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beach
English
Etymology
From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English bæ?e, be?e (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?og- (“flowing water”).
Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /bit??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bi?t??/
- Rhymes: -i?t?
- Homophone: beech
Noun
beach (plural beaches)
- The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
- (Britain dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
- (motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap
Synonyms
- (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): sand, strand, backshore
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???
- ? Zulu: ibhishi
Translations
Verb
beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)
- (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]
- When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]
- (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]
- It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.
- 1974, Homer, Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53,
- Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis
- and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]
- (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
Synonyms
- strand
Derived terms
- unbeached
Translations
Anagrams
- Bache, bache
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English beach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit?/
Noun
beach m (plural beachs)
- (Congo) port where goods and passengers embark and debark
- 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:
- C’est ainsi qu’elles ont décidé d’embarquer leurs marchandises dans des pirogues motorisés qui desservent les beachs privés entre les deux rives du fleuve Congo.
- 2007, Jean-Alexis M'Foutou, La langue française au Congo-Brazzaville:
- Le Beach de Brazzaville hier réputé lieu de violence, de viols et de braquages, présent aujourd’hui des conditions de sécurité plutôt rassurantes.
- 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh beg-egyr, byg-egyr (“drone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ik-, *b?oyk- (compare Czech v?ela, Latin f?cus), enlargement of *b?ey- (compare Welsh by-daf (“beehive”), English bee).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ax/
Noun
beach f (genitive singular beiche, nominative plural beacha)
- bee (insect)
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- "beach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ik-, *b?oik-, enlargement of *b??-, *b?ei-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?x/
Noun
beach m (genitive singular beacha, plural beachan)
- bee
- beehive
- wasp
Synonyms
- seillean (“bee”)
Derived terms
Mutation
References
- “beach” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “beach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page 31
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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beachside
English
Etymology
From beach +? side
Adjective
beachside (not comparable)
- (rare) Bordering a beach
- beachside property
Translations
Noun
beachside (countable and uncountable, plural beachsides)
- The land bordering a beach.
Coordinate terms
- lakeside
- waterside
Translations
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