cramp

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• /kɹæmp/
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Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Frankish *krampōder. Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Middle Dutch crampeder. Old French crampebor. Middle English crampe English cramp From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.

138 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Russian: неразборчивый (nerazborčivyj) — cramped; narrow
• Albanian: ngërth — painful contraction of a muscle
• Amharic: መሸማቀቅ (mäšämaḳäḳ) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Arabic: تَشَنُّج (tašannuj) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Arabic: شَدٌّ عَضَلِيّ (šaddun ʕaḍaliyy) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Azerbaijani: qıc — painful contraction of a muscle
• Azerbaijani: qıclıq — painful contraction of a muscle
• Belarusian: сутарга (sutarha) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Belarusian: спазма (spazma) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Central Bikol: kalambre — painful contraction of a muscle
• Bulgarian: схващане (shvaštane) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Bulgarian: спазъм (spazǎm) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Catalan: rampa — painful contraction of a muscle
• Cebuano: kalambre — painful contraction of a muscle
• Chinese Cantonese: 抽筋 (cau1 gan1) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Chinese Mandarin: 抽筋(兒) /抽筋 — painful contraction of a muscle
• Czech: křeč — painful contraction of a muscle
• Dutch: kramp — painful contraction of a muscle
• Esperanto: kramfo — painful contraction of a muscle
• Finnish: kramppi — painful contraction of a muscle
• Finnish: lihaskramppi — painful contraction of a muscle
• Finnish: suonenveto — painful contraction of a muscle
• Finnish: kouristus — painful contraction of a muscle
• French: crampe — painful contraction of a muscle
• Galician: cambra — painful contraction of a muscle
• Galician: breca — painful contraction of a muscle
• German: Krampf — painful contraction of a muscle
• Greek: κράμπα (krámpa) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Hiligaynon: palamusug — painful contraction of a muscle
• Hiligaynon: busug — painful contraction of a muscle
• Hiligaynon: duklong — painful contraction of a muscle
• Hiligaynon: palaminhod — painful contraction of a muscle
• Hungarian: görcs — painful contraction of a muscle
• Ilocano: betteg — painful contraction of a muscle
• Indonesian: keram — painful contraction of a muscle
• Indonesian: kejang — painful contraction of a muscle
• Irish: féith-chrapadh — painful contraction of a muscle
• Italian: crampo — painful contraction of a muscle
• Japanese: 痙攣 (keiren) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Kabuverdianu: kaiambra — painful contraction of a muscle
• Korean: 쥐 (jwi) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Latin: pnix — painful contraction of a muscle
• Lithuanian: mėšlungis — painful contraction of a muscle
• Malay: kejangan — painful contraction of a muscle
• Māori: kuiki — painful contraction of a muscle
• Māori: kaurapa — painful contraction of a muscle
• Māori: hakoko — painful contraction of a muscle
• Māori: uauawhiti — painful contraction of a muscle
• Māori: parerori — painful contraction of a muscle
• Māori: uhu — painful contraction of a muscle
• Māori: kohukohu — painful contraction of a muscle
• Māori: kokohu — painful contraction of a muscle
• Mapudungun: trekefün — painful contraction of a muscle
• Norwegian Bokmål: krampe — painful contraction of a muscle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krampe — painful contraction of a muscle
• Old English: hramma — painful contraction of a muscle
• Pangasinan: kelat — painful contraction of a muscle
• Pangasinan: polikat — painful contraction of a muscle
• Pangasinan: alibuegbueg — painful contraction of a muscle
• Plautdietsch: Kraump — painful contraction of a muscle
• Polish: skurcz — painful contraction of a muscle
• Portuguese: cãibra — painful contraction of a muscle
• Romanian: crampă — painful contraction of a muscle
• Romanian: cârcel — painful contraction of a muscle
• Russian: спазм (spazm) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Russian: су́дорога (súdoroga) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Serbo-Croatian: spazam — painful contraction of a muscle
• Serbo-Croatian: grč — painful contraction of a muscle
• Slovak: kŕč — painful contraction of a muscle
• Slovene: krč — painful contraction of a muscle
• Spanish: calambre — painful contraction of a muscle
• Spanish: rampa — painful contraction of a muscle
• Spanish: acalambramiento — painful contraction of a muscle
• Spanish: arratonamiento — painful contraction of a muscle
• Swedish: kramp — painful contraction of a muscle
• Tagalog: pulikat — painful contraction of a muscle
• Thai: ตะคริว (dtà-kriu) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Turkish: kramp — painful contraction of a muscle
• Ukrainian: судо́ма (sudóma) — painful contraction of a muscle
• Venetan: sgranfo — painful contraction of a muscle
• Venetan: sgranf — painful contraction of a muscle
• Vietnamese: chuột rút — painful contraction of a muscle
• Vietnamese: vọp bẻ — painful contraction of a muscle
• Waray-Waray: kalambre — painful contraction of a muscle
• Waray-Waray: banhod — painful contraction of a muscle
• Waray-Waray: bikog — painful contraction of a muscle
• Finnish: rajoite — restraint, hindrance
• Finnish: este — restraint, hindrance
• Finnish: lesti — piece of wood used to shape boot
• Galician: forma — piece of wood used to shape boot
• Galician: encospia — piece of wood used to shape boot
• Galician: encorpia — piece of wood used to shape boot
• Italian: forma — piece of wood used to shape boot
• Italian: calco — piece of wood used to shape boot
• Italian: stampo — piece of wood used to shape boot
• Bulgarian: схващам се (shvaštam se) — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Bulgarian: парализирам (paraliziram) — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Finnish: kouristaa — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Finnish: krampata — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Finnish: vetää suonta — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• German: krampfen — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Hungarian: görcsöl — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Indonesian: keram — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Indonesian: kejang — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Italian: paralizzare — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Italian: contrarre — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Japanese: 攣る (tsuru) — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Malay: mengejang — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Māori: parerori — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Māori: hui — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Mongolian: татах (tatax) — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Romanian: se crispa — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Russian: своди́ть судорогой (svodítʹ) — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Serbo-Croatian: grčiti se — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Spanish: acalambrarse — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Spanish: encalambrarse — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Spanish: arratonarse — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Ukrainian: зводити (zvodyty) — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Ukrainian: звести (zvesty) — to contract painfully and uncontrollably
• Bulgarian: спъвам (spǎvam) — to prohibit movement or expression
• Bulgarian: преча (preča) — to prohibit movement or expression
• Finnish: rajoittaa — to prohibit movement or expression
• Hungarian: bénít — to prohibit movement or expression
• Hungarian: gátol — to prohibit movement or expression
• Italian: paralizzare — to prohibit movement or expression
• Italian: inibire — to prohibit movement or expression
• Italian: bloccare — to prohibit movement or expression
• Italian: atrofizzare — to prohibit movement or expression
• Russian: стеснять (stesnjatʹ) — to prohibit movement or expression
• Russian: ограни́чивать (ograníčivatʹ) — to prohibit movement or expression
• Spanish: coartar — to prohibit movement or expression
• Spanish: constreñir — to prohibit movement or expression
• Bulgarian: хващам със скоба (hvaštam sǎs skoba) — to restrain to a specific physical position
• Finnish: lukita — to restrain to a specific physical position
• Italian: limitare — to restrain to a specific physical position
• Russian: фикси́ровать (fiksírovatʹ) — to restrain to a specific physical position
• Serbo-Croatian: ukočiti — to restrain to a specific physical position
• Spanish: inmovilizar — to restrain to a specific physical position