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Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”). See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: burim — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Baluchi: زے — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Galician: illó — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Galician: bullo — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Italian: sorgente — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Japanese: にじみ (nijimi) — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Polish: wyciek — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Portuguese: jazida — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Spanish: fuente — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Spanish: emanación — a place where water seeps out of the ground
• Bulgarian: утечка (utečka) — a seepage
• Italian: infiltrazione — a seepage
• Japanese: にじみ (nijimi) — a seepage
• Polish: wyciek — a seepage
• Portuguese: infiltração — a seepage
• Spanish: filtración — a seepage
• Albanian: sit — to ooze through pores
• Bulgarian: просмуквам се (prosmukvam se) — to ooze through pores
• Burmese: စိမ့် (cim.) — to ooze through pores
• Chinese Mandarin: 渗出 (shènchū) — to ooze through pores
• Czech: prosakovat — to ooze through pores
• Czech: pronikat — to ooze through pores
• Finnish: tihkua — to ooze through pores
• Finnish: vuotaa — to ooze through pores
• French: suinter — to ooze through pores
• French: s'exfiltrer — to ooze through pores
• Galician: zumegar — to ooze through pores
• Galician: rever — to ooze through pores
• German: durchsickern — to ooze through pores
• Italian: infiltrarsi — to ooze through pores
• Italian: trasudare — to ooze through pores
• Italian: penetrare — to ooze through pores
• Japanese: にじみ出る (nijimideru) — to ooze through pores
• Lithuanian: sunktis — to ooze through pores
• Lithuanian: skverbtis — to ooze through pores
• Manx: sheel — to ooze through pores
• Māori: papī — to ooze through pores
• Māori: pahī — to ooze through pores
• Polish: sączyć się — to ooze through pores
• Portuguese: escoar — to ooze through pores
• Russian: сочи́ться (sočítʹsja) — to ooze through pores
• Russian: проса́чиваться (prosáčivatʹsja) — to ooze through pores
• Russian: просочи́ться (prosočítʹsja) — to ooze through pores
• Serbo-Croatian: curiti — to ooze through pores
• Serbo-Croatian: cijediti se — to ooze through pores
• Spanish: rezumar — to ooze through pores
• Spanish: trazumar — to ooze through pores
• Swedish: sippra — to ooze through pores
• Thai: ซึม (sʉm) — to ooze through pores
• Turkish: sızmak — to ooze through pores
• Ukrainian: просочуватися (prosočuvatysja) — to ooze through pores
• Ukrainian: протікати (protikaty) — to ooze through pores