clay

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence ultimately 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬. Related also to,.

Noun

 * 1) A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
 * 2) An earth material with ductile qualities.
 * 3)  A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
 * 4)  The material of the human body.
 * 5)  A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
 * 6) A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
 * 7)  A clay pigeon.
 * We went shooting clays at the weekend.
 * 1)  Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
 * Vilnius is rightfully Polish clay.
 * 1) A moth,
 * We went shooting clays at the weekend.
 * 1)  Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
 * Vilnius is rightfully Polish clay.
 * 1) A moth,

Translations

 * Adyghe: етӏагъу
 * Aghwan: 𐕆𐕒𐔾
 * Akkadian: 𒅎
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Amharic: ሸክላ
 * Arabic: طِين, صَلْصَال
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: lut
 * Assamese: পংক
 * Asturian: arciella
 * Aymara: llink'i laq'a
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: балсыҡ
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: глі́на
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: шабар
 * Carpathian Rusyn: гли́на
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏓᏆᎵ, ᎦᏓᏆᎳ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 黏土
 * Hokkien: 黏土
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: тӑм
 * Crimean Tatar: balçıq
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Eastern Bontoc: pora, oknet, loyloy
 * Esperanto: argilo
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: anyi
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , xarzo, , , greda
 * Gallurese: alzidda, caccavina, lugiàna
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Doon
 * Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍉
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πηλός, ἄργιλλος
 * Haitian Creole: ajil
 * Hawaiian: pālolo, lepo kāwili, lepo mānoanoa, lepo ʻūlikalika
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, चिकनी मिट्टी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: pila
 * Irish: cré
 * Old Irish: cré
 * Isan:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: baru, bórre
 * Kalmyk: шавр
 * Kannada:, , , , ,
 * Kashubian: glëna
 * Kazakh: балшық
 * Khmer:
 * Komi-Zyrian: сёй
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گڵ
 * Northern Kurdish: kaxçîn
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Ladino: barro
 * Lao: ດິນເຜົາ
 * Latin: argilla, lutum
 * Latvian: ,
 * Limburgish: klèè,
 * Lithuanian: dumblas,, molis, purvas
 * Lokono: waya
 * Lombard:
 * Low German: Klei
 * Lü:
 * Lubuagan Kalinga: chiyulit
 * Luxembourgish: Leem
 * Macedonian: глина
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, lempung
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: tafal
 * Manx: cray
 * Maori: uku, oneuku, aumoana, taioma, keretā, keretū
 * Marathi: चिकणमाती, माती
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: шун
 * Western Mari: шун
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Navajo: hashtłʼish dootłʼizhí
 * Northern Mansi:, ра̄кт
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: leire
 * Nynorsk: leire
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old East Slavic: глина
 * Old English: clǣġ
 * Oromo: suphee
 * Pashto: رست
 * Persian: گل رس,
 * Polabian: glaino
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮਿੱਟੀ
 * Quechua: ch'aqu
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Saanich: SÍEK
 * Samoan: ele
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: tuvulu, tùvula
 * Logudorese: lassèdu, tuvulu, luzàna
 * Sassarese: luzàna, terrasanta
 * Scottish Gaelic: crèadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гли́на
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Shona: dhaga
 * Sicilian: argilla
 * Sinhalese: මැටි
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: glina
 * Upper Sorbian: hlina
 * Southern Kalinga: pita
 * Southern Altai: той, балчык
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swazi: lubumba
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: arsilya, luwad
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tarifit: traxt
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ดินนวล
 * Tibetan: རྫ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: laý, palçyk
 * Tuvan: пор
 * Tuwali Ifugao: pula
 * Udmurt: сюй
 * Ukrainian: гли́на
 * Urdu: مٹی
 * Uyghur: سېغىز توپا
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Venetian:
 * Veps: savi
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Vilamovian: łām
 * Volapük:
 * Voro: savi
 * Votic: savi
 * Welsh: clai
 * Yakut: туой
 * Yiddish: ליים


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: đất nện

Verb

 * 1)  To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
 * 2)  To purify using clay.
 * 3) * 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
 * They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.