different between kamas vs scythe

English

Noun

kamas

1. plural of kama

Anagrams

• Kamsa, smaak

Tagalog

Adjective

kamás

1. mashed with the hands

Synonyms

• lamas
• minasa

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic): sithe, sythe
• (Exmoor dial.): zive

Etymology

From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English s?þe, s??þe, si?di (“sickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sigiþaz, *sigiþô, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Germanic cognates include Low German Sicht (“scythe”), Dutch zicht (“sickle”), Icelandic sigð (“sickle”). Related to saw, which see.

The silent c crept in the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).

The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?ð/, (some accents) IPA^(key): /?sa??/
• Rhymes: -a?ð, -a??

Noun

scythe (plural scythes)

1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath. [before 10th century]
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12^[1]:

     And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence

     Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
2. (historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
3. (cartomancy) The tenth Lenormand card.

Translations

Further reading

• Scythe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scythe in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

scythe (third-person singular simple present scythes, present participle scything, simple past and past participle scythed)

1. (intransitive) To use a scythe. [from 1570s]
2. (transitive) To cut with a scythe. [from 1570s]
3. (transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [from 1590s]
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To attack or injure as if cutting.

Derived terms

• scyther

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Tyches, chesty

French

Etymology

See Scythe (“Scythian”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sit/

Adjective

scythe (plural scythes)

1. Scythian