An astute reader should be willing to weigh everything they read, including anonymous sources.
Source: tatoeba (1902)
Weigh
//weɪ//
Synonyms for "weigh" (186 found)
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Closest matches (38)
Strong matches (55)
Related words (93)
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1 entriesTranslations
201 translations across 75 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- rendon verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Arabic
2 entries- وَزَنَ verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- وَزَنَ verb (to have a certain weight)
Armenian
2 entries- կշռադատել verb (to consider a subject)
- կշռել verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Asturian
2 entries- pesar verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pesar verb (to have a certain weight)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- çəkmək verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Belarusian
3 entries- ва́жыць verb (to have a certain weight)
- ўзва́жваць verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- ўзва́жыць verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Breton
1 entries- pouezañ verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Bulgarian
4 entries- вдигам verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- оценявам verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- претеглям verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- претеглям verb (to weigh out)
Catalan
4 entries- desancorar verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- pesar verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pesar verb (to have a certain weight)
- salpar verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- کێشان verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 稱 /称 verb (to have a certain weight)
- 稱重 /称重 verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- 稱重 /称重 verb (to have a certain weight)
Cornish
1 entries- poosa verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Czech
4 entries- navážit verb (to weigh out)
- uvážit verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- vytáhnout kotvu verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- vážit verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Danish
1 entries- veje verb (to have a certain weight)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ކިރަނީ verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Dutch
1 entries- wegen verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Esperanto
2 entries- pesi verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pezi verb (to have a certain weight)
Faroese
2 entries- lætta (akker) verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- viga verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Finnish
4 entries- (ankkuri) nostaa verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- arvioida verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- mitata verb (to weigh out)
- painaa verb (to have a certain weight)
French
4 entries- lever l’ancre verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- peser verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- peser verb (to weigh out)
- peser verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
Friulian
1 entries- pesâ verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Galician
3 entries- pesar verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pesar verb (to weigh out)
- pesar verb (to have a certain weight)
Ge'ez
1 entries- መዘነ verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Georgian
1 entries- იწონის verb (to determine the weight of an object)
German
4 entries- (schwer) liegen verb (to weigh on; to be heavy, to press down)
- abwiegen verb (to weigh out)
- abwägen verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- auswiegen verb (to weigh out)
Greek
2 entries- ζυγίζω verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- ζυγίζω verb (to consider a subject)
Hebrew
1 entries- שקל verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Hungarian
4 entries- kimér verb (to weigh out)
- lemér verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- mérlegel verb (to consider a subject)
- nyom verb (to have a certain weight)
Icelandic
1 entries- vega verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Igala
1 entries- ñwà verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Irish
4 entries- meáigh verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- meáigh verb (to weigh out)
- meáigh verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- meáigh verb (to consider a subject)
Istriot
1 entries- pazà verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Italian
2 entries- pesare verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pesare verb (to have a certain weight)
Japanese
4 entries- 抜錨する verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- 気に掛ける verb (to consider a subject)
- 重さを計る verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- 量る verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Jeju
1 entries- ᄃᆞᆯ다 verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Khmer
1 entries- ថ្លឹង verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Korean
1 entries- 달다 verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Latin
3 entries- expendō verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pensō verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- trutinor verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Laz
1 entries- წონუმს verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Lisu
2 entries- ꓛꓰꓻ verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- ꓞꓰꓻ verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Lombard
1 entries- pesà verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Low German
1 entries- wegen verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- weien verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- weien verb (to have a certain weight)
Macedonian
1 entries- тежи verb (to have a certain weight)
Mansaka
1 entries- timbang verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Middle English
4 entries- weyen verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- weyen verb (to weigh out)
- weyen verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- weyen verb (to consider a subject)
Mongolian
2 entries- дэнслэх verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- жигнэх verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Māori
4 entries- huhuti verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- huti verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- ine taumaha verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- whakaraupeka verb (to consider a subject)
Norman
4 entries- p'ser verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- p'ser verb (to weigh out)
- p'ser verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- p'ser verb (to have a certain weight)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- veie verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Occitan
2 entries- pesar verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pesar verb (to have a certain weight)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- طارتمق verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- طارتمق verb (to weigh out)
- طارتمق verb (to consider a subject)
Polish
3 entries- odważyć verb (to weigh out)
- ważyć verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- ważyć verb (to have a certain weight)
Portuguese
4 entries- avaliar verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- desancorar verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- levantar âncora verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- pesar verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Quechua
1 entries- llasay verb (to have a certain weight)
Romanian
4 entries- a ridica ancora verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- avea greutate verb (to have a certain weight)
- chibzui verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- cumpăni verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
Russian
4 entries- ве́сить verb (to have a certain weight)
- взве́сить verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- взве́сить verb (to weigh out)
- взве́сить verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
Sardinian
2 entries- pesai verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pesare verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- tomhais verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- tomhais verb (to weigh out)
Sicilian
1 entries- pisari verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Sinhalese
1 entries- කිරනවා verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Slovak
3 entries- vážiť verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- vážiť verb (to have a certain weight)
- zvážiť verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Spanish
4 entries- desancorar verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- levar verb (nautical: to raise an anchor)
- pesar verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pesar verb (to have a certain weight)
Swedish
4 entries- väga verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- väga verb (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object)
- väga verb (to have a certain weight)
- väga (upp) verb (to weigh out)
Tagalog
1 entries- magtimbang verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Tamil
1 entries- வகை verb (to consider a subject)
Tatar
1 entries- үлчәү verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Telugu
1 entries- తూగు verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Thai
1 entries- ชั่ง verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Turkish
3 entries- gelmek verb (to have a certain weight)
- tartmak verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- tartmak verb (to weigh out)
Ukrainian
3 entries- ва́жити verb (to have a certain weight)
- зва́жити verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- зва́жувати verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Venetan
4 entries- pexar verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pexar verb (to have a certain weight)
- pexare verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pexare verb (to have a certain weight)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cân verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- đo verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Welsh
2 entries- pwyso verb (to determine the weight of an object)
- pwyso verb (to have a certain weight)
Yoruba
1 entries- wọ̀n verb (to determine the weight of an object)
Sample sentences
28 total sentences available.
On average, these packages weigh two pounds.
Source: tatoeba (55167)
Can you weigh this, please?
Source: tatoeba (58562)
You can weigh your baggage in this balance.
Source: tatoeba (60713)
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