flake

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From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“to flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh2- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), as well as with Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”) and Welsh llech (“slate, tablet”). Doublet of plage.

A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.

Compare Icelandic flaki, Icelandic fleki, Danish flage, Dutch vlaak.

115 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bie — thin chiplike layer
• Azerbaijani: lopa — thin chiplike layer
• Bulgarian: люспа (ljuspa) — thin chiplike layer
• Catalan: floc — thin chiplike layer
• Chinese Mandarin: 小片 (xiǎopiàn) — thin chiplike layer
• Chinese Mandarin: 薄片 (báopiàn) — thin chiplike layer
• Czech: vločka — thin chiplike layer
• Dutch: vlok — thin chiplike layer
• Dutch: schilfer — thin chiplike layer
• Estonian: helbe — thin chiplike layer
• Estonian: lible — thin chiplike layer
• Finnish: hiutale — thin chiplike layer
• French: éclat — thin chiplike layer
• French: fragment — thin chiplike layer
• French: flocon — thin chiplike layer
• Galician: floco — thin chiplike layer
• German: Flocke — thin chiplike layer
• Greek: φολίδα (folída) — thin chiplike layer
• Greek: νιφάδα (nifáda) — thin chiplike layer
• Greek: λέπι (lépi) — thin chiplike layer
• Hawaiian: unahi — thin chiplike layer
• Hungarian: pehely — thin chiplike layer
• Icelandic: flaga — thin chiplike layer
• Indonesian: serpih — thin chiplike layer
• Indonesian: mengelupas — thin chiplike layer
• Ingrian: hiutale — thin chiplike layer
• Irish: cáithnín — thin chiplike layer
• Italian: fiocco — thin chiplike layer
• Italian: schizzo — thin chiplike layer
• Japanese: フレーク (furēku) — thin chiplike layer
• Korean: 플레이크 (peulleikeu) — thin chiplike layer
• Latin: floccus — thin chiplike layer
• Māori: whā — thin chiplike layer
• Māori: kapu — thin chiplike layer
• Occitan: flòc — thin chiplike layer
• Polish: płatek — thin chiplike layer
• Portuguese: floco — thin chiplike layer
• Russian: стру́жка (strúžka) — thin chiplike layer
• Russian: оско́лок (oskólok) — thin chiplike layer
• Russian: чешу́йка (češújka) — thin chiplike layer
• Russian: хло́пья (xlópʹja) — thin chiplike layer
• Serbo-Croatian: па̀хуља — thin chiplike layer
• Serbo-Croatian: pàhulja — thin chiplike layer
• Sicilian: scama — thin chiplike layer
• Sicilian: scagghia — thin chiplike layer
• Spanish: escama — thin chiplike layer
• Spanish: hojuela — thin chiplike layer
• Spanish: copa — thin chiplike layer
• Spanish: copo — thin chiplike layer
• Spanish: ampo — thin chiplike layer
• Swedish: flinga — thin chiplike layer
• Swedish: flaga — thin chiplike layer
• Tagalog: manipis na piraso — thin chiplike layer
• Turkish: pul — thin chiplike layer
• Ottoman Turkish: یپراق (yaprak) — thin chiplike layer
• Vietnamese: vảy — thin chiplike layer
• Walloon: sclat — thin chiplike layer
• Yiddish: שופּ (shup) — thin chiplike layer
• Catalan: ascla — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Dutch: splinter — archaeology: thin stone tool
• French: éclat — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Italian: scaglia — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Māori: pāra — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Occitan: ascla — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Occitan: esclapa — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Sicilian: scagghia — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Spanish: lasca — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Vietnamese: mảnh tước — archaeology: thin stone tool
• Dutch: lafaard — an unreliable person
• Finnish: huithapeli — an unreliable person
• French: planche pourrie — an unreliable person
• German: Schussel — an unreliable person
• German: Schnarchnase — an unreliable person
• German: Drückeberger — an unreliable person
• German: Chaot — an unreliable person
• Italian: tirapacchi — an unreliable person
• Portuguese: furão — an unreliable person
• Sicilian: tintu — an unreliable person
• Sicilian: scunchiudutu — an unreliable person
• Sicilian: fausu — an unreliable person
• Sicilian: mbrugghiuni — an unreliable person
• Spanish: malqueda — an unreliable person
• Spanish: faltón — an unreliable person
• Bulgarian: лющя се (ljuštja se) — to break or chip
• Chinese Mandarin: 剝落 /剥落 (bōluò) — to break or chip
• Czech: loupat se — to break or chip
• Dutch: schilferen — to break or chip
• Dutch: afschilferen — to break or chip
• Finnish: hilseillä — to break or chip
• French: peler — to break or chip
• French: s'écailler — to break or chip
• French: s'effriter — to break or chip
• Greek: απολεπίζω (apolepízo) — to break or chip
• Greek: ξεφλουδίζω (xefloudízo) — to break or chip
• Italian: scheggiare — to break or chip
• Italian: scheggiarsi — to break or chip
• Māori: rehu — to break or chip
• Russian: облупи́ться (oblupítʹsja) — to break or chip
• Spanish: descamar — to break or chip
• Spanish: descarapelar — to break or chip
• Dutch: niet komen opdagen — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Dutch: (iemand) laten stikken — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• French: planter (quelqu'un) — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Italian: tirare il pacco — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Portuguese: furar — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: plantar — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: esfumarse — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: largarse — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: rajarse — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: acobardarse — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: retractarse — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: arrepentirse — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: mamarse — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: planchar — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
• Spanish: chasquear — To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through