sheath

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• Received-Pronunciation: shēth
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʃiːθ/
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• General-American: /ʃiθ/
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• rhymes with -iːθ
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʃiːð/
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• General-American: /ʃið/
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• CMU ARPABET: SH IY1 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted). The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede.

A variant of sheathe.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: mill — long case
• Catalan: embolcall — long case
• Dutch: huls — long case
• Esperanto: ingo — long case
• Finnish: suojus — long case
• Finnish: tuppi — long case
• French: étui — long case
• French: gaine — long case
• German: Futteral — long case
• German: Hülle — long case
• Ancient Greek: κέλυφος (kéluphos) — long case
• Hebrew: נרתיק (nartik) — long case
• Hungarian: tok — long case
• Ingrian: tuppi — long case
• Ingrian: hoodra — long case
• Italian: guaina — long case
• Latin: vāgīna — long case
• Latvian: maksts — long case
• Latvian: futrālis — long case
• Macedonian: футро́ла (futróla) — long case
• Portuguese: revestimento — long case
• Russian: футля́р (futljár) — long case
• Spanish: envoltura — long case
• Swedish: fodral — long case
• Vietnamese: vỏ — long case
• Yiddish: שייד (sheyd) — long case
• French: gaine — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• German: Hülle — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• German: Mantel — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• German: Ummantelung — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• German: Umhüllung — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Hungarian: Bergmann cső — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Hungarian: borítás — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Hungarian: burkolat — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Hungarian: szigetelés — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Hungarian: védőcső — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Korean: 피복 (pibok) — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Spanish: cubierta exterior — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Spanish: envoltura exterior — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Spanish: funda exterior — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Spanish: vaina externa — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Swedish: hölje — insulating outer cover of an electrical cable
• Catalan: folre — tight-fitting dress
• Finnish: kotelomekko — tight-fitting dress
• French: fourreau — tight-fitting dress
• French: robe fourreau — tight-fitting dress
• German: Etuikleid — tight-fitting dress
• Swedish: fodral — tight-fitting dress
• Swedish: fodralklänning — tight-fitting dress
• Catalan: beina — foreskin of certain animals
• Chinese Mandarin: 包皮 (bāopí) — foreskin of certain animals
• Finnish: tuppi — foreskin of certain animals
• Italian: prepuzio — foreskin of certain animals
• Polish: puzdro — foreskin of certain animals
• Portuguese: prepúcio — foreskin of certain animals