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sandbank

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See also: Sandbank

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Shoal

Etymology

From sand +‎ bank . Compare Dutch zandbank ("sandbank, shoal"), German Sandbank ("sandbank, sandbar, shoal"), Swedish sandbank ("sandbank, bar").

Pronunciation

(without /æ/ raising ) IPA ^(key): /ˈsændˌbæŋk/
- Audio (Southern England ): (file)
  - (/æ/ raising ) IPA ^(key): /ˈseə̯ndˌbeɪ̯ŋk/
Hyphenation: sand‧bank

Noun

sandbank (plural sandbanks )

A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
Synonyms: sandbar , sandridge

Hypernyms: bar , shoal

Translations

ridge of sand — see also shoal

Albanian: ranishtë (sq) f
Breton: traezhenn (br) f
Bulgarian: пясъчна плитчина f (pjasăčna plitčina)
Catalan: banc de sorra m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沙洲 (zh) (shāzhōu)
Czech: písčina f
Danish: sandbanke (da) c
Dutch: zandbank (nl)
French: banc de sable (fr)
Galician: barra (gl) f, banco de area m, restinga (gl) f, taro m
German: Sandbank (de) f
Greek:
Ancient Greek: θίς m (thís)
Ido: sablostrato (io)
Igbo: ubòm
Irish: oitir f
Japanese: 砂州 (ja) (さす, sasu)
Kimbundu: senga
Korean: 사주(砂洲) (ko) (saju)
Latin: syrtis f, pulvīnus m
Māori: tāhuna , ranga , tāhuna onepū
Norman: banc d'sablion m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sandbanke m

Nynorsk: sandbanke m
Old English: sandhryċġ m
Polish: ławica piaskowa f, mielizna (pl) f
Portuguese: banco de areia (pt) m
Punjabi: ਬਰੇਤਾ m (baretā)
Russian: ба́нка (ru) f (bánka), о́тмель (ru) f (ótmelʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: oitir f
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: prud (sh) , prudište
Spanish: banco de arena m, banco arenoso / arenáceo / arenisco m
Swedish: sandbank (sv) c
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: قومسال (kumsal)
Welsh: traethell f, banc tywod m

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

sandbank

Etymology

sand +‎ bank

Noun

sandbank c

a sandbank , a shoal
1. a bar (at the mouth of a river)

Declension

Declension of **sandbank**
nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sandbank	sandbanks
singular	definite	sandbanken	sandbankens
plural	indefinite	sandbankar	sandbankars
plural	definite	sandbankarna	sandbankarnas

See also

References

"sandbank", in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
"sandbank", in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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