reef

Etymology 1
From earlier, from , from , from , from. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 are also borrowed from Old Norse. .

Noun

 * 1) A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
 * 2)  A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aleut: yas
 * Arabic: شَعَاب
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: рыф
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: riff
 * Finnish:,  ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: recife, sirte, pedrido,, cón, farallón, bortoa, brica (sand), camouco
 * Georgian: რიფი
 * German:, Felsenriff
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: σπιλάς, σπίλος, ἕρμα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: scoth,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: кедертас
 * Khmer: ថ្មប៉ប្រះទឹក
 * Korean: ,
 * Macedonian: гребен
 * Malay: terumbu
 * Maori: ākau, pūkawa,
 * Ottoman Turkish: قیا
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, гребен
 * Slovak: útes
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: โขดหิน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: риф
 * Vietnamese: đá ngầm,
 * Volapük: kliped, klifakliped
 * Welsh: creigres, rîff


 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian: златоносна жила
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 2
From, from , , , and/or. Possibly a figurative use of the word for “rib” in etymology 1 above, in which case all forms must, again, be borrowings from Old Norse. Alternatively it may be a different word related to 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1)  A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
 * 2) A reef knot.
 * 1) A reef knot.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: rizo
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 縮帆
 * Maori: rīwhi
 * Norman: ris, ris d'vaile, barre
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: riof

Verb

 * 1)   To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
 * 2) * 1970 July–December, Margaret Quilty, Roller Reefing Made Easy, Boating, |%22reefing%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SUsBUKLQBOq5iQff89iXCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22reefed%22|%22reefing%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 63,
 * Be sure the blocks are securely mounted—they carry a fairish load when the sail is reefed.
 * If both reefing line and main halyard are led to the cockpit, even singlehanded reefing is a breeze.
 * 1)  To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.
 * 2)  To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
 * Reef the paddles.
 * 1)  To manipulate the lining of a person's pocket in order to steal the contents unnoticed.
 * 2) * Myron M. Stearns, So You Lost Your Pocketbook?, in 1940, The Rotarian (volume 56, number 2, page 39)
 * This was done by "reefing." He put two fingers just inside the opening and lifted the lining a trifle. Although I watched his hands, I could feel nothing, so gently did his fingers work. Reefing a couple of times, he lifted my handkerchief, as he might have taken out anything else.
 * 1)  To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
 * Reef the paddles.
 * 1)  To manipulate the lining of a person's pocket in order to steal the contents unnoticed.
 * 2) * Myron M. Stearns, So You Lost Your Pocketbook?, in 1940, The Rotarian (volume 56, number 2, page 39)
 * This was done by "reefing." He put two fingers just inside the opening and lifted the lining a trifle. Although I watched his hands, I could feel nothing, so gently did his fingers work. Reefing a couple of times, he lifted my handkerchief, as he might have taken out anything else.
 * 1) * Myron M. Stearns, So You Lost Your Pocketbook?, in 1940, The Rotarian (volume 56, number 2, page 39)
 * This was done by "reefing." He put two fingers just inside the opening and lifted the lining a trifle. Although I watched his hands, I could feel nothing, so gently did his fingers work. Reefing a couple of times, he lifted my handkerchief, as he might have taken out anything else.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: зарифявам
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: reffen
 * Finnish:
 * French: prendre un ris,
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: rīwhi
 * Norman: arrîsi, rîsi
 * Norwegian: reve
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic: riof
 * Spanish: tomar rizos
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: refön

Etymology 3
From, , from , from , from , related to 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare,.

Adjective

 * 1) Scabby; scurvy.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:scabby

Noun

 * 1)  The itch; any eruptive skin disorder.
 * 2)  Dandruff.

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) line drawn on the ground, furrow

Noun

 * 1)  shallows; strip of sail