Sound

Sound

See also: sound

English

Etymology

From the common noun sound (“strait, inlet”).

Proper noun

The Sound

1. The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.
2. Synonym of Plymouth Sound, Devon, England.

Translations

strait that separates Zealand from Scania

Afrikaans: Die Sont Albanian: Øresund Arabic: مَضِيق أَوْرِيْسُنْد‎ m (maḍīq ʾawriysund), أَوْرِيْسُنْد‎ m (ʾawriysund) Armenian: Էրեսուն (hy) (Ēresun), Զունդ (hy) (Zund) Azerbaijani: Öresund Basque: Øresund Belarusian: Э́рэсун m (Éresun) Bulgarian: Йо́ресун m (Jóresun) Catalan: Øresund m Chinese: Mandarin: 厄勒海峽／厄勒海峡 (èlè hǎixiá) Czech: Öresund m Danish: Øresund n Dutch: De Sont Estonian: Sund Faroese: Oyrarsund n Finnish: Juutinrauma (fi) French: Øresund m, Sund (fr) m Galician: Öresund m Georgian: ერესუნის სრუტე (eresunis sruṭe), ერესუნი (eresuni) German: Öresund m, Sund (de) m Greek: Έρεσουντ m (Éresount) Hebrew: אֶרֵסוּנְד‎ m (eresund) Hungarian: Øresund Icelandic: Eyrarsund n Indonesian: Øresund Italian: Øresund m Japanese: エーレスンド海峡 (Ēresundo-kaikyō) Korean: 외레순 해협 (oeresun haehyeop) Latvian: Ēresunds m Lithuanian: Eresundas m Macedonian: Ересунд m (Eresund) Malay: Øresund Norwegian: Bokmål: Øresund n Nynorsk: Øresund n Old Norse: Eyrasund n, Eyrarsund n Persian: تنگه اورسوند‎ (tange-ye âoresond) Polish: Sund (pl) m Portuguese: Öresund m Romanian: Øresund n Russian: Э́ресунн (ru) m (Éresunn) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ересунд m Roman: Øresund m Slovak: Öresund m Slovene: Øresund m Spanish: estrecho de Øresund m, Sund m Swedish: Öresund (sv) n Thai: เออเรซุนด์ (əə-ree-sund) Turkish: Øresund Ukrainian: Éресунн m (Éresunn) Vietnamese: eo biển Oresund Welsh: Øresund m West Frisian: De Sont

Anagrams

• nodus, udons, undos

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German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sound.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʊ̯nt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Sound m (strong, genitive Sounds, plural Sounds)

1. (music) sound
   • 2021 November 23, Robert Mießner, “US-Freejazz-Trio spielt im Berliner KUZU: Tricks und Kicks mit Lärm”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, ISSN 0931-9085:

     Der Trick und der Kick dieser 25 Minuten war, wie sich unmerklich der Sound dann doch wieder in Richtung schönster und heftigster Noise bewegte.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Declension

Declension of Sound [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Sound	die	Sounds
genitive	eines	des	Sounds	der	Sounds
dative	einem	dem	Sound	den	Sounds
accusative	einen	den	Sound	die	Sounds

Further reading

• “Sound” in Duden online
• “Sound” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sand, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz.

Noun

Sound m

1. sand