diss

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English respect English disrespectclip. English disparageclip. English diss Originated in Jamaican English or African American Vernacular English, probably originally a clipping of disrespect or disparage, both from the prefix dis-, ultimately from Latin dis-.

Clipping of dissertation.

Borrowed from Arabic دِيس (dīs).

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: diss — insult or put-down
• Finnish: parjaus — insult or put-down
• Finnish: haukkuminen — insult or put-down
• Finnish: dissaus — insult or put-down
• Finnish: halveksinta — insult or put-down
• Finnish: epäkunnioitus — insult or put-down
• German: Diss — insult or put-down
• Icelandic: diss — insult or put-down
• Italian: insulto — insult or put-down
• Japanese: ディス (disu) — insult or put-down
• Korean: 디스 (diseu) — insult or put-down
• Polish: diss — insult or put-down
• Polish: pocisk — insult or put-down
• Polish: pojazd — insult or put-down
• Portuguese: insulto — insult or put-down
• Portuguese: desacato — insult or put-down
• Portuguese: desrespeito — insult or put-down
• Slovak: inzultácia — insult or put-down
• Slovak: invektíva — insult or put-down
• Spanish: improperio — insult or put-down
• Swedish: diss — insult or put-down
• Chinese Cantonese: 串 (cyun3) — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Chinese Mandarin: diss — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Czech: shazovat — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Czech: srážet — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Czech: urážet — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Danish: disse — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Dutch: dissen — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Finnish: parjata — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Finnish: haukkua — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Finnish: dissata — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• French: insulter — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• French: diffamer — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Galician: insultar — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Galician: aldraxar — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• German: dissen — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Hungarian: ekéz — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Hungarian: lekezel — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Icelandic: abbast — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Icelandic: abbast upp á — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Icelandic: dissa — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Italian: dissare — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Italian: insultare — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Japanese: ディスる (disuru) — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Korean: 디스하다 (diseuhada) — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Macedonian: на́вреди (návredi) — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Polish: dissować — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Polish: zdissować — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Polish: pociskać — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Polish: pocisnąć — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Polish: jechać — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Polish: pojechać — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Portuguese: insultar — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Portuguese: desacatar — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Portuguese: desrespeitar — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Russian: оскорбля́ть (oskorbljátʹ) — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Slovak: zhodiť — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Slovak: zhadzovať — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Spanish: denostar — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect
• Swedish: dissa — to put someone down or show verbal disrespect