tide کشند kešand (#) Fr.: marée The periodic rising and falling of the waters of the ocean and its inlets.
The tides result from the → gravitational attraction
of the → Moon and → Sun
acting upon the rotating → Earth.
See also:
→ ebb tide,
→ high tide,
→ low tide,
→ neap tide,
→ spring tide,
→ tidal braking,
→ tidal bulge,
→ tidal capture,
→ tidal coupling,
→ tidal current,
→ tidal disruption,
→ tidal force,
→ tidal friction,
→ tidal heating,
→ tidal locking,
→ tidal radius,
→ tidal stretching.
→ tidal force.
Etymology (EN): M.E.; O.E. tid “time, hour” (cf. O.S. tid,
Du. tijd, O.H.G. zit, Ger. Zeit “time”). Etymology (PE): Kešand, from
Mod./Mid.Pers. kešidan/kašidan “to draw, protract,
trail, drag, carry,” dialectal Yaqnavi xaš “to draw,” Qomi xaš
“streak, stria, mark,” Lori kerr “line;”
Av. karš- “to draw; to plow,” karša-
“furrow;” Proto-Iranian *kerš-/*xrah- “to draw, plow;”
cf. Skt. kars-, kársati “to pull, drag, plow;”
Gk. pelo, pelomai “to move, to bustle;” PIE base kwels-
“to plow.” |
