clamber

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈklæmbə/
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• General-American: /ˈklæmbɚ/
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• General-American: /ˈklæmɚ/
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• rhymes with -æmbə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: K L AE1 M B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English clambren, clameren, clemeren (“to climb, clamber; to crawl, creep”), then either: * possibly from clam, clamb, clemb, past tense of climben (“to climb, get over; to ascend, rise”), and influenced by Old English clæmman (“to press”); or * from Old English *clambrian, from Proto-Germanic *klambrōną or *klambizōną. The English word is cognate with Low German klemmern, klempern (“to climb”), Scots clammer (“to clamber”); and compare also Danish klamre (“to cling”), Icelandic klambra, klembra (“to pinch closely together; clamp”), Swedish klamra (“to cling”). The noun is derived from the verb.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: катеря се с мъка (katerja se s mǎka) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Chinese Mandarin: 攀登 (pāndēng) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Czech: drápat se — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Czech: vydrápat se — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Czech: šplhat — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Czech: vyšplhat — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Czech: škrábat se — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Czech: vyškrábat se — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Dutch: klauteren — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Finnish: kavuta — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• French: grimper — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• German: klettern — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• German: erklimmen — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• German: kraxeln — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• German: herumturnen — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• German: hinaufklettern — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• German: heraufklettern — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• German: hochturnen — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Greek: σκαρφαλώνω (skarfalóno) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Italian: arrampicarsi — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Japanese: 攀じ登る (yojinoboru) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Korean: 기어 올라감 (gieo ollagam) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Mongolian: авирах (avirax) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Norwegian: kravle — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Occitan: escalabrar — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Occitan: escarlimpar — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Occitan: escaladar — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Russian: кара́бкаться (karábkatʹsja) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Russian: вскара́бкаться (vskarábkatʹsja) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Russian: взбира́ться (vzbirátʹsja) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Russian: взобра́ться (vzobrátʹsja) — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Serbo-Croatian: pentrati se — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Serbo-Croatian: verati se — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Spanish: trepar — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly
• Swedish: klänga — to climb with difficulty or haphazardly