breeze

Etymology 1
From the earlier (nautical) term, , from. Ultimate origin.

Variously supposed to derive from a source like 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, early 🇨🇬, or from 🇨🇬.

The earliest attestations are in 🇨🇬 (1460), 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬 (all in 15th century), with Spanish (1504) and 🇨🇬 (16th century) following closely after. The aforementioned Dutch cognates and 🇨🇬, however, are attested later than the term in English. The only internal hypothesis for any of those languages is a modification of, which is not widely accepted.

Compare also.

Noun

 * 1) A light, gentle wind.
 * 2)  Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
 * 3)  Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
 * 4) An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
 * 5) A brief workout for a racehorse.
 * 1)  Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
 * 2) An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
 * 3) A brief workout for a racehorse.
 * 1) A brief workout for a racehorse.
 * 1) A brief workout for a racehorse.

Synonyms

 * see also Thesaurus:wind
 * ,, , , , ; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

Translations

 * Arabic: نَسِيم,, نَسَمَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: avrã
 * Assamese: বা, মালয়া-বতাহ
 * Basque:
 * Bikol Central: harupohop,, huyuhoy,  , paros
 * Bulgarian: бриз
 * Cahuilla: 'eel yakish
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: huyuhoy
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: ehcaxoctli, pitzāhuac ehēcatl
 * Cornish: awel glor
 * Czech: větřík,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: venteto, brizo
 * Estonian: tuuleõhk, tuulehingus
 * Faroese: lot, gul
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნიავი, სიო, ბრიზი, სიო
 * German:, Windchen
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: αὔρα
 * Guaraní: yvytu, yvytu py'aguapýva
 * Hiligaynon: huyuhoy, harupot
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: با, شەماڵ
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: ventulus
 * Latvian: vēsma, vējiņš
 * Lithuanian: vėjelis
 * Macedonian: ве́трец, ве́тре
 * Maltese: żiffa
 * Maori: kōtengitengi, rangaranga, matangi, kāwatawata, kōmurimuri, kōkōuri, rarohau, hau maiangi
 * Mongolian:
 * Nandi: chepusoon
 * Navajo: níłchʼi
 * Norman: brise
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: bris
 * Old Church Slavonic: вѣтрьць
 * Old English: hwiða, hweoðu
 * Ottoman Turkish: هوا
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, zefirek, wicherek, , , lekki powiew
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ветрић
 * Slovak: vánok, vetrík, bríza
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: simoy
 * Thai: ลมโชย
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian:, вітере́ць, ле́гіт
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:, awelon
 * Zazaki: pêl


 * Arabic: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Romanian: joacă de copii
 * Russian: ,
 * Turkish:  ,

Verb

 * 1)  To move casually, in a carefree manner.
 * 2)  To blow gently.
 * 3) To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
 * 4)  To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
 * 1) To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
 * 2)  To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.

Translations

 * German:
 * Turkish: coşarak gitmek


 * Arabic: نَفَحَتِ الرِّيح, نَفَخَتِ الرِّيحُ
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Latvian: vēsmot
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: hafiften esmek, püfür püfür esmek


 * Norman:

Etymology 2
From, from , variant of 🇨🇬, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See also.

Noun

 * 1) A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family.

Verb

 * 1)  To buzz.

Etymology 3
Probably from.

Noun

 * 1) Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace..