slash

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• UK: /slaʃ/
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• US: /slæʃ/
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Late Middle English, originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Perhaps of imitative origin, or possibly from Old French esclachier (“to break in pieces”), a variant of esclater, which is likely a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *slaitan (“to slit, tear”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.

Uncertain. Compare Scots slash (“large splash”), possibly from Old French esclache. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.

Uncertain. Compare British dialectal slashy (“wet and dirty, miry”) and Scots slash (“act of walking forcefully through water or mud”) and slatch (“wet and muddy place, mire”). Perhaps related to Swedish slask (“slush”). Compare also slash (“clearing in a forest”): in many cases it is difficult to tell whether that sense or this one is meant. (Also compare flash (“a marsh; a pool of water”).)

See slatch

159 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: разси́чане (razsíčane) — swift cut with a blade
• Catalan: tall — swift cut with a blade
• Chinese Mandarin: 斬擊 /斩击 (zhǎnjī) — swift cut with a blade
• Czech: řez — swift cut with a blade
• Danish: hug — swift cut with a blade
• Finnish: sivallus — swift cut with a blade
• French: entaille — swift cut with a blade
• French: taillade — swift cut with a blade
• Galician: tallada — swift cut with a blade
• German: Hieb — swift cut with a blade
• Italian: fendente — swift cut with a blade
• Italian: sfregio — swift cut with a blade
• Japanese: 斬撃 (zangeki) — swift cut with a blade
• Korean: 참격 (chamgyeok) — swift cut with a blade
• Lithuanian: rėžis — swift cut with a blade
• Lithuanian: rėžimas — swift cut with a blade
• Macedonian: исеку́вање (isekúvanje) — swift cut with a blade
• Macedonian: расеку́вање (rasekúvanje) — swift cut with a blade
• Māori: whakangaeke — swift cut with a blade
• Māori: hahae — swift cut with a blade
• Māori: hōripiripi — swift cut with a blade
• Polish: siekać — swift cut with a blade
• Polish: posiekać — swift cut with a blade
• Portuguese: talho — swift cut with a blade
• Swedish: hugg — swift cut with a blade
• Thai: ฟัน (fan) — swift cut with a blade
• Thai: ตัด (dtàt) — swift cut with a blade
• Thai: เฉือน (chʉ̌ʉan) — swift cut with a blade
• Czech: seknutí — ice hockey, lacrosse: quick and hard lateral strike with a player's stick
• Czech: sekera — ice hockey, lacrosse: quick and hard lateral strike with a player's stick
• Finnish: huitominen — ice hockey, lacrosse: quick and hard lateral strike with a player's stick
• Polish: siekanie — ice hockey, lacrosse: quick and hard lateral strike with a player's stick
• Arabic: خَطّ مَائِل (ḵaṭṭ māʔil) — typography: / symbol
• Bashkir: кәсер (kəser) — typography: / symbol
• Belarusian: каса́я ры́ска (kasája rýska) — typography: / symbol
• Belarusian: слэш (sleš) — typography: / symbol
• Bulgarian: наклоне́на черта́ (naklonéna čertá) — typography: / symbol
• Catalan: barra — typography: / symbol
• Chinese Mandarin: 斜線號 /斜线号 (xiéxiànhào) — typography: / symbol
• Czech: lomítko — typography: / symbol
• Danish: skråstreg — typography: / symbol
• Dutch: schuine streep — typography: / symbol
• Esperanto: oblikvo — typography: / symbol
• Finnish: vinoviiva — typography: / symbol
• Finnish: kauttaviiva — typography: / symbol
• Finnish: kautta — typography: / symbol
• French: barre oblique — typography: / symbol
• French: barre — typography: / symbol
• Galician: barra — typography: / symbol
• German: Bruchstrich — typography: / symbol
• German: Schrägstrich — typography: / symbol
• Greek: δεξιότροπη κάθετος (dexiótropi káthetos) — typography: / symbol
• Greek: κάθετος (káthetos) — typography: / symbol
• Hebrew: לוֹכְסָן (lokhsán) — typography: / symbol
• Hungarian: perjel — typography: / symbol
• Hungarian: ferde vonal — typography: / symbol
• Hungarian: törtvonal — typography: / symbol
• Icelandic: skástrik — typography: / symbol
• Irish: fleasc — typography: / symbol
• Italian: barra — typography: / symbol
• Italian: sbarretta obliqua — typography: / symbol
• Italian: sbarretta — typography: / symbol
• Japanese: スラッシュ (surasshu) — typography: / symbol
• Japanese: 斜線 (shasen) — typography: / symbol
• Japanese: スラント (suranto) — typography: / symbol
• Korean: 빗금 (bitgeum) — typography: / symbol
• Korean: 슬래시 (seullaesi) — typography: / symbol
• Macedonian: ко́са цр́та (kósa cŕta) — typography: / symbol
• Māori: rītaha — typography: / symbol
• Māori: tohu rītaha — typography: / symbol
• Māori: hahae — typography: / symbol
• Norman: slache — typography: / symbol
• Norman: slache en avant — typography: / symbol
• Norwegian Bokmål: skråstrek — typography: / symbol
• Polish: ukośnik — typography: / symbol
• Portuguese: barra — typography: / symbol
• Portuguese: barra oblíqua — typography: / symbol
• Romanian: bară — typography: / symbol
• Romanian: slash — typography: / symbol
• Romanian: bară oblică — typography: / symbol
• Russian: слеш (slɛš) — typography: / symbol
• Russian: слэш (slɛš) — typography: / symbol
• Russian: коса́я черта́ (kosája čertá) — typography: / symbol
• Russian: коса́я (kosája) — typography: / symbol
• Russian: дробь (drobʹ) — typography: / symbol
• Serbo-Croatian: коса црта — typography: / symbol
• Serbo-Croatian: kosa crta — typography: / symbol
• Slovak: lomka — typography: / symbol
• Slovene: poševnica — typography: / symbol
• Spanish: barra oblicua — typography: / symbol
• Spanish: barra — typography: / symbol
• Spanish: slash — typography: / symbol
• Spanish: diagonal — typography: / symbol
• Swahili: alama ya mkwaju — typography: / symbol
• Swahili: mkwaju — typography: / symbol
• Swedish: snedstreck — typography: / symbol
• Swedish: streck — typography: / symbol
• Thai: ทับ (táp) — typography: / symbol
• Turkish: bölü — typography: / symbol
• Turkish: taksim — typography: / symbol
• Ukrainian: коса́ ри́ска (kosá rýska) — typography: / symbol
• Ukrainian: слеш (sleš) — typography: / symbol
• Vietnamese: dấu gạch chéo — typography: / symbol
• Vietnamese: dấu xuyệt chéo — typography: / symbol
• Vietnamese: dấu xẹt chéo — typography: / symbol
• Bulgarian: пу́тка (pútka) — vulgar slang: female genitalia
• Finnish: viiva — vulgar slang: female genitalia
• Italian: fessa — vulgar slang: female genitalia
• Macedonian: пи́чка (píčka) — vulgar slang: female genitalia
• Bulgarian: разсичам (razsičam) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Chinese Mandarin: 砍 (kǎn) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Czech: říznout — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Dutch: hakken — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Dutch: houwen — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Dutch: snijden — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Dutch: klieven — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Finnish: viiltää — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Finnish: sivaltaa — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• French: entailler — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• French: taillader — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• French: sabrer — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• French: trancher — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• German: aufschlitzen — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Hungarian: hasít — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Italian: tagliare — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Italian: sfregiare — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Italian: fendere — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Italian: falciare — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Italian: mietere — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Japanese: 切り裂く (kirisaku) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Lithuanian: rėžti — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Macedonian: и́сече (íseče) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Macedonian: се́че (séče) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Macedonian: ра́сече (ráseče) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Macedonian: расе́кува (rasékuva) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᠴᡳᠮᠪᡳ (sacimbi) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Māori: hae — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Māori: hahae — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Māori: hōripiripi — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Māori: tapahi — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Norman: sâbrer — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Norman: slachi — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hogga — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Norwegian Nynorsk: snitta — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karva — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Russian: полосова́ть (polosovátʹ) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Russian: руби́ть (rubítʹ) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Russian: рассека́ть (rassekátʹ) — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Spanish: tajear — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Swedish: hugga — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Swedish: kapa — to make a broad cut with an edged weapon
• Galician: mexada — slang: an act of urination
• Galician: canetada — slang: an act of urination
• Macedonian: мо́ча (móča) — slang: an act of urination
• Macedonian: и́змоча (ízmoča) — slang: an act of urination
• Portuguese: mijada — slang: an act of urination
• Russian: пи́сать (písatʹ) — slang: an act of urination
• Russian: сходи́ть по-ма́ленькому (sxodítʹ po-málenʹkomu) — slang: an act of urination
• Russian: спра́вить ма́лую нужду́ (správitʹ máluju nuždú) — slang: an act of urination