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Pronunciation
audio|en-us-lake.ogg|Audio (US)

Etymology 1
From Middle English lake (body of water) < Old French lack < Latin lacus (hollow, lake, pond) < Proto-Indo-European *lak-.
From French laque (lacquer) < Persian FAchar|�اک (l�k) < Hindi lakh < Sanskrit laksha ("one hundred thousand," referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out).

Noun
en-noun

1. Large, landlocked, naturally occurring stretch of water.
2. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
3. (In the plural) an area characterised by its many lakes; e.g., the English Lake District is often shortened to The Lakes.
4. a|A large amount of liquid: a wine lake.

Derived terms
Great Lakes
interlacustrine
lacustrine
oxbow lake

Translations
trans-top|body of water
Ainu: � (to)
Albanian: liqen m
Arabic: ARchar|بح�رة|ب�ح���ر�ة� (buħáira) f
Aramaic:

Aragonese: ibón m, laco m
Blackfoot: mo'toyaohkii
Bosnian: jezero n
Bulgarian: езе�о (jézero) n
Catalan: llac m
Chinese:

Cree: kihchikamiy
Croatian: jezero n
Czech: jezero n
Danish: sø c
Dutch: meer#Dutch|meer n
Esperanto: lago
Estonian: järv
Fijian: drano
Finnish: järvi
French: lac m
Frisian: mar m
German: See#German|See m, See#German|Seen p
Greek: λίμνη (límnī) f
Hebrew: ��� (agam) m
Hungarian: tó
Icelandic: vatn n
Indonesian: danau
Irish: loch#Irish|loch m
Italian: lago m
Japanese: � (����, mizuúmi), �� (�, ko) (as suffix)
Korean: �� (hosu)
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Lakota: ble#Lakota|ble
Latin: lacus m
Latvian ezers m
Lithuanian: ežeras m
Maltese: għadira f, lag m
Maori: roto
Mongolian: �� (nuur)
Norwegian: innsjø m, tjern n, vann n
Ojibwe: zaaga'igan, zaaga'iganan p
Persian: FAchar|در�ا�� (daryâche)
Polish: jezioro n
Portuguese: lago m
Proto-Polynesian: *rano
Romanian: lac n
Russian: озе�о (ózero) n
Sardinian: lagu m
Serbian:

Slovak: jazero n
Slovene: jezero n
Spanish: lago m
Swahili: jito, majito pl (nc 5/6)
Swedish: sjö c, insjö c
Thai: THchar|สา� (sààp), THchar|�ะ�ลสา� (thálehsààp)
Tibetan: (co)
Turkish: göl
Ukrainian: озе�о (ózero) n
Urdu: URchar|در�ا�� (dary��a) m
Vietnamese: h�
Welsh: llyn m
trans-bottom

trans-top|coloring agent
Arabic: ARchar|صبغ ا���|ص�ب�غ ا���� IPAchar|(�íb�u l-lák) m
Finnish: lakka
French: laque f
German: Farbstoff m
Greek: ­­­­­λάκη (láki) f
Hungarian: lakk
Hebrew: ��� (lakah) f
Italian: lacca f
trans-mid
Japanese: �� (nísu), � (���, urushí)
Korean: �커 (raekeo)
Norwegian: fargestoff n
Polish: lakier m
Portuguese: laca f
Russian: лак (lak) m
Spanish: laca f
Thai: THchar|�รั�� (khràng)
trans-bottom

See also
billabong
lagoon
pond
tarn

Etymology 2
wikipedia|lác
From Old English lác, Common Germanic *laikom "game, dance, hymn, sport, fight".

Noun
en-noun

1. offering, sacrifice, gift (obsolete)
2. play, sport, fun, glee (obsolete or dialectal)

Verb
en-verb

1. to present an offering (obsolete)
2. to leap, jump, exert oneself, play (mainly dialectal)

Derived terms
wedlock

Etymology 3
From Old English lachen

Noun
en-noun

1. fine linen (obsolete)

Etymology 4
from lac (French laque), ultimately from Hindustani lakh.

Noun
en-noun

1. a red pigment

Derived terms
lake-red

Verb
en-verb

1. to make lake-red

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Norwegian

Noun
lake m

1. Pickle, brine
2. Burbot, eelpout

Verb
Ã¥ lake

1. To pickle

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