leaden

Etymology
From, , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  Made of lead.
 * 2) Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.
 * 3) * 1818-1819,, Julian and Maddalo
 * [...] if man be The passive thing you say, I should not see Much harm in the religions and old saws (Tho' I may never own such leaden laws) Which break a teachless nature to the yoke.
 * 1) Dull; darkened with overcast.
 * 2) * 1999: Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
 * "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."
 * 1) * 1999: Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
 * "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."
 * "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."

Translations

 * Arabic: رَصَاصِيّ
 * Belarusian: свінцо́вы, валавя́ны, алавя́ны
 * Bulgarian: оло́вен
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: plumbeus
 * Macedonian: оловен
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: luaidheach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏ло̄ван
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: svinčen
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: свинце́вий, оли́в'яний
 * Yiddish: בלײַען


 * Bulgarian: оловносив, оловно сив
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Latin: plumbeus, plumbārius
 * Portuguese:, plúmbico
 * Scottish Gaelic: luaidheach
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish: lyijynharmaa
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To make or become dull or overcast.