sleep

Mane

Verb

1. To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
2. To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
3. To accommodate in beds.
4. To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
5. To be dead.
6. To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
7. To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
8. To place into a state of hibernation.
9. To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
10. To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

Noun

1. The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
2. (informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
3. (informal) A night.
4. Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
5. A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
6. The hibernation of animals.

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/sliːp/

Etîmolojî

From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan, a variant of slǣpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.