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| Language | Translations for "BE ANGRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jam i zemëruar. (various references) | |
Arabic | غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex). (various references) | |
Aymara | q'apisiyaña (to be angry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сърдя се (pet, sulk). (various references) | |
Chinese | 嗔 (to be angry at). (various references) | |
Czech | být rozhnìvaný. (various references) | |
Dutch | boos zýn op, boos zýn, toornen, kwaad zýn op, kwaad zýn. (various references) | |
Esperanto | koleri. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vera illur við. (various references) | |
Finnish | vihoitella (be annoyed, become inflamed, begin to hurt, fume), suuttua (be annoyed get mad, become angry), olla vihoissaan, olla suutuksissaan (be indignant). (various references) | |
French | être en colère (be agitated, be angry with, be in rage). (various references) | |
German | zürnen (be cross with, get angry, rage against), grollen (growl, peal, roll, rumble, rumbling). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקצוף, לזעוף (glower, look grim, look savage, lour, savage), לזעום (fume, infuriate, rage), לאנוף, לכעוס (anger, be irate, fret, lour, rage, stomach), להתאנף, להתרתח (be enraged, be excited, seethe), להתרגז (become angry), לרגוז (be excited, quake, rage), כעס (anger, glower, grumpiness, indignation, ire, spleen, wrath). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mérges (poisonous, ratty, surly, to be miffed), dühöng (to huff). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membenguk. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | ninngautivaa (to be angry). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 憤る (to be angry, to be enraged, to resent). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おこる (to be angry, to flourish, to get angry, to get mad, to happen, to occur, to rise), いきどおる (to be angry, to be enraged, to be indignant, to resent), いかる (Japanese grosbeak, to be angry, to get angry, to get mad), あらそいいかる (to be angry and quarrelsome). (various references) | |
Maya | dziikil (to be angry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebay angryay.(various references) | |
Polish | gniewać się. (various references) | |
Romanian | fi supãrat pe cineva (be angry with smb.). (various references) | |
Romany | holyanàv (to be angry). (various references) | |
Russian | сердиться (fume, get angry, sulk). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | biti ljut, ljutiti se (fume, piss). (various references) | |
Shona | -shatirwa (to be angry). (various references) | |
Spanish | estar furioso (be peeved, boil with rage, fume, rage), estar enojado, estar colérico. (various references) | |
Sranan | mandi, ati bron. (various references) | |
Swedish | vara arg. (various references) | |
Turkish | kızmak (be angry with smb., be nettled at, be riled at, become hot, chafe, cut up rough, fly off the handle, fret, gall, get hot, get hot under the collar, grow hot, have one's hackles up, heat, huff, inflame, lose one's temper, ruffle), ateş püskürmek (fizz, fulminate, harrumph, rant, spit fire). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sortdurmak, hyrsyzlanmak (feel angry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сердитися. (various references) | |
Welsh | llidio (anger, chafe, inflame). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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