gully

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• /ˈɡʌli/
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Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill. Compare Dutch geul. Alternatively, from a diminutive of dialectal gull (“fissue, chasm”) + -y (diminutive suffix). See gull, gullick.

From Scots gully, of unknown origin.

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: дере (dere) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Bulgarian: овраг (ovrag) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Czech: žleb — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Czech: úžlabina — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Czech: strouha — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Dutch: geul — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• French: ravine — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Galician: corgo — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Galician: caivanca — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Galician: carronzo — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Galician: carriozo — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Georgian: ხევი (xevi) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• German: Erosionsrinne — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• German: Wasserfurche — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• German: Wasserrinne — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• German: Graben — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Ancient Greek: χαράδρα (kharádra) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Hungarian: vízmosás — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Hungarian: árok — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Icelandic: skorningur — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Italian: calanco — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Kabuverdianu: barrónke — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Kabuverdianu: baranku — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Māori: kōawaawa — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Māori: kowaka — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Māori: parari — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Norwegian Bokmål: ravine — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ravine — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Plautdietsch: Schälran — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Polish: parów — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Polish: wąwóz — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Portuguese: corgo — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Russian: ложби́на (ložbína) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Russian: промо́ина (promóina) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Russian: буера́к (bujerák) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Russian: ры́твина (rýtvina) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Russian: вы́моина (výmoina) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Russian: кулуар (kuluar) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Spanish: barranco — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Turkish: çukur — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز (boğaz) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Ottoman Turkish: دره (dere) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Ukrainian: яр (jar) — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Yagara: pilla — a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside
• Czech: úžlabina — A small valley
• Czech: rokle — A small valley
• Czech: žleb — A small valley
• Czech: úzké údolí — A small valley
• Hungarian: árok — A small valley
• Hungarian: szakadék — A small valley
• Māori: kopia — A small valley
• Polish: dolinka — A small valley
• Turkish: çukur — A small valley
• Bulgarian: канавка (kanavka) — A road drain
• Czech: strouha — A road drain
• German: Gully — A road drain
• Polish: żleb — A road drain