different between snake vs naja

English

Etymology

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-Germanic *snakô (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”)), derived from *snakan? (“to crawl”) (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *sneg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”). Cognate with Sanskrit ??? (n?gá, “snake”)). Doublet of n?ga.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?k, IPA^(key): /?sne?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

snake (plural snakes)

1. A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

   Synonyms: joe blake, serpent
2. A treacherous person.
3. (Ireland) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
4. A tool for unclogging plumbing.

   Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake

5. A tool to aid cable pulling.

   Synonym: wirepuller

6. (Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
7. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

   Synonym: trouser snake

8. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
9. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: sneki

Translations

Verb

snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)

1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

   Synonyms: slither, wind

2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

5. (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

Translations

See also

• anguine

Further reading

• snake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kasen, Keans, akens, asken, kaens, kenas, nakes, skean, sneak

Middle English

Alternative forms

• snak, snaca

Etymology

From Old English snaca, from Proto-Germanic *snakô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sna?k(?)/

Noun

snake (plural snakes or snaken or snake)

1. snake
2. serpent

Descendants

• English: snake
  • Sranan Tongo: sneki
• Scots: snak, snake, snaik

References

• “sn?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (n?ga), from Proto-Indo-European *sneg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”).

Noun

naja (plural najas)

1. A member of the Naja genus of venomous snakes; cobras

See also

• Naja on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Naja on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Naja on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Jana

French

Noun

naja m (plural najas)

1. cobra (venomous snake)

Further reading

• “naja” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Alternative forms

• na ja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na(?)?ja(?)/

Interjection

naja

1. well
2. uh-huh, if you say so (expresses disagreement with what was said but an unwillingness to argue about it)

Greenlandic

Noun

naja (plural najat)

1. Alternative form of najak

Italian

Noun

naja f (uncountable)

1. (slang) compulsory military service; draft, conscription

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *n?h. Compare Classical Nahuatl nehhu?tl (“I”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?naha/

Pronoun

naja

1. (personal) I, first person singular pronoun.

See also

• ni- (subject marker)
• nech- (object marker)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (n?gá, “serpent, snake”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?na.?a/

Noun

naja f (plural najas)

1. A member of the Naja genus of venomous snakes; cobra

   Synonyms: cobra-de-capelo, cobra-capelo

Spanish

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (n?gá, “serpent, snake”).

Noun

naja f (plural najas)

1. a member of the Naja genus of venomous snakes; cobra

   Synonym: cobra

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian naja

Noun

naja f (invariable)

1. conscription, military service