relay

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• /ˈɹiːleɪ/
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• /ɹiˈleɪ/
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• UK: /ˌɹiːˈleɪ/
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• US: /ˌɹiˈleɪ/
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• homophone: re-lay
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From Middle French relai (“reserve pack of hounds”), from relaier (“to exchange tired animals for fresh”); literally, "to leave behind", from Old French relaier (“to leave behind”), from re- + laier (“to leave”), of uncertain origin.

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Old English læġ English lay English relay From re- + lay.

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: смяна (smjana) — a new set of anything that can be used to relieve the existing set when worn out
• Māori: tānga — a new set of anything that can be used to relieve the existing set when worn out
• Bulgarian: реле (rele) — electrical actuator
• Catalan: relé — electrical actuator
• Chinese Mandarin: 繼電器 /继电器 (jìdiànqì) — electrical actuator
• Czech: relé — electrical actuator
• Esperanto: relajso — electrical actuator
• Estonian: relee — electrical actuator
• Finnish: rele — electrical actuator
• French: relais — electrical actuator
• French: relai — electrical actuator
• Galician: relé — electrical actuator
• German: Relais — electrical actuator
• Greek: ηλεκτρονόμος (ilektronómos) — electrical actuator
• Hungarian: relé — electrical actuator
• Icelandic: liði — electrical actuator
• Icelandic: rafliði — electrical actuator
• Indonesian: relai — electrical actuator
• Italian: relè — electrical actuator
• Norwegian Bokmål: relé — electrical actuator
• Norwegian Nynorsk: relé — electrical actuator
• Persian: رله (rele) — electrical actuator
• Polish: przekaźnik — electrical actuator
• Portuguese: relé — electrical actuator
• Romanian: releu — electrical actuator
• Russian: реле́ (rɛlé) — electrical actuator
• Serbo-Croatian: рѐле̄ј — electrical actuator
• Serbo-Croatian: rèlēj — electrical actuator
• Slovene: relé — electrical actuator
• Spanish: relé — electrical actuator
• Spanish: actuador — electrical actuator
• Swedish: relä — electrical actuator
• Ukrainian: реле́ (relé) — electrical actuator
• Vietnamese: rơ-le — electrical actuator
• Galician: remudas — competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race
• Hungarian: váltó — competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race
• Hungarian: váltóverseny — competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race
• Hungarian: staféta — competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race
• Hungarian: váltóúszás — competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race
• Polish: sztafeta — competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race
• Arabic: سِبَاق تَتَابُع (sibāq tatābuʕ) — athletics discipline
• Bulgarian: щафета (štafeta) — athletics discipline
• Catalan: relleus — athletics discipline
• Czech: štafeta — athletics discipline
• Finnish: viesti — athletics discipline
• Finnish: viestijuoksu — athletics discipline
• Galician: remudas — athletics discipline
• Galician: carreira de remudas — athletics discipline
• German: Staffellauf — athletics discipline
• Greek: σκυταλοδρομία (skytalodromía) — athletics discipline
• Hungarian: váltófutás — athletics discipline
• Icelandic: boðhlaup — athletics discipline
• Italian: staffetta — athletics discipline
• Japanese: リレー (rirē) — athletics discipline
• Korean: 릴레이 (rillei) — athletics discipline
• Lithuanian: estafètė — athletics discipline
• Norwegian Bokmål: stafett — athletics discipline
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stafett — athletics discipline
• Polish: sztafeta — athletics discipline
• Portuguese: revezamento — athletics discipline
• Romanian: ștafetă — athletics discipline
• Russian: эстафе́та (estaféta) — athletics discipline
• Serbo-Croatian: штафе́та — athletics discipline
• Serbo-Croatian: štaféta — athletics discipline
• Slovak: štafeta — athletics discipline
• Slovene: štaféta — athletics discipline
• Spanish: relevos — athletics discipline
• Spanish: carrera de relevos — athletics discipline
• Swedish: stafett — athletics discipline
• Tagalog: abutan — athletics discipline
• Bulgarian: ретранслирам (retransliram) — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Catalan: rellevar — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Czech: předat — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Dutch: doorgeven — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Finnish: välittää — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Finnish: kertoa eteenpäin — to pass on or transfer (information)
• French: transmettre — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Galician: transmitir — to pass on or transfer (information)
• German: weitergeben — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Greek: μεταβιβάζω (metavivázo) — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Greek: αναμεταδίδω (anametadído) — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Ancient Greek: ἀγγέλλω (angéllō) — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Italian: comunicare — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Polish: przekazać — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Polish: przekazywać — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Romanian: transmite — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Russian: передава́ть (peredavátʹ) — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Russian: переда́ть (peredátʹ) — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Russian: трансли́ровать (translírovatʹ) — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Spanish: comunicar — to pass on or transfer (information)
• Bulgarian: сменям (smenjam) — to place (people or horses) in relays
• French: relayer — to place (people or horses) in relays
• Greek: αντικαθιστώ (antikathistó) — to place (people or horses) in relays
• Indonesian: relai — to place (people or horses) in relays
• Indonesian: merelai — to place (people or horses) in relays