leeward

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈliːwəd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈl(j)uːəd/
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• General-American: /ˈliwɚd/
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• General-American: /ˈluːɚd/
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• rhymes with -iːwə(ɹ)d
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• CMU ARPABET: L IY1 W ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English lee Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English leeward From lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”).

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: հողմահակառակ (hoġmahakaṙak) — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Belarusian: падве́траны (padvjétrany) — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Catalan: sotavent — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Chinese Mandarin: 背風 /背风 (bèifēng) — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Chinese Mandarin: 下風 /下风 (xiàfēng) — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Czech: závětrný — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Dutch: benedenwinds — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Dutch: lijzijde — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Dutch: lijwaarts — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Finnish: suojanpuoleinen — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Finnish: leenpuoleinen — on the side sheltered from the wind
• French: sous le vent — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Galician: ao socairo — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Galician: a sotavento — on the side sheltered from the wind
• German: leewärts gelegen — on the side sheltered from the wind
• German: windabwärts gelegen — on the side sheltered from the wind
• German: windabgewandt gelegen — on the side sheltered from the wind
• German: mit dem Wind gelegen — on the side sheltered from the wind
• German: unter dem Winde gelegen — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Greek: υπήνεμος (ypínemos) — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Italian: sottovento — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Lithuanian: pavė̃jinis — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Polish: zawietrzny — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Portuguese: sotavento — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Russian: подве́тренный (podvétrennyj) — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Slovak: záveterný — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Slovene: zavetrn — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Spanish: de sotavento — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Swedish: lä — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Turkish: rüzgâraltı — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Ukrainian: підві́тряний (pidvítrjanyj) — on the side sheltered from the wind
• Dutch: benedenwinds — away from the direction of the wind
• Dutch: lijzijds — away from the direction of the wind
• Dutch: lijwaarts — away from the direction of the wind
• Finnish: alatuuleen — away from the direction of the wind
• German: leewärts — away from the direction of the wind
• German: windabwärts — away from the direction of the wind
• German: windabgewandt — away from the direction of the wind
• German: mit dem Wind — away from the direction of the wind
• German: unter dem Winde — away from the direction of the wind
• Greek: υπηνέμως (ypinémos) — away from the direction of the wind
• Greek: υπήνεμα (ypínema) — away from the direction of the wind
• Greek: απάνεμα (apánema) — away from the direction of the wind
• Italian: sottovento — away from the direction of the wind
• Norman: bord du vent — away from the direction of the wind
• Norman: souos l'vent — away from the direction of the wind
• Russian: по ветру (po vetru) — away from the direction of the wind
• Spanish: a sotavento — away from the direction of the wind
• Ukrainian: за ві́тром (za vítrom) — away from the direction of the wind