lax

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• UK, US: /læks/
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• rhymes with -æks
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• homophone: lacs
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• homophone: lacks
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• homophone: lakhs (one pronunciation)
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Borrowed from Latin laxus (“wide, roomy, loose”).

From the IATA airport code.

From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). Doublet of lox.

By replacement of the syllable crosse with the cross-shaped letter x.

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Amharic: ልል (ləl) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Armenian: մեղմ (meġm) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Bulgarian: неточен (netočen) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Czech: uvolněný — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Czech: laxní — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Finnish: löysä — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Finnish: höllä — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Finnish: väljä — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• French: laxiste — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Georgian: არამკაცრი (aramḳacri) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Georgian: ლმობიერი (lmobieri) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Georgian: ტოლერანტული (ṭoleranṭuli) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• German: lax — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Greek: επιεικής (epieikís) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Greek: ελαστικός (elastikós) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Greek: χαλαρός (chalarós) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Hungarian: laza — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Hungarian: rugalmas — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Irish: neamartach — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Italian: lasso — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Italian: lassista — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Portuguese: leniente — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Russian: нестро́гий (nestrógij) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Russian: необяза́тельный (neobjazátelʹnyj) — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Scottish Gaelic: socair — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Scottish Gaelic: saor — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Spanish: laxo — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Swedish: slapp — not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
• Armenian: թույլ (tʻuyl) — loose; not tight or taut
• Bashkir: бушаҡ (buşaq) — loose; not tight or taut
• Bulgarian: отпуснат (otpusnat) — loose; not tight or taut
• Bulgarian: хлабав (hlabav) — loose; not tight or taut
• Catalan: lax — loose; not tight or taut
• Catalan: fluix — loose; not tight or taut
• Czech: volný — loose; not tight or taut
• Finnish: löysä — loose; not tight or taut
• German: locker — loose; not tight or taut
• German: lose — loose; not tight or taut
• Greek: χαλαρός (chalarós) — loose; not tight or taut
• Greek: λάσκος (láskos) — loose; not tight or taut
• Hindi: ढीला (ḍhīlā) — loose; not tight or taut
• Hindi: शिथिल (śithil) — loose; not tight or taut
• Italian: allentato — loose; not tight or taut
• Italian: sciolto — loose; not tight or taut
• Italian: lasso — loose; not tight or taut
• Italian: lento — loose; not tight or taut
• Italian: lasco — loose; not tight or taut
• Khiamniungan Naga: tâng — loose; not tight or taut
• Portuguese: frouxo — loose; not tight or taut
• Russian: ненатя́нутый (nenatjánutyj) — loose; not tight or taut
• Scottish Gaelic: fuasgailte — loose; not tight or taut
• Spanish: flojo — loose; not tight or taut
• Spanish: suelto — loose; not tight or taut
• Swedish: lös — loose; not tight or taut
• Ottoman Turkish: گوشك (gevşek) — loose; not tight or taut
• Bulgarian: небрежен (nebrežen) — lacking care
• Dutch: laks — lacking care
• Esperanto: pigra — lacking care
• Esperanto: maldiligenta — lacking care
• Finnish: holtiton — lacking care
• Finnish: huolimaton — lacking care
• Finnish: piittaamaton — lacking care
• Finnish: leväperäinen — lacking care
• French: laxiste — lacking care
• Greek: αμελής (amelís) — lacking care
• Italian: trascurato — lacking care
• Italian: negligente — lacking care
• Plautdietsch: schloff — lacking care
• Portuguese: negligente — lacking care
• Russian: небре́жный (nebréžnyj) — lacking care