# seep
## English
### Etymology

Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: sēp, IPA: /siːp/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːp

### Verb

seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)
* (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
    Water has seeped through the roof.
    The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.
* (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
    Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
    Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.
* (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
    The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
* (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
    The crack is seeping water.
** 2015, Crack repair service‎, archived from the original on 23 February 2020:If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.
** 2009 April 16, Crownvic forums‎:Just when I thought I was done checking it over, I smelled coolant....remove the engine cover and bam! 1 inch crack is seeping coolant!

#### Synonyms

* leak

#### Translations
### Noun

seep (plural seeps)
* A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
* Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
* The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
* A seafloor vent.
** 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 356:Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.

#### Derived terms

* seep mudalia

#### Translations

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#### See also

* sip
* siphon

### Anagrams

* Sepe, PESE, p'ees, pees, eeps, Pees

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch zeep.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪəp/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

seep (plural sepe)
* soap

#### Descendants

* → Swazi: insipho
* → Xhosa: isepha
* → Zulu: insipho

## Estonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseːp/, [ˈseːpˑ]
* Rhymes: -eːp
* Hyphenation: seep

### Etymology 1

From Middle Low German sêpe. First attested in 1632. Doublet of soop.

#### Noun

seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)
* soap (substance)
* (chemistry, in the plural) soap salt (metallic salt derived from a fatty acid)
* (informal) soap opera, soap

##### Derived terms

* seebikas
* seebine
* seebiks keetma
* seebiks minema
* seebistama
* seebistuma
* seebitama

##### Compounds

* glütseriinseep
* habemeajamisseep
* ihtüoolseep
* kaaliumseep
* kaltsiumseep
* karbolseep
* lanoliinseep
* lasteseep
* lavendliseep
* liimseep
* lõhnaseep
* majapidamisseep
* mandliseep
* naatriumseep
* palmiõliseep
* parfüümseep
* pesuseep
* saunaseep
* silmapesuseep
* silmaseep
* teleseep
* tualettseep
* tõrvaseep
* tükiseep
* tükkseep
* vaseliinseep
* vedelseep
* WC-seep
* õliseep
* seebialus
* seebihelves
* seebikang
* seebikarp
* seebikeet
* seebikeetja
* seebikeetmine
* seebikild
* seebikivi
* seebilaast
* seebilahus
* seebilill
* seebilõik
* seebimull
* seebiooper
* seebipiiritus
* seebipuu
* seebipära
* seebisaast
* seebisoop
* seebitoos
* seebitükk
* seebivabrik
* seebivaht
* seebivesi
* seepheinik

### Etymology 2

Omission of the apostrophe.

#### Pronoun

seep
* Alternative spelling of see'p

### References

* seep in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
* “seep”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

## Massachusett
### Pronunciation

* (Revived) IPA: /siːp/

### Noun

seep
* river