lie down

See also: liedown and lie-down

English

Verb

lie down (third-person singular simple present lies down, present participle lying down, simple past lay down, past participle lain down)

1. (intransitive) To assume a horizontal position.

   Antonym: get up

   Lie down on the bed until you feel better.

   1. (imperative) A standard command to a herding dog to assume this position, owing to its effect on the herd's movement.
2. (intransitive) To be lazy or remiss.

   He never got promoted because he was always lying down on the job.

   • 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph‎^[1]:

     They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”

3. (intransitive) To submit passively.

   I'm not going to lie down and take this!

Derived terms

• lie-down (noun)
• liedown (noun)
• lie down on the job

 

Translations

assume a horizontal position

• Abaga: bed̶ao
• Albanian: shtrihem (sq)
• Arabic: اِسْتَلْقَى (ar) (istalqā), اِضْطَجَعَ (iḍṭajaʕa)

  Gulf Arabic: انسدح (insidaḥ)

• Armenian: պառկել (hy) (paṙkel)
• Azerbaijani: yatmaq (az)
• Bashkir: ятыу (yatıw)
• Belarusian: кла́сціся impf (kláscisja), легчы́ pf (ljehčý)
• Bengali: শুয়ে পড়া (bn) (śuẏe poṛa)
• Bhojpuri: लेटल (lēṭal)
• Bikol Central: higda (bcl)
• Bulgarian: ля́гам си (bg) impf (ljágam si), ле́гна си pf (légna si)
• Catalan: ajeure's (ca), ajaure's (ca), gitar (ca)
• Chechen: вижа (viža)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 瞓低／𰥛低 (fan³ dai¹)

  Mandarin: 偃 (zh) (yǎn), 躺下 (zh) (tǎngxià), 躺 (zh) (tǎng)

• Czech: lehat si impf, lehnout si pf
• Danish: lægge sig (da)
• Dutch: gaan liggen
• Esperanto: sterni (eo), kuŝiĝi
• Estonian: pikali olema
• Faliscan: cupo, leco
• Finnish: panna maata, panna makuulle, käydä pitkälleen, käydä pitkäkseen
• French: s’étendre (fr), se coucher (fr), s’allonger (fr)
• Galician: deitarse
• Georgian: დაწოლა (dac̣ola)
• German: sich legen (de), liegen (de), niederlegen (de), sich hinlegen
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan)
• Greek: ξαπλώνω (el) (xaplóno)

  Ancient: κεῖμαι (keîmai)

• Hindi: लेटना (hi) (leṭnā)
• Hungarian: fekszik (hu), lefekszik (hu)
• Icelandic: leggjast niður, leggjast
• Indonesian: berbaring (id)
• Ingrian: loottiissa
• Ingush: вижа (viža)
• Italian: sdraiarsi (it), distendersi (it), coricarsi (it)
• Japanese: 横になる (よこになる, yoko ni naru), 臥す (ふす, fusu), 身を伏せる (みをふせる, mi o fuseru), 俯せる (うつぶせる, utsubuseru)
• Jarai: đih
• Javanese: glèthak
• Kashubian: leżec
• Kazakh: жату (kk) (jatu)
• Khmer: ទំរេត (tumreit), ដេក (km) (deek)
• Korean: 눕다 (ko) (nupda)
• Kyrgyz: жатуу (ky) (jatuu)
• Ladin: se ponder
• Lao: ນອນ (nǭn)
• Latin: cubō, dēcumbō, recumbō, iaceō (la)
• Latvian: nogulties (lv)
• Lithuanian: atsigulti
• Lü: ᦓᦸᧃ (noan)
• Macedonian: легнува impf (legnuva), легне pf (legne)
• Malay: baring (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хэвтэх (mn) (xevtex)

• Nepali: पल्टिनु (palṭinu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: legge seg (no)

• Ojibwe: gawishimon
• Old English: liċġan
• Persian: خوابیدن (fa) (xâbidan), لمیدن (fa) (lamidan)
• Polish: kłaść się (pl) impf, położyć się (pl) pf
• Portuguese: deitar-se
• Pumpokol: ak
• Quechua: siriy (qu)
• Rapa Nui: moe
• Romanian: a se culca (ro)
• Romansch: s'extender
• Russian: ложи́ться (ru) impf (ložítʹsja), лечь (ru) pf (lečʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: laigh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лȅћи pf

  Roman: lȅći (sh) pf

• Slovak: ľahnúť si pf
• Slovene: léči pf
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: połožowaś se impf, połožyś se pf

• Spanish: echarse (es), tenderse (es), acostarse (es), yacer (es)
• Sranan Tongo: didon
• Swahili: lala chini
• Swedish: lägga sig (sv)
• Tagalog: higa
• Tajik: хобидан (xobidan‍)
• Tamil: படு (ta) (paṭu)
• Tatar: ятарга (tt) (yatarga)
• Thai: นอน (th) (nɔɔn)
• Tocharian B: lyäk-
• Turkish: yatmak (tr)
• Turkmen: ýatmak
• Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎋𐎁 (škb)
• Ukrainian: ляга́ти impf (ljaháty), лягти́ pf (ljahtý)
• Urdu: لیٹنا (leṭnā)
• Uyghur: ياتماق (yatmaq)
• Uzbek: yotmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: nằm xuống (vi), nằm ngả, ngả lưng (vi), nằm ngửa (vi)
• Waray-Waray: higda
• Welsh: gorwedd (cy)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: hizega
• Yurok: 'ooleenek'
• Zazaki: kewten

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Crimean Tatar: ^{(please verify)} yatmaq, ^{(please verify)} alşaymaq
• Isthmus Zapotec: ^{(please verify)} raʼtaʼ
• Pumpokol: ^{(please verify)} ak
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} uleči se

See also

• go to bed