slave
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
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physical-sciences
sciences
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
substrateder.?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.?
Proto-Slavic *slov-
Proto-Slavic *-ǫta
Proto-Slavic *Slov-?
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ
Proto-Slavic *slověninъbor.
Byzantine Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der.
Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor.
Late Latin Sclavus
Medieval Latin sclavusbor.
Old French esclavebor.
Middle English sclave
English slave
Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav.
An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”).
Inflected forms:
form: slaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slaved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
pos: noun
examples: Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
gloss: A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: An abject person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?
gloss: One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!
gloss: A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
pos: noun
examples: In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence.
gloss: A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
pos: noun
gloss: A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
pos: noun
examples: If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.
gloss: To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
pos: verb
examples: MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved?
SOPHONISBA: No, free
The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . .
Despite these examples, the majority of enslaved Africans were not able to rely on rulers for help against slaving. Africans living in chiefdoms and villages ruled by allied African authorities were, however, able to use the legal system (Tribunal of Mukanos) in place in the regions under formal Portuguese control […]
With ready access to firearms through trade, the slaving Africans held a distinct upper-hand over the groups they preyed upon, which were often politically and socially weakened or destroyed by the trade.
Significant impacts resulted from slaving; there is evidence of how communities dealt with the threat and benefits of slaving. Africans provided most of the slaves to European slavers. Most slaves were created either to settle debts or raise funds, through warfare, or as punishment for a real or perceived crime.
gloss: To work hard.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
gloss: To place a device under the control of another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to slave a hard disk
Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[…]
Synonyms: slave
Derived words: antislave
antislaver
antislavery
app slave
beslave
blood-red slave-maker
bondslave
cock slave
debt slave
energy slave
enslave
enslavement
enslaven
enslaver
ex-slave
field slave
financial slave
footslave
fuckslave
galley-slave
galley slave
HM slave
houseslave
house slave
inslave
Lesser Slave River
love slave
master-slave manipulator
multislave
nonslave
no slave to fashion
postslavery
preslavery
proslaver
pseudoslave
semislave
sex slave
sexual slavery
slave ant
slave auction
slaveborn
slaveboy
slave-boy
slave bracelet
slave breaker
slave-breeding
slave camp
slavecatcher
slavecatching
slave chain
slave clock
slave code
slave cylinder
slavedealer
slavedealing
slavedom
slave driver
slave-driver
Slave Dynasty
slave earring
slavefic
slave fork
slavegirl
slave-girl
slaveholder
slaveholding
slavehood
Slave Island
slave labor
slave labour
slaveless
slavelet
slavelike
slaveling
slavemaker
slavemaking
slave-making ant
slave market
slavemaster
slavemistress
slavemonger
slave name
slavenapper
slavenapping
slavened
slave of the lamp
slaveowner
slave owner
slaver
slavery
slave ship
slavess
slave state
slave to fashion
slave to the wage
slave trade
slave trader
slave-trader
slave wage
slavey
slavish
slavocracy
slavocrat
take slave
tricky slave
wage slave
what did your last slave die of
white slave
white slaver
white slavery
slave away
wage-slave
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: slaaf
lang: Aghwan
word: 𐕎𐔰𐔼𐔽𐕒𐕡
roman: naiˁu
lang: Ahom
word: 𑜁𑜠
roman: kha
lang: Akkadian
word: 𒀴
roman: /⁠wardum⁠/
lang: Albanian
word: shkarth
lang: Albanian
word: skllav
lang: Albanian
word: skllave
lang: Southern Altai
word: кул
roman: kul
lang: Amharic
word: ባርያ
roman: barya
lang: Arabic
word: عَبْد
roman: ʕabd
lang: Arabic
word: أَمَة
roman: ʔama
lang: Chadian Arabic
word: عبد
roman: ʔabid
lang: Aramaic
word: ܥܒܕܐ
roman: ʿaḇdā
lang: Aramaic
word: ܐܡܬܐ
roman: ʾamməṯā
lang: Armenian
word: ստրուկ
roman: struk
lang: Aromanian
word: sclav
lang: Aromanian
word: rob
lang: Assamese
word: দাস
roman: dax
lang: Asturian
word: esclavu
lang: Avar
word: лагъ
roman: lağ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qul
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kölə
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡол
roman: qol
lang: Belarusian
word: раб
roman: rab
lang: Belarusian
word: рабы́ня
roman: rabýnja
lang: Belarusian
word: няво́льнiк
roman: njavólʹnik
lang: Belarusian
word: няво́льнiца
roman: njavólʹnica
lang: Bengali
word: দাস
roman: daś
lang: Bengali
word: গোলাম
roman: gōlam
lang: Bengali
word: বান্দা
roman: banda
lang: Central Bikol
word: uripon
lang: Breton
word: sklav
lang: Bulgarian
word: роб
roman: rob
lang: Bulgarian
word: роби́ня
roman: robínja
lang: Bulgarian
word: нево́лник
roman: nevólnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: нево́лница
roman: nevólnica
lang: Burmese
word: ကျွန်
roman: kywan
lang: Burmese
word: ကျွန်မ
roman: kywanma.
lang: Catalan
word: esclau
lang: Catalan
word: esclava
lang: Cebuano
word: ulipon
lang: Chechen
word: лай
roman: laj
lang: Chickasaw
word: hattak yoka'
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 奴隸 /奴隶
roman: nou⁴ dai⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奴隸 /奴隶
roman: núlì
lang: Chuvash
word: чура
roman: čura
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: qul
lang: Czech
word: otrok
lang: Czech
word: otrokyně
lang: Czech
word: rob
lang: Danish
word: slave
lang: Danish
word: slavinde
lang: Danish
word: træl
lang: Danish
word: trælkone
lang: Dolgan
word: кулут
roman: kulut
lang: Dutch
word: slaaf
lang: Dutch
word: slavin
lang: Dutch
word: tot slaaf gemaakte
lang: Esperanto
word: sklavo
lang: Esperanto
word: virsklavo
lang: Esperanto
word: sklaviĉo
lang: Esperanto
word: sklavino
lang: Estonian
word: ori
lang: Faroese
word: trælur
lang: Faroese
word: trælkona
lang: Faroese
word: trællur
lang: Finnish
word: orja
lang: French
word: esclave
lang: French
word: serf
lang: French
word: serve
lang: Friulian
word: sclâf
lang: Friulian
word: sclâv
lang: Galician
word: escravo
lang: Galician
word: escrava
lang: Georgian
word: მონა
roman: mona
lang: German
word: Sklave
lang: German
word: Sklavin
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃
roman: skalks
lang: Greek
word: δούλος
roman: doúlos
lang: Greek
word: δούλα
roman: doúla
lang: Greek
word: δούλη
roman: doúli
lang: Greek
word: σκλάβος
roman: sklávos
lang: Greek
word: σκλάβα
roman: skláva
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δοῦλος
roman: doûlos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δούλη
roman: doúlē
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀνδράποδον
roman: andrápodon
lang: Ancient Greek
word: Κιλλύριοι
roman: Killúrioi
lang: Greenlandic
word: inussiaq
lang: Haitian Creole
word: esklav
lang: Hanunoo
word: alipin
lang: Hanunoo
word: uripon
lang: Hausa
word: bawa
lang: Hausa
word: baiwa
lang: Hebrew
word: עֶבֶד
roman: éved
lang: Hebrew
word: אָמָה
roman: amá
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׁפְחָה
roman: shifkhá
lang: Higaonon
word: ulipon
lang: Hindi
word: दास
roman: dās
lang: Hindi
word: ग़ुलाम
roman: ġulām
lang: Hindi
word: दासी
roman: dāsī
lang: Hungarian
word: rabszolga
lang: Icelandic
word: þræll
lang: Ido
word: sklavo
lang: Ido
word: sklavulo
lang: Ido
word: sklavino
lang: Indonesian
word: hamba
lang: Indonesian
word: budak
lang: Ingrian
word: orjalain
lang: Ingush
word: лай
roman: laj
lang: Irish
word: sclábhaí
lang: Old Irish
word: mug
lang: Italian
word: schiavo
lang: Italian
word: schiava
lang: Japanese
word: 奴隷
roman: dorei
lang: Kalmyk
word: мухла
roman: muxla
lang: Kalmyk
word: бөгл
roman: bögl
lang: Kannada
word: ಗುಲಾಮ
roman: gulāma
lang: Kapampangan
word: alipan
lang: Kapampangan
word: ipus
lang: Karachay-Balkar
word: къул
roman: qul
lang: Kazakh
word: құл
roman: qūl
lang: Khakas
word: хул
roman: xul
lang: Khmer
word: កញ្ជះ
roman: kɑɑñcĕəh
lang: Khmer
word: ខ្ញុំ
roman: khñom
lang: Khmer
word: កុដធារិកា
roman: kotthiərikaa
lang: Khmer
word: អសេរី
roman: ʼaʼseirəy
lang: Khmer
word: អសេរិនី
roman: ʼaʼseirenii
lang: Khmer
word: បរាធីន
roman: paʼraathiin
lang: Korean
word: 노예
roman: noye
lang: Korean
word: 노례
roman: norye
lang: Kumyk
word: къул
roman: qul
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кул
roman: kul
lang: Lao
word: ຂ້າ
roman: khā
lang: Latgalian
word: viergs
lang: Latin
word: servus
lang: Latin
word: serva
lang: Latin
word: sclavus
lang: Latin
word: sclava
lang: Latin
word: ancilla
lang: Latvian
word: vergs
lang: Latvian
word: verdzene
lang: Lingala
word: moúmbu
lang: Lithuanian
word: vérgas
lang: Macedonian
word: роб
roman: rob
lang: Macedonian
word: робинка
roman: robinka
lang: Maguindanao
word: ulipen
lang: Malagasy
word: andevo
lang: Malay
word: hamba
lang: Malayalam
word: അടിമ
roman: aṭima
lang: Maltese
word: lsir
lang: Maltese
word: skjav
lang: Manchu
word: ᠠᡥᠠ
roman: aha
lang: Manx
word: sleab
lang: Māori
word: mōkai taurekareka
lang: Māori
word: kahunga
lang: Māori
word: mōkai
lang: Māori
word: pāihi
lang: Māori
word: tia
lang: Māori
word: poroteke
lang: Māori
word: apa
lang: Māori
word: kakanga
lang: Maranao
word: oripen
lang: Eastern Mari
word: кул
roman: kul
lang: Middle English
word: sclave
lang: Middle English
word: thral
lang: Mongolian
word: боол
roman: bool
lang: Mwani
word: muja
lang: Navajo
word: naalté
lang: Nepali
word: दास
roman: dās
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: slave
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: slavinne
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trell
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trellkvinne
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trælkvinne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: slave
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: slavinne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: træl
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: trælkvinne
lang: Occitan
word: esclau
lang: Church Slavic
word: рабъ
roman: rabŭ
lang: Church Slavic
word: робъ
roman: robŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: рабъ
roman: rabŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: робъ
roman: robŭ
lang: Old English
word: þēow
lang: Old English
word: þēo
lang: Old Norse
word: þræll
lang: Oromo
word: garba
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: раб
roman: rab
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: раба
roman: raba
lang: Pashto
word: غلام
roman: ǧolām
lang: Iranian Persian
word: بَرْدِه
roman: barde
lang: Iranian Persian
word: غُلام
roman: ġolâm
lang: Iranian Persian
word: بَنْدِه
roman: bande
lang: Iranian Persian
word: عَبْد
roman: abd
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Sklow
lang: Polish
word: niewolnik
lang: Polish
word: niewolnica
lang: Polish
word: rab
lang: Portuguese
word: escravo
lang: Portuguese
word: escrava
lang: Punjabi
word: ਗੁਲਾਮ
roman: gulām
lang: Romani
word: dul
lang: Romani
word: dula
lang: Romani
word: dulin
lang: Romani
word: dulinǎ
lang: Romanian
word: sclav
lang: Romanian
word: rob
lang: Romanian
word: serv
lang: Romanian
word: șerb
lang: Russian
word: раб
roman: rab
lang: Russian
word: рабы́ня
roman: rabýnja
lang: Russian
word: раба́
roman: rabá
lang: Russian
word: нево́льник
roman: nevólʹnik
lang: Russian
word: нево́льница
roman: nevólʹnica
lang: Saanich
word: sqíeŧ
lang: Sanskrit
word: दास
roman: dāsa
lang: Sardinian
word: isciabu
lang: Sardinian
word: isciau
lang: Sardinian
word: isclavu
lang: Sardinian
word: iscrau
lang: Sardinian
word: iscravu
lang: Sardinian
word: sciau
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tràill
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ро̏б
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ро̀биња
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rȍb
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ròbinja
lang: Shan
word: ၶႃႈ
roman: khāa
lang: Shor
word: қул
roman: qul
lang: Sicilian
word: schiavu
lang: Sinhalese
word: දාසයා
roman: dāsayā
lang: Slovak
word: otrok
lang: Slovak
word: otrokyňa
lang: Slovene
word: suženj
lang: Slovene
word: sužnja
lang: Spanish
word: esclavo
lang: Spanish
word: esclava
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: srafu
lang: Sumerian
word: 𒀴
roman: ARAD
lang: Sumerian
word: 𒀵
roman: ÁRAD
lang: Swahili
word: mtumwa
lang: Swedish
word: slav
lang: Swedish
word: slavinna
lang: Swedish
word: träl
lang: Tagalog
word: alipin
lang: Tagalog
word: busabos
lang: Tajik
word: банда
roman: banda
lang: Tajik
word: ғулом
roman: ġulom
lang: Tajik
word: абд
roman: abd
lang: Tajik
word: асир
roman: asir
lang: Tajik
word: барда
roman: barda
lang: Tamil
word: அடிமை
roman: aṭimai
lang: Tarifit
word: ismeɣ
lang: Tarifit
word: tayya
lang: Tatar
word: кол
roman: qol
lang: Telugu
word: దాసుడు
roman: dāsuḍu
lang: Telugu
word: బానిస
roman: bānisa
lang: Thai
word: ทาส
roman: tâat
lang: Thai
word: ข้า
roman: kâa
lang: Tibetan
word: བྲན་གཡོག
lang: Tocharian B
word: mañiye
lang: Tocharian B
word: mañiya
lang: Tocharian B
word: käryau
lang: Turkish
word: köle
lang: Turkish
word: kul
lang: Turkish
word: esir
lang: Turkish
word: tutsak
lang: Turkish
word: karavaş
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اسیر
roman: esir
lang: Turkmen
word: gul
lang: Udi
word: неъиъшӏ
roman: ne̱i̱š:
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎓𐎁𐎄
roman: ʿbd
lang: Ukrainian
word: раб
roman: rab
lang: Ukrainian
word: раби́ня
roman: rabýnja
lang: Ukrainian
word: неві́льник
roman: nevílʹnyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: неві́льниця
roman: nevílʹnycja
lang: Umbundu
word: upika
lang: Urdu
word: غُلام
roman: ġulām
lang: Urdu
word: عَبْد
roman: 'abd
lang: Urdu
word: داس
roman: dās
lang: Urdu
word: داسی
roman: dāsī
lang: Urdu
word: بَنْدَہ
roman: banda
lang: Uyghur
word: قۇل
roman: qul
lang: Uzbek
word: qul
lang: Uzbek
word: banda
lang: Uzbek
word: asir
lang: Venetan
word: sciavo
lang: Venetan
word: sciava
lang: Vietnamese
word: nô lệ
lang: Volapük
word: slafan
lang: Volapük
word: hislafan
lang: Volapük
word: jislafan
lang: Welsh
word: slaf
lang: Welsh
word: caethwas
lang: Yakut
word: кулут
roman: kulut
lang: Yiddish
word: שקלאַף
roman: shklaf
lang: Yiddish
word: קנעכט
roman: knekht
lang: Yoruba
word: ẹrú
lang: Zhuang
word: hoiq
lang: Armenian
word: ստրուկ
roman: struk
lang: Bulgarian
word: роб
roman: rob
lang: Catalan
word: esclau
lang: Catalan
word: esclava
lang: Chickasaw
word: hattak yoka'
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 奴隸 /奴隶
roman: nou⁴ dai⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奴隸 /奴隶
roman: núlì
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: qul
lang: Czech
word: nevolník
lang: Czech
word: nevolníce
lang: Danish
word: slave
lang: Esperanto
word: sklavo
lang: Esperanto
word: virsklavo
lang: Esperanto
word: sklaviĉo
lang: Esperanto
word: sklavino
lang: Finnish
word: orja
lang: French
word: esclave
lang: Galician
word: escravo
lang: Galician
word: escrava
lang: German
word: Sklave
lang: German
word: Sklavin
lang: Greek
word: δούλος
roman: doúlos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δούλος
roman: doúlos
lang: Indonesian
word: budak
lang: Indonesian
word: hamba
lang: Indonesian
word: pesuruh
lang: Irish
word: sclábhaí
lang: Old Irish
word: mug
lang: Italian
word: schiavo
lang: Japanese
word: 奴隷
roman: dorei
lang: Kannada
word: ಗುಲಾಮ
roman: gulāma
lang: Korean
word: 노예
roman: noye
lang: Korean
word: 노례
roman: norye
lang: Latvian
word: vergs
lang: Middle English
word: sclave
lang: Persian
word: برده
roman: barde
lang: Persian
word: غلام
roman: ġolâm
lang: Persian
word: بنده
roman: bande
lang: Polish
word: niewolnik
lang: Polish
word: niewolnica
lang: Portuguese
word: escravo
lang: Portuguese
word: escrava
lang: Romani
word: dul
lang: Romani
word: dula
lang: Russian
word: раб
roman: rab
lang: Russian
word: рабы́ня
roman: rabýnja
lang: Russian
word: раба́
roman: rabá
lang: Russian
word: нево́льник
roman: nevólʹnik
lang: Russian
word: нево́льница
roman: nevólʹnica
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tràill
lang: Slovene
word: suženj
lang: Slovene
word: sužnja
lang: Spanish
word: esclavo
lang: Swahili
word: mtumwa
lang: Swedish
word: slav
lang: Swedish
word: slavinna
lang: Tamil
word: அடிமை
roman: aṭimai
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اسیر
roman: esir
lang: Volapük
word: slafan
lang: Volapük
word: hislafan
lang: Volapük
word: jislafan
lang: Yoruba
word: ẹrú