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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh3- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh3tús Proto-Germanic *skaduz Proto-West Germanic *skadu Old English sċeadu Middle English schade English shade Inherited from Middle English schade, from Old English sċeadu, from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skaduz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh3tús, from *(s)ḱeh3-. Doublet of shadow. Cognate with Ancient Greek σκότος (skótos) (whence English scoto-) and σκιά (skiá) (whence English scia-, and uncertainly via σκίουρος (skíouros) English squirrel).

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh3- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh3tús Proto-Germanic *skaduz Proto-West Germanic *skadu Old English sċeadu Middle English schade Proto-Indo-European *-o- Proto-Indo-European *-nom Proto-Indo-European *-onom Proto-Germanic *-aną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Old English -an Middle English -en Middle English schaden English shade Inherited from Middle English schaden, from schade + -en.

279 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: агага (agaga) — darkness where light is blocked
• Albanian: hije — darkness where light is blocked
• Arabic: ظِلّ (ẓill) — darkness where light is blocked
• Arabic: مَظَلَّة (maẓalla) — darkness where light is blocked
• Arabic: مِظَلَّة (miẓalla) — darkness where light is blocked
• Arabic: ظِلّ (ḍill, ẓill) — darkness where light is blocked
• Armenian: ստվեր (stver) — darkness where light is blocked
• Armenian: շուք (šukʻ) — darkness where light is blocked
• Aromanian: aumbrã — darkness where light is blocked
• Aromanian: umbrã — darkness where light is blocked
• Avar: рагӏад (raʻad) — darkness where light is blocked
• Bashkir: күләгә (küləgə) — darkness where light is blocked
• Belarusian: цень (cjenʹ) — darkness where light is blocked
• Bulgarian: ся́нка (sjánka) — darkness where light is blocked
• Burmese: အရိပ် (a.rip) — darkness where light is blocked
• Burmese: ဆာယာ (hcaya) — darkness where light is blocked
• Catalan: ombra — darkness where light is blocked
• Chechen: ӏиндагӏ (ˀindağ) — darkness where light is blocked
• Chichewa: mthunzi — darkness where light is blocked
• Chinese Mandarin: 陰影 /阴影 (yīnyǐng) — darkness where light is blocked
• Czech: stín — darkness where light is blocked
• Dalmatian: sombreja — darkness where light is blocked
• Danish: skygge — darkness where light is blocked
• Dutch: schaduw — darkness where light is blocked
• Esperanto: ombro — darkness where light is blocked
• Faroese: skuggi — darkness where light is blocked
• Finnish: varjo — darkness where light is blocked
• French: ombre — darkness where light is blocked
• Friulian: ombre — darkness where light is blocked
• Galician: sombra — darkness where light is blocked
• Georgian: ჩრდილი (črdili) — darkness where light is blocked
• German: Schatten — darkness where light is blocked
• Greek: σκιά (skiá) — darkness where light is blocked
• Ancient Greek: σκιά (skiá) — darkness where light is blocked
• Greenlandic: alanngoq — darkness where light is blocked
• Hawaiian: malu — darkness where light is blocked
• Hebrew: צֵל (tzel) — darkness where light is blocked
• Hindi: छाया (chāyā) — darkness where light is blocked
• Hungarian: árnyék — darkness where light is blocked
• Tuwali Ifugao: hidum — darkness where light is blocked
• Ilocano: linong — darkness where light is blocked
• Indonesian: bayangan — darkness where light is blocked
• Ingrian: vilu — darkness where light is blocked
• Italian: ombra — darkness where light is blocked
• Japanese: 影 (kage) — darkness where light is blocked
• Lubuagan Kalinga: ichong — darkness where light is blocked
• Lubuagan Kalinga: ayong — darkness where light is blocked
• Khmer: ម្លប់ (mlup) — darkness where light is blocked
• Korean: 그림자 (geurimja) — darkness where light is blocked
• Korean: 그늘 (geuneul) — darkness where light is blocked
• Central Kurdish: سێبەر (sêber) — darkness where light is blocked
• Ladino: solombra — darkness where light is blocked
• Lao: ຮົ່ມ (hom) — darkness where light is blocked
• Latin: umbra — darkness where light is blocked
• Latin: umbrāculum — darkness where light is blocked
• Latvian: ēna — darkness where light is blocked
• Macedonian: се́нка (sénka) — darkness where light is blocked
• Macedonian: ладо́вина (ladóvina) — darkness where light is blocked
• Macedonian: о́сој (ósoj) — darkness where light is blocked
• Maltese: dell — darkness where light is blocked
• Māori: maru — darkness where light is blocked
• Māori: taumarumaru — darkness where light is blocked
• Māori: whakamarumaru — darkness where light is blocked
• Marathi: सावली (sāvlī) — darkness where light is blocked
• Mauritian Creole: lonbraz — darkness where light is blocked
• Mongolian: сүүдэр (süüder) — darkness where light is blocked
• Classical Nahuatl: cēhualli — darkness where light is blocked
• Navajo: chahashʼoh — darkness where light is blocked
• Navajo: chahaʼoh — darkness where light is blocked
• Occitan: ombra — darkness where light is blocked
• Old English: sceadu — darkness where light is blocked
• Omaha-Ponca: 'ónaze — darkness where light is blocked
• Oromo: gaaddisa — darkness where light is blocked
• Ossetian: аууон (awuon) — darkness where light is blocked
• Plautdietsch: Schauten — darkness where light is blocked
• Polish: cień — darkness where light is blocked
• Portuguese: sombra — darkness where light is blocked
• Quechua: llanthu — darkness where light is blocked
• Romanian: umbră — darkness where light is blocked
• Romansh: sumbriva — darkness where light is blocked
• Romansh: umbriva — darkness where light is blocked
• Romansh: sumbreiva — darkness where light is blocked
• Russian: тень (tenʹ) — darkness where light is blocked
• Northern Sami: suoivva — darkness where light is blocked
• Sanskrit: छाया (chāyā) — darkness where light is blocked
• Sardinian: umbara — darkness where light is blocked
• Sardinian: umbra — darkness where light is blocked
• Sardinian: urma — darkness where light is blocked
• Scottish Gaelic: dubhar — darkness where light is blocked
• Scottish Gaelic: sgàile — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: сенка — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: сјенка — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: сена — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: сјена — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: тење — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: тијење — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: senka — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: sjenka — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: sena — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: sjena — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: tenje — darkness where light is blocked
• Serbo-Croatian: tijenje — darkness where light is blocked
• Shor: кӧлек (kölek) — darkness where light is blocked
• Sicilian: ummra — darkness where light is blocked
• Slovak: tieň — darkness where light is blocked
• Slovene: senca — darkness where light is blocked
• Spanish: sombra — darkness where light is blocked
• Swedish: skugga — darkness where light is blocked
• Tagalog: lilim — darkness where light is blocked
• Tamil: நிழல் (niḻal) — darkness where light is blocked
• Tauya: yone — darkness where light is blocked
• Telugu: నీడ (nīḍa) — darkness where light is blocked
• Thai: ร่ม (rôm) — darkness where light is blocked
• Turkish: gölge — darkness where light is blocked
• Tuvan: хөлеге (xölege) — darkness where light is blocked
• Ugaritic: 𐎑𐎍 (ẓl) — darkness where light is blocked
• Ukrainian: тінь (tinʹ) — darkness where light is blocked
• Urdu: چھایا (chāyā) — darkness where light is blocked
• Vietnamese: bóng — darkness where light is blocked
• Yámana: olana — darkness where light is blocked
• Yankunytjatjara: kaṉku — darkness where light is blocked
• Yucatec Maya: boʼoy — darkness where light is blocked
• Zazaki: sersi (diq) — darkness where light is blocked
• Bulgarian: завеса (zavesa) — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Catalan: persiana — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Dutch: jaloezie — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Finnish: kaihdin — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Finnish: verho — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Finnish: varjostin — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• French: store — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• German: Vorhang — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Italian: persiana — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Macedonian: настре́шница (nastréšnica) — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Portuguese: cortina — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Russian: што́ра (štóra) — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Scottish Gaelic: sgàile — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Sicilian: pirsiana — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Sicilian: tappareḍḍa — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Spanish: persiana — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Swedish: gardin — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Swedish: persienn — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Tagalog: tarlong — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Tagalog: lilim — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Telugu: షేడు (ṣēḍu) — something that blocks light, particularly in a window
• Azerbaijani: çalar — variety of color
• Bulgarian: оттенък (ottenǎk) — variety of color
• Bulgarian: нюанс (njuans) — variety of color
• Catalan: tret — variety of color
• Catalan: to — variety of color
• Catalan: matís — variety of color
• Czech: odstín — variety of color
• Dutch: tint — variety of color
• Dutch: schakering — variety of color
• Esperanto: nuanco — variety of color
• Finnish: sävy — variety of color
• French: nuance — variety of color
• French: ton — variety of color
• Galician: matiz — variety of color
• Galician: ton — variety of color
• German: Farbton — variety of color
• Greek: απόχρωση (apóchrosi) — variety of color
• Hebrew: גוון (gáven) — variety of color
• Hungarian: árnyalat — variety of color
• Italian: tonalità — variety of color
• Italian: gradazione — variety of color
• Italian: nuance — variety of color
• Italian: varietà — variety of color
• Italian: tinta — variety of color
• Italian: sfumatura — variety of color
• Macedonian: нија́нса (nijánsa) — variety of color
• Māori: tāuriuri — variety of color
• Norwegian Bokmål: nyanse — variety of color
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nyanse — variety of color
• Polish: odcień — variety of color
• Portuguese: matiz — variety of color
• Portuguese: nuança — variety of color
• Portuguese: tom — variety of color
• Portuguese: tonalidade — variety of color
• Portuguese: gradação — variety of color
• Russian: отте́нок (otténok) — variety of color
• Russian: нюа́нс (njuáns) — variety of color
• Spanish: umbral — variety of color
• Spanish: tono — variety of color
• Spanish: matiz — variety of color
• Swedish: nyans — variety of color
• Swedish: färgton — variety of color
• Swedish: ton — variety of color
• Swedish: schattering — variety of color
• Telugu: రంగు (raṅgu) — variety of color
• Welsh: gwawr — variety of color
• Azerbaijani: çalar — subtle variation in a concept
• Bulgarian: нюанс (njuans) — subtle variation in a concept
• Catalan: matís — subtle variation in a concept
• Czech: odstín — subtle variation in a concept
• Finnish: sävy — subtle variation in a concept
• French: nuance — subtle variation in a concept
• Galician: matiz — subtle variation in a concept
• Italian: sfumatura — subtle variation in a concept
• Japanese: 意味合い — subtle variation in a concept
• Japanese: ニュアンス (nyuansu) — subtle variation in a concept
• Macedonian: нија́нса (nijánsa) — subtle variation in a concept
• Russian: отте́нок (otténok) — subtle variation in a concept
• Russian: нюа́нс (njuáns) — subtle variation in a concept
• Finnish: sävy — aspect reminiscent of something
• Finnish: vivahde — very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
• Catalan: ombra — ghost — see also ghost
• Catalan: espectre — ghost — see also ghost
• Catalan: esperit — ghost — see also ghost
• Dutch: spook — ghost — see also ghost
• Dutch: geest — ghost — see also ghost
• Dutch: schaduw — ghost — see also ghost
• Dutch: schim — ghost — see also ghost
• Finnish: haamu — ghost — see also ghost
• French: esprit — ghost — see also ghost
• French: ombre — ghost — see also ghost
• Italian: spettro — ghost — see also ghost
• Italian: ombra — ghost — see also ghost
• Italian: fantasma — ghost — see also ghost
• Macedonian: сениште (senište) — ghost — see also ghost
• Portuguese: espectro — ghost — see also ghost
• Portuguese: sombra — ghost — see also ghost
• Portuguese: cúpula — cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade
• Chinese Mandarin: 内涵 (nèihán) — subtle insult
• Finnish: vihjaus — subtle insult
• Portuguese: shade — subtle insult
• Spanish: rajadura — subtle insult
• Spanish: cuereada — subtle insult
• Bulgarian: засенчвам (zasenčvam) — to shield from light
• Catalan: ombrar — to shield from light
• Catalan: ombrejar — to shield from light
• Dutch: schaduwen — to shield from light
• Esperanto: ombri — to shield from light
• Finnish: varjostaa — to shield from light
• French: ombrager — to shield from light
• French: faire de l'ombre — to shield from light
• Friulian: ombrî — to shield from light
• Hebrew: הֵצֵל (hetsél) — to shield from light
• Italian: ombreggiare — to shield from light
• Italian: fare ombra — to shield from light
• Latin: umbrō — to shield from light
• Latin: opācō — to shield from light
• Macedonian: засенува (zasenuva) — to shield from light
• Māori: kōpare — to shield from light
• Māori: whakamarumaru — to shield from light
• Middle English: schaden — to shield from light
• Middle English: schadwen — to shield from light
• Old English: sceadwian — to shield from light
• Portuguese: sombrear — to shield from light
• Romanian: adumbri — to shield from light
• Romanian: umbri — to shield from light
• Russian: затеня́ть (zatenjátʹ) — to shield from light
• Spanish: sombrear — to shield from light
• Spanish: ensombrecer — to shield from light
• Swedish: skugga — to shield from light
• Catalan: matisar — to alter slightly
• Czech: upravovat — to alter slightly
• Czech: upravit — to alter slightly
• Finnish: värittää — to alter slightly
• Spanish: matizar — to alter slightly
• Bulgarian: нюансирам (njuansiram) — to vary slightly, particularly in color
• Finnish: vivahtaa — to vary slightly, particularly in color
• French: tendre vers — to vary slightly, particularly in color
• Māori: tāuriuri — to vary slightly, particularly in color
• Russian: переходи́ть в (perexodítʹ v) — to vary slightly, particularly in color
• Spanish: tirar — to vary slightly, particularly in color
• Catalan: enfosquir — to darken or to lightly colour
• Catalan: ombrejar — to darken or to lightly colour
• Dutch: verdonkeren — to darken or to lightly colour
• Dutch: donker maken — to darken or to lightly colour
• Finnish: varjostaa — to darken or to lightly colour
• German: schattieren — to darken or to lightly colour
• Italian: scurire — to darken or to lightly colour
• Māori: kauruku — to darken or to lightly colour
• Polish: cieniować — to darken or to lightly colour
• Spanish: oscurecer — to darken or to lightly colour
• Spanish: sombrear — to darken or to lightly colour
• Spanish: adumbrar — to darken or to lightly colour
• Tagalog: itiman — to darken or to lightly colour
• Tagalog: diliman — to darken or to lightly colour