bashful

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• [ˈbæʃfəɫ]
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• [ˈbæʃfʊɫ]
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• CMU ARPABET: B AE1 SH F AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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16th-century apheresis of abashed + -ful (“full of”).

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَجُول (ḵajūl) — inclined to avoid notice
• Aromanian: arushinos — inclined to avoid notice
• Belarusian: сарамлі́вы (saramlívy) — inclined to avoid notice
• Bulgarian: плах (plah) — inclined to avoid notice
• Bulgarian: свенли́в (svenlív) — inclined to avoid notice
• Bulgarian: срамежли́в (sramežlív) — inclined to avoid notice
• Cherokee: ᎤᏕᎰᏌᏘ (udehosati) — inclined to avoid notice
• Chinese Mandarin: 害羞 (hàixiū) — inclined to avoid notice
• Danish: sky — inclined to avoid notice
• Dutch: verlegen — inclined to avoid notice
• Dutch: timide — inclined to avoid notice
• Finnish: ujo — inclined to avoid notice
• French: timide — inclined to avoid notice
• Galician: recatado — inclined to avoid notice
• German: schüchtern — inclined to avoid notice
• German: verlegen — inclined to avoid notice
• German: scheu — inclined to avoid notice
• Greek: ντροπαλός (ntropalós) — inclined to avoid notice
• Ancient Greek: αἰδήμων (aidḗmōn) — inclined to avoid notice
• Ancient Greek: αἰδοῖος (aidoîos) — inclined to avoid notice
• Irish: náireach — inclined to avoid notice
• Irish: náiriúil — inclined to avoid notice
• Irish: faiteach — inclined to avoid notice
• Italian: vergognoso — inclined to avoid notice
• Italian: timido — inclined to avoid notice
• Italian: modesto — inclined to avoid notice
• Japanese: 恥ずかしがり屋の (hazukashigariya no) — inclined to avoid notice
• Japanese: 恥ずかしい (hazukashii) — inclined to avoid notice
• Khmer: អៀន (ʼiən) — inclined to avoid notice
• Korean: 부끄럼을 타다 (bukkeureomeul tada) — inclined to avoid notice
• Latin: pudens — inclined to avoid notice
• Latin: verēcundus — inclined to avoid notice
• Latvian: kaunīgs — inclined to avoid notice
• Malayalam: ലജ്ജയുള്ള (lajjayuḷḷa) — inclined to avoid notice
• Māori: konekone — inclined to avoid notice
• Māori: numinumi — inclined to avoid notice
• Norwegian Bokmål: beskjeden — inclined to avoid notice
• Norwegian Bokmål: sky — inclined to avoid notice
• Norwegian Bokmål: forlegen — inclined to avoid notice
• Norwegian Bokmål: unnselig — inclined to avoid notice
• Norwegian Nynorsk: beskjeden — inclined to avoid notice
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sky — inclined to avoid notice
• Norwegian Nynorsk: forlegen — inclined to avoid notice
• Norwegian Nynorsk: smålåten — inclined to avoid notice
• Portuguese: tímido — inclined to avoid notice
• Portuguese: recatado — inclined to avoid notice
• Romanian: rușinos — inclined to avoid notice
• Russian: засте́нчивый (zasténčivyj) — inclined to avoid notice
• Russian: ро́бкий (róbkij) — inclined to avoid notice
• Russian: скро́мный (skrómnyj) — inclined to avoid notice
• Spanish: tímido — inclined to avoid notice
• Turkish: utangaç — inclined to avoid notice
• Ottoman Turkish: محجوب (mahcub) — inclined to avoid notice
• Ottoman Turkish: اوتانغاچ (utangaç) — inclined to avoid notice
• Ukrainian: соромли́вий (soromlývyj) — inclined to avoid notice
• Ukrainian: сором'язли́вий (soromʺjazlývyj) — inclined to avoid notice
• Ukrainian: сором'язни́й (soromʺjaznýj) — inclined to avoid notice
• Unami: kwitayasi — inclined to avoid notice
• Welsh: swil — inclined to avoid notice
• Woiwurrung: wiling-jek — inclined to avoid notice