A sickle (smaller) and a scythe (larger) From Middle English sikel assibilated in sichel Old English sicol siċel Proto-West Germanic *sikilu Latin sēcula ( “ sickle ” ) or sīcīlis ( “ sickle ” ) . Cognate with Dutch sikkel German Sichel scythe saw
sickle (plural sickles
( agriculture ) implement having a semicircular blade and short handle , used for cutting long grass and cereal crops .Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock . agricultural implement
Adyghe: гъупчъ ( ğʷupĉ )
Aghul: маккал ( makkal )
Albanian: drapër (sq) m kmesë (sq) f
Arabic: مِنْجَل m ( minjal )
Egyptian Arabic: منجلة f ( mangala )
Moroccan Arabic: منجل m ( manjal )
Aragonese: falz
Armenian: մանգաղ (hy) ( mangaġ )
Aromanian: seatsiri f seatsirã f cusor dirpani
Assamese: কাচি ( kasi )
Asturian: foz f
Atong (India): khatchi
Azerbaijani: oraq (az)
Bashkir: ураҡ ( uraq )
Basque: igitai
Bats: ნამგალ ( namgal ) , მანგალ ( mangal )
Belarusian: серп m ( sjerp )
Bengali: কাস্তে (bn) ( kaste ) , কাচি (bn) ( kaci )
Bhojpuri: दरांती ( darāntī )
Budukh: чин ( čin )
Bulgarian: сърп (bg) m ( sǎrp )
Burmese: တံစဉ် (my) ( tamcany )
Catalan: falç (ca) f
Chechen: марс ( mars )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鐮刀 ／ 镰刀 ( lim4 dou1 )
Dungan: ляндо ( li͡ando ) , ляндор ( li͡andor )
Hokkien: 鍥仔 ／ 锲仔 ( keh-á / koeh-á / koeh-á ) , 鐮刀 ／ 镰刀 ( liâm-to )
Mandarin: 鐮刀 ／ 镰刀 (zh) ( liándāo )
Chuvash: ҫурла ( śurla )
Crimean Tatar: orak
Czech: srp (cs) m
Dalmatian: secla f
Danish: segl (da) c
Dargwa: мирш ( mirš )
Daur: xaduur
Dutch: sikkel (nl) f zichel f zicht (nl) f
Dzongkha: ཟོརཝ ( zor.w )
Egyptian: (ẖꜣb m ꜣzḫ m
Erzya: тарваз ( tarvaz )
Esperanto: falĉileto rikoltilo
Estonian: sirp (et)
Finnish: sirppi (fi)
French: faucille (fr) f
Galician: fouce f fouciño m fouzaña f
Georgian: ნამგალი (ka) ( namgali )
German: Sichel (de) f
Gothic: 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 f ( gilþa )
Greek: δρεπάνι (el) n ( drepáni )
Ancient: δρέπανον n ( drépanon ) , δρεπάνη f ( drepánē )
Hebrew: מַגָּל (he) m ( magál )
Hindi: दरांती f ( darāntī ) , हँसिया (hi) m ( hãsiyā ) , हंसिया m ( hansiyā ) , सिकल f ( sikal )
Hungarian: sarló (hu)
Icelandic: sigð (is) f
Indonesian: arit (id) , sabit (id)
Ingush: марс ( mars )
Irish: corrán m
Italian: falce (it) f falcetto (it) m
Japanese: 鎌 (ja) ( かま, kama )
Kannada: ಕುಡುಗೋಲು (kn) ( kuḍugōlu )
Kazakh: орақ ( oraq )
Khinalug: чин ( čin )
Khmer: កណ្ដៀវ (km) ( kɑndiəw )
Komi-Permyak: чарла ( ćarla )
Korean: 낫 (ko) ( nat )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: das (ku) f
Kyrgyz: орок (ky) ( orok )
Lak: мухӏ ( muħ ) , мирхь ( mirx̂ )
Lao: ກ່ຽວ (lo) ( kiāu ) , ຄຽວ ( khiāu )
Latgalian: pļautivs m
Latin: falx (la) f
Latvian: sirpis m
Laz: მანგალი ( mangali ) , ორაღი ( oraği )
Lezgi: мукал ( mukal )
Lithuanian: pjautuvas m
Lombard: seghezz m
Luxembourgish: Séchel (lb) f
Macedonian: срп m ( srp )
Malay: sabit
Malayalam: അരിവാൾ (ml) ( arivāḷ )
Manchu: ᡥᠠᡩᡠᡶᡠᠨ ( hadufun )
Manx: corran m
Maori: toronaihi
Mazanderani: داز
Mingrelian: მაგანა ( magana )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хадуур (mn) ( xaduur )
Navajo: tlʼoh bee higéshí tlʼoh bee yilzhéhé
Nepali: हँसिया ( hãsiyā ) , करौती ( karautī )
Nogai: орак ( orak )
Northern Altai: оргак ( orgak )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sigd (no) m
Nynorsk: sigd m
Occitan: volam (oc) , fauç (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: срьпъ m ( srĭpŭ )
Oromo: haamtuu
Ottoman Turkish: اوراق ( orak ) , داس ( das ) , منجل ( mincel )
Pashto: رمبي m ( rambáy ) , کاترۍ f ( kātrǝ́y ) , منګال m ( mangãl )
Persian: داس (fa) ( dâs ) , منگال ( mangâl ) ( dialectal )
Plautdietsch: Säakjel n
Polish: sierp (pl) m
Pontic Greek: δρεπάνιν ( drepánin )
Portuguese: foice (pt) f
Quechua: ichhuna
Romanian: seceră (ro) f
Russian: серп (ru) m ( serp )
Sardinian: falche
Scottish Gaelic: corran m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ср̑п m
Roman: sȓp (sh) m
Sinhalese: කැත්ත (si) ( kætta )
Slovak: kosák m
Slovene: srp (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: serp m
Upper Sorbian: serp m
Southern Altai: оргок ( orgok ) , серип ( serip )
Spanish: hoz (es) f falce (es) f segur f
Svan: ნაშდა̈ქ ( našdäk )
Swahili: mundu
Swedish: skära (sv) c
Tagalog: karit lingkaw yatab
Tajik: дос ( dos )
Tamil: அரிவாள் (ta) ( arivāḷ )
Tarifit: amjar m
Tatar: урак (tt) ( uraq )
Telugu: కొడవలి (te) ( koḍavali )
Thai: เคียว (th) ( kiao )
Tibetan: ཟོ་ར ( zo ra )
Turkish: orak (tr)
Turkmen: orak
Udmurt: сюрло ( śurlo )
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎓𐎕𐎄 ( mʿṣd )
Ukrainian: серп m ( serp )
Urdu: ہَن٘سِیا m ( hansiyā ) , سکل f ( sikal ) , درانتی ( daranti )
Uyghur: ئورغاق ( orghaq )
Uzbek: oʻroq (uz)
Vietnamese: liềm (vi)
Vilamovian: sychuł f
Walloon: seye (wa) f fåceye (wa) f
Welsh: cryman m
Yakut: сиэрпэ ( sierpe )
Yiddish: סערפּ m ( serp )
Zazaki: qaloç f
A micrograph of red blood cells of a person with sickle-cell disease , which causes some cells to assume abnormal, sickle-like crescent shapes sickle (third-person singular simple present sickles present participle sickling simple past and past participle sickled
( agriculture , transitive ) cut with a sickle.( transitive ) deform (as with a red blood cell ) into an abnormal crescent shape.( intransitive ) sickle (comparative more sickle , superlative most sickle )
Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
a sickle moon
shaped like the blade of a sickle
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