gravelly

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹævəli/
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• CMU ARPABET: G R AE1 V AH0 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English gravelli (“covered with gravel or sand; (pathology) containing sand-like matter”), from gravel (“sand; grain of stand; gravel, pebbles; (pathology) sand-like matter in the urine, calculus”) + -lī (suffix forming adjectives). Gravel is derived from Old French gravel, gravele, gravelle (“gravel; (pathology) calculus”) (modern French gravelle (“(pathology) calculus”)), from grave (“coarse sand, gravel; seashore”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghreh1w- (“to grind”); modern French grève (“riverbank; shore, strand”)) + -ele (diminutive suffix). The English word is analysable as gravel + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aromanian: chitros — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Bulgarian: чакълест (čakǎlest) — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Cebuano: grabahon — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Finnish: sorainen — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• French: graveleux — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Galician: cascallento — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Georgian: ხრეშიანი (xrešiani) — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• German: kieselig — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• German: kiesig — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Hungarian: kavicsos — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Middle Irish: gríanach — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Italian: breccioso — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Italian: ghiaioso — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Italian: ghiaroso — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Latin: glāreōsus — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Latin: sabulōsus — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Macedonian: чакалест (čakalest) — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Spanish: cascajoso — full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles
• Arabic: خَشِن (ḵašin) — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• Bulgarian: дрезгав (drezgav) — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• French: râpeux — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• French: rocailleux — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• Galician: cavernoso — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• Galician: rouco — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• German: harsch — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• Japanese: 塩っぱい (shoppai) — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• Spanish: áspero — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping
• Spanish: rasposo — of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping