slender

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈslɛndə/
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• General-American: slĕnʹdər
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• General-American: /ˈslɛndɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɛndə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S L EH1 N D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydh- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither.

From the character of Abraham Slender in Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor.

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نَحِيف (naḥīf) — thin
• Arabic: أَهْيَف (ʔahyaf) — thin
• Arabic: نَحِيل (naḥīl) — thin
• Belarusian: стро́йны (strójny) — thin
• Belarusian: стро́мкі (strómki) — thin
• Bulgarian: стро́ен (stróen) — thin
• Bulgarian: тъ́нък (tǎ́nǎk) — thin
• Catalan: esvelt — thin
• Cherokee: ᎤᎴᏐᏓ (ulesoda) — thin
• Chinese Mandarin: 苗條 /苗条 (miáotiáo) — thin
• Crimean Tatar: cuka — thin
• Czech: štíhlý — thin
• Czech: útlý — thin
• Danish: slank — thin
• Dutch: slank — thin
• Esperanto: svelta — thin
• Finnish: hoikka — thin
• French: svelte — thin
• French: mince — thin
• Galician: esbelto — thin
• German: schlank — thin
• Greek: ισχνός (ischnós) — thin
• Greek: ραδινός (radinós) — thin
• Greek: λεπτός (leptós) — thin
• Greek: άπλερος (ápleros) — thin
• Greek: βράδινος (brádinos) — thin
• Ancient Greek: ῥαδινός (rhadinós) — thin
• Hindi: पतला (patlā) — thin
• Hungarian: vékony — thin
• Hungarian: karcsú — thin
• Irish: caol — thin
• Irish: seangchruthach — thin
• Italian: snello — thin
• Japanese: ほっそりした (hossori shita) — thin
• Japanese: 細い (hosoi) — thin
• Japanese: 細長い (hosonagai) — thin
• Korean: 날씬하다 (nalssinhada) — thin
• Latin: tenuis — thin
• Latin: gracilis — thin
• Latvian: slaids — thin
• Macedonian: тенок (tenok) — thin
• Macedonian: виток (vitok) — thin
• Māori: tūpuhi — thin
• Māori: tūpuhipuhi — thin
• Māori: pūhihi — thin
• Māori: pīrahirahi — thin
• Norman: mînchon — thin
• Norwegian Bokmål: slank — thin
• Plautdietsch: schlank — thin
• Plautdietsch: denn — thin
• Polish: szczupły — thin
• Polish: smukły — thin
• Portuguese: esbelto — thin
• Portuguese: magro — thin
• Romanian: subtire — thin
• Russian: то́нкий (tónkij) — thin
• Russian: стро́йный (strójnyj) — thin
• Sanskrit: तनु (tanu) — thin
• Scottish Gaelic: caol — thin
• Scottish Gaelic: seang — thin
• Serbo-Croatian: ви̏так — thin
• Serbo-Croatian: мр̏шав — thin
• Serbo-Croatian: vȉtak — thin
• Serbo-Croatian: mȑšav — thin
• Slovak: štíhly — thin
• Slovak: tenký — thin
• Slovene: vitek — thin
• Spanish: esbelto — thin
• Spanish: slender (slénder) — thin
• Swedish: slank — thin
• Ottoman Turkish: ضعیف (zaʼif) — thin
• Ottoman Turkish: نازك (nâzik) — thin
• Ukrainian: струнки́й (strunkýj) — thin
• Ukrainian: тонки́й (tonkýj) — thin
• Urdu: پتلا (patlā) — thin
• Vietnamese: mảnh khảnh — thin
• Woiwurrung: kalk-kalk-mirrin broong — thin