Lithuanian–English dictionary

šamas

The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

samdinys

A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.

samdomas žudikas

A male contract killer, especially one paid by a mafia.

samitas

(by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely) , an important or high-level gathering or meeting.

Samoa

A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Samoa. Capital and largest city: Apia. Formerly Western Samoa, and, before that, German Samoa. It is distinct from American Samoa.

sąmonė

(uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

samovaras

A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.

šampanas

(countable, uncountable) A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.

šampūnas

An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.

Samuelio knyga

One of two books of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

Samuelis

One of two books of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

samurajus

In feudal Japan, a soldier who served a daimyo.

sąnarys

(anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.

sanatorija

An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.

Šanchajus

A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.

sandalas

(footwear) A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

sandėlis

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

sandėliuoti

(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

sandėlys

A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

sangrąžinis

(grammar) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.

sangrija

A cold drink, originating in Spain, consisting of red or white wine, brandy or sherry, fruit juice, sugar and soda water and garnished with orange and other fruit.

sankryža

(figuratively, by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.

Šansi

A province in the northern part of China. Capital: Taiyuan.

sanskritas

A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.

šantažas

The extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure.

santechnikas

One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.

Santorinas

An island in the Cyclades, Greece.

santrumpa

(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @. [Late 16th century.]

santuoka

A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.

santūrumas

(uncountable) control or caution; reserve

santūrus

Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.

santvarka

A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.

santykiai

Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.

sántykis

Connection or association; the condition of being related.

sãpnas

(countable) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

sapnuoti

(intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.

Sarajevas

The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river.

sąrašas

A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur. [from 19th c.]

Sardinija

An island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea.

sargas

A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

šariatas

(Islam) A body of religious law forming a part of the Islamic tradition based on the scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith.

šarka

One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.

šarmà

(specifically, meteorology) Water vapour which has undergone deposition or desublimation when the air is cold and moist to form a white deposit on exposed surfaces.

šarmas

(chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.

šarvai

(uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.

šarvuotis

Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

šãšas

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

sąsiauris

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

sąskaita

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]

sąskaita faktūra

A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.

saškės

(board games, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.

šašlykas

A form of shish kebab, originally made of marinated lamb meat.

sąsmauka

(landforms) A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.

Saturnas

(astronomy) The sixth planet of the solar system, known for its large rings, and until recent times the furthest known; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♄.

satyra

(uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Imitation, humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.

šaudmenys

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

šaudyklė

(weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

šaudyti

(transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

saugiklis

(electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.

saugoti

(ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

saugumas

The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.

saugus

Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.

šaukimas

A person who has been drafted; a conscript or draftee.

šaukštas

A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place.

šaukštelis

A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass.

šaukti

(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

šauktinis

One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.

saulė

The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.

saulėgrąža

A bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.

saulėgrįža

One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.

saulėlydis

(figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.

saulės laikrodis

A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks.

saulėtekis

The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.

Saulius

A en given name.

sauna

A room or a house designed for heat sessions.

šaunamasis ginklas

A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.

šaunuolis

(idiomatic, colloquial) Used to show encouragement or approval to a boy, man, or male animal.

sausas

Free from or lacking moisture.

sausgyslė

(anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

sausis

The first month of the Gregorian calendar, following the December of the previous year and preceding February.

sauskelnės

(North America, Philippines, India) An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent or wets the bed, out of convenience, or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.

sausmedis

Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia

sausra

A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.

sausuma

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

Sautamptonas

A city, unitary authority, and borough of Hampshire, in southern England.

šauti

(transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

šautuvas

A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.

sąvadautojas

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

savaitgalis

The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.

savanaudiškumas

The quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others.

savas

Belonging to him. [from 8th c.]

Savė

A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.

savi-

of, by, in or with oneself or itself

savìmeilė

Regard for oneself; love of oneself.

saviniñkas

One who owns something.

saviškas

Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.

saviškumas

The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.

savistaba

(psychology) A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states.

savitarpinis

Reciprocal.

savitarpis

(grammar) A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocal pronoun.

savivaldybė

A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).

sąvoka

Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).

savybė

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

są́žinė

(chiefly, fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.

sąžinės priekaištai

A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.

sėdėti

(intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.

sėdėti apžergus

(transitive) To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.

sėdynė

The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.

šefas

A person in charge of a business or company.

segti

(ambitransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.

segtukas

A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

segtuvas

An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.

seifas

A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.

seilės

(physiology) A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches.

šeima

A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

šeimininkė

(plural "housewives") The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

šeimyna

A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

Seišeliai

An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.

šeivamedis

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.

sėkla

(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.

sėklidžių kapšelis

(anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most placental (boreoeutherian) mammals.

sėklinis

Of or relating to seed or semen.

sekmadienis

The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.

sėkmė

Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.

sėkmės!

Used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement; a benediction or valediction.

sėkmingai

In a successful manner; with success; without failing.

sėkmingas

Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.

sekretorė

A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.

sekretorius

A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.

seksas

(uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier. [from 1899]

sekta

An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.

sektorius

A zone; a designated area.

sekundė

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

sekundometras

A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.

selenas

A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.

selfis

(informal, mobile phones) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.

Sėlija

(astronomy) The sixth planet of the solar system, known for its large rings, and until recent times the furthest known; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♄.

semantika

The meanings of individual words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.

semestras

Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.

semtuvėlis

A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.

Sena

A former department of France, the capital city of which was Paris.

senas jūrų vilkas

A sailor accustomed to the sea.

senatas

In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.

senatorius

A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.

senavimas

The process of becoming older or more mature.

Senegalas

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Senegal.

senelė

A mother of someone's parent.

senis besmegenis

A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

senmergė

(sometimes, derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.

sens

Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.