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Image:Glarus Kloentalersee.jpg|thumb|A mountain lake

English

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at en-us-lake.ogg
: Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪk|-eɪk

Etymology 1

From {{term|lake||body of water|lang=enm}} < < {{term|lacus||hollow, lake, pond}} < .

Noun

Large, landlocked, naturally occurring stretch of water.
(In the plural) an area characterised by its many lakes; e.g., the English Lake District is often shortened to The Lakes.
A large amount of liquid: a wine lake.

Derived terms

Translations

Afrikaans: meer, pan
Ainu: ト (to)
Albanian: {{t-|sq|liqen|m|xs=Albanian}}
Arabic: {{Arab|بحيرة|بُحَيْرَةٌ}} (buħéira)
Aragonese: ibón , laco
Aramaic:
: Syriac: ܝܡܬܐ (yamtā, yamto)
: Hebrew: ימתא (yamtā, yamto)
Blackfoot: mo'toyaohkii
Bosnian: {{t-|bs|jezero|n}}
Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|езеро|n|tr=ézero|sc=Cyrl}}
Catalan: llac
Chinese:
: Mandarin: 湖 (hú); 湖泊 (húbó)
Cree: kihchikamiy
Croatian: {{t+|hr|jezero|n}}
Czech: {{t+|cs|jezero|n}}
Danish: {{t-|da|sø|c}}
Dutch: {{t+|nl|meer|n}}
Esperanto: {{t-|eo|lago|xs=Esperanto}}
Estonian:
Faroese: {{t-|fo|vatn|xs=Faroese}}
Fijian: drano
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|lac|m}}
Georgian: ტბა (tba)
German: {{t+|de|See|m}}, {{t+|de|See|p|alt=Seen}}
Greek: {{t+|el|λίμνη|f|tr=límnī|sc=Grek}}
Hebrew: אגם (agam)
Hindi: झील या सरोवर
Hungarian:
Icelandic: {{t+|is|vatn|n}}
Indonesian: {{t+|id|danau|xs=Indonesian}}
Irish: {{t+|ga|loch|m|xs=Irish}}
Italian: {{t+|it|lago|m}}
Japanese: 湖 (みずうみ, mizuúmi), ～湖 (こ, ko) (as suffix)
Khmer: (böng)
Korean: 호수 (hosu)
Lakota: ble#Lakota|ble

Lao: {{t-|lo|ຫນອງ|tr=nööng|sc=Laoo|xs=Lao}}
Latin: {{t+|la|lacus|m}}
Latvian: {{t-|lv|ezers|m|xs=Latvian}}
Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|ežeras|m|xs=Lithuanian}}
Malay: {{t-|ms|tasik|xs=Malay}}
Malayalam: തടാകം, കായല്‍, പൊയ്ക, സരസ്സ്
Maltese: {{t-|mt|għadira|f|xs=Maltese}}, {{t-|mt|lag|m|xs=Maltese}}
Maori: {{t-|mi|roto|xs=Maori}}
Mongolian: {{t-|mn|нуур|tr=nuur|sc=Cyrl|xs=Mongolian}}
Norwegian: {{t-|no|innsjø|m}}, {{t-|no|tjern|n}}, {{t+|no|vann|n}}
Ojibwe: zaaga'igan, zaaga'iganan
Old English: {{t-|ang|lagu|m|xs=Old English}}, {{t-|ang|mere|m|xs=Old English}}
Persian: {{t-|fa|دریاچه|tr=daryâche|sc=fa-Arab|xs=Persian}}
Polish: {{t+|pl|jezioro|n}}
Portuguese: {{t+|pt|lago|m}}
Proto-Polynesian: *rano
Romanian: {{t-|ro|lac|n}}
Russian: {{t+|ru|озеро|n|tr=ózero|sc=Cyrl}}
Sardinian: lagu
Serbian:
: Cyrillic: језеро
: Roman: jezero#Serbian|jezero
Slovak: {{t-|sk|jazero|n}}
Slovene: {{t+|sl|jezero|n}}
Spanish: {{t+|es|lago|m}}
Swahili: jito, majito pl (nc 5/6)
Swedish: sjö , insjö
Thai: (sààp), (thálehsààp)
Tibetan: (co)
Turkish:
Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|озеро|n|tr=ózero|sc=Cyrl|xs=Ukrainian}}
Urdu: {{t-|ur|دریاچہ|m|tr=daryāća|sc=ur-Arab|xs=Urdu}}
Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|hồ|xs=Vietnamese}}
Welsh: {{t-|cy|llyn|m|xs=Welsh}}
West Frisian: mar
Yiddish: אָזערע (ozere)

Etymology 2

From , {{proto|Germanic|laikom||game, dance, hymn, sport, fight}}.

Noun

An offering, sacrifice, gift.
play|Play, sport, fun, glee.

Derived terms

wedlock

Verb

To present an offering.
In the Context of To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Etymology 3

From

Noun

Fine linen.

Etymology 4

From {{term|laque||lacquer}} < {{term|لاک|tr=lāk|sc=fa-Arab}} < < {{term||laksha|one hundred thousand}}, referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out.

Noun

In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.

Derived terms

lake-red

Translations

Arabic: {{Arab|صبغ اللك|صِبْغ اللَك}} ( l-lák)
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|laque|f}}
German: {{t+|de|Farbstoff|m}}
Greek: λάκη (láki)
Hebrew: לכה (lakah)
Hungarian:
Italian: {{t-|it|lacca|f}}

Japanese: ニス (nísu), 漆 (うるし, urushí)
Korean: 래커 (raekeo)
Norwegian: fargestoff
Polish: lakier
Portuguese: {{t+|pt|laca|f}}
Russian: лак (lak)
Spanish: {{t-|es|laca|f}}
Thai: (khràng)

Verb

To make lake-red.

Anagrams

kale
leak

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Norwegian

Noun

pickle, brine
burbot, eelpout

Verb

To pickle.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lake \Lake\ (l[=a]k), n. [F. laque, fr. Per. See Lac.]
A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually
by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with
aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow
lake, etc.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lake \Lake\, n. [Cf. G. laken.]
A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lake \Lake\ (l[=a]k), v. i. [AS. l[=a]can, l[ae]can, to spring,
jump, l[=a]c play, sport, or fr. Icel. leika to play, sport;
both akin to Goth. laikan to dance. [root]120. Cf.
Knowledge.]
To play; to sport. [Prov. Eng.]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lake \Lake\, n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea,
Icel. l["o]gr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. la`kkos pond, tank. Cf.
Loch, Lough.]
A large body of water contained in a depression of the
earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or
less extended area.
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Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt
lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually
no outlet to the ocean.
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Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or
races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their
dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance
from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of
Switzerland.

Lake dwellings (Archaeol.), dwellings built over a lake,
sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept
in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of
prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many
savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See
Crannog.

Lake fly (Zool.), any one of numerous species of dipterous
flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble
mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvae live in
lakes.

Lake herring (Zool.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii).

Lake poets, Lake school, a collective name originally
applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey,
Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country
of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed
with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and
lakists.

Lake sturgeon (Zool.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus),
of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi River. It is used as food.

Lake trout (Zool.), any one of several species of trout and
salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United
States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes,
and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and
Canada. A large variety of brook trout ({Salvelinus
fontinalis}), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is
also called lake trout. See Namaycush.

Lake whitefish. (Zool.) See Whitefish.

Lake whiting (Zool.), an American whitefish ({Coregonus
Labradoricus}), found in many lakes in the Northern United
States and Canada. It is more slender than the common
whitefish.
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WordNet lake
n 1: a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
2: a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
3: any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments

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