inflame

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfleɪm/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ɪɱ-]
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [-ˈfleɪ̯m]
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• rhymes with -eɪm
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• CMU ARPABET: IH0 N F L EY1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English inflammen, enflamen, enflaumen (“to set (something) on fire; to be on fire; (figurative) to enrage (someone); to become enraged; to incite (someone) to do evil; to inspire (someone); (medicine) to cause inflammation of (a body part)”), from Old French enflamer, enflammer (“to set (something) on fire, inflame; to be on fire; (figurative) to fuel (a debate, hatred, etc.)”) (modern French enflammer), from Latin inflammāre, the present active infinitive of inflammō (“to set (something) on fire, inflame; (figurative) to excite (someone)”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘into; to, towards’) + flammō (“to set (something) on fire; to be on fire; (figurative) to incite (someone)”) (from flamma (“flame, fire; (figurative) passion”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhel-, *bhl̥g- (“to blaze, burn; to glow, shine; bright flame, fire”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). By surface analysis, in- (prefix meaning ‘into; to, towards’) + flame.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: ndez — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Bulgarian: запалвам (zapalvam) — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Catalan: inflamar — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Czech: roznítit — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Czech: zapálit — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Esperanto: ekbruligi — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Finnish: sytyttää — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• French: allumer — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• German: entflammen — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• German: anzünden — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Hindi: प्रज्वलित करना (prajvalit karnā) — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Ido: inflamar — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Ingrian: syttää — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Ingrian: sytyttää — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Ingrian: virittää — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Irish: adhain — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Italian: inflamare — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Italian: inflammare — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Italian: infiammare — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Italian: incendiare — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Portuguese: inflamar — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Sardinian: affoghizare — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Spanish: inflamar — (transitive) to set (someone or something) on fire
• Bulgarian: възпалявам (vǎzpaljavam) — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Catalan: inflamar — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Czech: vyvolat zánět — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Czech: zanítit — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Esperanto: inflamigi — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Finnish: tulehduttaa — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• German: sich entzünden — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Hindi: प्रज्वलन (prajvalan) — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Ido: inflamar — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Portuguese: inflamar — (transitive) to cause (the body or a body part) to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to cause inflammation in (the body or a body part); (intransitive) to put in a state of inflammation
• Finnish: herättää — (transitive) to cause (someone) to feel strong desire or other feelings
• Finnish: nostattaa — (transitive) to cause (someone) to feel strong desire or other feelings
• Albanian: kall — (transitive) to excite or intensify (a feeling), especially to an excessive or unnatural level
• Bulgarian: разпалвам (razpalvam) — (transitive) to excite or intensify (a feeling), especially to an excessive or unnatural level
• Czech: roznítit — (transitive) to excite or intensify (a feeling), especially to an excessive or unnatural level
• Finnish: herättää — (transitive) to excite or intensify (a feeling), especially to an excessive or unnatural level
• German: anregen — (transitive) to excite or intensify (a feeling), especially to an excessive or unnatural level
• Italian: inflamare — (transitive) to excite or intensify (a feeling), especially to an excessive or unnatural level
• Italian: inflammare — (transitive) to excite or intensify (a feeling), especially to an excessive or unnatural level
• Italian: infiammare — (transitive) to excite or intensify (a feeling), especially to an excessive or unnatural level
• Finnish: syttyä — (intransitive) to catch fire
• Portuguese: inflamar — (intransitive) to catch fire
• Esperanto: inflami — (intransitive) of a person’s body or body part: to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to be affected by inflammation
• Finnish: tulehtua — (intransitive) of a person’s body or body part: to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to be affected by inflammation
• Galician: inflamar — (intransitive) of a person’s body or body part: to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to be affected by inflammation
• Galician: asañar — (intransitive) of a person’s body or body part: to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to be affected by inflammation
• German: aufbrausen — (intransitive) of a person’s body or body part: to feel abnormally or unusually hot; to be affected by inflammation
• Finnish: intoilla — (intransitive) to feel strong desire or other feelings; to be passionate
• Finnish: kiihkoilla — (intransitive) to feel strong desire or other feelings; to be passionate