nda (kcg) Udmurt: изьыны (iźyny) Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎐 (yšn) Ukrainian: спа́ти (uk) impf (spáty), поспа́ти pf (pospáty) Urdu: سونا (sonā) Uyghur: ئۇخلىماق (uxlimaq) Uzbek: uxlamoq (uz) Venetan: dormir Vietnamese: ngủ (vi), ngủ gục (vi) (suddenly) Walloon: doirmi (wa) Waray-Waray: katurog Welsh: cysgu (cy) West Frisian: sliepe Western Bukidnon Manobo: lipezeng White Hmong: pw Wolio: kole Wolof: nelaw (wo) Yakut: утуй (utuy) Yiddish: שלאָפֿן (shlofn) Yup'ik: qavartuq Yurok: chkeyek' Zazaki: rakewten, hon şiyayen Zealandic: slaepe, slaope, meure (slightly vulgar) Zhuang: ninz ǃKung: tsaː

to accommodate

Bulgarian: приютя́вам (bg) impf (prijutjávam) Dutch: te slapen leggen, onderbrengen (nl) Finnish: olla ... nukkumapaikkaa, voida majoittua, mahtua nukkumaan, majoittaa (fi) German: unterbringen (de) Greek: κοιμίζω (el) (koimízo) Japanese: 宿泊する (ja) (しゅくはくする, shukuhaku suru) Latvian: guldīt Malayalam: ഉറക്കുക (ml) (uṟakkuka) Polish: mieścić (pl) impf Russian: помеща́ть (ru) impf (pomeščátʹ), помести́ть (ru) pf (pomestítʹ), размеща́ть (ru) impf (razmeščátʹ), размести́ть (ru) pf (razmestítʹ)

See also

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• catnap
• rest
• shuteye
• sleeping
• slumber
• snooze
• zzz

Etymology 2

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From Middle English slepe, sleep, sleepe, from Old English slǣp (“sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *slāp, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaz (“sleep”).

Noun

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sleep (countable and uncountable, plural sleeps)

1. (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm. I really need some sleep. We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
2. (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping. I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
3. (informal, metonymically) A night. There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
4. (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness). Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 233:When she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and wept till she was tired, she set out on her way and walked for many, many a day, till she at last came to a big mountain.
   • 1980, “Daydream Believer”‎[1]performed by Anne Murray:But it ringsAnd we rise,Wipe the sleep out of our eyes[…]
   • 2017, Adam J. Fisch, Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:[...] and draw the medial canthus (aka medial commissure) at the medial extreme. Now draw the lacrimal caruncle at the medial corner of the eye, which produces whitish, oily fluid—it produces “sleep in the eye.”
   • 2019, Jahangir Moini, Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals, Jones & Bartlett Learning (→ISBN), page 780, entry "Medial canthus": The part of the eyelid that is the location of the lacrimal caruncle, which produces rheum or "sleep," the gritty substance often present when awakening.
5. A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves. Synonyms: nyctinasty, nyctitropism
   • 1843, Joh Müller, John Bell, Elements of Physiology, page 808:The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena[…]
6. The hibernation of animals.

Derived terms

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• ageless sleep
• asleep
• beauty sleep
• big sleep
• biphasic sleep
• cold sleep
• cry oneself to sleep
• dead sleep
• deep sleep
• delayed sleep phase disorder
• divided sleep
• dog sleep
• druidic sleep
• electrosleep
• eternal sleep
• fox sleep
• fox's sleep
• good night's sleep
• go to sleep
• hybrid sleep
• lack of sleep
• lose sleep
• morning sleep
• no sleep for the wicked
• one could do it in one's sleep
• on sleep
• orthodox sleep
• paradoxical sleep
• polyphasic sleep
• put to sleep
• REM sleep
• scare-sleep
• segmented sleep
• sleep aid
• sleep apnea
• sleep apnoea
• sleep black
• sleep camel
• sleep-charged
• sleep debt
• sleep dep
• sleep deprivation
• sleep-deprived
• sleep diaper
• sleep disorder
• sleep divorce
• sleep-drunk
• sleepeater
• sleepful
• sleep hygiene
• sleep-in
• sleep-learning
• sleepless
• sleep machine
• sleep mask
• sleep mode
• sleep nappy
• sleep of the just
• sleepover
• sleep paralysis
• sleep pressure
• sleep regression
• sleep schedule
• sleep spindle
• sleep start
• sleep talk
• sleeptalk
• sleep terror
• sleep tight
• sleep twitch
• sleepy
• treacle sleep
• twilight sleep
• wake-sleep algorithm
• yen sleep

 

Translations

[edit] state of reduced consciousness

Afar: xin Afrikaans: slaap (af) Albanian: gjumë (sq) ? Ambonese Malay: sono, tidor Arabic: نَوْم (ar) m (nawm), سِنَة (ar) f (sina) Egyptian Arabic: نوم m (nōm), نومة f (nōma) Hijazi Arabic: نوم m (nōm), رُقاد m (rugād) Moroccan Arabic: نعاس (nʕās), رقاد (rqād) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܫܢܬܐ f (šennəṯā), ܢܘܡܬܐ f (nawməṯā) Jewish Aramaic: שֵׁינְתָא f (šênəṯā), שִׁנְתָא f (šinṯā) Archi: набкӏ (nabkʼ) Armenian: քուն (hy) (kʻun) Aromanian: somnu Assamese: টোপনি (tüponi) Asturian: sueñu (ast) m Azerbaijani: yuxu (az), uyqu Baluchi: واب (wáb) Bashkir: йоҡо (yoqo) Basque: lo Belarusian: сон m (son) Bengali: ঘুম (bn) (ghum) Bikol Central: turog (bcl), katurog Breton: hun (br) m, kousk (br) m Bulgarian: сън (bg) m (sǎn) Catalan: son (ca) m Chechen: наб (nab) Chichewa: tulo Chinese: Cantonese: 睏 / 困 (fan3), 瞓 / 𰥛 (fan3), 睡眠 (seoi6 min4) Hakka: 睡眠 (soi-mìn), 睡目 (soi-muk) Hokkien: 睏 / 困 (zh-min-nan) (khùn), 睏眠 / 困眠 (zh-min-nan) (khùn-bîn), 睡眠 (zh-min-nan) (sūi-bîn) Mandarin: 睡覺 / 睡觉 (zh) (shuìjiào), 睡眠 (zh) (shuìmián) Cornish: kosk m Crimean Tatar: yuqu Czech: spánek (cs) m Dalmatian: samno Danish: søvn (da) c Dutch: slaap (nl) m Egyptian: (qdd m) Elfdalian: swemmen m Erzya: удома (udoma) Esperanto: dormo Estonian: uni (et) Evenki: ами (ami) Faroese: svøvnur m Finnish: uni (fi) French: sommeil (fr) m Friulian: sium m Galician: sono (gl) m Georgian: ძილი (ʒili) German: Schlaf (de) m Gothic: 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐍃 m (slēps) Greek: ύπνος (el) m (ýpnos) Ancient: ὕπνος m (húpnos) Gujarati: ઊંઘ f (ūṅgh), નીંદર f (nī̃dar) Haitian Creole: dòmi, sòmey Hawaiian: hiamoe Hebrew: שינה (he) f (sheiná) Hindi: नींद (hi) f (nīnd), निद्रा (hi) f (nidrā) Hungarian: alvás (hu) Icelandic: svefn (is) m Ido: dormo (io) Ilocano: turog Indonesian: tidur (id) Interlingua: somno Irish: suan m, codladh m Italian: sonno (it) m Japanese: 眠り (ja) (ねむり, nemuri), 睡眠 (ja) (すいみん, suimin) Kamta: নিন্দ (nindo), ঘুম (ghum) Kazakh: ұйқы (ūiqy) Khmer: ដំណើរដេកលក់ (dɑmnaə deɛk lʊək) Korean: 잠 (ko) (jam) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: خەو (xew) Laki: خاو (ku) (xaw) Northern Kurdish: xew (ku) f Southern Kurdish: خەو (ku) (xew) Kyrgyz: уйку (ky) (uyku) Ladino: esfuenyo, es-huenyo Lao: ໄສຍາດ (sai nyāt) Latgalian: mīgs Latin: somnus m, sopor m (deep slumber) Latvian: miegs (lv) m Lithuanian: miegas m Low German: Slaap Macedonian: сон m (son) Malay: tidur (ms) Malayalam: ഉറക്കം (ml) (uṟakkaṁ) Maltese: irqad Manchu: ᠠᠮᡠ (amu) Maori: moe (mi) Marathi: नीद f (nīd), झोप f (jhop) Mazanderani: خو (xu) Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭥𐭠𐭡 (xwāb) Moksha: удома (udoma) Mongolian: нойр (mn) (nojr) Nahuatl: cochina Nanai: ами (ami) Neapolitan: suonno North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum dialect) sliap m Norwegian: søvn (no) m Occitan: sòm (oc) m Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: сънъ m (sŭnŭ) Old East Slavic: сънъ m (sŭnŭ) Old English: slǣp Old Norse: svefn m Old Tupi: kera Old Turkic: 𐰆 (u) Ottoman Turkish: اویقو (uyku) Persian: خواب (fa) (xvâb, xâb) Plautdietsch: Schlop (nds) m Polish: sen (pl) m Portuguese: sono (pt) m Rohingya: gúm Romanian: somn (ro) n Romansch: sien m, sön m Russian: сон (ru) m (son) Saho: dhin Sami: Kildin Sami: нагерь (nagjer’), вуадтмушш (vuadtmušš) Sanskrit: निद्रा (sa) f (nidrā), स्वप f (svapa), स्वाप (sa) f (svāpa) Sardinian: sonnu m Scottish Gaelic: cadal m Serbo-Croatian: san (sh) m, сан m Sicilian: sonnu (scn) m Slovak: spánok m Slovene: spanec m Somali: hurdo (so) Sotho: robala (st) Spanish: sueño (es) m, dormición f Sudovian: maigas Sumerian: 𒅇 (u3 /⁠u⁠/) Swahili: usingizi (sw) Swedish: sömn (sv) c Sylheti: ꠘꠤꠖ (nid), ꠊꠥꠝ (gúmo) Tagalog: tulog Tamil: உறக்கம் (ta) (uṟakkam), தூக்கம் (ta) (tūkkam) Tarifit: iḍes m Telugu: నిద్ర (te) (nidra) Thai: นิทรา (th) (nít-traa) Tibetan: གཉིད (gnyid) Tocharian B: ṣpane Tumbuka: tulo Turkish: uyku (tr) Turkmen: uky Tuvan: уйгу (uygu) Udi: непӏ (neṗ) Ukrainian: сон (uk) m (son) Urdu: نیند f (nīnd) Uzbek: uyqu (uz) Venetan: sono m Walloon: soumey (wa) m, doirmaedje (wa) m, essoctaedje m Welsh: cwsg (cy) m West Frisian: sliep Yakut: уу (uu) Yiddish: שלאָף m (shlof) Zazaki: hon (diq) n, hewn (diq) n

informal: act or instance of sleeping

Ambonese Malay: sono, tidor Arabic: نَوْمَة f (nawma) Finnish: unet (fi) pl German: Schlaf (de) m, Schläfchen (de) n, Nachtruhe (de) f Gothic: 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐍃 m (slēps) Greek: ύπνος (el) m (ýpnos) Italian: sonno (it) m Japanese: 仮眠 (ja) (かみん, kamin) Malayalam: ഉറക്കം (ml) (uṟakkaṁ) Marathi: झोप f (jhop) Old Tupi: kera Ottoman Turkish: اویقو (uyku) Portuguese: sono (pt) m Romanian: somn (ro) n Russian: сон (ru) m (son) Swedish: sovande (sv) n (the act), sömn (sv) c (the instance), tupplur (sv) c (brief instance) Telugu: కునుకు (te) (kunuku) Urdu: سوتا m (sotā)

substance found in the corner of the eyes, sometimes as a figurative objectification of sleep

Arabic: غَمَص (ḡamaṣ) (semiliquid), رَمَص (ramaṣ) (solid) Egyptian Arabic: عماص (ʕumāṣ, ʕemāṣ) Armenian: ճպուռ (hy) (čpuṙ) Asturian: llagaña (ast) f Bengali: পিঁচুটি (pĩcuṭi) Bulgarian: гурла f (gurla) Catalan: lleganya f, llaganya f Cebuano: muta Cherokee: ᎦᎸᏗ (galvdi) Chinese: Cantonese: 眼屎 (ngaan5 si2) Hakka: 目屎 (muk-sṳ́) Hokkien: 目屎膏 (zh-min-nan) (ba̍k-sái-ko) Mandarin: 眼屎 (zh) (yǎnshǐ), 眵 (zh) (chī) Czech: ospalky pl Danish: søvn (da) c Dupaningan Agta: mitak Dutch: slaap (nl) m Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: rähmä (fi), unihiekka (fi) French: chassie (fr) f Galician: carraña f, lagaña (gl) f, lepa (gl) f, remela f Georgian: წირპლი (c̣irṗli) German: Schlaf (de) m, Schlaf in den Augen m, Schlafsand m, Augenbutter (de) f, Augenschleim m, Matzel f (colloquial, regional), Groikerl (de) n (Austrian, dialectal), Schlafkörnchen n pl, Augenpopel m (colloquial) Greek: τσίμπλα (el) f (tsímpla) Ancient: λήμη f (lḗmē) Gujarati: ચીપડો (cīpḍo), પીયો (pīyo) Hawaiian: maka piapia Hungarian: csipa (hu) Icelandic: stírur n pl Indonesian: tahi mata (id), belek (id) Ingrian: räämy, sitta Irish: sramaí m pl, brach m Italian: cispa (it) f Japanese: 目脂 (ja) (めやに, meyani), 目糞 (ja) (めくそ, mekuso), 目垢 (めあか, meaka) Kankanaey: buta Kapampangan: muri Korean: 눈곱 (nun'gop) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ڕیپۆق (rîpoq) Southern Kurdish: ڕیپِگ (rîpig) Latin: grāmiae f pl Latvian: miegs (lv) m Malay: tahi mata Maori: pīkaru, pīkari Navajo: nákʼeeshchąąʼ Occitan: laganha (oc) f Osage: įcólą Ottoman Turkish: چاپاق (çapak) Persian: ژفک (fa) (žafk) Polish: śpioch (pl) m Portuguese: remela (pt) f, ramela (pt) f Quechua: wigi Romanian: urdoare (ro) f, puchină (ro) f Russian: сон (ru) m sg (son), глазная слизь (glaznaja slizʹ) Sicilian: ariddu (scn) m Slovak: karpiny f pl Spanish: legaña (es) f, lagaña (es) f, chele (es) m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), chelito m (colloquial, El Salvador), pitaña (es) f, pitarra (es) f, magaña f (Spain), chinguiña (es) f (Mexico) Sundanese: cileuh Swedish: morgongrus n, sömngrus n, ögongrus n, sömngubbe c, godmorgon (sv) n, gomorron (sv) n, sömn (sv) c Tagalog: muta (tl) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: నిద్ర మత్తు (nidra mattu) Ternate: pete Thai: ขี้ตา (th) (khîi taa) Turkish: çapak (tr) Venetan: sgarbeła f Vietnamese: ghèn (vi) Welsh: gôr m, môl m Zazaki: hılm n

References

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• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sleep”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

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• LEEPs, Leeps, Lepes, peels, speel

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /sleːp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːp

Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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sleep m (plural slepen, diminutive sleepje n)

1. (the act of) dragging, towing
2. train, the part of wedding gown that drags behind the bride

Descendants

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• → Papiamentu: sleep (dated)

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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sleep

1. singular past indicative of slijpen

Verb

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sleep

1. inflection of slepen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

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• slepe, speel, spele

Middle English

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Noun

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sleep (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of slepe