swim

Etymology 1
From, from (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from , from , from.

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Verb

 * 1)  To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
 * 2)  To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid
 * 3)  To move around freely because of excess space.
 * 4)  To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
 * 5)  To cause to swim.
 * 6)  To float.
 * 7)  To be overflowed or drenched.
 * 8)  To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
 * 9)  To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
 * 10)  To glide along with a waving motion.
 * 1)  To cause to swim.
 * 2)  To float.
 * 3)  To be overflowed or drenched.
 * 4)  To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
 * 5)  To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
 * 6)  To glide along with a waving motion.
 * 1)  To float.
 * 2)  To be overflowed or drenched.
 * 3)  To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
 * 4)  To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
 * 5)  To glide along with a waving motion.
 * 1)  To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
 * 2)  To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
 * 3)  To glide along with a waving motion.
 * 1)  To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
 * 2)  To glide along with a waving motion.
 * 1)  To glide along with a waving motion.

Usage notes

 * In Late Middle English and Early Modern English, the present participle form swimmand still sometimes occurred in Midlands and Northern dialects, for exampleː
 * The water to norish the fysh swymand. (14th c., The Creation in The Towneley plays, l. 55)
 * Their young child Troiane, as swift as dolphin fish, swimmand away. (1513, Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid)

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аӡсара
 * Acehnese: langue
 * Afrikaans: swem
 * Aklanon: eangoy
 * Albanian:, luoz (Arbëresh)
 * Arabic: سَبَحَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: عام
 * Hijazi Arabic: سِبِح
 * Aragonese: nadar
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܣܚܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: anot, not, mplãtescu
 * Assamese: সাঁতোৰ
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: лъедезе
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: йөҙөү
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: пла́ваць, папла́ваць,  плыць, паплы́ць
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: maglangoy
 * Breton: neui, ,
 * Brunei Malay: beranang
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: плывати
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: нека дан, лийча
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏬᏍᏗ, ᎠᏳᎢᏁᎦ
 * Chickasaw: yopi, ok-aayopi, yopichi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 游水
 * Eastern Min: 泅水
 * Hakka: 泅水, 洗身仔, 泅水仔
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 游水,
 * Chukchi: аӈӄатыԓяк
 * Chuukese: tuken
 * Corsican:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: simma
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Evenki: элбэскэтчэми, уюкта-
 * Extremaduran: nadal
 * Faroese:
 * Fijian: qalo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: nadâ
 * Fwâi: wân
 * Galician:
 * Gamilaraay: gubiy
 * Georgian: შეცურება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κολυμβάω, νήχομαι, νέω
 * Greenlandic: naluppoq
 * Guaraní: nada
 * Haitian Creole: naje
 * Hawaiian: ʻauʻau, ʻau
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: langoy
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: aglangoy
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: uijua
 * Interlingua: natar
 * Iranun: langui
 * Irish: snámh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: langi,
 * Jawe: wân
 * Kapampangan: kaue
 * Kapingamarangi: kau
 * Kashubian: płëwac
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ហែល, ហែលទឹក
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao: ລອຍນ້ຳ
 * Latgalian: maut, mauduot
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard:, nuà
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: swimmen
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: пли́ва
 * Maguindanao: lumanguy
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: għam
 * Manchu: ᡝᠯᠪᡳᡧᡝᠮᠪᡳ
 * Mangarevan: kau
 * Mansaka: langoy
 * Manx:
 * Maori:, tere
 * Maranao: langoy
 * Marathi: पोहणे
 * Mauritian Creole: naze
 * Middle English: swymmen
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠡᠯᠢᠬᠦ, ᠤᠮᠪᠠᠬᠤ
 * Nanai: паори-, онёан-
 * Navajo: naʼałkǫ́ǫ́ʼ
 * Neapolitan: natà
 * Nemi: wân
 * Nepali: पौडिनु
 * Ngazidja Comorian: tsunga
 * Ngunawal: yerra
 * Norman: nagi
 * North Frisian: sweem
 * Northern Sami: vuodjat
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: symja, symje, svømma
 * Occitan:
 * Old Tupi: ‘ytab
 * Oromo: dakuu,
 * Ossetian: ленк кӕнын
 * Ottoman Turkish: یوزمك
 * Pangasinan: langoy
 * Papiamentu: landa
 * Pashto: لامبل
 * Persian:, شناویدن ,
 * Piedmontese: nové
 * Pije: wân
 * Pitcairn-Norfolk: naawe
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: wayt'ay, wamp'uy
 * Rapa Nui: kau
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: nudar, senudar, nuder, nodar
 * Russian: ,
 * Samoan: a'au
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: anatare, nadare, natare
 * Campidanese: nadai
 * Scots: sweem
 * Scottish Gaelic: snàmh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пли̏вати
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: පිහිනනවා
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: plěś, plěwaś
 * Upper Sorbian: płuwać
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: ngojai
 * Swahili: kuogelea
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lumangoy, languyin
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tarantino: natà, natare
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: languy
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: nani
 * Thai: ว่ายน้ำ,
 * Tibetan: ཆུ་རྐྱལ་རྒྱག, འཕྱོ
 * Tocharian B: nāsk-
 * Tongan: kakau
 * Tuamotuan: kau
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýüzmek
 * Tuvan: эштир, эштип билир
 * Udmurt: уяны
 * Ukrainian:, попла́вати; , плисти́, поплисти́
 * Urdu: تیرنا
 * Uyghur: ئۈزمەك
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian:, nodar,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Waray-Waray: langoy
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: swimme
 * White Hmong: luam dej
 * Yiddish: שווימען
 * Yoruba: lùwẹ̀
 * Zealandic: zwemme
 * Zhuang: ap, youz, apdah, youzraemx, dajcaemx

Noun

 * 1) An act or instance of swimming.
 * 2) The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
 * 3)  A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
 * 4) A dance  or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
 * 5)  The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
 * 1) A dance  or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
 * 2)  The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
 * 1)  The flow of events; being in the swim of things.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَبْحَة, سِبَاحَة
 * Armenian:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: плуване
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: нека, лийчар
 * Chickasaw: yopi, ok-aayopi, yopichi
 * Czech:
 * Danish: svømmetur
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: ujukki
 * Irish: snámh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: svømmetur
 * Odia:
 * Ottoman Turkish: یوزمه
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: plávanie
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: simtur
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:

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

Noun

 * 1) A ;.

Verb

 * 1)  To be  or ; have a  sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.

Etymology 3
Abbreviation of someone who isn't me.