swallow

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈswɒl.əʊ/
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• Northumbria: /ˈswɒl.ə/
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• General-American, dialectal: /ˈswɑ.loʊ/ of Canada
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• General-American, dialectal: [ˈswɑ.loʊ̯] of Canada
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• /ˈswɑlə/ colloquial, folk speech, nonstandard
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• rhymes with -ɒləʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: S W AA1 L OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, from the noun swallow (sense 2). * Also as an English surname, from Swallow in Lincolnshire, named after its river. The placename itself could be related to the verb swell, or related to the name of the river Swale.

From Middle English swolwen, from Old English swelgan, from Proto-West Germanic *swelgan, from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Danish svælge (“to swallow”), Norwegian Bokmål svelge (“to swallow”), Norwegian Nynorsk svelgje (“to swallow”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Faroese svølgja (“to swallow”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill. The noun is from Middle English swolow, swolwe, from Old English swelh, swelg (“gulf, chasm”) and ġeswelge (“gulf, chasm, abyss, whirlpool”), both from Proto-West Germanic *swelg, *swalgi, from Proto-Germanic *swelgaz, *swalgiz. Cognate with Old English swiliġe (“pit”), Scots swelch, swellie, swallie (“an abyss in the sea, whirpool”), Middle Low German swelch (“whirlpool, eddy”), Dutch zwelg (“gorge, chasm, gullet, throat”), Old Norse svelgr (“whirlpool, current, stream”).

From Middle English swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, from Old English swealwe, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā, from Proto-Germanic *swalwǭ. Cognate with Norwegian and Danish svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.

570 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Hungarian: szakadék — a chasm or abyss
• Northern Kurdish: çal — a chasm or abyss
• Northern Kurdish: kend — a chasm or abyss
• Middle English: swolow — a chasm or abyss
• Norwegian Bokmål: avgrunn — a chasm or abyss
• Norwegian Bokmål: svelg — a chasm or abyss
• Norwegian Nynorsk: avgrunn — a chasm or abyss
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svelg — a chasm or abyss
• Scots: swallie — a chasm or abyss
• Swahili: meza — a chasm or abyss
• Swedish: svalg — a chasm or abyss
• Afrikaans: sluk — amount swallowed
• Arabic: جَرْعَة (jarʕa) — amount swallowed
• Arabic: شَرْبَة (šarba) — amount swallowed
• Arabic: قَمْحَة (qamḥa) — amount swallowed
• Bulgarian: глътка (glǎtka) — amount swallowed
• Catalan: engoliment — amount swallowed
• Chinese Mandarin: 口 (kǒu) — amount swallowed
• Czech: hlt — amount swallowed
• Czech: lok — amount swallowed
• Dutch: slok — amount swallowed
• Finnish: nielaus — amount swallowed
• Finnish: kulaus — amount swallowed
• French: gorgée — amount swallowed
• French: avalée — amount swallowed
• German: Schluck — amount swallowed
• Greek: μπουκιά (boukiá) — amount swallowed
• Hungarian: korty — amount swallowed
• Hungarian: falat — amount swallowed
• Hungarian: nyelés — amount swallowed
• Kazakh: жұтым (jūtym) — amount swallowed
• Northern Kurdish: qurt — amount swallowed
• Northern Kurdish: qurç — amount swallowed
• Northern Kurdish: nîç — amount swallowed
• Macedonian: го́лтка (góltka) — amount swallowed
• Norwegian Bokmål: svelg — amount swallowed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svelg — amount swallowed
• Polish: łyk — amount swallowed
• Portuguese: gole — amount swallowed
• Portuguese: engolida — amount swallowed
• Russian: глото́к (glotók) — amount swallowed
• Scots: swallie — amount swallowed
• Serbo-Croatian: гу̏тља̄ј — amount swallowed
• Serbo-Croatian: gȕtljāj — amount swallowed
• Swahili: meza — amount swallowed
• Swedish: sväljning — amount swallowed
• Turkish: yudum — amount swallowed
• Hausa: tuwō — carbohydrate-based dish
• Igbo: ilo ihe — carbohydrate-based dish
• Nupe: ejè bòci — carbohydrate-based dish
• Yoruba: oúnjẹ olókèlè — carbohydrate-based dish
• Yoruba: oúnjẹ òkèlè — carbohydrate-based dish
• Yoruba: òkèlè — carbohydrate-based dish
• Afrikaans: swavel — bird
• Afrikaans: swaeltjie — bird
• Albanian: dallëndyshe — bird
• Algonquin: tinogkukquas — bird
• Western Apache: piishi — bird
• Arabic: سُنُونُو (sunūnū) — bird
• Arabic: سنونو (sununu) — bird
• Arabic: عصفور الجنة (ʕaṣfour eg-gana) — bird
• Arabic: بو خْطيفة (bu ḫṭifa) — bird
• Aramaic: ܣܢܘܢܝܬܐ — bird
• Aramaic: ܩܨܘܡܬܐ — bird
• Armenian: ծիծեռնակ (ciceṙnak) — bird
• Old Armenian: ծիծեռն (ciceṙn) — bird
• Old Armenian: ծիծառն (cicaṙn) — bird
• Aromanian: alãndurã — bird
• Aromanian: lãndurã — bird
• Aromanian: rãndurã — bird
• Asturian: andarina — bird
• Asturian: golondra — bird
• Azerbaijani: qaranquş — bird
• Bashkir: ҡарлуғас (qarluğas) — bird
• Basque: enara — bird
• Belarusian: ла́стаўка (lástawka) — bird
• Bengali: আবাবিল (ababil) — bird
• Breton: gwennili — bird
• Breton: gwennel — bird
• Bulgarian: ля́стовица (ljástovica) — bird
• Buryat: хараасгай (xaraasgaj) — bird
• Catalan: oreneta — bird
• Chamicuro: cholo — bird
• Chechen: чӏегӏардиг (čʼeğardig) — bird
• Chinese Mandarin: 燕子 (yànzi) — bird
• Chuvash: чӗкеҫ (čĕk̬eś) — bird
• Cornish: gwennel — bird
• Crimean Tatar: qarılğaç — bird
• Czech: vlaštovka — bird
• Dalmatian: rondaina — bird
• Danish: svale — bird
• Danish: landsvale — bird
• Dutch: zwaluw — bird
• Esperanto: hirundo — bird
• Estonian: pääsuke — bird
• Estonian: pääsulind — bird
• Faroese: svala — bird
• Finnish: pääsky — bird
• French: hirondelle — bird
• West-Frisian: swel — bird
• West-Frisian: boereswel — bird
• Friulian: cisile — bird
• Friulian: sisile — bird
• Galician: andoriña — bird
• Galician: anduriña — bird
• Georgian: მერცხალი (mercxali) — bird
• German: Schwalbe — bird
• Greek: χελιδόνι (chelidóni) — bird
• Ancient Greek: χελιδών (khelidṓn) — bird
• Pontic Greek: χ̌ελιδόνιν (šelidónin) — bird
• Hebrew: סנונית (snunit) — bird
• Hindi: अबाबील (abābīl) — bird
• Hungarian: fecske — bird
• Hunsrik: Schwalleb — bird
• Icelandic: svala — bird
• Icelandic: landsvala — bird
• Ido: hirundo — bird
• Ingrian: pääskö — bird
• Ingrian: pääskölintu — bird
• Ingrian: pääsky — bird
• Ingrian: pääskylintu — bird
• Ingush: чӏагарг (čʼagarg) — bird
• Interlingua: hirundine — bird
• Irish: fáinleog — bird
• Italian: rondine — bird
• Japanese: 燕 (tsubame) — bird
• Japanese: ツバメ (tsubame) — bird
• Kalmyk: харада (xarada) — bird
• Kannada: ಕವಲುತೋಕೆ ಹಕ್ಕಿ (kavalutōke hakki) — bird
• Karelian: piäčkyni — bird
• Kazakh: қарлығаш (qarlyğaş) — bird
• Komi-Zyrian: чикыш (ćikyš) — bird
• Korean: 제비 (jebi) — bird
• Central Kurdish: پەڕەسێلکە (perresêlke) — bird
• Northern Kurdish: hacîreşk — bird
• Northern Kurdish: dûmeqesk — bird
• Northern Kurdish: hechecik — bird
• Kyrgyz: карлыгач (karlıgac) — bird
• Ladin: rondola — bird
• Latgalian: bezdeleiga — bird
• Latgalian: arleiga — bird
• Latin: hirundō — bird
• Latvian: bezdelīga — bird
• Lithuanian: kregždė — bird
• Lombard: runden — bird
• Low German: Swaalk — bird
• Low German: Swöölk — bird
• Low German: Swalf — bird
• Luxembourgish: Schmuebel — bird
• Luxembourgish: Schmuewel — bird
• Luxembourgish: Schmuelef — bird
• Macedonian: ласто́вица (lastóvica) — bird
• Macedonian: ласто́вичка (lastóvička) — bird
• Maltese: ħuttafa — bird
• Manchu: ᠴᡳᠪᡳᠨ (cibin) — bird
• Manx: gollan geayee — bird
• Māori: warou — bird
• Eastern Mari: вараксим (varaksim) — bird
• Eastern Mari: варсеҥге (varseŋge) — bird
• Eastern Mari: нургӱльӧ (nurgüĺö) — bird
• Western Mari: цӹгӓк (cÿgäk) — bird
• Middle English: swalwe — bird
• Mongolian: хараацай (xaraacaj) — bird
• Nahuatl: cuicuitzcatl — bird
• Navajo: táshchozhii — bird
• Nganasan: хурбе (hurbe) — bird
• Nogai: карлыгаш (karlıgaş) — bird
• Norman: héthonde — bird
• Norwegian Bokmål: svale — bird
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svale — bird
• Occitan: ironda — bird
• Occitan: randoleta — bird
• Ojibwe: zhaashaawanibiisi — bird
• Old English: swealwe — bird
• Persian: پرستو (parastu) — bird
• Persian: چلچله (čelčele) — bird
• Persian: ابابیل (abâbil) — bird
• Polish: jaskółka — bird
• Polish: dymówka — bird
• Portuguese: andorinha — bird
• Romani: pitsagoy — bird
• Romani: rindilashka — bird
• Romanian: rândunică — bird
• Romanian: lăstun — bird
• Romanian: rândunea — bird
• Romansh: randulina — bird
• Romansh: hirondella — bird
• Romansh: irundeala — bird
• Russian: ла́сточка (lástočka) — bird
• Sami: spálfu — bird
• Sami: suorrespálfu — bird
• Sami: láhtospálfu — bird
• Kildin-Sami: пя̄цкрэнч (peackrenč) — bird
• Sardinian: mongixedda — bird
• Sardinian: arrùndine — bird
• Sardinian: arrùndini — bird
• Scots: swalla — bird
• Scottish Gaelic: gòbhlan-gaoithe — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: ла̏ставица — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: ла́ста — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: lȁstavica — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: lásta — bird
• Shor: қарлығаш (qarlığaş) — bird
• Sicilian: rìndina — bird
• Sicilian: rìnnina — bird
• Slovak: lastovička — bird
• Slovene: lastovka — bird
• Slovene: lastovica — bird
• Lower Sorbian: jaskolicka — bird
• Upper Sorbian: łastojčka — bird
• Spanish: golondrina — bird
• Swahili: mbayuwayu — bird
• Swedish: svala — bird
• Swedish: ladusvala — bird
• Tagalog: layanglayang — bird
• Tajik: фароштурук (farošturuk) — bird
• Tamil: தகைவிலான்கள் (takaivilāṉkaḷ) — bird
• Tashelhit: ⵉⴼⵍⵉⵍⵍⵉⵙ (iflillis) — bird
• Tatar: карлыгач (qarlığaç) — bird
• Thai: นางแอ่น — bird
• Thai: อีแอ่น — bird
• Turkish: kırlangıç — bird
• Ottoman Turkish: قیرلانغیج — bird
• Turkmen: garlawaç — bird
• Udmurt: ваёбыж (vajobyž) — bird
• Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎐𐎐𐎚 (snnt) — bird
• Ukrainian: ла́стівка (lástivka) — bird
• Urdu: ابابیل (abābīl) — bird
• Uyghur: قارلىغاچ (qarlighach) — bird
• Uzbek: qaldirg'och — bird
• Venetan: sìxiła — bird
• Vietnamese: nhạn — bird
• Vietnamese: én — bird
• Vilamovian: śwojmła — bird
• Walloon: oronde — bird
• Walloon: aronde — bird
• Welsh: gwennol — bird
• Yámana: lásix — bird
• Yucatec Maya: kosom — bird
• Afrikaans: sluk — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Akan: men — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Aklanon: tueon — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Albanian: kapërdij — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Albanian: gëlltit — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Albanian: gëlltis — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Arabic: جَرَعَ (jaraʕa) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Arabic: بَلَعَ (balaʕa) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Arabic: سَرَطَ (saraṭa) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Arabic: اِزْدَرَدَ (izdarada) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Arabic: بلع (bilaʕ) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Arabic: سرط (sraṭ) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Arabic: بلع (blaʕ) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Armenian: կուլ տալ (kul tal) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Aromanian: ngljit — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Aromanian: ãngljit — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Aromanian: bucusescu — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Aromanian: dispishescu — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Assamese: গিলা (gila) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Asturian: tragar — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Azerbaijani: udmaq — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Bangi: mina — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Bashkir: йотоу (yotow) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Basque: irentsi — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Basque: irents — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Belarusian: каўта́ць (kawtácʹ) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Belarusian: глыта́ць (hlytácʹ) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Bengali: গেলা (gela) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Central Bikol: halon — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Bislama: solem — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Breton: lonka — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Bulgarian: гъ́лтам (gǎ́ltam) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Burmese: မျို (myui) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Catalan: engolir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Catalan: enviar — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Catalan: empassar — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Cebuano: tulon — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Cherokee: ᎠᎩᏍᎦ (agisga) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Chickasaw: nannabli — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Chinese Cantonese: 吞 (tan1) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Chinese Cantonese: 吞落肚 (tan1 lok6 tou5) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Chinese Mandarin: 吞 (tūn) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Chinese Mandarin: 咽 (yàn) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Chinese Mandarin: 吞嚥 /吞咽 (tūnyàn) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Ngazidja Comorian: umiza — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Coptic: ⲱⲙⲕ (ōmk) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Crimean Tatar: yutmaq — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Czech: polykat — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Czech: polknout — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Czech: spolknout — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Danish: sluge — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Danish: synke — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Dutch: slikken — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Dutch: doorslikken — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Egyptian: a-m-F10-A2 (ꜥm) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Esperanto: gluti — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Estonian: neelama — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Even: нимӈэ- (ņimŋə-) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Evenki: нимңэ- — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Finnish: niellä — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Finnish: nielaista — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• French: avaler — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Friulian: gloti — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Fwâi: thevhî — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Galician: tragar — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Georgian: ყლაპავს (q̇laṗavs) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Georgian: ყლაპვა (q̇laṗva) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• German: schlucken — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• German: schlucke — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Greek: καταπίνω (katapíno) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Ancient Greek: καταπίνω (katapínō) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Haitian Creole: vale — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Hebrew: בָּלַע (balá) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Hindi: निगलना (nigalnā) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• White Hmong: nqos — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Hungarian: nyel — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Hungarian: lenyel bekap — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Icelandic: kyngja — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Icelandic: gleypa — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Ido: glutar — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Indonesian: menelan — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Indonesian: menenggak — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Ingrian: lainata — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Ingrian: liukata — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Ingrian: luikata — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Interlingua: glutir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Interlingua: inglutir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Interlingua: deglutir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Interlingua: ingurgitar — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Irish: slog — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Italian: inghiottire — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Italian: ingerire — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Italian: mandare giù — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Italian: ingoiare — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Japanese: 嚥下する (enge suru) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Japanese: 飲み込む (nomikomu) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Javanese: ulu — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Javanese: leg — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Jawe: cevi — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Kapampangan: akmul — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Kazakh: жұту (jūtu) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Khmer: លេប (leip) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Kituba: mina — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Kongo: kumina — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Kongo: mina — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Korean: 삼키다 (samkida) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Central Kurdish: لووشین (lûşîn) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Northern Kurdish: daqurtandin — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Northern Kurdish: daûrandin — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Northern Kurdish: dabilandin — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Kyrgyz: жутуу (jutuu) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Lao: ກືນ (kư̄n) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Latgalian: reit — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Latin: glūtiō — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Latin: gluttiō — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Latin: haurio — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Latvian: rīt — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Lingala: mele — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Lingala: mina — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Lithuanian: ryti — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Macedonian: го́лта (gólta) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Macedonian: про́голта (prógolta) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Malagasy: mitroka — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Malay: telan — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Malay: menelan — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Maltese: bela’ — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Maltese: bala’ — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Mansaka: lamon — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Middle English: swolwen — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Minangkabau: lapah — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Mongolian: залгих (zalgix) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Muong: đóch — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Nanai: лунгбэ- (luŋbe-) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Nemi: temi — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Nemi: tepmi — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Nepali: निल्नु (nilnu) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Norwegian Bokmål: svelge — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svelgje — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Occitan: engolir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Old East Slavic: глътати (glŭtati) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Oromo: liqimsuu — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Persian: بلعیدن (bal'idan) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Persian: اوباردن (obârdan) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Persian: فرو بردن (foru bordan) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Pije: tephî — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Polish: połykać — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Polish: połknąć — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Portuguese: engolir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Portuguese: deglutir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Quechua: millp'uy — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Romanian: înghiți — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Russian: глота́ть (glotátʹ) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Russian: проглоти́ть (proglotítʹ) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Russian: глотну́ть (glotnútʹ) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Sanskrit: गिरति (girati) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Scots: swallie — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Scottish Gaelic: sluig — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Serbo-Croatian: гу̀тати — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Serbo-Croatian: прогу̀тати — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Serbo-Croatian: gùtati — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Serbo-Croatian: progùtati — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Sicilian: gnùttiri — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Sicilian: manciari — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Sicilian: nguḍḍari — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Slovak: hltať — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Slovene: goltati — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Slovene: pogoltniti — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Slovene: požirati — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Slovene: požreti — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Somali: liqid — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Spanish: tragar — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Spanish: engullir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Spanish: deglutir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Spanish: ingurgitar — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Spanish: gandir — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Sranan Tongo: swari — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Swahili: kumeza — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Swedish: svälja — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tagalog: lunok — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tagalog: lumod — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tajik: фурӯ бурдан (furü burdan) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tamil: விழுங்கு (viḻuṅku) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tamil: முழுங்கு (muḻuṅku) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tatar: йоту (yotu) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Telugu: మింగు (miṅgu) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tetum: tolan — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Thai: กลืน (glʉʉn) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tibetan: མིད་ཁྱུར (mid khyur) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Tocharian B: nuk- — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Turkish: yutmak — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Turkmen: ýuwutmak — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Ukrainian: ковта́ти (kovtáty) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Ukrainian: глита́ти (hlytáty) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Urdu: نگلنا (nigalnā) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Uyghur: يۇتماق (yutmaq) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Uzbek: yutmoq — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Uzbek: yutinmoq — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Vietnamese: nuốt — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Vili: mina — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Walloon: avaler — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Walloon: houmer — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Welsh: llyncu — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Yiddish: שלינגען (shlingen) — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Zazaki: ro'qulotnaene — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Zhuang: ndwnj — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Zhuang: gyan — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Zhuang: nwnj — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Zhuang: nwnx — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Zhuang: canluem — to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
• Albanian: përpij — to take in, to consume
• Central Bikol: halon — to take in, to consume
• Bulgarian: поглъщам (poglǎštam) — to take in, to consume
• Catalan: empassar — to take in, to consume
• Chickasaw: nannabli — to take in, to consume
• Czech: spolknout — to take in, to consume
• Esperanto: gluti — to take in, to consume
• Esperanto: engluti — to take in, to consume
• Finnish: niellä — to take in, to consume
• French: avaler — to take in, to consume
• German: verschlucken — to take in, to consume
• Hungarian: elnyel — to take in, to consume
• Hungarian: bekebelez — to take in, to consume
• Hungarian: bekap — to take in, to consume
• Old Irish: sluicid — to take in, to consume
• Italian: consumare — to take in, to consume
• Italian: assorbire — to take in, to consume
• Japanese: 嚥下する (enge suru) — to take in, to consume
• Northern Kurdish: daqurtandin — to take in, to consume
• Northern Kurdish: daûrandin — to take in, to consume
• Northern Kurdish: dabilandin — to take in, to consume
• Macedonian: про́голта (prógolta) — to take in, to consume
• Macedonian: го́лта (gólta) — to take in, to consume
• Māori: horopū — to take in, to consume
• Middle English: swolwen — to take in, to consume
• Norwegian Bokmål: sluke — to take in, to consume
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sluke — to take in, to consume
• Old Norse: gleypa — to take in, to consume
• Portuguese: engolir — to take in, to consume
• Scottish Gaelic: sluig — to take in, to consume
• Serbo-Croatian: гу̀тати — to take in, to consume
• Serbo-Croatian: прогу̀тати — to take in, to consume
• Serbo-Croatian: gùtati — to take in, to consume
• Serbo-Croatian: progùtati — to take in, to consume
• Sicilian: nguḍḍari — to take in, to consume
• Spanish: tragar — to take in, to consume
• Swahili: meza — to take in, to consume
• Swedish: sluka — to take in, to consume
• Telugu: తిను (tinu) — to take in, to consume
• Turkish: almak — to take in, to consume
• Turkish: tüketmek — to take in, to consume
• Zazaki: groten — to take in, to consume
• Central Bikol: halon — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Bulgarian: поглъщам (poglǎštam) — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Catalan: deglutir — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Chickasaw: nannabli — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Czech: polykat — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Finnish: nielaista — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• French: avaler — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• French: déglutir — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Greek: καταπίνω (katapíno) — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Hungarian: nyel — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Italian: deglutire — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Italian: inghiottire — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Northern Kurdish: daqurtandin — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Northern Kurdish: daûrandin — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Northern Kurdish: dabilandin — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Macedonian: прого́лтува (progóltuva) — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Middle English: swolwen — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Norwegian Bokmål: svelge — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svelgje — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Occitan: deglutir — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Portuguese: engolir — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Portuguese: deglutir — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Scots: swallie — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Scottish Gaelic: sluig — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Serbo-Croatian: гу̀тати — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Serbo-Croatian: прогу̀тати — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Serbo-Croatian: gùtati — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Serbo-Croatian: progùtati — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Sicilian: gnùttiri — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Spanish: deglutir — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Swahili: meza — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Swedish: svälja — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Turkish: yutkunmak — to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus
• Chinese Mandarin: 相信 (xiāngxìn) — to believe or accept
• Czech: spolknout — to believe or accept
• Dutch: slikken — to believe or accept
• Finnish: niellä — to believe or accept
• French: avaler — to believe or accept
• French: digérer — to believe or accept
• German: schlucken — to believe or accept
• German: akzeptieren — to believe or accept
• Greek: καταπίνω (katapíno) — to believe or accept
• Hungarian: elhisz — to believe or accept
• Hungarian: elfogad — to believe or accept
• Italian: accettare — to believe or accept
• Italian: crederci — to believe or accept
• Italian: mandare giù — to believe or accept
• Italian: bersi or bersela — to believe or accept
• Northern Kurdish: pejirandin — to believe or accept
• Northern Kurdish: daqurtandin — to believe or accept
• Northern Kurdish: daûrandin — to believe or accept
• Northern Kurdish: dabilandin — to believe or accept
• Norwegian Bokmål: sluke — to believe or accept
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sluke — to believe or accept
• Portuguese: engolir — to believe or accept
• Sicilian: mmuccari — to believe or accept
• Sicilian: nguḍḍari — to believe or accept
• Spanish: comérselo — to believe or accept
• Spanish: tragar — to believe or accept
• Swahili: meza — to believe or accept
• Swedish: svälja — to believe or accept
• Turkish: inanmak — to believe or accept
• Turkish: kabul etmek — to believe or accept
• Turkish: kabullenmek — to believe or accept
• Turkish: yutmak — to believe or accept
• Walloon: avaler — to believe or accept
• Bulgarian: преглъщам (preglǎštam) — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• Chinese Mandarin: 容忍 (róngrěn) — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• German: schlucken — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• German: abfinden mit — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• German: hinnehmem — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• German: ertragen — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• German: aushalten — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• Hungarian: lenyel — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• Hungarian: elfogad — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• Hungarian: belenyugszik — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• Hungarian: beletörődik — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• Macedonian: про́голта (prógolta) — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• Spanish: tragar — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
• Swedish: svälja — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation