lake

Etymology 1
Arose from a conflation of the form of inherited with, from  or , see. The former,, is inherited from , from , from , ultimately derived from. It is related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Despite their similarity in form and meaning, is not related to, , , , all from.

Noun

 * 1) A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
 * 2) A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
 * 3) * 1991, (actor), :
 * So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
 * 1)  A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
 * 2)  A pit, or ditch.
 * 1)  A pit, or ditch.

Usage notes
As with the names of, and , the names of lakes are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term:  or. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see added to the end, as with ;  is usually added before proper names, as with. This derives from the earlier but now uncommon form : for instance, the 19th-century is now usually simply. There are exceptions to this generalization, however, including notably the names of the individual Finger Lakes (e.g. Oneida Lake, Seneca Lake, Cayuga Lake). It frequently occurs, however, that foreign placenames are misunderstood as proper nouns, as with the Chinese and  being frequently rendered as  and.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:lake

Related terms

 * lacustrine

Etymology 2
From, , (also , ; Southern ), from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), and 🇨🇬;.

Verb form partly from, from , from , from. More at,.

Noun

 * 1)  An offering, sacrifice, gift.
 * 2)  Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

Verb

 * 1)  To present an offering.
 * 2)  To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
 * 3) Subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.

Etymology 3
From, from or ; both from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1)  A kind of fine, white linen.

Etymology 4
From, from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
 * 2) In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
 * The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.
 * 1) In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
 * The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.

Translations

 * Arabic: لَكّ
 * Bulgarian: светлочервен лак
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Färberlack
 * Greek: λάκη
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 래커
 * Macedonian: лак
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Thai: ครั่ง

Verb

 * 1) To make lake-red.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tail
 * 2) queue

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  pickle, brine

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  burbot, eelpout

Etymology 3
As for Etymology 1.

Verb

 * 1) to pickle, put in brine

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  pickle, brine

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  burbot, eelpout

Etymology 3
As for Etymology 1.

Verb

 * 1) to pickle, put in brine

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tail
 * 2) queue

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) brine

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) burbot ( spp.)

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Polished with lacquer.