imbecile

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪmbəˈsiːl/
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• General-American: /ˈɪmbəsɪl/
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• General-American: /ˈɪmbəsəl/
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• obsolete: /ɪmˈbɛsɪl/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH1 M B AH0 S AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: IH1 M B AH0 S AY0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Middle French imbécile, from Latin imbēcillus (“weak, feeble”), literally “without a staff”.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: imbècil — person with limited mental capacity
• Dutch: imbeciel — person with limited mental capacity
• Finnish: imbesilli — person with limited mental capacity
• French: imbécile — person with limited mental capacity
• German: Zurückgebliebener — person with limited mental capacity
• German: Behinderter — person with limited mental capacity
• Greek: ηλίθιος (ilíthios) — person with limited mental capacity
• Ancient Greek: βλάξ (bláx) — person with limited mental capacity
• Italian: tarato — person with limited mental capacity
• Khmer: មនុស្សល្ងីល្ងើ (mɔnuh lŋii) — person with limited mental capacity
• Latvian: imbecils — person with limited mental capacity
• Norwegian Bokmål: imbesil — person with limited mental capacity
• Polish: imbecyl — person with limited mental capacity
• Portuguese: imbecil — person with limited mental capacity
• Romanian: imbecil — person with limited mental capacity
• Russian: имбеци́л (imbecíl) — person with limited mental capacity
• Russian: слабоу́мный (slaboúmnyj) — person with limited mental capacity
• Spanish: imbécil — person with limited mental capacity
• Tagalog: tulala — person with limited mental capacity
• Turkish: embesil — person with limited mental capacity
• Turkish: budala — person with limited mental capacity
• Vietnamese: người khờ dại — person with limited mental capacity
• Catalan: imbècil — fool
• Danish: tåbe — fool
• Danish: fjols — fool
• Danish: idiot — fool
• Danish: kraftidiot — fool
• Danish: dumrian — fool
• Danish: fæ — fool
• Danish: imbecil — fool
• Dutch: imbeciel — fool
• Faroese: býttlingur — fool
• Finnish: imbesilli — fool
• French: imbécile — fool
• German: Idiot — fool
• German: Dummkopf — fool
• Greek: ηλίθιος (ilíthios) — fool
• Greek: βλάκας (vlákas) — fool
• Greek: ανόητος (anóitos) — fool
• Indonesian: bodoh — fool
• Indonesian: bego — fool
• Indonesian: tolol — fool
• Japanese: ばか (baka) — fool
• Khmer: អាភ្លើ (aa pləə) — fool
• Latvian: imbecils — fool
• Latvian: stulbs — fool
• Latvian: muļķis — fool
• Latvian: muļķe — fool
• Luxembourgish: Dräibiz — fool
• Norwegian Bokmål: imbesil — fool
• Polish: imbecyl — fool
• Polish: głupiec — fool
• Portuguese: imbecil — fool
• Russian: дура́к (durák) — fool
• Russian: ду́ра (dúra) — fool
• Spanish: imbécil — fool
• Tagalog: tulala — fool
• Turkish: embesil — fool
• Turkish: budala — fool
• Turkish: ahmak — fool
• Turkish: aptal — fool
• Ottoman Turkish: طوی (toy) — fool