sift

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• /sɪft/
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From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.

109 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: մաղել (maġel) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Aromanian: ntsernu — to sieve or strain (something)
• Assamese: চালা (sala) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Assamese: চলা (sola) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Bulgarian: пресявам (presjavam) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Catalan: cerndre — to sieve or strain (something)
• Cherokee: ᎬᎫᏍᏗᎭ (gvgusdiha) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Chinese Cantonese: 篩 /筛 (sai1) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Chinese Mandarin: 篩 /筛 (shāi) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Chinese Mandarin: 濾 /滤 (lǜ) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Chinese Mandarin: 過濾 /过滤 (guòlǜ) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Dutch: ziften — to sieve or strain (something)
• Esperanto: kribri — to sieve or strain (something)
• Finnish: siivilöidä — to sieve or strain (something)
• Finnish: seuloa — to sieve or strain (something)
• French: passer — to sieve or strain (something)
• French: tamiser — to sieve or strain (something)
• West-Frisian: sift — to sieve or strain (something)
• Friulian: trivelâ — to sieve or strain (something)
• Friulian: tamesâ — to sieve or strain (something)
• German: sieben — to sieve or strain (something)
• Hungarian: szitál — to sieve or strain (something)
• Ingrian: siivitä — to sieve or strain (something)
• Ingrian: seegloa — to sieve or strain (something)
• Ingrian: seeglata — to sieve or strain (something)
• Irish: rill — to sieve or strain (something)
• Irish: criathraigh — to sieve or strain (something)
• Italian: setacciare — to sieve or strain (something)
• Italian: vagliare — to sieve or strain (something)
• Latin: cribrō — to sieve or strain (something)
• Middle English: syften — to sieve or strain (something)
• Middle English: temsen — to sieve or strain (something)
• Norman: craînchi — to sieve or strain (something)
• Occitan: sedaçar — to sieve or strain (something)
• Occitan: tamisar — to sieve or strain (something)
• Occitan: cernir — to sieve or strain (something)
• Persian: بیختن (bixtan) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Piedmontese: valé — to sieve or strain (something)
• Polish: przesiewać — to sieve or strain (something)
• Polish: przesiać — to sieve or strain (something)
• Polish: arfować — to sieve or strain (something)
• Polish: przearfować — to sieve or strain (something)
• Portuguese: discernir — to sieve or strain (something)
• Portuguese: cindir — to sieve or strain (something)
• Romanian: cerne — to sieve or strain (something)
• Russian: просе́ивать (proséivatʹ) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Russian: просе́ять (proséjatʹ) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Spanish: tamizar — to sieve or strain (something)
• Spanish: cernir — to sieve or strain (something)
• Spanish: ahechar — to sieve or strain (something)
• Spanish: cribar — to sieve or strain (something)
• Spanish: acribar — to sieve or strain (something)
• Tagalog: salain — to sieve or strain (something)
• Telugu: గాలించు (gāliñcu) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Thai: ร่อน (rɔ̂n) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Thai: กรอง (grɔɔng) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Turkish: kalburlamak — to sieve or strain (something)
• Ottoman Turkish: قلبورلامق (kalburlamak) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Ukrainian: просі́яти (prosíjaty) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Ukrainian: просі́ювати (prosíjuvaty) — to sieve or strain (something)
• Walloon: passer — to sieve or strain (something)
• Walloon: raidjî — to sieve or strain (something)
• Walloon: tamjhî — to sieve or strain (something)
• Welsh: gogrynu — to sieve or strain (something)
• Welsh: gogru — to sieve or strain (something)
• Bulgarian: отсявам (otsjavam) — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Dutch: ziften — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Finnish: siivilöidä — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Finnish: seuloa — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Finnish: sirottaa — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Finnish: sirotella — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• French: éparpiller — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• French: disséminer — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• West-Frisian: siften — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• German: sieben — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Italian: discernere — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Polish: przesiewać — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Polish: przesiać — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Polish: odsiewać — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Polish: odsiać — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Portuguese: peneirar — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Russian: отсе́ивать (otséivatʹ) — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Russian: отсе́ять (otséjatʹ) — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Spanish: separar — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Swedish: sikta — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Telugu: గాలించు (gāliñcu) — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Thai: กรอง (grɔɔng) — to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving
• Bulgarian: разглеждам щателно (razgleždam štatelno) — to examine (something) carefully
• Dutch: ziften — to examine (something) carefully
• Dutch: zeven — to examine (something) carefully
• Finnish: seuloa — to examine (something) carefully
• Finnish: tutkia — to examine (something) carefully
• West-Frisian: souje — to examine (something) carefully
• German: sichten — to examine (something) carefully
• German: durchgehen — to examine (something) carefully
• Italian: setacciare — to examine (something) carefully
• Italian: esaminare minuziosamente — to examine (something) carefully
• Latin: cernō — to examine (something) carefully
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjennomgå — to examine (something) carefully
• Portuguese: examinar minuciosamente — to examine (something) carefully
• Portuguese: discernir — to examine (something) carefully
• Romanian: cerne — to examine (something) carefully
• Spanish: examinar minuciosamente — to examine (something) carefully
• Spanish: juzgar — to examine (something) carefully
• Swedish: granska — to examine (something) carefully
• Telugu: గాలించు (gāliñcu) — to examine (something) carefully
• Thai: กลั่นกรอง (glàn-grɔɔng) — to examine (something) carefully
• Thai: ไตร่ตรอง (dtrài-dtrɔɔng) — to examine (something) carefully
• Thai: วินิจฉัย (wí-nít-chǎi) — to examine (something) carefully