# sleep
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: slēp, IPA: /sliːp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Received Pronunciation); “to sleep”:(file)
* (General American) IPA: /slip/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan (West Saxon slǣpan), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.

#### Verb

sleep (third-person singular simple present sleeps, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slept)
* (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep
    You should sleep eight hours a day.
** 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    We sleep in the bedroom.
* (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
    Last night we slept together for the first time.
* (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
    This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.
* (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
** 1706 October 9 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 407:We ſleep over our Happineſs, Great as it is, and want to be rous'd into a quick and thankful ſenſe of it, either by an actual Change of Circumſtances, or by a Compariſon of our Own caſe with that of other Men.
* (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, column 2:For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him.
** 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:It was that of a man in advanced life, with a long grizzled beard, and also robed in white, probably the husband of the lady, who, after surviving her many years, came at the last to sleep once more for good and all beside her.
* (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
    a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 182, column 2:How ſweet the moone-light ſleepes vpon this banke, […]
* (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
    After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.
* (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
** 2009, Mike Lee, Scott Meyers, Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard, page 91:Even when you have reasons not to sleep the computer, it's still a good idea to sleep the display after a period of time.
* (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
    When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.
** 1854, Anne E. Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases:A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.
* (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
** 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters, page 158:Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.

##### Troponyms

* (rest in a state of reduced consciousness): nap, doze, snooze

##### Derived terms

* besleep
* coldsleep
* colorless green ideas sleep furiously
* does Dolly Parton sleep on her back
* forsleep
* how can you sleep at night
* how do you sleep at night
* hypersleep
* non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder
* outsleep
* oversleep
* sleep around
* sleep-at-noon
* sleep a wink
* sleep-eat
* sleep flower
* sleep-fuck
* sleep funny
* sleep in
* sleeping bag
* Sleeping Beauty
* sleeping pill
* sleep in heavenly peace
* sleepiphany
* sleep it off
* sleep it out
* sleep like a baby
* sleep like a dog
* sleep like a log
* sleep like a mouse
* sleep like a rock
* sleep like a top
* sleep off
* sleep on
* sleep one off
* sleep out
* sleep over
* sleep rough
* sleep together
* sleep under the same bridge
* sleepwalk
* sleep well
* sleep with
* sleep with one eye open
* sleep with one's fathers
* sleep with the fishes
* sleepwort
* undersleep
* whatever helps you sleep at night

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: sribi

##### Translations

Afrikaans: slaap (af)
Ahom: 𑜃𑜨𑜃𑜫 (non)
Aiton: ꩫွꩫ် (non)
Akan: deda, da
Akatek: wey
Albanian: fle (sq)
Aleut: sagakux
Ambonese Malay: sono, tidor
Andi: кьихинну (kkˡʼixinnu)
Arabic: نَامَ (nāma), رَقَدَ (raqada)
Egyptian Arabic: نام (nām)
Hijazi Arabic: نام (nām), رقد (ragad), انخمد (anḵamad) (vulgar)
Moroccan Arabic: نعس (nʕas), رقد (rqad)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܕܡܟ (dəmeḵ), ܢܡ (nām)
Armenian: քնել (hy) (kʻnel), ննջել (hy) (nnǰel), նիրհել (hy) (nirhel)
Aromanian: dormu
Assamese: শো (xü)
Asturian: dormir (ast), adormir (ast)
Avar: кьижизе (kkˡʼižize)
Azerbaijani: yatmaq (az), uyumaq, yuxulamaq
Balantak: royot
Bashkir: йоҡлау (yoqlaw), (Eastern) йоҡтау (yoqtaw)
Basque: lo egin
Belarusian: спаць (be) impf (spacʹ)
Bengali: শোয়া (bn) (śōẇa), ঘুমানো (bn) (ghumanō)
Bhojpuri: सुतल (sutal)
Breton: kousket (br)
Bulgarian: спя (bg) impf (spja)
Burmese: အိပ် (my) (ip)
Catalan: dormir (ca)
Cebuano: tulog
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chavacano: dormi
Chechen: тхъанг (txʔang)
Cherokee: ᎦᏟᎭ (gatliha)
Cheyenne: -énome
Chichewa: gona
Chickasaw: nosi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 睏 / 困 (fan$^3$), 瞓 / 𰥛 (fan$^3$), 睏覺 / 困觉 (fan$^3$ gaau$^3$), 瞓覺 / 𰥛觉 (fan$^3$ gaau$^3$)
Dungan: фи (fi)
Eastern Min: 睏 / 困 (káung)
Gan: 睏 / 困 (kun$^3$), 睏覺 / 困觉 (kun$^3$ 'gau$^4$)
Hakka: 睡目 (soi-muk)
Hokkien: 睏 / 困 (zh-min-nan) (khùn)
Mandarin: 睡覺 / 睡觉 (zh) (shuìjiào), 眠 (zh) (mián), 睡眠 (zh) (shuìmián)
Northern Min: 目䁒 (mì-chĭ / mì→mi̿-chĭ)
Wu: 睏 / 困 ($^1$khuen), 睏覺 / 困觉 ($^1$khuen $^5$kau; $^1$khuen-kau; $^5$khuen-kau)
Xiang: 睏覺 / 困觉 (kun$^4$ gau$^4$)
Chukchi: йыԓӄэтык (jyḷqėtyk)
Chuvash: ҫывӑр (śyvăr)
Classical Nahuatl: cochi
Coptic: ⲉⲛⲕⲟⲧ (enkot)
Cornish: koska, hunya, (restlessly) tergoska
Crimean Tatar: yuqlamaq
Czech: spát (cs) impf
Dalmatian: dormer
Danish: sove (da)
Dutch: slapen (nl)
Egyptian: (qdd), (sḏr)
Elfdalian: såvå
Erzya: удомс (udoms)
Esperanto: dormi (eo)
Estonian: magama (et)
Evenki: а- (a-)
Farefare: gĩse
Faroese: sova (fo)
Fataluku: caia
Finnish: nukkua (fi)
French: dormir (fr)
Friulian: durmî
Galician: durmir (gl)
Gallurese: drummí
Gamilaraay: baabili
Georgian: ძილი (ʒili)
German: schlafen (de)
Alemannic German: schlaaffe, schlooffe, schlofe, schlaafä, schloafen, schlàfu
Gilbertese: matu
Gothic: 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐌰𐌽 (slēpan)
Greek: κοιμάμαι (el) (koimámai)
Ancient: καθεύδω (katheúdō), κοιμάομαι (koimáomai), κνώσσω (knṓssō), εὕδω (heúdō), δαρθάνω (darthánō) (Epic)
Greenlandic: sinippoq
Guaraní: ke
Gujarati: ઊંઘવું (ū̃ghavũ)
Gurani: وتەی (wtey)
Haitian Creole: dòmi
Hawaiian: moe, hiamoe
Hebrew: יָשֵׁן (he) (yashén)
Higaonon: hiduga
Hiligaynon: tulug
Hindi: सोना (hi) (sonā)
Hungarian: alszik (hu)
Ibanag: katurug
Icelandic: sofa (is)
Ido: dormar (io)
Ilocano: turug
Indonesian: tidur (id)
Interlingua: dormir
Inuktitut:
Inuttut: sinik
South Baffin: ᓯᓂᑦᑐᖅ (sinittoq)
Irish: codail
Istro-Romanian: durmi
Italian: dormire (it)
Iu Mien: bueix
Japanese: 寝る (ja) (ねる, neru), 眠る (ja) (ねむる, nemuru), お休みになる (おやすみになる, o-yasumi ni naru) (honorific)
Jarai: pĭt
Javanese: turu (jv)
Jingpho: yup
Karo Batak: medem
Kashubian: spac
Kazakh: ұйықтау (ūiyqtau)
Khiamniungan Naga: sàih
Khmer: ដេក (km) (deek)
Khün: ᨶᩬᩁ
Kongo: kulala
Korean: 자다 (ko) (jada), 잠자다 (ko) (jamjada), 주무시다 (ko) (jumusida) (honorific)
Kumyk: юхламакъ (yuxlamaq)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خەوتن (ckb) (xewtin), نووستِن (nûstin)
Laki: ھوەتِن (hwetin)
Northern Kurdish: nivistin (ku), raketin (ku), razan (ku), veketin (ku), xewtin (ku)
Southern Kurdish: خەفتِن (xeftin)
Kyrgyz: укта (ky) (ukta)
Lao: ນອນ (nǭn)
Latgalian: gulēt
Latin: dormiō (la), cubō
Latvian: gulēt (lv), dusēt (poetic)
Lenape:
Unami: kawi
Limburgish: slaope (li)
Lithuanian: miegoti (lt)
Livonian: maggõ
Lombard: dormì (lmo), durmì
Low German: slapen (nds)
Lü: ᦓᦸᧃ (noan)
Luxembourgish: schlofen
Macedonian: спие impf (spie)
Makasae: ta'e
Malay: tidur (ms)
Malayalam: ഉറങ്ങുക (ml) (uṟaṅṅuka)
Maltese: raqad
Manado Malay: tidor
Manchu: ᠠᠮᡤᠠᠮᠪᡳ (amgambi)
Maori: moe (mi), korohiko (restlessly), moe takarerewa (lightly), moe toropuku (restlessly), kaihewa (uneasily), kaikaru
Marathi: झोपणे (mr) (jhopṇe), निजणे (nijṇe)
Middle English: slepen
Mirandese: drumir
Mòcheno: schloven
Moksha: удомс (udoms)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: унтах (mn) (untax)
Mongolian: ᠤᠨᠲᠠᠬᠤ (untaqu)
Nahuatl: cochi (nah)
Nanai: ао- (ao-)
Navajo: ałhosh
Neapolitan: dormì, dorme
Nepali: सुत्नु (sutnu)
Norman: dormi
North Frisian: (Mooring dialect) släipe, sliip (Sylt)
Northern Sami: oađđit
Northern Thai: ᨶᩬᩁ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sove (no)
Nynorsk: sova
Nǀuu: ʘun (Western), ʘuny (Eastern) ʘpwoiŋ (Nǁng)
Occitan: dormir (oc)
Odia: ନିଦ୍ରାଯିବା (or) (nidrājibā)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: съпати impf (sŭpati)
Old East Slavic: съпати impf (sŭpati)
Old English: sƿefan, slæpan
Old French: dormir
Old Javanese: turu
Old Tupi: ker
Old Turkic: 𐰆𐰑𐰃 (udï-)
Ossetian: хуыссын (x°yssyn)
Ottoman Turkish: اویومق (uyumak)
Pannonian Rusyn: спац impf (spac)
Papiamentu: drumi
Pashto: اوده کېدل (udǝ́ kedǝ́l)
Pela: ja̠p⁵⁵
Persian:
Iranian Persian: خوابیدَن (xâbidan), خُفْتَن (xoftan) (archaic)
Pipil: kuchi, cuchi
Polish: spać (pl) impf
Portuguese: dormir (pt)
Punjabi: ਸੌਣਾ (pa) (sauṇā)
Quechua: puñuy (qu), puñui
Rapa Nui: moe
Rohingya: gúm za-
Romagnol: durmir
Romani: sovel
Romanian: dormi (ro)
Romansch: durmir
Russian: спать (ru) impf (spatʹ), поспа́ть (ru) pf (pospátʹ)
Sami:
Kildin Sami: вуэдтӭ (vuedt’e)
Samoan: moe
Sanskrit: स्वपिति (sa) (svapiti), सस्ति (sasti), निद्राति (sa) (nidrāti), द्रायति (sa) (drāyati), प्रस्वपिति (prasvapiti)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: dòrmiri
Sassarese: drummí
Scottish Gaelic: caidil
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: спа́вати impf, спа̏ти impf
Roman: spávati (sh) impf, spȁti (sh) impf
Shan: ၼွၼ်း (shn) (náun)
Sherpa: གཟིམས (gzims)
Shor: узурға (uzurğa)
Sicilian: dòrmiri (scn)
Simalungun Batak: modom
Sinhalese: නිදියනවා (nidiyanawā), බුදියනවා (budiyanawā), නින්ද (ninda)
Slovak: spať (sk) impf
Slovene: spati (sl) impf
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: spaś impf
Upper Sorbian: spać impf
Spanish: dormir (es), jatear (Andes)
Sranan Tongo: sribi
Sundanese: kulem
Swahili: kulala
Swedish: sova (sv)
Sylheti: ꠢꠥꠔꠣ (huta)
Tagalog: matulog
Tai Dam: ꪙꪮꪙ
Tajik: хобидан (tg) (xobidan)
Tamil: தூங்கு (ta) (tūṅku), உறங்கு (ta) (uṟaṅku)
Tarantino: durmè
Tatar: йокларга (tt) (yoqlarga)
Tausug: tūg
Telugu: నిద్రించు (te) (nidriñcu), కునుకుట (kunukuṭa)
Ternate: hotu
Thai: นอน (th) (nɔɔn), หลับ (th) (làp)
Tibetan: ཉལ་བ (nyal ba), གཟིམས (gzims), གཟིམ (gzim), གཟིམ་པ (gzim pa)
Toba Batak: modom
Tocharian B: klänts-
Tongan: mohe
Tumbuka: gona
Turkish: uyumak (tr)
Turkmen: ýatmak, uklamak
Tuvan: удуур (uduur)
Tyap: kai nda (kcg)
Udmurt: изьыны (iźyny)
Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎐 (yšn)
Ukrainian: спа́ти (uk) impf (spáty), поспа́ти pf (pospáty)
Urdu: سونا (sonā)
Uyghur: ئۇخلىماق (uxlimaq)
Uzbek: uxlamoq (uz)
Venetan: dormir
Vietnamese: ngủ (vi), ngủ gục (vi) (suddenly)
Walloon: doirmi (wa)
Waray-Waray: katurog
Welsh: cysgu (cy)
West Frisian: sliepe
Western Bukidnon Manobo: lipezeng
White Hmong: pw
Wolio: kole
Wolof: nelaw (wo)
Yakut: утуй (utuy)
Yiddish: שלאָפֿן (shlofn)
Yup'ik: qavartuq
Yurok: chkeyek'
Zazaki: rakewten, hon şiyayen
Zealandic: slaepe, slaope, meure (slightly vulgar)
Zhuang: ninz
ǃKung: tsaː :
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##### See also

* catnap
* rest
* shuteye
* sleeping
* slumber
* snooze
* zzz

### Etymology 2

From Middle English slepe, sleep, sleepe, from Old English slǣp (“sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *slāp, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaz (“sleep”).

#### Noun

sleep (countable and uncountable, plural sleeps)
* (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
    I really need some sleep.
    We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
* (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
    I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
* (informal, metonymically) A night.
    There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
* (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 233:When she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and wept till she was tired, she set out on her way and walked for many, many a day, till she at last came to a big mountain.
** 1980, “Daydream Believer”‎performed by Anne Murray:But it rings And we rise, Wipe the sleep out of our eyes […]
** 2017, Adam J. Fisch, Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:[...] and draw the medial canthus (aka medial commissure) at the medial extreme. Now draw the lacrimal caruncle at the medial corner of the eye, which produces whitish, oily fluid—it produces “sleep in the eye.”
** 2019, Jahangir Moini, Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals, Jones & Bartlett Learning (→ISBN), page 780, entry "Medial canthus":
    The part of the eyelid that is the location of the lacrimal caruncle, which produces rheum or "sleep," the gritty substance often present when awakening.
* A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
    Synonyms: nyctinasty, nyctitropism
** 1843, Joh Müller, John Bell, Elements of Physiology, page 808:The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena […]
* The hibernation of animals.

##### Derived terms

* ageless sleep
* asleep
* beauty sleep
* big sleep
* biphasic sleep
* broken sleep
* cold sleep
* cry oneself to sleep
* dead sleep
* deep sleep
* delayed sleep phase disorder
* divided sleep
* dog sleep
* druidic sleep
* electrosleep
* eternal sleep
* fox sleep
* fox's sleep
* good night's sleep
* go to sleep
* hybrid sleep
* lack of sleep
* lose sleep
* morning sleep
* no sleep for the wicked
* one could do it in one's sleep
* on sleep
* orthodox sleep
* paradoxical sleep
* polyphasic sleep
* put to sleep
* REM sleep
* scare-sleep
* segmented sleep
* sleep aid
* sleep apnea
* sleep apnoea
* sleep black
* sleep camel
* sleep-charged
* sleep debt
* sleep dep
* sleep deprivation
* sleep-deprived
* sleep diaper
* sleep disorder
* sleep divorce
* sleep-drunk
* sleepeater
* sleepful
* sleep hygiene
* sleep-in
* sleep-learning
* sleepless
* sleep machine
* sleep mask
* sleep mode
* sleep nappy
* sleep of the just
* sleepover
* sleep paralysis
* sleep pressure
* sleep regression
* sleep schedule
* sleep spindle
* sleep start
* sleep talk
* sleeptalk
* sleep terror
* sleep tight
* sleep twitch
* sleepy
* treacle sleep
* twilight sleep
* wake-sleep algorithm
* yen sleep

##### Translations

Afar: xin
Afrikaans: slaap (af)
Albanian: gjumë (sq) ?
Ambonese Malay: sono, tidor
Arabic: نَوْم (ar) m (nawm), سِنَة (ar) f (sina)
Egyptian Arabic: نوم m (nōm), نومة f (nōma)
Hijazi Arabic: نوم m (nōm), رُقاد m (rugād)
Moroccan Arabic: نعاس (nʕās), رقاد (rqād)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܫܢܬܐ f (šennəṯā), ܢܘܡܬܐ f (nawməṯā)
Jewish Aramaic: שֵׁינְתָא f (šênəṯā), שִׁנְתָא f (šinṯā)
Archi: набкӏ (nabkʼ)
Armenian: քուն (hy) (kʻun)
Aromanian: somnu
Assamese: টোপনি (tüponi)
Asturian: sueñu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: yuxu (az), uyqu
Baluchi: واب (wáb)
Bashkir: йоҡо (yoqo)
Basque: lo
Belarusian: сон m (son)
Bengali: ঘুম (bn) (ghum)
Bikol Central: turog (bcl), katurog
Breton: hun (br) m, kousk (br) m
Bulgarian: сън (bg) m (sǎn)
Catalan: son (ca) m
Chechen: наб (nab)
Chichewa: tulo
Chinese:
Cantonese: 睏 / 困 (fan$^3$), 瞓 / 𰥛 (fan$^3$), 睡眠 (seoi$^6$ min$^4$)
Hakka: 睡眠 (soi-mìn), 睡目 (soi-muk)
Hokkien: 睏 / 困 (zh-min-nan) (khùn), 睏眠 / 困眠 (zh-min-nan) (khùn-bîn), 睡眠 (zh-min-nan) (sūi-bîn)
Mandarin: 睡覺 / 睡觉 (zh) (shuìjiào), 睡眠 (zh) (shuìmián)
Cornish: kosk m
Crimean Tatar: yuqu
Czech: spánek (cs) m
Dalmatian: samno
Danish: søvn (da) c
Dutch: slaap (nl) m
Egyptian: (qdd m)
Elfdalian: swemmen m
Erzya: удома (udoma)
Esperanto: dormo
Estonian: uni (et)
Evenki: ами (ami)
Faroese: svøvnur m
Finnish: uni (fi)
French: sommeil (fr) m
Friulian: sium m
Galician: sono (gl) m
Georgian: ძილი (ʒili)
German: Schlaf (de) m
Gothic: 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐍃 m (slēps)
Greek: ύπνος (el) m (ýpnos)
Ancient: ὕπνος m (húpnos)
Gujarati: ઊંઘ f (ūṅgh), નીંદર f (nī̃dar)
Haitian Creole: dòmi, sòmey
Hawaiian: hiamoe
Hebrew: שינה (he) f (sheiná)
Hindi: नींद (hi) f (nīnd), निद्रा (hi) f (nidrā)
Hungarian: alvás (hu)
Icelandic: svefn (is) m
Ido: dormo (io)
Ilocano: turog
Indonesian: tidur (id)
Interlingua: somno
Irish: suan m, codladh m
Italian: sonno (it) m
Japanese: 眠り (ja) (ねむり, nemuri), 睡眠 (ja) (すいみん, suimin)
Kamta: নিন্দ (nindo), ঘুম (ghum)
Kazakh: ұйқы (ūiqy)
Khmer: ដំណើរដេកលក់ (dɑmnaə deɛk lʊək)
Korean: 잠 (ko) (jam)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خەو (xew)
Laki: خاو (ku) (xaw)
Northern Kurdish: xew (ku) f
Southern Kurdish: خەو (ku) (xew)
Kyrgyz: уйку (ky) (uyku)
Ladino: esfuenyo, es-huenyo
Lao: ໄສຍາດ (sai nyāt)
Latgalian: mīgs
Latin: somnus m, sopor m (deep slumber)
Latvian: miegs (lv) m
Lithuanian: miegas m
Low German: Slaap
Macedonian: сон m (son)
Malay: tidur (ms)
Malayalam: ഉറക്കം (ml) (uṟakkaṁ)
Maltese: irqad
Manchu: ᠠᠮᡠ (amu)
Maori: moe (mi)
Marathi: नीद f (nīd), झोप f (jhop)
Mazanderani: خو (xu)
Middle English: slep
Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭥𐭠𐭡 (xwāb)
Moksha: удома (udoma)
Mongolian: нойр (mn) (nojr)
Nahuatl: cochina
Nanai: ами (ami)
Neapolitan: suonno
North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum dialect) sliap m
Norwegian: søvn (no) m
Occitan: sòm (oc) m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: сънъ m (sŭnŭ)
Old East Slavic: сънъ m (sŭnŭ)
Old English: slǣp
Old Norse: svefn m
Old Tupi: kera
Old Turkic: 𐰆 (u)
Ottoman Turkish: اویقو (uyku)
Persian: خواب (fa) (xvâb, xâb)
Plautdietsch: Schlop (nds) m
Polish: sen (pl) m
Portuguese: sono (pt) m
Rohingya: gúm
Romanian: somn (ro) n
Romansch: sien m, sön m
Russian: сон (ru) m (son)
Saho: dhin
Sami:
Kildin Sami: нагерь (nagjer’), вуадтмушш (vuadtmušš)
Sanskrit: निद्रा (sa) f (nidrā), स्वप f (svapa), स्वाप (sa) f (svāpa)
Sardinian: sonnu m
Scottish Gaelic: cadal m
Serbo-Croatian: san (sh) m, сан m
Sicilian: sonnu (scn) m
Slovak: spánok m
Slovene: spanec m
Somali: hurdo (so)
Sotho: robala (st)
Spanish: sueño (es) m, dormición f (disused)
Sudovian: maigas
Sumerian: 𒅇 (u$_3$ /⁠u⁠/)
Swahili: usingizi (sw)
Swedish: sömn (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠘꠤꠖ (nid), ꠊꠥꠝ (gúmo)
Tagalog: tulog
Tamil: உறக்கம் (ta) (uṟakkam), தூக்கம் (ta) (tūkkam)
Tarifit: iḍes m
Telugu: నిద్ర (te) (nidra)
Thai: นิทรา (th) (nít-traa)
Tibetan: གཉིད (gnyid)
Tocharian B: ṣpane
Tumbuka: tulo
Turkish: uyku (tr)
Turkmen: uky
Tuvan: уйгу (uygu)
Udi: непӏ (neṗ)
Ukrainian: сон (uk) m (son)
Urdu: نیند f (nīnd)
Uzbek: uyqu (uz)
Venetan: sono m
Walloon: soumey (wa) m, doirmaedje (wa) m, essoctaedje m
Welsh: cwsg (cy) m
West Frisian: sliep
Yakut: уу (uu)
Yiddish: שלאָף m (shlof)
Zazaki: hon (diq) n, hewn (diq) n :

### References

* John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sleep”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

* LEEPs, Leeps, Lepes, peels, speel

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sleːp/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eːp

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

sleep m (plural slepen, diminutive sleepje n)
* (the act of) dragging, towing
* train, the part of wedding gown that drags behind the bride

##### Descendants

* → Papiamentu: sleep (dated)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sleep
* singular past indicative of slijpen

#### Verb

sleep
* inflection of slepen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* slepe, speel, spele

## Middle English
### Noun

sleep (uncountable)
* Alternative form of slepe