Sea

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Homophones 1.3.2 Translations 2 Spanish 2.1 Verb form

English

Etymology

From Middle English see < Old English sæ (sea, lake) < Proto-Germanic *saiwaz , of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• AHD : sē
• IPA : /siː/
• SAMPA : /si:/

Noun

sea (plural: seas)

1. a large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)

Homophones

• see

Translations

Arabic: بَحْرٌ (bahr) m, بُحُورٌ (buhúːr) pl, أبْحُرٌ (’ábhur) pl, بِحَارٌ (biháːr) pl Basque: itsaso Blackfoot: mo'toyaohkii Breton: mor m, morioù pl Bulgarian: море (móre) n Catalan: mar m/f Chinese: 海 (hǎi) Cree: kihchikamiy Croatian: more n Czech: moře n Danish: hav n Dutch: zee f Estonian: meri Finnish: meri French: mer f Frisian: see f German: Meer n, Meere pl, See f, Seen pl Greek: πέλαγος (pelagos) n (el ), θάλασσα (thálassa) f (el ) Guaraní: para Hebrew: יָם (yam) m Hungarian: tenger Ido: maro Indonesian: laut Interlingua: mar

Italian: mare m Japanese: 海 (うみ, úmi) Korean: 바다 (bada), 해양 (海洋, haeyang) Lakota: ble Latin: mare n Lithuanian: jūra f, (marios f poetic or small sea) Norwegian: hav n Ojibwe: gichigami , gichigamiin pl Polish: morze n Portuguese: mar m Romanian: mare f Russian: море (móre) n, моря (morjá) pl Serbian: море (more) n Slovak: more n Slovene: morje n Spanish: mar m/f Swahili: bahari sg/pl (noun 9/10) Swedish: sjö c (sjön) Thai: ทะเล (tháleh) Tupinambá: paranã Turkish: denizi Ukrainian: море (móre) n Vietnamese: hải Welsh: gweilgi , mor

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Spanish

Verb form

sea

1. third-person singular imperative of ser: Be!
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of ser: that I be.
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of ser: that he/she/it be.