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| Language | Translations for "froth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skuim (foam), roer (curl, move, stir, whip, whirl). (various references) | |
Albanian | shkumëzoj (effervesce, foam, lather, seethe), shkumë (fluff, foam, scum, skim, spume, yeast), nxjerr shkumë, mbulohet me shkumë, jargë (drivel, drool, slaver, slime, slobber, spittle), gjëra pa rëndësi (trivia). (various references) | |
Arabic | كسا بالزبد, زبد (bubble, churn, cream, foam, lather, scum, spume), رغوة (foam, head, scum, spume, surf, work, yeast), رغا (cream, effervesce, foam, lather, ramble), شىء تافه (bagatelle, bauble, bosh, damn, duffer, dust, fluff, frivolity, gewgaw, hog, joke, piffling, small beer, tripe, triviality). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разбивам на пяна, пяна (foam, head, lather, spume), празнословие (claptrap, windiness), празни приказки (babble, eyewash, flim-flam, fudge, gas, jazz, natter, palaver, patter, piffle, talk, tittle tattle, twaddle, wind, yack), пеня се (bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, fizz, foam, froth up, fume, lather, scum, spume). (various references) | |
Chinese | 泡沫 (Foam), 漚 (bubble, drizzle, steep). (various references) | |
Czech | pìna (foam, lather, scum, skim, spume, whip). (various references) | |
Danish | skum (foam). (various references) | |
Dutch | schuim (foam), roeren (stir, whip, whirl), omroeren (whip, whirl), doorroeren (whip, whirl). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kirli (curl, stir, whip, whirl), ŝaŭmo (foam), ŝaŭmi (foam). (various references) | |
Faeroese | froða (foam), skúm (foam), røra (actuate, curl, move, stir, whip, whirl), píska (curl, stir, whip, whirl). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaahto (foam, scum). (various references) | |
French | écume (frothiness). (various references) | |
Frisian | skomje (foam), skom (foam), brûs (shower). (various references) | |
German | schaum (foam, lather, scum, spume), schäumen (foam). (various references) | |
Greek | αφρός (foam), αφρίζω (foam). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להקציף (infuriate, provoke), להעלות קצף (foam, lather), קצף (fizz, foam, frothiness, spume, yeast). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tajték (scum, spume, foam, lather), hab (foam, scum, spume, skimmings). (various references) | |
Indonesian | buih (foam, suds). (various references) | |
Italian | schiuma (foam, scum). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 泡 (bubble, foam, head on beer). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あわ (bubble, foam, head on beer, millet). (various references) | |
Manx | keshal (effervesce, effervescence, fizz, foam, foaming, frothing, lather, lathering), kesh (fizz, foam, lather, scum, suds), barrag (cream, hoarfrost, sea foam). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fråde, skumme (fizz, foam, lather), skum (foam, lather). (various references) | |
Papiamen | skuma (foam). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | othfray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espuma (scum), escuma (scum, spume). (various references) | |
Romanian | fleacuri (babble, bosh, bunk, cheese, fiddlededee, fiddle-faddle, flim-flam, gammon, humbug, odd trifles, skittles, tosh, tripe, whatnot), face spumã (churn, cream, fizz, foam, scum), spumega (foam, scum, spume), spumã (cream, foam, head, lather, scum, spume, suds), clãbuci (foam), clãbuc (foam, lather, saliva). (various references) | |
Russian | вспениться, накипь (descale, incrustation, scale, scum, spume), пустословие (empty rhetoric, rant, song and dance, twaddle, verbiage, windiness), пена (foam, spume), пениться пена, пениться (cream, foam, seethe). (various references) | |
Scottish | cop (foam, spume), cobhar (foam). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trabunjati (haver, maunder, talk through one's hat), peniti se (fizz, foam). (various references) | |
Spanish | espuma (foam, scum). (various references) | |
Sranan | skuma (foam). (various references) | |
Swedish | skum (foam, scum), fradga (foam), skumma (skim, effervesce, foam, scum). (various references) | |
Turkish | saçma (absurd), köpürmek (be hopping mad, boil, boil over, bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, explode, fizz, fly off the handle, foam, lather, rage, ramp, ramp and rage, seethe, sparkle, yeast), köpürme (blast, blaze, effervescence, fizz, foaming, frothiness, rage), köpük çıkarmak, köpük (feather, foam, head, lather, mousse, scum, skimmings, spume, suds, yeast), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kцpьrjiklemek (foam), agaran (foam). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | змилюватися, піна (bead, cream, foam, lather, offscum, ream, scum, skim, spume), пінитися (cream, effervesce, fizz, foam, mantle, ream, scum, spume), дурниця (absurdity, absurdness, applesauce, balderdash, ballyhoo, bosh, buncombe, humbug, mush, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, porridge, rigmarole, rubbish, sappiness, shucks, slum, trash, tripe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuyện vô ích chuyện phiếm. (various references) | |
Welsh | ewynnu (foam), ewyn (foam, surf), broch (anger, badger, bluster, tumult). (various references) | |
Yucatec | yoon (foam). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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