# sea
## Translingual
### Etymology

Most likely from English Semai

### Symbol

sea
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Semai.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Semai terms

## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English see, from Old English sǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi (“body of water”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, itself either:
* Derived from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”). Related to Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), and Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”). More at sore.
* Derived from Proto-Germanic *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ-.
Cognate with Danish sø, Dutch zee, German See, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Swedish sjö, and West Frisian see.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: sē, IPA: /siː/
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* (obsolete) enPR: sā, IPA: /seɪ/
* Homophones: C, cee, see
* Rhymes: -iː

### Noun

sea (plural seas)
* A large body of salt water.
    Synonym: (UK, nautical and navy) ogin
** 1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] ‎, 4th edition, page 252:God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
** The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
*** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 11:9, signature [K5], recto, column 2:These ſhal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatſoeuer hath finnes and ſcales in the waters, in the ſeas, and in the riuers, them ſhall ye eate.
*** 1719, Nicholas Rowe, “Book V”, in Lucan's Pharsalia: Translated into English Verse, Dublin: James Carson, page 183:At length the universal Wreck appear'd,/ To Cæsar's self, ev'n worthy to be fear'd./ Why all these Pains, this Toil of Fate (he cries)/ This Labour of the Seas, and Earth, and Skies?/ All Nature, and the Gods at once alarm'd,/ Against my little Boat and me are arm'd.
*** 1833, William Hazlitt, “Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy”, in Greenbank's Periodical Library, volume I, chapter 1, page 173:There is something in being near the sea, like the confines of eternity. It is a new element, a pure abstraction. The mind loves to hover on that which is endless, and forever the same. People wonder at a steam-boat, the invention of man, managed by man, that makes its liquid path like an iron railway through the sea—I wonder at the sea itself, that vast Leviathan, rolled round the earth, smiling in its sleep, waked into fury, fathomless, boundless, a huge world of water-drops.—Whence is it, whither goes it, is it of eternity, or of nothing?
*** 1922 March, J. S. Fletcher, “The Mystery of Ravensdene Court”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume XLVI, number 3, page 162:As we stood there watching, the long yellow light on the eastern horizon suddenly changed in color—first to a roseate flush, then to a warm crimson; the scenes round us, sky, sea, and land, brightened as if by magic.
** A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
    The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.
* A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
    The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.
* The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
** 1792, William Bligh, chapter II, in A Voyage to the South Sea, […] in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty, […], London: […] George Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 14:One ſea broke away the ſpare yards and ſpars out of the ſtarboard main chains. Another heavy ſea broke into the ſhip and ſtove all the boats. Several caſks of beer, that had been laſhed upon deck, were broke looſe and waſhed overboard, and it was not without great difficulty and riſk that we were able to ſecure the boats from being waſhed away entirely.
** 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Mackerel Trolling”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 187:'If they buy three cords of birch logs,' said the witch, 'but they must be exact measure—and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the second sea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the third sea comes, then it's all over with us.'
** 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea:There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.
** 2020 June 8, National Weather Service Boston, 2:38 PM EDT marine forecast
    High pressure will maintain light winds and flat seas through Tue night. ... Potential for briefly choppy 3 ft seas near South Coast...
* (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
    Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.
* (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature G2, recto:To be, or not to be, that is the queſtion, / Whether tis nobler in the minde to ſuffer / The ſlings and arrowes of outragious fortune, / Or to take Armes againſt a ſea of troubles, / And by oppoſing, end them, to die to ſleepe / No more, and by a ſleepe, to ſay we end / The hart-ake, and the thouſand naturall ſhocks / That fleſh is heire to; […]
** 1980, Patria Crone, Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:Secondly, in terms of geopolitics Central Asia was a huge sea of barbarians set in the midst of interlocking continents. Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.
** 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102:The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.
** 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎:In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.
* (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
* (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
    The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.
* (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

#### Derived terms
##### Proper nouns

* Adriatic Sea
* Aegean Sea
* Argentine Sea
* Baltic Sea
* Banda Sea
* Barents Sea
* Beaufort Sea
* Bering Sea
* Black Sea
* Caribbean Sea
* Caspian Sea
* Celtic Sea
* Coral Sea
* Dead Sea
* East Sea
* German Sea
* Greenland Sea
* Imarpik Sea
* Inland Sea
* Ionian Sea
* Irish Sea
* Java Sea
* Kara Sea
* Labrador Sea
* Ligurian Sea
* Mediterranean Sea
* North Sea
* Norwegian Sea
* Philippine Sea
* Red Sea
* Ross Sea
* Salt Sea
* Sea of Azov
* Sea of Galilee
* Sea of Japan
* Sea of Marmara
* Sea of Okhotsk
* Sea of Sodom
* Sea of the Hebrides
* Seto Inland Sea
* South China Sea
* Sulu Sea
* Tappan Sea
* Tasman Sea
* Timor Sea
* Tyrrhenian Sea
* Wadden Sea
* Weddell Sea
* Allhallows-on-Sea
* Bexhill-on-Sea
* Birchington-on-Sea
* Burnham-on-Sea
* Caister-on-Sea
* Cardiff-by-the-Sea
* Carmel-by-the-Sea
* Chelsea-on-Sea
* Clacton-on-Sea
* Cley next the Sea
* Frinton-on-Sea
* Goring-by-Sea
* Gorleston-on-Sea
* Greatstone-on-Sea
* Hopton-on-Sea
* Kingston by Sea
* Knott End-on-Sea
* Leigh-on-Sea
* Leysdown-on-Sea
* Littlestone-on-Sea
* Lydd-on-Sea
* Marske-by-the-Sea
* Middleton-on-Sea
* Milford-on-Sea
* Minster-on-Sea
* Mundesley-on-Sea
* Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
* Newton-by-the-Sea
* Red Sea Hills
* Saltburn-by-the-Sea
* Seabreeze
* Seaford
* Sealand
* Sea Mills
* Sea Point
* Seatown
* Seaview
* Shoreham-by-Sea
* Southend-on-Sea
* St Anne's on the Sea
* St Leonards-on-Sea
* Sutton on Sea
* Wells-next-the-Sea
* Westcliff-on-Sea
* Westgate-on-Sea

##### Common nouns

* black sea cucumber
* blackspot sea bream
* California sea lion
* Chilean sea bass
* Cortez sea chub
* deep-sea prawn
* European sea bass
* Galapagos sea lion
* Galápagos sea lion
* green sea turtle
* hawksbill sea turtle
* in a sea-way
* Japanese sea lion
* Japanese sea perch
* Kemp's ridley sea turtle
* loggerhead sea turtle
* Madagascar sea-eagle
* olive ridley sea turtle
* olive sea snake
* red-backed sea eagle
* rock sea lavender
* sea acorn
* sea adder (Syngnathus acus)
* sea anemone (Actiniaria)
* sea angel
* sea ape
* sea apple
* sea arrow
* sea asparagus
* sea bass
* sea-bat, sea bat, seabat
* sea bean
* sea bear
* seabeard
* sea beaver
* sea beet
* sea belt
* sea blite
* sea-blubber, sea blubber
* sea bluebell
* sea brant
* sea bream, seabream
* sea buckthorn, sea-buckthorn
* sea bug
* sea-bun
* sea burdock
* sea butterfly
* sea cabbage
* sea calf, sea-calf, seacalf
* sea campion
* sea canary
* sea cap
* sea carnation
* sea cat
* sea caterpillar
* sea-catgut
* sea cauliflower
* sea centipede
* sea chervil
* sea chestnut
* sea chickweed
* sea chub
* sea clam
* sea cob
* sea cock
* sea coconut
* sea colander
* sea cole, sea colewort
* sea coot
* sea cormorant
* sea couch grass
* sea cow, sea-cow
* sea cradle
* sea crayfish
* sea crow
* sea cucumber (Holothuroidea)
* sea dace
* sea daffodil
* sea daisy
* sea devil, seadevil
* seadog
* sea dollar
* sea donkey
* sea dotterel
* sea dove
* sea dragon
* sea drake
* sea duck, seaduck
* sea-eagle, sea eagle (Haliaeetus)
* sea ear, sea-ear
* sea eel
* sea elephant
* sea fan
* sea feather
* sea fennel
* sea fig
* sea fir
* sea-fire
* sea fox
* sea gherkin
* sea ginger
* sea girdles
* sea goose
* sea gooseberry, sea-gooseberry
* sea grape
* seagrass
* sea gudgeon
* sea-gull
* seagull (Laridae)
* sea hare (Anaspidea)
* seahawk
* sea heath
* sea hedgehog
* sea hen
* sea hibiscus
* sea-hog
* sea hog (Phocoenidae)
* sea holly
* sea holm
* sea horse (Hippocampus)
* sea hound
* sea hulver
* sea ivory
* sea jelly
* sea kale
* sea kidney
* sea krait
* sea lace, sea-laces
* sea lamprey
* sea lark
* sea lavender
* sea lemon
* sea leopard
* sea lettuce
* sea lily
* sea lion
* sea-lion
* sealion (Otariidae)
* sea liver (Eudistoma hepaticum)
* sea loach
* sea louse (Caligidae)
* sea-magpie
* sea mammal
* sea mat
* seamew
* sea milkwort
* sea mink
* sea monk
* sea monkey
* sea moss
* sea moth
* sea mouse, seamouse
* sea mustard
* sea myrtle
* sea needle
* sea nettle
* sea oats
* sea onion
* sea ooze
* sea orange
* sea orb
* sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
* sea otter's cabbage
* sea-ox
* sea pansy
* sea panther
* sea parrot, sea-parrot
* sea parsley
* sea parsnip
* sea partridge
* sea pea
* sea peach
* sea pear
* sea pen
* sea perch
* sea pheasant, sea-pheasant
* sea pickle
* sea-pie
* sea pig
* sea pigeon
* sea pike, sea-pike
* sea pineapple
* sea pink
* sea-plant
* sea plantain
* sea-poacher
* sea poison tree
* sea poppy
* sea porcupine
* sea pork (Aplidium stellatum)
* sea potato
* sea primrose
* sea pudding
* sea pumpkin
* sea purse, sea-purse
* sea pye
* sea quail
* sea rat
* sea raven
* sea roach
* sea robin
* sea rocket
* searocket (Cakile)
* sea-rose
* sea rosemary
* sea-ruff, sea ruffe
* sea rush
* sea salmon
* sea sapphire
* sea sawdust (Trichodesmium)
* sea scallop
* sea scorpion
* sea scurf
* sea slater
* sea-sleeve
* sea slug (Nudibranchia)
* sea snail (snail)
* seasnail (fish, Liparidae)
* sea snake
* sea snipe
* sea sparkle
* sea spider, sea-spider, seaspider
* sea spleenwort
* sea sponge
* sea squill
* sea squirt (Ascidiacea)
* sea star (Asteroidea)
* sea strawberry
* sea surface, sea-surface
* sea swallow
* seaswine
* seatang
* sea thong
* sea titling
* sea toad
* sea-tree
* sea trout
* sea trumpet
* sea turtle, sea-turtle
* sea twine
* sea unicorn
* sea urchin (Echinoidea)
* sea valley
* sea vegetable
* sea vomit
* sea walnut
* seaware
* sea wasp
* seaweed, sea-weed
* sea whip
* sea whip coral
* sea-whipcord
* sea whistle
* sea willow, sea-willow
* sea wolf, seawolf (Anarhichas lupus)
* sea woodlouse
* sea worm
* sea wormwood
* slender sea lettuce
* snuff box sea bean
* South American sea lion
* starlet sea anemone
* Steller sea lion
* Steller's sea cow
* termite of the sea
* weedy sea dragon
* white-breasted sea eagle
* white-tailed sea eagle
* Arctic sea smoke
* asea
* a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
* at sea
* beam sea
* between the devil and the deep blue sea
* bigger fish in the sea
* black sea
* bottom of the sea
* chicken of the sea
* chickpea of the sea
* cockroach of the sea
* countersea
* cross sea
* dead sea
* deep blue sea
* deep-sea
* deep sea
* Dirac sea
* drop in the sea
* freedom of the seas
* from sea to shining sea
* from the river to the sea
* fruit of the sea
* fruits of the sea
* get in the sea
* go to sea
* green sea
* head sea
* high sea
* high seas
* inland sea
* law of the sea
* majestic sea flap-flap
* majestic sea flap flap
* marginal sea
* mediterranean sea
* midsea
* milky sea
* narrow sea
* never sick at sea
* nonsea
* open sea
* other fishes in the sea
* other fish in the sea
* oversea
* people mountain people sea
* potato chip of the sea
* primordial sea
* put to sea
* red sea
* sea anchor
* sea area
* seabag
* sea ball
* seabank
* sea barrow
* seabase
* sea-based
* seabeach
* sea bed
* seabed
* seaberry
* seabird
* sea bird
* sea biscuit
* sea-blue histiocytosis
* seaboard
* seaboat
* seaboot
* sea-boot
* seaborn
* seaborne
* seabottom
* seabound
* sea-bow
* sea bow
* sea boy
* sea breach
* sea bread
* sea breeze
* seabreeze
* sea brief
* sea-brink
* seaburger
* sea can
* sea cap
* sea captain
* sea card
* seacave
* sea-change
* sea change, seachange
* sea chanty
* sea chart
* sea chest
* seacliff
* sea coal
* sea-coal
* seacoal
* seacoast
* seacock
* sea cock
* sea cookie
* sea corn
* seacraft
* sea-day
* seaday
* sea day
* sea-dog
* sea dog, seadog
* sea donkey
* sea drake
* sea-drift
* seadrome
* sea duty
* sea-duty
* sea fairy
* seafare
* seafarer
* seafaring
* sea fish
* seafloor
* sea floor
* sea-floor spreading
* seafoam
* seafolk
* seafood
* seafowl
* sea fret
* sea-front
* seafront
* seaful
* sea-girl
* seagirt
* sea glass
* seagoer
* sea-going
* seagoing
* sea gown
* sea green
* sea-ground
* seahabilitation
* sea heart
* sea holm
* sea ice
* seajack
* seakeeping
* seakindly
* sea king
* sealab
* sea-lane
* sea lane
* sea lawyer
* sea-lawyer
* sea legs
* sealess
* sea letter
* sea level
* sealife
* sealift
* sea-light
* sea light
* sealike
* sealine
* sea link
* sea liquor
* sea load
* sea loch
* sealock
* sea-locked
* sealocked
* sealore
* seamaid
* seamail
* seaman
* seamare
* seamark
* sea mark
* sea mile
* sea monk
* sea monster
* seamount
* sea mouth
* sea mud
* sea of instability
* Sea of Storms
* sea pancake
* sea pass
* sea pie
* sea-pie
* sea-piece
* sea piece
* seapiece
* seaplane
* sea-poose
* seaport
* sea power, seapower
* seapunk
* sea purse
* sea-puss
* sea puss
* seaquake
* seaquarium
* sea quark
* sea rat
* sea-reach
* sea rescue kit
* sea-rim
* sea room
* sea rover
* sea saliva
* sea salt
* sea-salted
* seasand
* sea scallop
* seascape
* sea scooter
* seascraper
* sea serpent
* sea shanty
* sea shell
* seashell
* seashore
* seasick
* seasickness
* sea-sickness
* seaside
* sea silk
* sea skimmer
* sea skimming
* sea smoke
* sea snot
* sea soldier
* seaspace
* Seaspeak
* seaspray
* sea-stack
* sea stack
* seastained
* seastar
* sea-star
* sea star associated densovirus
* sea star-associated densovirus
* sea-star-associated densovirus
* sea star wasting disease
* sea-star wasting disease
* sea state
* seastead
* seasteading
* sea-stick
* sea stock
* seastorm
* sea story
* seastrand
* seaswept
* seatainer
* sea trial
* seatron
* sea turn
* sea-view
* sea wall
* seawall
* seaward
* seawards
* seaware
* seawater
* sea water
* seaway
* seawise
* seawoman
* seaworn
* seaworthy
* sea-worthy
* seawrack
* seismic sea wave
* seven seas
* ship a sea
* shortsea
* short-sea shipping
* son of a sea-cook
* subsea
* territorial sea
* there are plenty more fish in the sea
* there are plenty of fish in the sea
* two lamps burning and no ship at sea
* undersea
* victory at sea
* within the four seas
* worse things happen at sea

#### Translations

Abaza: амшын (amšən)
Abkhaz: амшын (amŝən)
Acehnese: laot, la'ôt
Adyghe: хы (xə)
Afar: bad
Afrikaans: see (af)
Ainu: アトゥイ (atuy)
Akan: empo, mpo, po
Akkadian: 𒀀𒁀𒈠𒌅 (abamātu)
Aklanon: dagat, eawod
Albanian: det (sq)
Alutor: аӈӄан (aŋqan)
Amharic: ባሕር (baḥr)
Andi: релъо (relˢo)
Antillean Creole: lanmè
Arabic: بَحْر (ar) m (baḥr), يَمّ m (yamm)
Gulf Arabic: بَحَر (baḥər)
Hijazi Arabic: بَحَر m (baḥar)
Moroccan Arabic: بحر (bḥar)
Aragonese: mar m or f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܡܐ f (yāmā)
Classical Syriac: ܝܡܐ m (yammā)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: יַמָּא m (yammā)
Archi: лъат (lʰat)
Armenian: ծով (hy) (cov)
Aromanian: amari f, amare f, mari f
Assamese: সাগৰ (xagor)
Asturian: mar (ast) m or f
Atayal: bcilung
Avar: ралъад (ralˢad)
Aymara: lamara (ay)
Azerbaijani: dəniz (az)
Balinese: pasih, sagara
Bashkir: диңгеҙ (diñgeź)
Basque: itsaso
Bau Bidayuh: laut
Belarusian: мо́ра (be) n (móra)
Bengali: সাগর (bn) (śagor), সমুদ্র (bn) (śomudro)
Bhojpuri: समुंद्र (samundra)
Bislama: solwora
Blackfoot: mo'toyaohkii
Breton: mor (br) m
Brunei Malay: laut
Bulgarian: море́ (bg) n (moré)
Burmese: ပင်လယ် (my) (panglai), အဏ္ဏဝါ (my) (anna.wa)
Buryat: далай (dalaj)
Caló: pañibaró m
Carpathian Rusyn: мо́ре n (móre)
Catalan: mar (ca) m or f
Cebuano: dagat
Central Melanau: daat
Chechen: хӏорд (hord)
Cherokee: ᎡᏉᏂ (equoni), ᎠᎺᏉᎯ (amequohi)
Chichewa: nyanja
Chinese:
Cantonese: 海 (hoi$^2$)
Dungan: хэ (he)
Eastern Min: 海 (hāi)
Gan: 海 (hai$^3$)
Hakka: 海 (hói)
Hokkien: 海 (hái)
Jin: 海 (hai$^2$)
Mandarin: 海 (zh) (hǎi)
Northern Min: 海 (huǒi)
Wu: 海 ($^5$he / $^3$he)
Xiang: 海 (hai$^3$)
Chukchi: аӈӄы (aṇqy)
Chuvash: тинӗс (tinĕs)
Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲙ (eiom)
Cornish: mor m
Corsican: mari (co) m
Cree: ᑭᐦᒋᑲᒥᕀ (kihcikamiy)
Crimean Tatar: deñiz
Czech: moře (cs) n
Dalmatian: mur
Danish: hav (da) n, sø (da) c
Dhivehi: މޫދު (mūdu)
Dolgan: байгал (baygal)
Dutch: zee (nl) f
Egyptian: (wꜣḏ-wr m), (ym m)
Erzya: иневедь (ineveď), моря (moŕa)
Esperanto: maro (eo)
Estonian: meri (et)
Even: нам (nam)
Evenki: ламу (lamu)
Ewe: atsiaƒu n
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Farefare: ateko
Faroese: hav (fo) n, sjógvur (fo) m
Fataluku: tahi
Fijian: wasa (fj)
Finnish: meri (fi)
French: mer (fr) f
Friulian: mâr
Gagauz: deniz
Galician: mar (gl) m, ler (gl) m
Ge'ez: ባሕር (baḥr)
Georgian: ზღვა (ka) (zɣva)
German: Meer (de) n, See (de) f
Alemannic German: Meer n, See f
Goguryeo: 波旦 (padan), 內米 (nami)
Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 f (marei), 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 m (saiws)
Greek: θάλασσα (el) f (thálassa), πέλαγος (el) n (pélagos), πόντος (el) m (póntos)
Ancient: θάλασσα f (thálassa), ἅλς m (háls), πέλαγος n (pélagos), πόντος m (póntos)
Greenlandic: imaq
Guaraní: para
Gujarati: સમુદ્ર (gu) m (samudra), દરિયો (gu) m (dariyo)
Haitian Creole: lanmè
Hawaiian: kai, moana
Hebrew: יָם (he) m (yam)
Higaonon: dagat
Hiligaynon: dagat, laud, lawod
Hindi: सागर (hi) m (sāgar), समुद्र (hi) m (samudra), समुंदर (hi) (samundar), अम्बुधि (hi) m (ambudhi), बहर (hi) m (bahar), दरिया (hi) m (dariyā), दरया (hi) f (daryā)
Hittite: 𒀀𒊒𒈾𒀸 (a-ru-na-aš)
Hungarian: tenger (hu)
Iban: tasik
Icelandic: haf (is) n, sjór (is) m, ægir (is) m (poetic), úthaf (is) n
Ido: maro (io)
Igbo: osịmịrị
Indonesian: laut (id)
Ingush: форд (ford)
Interlingua: mar
Iranun: kalud
Irish: muir (ga) f, farraige (ga) f
Old Irish: muir, fairrge f
Istriot: mare
Italian: mare (it) m
Japanese: 海 (ja) (うみ, umi), (as a component) 海 (ja) (かい, kai)
Jarawa: ullel
Javanese:
Carakan: ꦱꦒꦫ (sagara), ꦱꦒꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦤ꧀ (jv) (saganten)
Rumi: sagara (jv) (ngoko), saganten (krama)
Jeju: 바당 (badang)
Jurchen:  (mədə-əri)
Kabardian: хы (kbd) (xə)
Kabuverdianu: mar
Kalmyk: дала (dala), теңгс (teñgs)
Kannada: ಅಮ್ಬುಧಿ (ambudhi), ಸಮುದ್ರ (kn) (samudra), ಕಡಲು (kn) (kaḍalu)
Kapampangan: dayat
Karachay-Balkar: тенгиз sg (teñiz)
Karakalpak: teńiz
Karelian: meri
Kashubian: mòrzé n
Kazakh: теңіз (kk) (teñız)
Khmer: សមុទ្រ (km) (sa’mot), សាគរ (km) (saakɔɔ)
Kinaray-a: baybay, kalalawdan
Komi-Zyrian: море (more), саридз (saridź)
Korean: 바다 (ko) (bada), 해양(海洋) (ko) (haeyang)
Koryak: аӈӄан (aŋqan)
Kumyk: денгиз (deñiz)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: زەریا (ckb) (zerya), دەریا (ckb) (derya), بەحر (beḧir)
Northern Kurdish: dengiz (ku), derya (ku), behr (ku) f
Kyrgyz: деңиз (ky) (deŋiz)
Lakota: ble
Lampung Api: lawok
Lao: ທະເລ (tha lē), ສະມຸດ (sa mut)
Latgalian: jiurys m
Latin: mare (la) n, pontus, pelagus m, aequor (la)
Latvian: jūra (lv) f
Lezgi: гьуьл (hül)
Ligurian: mâ
Lingala: mbu
Lithuanian: jūra (lt) f, (poetic or small sea) marios f
Livonian: mer, mier
Lombard: mar (lmo)
Lü: ᦒᦰᦵᦟ (th!le)
Luganda: ennyanja
Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč
Luxembourgish: Mier (lb) n
Macedonian: мо́ре (mk) n (móre)
Madurese: laot (mad), tasè', saghârâ
Maguindanao: kaludan, ragat
Malagasy: ranomasina (mg)
Malay: laut (ms), tasik (ms), samudera (ms), segara (ms), bahar (ms)
Malayalam: കടൽ (ml) (kaṭal)
Maltese: baħar m
Mambae: taisa
Manchu: ᠮᡝᡩᡝᡵᡳ (mederi), ᠨᠠᠮᡠ (namu)
Mansaka: dagat
Manx: mooir (gv) f, faarkey m, keayn m
Maori: moana (mi), tai (mi)
Maranao: kalodan, ragat
Marathi: समुद्र (mr) m (samudra), सागर (mr) m (sāgar)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: теҥыз (teŋyz)
Western Mari: тангыж (tangyž)
Marwari: please add this translation if you can
Mazanderani: دریو
Mehri: رورم
Middle English: see, mere
Mirandese: mar m
Mòcheno: meir m
Moksha: моря (morä)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: далай (mn) (dalaj), тэнгис (mn) (tengis)
Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ (dalai), ᠲᠡᠩᠭᠢᠰ (tenggis)
Mori Bawah: tahi
Mulam: hai³ (Dongmen, Siba)
Nahuatl: hueyatl (nah), ilhuicaatl (nah)
Nanai: намо (namo)
Navajo: tónteel
Neapolitan: mare m
Nepali: सागर (ne) (sāgar)
Ngarrindjeri: yarluwar
Ngazidja Comorian: ɓahari class 9/10
Nivkh: кер̌ӄ (keřq), кер̌ӄн (keřqn)
Norman: mé f
North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) sia f, (Sylt) See c
Northern Mansi: ся̄рысь (sâ̄rysʹ)
Northern Sami: mearra
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hav (no) n, sjø (no) m
Nynorsk: hav n, sjø m
Occitan: mar (oc)
Odia: ସାଗର (sāgara), ସମୁଦ୍ର (samudra)
Ohlone:
Northern Ohlone: 'ómú'
Ojibwe: gichigami, gichigamin pl
Old Anatolian Turkish: دَكِزْ (däŋiz)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: морѥ n (morje)
Old East Slavic: море n (more)
Old English: sǣ f
Old Javanese: sagara
Old Norse: haf n
Old Occitan: mar
Old Prussian: jūris
Old Saxon: sēo m, holm m
Oromo: garba
Ossetian: денджыз (denǵyz), фурд (furd)
Ottoman Turkish: دڭز (deñiz)
Pali: samudda m, sāgara
Pannonian Rusyn: морє n (morje)
Papiamentu: laman
Pashto: بحر (ps) m (bahr)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: دَرْیا (daryâ), بَحْر (bahr), زُو (zow), زِراه (zerâh), زَراه (zarâh)
Plautdietsch: Mäa n
Polish: morze (pl) n
Portuguese: mar (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਸਮੁੰਦਰ (pa) m (samundar)
Quechua: mama qucha
Rohingya: doria
Romagnol: mêr
Romani: baro pani
Romanian: mare (ro) f
Romansch: mar m or f, mer m
Russian: мо́ре (ru) n (móre)
Rwanda-Rundi: ikiyaga
Saho: bad
Samoan: sami, vasa, moana
Sanskrit: समुद्र (sa) (samudra), धीर (sa) m (dhīra)
Sardinian: mare, mari
Sasak: segara
Scots: se
Scottish Gaelic: muir m or f, fairge f, cuan m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мо̑ре n
Roman: mȏre (sh) n
Shan: ပၢင်ႇလၢႆႇ (shn) (pàang làai)
Sicilian: mari (scn) m
Sindhi: سَمُنڊ (sd) m
Sinhalese: මුහුද (si) (muhuda)
Slovak: more (sk) n
Slovene: morje (sl) n
Somali: bad (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: mórjo n
Upper Sorbian: morjo n
Southern Altai: теҥис (teŋis), талай (talay)
Spanish: mar (es) m or f, ponto (es) m (poetic), piélago (es) m
Sranan Tongo: se
Sumbawa: lit
Sundanese: sagara (su)
Swahili: bahari (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: hav (sv) n, sjö (sv) c (in some cases, not generally)
Tabasaran: гьюл (hjul)
Tagalog: dagat (tl)
Tai Dam: ꪙꪾ꫁ꪹꪚꪸ꫁
Tajik: баҳр (tg) (bahr), дарё (tg) (daryo)
Talysh:
Asalemi: دریا (daryâ)
Tamil: கடல் (ta) (kaṭal)
Tarifit: rebḥar m
Tatar: диңгез (tt) (diñgez)
Tausug: dagat
Tày: pé
Telugu: సముద్రం (te) (samudraṁ), కడలి (te) (kaḍali)
Ternate: dai
Tetum: tasi
Thai: ทะเล (th) (tá-lee), ห้วงน้ำ (th) (hûuang-náam), สมุทฺท (th)
Tibetan: བརྐོས (brkos), རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho), མཚོ (mtsho)
Tigrinya: ባሕሪ (baḥri)
Tocharian A: sāmudtär
Tocharian B: samudtär, lyam m
Tok Pisin: solwara, wara (tpi), raunwara
Tongan: tahi, vaha, moana
Tupinambá: paranã, paranaã, paraná
Turkish: deniz (tr), derya (tr) (large)
Turkmen: deňiz
Udihe: наму (namu)
Udmurt: море (more), зарезь (zareź)
Ukrainian: мо́ре (uk) n (móre)
Urdu: سَمَنْدَر m (samandar), سَمُنْدَر (samundar), بَحْر (ur) m (bahr)
Urum: дэниз (déniz)
Uyghur: دېڭىز (dë'ngiz)
Uzbek: dengiz (uz)
Venetan: mar (vec) m, mare (vec)
Veps: meri
Vietnamese: biển (vi), bể (vi)
Vilamovian: mjer
Volapük: mel (vo)
Vurës: naw
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: môr (cy), gweilgi
West Coast Bajau: delout
West Frisian: see (fy) f
Western Bukidnon Manobo: daɣat
White Hmong: dej hiav txwv
Wolof: gaych
Xhosa: ulwandle
Yagnobi: bahr
Yakut: байҕал (bayğal), муора (muora)
Yámana: ixa
Yiddish: ים m (yam), יאַם m (yam)
Yoruba: òkun
Yup'ik: imarpik
Zazaki: derya (diq), dengız (diq)
Zealandic: zeê f
Zhuang: haij
Zulu: ulwandle (zu) class 11/10 :

#### See also

* ocean

### See also

* Sea-Tac

### References

* ↑ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*saiwiz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 314
* ↑ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*saiwi-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 423
* ↑ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sīhwan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 435–436

### Further reading

* sea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “sea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sea”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* -ase, AES, ASE, EAS, EAs, ESA, Esa, SAE, a**es, aes, ase, eas, esa

## Cimbrian
### Etymology

From Middle High German sē, from Old High German sēo, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”). Cognate with German See, English sea.

### Noun

sea m
* (Luserna) lake

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Estonian
### Noun

sea
* genitive singular of siga

## Garo
### Verb

sea
* to write

#### Derived terms

* segipa

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* seadh (superseded)

### Etymology

is + ea (literally, "it is")

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃa/

### Adverb

sea
* yes (to copula questions)
* right, well (topic introducer)

#### Usage notes

This is a contraction of an affirmative response to a question, and is found in response to questions where the key verb is is or a present tense form thereof:
    Q: An féidir leat cuidiú liom? — "Can you help me?" (literally, "Possible for you to help me?")
    A: Sea. — "Yes."
Informally it may also be found as the answer to a question with a main verb, though this is considered incorrect. The standard response to such a question is to repeat the verb:
    Q: Ar chuala tú mé? — "Did you hear me?"
    A: Chuala. — "Yes" (literally, "Heard") or informally Sea.

#### Antonyms

* ní hea
* nach ea

## Middle English
### Noun

sea
* Alternative form of see (“sea”)

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

From Middle High German sē, from Old High German sēo, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”). Cognate with German See, English sea.

### Noun

sea m
* lake

### References

* “sea” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Old Irish
### Determiner

sea
* Alternative spelling of so

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* sīa

### Etymology

From Old Norse séa (West Norse sjá), from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną.

### Verb

sēa
* to see

#### Descendants

* Swedish: se, sia

## Plautdietsch
### Adverb

sea
* very, intensely

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsea/ [ˈse.a]
* Rhymes: -ea
* Syllabification: se‧a

### Verb

sea
* inflection of ser:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### See also

* así sea
* aunque sea
* maldita sea
* o sea

## Tongan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English chair.

### Noun

sea
* chair

## Wolio
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səjəm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sea/

### Noun

sea
* ant

### References

* Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris