sailing

sailing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).

Verb

sailing

1. present participle of sail

Adjective

sailing (not comparable)

1. Travelling by ship.

Derived terms

• sailing boat
• sailing ship
• sailing dinghy
• sailing vessel

Translations

travelling by ship

Bulgarian: ветроходен (vetrohoden) Esperanto: veladi, navigi (eo), lofi, ŝipiri Finnish: purjehtiva (fi), purjehdus- German: segeln (de) Hebrew: שַׁיִט‎ (he) m (shayit) Norwegian: seilende Polish: żeglować (pl) Swedish: seglande (sv)

Etymology 2

From Middle English sailyng, seyling, from Old English seġling, seġlung (“sailing”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglingu, *seglungu, from Proto-Germanic *siglingō (“sailing”); equivalent to sail +‎ -ing. Cognate with Middle Low German sēgelinge (“sailing”), Swedish segling (“sailing”), Icelandic sigling (“sailing”).

Noun

sailing (countable and uncountable, plural sailings)

1. Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
2. Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
3. the time of departure from a port
4. (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.

Derived terms

• clear sailing
• plain sailing

Translations

motion across water

Arabic: إِبْحَار‎ m (ʾibḥār) Bulgarian: ветроходство (bg) n (vetrohodstvo) Catalan: navegació a vela f Chinese: Mandarin: 航行 (zh) (hángxíng) Czech: plachtění n Dutch: zeilen (nl) n Esperanto: velado, lofado, navigado, ŝipiro Finnish: purjehtiminen (fi) French: navigation la voile f, navigation à voile f Galician: vela (gl) f German: Segeln (de) n Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (el) f (istioploḯa) Hebrew: שֵׁיט מִפְרָשִׂים‎ (he) m (sheit mifrasim) Hungarian: vitorlázás (hu) Italian: navigazione (it) f Japanese: 帆走 (ja) (はんそう, hansō) Korean: 항해 (ko) (hanghae) Latin: velificatio f Norwegian: Bokmål: seilas (no) n, seiltur m, seiling m or f Occitan: navegacion a vela f Polish: (act) żeglowanie (pl) n, (sport) żeglarstwo (pl) n Portuguese: navegação (pt) f, vela (pt) f Russian: па́русный спорт (ru) m (párusnyj sport) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: једрење n Roman: jedrenje (sh) n Spanish: navegación (es) f, navegación a vela (es) f Swedish: segling (sv) c

skill to operate a vessel

Bulgarian: ветроходство (bg) n (vetrohodstvo) Finnish: navigointi (fi) Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (el) f (istioploḯa) Spanish: náutica (es) f

time of departure

Bulgarian: отплаване n (otplavane) Finnish: lähtöaika (fi)

scheduled voyage

Finnish: purjehdus (fi) Norwegian: Bokmål: seiling m or f

References

• “sailing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Gilanis, ailings, aisling, nilgais