Froth

  

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Froth

Modern Translation: Froth

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), (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 

  

(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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