Sieve

Etymology
From, , from , , from , from ,. Akin to German, Dutch , 🇨🇬 (Russian , , ).

Noun

 * 1) A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
 * 2) A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
 * Among, [sic] his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
 * Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
 * 1)  A kind of coarse basket.
 * 2)  A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
 * 3)  A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
 * 1)  A kind of coarse basket.
 * 2)  A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
 * 3)  A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
 * 1)  A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.

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Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: غِرْبَال, مِصْفاة
 * Egyptian Arabic: غربال
 * Hijazi Arabic: مصفاية, غربال
 * Moroccan Arabic: غربال, صفاية , ستاية
 * North Levantine Arabic: غربال, مصفايه
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: sitã, tsir, dirmonj
 * Assamese: চালনি
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, , xəlbir
 * Bashkir: иләк
 * Basque: bahe
 * Belarusian: рэ́шата, сі́та
 * Bulgarian: реше́то,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, sigte
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: sõel
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:, baruto, bortel, xirgo, bandoxo, vanelo, sarandón, cribo, criba
 * Georgian: საცერი
 * German:
 * Greek:, κρισάρα
 * Ancient: κόσκινον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: criathar, rilleán
 * Italian:, , , , , tamiso
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: елек, қалбыр,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:


 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Lao: ກະຊອນ
 * Latin: crībrum
 * Latvian: siets
 * Lithuanian: sietas
 * Luhya: sichungi
 * Macedonian: сито
 * Malay: ayakan
 * Maltese: passatur, għarbiel
 * Manchu: ᠰᡳᠰᡝᡴᡠ
 * Maori: tātari
 * Meru: gichunki
 * Middle English: sive, sarse
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: craîncheux
 * Norwegian: sikt, såld,
 * Persian:, , , , بیزه
 * Plautdietsch: Säw, Derchschlach
 * Polabian: risetĕ
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Purepecha: tsarharakua
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сито, решето
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:, rešeto
 * Slovene: rešêto
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kśida, cejźawa, wokawa
 * Spanish:, , ,  , harnero
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: bistay
 * Tajik: элак, ғалбер, ғирбол, ғарбел
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:, เครื่องร่อน
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: elek
 * Ukrainian: ре́шето, си́то
 * Urdu: چھلنی, غرپال
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:, rây bột
 * Walloon: ,
 * West Frisian: souwe


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: seulonta
 * French:
 * Icelandic: sáldur
 * Ido: sivago


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sållning

Verb

 * 1) To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
 * 2)  To concede; let in

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎬᎫᏍᏗᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 篩, 筛
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: prosít
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, siivilöidä
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: trivelâ, tamesâ
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Ido:


 * Italian:, stacciare,
 * Japanese: 篩う
 * Manchu: ᠰᡳᠰᡝᠮᠪᡳ
 * Maori: tātari
 * Polish:, , , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: icharay, suysuy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * West Frisian: souje, souwe


 * Norwegian: ,


 * Romanian:

Numeral

 * 1)  seven