slough

Etymology 1
From, , , from , perhaps related to (compare 🇨🇬).

Akin to 🇨🇬. Perhaps also related with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
 * That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
 * 1) Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
 * This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
 * This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَلْخ
 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: (luotu) nahka
 * French:
 * German: abgestreifte Haut
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λεβηρίς, σῦφαρ
 * Hebrew:
 * Latin: vernatio
 * Malayalam:
 * Old English: insmoh
 * Ottoman Turkish: ییلان قاوی, قاو, سلخ
 * Polish: wylinka
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, zmijska košuljica
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: hengroen, croen marw, croen wedi'i fwrw


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, kuollut iho
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Polish: martwa skóra
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, eshara

Verb

 * 1)  To shed skin or outer layers.
 * This skin is being sloughed.
 * Snakes slough their skin periodically.
 * 1)  To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
 * A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
 * 1) * 1944 United States. Bureau of Mines · War Minerals Report 386. Google books
 * The adit penetrated the vug ... and at this level ... it was filled with material that had ... sloughed off the walls.
 * 1)  To discard.
 * East sloughed a heart.
 * 1)  To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
 * 1)  To discard.
 * East sloughed a heart.
 * 1)  To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.

Translations

 * Arabic: اِنْسَلَخَ, سَلَخَ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: svléci kůži
 * Finnish: luoda nahkansa
 * German: sich häuten,
 * Hungarian:
 * Maori: kautahanga, whakamāunu
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: скидати


 * Bulgarian: лющя се
 * Czech: loupat se, odlupovat se, oloupat se
 * Finnish:
 * German: sich lösen
 * Maori: whakamāunu
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: лущитися, линяти


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: odhodit
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: скидати


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
From, probably from.

Noun



 * 1)  A muddy or marshy area.
 * 2)  A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
 * 3)  A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
 * 4) A state of depression.
 * 5)  A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
 * 1)  A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
 * 2) A state of depression.
 * 3)  A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
 * 1)  A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
 * 1)  A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: мочурище,
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:, , ,
 * Irish: seascann
 * Latin: lama, palus
 * Norwegian: myr, gjørmehull
 * Ottoman Turkish: باتاق, خلاش
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: clàbar


 * Bulgarian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: sivuhaara


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: