chagrin

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• Received-Pronunciation: shə-grĭn'
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʃaɡ.ɹɪn/
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• rhymes with -æɡɹɪn
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• General-American: shă'grĭn
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• General-American: /ʃəˈɡɹɪn/
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• rhymes with -ɪn
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• obsolete: shə-grēn'
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• obsolete: shă-grēn'
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• obsolete: /ʃæˈɡɹiːn/
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• obsolete: /ʃəˈɡɹiːn/
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• CMU ARPABET: SH AH0 G R IH1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French chagrin (“sorrow”), from Middle French chagrin (“pain, affliction”) (compare Middle French chagriner, chagrigner (“to experience sorrow”), Old French chagrin (“painful, afflicted”)), probably derived from Old Northern French chagreiner, chagraigner (“to sadden”), of uncertain origin. Likely an enlargement of Old French greignier, graignier (“to cringe, growl, be sullen, be angry, grieve over”), from Old French graigne (“sadness, resentment, grief”), from graim (“sorrowful”), related to Old High German gram (“furious, gloomy, grieved”). The initial syllable is obscure. It may represent Old French chat (“cat”) to express the idea of "lamenting or yowling like cats" (compare German Katzenjammer (“distress, frustration, depression, chagrin”, literally “cat-wailing, cat-misery”), katzbalgen (“to cat-fight”)). An alternative theory is that it came from a metaphorical use of French chagrin, (peau de) chagrain (“a type of roughened leather”), with the connection of roughness, though some dictionaries consider this to be a separate word derived from Old French peau de sagrin, from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (sağrı, “the rump of an animal, skin for tawing”). The alteration of initial s to ch is likely due to influence from chagrin meaning "sorrow".

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• German: verärgert — annoyed
• Bulgarian: разочарование (razočarovanie) — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Bulgarian: огорчение (ogorčenie) — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Chinese Mandarin: 懊惱 /懊恼 (àonǎo) — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Chinese Mandarin: 煩惱 /烦恼 (fánnǎo) — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Czech: zármutek — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Czech: zklamání — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Czech: rozčarování — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Czech: nelibost — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Czech: frustrace — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Czech: zahanbení — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Czech: rozmrzelost — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Dutch: verdriet — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Dutch: irritatie — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Dutch: ongenoegen — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Dutch: chagrijn — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Finnish: mielipaha — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• French: chagrin — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• German: Verdruss — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• German: Leidwesen — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Irish: múisiam — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Italian: dispiacere — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Italian: delusione — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Italian: mortificazione — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Japanese: 残念 — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Japanese: 無念 — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Macedonian: ого́рченост (ogórčenost) — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Macedonian: разочару́вање (razočarúvanje) — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Polish: poczucie klęski — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Portuguese: desgosto — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Russian: доса́да (dosáda) — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Russian: огорче́ние (ogorčénije) — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Scottish Gaelic: miabhadh — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Spanish: disgusto — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Spanish: pesar — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Swedish: förtret — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Turkish: hüsran — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Turkish: batkı — distress from failure; vexation or mortification
• Bulgarian: шагрен (šagren) — type of leather or skin
• Finnish: sagriini — type of leather or skin
• German: Chagrin — type of leather or skin
• German: Chagrinleder — type of leather or skin
• Japanese: 鮫皮 (samegawa) — type of leather or skin
• Macedonian: ша́грен (šágren) — type of leather or skin
• Polish: jaszczur — type of leather or skin
• Polish: szagryn — type of leather or skin
• Russian: шагре́невая ко́жа (šagrénevaja kóža) — type of leather or skin
• Bulgarian: огорчавам (ogorčavam) — bother or vex; to mortify
• Bulgarian: досаждам (dosaždam) — bother or vex; to mortify
• Czech: zklamat — bother or vex; to mortify
• Czech: zarmoutit — bother or vex; to mortify
• Dutch: vervelen — bother or vex; to mortify
• Dutch: storen — bother or vex; to mortify
• Finnish: olla pahoillaan — bother or vex; to mortify
• German: verdrießen — bother or vex; to mortify
• German: verärgern — bother or vex; to mortify
• German: ärgern — bother or vex; to mortify
• German: stören — bother or vex; to mortify
• Italian: deludere — bother or vex; to mortify
• Italian: mortificare — bother or vex; to mortify
• Macedonian: до́саѓа (dósaǵa) — bother or vex; to mortify
• Macedonian: ого́рчува (ogórčuva) — bother or vex; to mortify
• Macedonian: о́горчи (ógorči) — bother or vex; to mortify
• Russian: досажда́ть (dosaždátʹ) — bother or vex; to mortify
• Russian: огорча́ть (ogorčátʹ) — bother or vex; to mortify
• Scottish Gaelic: sàraich — bother or vex; to mortify
• Spanish: mortificar — bother or vex; to mortify