cripple

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• /ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/
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From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: хром (hrom) — crippled
• Bulgarian: сака́т (sakát) — crippled
• Dutch: kreupel — crippled
• Finnish: rampa — crippled
• Macedonian: са́кат (sákat) — crippled
• Norwegian: krøpling — crippled
• Polish: kaleki — crippled
• Polish: okaleczony — crippled
• Spanish: lisiado — crippled
• Ottoman Turkish: چولاق (çolak) — crippled
• Ottoman Turkish: قولاق (kolak) — crippled
• Southern Altai: кенек (kenek) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Arabic: مُقْعَد (muqʕad) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Armenian: հաշմանդամ (hašmandam) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Armenian: ինվալիդ (invalid) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Azerbaijani: şikəst — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Belarusian: кале́ка (kaljéka) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Belarusian: інвалі́д (invalíd) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Belarusian: інвалі́дка (invalídka) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Bulgarian: инвали́д (invalíd) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Catalan: esguerrat — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Catalan: esguerrada — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Chinese Mandarin: 殘廢 /残废 (cánfèi) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Chinese Mandarin: 瘸子 (quézi) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Chinese Mandarin: 跛子 (bǒzi) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Chinese Mandarin: 廢人 /废人 (fèirén) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Czech: mrzák — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Danish: krøbling — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Dutch: kreupele — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Finnish: invalidi — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Finnish: vammainen — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Finnish: rampa — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• French: estropié — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• French: infirme — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Galician: eivado — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Galician: tolleito — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Georgian: საპყარი (saṗq̇ari) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Georgian: ხეიბარი (xeibari) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• German: Krüppel — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Hungarian: nyomorék — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Irish: cláiríneach — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Italian: storpio — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Italian: storpia — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Japanese: 廃人 (haijin) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Japanese: 不具者 (fugusha) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Japanese: びっこ (bikko) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Kalmyk: монҗ (monj) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Korean: 폐인 (pyein) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Korean: 불구자 (bulguja) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Latvian: kroplis — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Macedonian: са́катник (sákatnik) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Macedonian: инвали́д (invalíd) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Māori: kopa — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Norwegian: krøpling — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Oromo: naafa — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Polish: kaleka — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Portuguese: aleijado — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Portuguese: aleijada — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Russian: кале́ка (kaléka) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Russian: инвали́д (invalíd) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Russian: инвали́дка (invalídka) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Shor: майрық (mayrıq) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Slovak: mrzák — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Slovak: invalid — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Spanish: lisiado — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Spanish: lisiada — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Swedish: krympling — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Swedish: handikappad — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Swedish: funktionshindrad — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Swedish: funkis — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Swedish: invalid — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Turkish: sakat — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Ottoman Turkish: چولاق (çolak) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Ukrainian: калі́ка (kalíka) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Ukrainian: інвалі́д (invalíd) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Ukrainian: інвалі́дка (invalídka) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Woiwurrung: ngarrboun — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Yiddish: קאַליקע (kalike) — person who has severe impairment in physical abilities
• Bulgarian: осакатявам (osakatjavam) — to give someone a physical disability
• Chinese Mandarin: 致殘 /致残 (zhìcán) — to give someone a physical disability
• Chinese Mandarin: 殘害 /残害 (cánhài) — to give someone a physical disability
• Finnish: vammauttaa — to give someone a physical disability
• Finnish: rampauttaa — to give someone a physical disability
• French: estropier — to give someone a physical disability
• Galician: toller — to give someone a physical disability
• Galician: eivar — to give someone a physical disability
• German: verkrüppeln — to give someone a physical disability
• German: lähmen — to give someone a physical disability
• Japanese: 不具にする (fugu ni suru) — to give someone a physical disability
• Latin: debilito — to give someone a physical disability
• Māori: whakahauā — to give someone a physical disability
• Polish: okaleczać — to give someone a physical disability
• Polish: okaleczyć — to give someone a physical disability
• Russian: кале́чить (kaléčitʹ) — to give someone a physical disability
• Russian: искале́чить (iskaléčitʹ) — to give someone a physical disability
• Russian: изувечить (izuvečitʹ) — to give someone a physical disability
• Spanish: discapacitar — to give someone a physical disability
• Spanish: lisiar — to give someone a physical disability
• Spanish: tullir — to give someone a physical disability
• Spanish: derrengar — to give someone a physical disability
• Spanish: baldar — to give someone a physical disability
• Spanish: anquilosar — to give someone a physical disability
• Spanish: tullecer — to give someone a physical disability
• Bulgarian: сломявам (slomjavam) — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Finnish: tuhota — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Galician: toller — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Galician: estragar — to damage seriously; to destroy
• German: zunichte machen — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Māori: whakahauā — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Polish: paraliżować — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Polish: sparaliżować — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Polish: unieruchamiać — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Polish: unieruchomić — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Russian: подрывать (podryvatʹ) — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Russian: разрушать (razrušatʹ) — to damage seriously; to destroy
• Polish: wypuszczać wybrakowany produkt — to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality
• Polish: wypuścić wybrakowany produkt — to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality
• Russian: ограничивать функциональность (ograničivatʹ funkcionalʹnostʹ) — to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality
• Russian: урезать функционал (urezatʹ funkcional) — to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality