read
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”).
Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). In West Germanic the verb had a sense “interpret”, which developed further into “interpret letters” in English and “interpret by intuition, guess” on the continent. Compare rede.
Inflected forms:
form: reads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: read
pos: verb
tags: past
form: read
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: readen
pos: verb
tags: archaic
dialectal
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: read
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: read
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: read
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: redd
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: read
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: readest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: read
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: redd
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: readst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: reads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: readeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: read
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: redd
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: read
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: read
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: redd
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: read
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: read
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: redd
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: read
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: reading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: read
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: readen
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: reads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Have you read this book?
He doesn’t like to read.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
She reads Playgirl magazine, goes to a male-strip joint and then complains about sexual harassment on the job.
On this occasion he was carrying in his right hand a copy of the English-language China News, an odd touch because the President did not read English.
gloss: To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
transitive
examples: Arabic reads right to left.
That sentence reads strangely.
gloss: To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
metonymically
transitive
examples: At the moment I'm reading Milton.
gloss: To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He read us a passage from his new book.
All right, class, who wants to read next?
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement. […]
gloss: To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
I can read his feelings in his face.
gloss: To consist of certain text.
pos: verb
examples: On the door hung a sign that read "No admittance".
gloss: To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
The sign of coefficient a(3) in the general formula of Table 2 should be plus instead of minus. Thus, the formula should read […]
gloss: To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
ergative
humorous
imperative
ironic
usually
examples: Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").
Eliminate illogical (read: stupid) answer choices.
Parents, meanwhile, deplored [Bratz dolls] as far too adult (read: slutty) for kids, accusing the doe-eyed, pouty-lipped toys of fostering unhealthy body images among young girls.
I also did a long-wear test, as y'do and after scoffing my face with some food (read: I am feral when it comes to a midday snack, so what), the striking colour that I was wearing, named 'Jet', had stayed put. Pigment, check ✅.
gloss: To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do you read me?
Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
gloss: To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.
gloss: To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
transitive
examples: I am reading theology at university.
Crabbe wanted him to go to England, to read for a degree there.
gloss: To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to read a hard disk
to read a port
to read the keyboard
gloss: To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
gloss: To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
pos: verb
examples: I've seen drags "read" an unattractive transsexual until she was almost in tears.
Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […]
CB [a black gay person being quoted]: "So, one time I read him and we were standing downstairs at the front desk in the dorm and I read him and there was this little bell […]." In the first example, the interviewee [CB] used snapping to read his white friend in a playful way, […].
[One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated—black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.
gloss: To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
pos: verb
gloss: To think, believe; to consider (that).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read[…] / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […]
gloss: To advise; to counsel. See rede.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: [T]herfore / I red the [thee] / gete the [thee] to Gods vvorde ãd [and] therby trye all doctrine and agenſt that receave nothinge.
This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, / A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: / Therefore I read beware.
gloss: To tell; to declare; to recite.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
gloss: A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
pos: noun
examples: I had a read of the evening papers.
One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.
And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall— / He has no time at all[…]
In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
gloss: Something to be read; a written work.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: His thrillers are always a gripping read.
gloss: A person's interpretation or impression of something.
pos: noun
examples: What's your read of the current political situation?
On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.
gloss: An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
pos: noun
examples: [As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact]."
Like most African-American women, Pearlie Mae uses snapping in many of the same ways that black gay men use it: to accentuate a read.
I learned that it was acceptable to be witty, especially if you were one of the wearblackallthetime, deconstructivist, radical, feministbitchydiva girls who could give a harsh read (i.e., critique) or throw shade […].
gloss: The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
pos: noun
Synonyms: read
Derived words: aread
arread
backread
beread
beta-read
book-read
copyread
counterread
dictated but not read
eavesread
foreread
half-read
hate-read
have one's head read
leave someone on read
lipread
lip read
lip-read
mind-read
mindread
misread
must-read
on read
outread
overread
preread
proofread
readability
readable
read across
readahead
readaholic
read-along
read along
read-aloud
read-around ratio
readathon
read between the lines
read dating
readee
read 'em and weep
reader
read-eval-print loop
read for
read for filth
read for press
read in
reading
read into
read like a book
read like an open book
read lips
readme
read me
read-me file
read minds
read my lips
read off
readograph
read oneself in
read-only
read-only access
read-only memory
read out
read over
read receipt
read someone for filth
read someone like a book
read someone's beads
read someone's lips
read someone's mind
read someone the riot act
read someone to filth
readtable
read the car
read the green
read the mail
read the room
read the table
read through
read-through
read up
read up on
readworthy
read-write
reread
RTFM
sight read
sight-read
speedread
spread
take something as read
teach to read and write
too long
didn't read
underread
unread
unreadability
well-read
world-read
WORM/write once, read many
cold read
read-in
sensitivity read
beach read
chemistry read
destructive read
dirty read
megaread
multiread
non-destructive read
phantom read
pseudoread
quick read
read count
read head
read length
read-out
readout
stale read
subread
table read
uniread
Translations:
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word: lees
lang: Ahom
word: 𑜒𑜃𑜫
roman: ʼan
lang: Albanian
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lang: Albanian
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lang: Aleut
word: hilal
lang: Southern Altai
word: кычырар
roman: kïčïrar
lang: Amharic
word: ማንበብ
roman: manbäb
lang: Amharic
word: አነበበ
roman: ʾänäbäbä
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word: قَرَأَ
roman: qaraʔa
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word: قَرَا
roman: gara
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word: قِري
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word: կարդալ
roman: kardal
lang: Armenian
word: ընթերցել
roman: əntʻercʻel
lang: Aromanian
word: ghivãsescu
lang: Aromanian
word: yivãsescu
lang: Aromanian
word: dyivãsescu
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word: পঢ়
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word: tanga
lang: Bashkir
word: уҡыу
roman: uqıw
lang: Basque
word: irakurri
lang: Basque
word: leitu
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word: чыта́ць
roman: čytácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: прачыта́ць
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word: ဖတ်
roman: hpat
lang: Burmese
word: စာဖတ်
roman: cahpat
lang: Catalan
word: llegir
lang: Central Atlas Tamazight
word: ɣer
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roman: deša
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᎪᎵᏰᎠ
roman: agoliyea
lang: Cheyenne
word: -hoéstá
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 讀 /读
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lang: Chinese
word: нян
roman: ni͡an
lang: Chinese
word: кан
roman: kan
lang: Chinese
word: дў
roman: dw
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 讀 /读
lang: Gan Chinese
word: 讀 /读
roman: tuh⁷
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 讀 /读
roman: thu̍k
lang: Chinese
word: 讀 /读
roman: tha̍k
lang: Jin Chinese
word: 讀 /读
roman: dueh⁵
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 讀 /读
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lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 看
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lang: Northern Min Chinese
word: 讀 /读
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lang: Wu Chinese
word: 讀 /读
lang: Xiang Chinese
word: 讀 /读
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word: калевэтгавык
roman: kalevėtgavyk
lang: Chuukese
word: anneani
lang: Chuvash
word: вула
roman: vula
lang: Maore Comorian
word: usoma
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: usoma
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word: lenna
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lang: Central Dusun
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lang: Ifè
word: kã̀
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lang: Estonian
word: lugema
lang: Even
word: таӈ-
roman: taŋ-
lang: Evenki
word: таң-
lang: Extremaduran
word: leyel
lang: Extremaduran
word: leel
lang: Faroese
word: lesa
lang: Fijian
word: wilika
lang: Finnish
word: lukea
lang: French
word: lire
lang: Middle French
word: lire
lang: Old French
word: lire
lang: North Frisian
word: leese
lang: North Frisian
word: lees
lang: West-Frisian
word: lêze
lang: Galician
word: ler
lang: Georgian
word: კითხვა
roman: ḳitxva
lang: German
word: lesen
lang: German
word: läse
lang: Bavarian German
word: lesn
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽
roman: anakunnan
lang: Greek
word: διαβάζω
roman: diavázo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀναγιγνώσκω
roman: anagignṓskō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐντυγχάνω
roman: entunkhánō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀναλέγω
roman: analégō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀνανέμω
roman: ananémō
lang: Greenlandic
word: atuarpoq
lang: Greenlandic
word: atuarpaa
lang: Paraguayan Guarani
word: moñe'ẽ
lang: Gujarati
word: વાંચવું
roman: vā̃cvũ
lang: Haitian Creole
word: li
lang: Hausa
word: kar̃àntā
lang: Hawaiian
word: heluhelu
lang: Hebrew
word: קָרָא
roman: kará
lang: Hindi
word: पढ़ना
roman: paṛhnā
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word: olvas
lang: Hungarian
word: elolvas
lang: Hunsrik
word: lese
lang: Icelandic
word: lesa
lang: Ido
word: lektar
lang: Igala
word: gba
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word: gụ
lang: Indonesian
word: baca
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word: lukkia
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word: деша
roman: deša
lang: Irish
word: léigh
lang: Isoko
word: se
lang: Istriot
word: lezi
lang: Italian
word: leggere
lang: Japanese
word: 読む
roman: yomu
lang: Javanese
word: maca
lang: Old Javanese
word: waca
lang: Jeju
word: 익다
roman: ikda
lang: Kabyle
word: ɣer
lang: Kaitag
word: булчӏа́на
roman: bulč̣ána
lang: Kashmiri
word: پَرُن
roman: parun
lang: Kazakh
word: оқу
roman: oqu
lang: Eastern Khanty
word: ԓө̆ӈәтта
roman: łø̆ṇətta
lang: Khmer
word: មើល
roman: məəl
lang: Khmer
word: អាន
roman: ʼaan
lang: Kituba
word: tanga
lang: Kongo
word: tánga
lang: Konkani
word: वाजचे
roman: vājce
lang: Korean
word: 읽다
roman: ikda
lang: Middle Korean
word: 닑다〮
roman: nìlktá
lang: Central Kurdish
word: خوێندن
roman: xwêndin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: xwendin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: xwandin
lang: Kyrgyz
word: окуу
roman: okuu
lang: Ladino
word: meldar
lang: Lao
word: ອ່ານ
roman: ʼān
lang: Latgalian
word: skaiteit
lang: Latin
word: legō
lang: Latvian
word: lasīt
lang: Limburgish
word: leuze
roman: Maastricht
lang: Lingala
word: tánga
lang: Lingala
word: tanga
lang: Lithuanian
word: skaityti
lang: Lombard
word: leg
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: lir
lang: Lü
word: ᦀᦱᧃᧈ
roman: ˙ʼaan¹
lang: Lucumí
word: ká
lang: Lucumí
word: kawé
lang: Lutuv
word: cape
lang: Lutuv
word: ri
lang: Luxembourgish
word: liesen
lang: Macedonian
word: чита
roman: čita
lang: Malay
word: baca
lang: Malayalam
word: വായിക്കുക
roman: vāyikkuka
lang: Malayalam
word: വായന
roman: vāyana
lang: Maltese
word: qara
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word: ᡨᡠ᠋ᠸᠠᠮᠪᡳ
roman: tuwambi
lang: Mansaka
word: basa
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word: lhaih
lang: Māori
word: rīti
lang: Marathi
word: वाचणे
roman: vācṇe
lang: Middle English
word: reden
lang: Minangkabau
word: baco
lang: Mongo
word: tanga
lang: Mongolian
word: унших
roman: unšix
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠤᠩᠰᠢᠬᠤ
roman: ungsiqu
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vì
lang: Nahuatl
word: pōhua
lang: Navajo
word: ółtaʼ
lang: Neapolitan
word: legge
lang: Nepali
word: पढ्नु
roman: paḍhnu
lang: Nigerian Pidgin
word: rid
lang: Norman
word: liéthe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lese
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lesa
lang: Occitan
word: legir
lang: Odia
word: ପଢିବା
roman: paḍhibā
lang: Okinawan
word: 読むん
roman: yumun
lang: Church Slavic
word: читати
roman: čitati
lang: Church Slavic
word: чьтати
roman: čĭtati
lang: Old East Slavic
word: читати
roman: čitati
lang: Old English
word: rǣdan
lang: Old Saxon
word: lesan
lang: Olukumi
word: kà
lang: Oromo
word: beekuu
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: читац
roman: čitac
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: пречитац
roman: prečitac
lang: Papiamentu
word: lesa
lang: Pashto
word: لوستل
roman: lwastǝl
lang: Pennsylvania German
word: lese
lang: Persian
word: خْوَانْدَن
roman: xwāndan
lang: Dari
word: خوَانْدَن
roman: xāndan
lang: Iranian Persian
word: خوانْدَن
roman: xândan
lang: Iranian Persian
word: خونْدَن
roman: xundan
lang: Piedmontese
word: lese
lang: Polish
word: czytać
lang: Polish
word: przeczytać
lang: Portuguese
word: ler
lang: Quechua
word: ñawilliy
lang: Quechua
word: ñawiy
lang: Quechua
word: qillqaqhaway
lang: Quechua
word: ñawinchay
lang: Quechua
word: liyiy
lang: Romanian
word: a citi
lang: Romanian
word: a lectura
lang: Romansh
word: leɡer
lang: Romansh
word: liɡer
lang: Romansh
word: ler
lang: Russian
word: чита́ть
roman: čitátʹ
lang: Russian
word: прочита́ть
roman: pročitátʹ
lang: Kildin-Sami
word: ло̄гкэ
roman: lōgke
lang: Northern Sami
word: lohkat
lang: Samoan
word: faitau
lang: Sanskrit
word: पठ्
roman: paṭh
lang: Sanskrit
word: पठति
roman: paṭhati
lang: Sardinian
word: lègere
lang: Sardinian
word: lèghere
lang: Sardinian
word: lèzere
lang: Sardinian
word: lígere
lang: Sardinian
word: ligi
lang: Sardinian
word: lígiri
lang: Sardinian
word: lízere
lang: Scots
word: read
lang: Scots
word: rede
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: leugh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: чѝтати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čìtati
lang: Shan
word: လူလိၵ်ႈ
roman: lǔu līk
lang: Shan
word: ဢၢၼ်ႇ
roman: ʼàan
lang: Sicilian
word: lèggiri
lang: Sicilian
word: liggiri
lang: Sicilian
word: lèiri
lang: Sicilian
word: liiri
lang: Sindhi
word: پڙهڻ
roman: parhanu
lang: Sinhalese
word: කියවනවා
roman: kiyawanawā
lang: Slovak
word: čítať
lang: Slovene
word: brati
lang: Slovene
word: čìtati
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: cytaś
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: čitać
lang: Sotho
word: bala
lang: Spanish
word: leer
lang: Old Spanish
word: leer
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: leisi
lang: Swahili
word: kusoma
lang: Swedish
word: läsa
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠙꠠꠣ
roman: foṛa
lang: Tagalog
word: bumasa
lang: Tagalog
word: basahin
lang: Tagalog
word: magbasa
lang: Tahitian
word: taió
lang: Tai Dam
word: ꪮ꪿ꪱꪙ
lang: Tajik
word: хондан
roman: xondan
lang: Talysh
word: hande
lang: Tamil
word: வாசி
roman: vāci
lang: Tamil
word: படி
roman: paṭi
lang: Tat
word: xundən
lang: Tatar
word: укырга
roman: uqırğa
lang: Telugu
word: చదువు
roman: caduvu
lang: Tetum
word: lee
lang: Thai
word: อ่าน
roman: àan
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᩋ᩵ᩣ᩠ᨶ
lang: Tibetan
word: ཀློག
roman: klog
lang: Tibetan
word: ལྗགས་ཀློག
roman: ljags klog
lang: Turkish
word: okumak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اوقومق
roman: okumak
lang: Turkmen
word: okamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: чита́ти
roman: čytáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: прочита́ти
roman: pročytáty
lang: Urdu
word: پَڑْھنا
roman: paṛhnā
lang: Uyghur
word: ئوقۇماق
roman: oqumaq
lang: Uzbek
word: oʻqimoq
lang: Venetan
word: lèzar
lang: Venetan
word: lèzer
lang: Venetan
word: lezar
lang: Venetan
word: lezer
lang: Venetan
word: lèxar
lang: Venetan
word: lèxer
lang: Venetan
word: leđer
lang: Vietnamese
word: đọc
lang: Vilamovian
word: łaoza
lang: Volapük
word: reidön
lang: Walloon
word: lére
lang: Welsh
word: darllen
lang: West Flemish
word: leezn
lang: Yakut
word: аах
roman: aaq
lang: Ye'kwana
word: a'de'tö
lang: Yiddish
word: לייענען
roman: leyenen
lang: Yiddish
word: לעזן
roman: lezn
lang: Yoruba
word: kà
lang: Yoruba
word: kàwé
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: xook
lang: Zhuang
word: dog
lang: Zhuang
word: doeg
lang: Hungarian
word: olvasd