luge

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• Received-Pronunciation: /luː(d)ʒ/
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• General-American: /luʒ/
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• rhymes with -uːdʒ
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• rhymes with -uːʒ
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• CMU ARPABET: L UW1 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The noun is borrowed from Swiss French or Franco-Provençal luge, from Medieval Latin scludia, from Late Latin sclodia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *stludio, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleydh- (“to slide, slip; to be slick or slippery”). If so, it is related to sled and sleigh. Sense 2.2 (“drinking utensil”) is from its resemblance to the tracks on which luges race. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Irish slaod (“raft, float”) * Old Breton stloit (“sliding; traction”) (modern Breton stlej (“sleigh”)) * Welsh llithr (“slide, slippage”)

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: زحافات ثلجية — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Basque: luge — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Catalan: luge — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Chinese Mandarin: 無舵雪橇 /无舵雪橇 (wúduò xuěqiāo) — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Czech: sáně — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Czech: sáňky — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Esperanto: sledado — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Finnish: ohjaskelkka — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• French: luge — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Galician: luge — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Galician: zorra — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• German: Schlitten — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• German: Rennschlitten — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Greek: λουτζ (loutz) — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Hebrew: לוז׳ — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Hungarian: szánkó — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Italian: slittino — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Japanese: リュージュ (ryūju) — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Korean: 루지 (ruji) — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Norwegian: slede — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Occitan: lièja — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Persian: لوژ (luž) — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Polish: saneczki — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Portuguese: luge — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Romanian: sanie — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Russian: сани (sani) — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Tagalog: luge — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Tamil: லூஜ் (lūj) — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Welsh: luge — racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back
• Armenian: սահնակային սպորտ — sport of racing on luges
• Basque: luge — sport of racing on luges
• Belarusian: санны спорт — sport of racing on luges
• Bulgarian: спортна шейна (sportna šejna) — sport of racing on luges
• Chinese Mandarin: 無舵雪橇 /无舵雪橇 (wúduò xuěqiāo) — sport of racing on luges
• Czech: saně — sport of racing on luges
• Czech: sáňkování — sport of racing on luges
• Danish: kælkning — sport of racing on luges
• Dutch: rodelen — sport of racing on luges
• Estonian: kelgutamine — sport of racing on luges
• Finnish: ohjaskelkkailu — sport of racing on luges
• French: luge — sport of racing on luges
• French: luge de course — sport of racing on luges
• German: Rennrodeln — sport of racing on luges
• German: Rodeln — sport of racing on luges
• Greek: λουτζ (loutz) — sport of racing on luges
• Hebrew: לוז׳ — sport of racing on luges
• Hungarian: szánkó — sport of racing on luges
• Hungarian: szánkósport — sport of racing on luges
• Hungarian: szánkózás — sport of racing on luges
• Hungarian: versenyszán — sport of racing on luges
• Hungarian: versenyszánkó — sport of racing on luges
• Japanese: リュージュ (ryūju) — sport of racing on luges
• Korean: 루지 (ruji) — sport of racing on luges
• Latvian: kamaniņu braukšana — sport of racing on luges
• Lithuanian: nusileidimas rogutėmis — sport of racing on luges
• Lithuanian: rogučių sportas — sport of racing on luges
• Macedonian: санкање (sankanje) — sport of racing on luges
• Norwegian Bokmål: aking — sport of racing on luges
• Persian: لوژسواری (luž-savâri) — sport of racing on luges
• Polish: saneczkarstwo — sport of racing on luges
• Portuguese: luge — sport of racing on luges
• Russian: са́нный спорт (sánnyj sport) — sport of racing on luges
• Serbo-Croatian: санкање — sport of racing on luges
• Serbo-Croatian: sankanje — sport of racing on luges
• Spanish: luge — sport of racing on luges
• Swedish: rodel — sport of racing on luges
• Tagalog: luge — sport of racing on luges
• Tamil: லூஜ் (lūj) — sport of racing on luges
• Tatar: чана спорты (çana sportı) — sport of racing on luges
• Turkish: kızak — sport of racing on luges
• Ukrainian: са́нний спорт (sánnyj sport) — sport of racing on luges
• Uzbek: chana sporti — sport of racing on luges
• Vietnamese: luge — sport of racing on luges
• Vietnamese: trượt băng nằm ngửa — sport of racing on luges
• Polish: rynna — piece of bone, etc., with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth
• Finnish: kelkkailla — to ride a luge; to participate in the sport of luge
• German: rodeln — to ride a luge; to participate in the sport of luge
• Polish: saneczkować — to ride a luge; to participate in the sport of luge