effort

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛf.ət/
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• General-American: /ˈɛf.ɚt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈef.ət/
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• /ˈɛfɔrt/ non-native speakers' English
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• CMU ARPABET: EH1 F ER0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”). Compare typologically Bulgarian усилие (usilie), Czech úsilí, Polish wysiłek, Russian уси́лие (usílije) (< Proto-Slavic *sila).

130 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: përpjekje — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Arabic: جَهْد (jahd) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Arabic: جُهْد (juhd) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Arabic: مَجْهُود (majhūd) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Arabic: سَعْي (saʕy) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Arabic: مجهود (maghūd) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Armenian: ճիգ (čig) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Armenian: ջանք (ǰankʻ) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Azerbaijani: səy — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Azerbaijani: cəhd — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Azerbaijani: zəhmət — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Belarusian: намага́нне (namahánnje) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Belarusian: вы́сілак (výsilak) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Belarusian: пату́га (patúha) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Bengali: কোশেশ (kōśeś) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Bengali: মেহনত (mehonot) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Bulgarian: уси́лие (usílie) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Bulgarian: стара́ние (staránie) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Burmese: ဝါယမ (waya.ma.) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Burmese: ဝီရိယ (wiri.ya.) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Catalan: esforç — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Chinese Mandarin: 努力 (nǔlì) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Chinese Mandarin: 費力 /费力 (fèilì) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Ngazidja Comorian: djitihadi — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Czech: úsilí — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Czech: snaha — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Danish: anstrengelse — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Danish: indsats — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Dutch: inspanning — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Esperanto: klopodo — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Esperanto: penado — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Estonian: pingutus — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Finnish: ponnistus — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Finnish: vaiva — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Finnish: yritys — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• French: effort — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Galician: esforzo — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Georgian: მცდელობა (mcdeloba) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Georgian: ძალისხმევა (ʒalisxmeva) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Georgian: ძალვა (ʒalva) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• German: Anstrengung — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• German: Aufwand — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• German: Bemühung — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Greek: προσπάθεια (prospátheia) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Hebrew: מַאֲמָץ (ma'amáts) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Hindi: प्रयास (prayās) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Hindi: कोशिश (kośiś) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Hindi: जतन (jatan) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Hindi: प्रयत्न (prayatna) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Hungarian: erőfeszítés — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Hunsrik: Aanstrengung — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Indonesian: upaya — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Indonesian: usaha — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Interlingua: effortio — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Irish: stró — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Irish: iarracht — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Italian: sforzo — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Japanese: 努力 (doryoku) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Kazakh: жігер (jıger) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Kazakh: күш (küş) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Khmer: ការខិតខំ (kaa khət khɑm) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Korean: 노력 (noryeok) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Central Kurdish: ڕەنج (renc) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Kyrgyz: күч (küc) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Ladino: esforso — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Lao: ຄວາມພະຍາຍາມ (khuām pha nym) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Latin: mōlīmen — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Latin: mōlīmentum — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Latin: opera — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Latvian: piepūle — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Lithuanian: stengimasis — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Lithuanian: pastanga — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Macedonian: напор (napor) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Māori: manawanuitanga — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Māori: kohakoha — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Mongolian: оролдлого (oroldlogo) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Mongolian: зүтгэл (zütgel) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Norwegian Bokmål: anstrengelse — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Norwegian Bokmål: innsats — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Persian: تلاش (talâš) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Persian: سعی (sa'y) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Persian: جهد (jahd) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Persian: کوشش (kôšeš) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Plautdietsch: Mieej — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Plautdietsch: Aunstrenjunk — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Polish: wysiłek — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Polish: staranie — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Portuguese: esforço — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Romanian: efort — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Romanian: solicitare — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Russian: уси́лие (usílije) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Russian: стара́ние (staránije) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Russian: поту́га (potúga) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Scottish Gaelic: iomairt — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Scottish Gaelic: oidhirp — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Serbo-Croatian: на́пор — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Serbo-Croatian: тру̑д — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Serbo-Croatian: nápor — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Serbo-Croatian: trȗd — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Slovak: úsilie — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Slovak: snaha — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Slovene: napor — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Spanish: esfuerzo — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Spanish: ahínco — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Swahili: juhudi — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Swedish: ansträngning — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Swedish: insats — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Tajik: саъй (sa'y) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Tajik: кӯшиш (küšiš) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Tajik: талош (taloš) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Tajik: ҷахд (jaxd) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Tamil: முயற்சி (muyaṟci) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Thai: ความพยายาม (kwaam-pá-yaa-yaam) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Turkish: çaba — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Turkish: ceht — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Turkish: efor — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Turkish: gayret — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Ukrainian: зуси́лля (zusýllja) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Ukrainian: спро́ба (spróba) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Ukrainian: намага́ння (namahánnja) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Ukrainian: стара́ння (staránnja) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Urdu: جـہد (jahad, jahd) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Urdu: کوشش (kośiś) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Urdu: جتن (jatan) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Urdu: سعی (sa'ī) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Uzbek: zoʻr berish — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Uzbek: jahd (jahd) — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Uzbek: saʼy — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Vietnamese: nỗ lực — the amount of work involved in achieving something
• Yiddish: אָנשטרענגונג (onshtrengung) — the amount of work involved in achieving something