leech

Etymology 1
From, from , akin to 🇨🇬 "blood-sucking worm"; > modern 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class, especially.
 * 2)  A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
 * 3)  A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
 * 4)  A disrespectful person.
 * 1)  A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
 * 2)  A disrespectful person.
 * 1)  A disrespectful person.

Synonyms

 * ,, , ; See also Thesaurus:scrounger
 * Thesaurus:jerk

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: サㇱ
 * Aklanon: alimatok
 * Albanian:, , ,
 * Arabic: عَلَقَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: علْڭة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: avdelã, piuvitsã, suliucã
 * Assamese: জোক
 * Asturian: sanixuela, sandixuela
 * Azerbaijani: zəli
 * Bashkir: һөлөк
 * Basque: izain
 * Belarusian: п'я́ўка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: alimatok
 * Cerma: diirãŋo
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash: сӗлӗх
 * Czech:, pijavka
 * Dalmatian: sansoike
 * Danish: blodigle, igler
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: igli, igil, blóðigil
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: sansuie, sansuje
 * Galician:, samesuga, , bicha
 * Georgian: წურბელა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βδέλλα
 * Guaraní: ysope
 * Gujarati: જળો, જોખ, જોક
 * Haitian Creole: sansi
 * Hawaiian: mākoko, omo koko
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: जोंक, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, iglur
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: verimato
 * Irish: súmaire
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: сүлік
 * Khmer:
 * Klamath-Modoc: sdaqbonks
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: сюлюк
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ທາກ, ປີງ
 * Latin: hirūdō, sanguisūga
 * Latvian:
 * Lisu: ꓪꓰꓼ
 * Lithuanian: dėlė
 * Macedonian: пијавица
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: നീരട്ട,
 * Mansaka: limatuk
 * Manx: guillag, jiollag
 * Maori: ngata, piriawaawa, kōkopurangi
 * Marathi: जळू
 * Mi'kmaq: squ
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: хануур хорхой
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ ᠬᠣᠷᠤᠬᠠᠢ
 * Navajo: akágí yitsʼǫǫsii
 * Neapolitan: sanguetta
 * Nogai: суьлик
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: sagnairòla
 * Okinawan: 蛭
 * Ottoman Turkish: سولوك
 * Pashto:, وخچه
 * Persian:, زروک
 * Plautdietsch: Iel
 * Polabian: pajăvaićă
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਜੋਕ, ਜਲੌਕਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: sambesuca, sambesue
 * Scottish Gaelic:, gealan, guilleag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пијавица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: сӱлӱк
 * Spanish:, sanguja, hirudíneo
 * Swahili: mruba
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: linta
 * Tajik: золу, зуллук, шуллук
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: འབུ་པད་པ, སྲིན་བུ་པད་མ
 * Tocharian B: śätkaroñ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sülük
 * Ukrainian: п'я́вка
 * Urdu: جونک
 * Uyghur: سۈلۈك
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: agl
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: gele, gelen
 * Yiddish: פּיאַווקע


 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: مصلحچي
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Blutsaugerin
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: जोंक,
 * Irish: súmaire, diúgaire, siolpaire
 * Maori: parakūkā, kaimātai
 * Norwegian:, parasitt, utsuger
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Swedish:, , , , utsugare
 * Tagalog: mandarangkat
 * Ukrainian:, кровопи́вця

Verb

 * 1)  To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
 * 2)  To drain (resources) without giving back.
 *  Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.
 *  Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.

Usage notes
Do not confuse this verb with the verb to.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βδελλίζω
 * Hungarian: piócával kezel, piócát rak
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:,  leechen
 * Hungarian:
 * Ukrainian: паразитува́ти

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , of disputed origin, but usually thought to be connected with 🇨🇬 (compare 🇨🇬) and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; perhaps ultimately from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)   A physician.
 * 2) * 1610, Bolton, Armoriesː
 * The word Physitian we do vulgarly abuse (as we doe very many other(s)) for a Leech, or Medicus.
 * 1) * 1610, Bolton, Armoriesː
 * As if an expert leech must needs be expert in the physicks (that is, in those speculations which concerne the workes of nature) the nearest word to fall with our tongue, yet not farre from the thing, was physitian.
 * 1)  A healer.
 * 2) * 1996, Swain Wodening, “Scandinavian Craft Lesson 6: Runic Divination”, Theod Magazine 3 (4)
 * In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.
 * 1)  A healer.
 * 2) * 1996, Swain Wodening, “Scandinavian Craft Lesson 6: Runic Divination”, Theod Magazine 3 (4)
 * In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.
 * 1) * 1996, Swain Wodening, “Scandinavian Craft Lesson 6: Runic Divination”, Theod Magazine 3 (4)
 * In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.
 * In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Polish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:, лі́карка

Etymology 3
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To treat, cure or heal.
 * 2) * 1564, Accounts of Louth Corporalː
 * Paid for leeching.. my horses very sick.
 * 1) * 1566–74, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotlandː
 * To one man (that) broke his leg in Strivelin … Item to the man that leecheth him.
 * 1) * 1850, Blackieː
 * A disease that none may leech.
 * A disease that none may leech.

Etymology 4
From, , , from , from , from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  ‘to bind’ (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Hittite link- (caus. linganu-) ‘to swear’ (with -n- infix).

Noun

 * 1)   The vertical edge of a square sail.
 * 2)  The aft edge of a triangular sail.
 * 1)  The aft edge of a triangular sail.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: takaliikki
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: balumina
 * Norwegian:
 * Swedish: akterlik

Etymology
From, from. The form shows shortening before -ht followed by later lengthening in the same position (cf. the same in 🇨🇬). The Colognian form is probably influenced by Standard German (reinforced by analogy with words where Colognian has -ei- for other Ripuarian -ee-, from Middle High German -ei-).

Adjective

 * 1)  light, not heavy
 * 2)  easy, not difficult

Etymology 1
From, from ,. Cognate with, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) low

Etymology 2
From, from. Cognate with, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) empty

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) physician