creek

Etymology
From, , , of.

It existed alongside a second variant in Middle English, , , from. The first form possibly continues (attested in the diminutive  also found in Anglo-Latin as, ), from , from , , from.

See also 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, and possibly. Modern cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬 (borrowed from Germanic).

Early British colonists of Australia and the Americas used the term in the usual British way, to name inlets; as settlements followed the inlets upstream and inland, the names were retained and creek came to be used to refer to any small waterway.

Noun

 * 1)  A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
 * 2)  A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
 * 3) Any turn or winding.
 * 1)  A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
 * 2) Any turn or winding.
 * 1) Any turn or winding.

Synonyms

 * , brook, branch , bayou
 * , brook, branch , bayou

Translations

 * Bulgarian: бухта, тясно заливче
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 小灣, 小湾
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: cala, caleiro,, anco, , angra, enseada,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, piccola insenatura
 * Limburgish: krieëk
 * Macedonian: за́лив, за́ливче
 * Malay: serokan
 * Marathi: खाडी
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * West Frisian: sleat


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chickasaw: abookoshi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Eastern Bontoc: kinnaw, arog-og
 * Farefare: kʋlga
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, bullón, , , , doira, bioca,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ilocano: waig
 * Italian:, rivo, fiumicello
 * Japanese:
 * Lubuagan Kalinga: wain, ewagit, suɏong
 * Macedonian: ре́кичка, по́ток
 * Malay:
 * Northern Ohlone: núm̄ei'
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: ziibiins
 * Old Church Slavonic: потокъ
 * Ossetian: лӕсӕн
 * Ottoman Turkish: چای, دره
 * Papiamentu: roi
 * Pennsylvania German: Krick, Grick
 * Plautdietsch:, Rie, Schelsel
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Southern Kalinga: wail
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sapa, ilat
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎁𐎍𐎚
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yagara: pilla
 * Yiddish: טײַכל, ריטשקה


 * Irish:, , , , , , , ,
 * Maori: