glacier

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡlæs.jə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡleɪs.jə/
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• US: /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
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• Canada: /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
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• Canada: /ˈɡleɪs.jɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: G L EY1 SH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciārium, a derivative of Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. First attested in English in 1744 per the OED.

142 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: gletser — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Albanian: akullnajë — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Arabic: مَثْلَجَة (maṯlaja) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Arabic: مَجْلَدَة (majlada) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Armenian: սառցադաշտ (saṙcʻadašt) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Azerbaijani: buzlaq — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Basque: glaziar — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Belarusian: ледаві́к (ljedavík) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Bengali: হিমবাহ (himbaho) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Breton: skorneg — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Bulgarian: ле́дник (lédnik) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Burmese: ရေခဲမြစ် (rehkai:mrac) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Catalan: glacera — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Chinese Cantonese: 冰川 (bing1 cyun1) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Chinese Cantonese: 冰河 (bing1 ho4) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Chinese Mandarin: 冰川 (bīngchuān) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Chinese Mandarin: 冰河 (bīnghé) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Cornish: rewiva — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Cornish: rewliv — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Corsican: ghjacciale — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Czech: ledovec — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Danish: gletsjer — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Danish: jøkel — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Danish: bræ — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Dutch: gletsjer — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Esperanto: glaĉero — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Esperanto: glaciaro — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Esperanto: glaciejo — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Estonian: liustik — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Faroese: jøkul — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Finnish: jäätikkö — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• French: glacier — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Saterland Frisian: Glitsker — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• West-Frisian: gletsjer — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Galician: glaciar — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Georgian: მყინვარი (mq̇invari) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• German: Gletscher — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• German: Ferner — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• German: Kees — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Bavarian German: gletscha — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Greek: παγετώνας (pagetónas) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Greenlandic: sermeq — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Hebrew: קַרְחוֹן (karkhón) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Hindi: हिमानी (himānī) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Hindi: हिमनदी (himandī) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Hungarian: gleccser — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Icelandic: jökull — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Icelandic: ísbreiða — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Ido: glaciero — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Indonesian: gletser — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Irish: oighearshruth — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Italian: ghiacciaio — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Japanese: 氷河 (hyōga) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Kazakh: мұздық (mūzdyq) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Khmer: ផ្ទាំងទឹកកក (phtĕəng tɨk kɑɑk) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Korean: 빙하 (bingha) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Kyrgyz: мөңгү (möŋgü) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Ladin: giacé — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Latin: glaciarium — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Latin: glacier — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Latvian: ledājs — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Limburgish: gletsjer — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Lithuanian: ledynas — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Luxembourgish: Gletscher — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Macedonian: гле́чер (gléčer) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Macedonian: ле́дник (lédnik) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Macedonian: ле́деник (lédenik) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Malay: glasier — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Malay: sungai air batu — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Malayalam: ഹിമപ്പരപ്പ് (himapparappŭ) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Manx: awin rioee — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Māori: hukāpo — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Central Melanau: pejujoh — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Mongolian: мөсөн гол (mösön gol) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Nepali: हिमनदी (himanadī) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Norwegian Bokmål: bre — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Norwegian Bokmål: isbre — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Norwegian Bokmål: jøkel — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bre — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Norwegian Nynorsk: isbre — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jøkul — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Occitan: glacièr — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Occitan: conglaç — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Ossetian: цъити (c’iti) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Pannonian Rusyn: ґлечер (glečer) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Pannonian Rusyn: ляднїк (ljadnjik) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Iranian Persian: یَخْسار (yaxsâr) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Iranian Persian: پیرْیَخ (piryax) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Plautdietsch: Iessboach — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Polish: lodowiec — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Portuguese: glaciar — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Portuguese: geleira — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Romanian: ghețar — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Romansh: glatscher — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Romansh: sglatscher — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Romansh: vadretg — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Romansh: vadret — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Russian: ледни́к (ledník) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Russian: гле́тчер (glétčer) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Northern Sami: jiehkki — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Southern Sami: dielhtie — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Scottish Gaelic: eigh-shruth — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Serbo-Croatian: ледењак — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Serbo-Croatian: ледник — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Serbo-Croatian: глечер — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Serbo-Croatian: ledènjāk — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Serbo-Croatian: lednik — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Serbo-Croatian: glȅčer — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Shor: мустағ (mustağ) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Sicilian: ghiacciaiu — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Sindhi: برفال (brfāl) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Slovak: ľadovec — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Slovene: ledenik — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Upper Sorbian: lodowc — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Spanish: glaciar — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Spanish: helero — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Swahili: barafuto — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Swedish: glaciär — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Swedish: jökel — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Tagalog: glasyar — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Tajik: пирях (piryax) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Tamil: பனியாறு (paṉiyāṟu) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Tatar: бозлык (bozlıq) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Thai: ธารน้ําแข็ง (taan-nám-kɛ̌ng) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Tibetan: གངས (gangs) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Tibetan: གངས་ཆེན — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Tibetan: གངས་རི — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Tibetan: འཁྱགས་ཀླུང ('khyags klung) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Turkish: buzul — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Turkmen: buzluk — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Ukrainian: льодови́к (lʹodovýk) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Urdu: گِلیشِیَر (gileśiyar) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Uyghur: مۇزلۇق (muzluq) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Uzbek: muzlik — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Vietnamese: sông băng — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Volapük: gladäd — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Walloon: glaecî — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Welsh: rhewlif — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Yakut: булуус (buluus) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Yámana: táun — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Yiddish: גלעטשער (gletsher) — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
• Zazaki: cemediye — a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill