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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: văl'ē
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvæli/
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• văl'ē
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• Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvæli/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈvalɪj/
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• Scotland: /ˈvale/
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• Scotland: /-lɪ/
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• Scotland: /-li/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈvɛli/
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From Middle English valeye, valey, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vallēs/vallis. Doublet of vlei and vly. Displaced native dene, from dene and partially displaced native dale, from dæl.

249 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: vallei — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Afrikaans: dal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Albanian: luginë — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Albanian: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Albanian: lakë — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Southern Altai: ӧзӧн (özön) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Amharic: ሸለቆ (šäläḳo) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Arabic: وَادٍ (wādin) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Arabic: الْوَادِي (al-wādī) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Aragonese: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Aramaic: עומקא (‘ūmqā’) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Aramaic: ܥܘܡܩܐ (‘ūmqā’) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Armenian: հովիտ (hovit) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Aromanian: vale — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Assamese: ভৈয়াম (bhoiam) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Assamese: উপত্যকা (upoittoka) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Asturian: valle — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Azerbaijani: vadi — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Azerbaijani: dərə — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Bashkir: үҙән (üźən) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Basque: ibar — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Basque: haran — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Belarusian: далі́на (dalína) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Bengali: উপত্যকা (upottoka) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Eastern Bontoc: tappo — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Eastern Bontoc: chator — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Bulgarian: доли́на (dolína) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Bulgarian: долчи́нка (dolčínka) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Bulgarian: дол (dol) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Burmese: တောင်ကြား (taungkra:) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Catalan: vall — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Cebuano: walog — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Chechen: атагӏа (atağa) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Cherokee: ᎤᎨᏓᎵᏴ (ugedaliyv) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Chinese Mandarin: 山谷 (shāngǔ) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Chinese Mandarin: 溪谷 (xīgǔ) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Czech: údolí — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Czech: dolina — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Old Czech: debř — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Danish: dal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Dutch: vallei — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Dutch: dal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Esperanto: valo — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Esperanto: malaltaĵo — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Esperanto: malaltejo — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Estonian: org — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Extremaduran: valli — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Faroese: dalur — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Finnish: laakso — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• French: vallée — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• French: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Old French: valee — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• West-Frisian: dal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Friulian: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Galician: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Galician: comba — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Galician: canllada — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Galician: abra — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Galician: vagoada — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Galician: veiga — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Galician: campía — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Georgian: ხეობა (xeoba) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Georgian: ბარი (bari) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• German: Senke — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• German: Tal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌻 (dal) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Greek: κοιλάδα (koiláda) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Ancient Greek: κοιλάς (koilás) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Greenlandic: qooroq — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Gujarati: ખીણ (khīṇ) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Haitian Creole: fon — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Hawaiian: awāwa — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Hebrew: עֵמֶק (émek) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Hebrew: גַּיְא (gay) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Hindi: घाटी (ghāṭī) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Hindi: वादी (vādī) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Hungarian: völgy — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Hunsrik: Daal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Icelandic: dalur — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tuwali Ifugao: dayyukung — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Igbo: ǹdàbùdù — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Ilocano: tanap — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Indonesian: lembah — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Iranun: liak — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Irish: gleann — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Italian: valle — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Italian: vallata — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Japanese: 谷 (tani) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Japanese: 渓谷 (keikoku) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Kaitag: авла́къкъ (avláɢɢ) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Southern Kalinga: kalliwa — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Kannada: ಕಣಿವೆ (kaṇive) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Kashubian: dolëna — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Kazakh: аңғар (añğar) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Kazakh: алқап (alqap) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Khmer: ជ្រលងភ្នំ (crɔɔlɔɔng phnum) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Korean: 골짜기 (goljjagi) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Korean: 골시내 (golsinae) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Korean: 계곡 (gyegok) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Central Kurdish: دۆڵ (doll) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Northern Kurdish: gelî — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Northern Kurdish: newal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Northern Kurdish: nihal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Kyrgyz: өрөөн (öröön) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Lao: ຫຸບເຂົາ (hup khao) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Lao: ຮ່ອມພູ (hǭm phū) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Latin: vallēs — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Latin: vallis — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Latvian: ieleja — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Lithuanian: slėnis — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Lü: ᦣᦸᧄᧈᦠᦽᧉ (hoam1ḣoy2) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Luxembourgish: Dall — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Macedonian: долина (dolina) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Macedonian: дол (dol) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Maguindanao: alug — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Malay: lembah — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Malay: bukau — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Malay: wadi — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Malay: lebak — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Malay: lurah — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Malayalam: താഴ്വര (tāḻvara) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Maltese: wied — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Manchu: ᡥᠣᠯᠣ (holo) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Māori: awaawa — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Māori: nukuao — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Māori: tāwhārua — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Maranao: balintad — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Marathi: दरी (darī) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Central Melanau: kerapa — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Central Melanau: kened — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Middle English: valeye — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Middle English: vale — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Middle English: dene — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Middle English: dale — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Central Sierra Miwok: py·laj- — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Mòcheno: tol — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Mongolian: уулын хөндий (uulyn xöndii) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Mongolian: хөндий (xöndii) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Mongolian: тал (tal) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Navajo: tééh — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Nepali: उपत्यका (upatyakā) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Norman: vallée — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Norwegian Bokmål: dal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Occitan: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Occitan: vau — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Occitan: vath — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Odia: ଉପତ୍ୟକା (upatyakā) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Okinawan: たに (tani) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Church Slavic: долъ (dolŭ) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Church Slavic: ⰴⱁⰾⱏ (dolŭ) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Old English: dene — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Old English: dæl — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Old Norse: dalr — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Old Norse: dokkr — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Oromo: suluula — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Pashto: دره (dara) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Pashto: وادي (wādi) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Pashto: دورينه (durina) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Pennsylvania German: Daal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Pennsylvania German: Waelli — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Iranian Persian: دَرِّه (darre) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Iranian Persian: وادی (vâdi) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Piedmontese: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Piedmontese: valada — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Polish: dolina — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Portuguese: vale — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Portuguese: entremontes — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Punjabi: ਘਾਟੀ (ghāṭī) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Rohingya: zurí — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Romanian: vale — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Romansh: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Russian: доли́на (dolína) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Russian: дол (dol) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Lule-Sami: vágge — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Northern Sami: vággi — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Samoan: vanu — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Sanskrit: उपत्यका (upatyakā) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Sardinian: badde — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Sardinian: vadde — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Sardinian: vadhe — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Sardinian: baddi — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Sardinian: vaddi — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Scottish Gaelic: srath — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Scottish Gaelic: gleann — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Serbo-Croatian: udolina — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Serbo-Croatian: долѝна — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Serbo-Croatian: до̑л — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Serbo-Croatian: до̑ — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Serbo-Croatian: dolìna — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Serbo-Croatian: dȏl — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Serbo-Croatian: dȏ — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Shan: ၵႄႈလွႆ (kāaelǎui) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Sicilian: vaddi — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Sicilian: valli — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Slovak: dolina — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Slovak: údolie — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Slovene: dolína — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Lower Sorbian: dłymocyna — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Upper Sorbian: doł — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Spanish: valle — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Swahili: bonde — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Swedish: dal — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tabasaran: дере (dere) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tagalog: lambak — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tajik: водӣ (vodi) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tajik: дара (dara) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tamil: பள்ளம் (paḷḷam) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tamil: பள்ளத்தாக்கு (paḷḷattākku) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Taos: bòyiʼína — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tashelhit: ⴰⵣⴰⵖⴰⵔ (azaɣar) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tashelhit: azaɣar — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tatar: үзән (üzän) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Telugu: లోయ (lōya) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Telugu: లొంక (loṅka) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Telugu: కోన (kōna) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Thai: หุบ (hùp) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Thai: หุบเขา (hùp-kǎo) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Thai: หุบเหว (hùp-hěeo) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tibetan: རོང (rong) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tibetan: ཐང་གཤོང (thang gshong) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tibetan: ལུང་པ — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tibetan: ཐང་གཤོངས (thang gshongs) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Tongan: tele'a — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Turkish: vadi — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Ottoman Turkish: دره (dere) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Turkmen: dere — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Turkmen: jülge — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎎𐎖 (ʿmq) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Ukrainian: доли́на (dolýna) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Urdu: وادی (vādī) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Uyghur: ۋادى (wadi) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Uyghur: جىلغا (jilgha) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Uzbek: vodiy — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Venetan: vàle — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Venetan: val — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Venetan: vałe — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Vietnamese: thung lũng — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Walloon: vå — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Walloon: valêye — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Welsh: cwm — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Welsh: dyffryn — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Woiwurrung: doon-ngorrm — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Yakut: хочо (qočo) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Yámana: luči — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Yiddish: טאָל (tol) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Zazaki: terha — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Zazaki: dere (diq) — elongated depression between hills or mountains
• Zhuang: lueg — elongated depression between hills or mountains