glean

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɡliːn/
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• General-American: /ɡlin/
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• rhymes with -iːn
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• CMU ARPABET: G L IY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The verb is derived from Late Middle English glenen (“to gather (heads of grain left by reapers), glean; to gather (things) together, collect”), from Old French glener, glainer (modern French glaner (“to gather, glean”)), from Late Latin glen(n)are, the present active infinitive of glen(n)ō (“to make a collection”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *glanos (“clean; clear”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhleh1- (“to glow, shine; to be glowing or shining”). The noun is derived from Late Middle English glene (“collection of heads of grain gathered by gleaning; head of grain”), from Old French glene, glane (“act of gleaning; legal right to glean”) (modern French glane (“act of gleaning”)), from glener, glainer (verb): see above. Cognate with Medieval Latin glana, glena (“bundle of ears of grain”).

Possibly a variant of clean (“(UK, dialectal; noun) the afterbirth of a cow or sheep; (verb) of a cow or sheep: to bring forth the afterbirth”), possibly from clean (“to remove dirt from an object or place”), referring to an animal’s uterus being cleaned out by the delivery of the afterbirth.

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: apelucar — to collect produce
• Breton: pennaouiñ — to collect produce
• Bulgarian: баберкувам (baberkuvam) — to collect produce
• Catalan: espigolar — to collect produce
• Czech: paběrkovat — to collect produce
• Dutch: inzamelen — to collect produce
• Dutch: oppikken — to collect produce
• Dutch: oprapen — to collect produce
• Dutch: sprokkelen — to collect produce
• Finnish: poimia — to collect produce
• Finnish: poimia tähkiä — to collect produce
• Finnish: tehdä jälkikorjuu — to collect produce
• French: glaner — to collect produce
• Galician: espigar — to collect produce
• German: nachlesen — to collect produce
• German: schnorren — to collect produce
• Irish: tiomsaigh — to collect produce
• Italian: racimolare — to collect produce
• Italian: spigolare — to collect produce
• Latin: racēmor — to collect produce
• Māori: hamu — to collect produce
• Māori: ketu — to collect produce
• Māori: pātoke — to collect produce
• Māori: rautami — to collect produce
• Portuguese: catar — to collect produce
• Portuguese: respigar — to collect produce
• Russian: подбира́ть (podbirátʹ) — to collect produce
• Russian: подобра́ть (podobrátʹ) — to collect produce
• Russian: собира́ть (sobirátʹ) — to collect produce
• Russian: собра́ть (sobrátʹ) — to collect produce
• Serbo-Croatian: па̀бӣрчити — to collect produce
• Serbo-Croatian: pàbīrčiti — to collect produce
• Spanish: espigar — to collect produce
• Spanish: pepenar — to collect produce
• Swedish: efterskörda — to collect produce
• Tày: bón — to collect produce
• Telugu: గింజలేరు (giñjalēru) — to collect produce
• Turkish: ekin toplamak — to collect produce
• Ottoman Turkish: اوزدكلمك (özdeklemek) — to collect produce
• Ukrainian: підбирати (pidbyraty) — to collect produce
• Ukrainian: визбирувати (vyzbyruvaty) — to collect produce
• Ukrainian: збирати (zbyraty) — to collect produce
• Vietnamese: mót — to collect produce
• Zazaki: arêdayen — to collect produce
• Czech: paběrkovat — figurative: to gather
• Czech: sbírat — figurative: to gather
• Czech: sesbírat — figurative: to gather
• Czech: shromáždit — figurative: to gather
• Dutch: leren — figurative: to gather
• Dutch: oppikken — figurative: to gather
• Dutch: verzamelen — figurative: to gather
• Finnish: kartuttaa — figurative: to gather
• Finnish: poimia — figurative: to gather
• Finnish: saada selville — figurative: to gather
• French: glaner — figurative: to gather
• German: herausbekommen — figurative: to gather
• German: zusammentragen — figurative: to gather
• Hungarian: összeszedeget — figurative: to gather
• Icelandic: viða einhverju að sér — figurative: to gather
• Irish: tiomsaigh — figurative: to gather
• Italian: raccattare — figurative: to gather
• Italian: raccogliere — figurative: to gather
• Italian: racimolare — figurative: to gather
• Korean: 모으다 (mo'euda) — figurative: to gather
• Māori: pāhao — figurative: to gather
• Norwegian: gløtte — figurative: to gather
• Norwegian: titte — figurative: to gather
• Portuguese: coletar — figurative: to gather
• Portuguese: recolher — figurative: to gather
• Russian: собира́ть (sobirátʹ) — figurative: to gather
• Russian: собра́ть (sobrátʹ) — figurative: to gather
• Serbo-Croatian: па̀бӣрчити — figurative: to gather
• Serbo-Croatian: pàbīrčiti — figurative: to gather
• Spanish: averiguar — figurative: to gather
• Spanish: cosechar — figurative: to gather
• Spanish: entresacar — figurative: to gather
• Spanish: espigar — figurative: to gather
• Spanish: recoger — figurative: to gather
• Turkish: azar azar bilgi — figurative: to gather
• Turkish: çıkarmak — figurative: to gather
• Turkish: toplamak — figurative: to gather
• Finnish: poimia — of an animal: to feed by picking up or plucking
• Finnish: siepata — of an animal: to feed by picking up or plucking