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==English==
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{{multiple images
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|image1 = English saddle.jpg
|caption1 = An “[[English#Adjective|English]]-[[style#Noun|style]]” saddle ''(noun sense 1)'' used for [[ride#Verb|riding]] [[horse#Noun|horses]].
|image2 = Ardennes horse.jpg
|caption2 = A saddle or [[harness saddle]] ''(noun sense 1.2)'', which is used to [[support#Verb|support]] the [[weight#Noun|weight]] of [[pole#Noun|poles]] or [[shaft#Noun|shafts]] [[attach]]ing a [[vehicle]] to the horse.
|image3 = Bicycle saddle.jpg
|caption3 = The saddle ''(noun sense 1.4)'' or [[immovable#Adjective|immovable]] [[seat#Noun|seat]] of a [[bicycle#Noun|bicycle]].
|image4 = West Homer Saddle Above Homer Tunnel.jpg
|caption4 = The Homer Saddle ''(noun sense 2.1)'' in [[Fiordland]], [[New Zealand]]. The [[road#Noun|road]] to {{w|Milford Sound}} goes through the {{w|Homer Tunnel}} beneath it.
|image5 = Antecline (PSF).png
|caption5 = A [[diagram#Noun|diagram]] of a saddle ''(noun sense 2.6)'' or [[anticline]].
|image6 = Saddle point.svg
|caption6 = The saddle ''(noun sense 2.7)'' or [[saddle point]] on this [[graph#Noun|graph]] of <math>z=x^2-y^2</math> is the [[point#Noun|point]] marked in red.
|image7 = Violin made in about 1770-numbered.jpg
|caption7 = The saddle ''(noun sense 2.8.2)'' of a [[string instrument]] like a [[violin]] is the [[object#Noun|object]] on which the [[tailgut]]—the [[cord#Noun|cord]] [[secure#Verb|securing]] the [[tailpiece]] ''(number 2)'' to the [[endbutton|end button]] ''(number 12)''—[[rest#Verb|rests]].
|image8 = Harp seal cropped.jpg
|caption8 = An [[adult#Adjective|adult]] [[harp seal]] (''[[Pagophilus groenlandicus]]'') has a saddle ''(noun sense 2.10.3)'' on its [[back#Noun|back]].
|image9 = Boa constrictor constrictor - Flickr - Dick Culbert.jpg
|caption9 = [[brown#Adjective|Brown]] saddles ''(noun sense 2.10.3)'' on a [[boa constrictor]] (''[[Boa constrictor]]'').
|image10 = Saddle shoes - 02.jpg
|caption10 = A saddle ''(noun sense 2.11.1)'' is a [[piece#Noun|piece]] of [[leather#Noun|leather]] across the [[instep]] of a [[shoe#Noun|shoe]], usually having a [[different#Adjective|different]] [[colour#Noun|colour]] from the [[rest#Noun|rest]] of the shoe. Such a shoe (a [[saddle oxford]] or [[saddle shoe]]) can also be called a saddle ''(noun sense 2.11.2)''.
}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈsædl̩/|a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈsæd(ə)l/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-saddle.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{rhymes|en|ædəl|s=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|sad|dle}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*sed-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|sadel}}, from {{inh|en|ang|sadol}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*sadul}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*sadulaz|t=saddle}}. Further etymology uncertain, perhaps from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*sod-dʰlo-}}, from {{m|ine-pro|*sed-|t=to sit}} + {{m|ine-pro|*-dʰlom}} (a variant of {{m|ine-pro|*-trom|pos={{glossary|suffix}} forming {{glossary|noun}}s denoting instruments or tools}}), though the ''{{w|Oxford English Dictionary}}'' says this “presents formal difficulties”.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=''n.''{{sup|1}} and ''adj.''|noformat=1|id=169618|date=June 2022|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=n}}</ref>

{{col-top|2|cog}}
* {{cog|da|sadel}}
* {{cog|nl|zadel}}
* {{cog|de|Sattel}}
* {{cog|is|söðull}}
* {{cog|nds|Sadel}}
* {{cog|ru|седло́}}
* {{cog|stq|Soadel}}
* {{cog|sco|sadil}}
* {{cog|sv|sadel}}
* {{cog|fy|seal}}
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====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{senseid|en|tack}} A [[seat#Noun|seat]] for a [[rider]], typically [[make#Verb|made]] of [[leather#Noun|leather]] and [[raise#Verb|raised]] in the [[front#Noun|front]] and [[rear#Noun|rear]], [[place#Verb|placed]] on the [[back#Noun|back]] of a [[horse#Noun|horse]] or other [[animal]], and [[secure#Verb|secured]] by a [[strap#Noun|strap]] around the animal's [[body#Noun|body]].
#* {{RQ:Herbert Travaile|chapter=The Death of Sir {{w|Dodmore Cotton}} Ambassadour, at Cazbeen|page=126|passage=His [Cotton's] Horſe vvas led before, vvith a mourning Veluet '''Saddle''' on his backe, his Coffin had a Crimſon Sattin Quilt lined with purple Silke, ouer him vvas laid his Bible, Svvord and Hat: {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Evelyn Diary|volume=I|entrydate=11 June 1652|page=266|passage=My horse's bridle they [robbers] slipt, and search'd y{{sup|e}} '''saddle''', which they pull'd off, but let the horse graze, and then turning againe bridl'd him and tied him to a tree, yet so as he might graze, and thus left me bound.}}
#* {{RQ:Swift Directions to Servants|chapter=V (Directions to the Groom)|page=152|passage=Consider your master's health, and rather than let him take long journeys, {{...}} leave one of his horse's fore shoes loose in the morning; or contrive that the '''saddle''' may pinch the beast in the withers; or keep him without corn all night and morning, so that he may tire on the road; {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Sewell Black Beauty|page=164|passage=I saw many brave men cut down, many fall mortally wounded from their '''saddles'''.}}
#* {{RQ:T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars|chapter=X|page=76|passage=So he made the best of it, and prepared for me his own splendid riding-camel, saddled with his own '''saddle''', and hung with luxurious housings and cushions of Nejd leather-work pierced and inlaid in various colours, with plaited fringes and nets embroidered with metal tissues.}}
## A [[similar#Adjective|similar]] [[implement#Noun|implement]] [[use#Verb|used]] to secure [[good#Noun|goods]] to animals; a [[packsaddle]].
## {{synonym of|en|harness saddle|t=the [[part#Noun|part]] of a [[harness#Noun|harness]] which [[support#Verb|supports]] the [[weight#Noun|weight]] of [[pole#Noun|poles]] or [[shaft#Noun|shafts]] [[attach]]ing a [[vehicle]] to a horse or other animal}}
## A [[cushion#Noun|cushion]] used as a seat in a [[cart#Noun|cart]] or other vehicle.
## The [[immovable#Adjective|immovable]] seat of a [[bicycle#Noun|bicycle]], [[motorcycle#Noun|motorcycle]], or similar vehicle.
## {{lb|en|by extension}}
### ''Chiefly preceded by'' '''[[the#Article|the]]''': [[horseriding|horse-riding]] as an [[activity]] or [[occupation]].
###* {{RQ:Ascham Toxophilus|page=212|passage=[A] good horſeman, {{...}} is ſkilfull to knovv, and hable to tell others, hovv, by certain ſure ſignes, a man may choiſe a colte, that is like to prove an other day excellent for the '''ſaddle'''.}}
###* {{RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes|chapter=Of the Camell Dromedarie|page=99|passage=[A]nd the third ſort [of camel] are called ''Ragnahil'', vvhich are of lovver ſtature and learner bodies then the reſidue, vnfit for burthen, and therefore are vſed for the '''ſaddle''', by all the Noble men of ''Numidia'', ''Arabia'', and ''Libia'': {{...}}|footer=Applied to camel-riding.}}
###* {{RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi|volume=I|chapter=Looking after the Halter when the Mare is Stolen|page=285|passage=Well said!—are thy friends ripe for the '''saddle'''?}}
###* {{RQ:Irving Rocky Mountains|volume=I|chapter=VI|page=74|passage=He travelled in company with them until they reached the Sweet Water; then taking a couple of horses, one for the '''saddle''', and the other as a packhorse, he started off express for Pierre's Hole, to make arrangements against their arrival, that he might commence his hunting campaign before the rival company.}}
###* {{RQ:Tennyson Idylls|page=152|passage='Sir King, mine ancient wound is hardly whole, / And lets me from the '''saddle''';' and the King / Glanced first at him, then her, and went his way.}}
### {{synonym of|en|saddle brown|t=a [[medium#Adjective|medium]] [[brown#Adjective|brown]] [[colour#Noun|colour]], like that of saddle leather}}
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# Something [[resemble|resembling]] a saddle ''(sense 1)'' in [[appearance]] or [[shape#Noun|shape]]. 
## A [[low#Adjective|low]] [[point#Noun|point]], in the shape of a saddle, between [[two]] [[hill#Noun|hills]].
##* {{RQ:Dampier New Voyage|chapter=IX|page=267|passage=The Hill ''Zeliſco'' bore S.E. vvhich is a very high Hill in the Country, vvith a '''Saddle''' or bending on the top.}}
##* {{RQ:T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars|chapter=XXXI|page=180|passage=[W]e had to dismount and lead our animals [camels] up a narrow hill-path with broken steps of rock so polished by long years of passing feet that they were dangerous in wet weather. {{...}} After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high '''saddle''' on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|author=Voyageur [pseudonym]|title=The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland|magazine=[[w:Modern Railways|Trains Illustrated]]|location=London|publisher=w:Ian Allan Publishing|month=December|year=1960|page=752|issn=0141-9935|oclc=35845948|passage=So we continue climbing to the '''saddle''' of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author={{w|John Le Carré}} [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell]|chapter=Nelson|title=w:The Honourable Schoolboy|location=London|publisher=[[w:Hodder & Stoughton|Hodder and Stoughton]]|year=1977|page=514|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/honourableschool0000leca_a6f3/page/514/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-340-22042-9|passage=With Lizzie leading, they scrambled quickly over several false peaks towards the '''saddle'''.}}
## A [[cut#Noun|cut]] of [[meat#Noun|meat]] that [[include]]s both [[loin]]s and part of the [[backbone]].
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Margaret Dods [pseudonym; {{w|Christian Isobel Johnstone}}]|chapter=Roasting|title=The Cook and Housewife’s Manual.{{nb...|A Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management; Containing a Compendium of French Cookery, and of Fashionable Confectionary, Preparations for Invalids and Convalescents, a Selection of Cheap Dishes, and Numerous Useful Miscellaneous Receipts in the Various Branches of Domestic Economy. [...] To which is Added a Comprehensive Treatise on Domestic Brewing. Eighth Edition. Carefully Revised, and Greatly Enlarged.}}|edition=8th|location=Edinburgh|publisher=[[w:Oliver and Boyd|Oliver & Boyd]]; London; [[w:Simpkin & Marshall|Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.]]|year=1847|section=paragraph 19|pages=106–107|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5R4EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106|oclc=25486034|passage=To roast a leg, haunch, or '''saddle''' of mutton. {{...}} A modern refinement is to put ''laver'' in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high ''gout''; or a large '''''saddle''''' may be served over a pound and a half of ''laver'', stewed in brown sauce with catsup and seasonings.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Anthony Burgess|chapter=6|title=The Enemy in the Blanket|series=w:The Malayan Trilogy|location=London|publisher=[[w:Heinemann (publisher)|William Heinemann]]|year=1958|year_published=1979|page=71|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/isbn_434098132/page/71/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-434-09813-2|passage=Certainly, in the gravy soups, turbot, hare, roast '''saddles''', cabinet puddings, boiled eggs at tea-time and bread and butter and meat paste with the morning tray, one tasted one's own decadence: a tradition had been preserved in order to humiliate. Perhaps it really was time the British limped out of Malaya.}}
## {{lb|en|construction}}
### A [[small#Adjective|small]] [[sloped#Adjective|sloped]] or [[tapered#Adjective|tapered]] [[structure#Noun|structure]] that [[help#Verb|helps]] [[channel#Verb|channel]] [[surface water]] to [[drain#Noun|drains]]. {{rfv-sense|en}}
### The [[raised#Adjective|raised]] [[floorboard]] in a [[doorway]]. {{rfv-sense|en}}
## {{lb|en|dentistry}} The part of a [[denture]] which [[hold#Verb|holds]] the [[artificial]] [[tooth#Noun|teeth]].
## {{lb|en|engineering}} An [[equipment]] part, such as a [[flange#Noun|flange]], which is [[hollow out|hollowed out]] to [[fit#Verb|fit]] upon a [[convex#Adjective|convex]] [[surface#Noun|surface]] and [[serve#Verb|serve]] as a [[means#Noun|means]] of [[attachment]] or [[support#Noun|support]].
##* {{quote-journal|en|year=1944|month=November and December|title=Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives|journal=Railway Magazine|page=350|text={{...}} with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the '''saddle''', and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the '''saddle''' for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.}}
## {{lb|en|geology}} An {{l|en|anticline|t=[[fold#Noun|fold]] with [[stratum|strata]] [[slop#Verb|sloping]] [[downwards]] on each [[side#Noun|side]]}}; specifically, a [[depression]] [[locate]]d along the [[axial#Adjective|axial]] [[trend#Noun|trend]] of such a fold.
### {{lb|en|chiefly|Australia|mining}} {{synonym of|en|saddle reef|t=a saddle-[[shaped#Adjective|shaped]] [[bed#Verb|bedded]] [[mineral#Noun|mineral]] (usually [[gold-bearing]] [[quartz]]) [[vein#Noun|vein]] [[occur]]ring along the [[crest#Noun|crest]] of an anticline or {{lb|en|less common}} a [[syncline]] (an [[inverted#Adjective|inverted]] saddle)}}
## {{lb|en|geometry}} {{synonym of|en|saddle point|t=a point in the [[range#Noun|range]] of a [[smooth#Adjective|smooth]] [[function#Noun|function]], every [[neighbourhood]] of which [[contain]]s points on each side of its [[tangent#Adjective|tangent]] [[plane#Noun|plane]]}}
## {{lb|en|lutherie}}
### The part of a [[guitar#Noun|guitar]] which supports the [[string#Noun|strings]] and, in an [[acoustic guitar]], [[transfer#Verb|transfers]] their [[vibration]]s through the [[bridge#Noun|bridge]] to the [[soundboard]].
### A small [[object#Noun|object]] ([[traditionally]] made of [[ebony]]) at the bottom of a [[string instrument]] such as a [[cello]], [[viola]], or [[violin]] below the [[tailpiece]] on which the {{l|en|tailgut|t=[[cord#Noun|cord]] securing the tailpiece to the [[instrument]]}} [[rest#Verb|rests]].
## {{lb|en|nautical}} A [[block#Noun|block]] of [[wood#Noun|wood]] with [[concave#Adjective|concave]] depressions at the [[top#Noun|top]] and [[bottom#Noun|bottom]], usually [[fasten]]ed to one [[spar#Noun|spar]] and [[shape#Verb|shaped]] to [[receive#Verb|receive]] the [[end#Noun|end]] of another.
## {{lb|en|zoology}}
### The [[clitellum]] of an [[earthworm]] ([[family]] {{taxfmt|Lumbricidae|family}}).
### The [[lower#Adjective|lower]] part of the back of a [[domestic]] [[fowl#Noun|fowl]], especially a [[male#Adjective|male]] [[bird#Noun|bird]], bearing the [[saddle feather]]s or [[saddle hackle]]s.
### ''In full'' '''saddle marking''' ''or'' '''saddle patch''': a [[saddlelike|saddle-like]] [[marking#Noun|marking]] on an animal, such as one on the back of an [[adult#Adjective|adult]] [[harp seal]] or [[saddleback seal]] ({{taxfmt|Pagophilus groenlandicus|species}}), or any of [[numerous]] such markings on a [[boa constrictor]] ({{taxfmt|Boa constrictor|species}}).
## {{lb|en|originally|and|chiefly|Canada|US}}
### A piece of leather [[stitch#Verb|stitched]] across the [[instep]] of a [[shoe#Noun|shoe]], usually having a [[different#Adjective|different]] [[colour#Noun|colour]] from the [[rest#Noun|rest]] of the shoe.
### {{synonym of|en|saddle oxford}} ''or'' '''[[saddle shoe]]''' (“a shoe, [[resemble|resembling]] an [[oxford]], which has a saddle ''(sense 11.1)''”)
###* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Judy Blume|chapter=|title=w:Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRu1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT33|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Dutton Children's Books|Dutton Children’s Books]]|year=1972|page=56|isbn=978-0-525-40720-1|passage='Now then&nbsp;… What'll it be, boys?' Mr Berman asked. / My mother answered. 'Brown-and-white '''saddles''' for Fudge and loafers for Peter.'}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col4|en
|back in the saddle
|boots and saddles
|burr in one's saddle|burr under one's saddle
|dressage saddle
|elfin saddle
|English saddle
|in the saddle
|jumping saddle
|offsaddle
|packsaddle
|park saddle
|put the saddle on the right horse
|racing saddle
|ride tall in the saddle
|saddleback
|saddle back reef
|saddlebag,saddle bag
|saddlebill
|saddlebow,saddle-bow,saddle bow
|saddle brown
|saddlebum,saddle-bum,saddle bum
|saddle carbine
|saddlecloth,saddle-cloth
|saddle-backed
|saddle-backed bush cricket
|saddle-bag
|saddle bar
|saddle beast
|saddle-billed stork
|saddle blanket
|saddle block anaesthesia
|saddle embolus
|saddle feather
|saddle gall
|saddle grafting
|saddle hackle
|Saddle Hills County
|saddle horn
|saddle horse|McClellan saddle
|saddle joint
|saddleless
|saddlelike
|saddle nose
|saddle oxford
|saddle-oxforded
|saddle oyster
|saddle pad
|saddle pain
|saddle plate
|saddle point
|saddle quern
|saddle reef
|saddle ring
|saddle roof
|saddlery
|saddle seat
|saddle shoe
|saddle-sick
|saddle soap
|saddle sore
|saddle stapler
|saddle stitch
|saddle tank
|saddle thrombus
|saddle-tramp,saddle tramp
|saddletree,saddle-tree,saddle tree
|saddle vein
|sidesaddle,side-saddle
|spring saddle
|stock saddle
|Sybian saddle
|tall in the saddle
|Western saddle
}}

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|bor=1|ja|サドル|tr=sadoru}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal}}
{{multitrans|data=
* Afrikaans: {{tt+|af|saal}}
* Albanian: {{tt+|sq|shalë|f}}
* Amharic: {{tt|am|ኮርቻ}}, {{tt|am|ኮር}}
* Arabic: {{tt|ar|سَرْج|m}}, {{tt+|ar|مَرْكَب|m}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{tt|arz|سرج|m|tr=sarg}}
*: Moroccan Arabic: {{tt|ary|سرج|m|tr=sarj}}
* Argobba: {{tt|agj|ኮርቻ|tr=korčā}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|թամբ}}
* Aromanian: {{tt|rup|shauã|f}}
* Avar: {{tt|av|кьили}}
* Azerbaijani: {{tt+|az|yəhər}}
* Bashkir: {{tt|ba|эйәр}}
* Belarusian: {{tt|be|сядло́|n}}
* Bengali: {{tt+|bn|জিন}}
* Breton: {{tt+|br|dibr|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|седло́|n}}
* Burmese: {{tt+|my|ကုန်းနှီး}}
* Buryat: {{tt|bua|эмээл}}
* Catalan: {{tt+|ca|sella|f}}
* Chechen: {{tt|ce|нуьйр}}
* Cherokee: {{tt|chr|ᎦᏯᎱᎶ}}
* Chichewa: {{tt|ny|sadulo}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|鞍|tr=ān}}, {{tt+|cmn|鞍子|tr=ānzi}}, {{tt|cmn|鞍座|tr=ānzuò}}, {{tt+|cmn|馬鞍|tr=mǎ'ān}}
* Chuvash: {{tt|cv|йӗнер}}
* Cornish: {{tt|kw|diber|m}}
* Crimean Tatar: {{tt|crh|eger}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|sedlo|n}}
* Dalmatian: {{tt|dlm|siala|f}}
* Drung: {{tt|duu|ga}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|zadel|m|n}}
* Esperanto: {{tt+|eo|selo}}
* Estonian: {{tt+|et|sadul}}
* Faroese: {{tt|fo|saðil|m}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|selle|f}}
* Friulian: {{tt|fur|siele|f}}
* Galician: {{tt|gl|sela|f}}
* Ge'ez: {{tt|gez|ሕንባል}}, {{tt|gez|ራሕን}}, {{tt|gez|ኮር}} {{q|late}}, {{tt|gez|አሪጓዝ}}
* Georgian: {{tt+|ka|უნაგირი}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Sattel|m}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|σέλα|f}}
*: Ancient: {{tt|grc|σάγμα|n}}
* Haitian Creole: {{tt|ht|sèl}}
* Hawaiian: {{tt|haw|noho}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|אוכף|m|tr=ukaf|alt=אֻכָּף \ אוכף}}
* Hindi: {{tt+|hi|काठी|f}}, {{tt|hi|ज़ीन|m}},  {{tt+|hi|चारजामा|m}}, {{tt+|hi|पलान|m}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|nyereg}}
* Icelandic: {{tt+|is|hnakkur}}, {{tt|is|söðull|m}}
* Ido: {{tt+|io|selo}}
* Irish: {{tt|ga|diallait|f}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|sella|f}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|鞍|tr=くら, kura}}, {{tt+|ja|サドル|tr=sadoru}}
* Kalmyk: {{tt|xal|әмәл}}
* Karachay-Balkar:
*: Balkar: {{tt|krc|иер}}
*: Karachay: {{tt|krc|джер}}
* Kazakh: {{tt+|kk|ер}}, {{tt|kk|ашамай}}
* Khakas: {{tt|kjh|изер}}
* Khmer: {{tt+|km|អាន}}, {{tt+|km|គែប}}
* Komi-Zyrian: {{t|kpv|седлӧ}}, {{t|kpv|ӧныр}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|안장(鞍裝)}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{tt|ckb|زین}}
*: Northern Kurdish: {{tt+|kmr|kurtan|m}}, {{tt+|kmr|zîn}}
*: Southern Kurdish: {{tt+|sdh|زین}}
* Kyrgyz: {{tt+|ky|ээр}}
* Lak: {{tt|lbe|кӏили}}
* Lao: {{tt|lo|ອານມ້າ}}, {{tt|lo|ອານ}}
* Latgalian: {{tt|ltg|sadli}}
* Latin: {{tt|la|sella|f}}
* Latvian: {{tt+|lv|segli}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt|lt|balnas}}
* Low German:
*: German Low German: {{tt|nds-de|Sadel|m}}
* Luxembourgish: {{tt|lb|Suedel|m}}
* Macedonian: {{tt|mk|седло|n}}
* Malay: {{tt|ms|pelana}}, {{tt|ms|jin}}, {{tt|ms|sekedup}}
* Maltese: {{tt|mt|sarġ|m}}
* Manchu: {{tt|mnc|ᡝᠩᡤᡝᠮᡠ|tr=enggemu}}
* Maori: {{tt|mi|tera}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt+|mn|эмээл}}
* Norman: {{tt|nrf|selle|f}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{tt+|nb|sal|m}}, {{tt|nb|sadel|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{tt|nn|sal|m}}
* Occitan: {{tt+|oc|sèla|f}}
* Old Church Slavonic:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|cu|седьло|n}}
* Old East Slavic: {{tt|orv|седьло|n}}
* Old English: {{tt|ang|sadol|m}}
* Old Norse: {{t|non|sǫðull}}
* Oromo: {{tt|om|kooraa}}
* Ossetian: {{tt|os|саргъ}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|ایر|tr=eyer}}, {{t|ota|زین|tr=zin}}
* Pashto: {{tt|ps|چرم}}
* Persian:
*: Dari: {{tt|prs|زِین}}
*: Iranian Persian: {{tt+|fa-ira|زین}}
* Plautdietsch: {{tt|pdt|Sodel|n}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|siodło|n}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|sela|f}}, {{tt+|pt|arreio|m}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|șa|f}}
* Romansch: {{tt|rm|sella|f}}, {{tt|rm|siala|f}}, {{tt|rm|seala|f}}, {{tt|rm|sela|f}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|седло́|n}}
* Sardinian: {{tt|sc|sedha|f}}, {{tt|sc|sedda}}
* Saterland Frisian: {{tt|stq|Soadel|m}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{tt|gd|dìollaid|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|сѐдло|n}}, {{tt|sh|се̏дало|n}}, {{tt|sh|сје̏дало|n}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|sèdlo|n}}, {{tt+|sh|sȅdalo|n}}, {{tt+|sh|sjȅdalo|n}}
* Shor: {{tt|cjs|эзер|tr=ezer}}
* Sicilian: {{tt|scn|seḍḍa|f}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|sedlo|n}}
* Slovene: {{tt+|sl|sedlo|n}}
* Somali: {{tt+|so|koore}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{tt|dsb|sodło|n}}
* Southern Altai: {{tt|alt|ээр}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|silla|f}}, {{tt+|es|silla de montar|f}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|saruji}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|siya}}
* Tajik: {{tt|tg|зин}}
* Tatar: {{tt+|tt|ияр}}
* Thai: {{tt+|th|อาน}}
* Tibetan: {{tt|bo|སྒ}}
* Tigre: {{tt|tig|ኮር|m}}
* Tigrinya: {{tt|ti|ኮር}}, {{tt|ti|ኮረሻ}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|eyer}}
* Turkmen: {{tt|tk|eýer}}
* Tuvan: {{tt|tyv|эзер}}
* Udmurt: {{t|udm|энер}}
* Ukrainian: {{tt|uk|сідло́|n}}
* Urdu: {{tt|ur|زِین|m}}
* Uyghur: {{tt|ug|ئىگەر}}
* Uzbek: {{tt+|uz|egar}}
* Venetan: {{tt|vec|sela|f}}, {{tt|vec|seła|f}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|yên}}
* Volapük: {{tt|vo|monitasäed}}, {{tt+|vo|säed}}
* Walloon: {{tt+|wa|sele|f}}
* Welsh: {{tt|cy|cyfrwy|m}}
* West Frisian: {{tt+|fy|seal}}
* White Hmong: {{t-needed|mww}}
* Yakut: {{tt|sah|ыҥыыр}}
* Yiddish: {{tt|yi|זאָטל|m}}
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{{trans-see|similar implement used to secure goods to animals|packsaddle}}
{{trans-see|''synonym of'' harness saddle|harness saddle}}

{{trans-top|cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|istuintyyny}}, {{tt+|fi|pehmuste}}, {{tt+|fi|satula}}
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{{trans-top|immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle}}
* Amharic: {{tt|am|ኮርቻ}}
* Arabic: {{tt|ar|سَرْج|m}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{tt|arz|سرج|m|tr=sarg}}
*: Moroccan Arabic: {{tt|ary|سرج|m|tr=sarj}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|թամբ}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt|bg|седа́лка|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{tt|cmn|鞍座|tr=ānzuò}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|sedlo|n}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|zadel|m|n}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|selle|f}}
* Galician: {{tt|gl|sela|f}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Sattel|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|σέλα|f}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|nyereg}}
* Icelandic: {{tt+|is|hnakkur|m}}
* Irish: {{tt|ga|diallait|f}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|sellino|m}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|サドル|tr=sadoru}}
* Latvian: {{tt|lv|sēdeklis|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt|lt|balnas|m}}, {{tt|lt|balnelis|m}}, {{tt|lt|sėdynė|f}}
* Macedonian: {{tt|mk|седиште|n}}, {{tt|mk|седло|n}}
* Norman: {{tt|nrf|selle|f}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{tt+|nb|sete|n}}, {{tt|nb|sykkelsete|n}}
*: Nynorsk: {{tt|nn|sete|n}}, {{tt|nn|sykkelsete|n}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|siodełko|n}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|selim|m}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|șa|f}}, {{t|ro|șiț|n}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|седло́|n}}, {{tt+|ru|сиде́нье|n}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|сѐдло|n}}, {{tt|sh|се̏дӣште|n}}, {{tt|sh|сје̏дӣште|n}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|sèdlo|n}}, {{tt+|sh|sȅdīšte|n}}, {{tt+|sh|sjȅdīšte|n}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|sillín|m}}, {{tt+|es|asiento|m}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|sadel|c}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|siya}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|sele}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt|vi|yên xe}}
* Welsh: {{tt|cy|cyfrwy|m}}
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{{trans-see|horse-riding as an activity or occupation|horseriding}}
{{trans-see|''synonym of'' saddle brown|saddle brown}}

{{trans-top|something resembling a saddle in appearance or shape}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
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{{trans-top|low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|թամբ}}, {{tt+|hy|թամբարդ}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt|bg|седловина́|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|鞍部|tr=ānbù}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|sedlo|n}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|zadel|n}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
* Galician: {{tt|gl|sela|f}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Sattel|m}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|hágó}}, {{tt+|hu|hegynyereg}}
* Irish: {{tt|ga|droimín|m}}, {{tt|ga|diallait|f}}
* Macedonian: {{tt|mk|седло|n}}
* Maori: {{tt|mi|nonoti}}, {{tt|mi|tarahanga}}, {{tt|mi|tārua}}, {{tt|mi|tāwhatitanga}}, {{t|mi|tawhātanga}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|przełęcz|f}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|седлови́на|f}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|collado|m}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|sırt}}
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{{trans-top|cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone}}
* Dutch: {{tt|nl|zadelstuk|n}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
* Galician: {{tt|gl|sela|f}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Rücken|m}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|gerinc}}, {{tt+|hu|hátrész}}
* Indonesian: {{tt|id|daging pelana}}
* Irish: {{tt|ga|spóla|m}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|comber|m}}
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{{trans-top|small sloped or tapered structure that helps channel surface water to drains}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|luiska}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|sadel}}
* Malay: {{t|ms|pelana}}
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{{trans-top|raised floorboard in a doorway}}
* Finnish: {{tt|fi|kynnyslauta}}
* Polish: {{tt|pl|listwa progowa|f}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|eşik}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
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{{trans-top|equipment part which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|kelkka}}, {{tt+|fi|luisti}}, {{tt+|fi|satula}}
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{{trans-see|''synonym of'' anticline|anticline}}

{{trans-top|depression located along the axial trend of an anticline}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
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{{trans-see|''synonym of'' saddle reef|saddle reef}}
{{trans-see|''synonym of'' saddle point|saddle point}}

{{trans-top|part of a guitar which supports the strings}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Steg}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|puente|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|small object at the bottom of a string instrument below the tailpiece on which the tailgut rests}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
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{{trans-see|clitellum of an earthworm|clitellum}}

{{trans-top|lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers}}
* Finnish: {{tt|fi|alaselkä}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|saddle-like marking on an animal}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satula}}
}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|''synonym of'' saddle oxford ''or'' saddle shoe|saddle shoe}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|sadelen|t=to put a saddle on (an animal), to saddle}}{{nb...|(Late Middle English) saddull, sadylle, (Middle English) saddil, saddull, saddyll, sadel, sadele, sadil, sadille, sadillen, sadle, sadlen, sadul, sadulle, sadyl, sadyll, (Early Middle English) sadeli (West Midlands), sadelie (West Midlands), sadelien|otherforms=1}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=sā̆delen|pos=v|id=MED38240}}</ref> from {{inh|en|ang|sadolian}}, {{m|ang|sadelian}}, {{m|ang|sadilian|t=to saddle}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*sadulōną|t=to saddle}}, from {{m|gem-pro|*sadulaz|t=a saddle|pos=noun}} (see further at [[#Etymology 1|etymology 1]]) + {{m|gem-pro|*-ōną|pos={{glossary|suffix}} forming {{glossary|denominal|denominative}} {{glossary|verb}}s from {{glossary|noun}}s}}.<ref>Compare {{R:OED Online|pos=v|id=169619|date=March 2022|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=v}}</ref>

{{col-top|2|cog}}
* {{cog|dum|sādelen}} (modern {{cog|nl|zadelen}})
* {{cog|gml|sādelen}}
* {{cog|gmq-oda|sathlæ}} (modern {{cog|da|sadle}})
* {{cog|goh|satalōn}}, {{m|goh|satulōn}} ({{cog|gmh|satelen}}, {{m|gmh|sateln}}, {{cog|de|satteln}})
* {{cog|non|sǫðla}}
* {{cog|gmq-osw|saþla}} (modern {{cog|sv|sadla}})
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====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} 
## To [[put#Verb|put]] a [[saddle#Noun|saddle]] ''(noun sense 1)'' on (an [[animal]]).
##* {{RQ:Coverdale Bible|book=Numbers|chapter=22|verse=21|folio=lxvii|column=2|passage=Then roſe {{w|Balaam}} vp in the mornynge, & '''ſadled''' his Aſſe, & wente w&#874; the prynces of y&#868; Moabites.}}
##* {{RQ:Markham Countrey Contentments|book=1|chapter=Of the Ordering and Dyeting of the Running Horse|page=84|passage='''Saddle''' your ''horſe'' on the race day in the ſtable before you leade him forth, and fixe both the pannell and the girthes to his backe and ſides vvith Shooe-makers vvaxe to preuent all daungers.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Richard Percivale; w:John Minsheu|entry=Báyo|title=A Dictionary in Spanish and English:{{nb...|First Published into the English Tongue by Ric. Percivale Gent. Now Enlarged and Amplified with Many Thousand Words, as by This Marke * to Each of Them Prefixed may Appeare; together with the Accenting of Euery Word thorowout the Whole Dictionarie, for the True Pronunciation of the Language, as also for the Diuers Signification of One and the Selfsame Word: And for the Learners Ease and Furtherance, the Declining of All Hard and Irregular Verbs; and for the Same Cause the Former Order of the Alphabet is Altered, Diuers Hard and Uncouth Phrases and Speeches out of Sundry of the Best Authors Explained, with Diuers Necessary Notes and Especiall Directions for All Such as shall be Desirous to Attaine the Perfection of the Spanish Tongue. All Done By Iohn Minsheu Professor of Languages in London. Hereunto for the Further Profit and Pleasure of the Learner or Delighted in This Tongue, is Annexed an Ample English Dictionarie, Alphabetically Set Downe with the Spanish Words thereunto Adioyned, as also an Alphabeticall Table of the Arabicke and Moorish Words now Commonly Receiued and Used in the Spanish Tongue, which Being Dispersed in Their Seuerall Due Places throughout the Whole Dictionarie are marked thus †; by the Same Iohn Minsheu. For the Right Use of This Worke, I Referre You to the Directions before the Dictionarie, Contriued in Diuers Points Differing from Other Dictionaries heretofore Set Forth.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed at London by}} Iohn Haviland for {{w|William Aspley}}|year=1623|page=44|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CDNS9Uk5d-MC&pg=PA44|column=1|oclc=1339104092|passage=vno pienſa el Báyo, otro que lo ensilla, ''the bay horſe thinketh one thing, and he that '''ſaddleth''' him thinketh another thing.''}}
##* {{RQ:Livy Holland Romane Historie|year=1659|book=XXXVII|page=766|passage=Some fevv of the horſes kept their ſtanding ſtill unaffrighted, and even thoſe they had much ado to '''ſaddle''', to bridle, and to mount upon; {{...}}}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Richard Williams Morgan|R[ichard] W[illiams] Morgan]]|chapter=The Venedotian and His Land|title=Raymond de Monthault, the Lord Marcher: A Legend of the Welch Borders.{{nb...|[...] In Three Volumes.}}|location=London|publisher=[[w:Richard Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley]],{{nb...|New Burlington Street.}}|year=1853|volume=III|page=50|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ArgBAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA50|oclc=12118875|passage="Nay, nay, Reynallt," said Ap Teudor, replying to the angry glance of the Forester, "thou '''saddlest''' the wrong steed: like the Abbot, I have no voice but that of obedience."|footer={{small|Used figuratively.}}}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=George Ferguson|chapter=Canto VI. Earth’s Phases: The Ministry of Night: Early Temples.|title=Our Earth—Night to Twilight|location=London|publisher=[[w:T. Fisher Unwin|T[homas] Fisher Unwin]]{{nb...|Paternoster Square}}|year=1892|volume=I|page=155|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWpIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155|oclc=560068919|passage=And he &#91;{{w|Abraham}}&#93; doth rise up with the morrow's dawn, / And for that bidden flame, the wood straightway / He cleaveth now; and '''saddleth''' his ass; / And taking him his son &#91;{{w|Isaac}}&#93; and servants hence, / Doth journey thitherward—full of his God.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Richard Wagner|chapter=[[w:Sigurd|Siegfried]]’s Death|translator=w:William Ashton Ellis|title=Richard Wagner’s Prose Works|location=London|publisher=[[w:Charles Kegan Paul|Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.]]|year=1899|volume=VIII (Posthumous, etc.)|section=act III, scene ii|page=45|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924022322550/page/n72/mode/1up|oclc=857094865|passage=[[w:Brunhild|Brünnhild]]! Brünnhild! / Thou shining child of [[w:Odin|Wotan]]! / Bright-beaming through the night, / the hero I see thee draw near: / with holy earnest smile / thou '''saddlest''' thy horse, / that dew-dripping / cleaveth the clouds.}}
## To put (something) on to another [[thing]] like a saddle on an animal.
##* {{RQ:Dryden Juvenal Satires|chapter=Persius|satire=5|lines=207–208|pages=68|passage=Reſolv'd for Sea, the Slaves thy Baggage pack; / Each '''ſaddled''', vvith his Burden on his back: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Audubon Ornithological Biography|chapter=Purple Grackle or Common Crow-blackbird. ''Quiscalus versicolor'', Vieill.{{nb...|Plate VII. Male and Female.}}|page=39|passage=The centre of the nest is what I would call '''''saddled''''' on the bough, the materials being laid so that the nest is thinner in its middle part and thicker at the two opposite sides, so as to have a firm hold.}}
## {{lb|en|figuratively}}
### To [[enter#Verb|enter]] (a [[trained#Adjective|trained]] [[horse#Noun|horse]]) into a [[race#Noun|race]].
### {{lb|en|often|passive}} ''Chiefly followed by'' '''[[with]]''': to [[burden#Verb|burden]] or [[encumber]] (someone) with some [[problem#Noun|problem]] or [[responsibility]].
###: {{ux|en|He has been '''saddled''' with the task of collecting evidence of the theft.}}
###: {{ux|en|They went shopping and left me '''saddled''' with two children to look after.}}
###* {{RQ:Wells Soul of a Bishop|passage=He wished he had not been '''saddled''' with Whippham's rather futile son as his chaplain.}}
###* {{quote-journal|en|title=Dr. Beeching Previews the Plan for British Railways|journal=w:Modern Railways|location=Shepperton, Surrey|publisher=w:Ian Allan Publishing|month=December|year=1962|page=377|issn=0026-8356|oclc=884584817|passage=They '''saddled''' themselves with the handling of light flows on a multiplicity of branch lines, and they sacrificed the speed, reliability and low cost of through train operation, even over the main arteries of the system.}}
### ''Chiefly followed by'' '''[[on#Preposition|on]]''' ''or'' '''[[upon]]''': to [[place#Verb|place]] (a [[burden#Noun|burden]] or responsibility) or [[thrust#Verb|thrust]] (a problem) on someone.
###* {{RQ:Besant Rice Chaplain|volume=III|chapter=How Lord Chudleigh Received His Freedom|page=248|passage=I did not dislose the name of the man I proposed, because I found her only too eager to marry anyone upon whom she could '''saddle''' her debts, and so make him either pay them or change places with her.}}
### {{lb|en|archaic}} To [[control#Verb|control]] or [[restrain#Verb|restrain]] (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to [[bridle#Verb|bridle]], to [[harness#Verb|harness]], to [[rein in]].
###* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|volume=I|chapter=V|page=567|passage=But he never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready '''saddled''' and bridled to be ridden.}}
### {{lb|en|obsolete|rare}} To [[get#Verb|get]] (someone) to [[do#Verb|do]] a [[burdensome]] [[talk#Noun|task]].
###* {{RQ:Scott Journal|date=25 October 1826|page=283|passage=Picked up Sotheby, who endeavoured to '''saddle''' me for a review of his polyglot {{w|Virgil}}. I fear I shall scarce convince him that I know nothing of the Latin lingo.}}
## {{lb|en|woodworking}} To [[cut#Verb|cut]] a saddle-[[shaped#Adjective|shaped]] [[notch#Noun|notch]] in (a [[log#Noun|log]] or other [[piece#Noun|piece]] of [[wood#Noun|wood]]) so it can [[fit#Verb|fit]] together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this [[method#Noun|method]].
## {{lb|en|obsolete}} To put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal. {{rfv-sense|en}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|chiefly|Canada|US}} ''Often followed by'' '''[[up#Preposition|up]]'''. 
## To put a saddle on an animal.
##* {{RQ:T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars|chapter=LXXI|page=394|passage=Next day, while we were '''saddling''', Ali and Abd el Kader appeared.}}
## Of a [[person#Noun|person]]: to [[get#Verb|get]] into a saddle.
##* {{RQ:Burger Rossetti Lenore|page=26|passage=Till the dead midnight we '''saddled''' not,— / I have journeyed far and fast— / And hither I come to carry thee back / Ere the darkness shall be past.}}
##* {{RQ:Kingsley Hereward the Wake|volume=I|chapter=How Hereward was Outlawed, and Went North to Seek His Fortunes|page=61|passage=[A]y, every churl who owns a manor, if he dares—must needs arm and '''saddle''', and levy war on his own behalf, and harry and slay the King's lieges, if he have not garlic to his roast goose every time he chooses {{...}}}}

=====Usage notes=====
Not to be confused with {{l|en|sidle}}.

=====Conjugation=====
{{en-conj|stem=saddl|old=1}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|saddled|pos=adjective}}
* {{l|en|saddler}}
* {{l|en|saddle up}}
*{{l|en|saddle with}}
* {{l|en|saddling|pos=noun}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|(''transitive'') to put a saddle on (an animal)}}{{multitrans|data=
* Aromanian: {{tt|rup|nshiuedz}}, {{tt|rup|nshel}}
* Azerbaijani: {{tt|az|yəhərləmək}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt|bg|оседлавам}}
* Czech: {{tt|cs|osedlat|pf}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|zadelen}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satuloida}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|seller}}
*: Old French: {{tt|fro|enseler}}
* Galician: {{tt+|gl|enselar}}
* Georgian: {{tt|ka|შეკაზმვა}}, {{tt|ka|უნაგირის დადგმა}}
* German: {{tt+|de|satteln}}, {{tt|de|besatteln}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|nyergel}}, {{tt+|hu|felnyergel}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|satuloija}}, {{t|izh|satuloittaa}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|sellare}}
* Japanese: {{tt|ja|鞍を置く|tr=kura o oku}}, {{tt|ja|鞍を付ける|tr=kura o tsukeru}}
* Latvian: {{tt+|lv|seglot}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt|lt|balnoti}}
* Luxembourgish: {{tt|lb|suedelen}}
* Macedonian: {{tt|mk|седла}}
* Mongolian: {{tt+|mn|эмээллэх}}
* Norman: {{tt|nrf|seller}}
* Norwegian: {{tt+|no|sale}}
* Old Norse: {{t|non|sǫðla}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|siodłać|impf}}, {{tt|pl|osiodłać|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|selar}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|înșeua}}, {{tt+|ro|înșela}} {{qualifier|rare}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|седла́ть|impf}}, {{tt+|ru|оседла́ть|pf}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|о̀седлати}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|òsedlati}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|ensillar}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|sadla}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|eyerlemek}}
* Welsh: {{tt+|cy|cyfrwyo}}
* Yiddish: {{tt|yi|זאָטלען}}
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{{trans-top|to put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|kiinnittää}}, {{tt+|fi|laittaa}}, {{tt+|fi|sälyttää}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to enter (a trained horse) into a race}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|osallistua}} {{qualifier|+ adessive}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to burden or encumber (someone) with some duty or responsibility}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|натоварвам}}, {{tt+|bg|обременявам}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|opzadelen}}, {{tt+|nl|opschepen}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|kuormittaa}}
* German: ''(sich etw.)'' {{tt+|de|aufhalsen}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|appioppare}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|за̀јахати}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|zàjahati}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|sälyttää}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle|harness|rein in}}

{{trans-top|to cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|loveta}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to burden or encumber (someone) with some duty or responsibility}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|натоварвам}}, {{tt+|bg|обременявам}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|opzadelen}}, {{tt+|nl|opschepen}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|kuormittaa}}
* German: ''(sich etw.)'' {{tt+|de|aufhalsen}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|appioppare}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|за̀јахати}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|zàjahati}}
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{{trans-top|(''intransitive'') to put a saddle on an animal}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|satuloida}}
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{{trans-top|of a person: to get into a saddle}}
* Finnish: {{tt|fi|[[nousta]] [[satula|satulaan]]}}
* German: {{tt|de|aufsatteln}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|felszáll}}, {{tt|hu|[[felszáll]] [[lóra]]}}, {{tt|hu|nyeregbe száll}}
* Macedonian: {{tt|mk|се вседлува}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|за̀јахати}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|zàjahati}}
}}
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===References===
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* {{R:OneLook}}

===Further reading===
* {{pedia}}
* {{pedia|saddle (landform)}}
* {{pedia|saddle (disambiguation)}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=addels|addles|daleds}}

{{C|en|Bicycle parts|Footwear|Horse tack}}