frost

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• Received-Pronunciation: /fɹɒst/
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• General-American: /fɹɔst/
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English, German, Swedish and Danish surname, all from the noun frost.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *prews- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *prustós Proto-Germanic *frustaz Proto-West Germanic *frost Old English frost Middle English frost English frost From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.

300 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ainu: シンナㇺ (sinnam) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Albanian: ngricë — cover of minute ice crystals
• Albanian: brymë — cover of minute ice crystals
• Albanian: çaf — cover of minute ice crystals
• Northern Altai: кураа (kuraa) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Southern Altai: кыру (kïru) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Amis: 'o'ol — cover of minute ice crystals
• Arabic: صَقِيع (ṣaqīʕ) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Arabic: صقيع (ṣagīʕ) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Arabic: جْريحة (jriḥa) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Armenian: եղյամ (eġyam) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Aromanian: brumã — cover of minute ice crystals
• Assamese: নিয়ৰ (nir) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Aymara: juyphi — cover of minute ice crystals
• Azerbaijani: qırov — cover of minute ice crystals
• Bashkir: ҡырау (qıraw) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Basque: antzigar — cover of minute ice crystals
• Basque: intzigar — cover of minute ice crystals
• Belarusian: і́ней (ínjej) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Belarusian: шэ́рань (šéranʹ) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Bulgarian: слана (slana) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Bulgarian: скреж (skrež) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Catalan: gelada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Catalan: glaçada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Catalan: gebre — cover of minute ice crystals
• Chinese Cantonese: 霜 (soeng1) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Chinese Mandarin: 霜 (shuāng) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Chuvash: тӑм (tăm) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Cimbrian: bròzama — cover of minute ice crystals
• Cimbrian: bròst — cover of minute ice crystals
• Crimean Tatar: qırav — cover of minute ice crystals
• Czech: jinovatka — cover of minute ice crystals
• Czech: mráz — cover of minute ice crystals
• Danish: frost — cover of minute ice crystals
• Dutch: rijp — cover of minute ice crystals
• Dutch: rijm — cover of minute ice crystals
• Esperanto: prujno — cover of minute ice crystals
• Estonian: härmatis — cover of minute ice crystals
• Faroese: frost — cover of minute ice crystals
• Finnish: kuura — cover of minute ice crystals
• Finnish: huurre — cover of minute ice crystals
• Finnish: härmä — cover of minute ice crystals
• French: givre — cover of minute ice crystals
• Galician: rosada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Galician: xeada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Galician: lazo — cover of minute ice crystals
• Galician: carazo — cover of minute ice crystals
• Galician: pruina — cover of minute ice crystals
• Galician: estromba — cover of minute ice crystals
• German: Reif — cover of minute ice crystals
• Greek: πάγος (págos) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Greek: πάχνη (páchni) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Ancient Greek: κρυμός (krumós) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Ancient Greek: πάγος (págos) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Ancient Greek: πάχνη (pákhnē) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Hebrew: כְּפוֹר (k'for) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Hindi: तुषार (tuṣār) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Hungarian: dér — cover of minute ice crystals
• Hungarian: zúzmara — cover of minute ice crystals
• Icelandic: hrím — cover of minute ice crystals
• Irish: sioc — cover of minute ice crystals
• Irish: siocán — cover of minute ice crystals
• Irish: reo — cover of minute ice crystals
• Irish: cuisne — cover of minute ice crystals
• Italian: brina — cover of minute ice crystals
• Japanese: 霜 (shimo) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Karachay-Balkar: къырау (qırau) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Karaim: kyrav — cover of minute ice crystals
• Karakalpak: qıraw — cover of minute ice crystals
• Kazakh: қырау (qyrau) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Khakas: хро (xro) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Korean: 서리 (seori) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Kumyk: къырав (qıraw) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Northern Kurdish: xwîsar — cover of minute ice crystals
• Kyrgyz: кыроо (kıroo) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Lao: ນ້ໍາກະດ້າງ (nam ka dāng) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Lao: ຫມອກຂຸ້ນ (mǭk khun) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Latin: pruīna — cover of minute ice crystals
• Latin: gelicidium — cover of minute ice crystals
• Luxembourgish: Räif — cover of minute ice crystals
• Malay: ibun — cover of minute ice crystals
• Manchu: ᡤᡝᠴᡝᠨ (gecen) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Māori: hukapapa — cover of minute ice crystals
• Māori: hukapuri — cover of minute ice crystals
• Māori: hukatū — cover of minute ice crystals
• Māori: hauhunga — cover of minute ice crystals
• Navajo: shoh — cover of minute ice crystals
• Navajo: dahtooʼ tin — cover of minute ice crystals
• Navajo: dah tin — cover of minute ice crystals
• Neapolitan: ggelo — cover of minute ice crystals
• Nogai: кырав (kırav) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Norman: gélée — cover of minute ice crystals
• Norwegian Bokmål: rim — cover of minute ice crystals
• Norwegian Bokmål: frost — cover of minute ice crystals
• Norwegian Nynorsk: frost — cover of minute ice crystals
• Occitan: gibre — cover of minute ice crystals
• Occitan: glacina — cover of minute ice crystals
• Old English: hrīm — cover of minute ice crystals
• Persian: هسر (hasar) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Plautdietsch: Frost — cover of minute ice crystals
• Polabian: morz — cover of minute ice crystals
• Polish: szron — cover of minute ice crystals
• Portuguese: geada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Punjabi: ਕੱਕਰ (kakkar) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Punjabi: کَکَّر (kakkar) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Quechua: qasa — cover of minute ice crystals
• Romanian: brumă — cover of minute ice crystals
• Russian: и́ней (ínej) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Russian: и́зморозь (ízmorozʹ) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Sanskrit: हिम (himá) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Scottish Gaelic: reòthadh — cover of minute ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: мра̏з — cover of minute ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: и̑ње — cover of minute ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: сла́на — cover of minute ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: mrȁz — cover of minute ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: ȋnje — cover of minute ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: slána — cover of minute ice crystals
• Shan: မူၺ် (mǒi) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Shor: қыраа (qyraa) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Slovak: mráz — cover of minute ice crystals
• Slovene: ivje — cover of minute ice crystals
• Slovene: slana — cover of minute ice crystals
• Lower Sorbian: mroz — cover of minute ice crystals
• Spanish: escarcha — cover of minute ice crystals
• Spanish: helada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Spanish: carama — cover of minute ice crystals
• Spanish: cencellada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Spanish: cenceñada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Spanish: recencellada — cover of minute ice crystals
• Spanish: pruina — cover of minute ice crystals
• Swedish: frost — cover of minute ice crystals
• Swedish: rimfrost — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tagalog: eskartsa — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tagalog: yamog — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tagalog: andap — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tai Nüa: ᥛᥨᥭᥴ (móy) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tarifit: ajris — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tashelhit: ugris — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tatar: кырау (qıraw) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Telugu: హిమము (himamu) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Thai: น้ําค้างแข็ง (nám káang kɛ̌ɛng) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tofa: һыраа (hyraa) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tokelauan: ua-toka — cover of minute ice crystals
• Turkish: kırağı — cover of minute ice crystals
• Ottoman Turkish: قراغو (kırağu, kırağı) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Tuvan: хыраа (xıraa) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Ukrainian: і́ній (ínij) — cover of minute ice crystals
• Uyghur: qiro — cover of minute ice crystals
• Uzbek: qirov — cover of minute ice crystals
• Venetan: bròxa — cover of minute ice crystals
• Venetan: bróxema — cover of minute ice crystals
• Vietnamese: sương giá — cover of minute ice crystals
• Volapük: flod — cover of minute ice crystals
• Walloon: djalêye — cover of minute ice crystals
• Welsh: rhew — cover of minute ice crystals
• Welsh: barrug — cover of minute ice crystals
• Yiddish: יאָדלעבוים (yodleboym) — cover of minute ice crystals
• ǃXóõ: ǁqa̰ã — cover of minute ice crystals
• Albanian: ngricë — cold weather that would cause frost
• Arabic: صَقِيع (ṣaqīʕ) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Arabic: صَقْعَة (ṣaqʕa) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Arabic: صقيع (saqīʕ) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Arabic: تلج (talg) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Armenian: սառնամանիք (saṙnamanikʻ) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Aromanian: dzer — cold weather that would cause frost
• Azerbaijani: ayaz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Azerbaijani: don — cold weather that would cause frost
• Azerbaijani: sazaq — cold weather that would cause frost
• Azerbaijani: şaxta — cold weather that would cause frost
• Belarusian: маро́з (maróz) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Bulgarian: мраз (mraz) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Chinese Mandarin: 嚴寒 /严寒 (yánhán) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Chinese Mandarin: 冰凍 /冰冻 (bīngdòng) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Chinese Mandarin: 寒冷 (hánlěng) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Chinese Mandarin: 霜 (shuāng) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Cimbrian: bròst — cold weather that would cause frost
• Czech: mráz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Danish: frost — cold weather that would cause frost
• Dutch: vorst — cold weather that would cause frost
• Esperanto: frosto — cold weather that would cause frost
• Estonian: hall — cold weather that would cause frost
• Estonian: külm — cold weather that would cause frost
• Finnish: pakkanen — cold weather that would cause frost
• Finnish: halla — cold weather that would cause frost
• French: gel — cold weather that would cause frost
• Galician: xeada — cold weather that would cause frost
• Galician: xieira — cold weather that would cause frost
• Galician: mangra — cold weather that would cause frost
• Georgian: ყინვა (q̇inva) — cold weather that would cause frost
• German: Frost — cold weather that would cause frost
• Greek: παγετός (pagetós) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Greek: παγωνιά (pagoniá) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Hebrew: קָרָה (qará) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Hindi: पाला (pālā) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Hungarian: fagy — cold weather that would cause frost
• Icelandic: frost — cold weather that would cause frost
• Ingrian: halla — cold weather that would cause frost
• Italian: gelata — cold weather that would cause frost
• Italian: gelo — cold weather that would cause frost
• Japanese: 霜 (shimo) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Kazakh: аяз (aäz) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Kazakh: суық (suyq) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Korean: 서리 (seori) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Kyrgyz: аяз (ayaz) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Kyrgyz: суук (suuk) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Latvian: sals — cold weather that would cause frost
• Luxembourgish: Frascht — cold weather that would cause frost
• Macedonian: мраз (mraz) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Norwegian Bokmål: frost — cold weather that would cause frost
• Norwegian Bokmål: kulde — cold weather that would cause frost
• Norwegian Nynorsk: frost — cold weather that would cause frost
• Old English: frost — cold weather that would cause frost
• Persian: یخبندان (yaxbandân) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Persian: سرما (sarmâ) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Polish: mróz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Portuguese: geada — cold weather that would cause frost
• Portuguese: frio — cold weather that would cause frost
• Punjabi: ਕੱਕਰ (kakkar) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Punjabi: کَکَّر (kakkar) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Romanian: ger — cold weather that would cause frost
• Russian: моро́з (moróz) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Russian: за́морозки (zámorozki) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Northern Sami: buolaš — cold weather that would cause frost
• Sanskrit: हिम (himá) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Scottish Gaelic: reòthadh — cold weather that would cause frost
• Serbo-Croatian: мра̏з — cold weather that would cause frost
• Serbo-Croatian: mrȁz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Slovak: mráz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Slovene: mraz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Slovene: zmrzal — cold weather that would cause frost
• Lower Sorbian: mroz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Spanish: helada — cold weather that would cause frost
• Spanish: pruina — cold weather that would cause frost
• Swedish: frost — cold weather that would cause frost
• Swedish: köld — cold weather that would cause frost
• Tajik: хунукӣ (xunuki) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Tajik: сармо (sarmo) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Tajik: аёс (ayos) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Telugu: హిమము (himamu) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Turkish: don — cold weather that would cause frost
• Turkish: soğuk — cold weather that would cause frost
• Turkish: ayaz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Ottoman Turkish: طوك (doñ) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Ottoman Turkish: آیاز (ayaz) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Turkmen: aýaz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Ukrainian: моро́з (moróz) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Uzbek: ayoz — cold weather that would cause frost
• Uzbek: sovuq — cold weather that would cause frost
• Vietnamese: băng giá — cold weather that would cause frost
• Walloon: djalêye — cold weather that would cause frost
• Welsh: heth — cold weather that would cause frost
• Welsh: tywydd barugog — cold weather that would cause frost
• Yiddish: פֿראָסט (frost) — cold weather that would cause frost
• Finnish: huurtaa — to cover with frost
• Finnish: huurruttaa — to cover with frost
• Spanish: helar — to cover with frost
• Bulgarian: попарвам (poparvam) — to become covered with frost
• Bulgarian: заскрежавам (zaskrežavam) — to become covered with frost
• Chinese Mandarin: 結霜 /结霜 (jiéshuāng) — to become covered with frost
• Dutch: berijpen — to become covered with frost
• Finnish: huurtua — to become covered with frost
• Finnish: kuuraantua — to become covered with frost
• Galician: xear — to become covered with frost
• Galician: xiar — to become covered with frost
• Galician: barutar — to become covered with frost
• Georgian: მოყინვა (moq̇inva) — to become covered with frost
• Greek: παγώνω (pagóno) — to become covered with frost
• Icelandic: hríma — to become covered with frost
• Italian: brinare — to become covered with frost
• Polish: oszronić — to become covered with frost
• Portuguese: escarchar — to become covered with frost
• Romanian: bruma — to become covered with frost
• Russian: обледене́ть (obledenétʹ) — to become covered with frost
• Spanish: escarchar — to become covered with frost
• Spanish: helar — to become covered with frost
• Swedish: frosta — to become covered with frost
• Turkish: buzlanmak — to become covered with frost
• Venetan: broxar — to become covered with frost
• Finnish: kuorruttaa — to coat with icing
• German: glasieren — to coat with icing
• Italian: glassare — to coat with icing
• Māori: pani — to coat with icing
• Polish: lukrować — to coat with icing
• Polish: polukrować — to coat with icing
• Russian: оледени́ть (oledenítʹ) — to coat with icing
• Russian: заледени́ть (zaledenítʹ) — to coat with icing
• Spanish: glasear — to coat with icing
• Spanish: granizar — to coat with icing
• Swedish: glacera — to coat with icing
• Chinese Mandarin: 惹毛 (rěmáo) — to anger or annoy
• Finnish: harmittaa — to anger or annoy
• Finnish: ryydyttää — to anger or annoy
• Finnish: suututtaa — to anger or annoy
• Finnish: ärsyttää — to anger or annoy
• Italian: gelare — to anger or annoy
• Russian: вымора́живать (vymoráživatʹ) — to anger or annoy
• Russian: вы́морозить (výmorozitʹ) — to anger or annoy
• Finnish: kärpätä — to sharpen the points of a horse's shoe
• Spanish: herrar — to sharpen the points of a horse's shoe
• Finnish: raidoittaa — to bleach individual strands of hair