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English
Etymology
From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile + -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).
Pronunciation
Noun
silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)
- (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- Synonym: slitch
- (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
- (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Translations
fine earth deposited by water
- Afrikaans: slik (af)
- Albanian: lym (sq) m
- Arabic: غَرِين m (ḡarīn)
- Armenian: տիղմ (hy) (tiġm)
- Belarusian: іл m (il), глей m (hljej), мул m (mul)
- Bulgarian: ти́ня (bg) f (tínja)
- Catalan: llim (ca) m, llaquim m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 泥沙 (zh) (níshā)
- Czech: nános m, naplavenina f, bahno (cs) n
- Danish: silt (da) c
- Dutch: silt n
- Finnish: siltti (fi), liete (fi), lieju (fi)
- French: silt (fr) m, vase (fr), limon (fr)
- Georgian: შლამი (šlami)
- German: Schlamm (de) m, Schlick (de) m, Schluff (de) m
- Hebrew: טִיט (he) m (tit), טִין (he) m (tin)
- Hindi: गाद (hi) (gād)
- Hungarian: üledék (hu), iszap (hu), kőzetliszt, aleurit
- Ido: slamo (io)
- Indonesian: silt (id), debu (id)
- Irish: siolta m
- Italian: limo (it) m
- Japanese: シルト (shiruto), 沈泥 (ちんでい, chindei)
- Kapampangan: banlik
- Korean: 실트 (silteu)
- Latvian: dūņas m
- Lithuanian: dumblas m
- Maltese: ħama m
- Maori: kenepuru, kotao, parakiwai, kotae, parahua, kotae
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: silt m
- Nynorsk: silt m
- Polish: muł (pl) m, ił (pl) m
- Portuguese: sedimento (pt) m, silte (pt) m
- Russian: ил (ru) m (il)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: муљ m
- Roman: mulj (sh) m
- Slovak: nános m, silt m
- Slovene: mulj (sl) m
- Spanish: limo (es) m, sedimentos fluviales m pl, fango (es) m
- Swedish: silt (sv) c
- Tagalog: labon
- Ukrainian: мул m (mul), наму́л m (namúl), іл m (il), глей m (hlej)
- Welsh: llaid m, silt m, llifwaddod m
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See also
Verb
silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)
- (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
- (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
- (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Derived terms
Translations
to clog or fill with silt
to become clogged with silt
to flow through crevices; to percolate
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
silt (singular definite -en, not used in plural form)
- (geology) silt
Derived terms
Dutch
Noun
silt n (plural silten)
- (geology) silt
Derived terms
Anagrams
French
Noun
silt m (plural silts)
- (geology) silt
Derived terms
Indonesian
Noun
silt (first-person possessive siltku, second-person possessive siltmu, third-person possessive siltnya)
- (geology) silt
- Synonym: debu
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English silt.
Noun
silt (definite singular silten)
- silt
Derived terms
References
- “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English silt.
Noun
silt (definite singular silten)
- silt
Derived terms
References
- “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
silt c (uncountable)
- (geology) silt
Derived terms
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