bloodthirsty

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈblʌdθəːsti/
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• General-American: /ˈblʌdˌθɚsti/
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• CMU ARPABET: B L AH1 D TH ER2 S T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From blood + thirsty. Cognate with West Frisian bloeddorstich (“bloodthirsty”), Dutch bloeddorstig (“bloodthirsty”), German blutdürstig (“bloodthirsty”), Danish blodtørstig (“bloodthirsty”), Swedish blodtörstig (“bloodthristy”), Norwegian blodtørstig (“bloodthirsty”).

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: արնախում (arnaxum) — thirsty for blood
• Armenian: արյունարբու (aryunarbu) — thirsty for blood
• Belarusian: крыважэ́рны (kryvažérny) — thirsty for blood
• Bulgarian: кръвожа́ден (krǎvožáden) — thirsty for blood
• Bulgarian: жаден за кръв (žaden za krǎv) — thirsty for blood
• Catalan: sanguinari — thirsty for blood
• Chinese Mandarin: 嗜血 (shìxuè, shìxuě, shìxiě) — thirsty for blood
• Czech: krvelačný — thirsty for blood
• Czech: krvežíznivý — thirsty for blood
• Danish: blodtørstig — thirsty for blood
• Dutch: bloeddorstig — thirsty for blood
• Dutch: bloeddorstige — thirsty for blood
• Esperanto: murdema — thirsty for blood
• Esperanto: sangavida — thirsty for blood
• Esperanto: sangosoifanta — thirsty for blood
• Finnish: verenhimoinen — thirsty for blood
• French: sanguinaire — thirsty for blood
• Galician: sanguinario — thirsty for blood
• German: blutrünstig — thirsty for blood
• German: blutdürstig — thirsty for blood
• Greek: αιμοσταγής (aimostagís) — thirsty for blood
• Ancient Greek: αἱμοβόρος (haimobóros) — thirsty for blood
• Ancient Greek: αἱμόδιψος (haimódipsos) — thirsty for blood
• Gujarati: લોહીતરસ્યું (lohītrasyũ) — thirsty for blood
• Hungarian: vérszomjas — thirsty for blood
• Icelandic: morðóður — thirsty for blood
• Icelandic: blóðþyrstur — thirsty for blood
• Ido: sango-durstanta — thirsty for blood
• Ido: sango-amanta — thirsty for blood
• Ido: kruela — thirsty for blood
• Indonesian: haus darah — thirsty for blood
• Irish: fuilteach — thirsty for blood
• Italian: sanguinario — thirsty for blood
• Japanese: 血に飢える (chi ni ueru) — thirsty for blood
• Kazakh: қанқұмар (qanqūmar) — thirsty for blood
• Latin: sanguināns — thirsty for blood
• Latin: sanguineus — thirsty for blood
• Latin: cruentus — thirsty for blood
• Macedonian: крво́жеден (krvóžeden) — thirsty for blood
• Macedonian: крво́лочен (krvóločen) — thirsty for blood
• Norwegian Bokmål: blodtørstig — thirsty for blood
• Norwegian Nynorsk: blodtørstig — thirsty for blood
• Old English: blōdiġ — thirsty for blood
• Old English: blōdrēow — thirsty for blood
• Polish: krwiożerczy — thirsty for blood
• Polish: żądny krwi — thirsty for blood
• Portuguese: encarniçado — thirsty for blood
• Portuguese: encarniçada — thirsty for blood
• Portuguese: sanguinário — thirsty for blood
• Portuguese: sanguinária — thirsty for blood
• Portuguese: sanguinolento — thirsty for blood
• Portuguese: sanguinolenta — thirsty for blood
• Russian: свире́пый (svirépyj) — thirsty for blood
• Russian: кровожа́дный (krovožádnyj) — thirsty for blood
• Serbo-Croatian: кр̏волочан — thirsty for blood
• Serbo-Croatian: крвожедан — thirsty for blood
• Serbo-Croatian: krvoločan — thirsty for blood
• Serbo-Croatian: krvožedan — thirsty for blood
• Slovak: krvilačný — thirsty for blood
• Slovene: krvoločen — thirsty for blood
• Spanish: sanguinario — thirsty for blood
• Swedish: blodtörstig — thirsty for blood
• Turkish: hunhar — thirsty for blood
• Turkish: kana susamış — thirsty for blood
• Ukrainian: кровоже́рливий (krovožérlyvyj) — thirsty for blood