delay

Etymology 1
From, borrowed from , 🇨🇬, from + , a conflation of Old  "to delay, hinder"; from, from, and Old  "to leave"; from, from. .

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at let (to hinder), late, leave.

Noun

 * 1) A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
 * 2)  An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
 * 3)  An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
 * 1)  An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
 * 2)  An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
 * 1)  An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
 * 2)  An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
 * 1)  An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
 * 1)  An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:delay

Translations

 * Arabic: تَأْخِير, تَأَخَّر
 * Egyptian Arabic: مهلة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পলম, দেৰি
 * Azerbaijani: ləngimə, yubanma, gecikmə, təxir
 * Belarusian: затры́мка, прыпы́нак, прамару́джанне, спазне́нне
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:, , endarreriment
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: prokrasto
 * Finnish:, , viipymä, viivästymä, ,  ,  ,  ,  , ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, , retraso
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τριβή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: töf
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: faillí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دواخستن, پاشخستن
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: одложување
 * Maltese: dewmien
 * Maori: akutōtanga,
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forsinkelse
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , , , delay
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dàil
 * Slovak: sklz, zdržanie, meškanie
 * Slovene: zamuda, odlašanje
 * Somali: daahi
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ดีเลย์
 * Tigrinya: ደንጐየ, ድንጓየ, ደንጎየ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: за́тримка, затри́мка, заде́ржка, га́янка, зволіка́ння, спі́знення
 * Urdu: دیر
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: אָפּלייג
 * Zazaki: rotar, peymende

Verb

 * 1)  To put off until a later time; to defer.
 * 2) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
 * 3)  To allay; to temper.
 * 1)  To allay; to temper.
 * 1)  To allay; to temper.
 * 1)  To allay; to temper.

Usage notes

 * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , , put , ; See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
 * ,, , , ; See also Thesaurus:hinder
 * ,, ; See also Thesaurus:pacify

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, أَبْطَأَ
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Aromanian: amãn, ntãrdedz
 * Bulgarian:, отло́жа, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish: forsinke,, opsætte
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: prokrasti
 * Finnish:, viivästyttää, viivästää, , , siirtää tuonnemmaksi, siirtää myöhemmäksi, siirtää eteenpäin
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀναβάλλω
 * Hebrew: לעכב
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دوای ئەخات
 * Latin: cunctor, moror
 * Malay: tangguhkan
 * Maori: whakaakutō, takaware, whakatōmuri
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: r'tèrgi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: utsetja
 * Old English: ieldan, gælan, lettan, elcian
 * Pashto: ځنډ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , , ,
 * Quechua: apatatay
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: одга́ђати, одго̀дити
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai: รอรี, รีรอ, ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: відклада́ти, відкла́сти
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Yiddish: אָפּלייגן
 * Zazaki: terkneyen, terkneyen

Etymology 2
From, from , a variant of.

Verb

 * 1)  To dilute, temper.
 * 2)  To assuage, quench, allay.

Noun

 * 1) Job's tears

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   period of time before an event being initiated and actually occurring
 * 2)   effect that produces echo-like repetitions in sound
 * 3)   unit that produces a delay effect
 * 1)   unit that produces a delay effect