scythe

Etymology
From, , from , , , from , from , , derived from , from.

Immediate 🇨🇬 cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (all “sickle”). More distantly related with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (both “scythe”). Also akin to, which see.

The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with, from.

The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.

Noun

 * 1) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
 * 2)  A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
 * 3)  The tenth Lenormand card.
 * 1)  A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
 * 2)  The tenth Lenormand card.

Derived terms

 * nature's scythe

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Andi: харисел
 * Arabic: مِنْجَل
 * Armenian:
 * Avar: нилъ, харицел, хъандиро
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: салғы
 * Basque: sega, kodaina
 * Bats: ცელ
 * Belarusian: каса́
 * Bezhta: халисен
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: мангал, марс
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , 釤刀, 釤鐮
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: falĉilo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: líggi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ცელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: δρέπανον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: orf og ljár, ljár
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: viikate
 * Ingush: мангал, марс
 * Inuktitut: ᓇᑲᑎᕆᔾᔪᑦ (nakatirijjut)
 * Irish: speal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 大鎌
 * Kazakh: шалғы
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 큰낫
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: dilûk, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: fauc
 * Lak: мухӏ, мирхъ
 * Lao:
 * Latin: falx
 * Latvian: izkapts
 * Laz: დრეპანი, ქერენდი
 * Lezgi: дергес
 * Ligurian: messuïa
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: falc,
 * Low German: Sais
 * Macedonian: коса
 * Maori: haira
 * Mazanderani: افنداره
 * Mingrelian: ცელი
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nanai: хадоко
 * Norman: faux
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ljå
 * Nynorsk: ljå
 * Old East Slavic: коса
 * Old English: siġþe
 * Ossetian: ӕхсырф, цӕвӕг
 * Ottoman Turkish: طرپان
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: faussìa
 * Plautdietsch: Sans
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: ко̄сс
 * Scots:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ко̀са
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kósa
 * Southern Altai: чалгы
 * Spanish:
 * Svan: მერჩილ
 * Swahili: fyekeo
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: дергес
 * Tagalog: kalawit, karit
 * Tajik: даҳра
 * Tarifit: amjar
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Udi: мих, даьргаьз, цел
 * Udmurt: кусо
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎓𐎕𐎄
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: دَرَانْتی
 * Uyghur: چالغا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian:
 * Veps: vikateh
 * Vietnamese: lưỡi hái
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קאָסע


 * German:

Verb

 * 1)  To use a scythe.
 * 2)  To cut with a scythe.
 * 3)  To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
 * 4)  To attack or injure as if cutting.

Derived terms

 * scythe down

Translations

 * Belarusian: касі́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: niitma
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, slá með orfi og ljá
 * Irish: speal
 * Italian:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: коси
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: косити
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: faucijari, mètiri
 * Slovak: kosiť
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, slå med lie
 * Ukrainian: коси́ти
 * Volapük:

Etymology
See

Adjective

 * 1) Scythian