insist

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• /ɪnˈsɪst/
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• rhymes with -ɪst
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• homophone: encyst
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N S IH1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin īnsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence. Compare typologically from the same PIE root Bulgarian настоявам (nastojavam), Russian наста́ивать (nastáivatʹ).

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: këmbëngul — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Arabic: أَصَرَّ (ʔaṣarra) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Armenian: պնդել (pndel) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Bulgarian: настоявам (nastojavam) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Catalan: insistir — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Chinese Mandarin: 堅持 /坚持 (jiānchí) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Czech: trvat na — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Danish: insistere — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Dutch: blijven bij — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Dutch: volhouden — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Dutch: met klem beweren — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Dutch: erop staan — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Dutch: aandringen — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Esperanto: insisti — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Finnish: vakuuttaa — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Finnish: vaatia — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Finnish: inttää — to hold up a claim emphatically
• French: insister — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Galician: insistir — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Galician: porfiar — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Galician: teimar — to hold up a claim emphatically
• German: auf etwas bestehen — to hold up a claim emphatically
• German: beharren — to hold up a claim emphatically
• German: insistieren — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Greek: επιμένω (epiméno) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Hungarian: kitart — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Hungarian: ragaszkodik — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Indonesian: bersikeras — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Italian: insistere — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Japanese: 主張する (shuchō suru) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Korean: 주장하다 (jujang-hada) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Latin: efflāgitō — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Latin: teneō — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Macedonian: насто́јува (nastójuva) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Māori: whakanonoi — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Persian: اصرار کردن (esrâr kardan) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Persian: پافشاری کردن (pâfevâri kardan) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Portuguese: insistir — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Romanian: insista — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Russian: наста́ивать (nastáivatʹ) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Russian: настоя́ть — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Serbo-Croatian: ustrajati — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Serbo-Croatian: ustrajavati — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Serbo-Croatian: insistirati — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Serbo-Croatian: inzistirati — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Slovak: trvať (na) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Spanish: insistir — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Spanish: empeñarse — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Telugu: పట్టుబట్టు (paṭṭubaṭṭu) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Turkish: ısrar etmek — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Turkish: bastırmak — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Turkish: üstelemek — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Turkish: yinelemek — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Ukrainian: наполяга́ти (napoljaháty) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Ukrainian: наполягти́ (napoljahtý) — to hold up a claim emphatically
• Arabic: أَلَحَّ (ʔalaḥḥa) — to demand that something be done
• Armenian: պնդել (pndel) — to demand that something be done
• Catalan: insistir — to demand that something be done
• Danish: insistere — to demand that something be done
• Finnish: vaatia — to demand that something be done
• Galician: insistir — to demand that something be done
• Galician: teimar — to demand that something be done
• Galician: porfiar — to demand that something be done
• Hebrew: הִקְפִּיד (hikpíd) — to demand that something be done
• Hebrew: הִתְעַקֵּשׁ (hit'akésh) — to demand that something be done
• Hebrew: דָּרַשׁ (darásh) — to demand that something be done
• Italian: insistere — to demand that something be done
• Khmer: ទទូច (tɔtuuc) — to demand that something be done
• Macedonian: насто́јува (nastójuva) — to demand that something be done
• Māori: ungaunga — to demand that something be done
• Māori: whakanonoi — to demand that something be done
• Polish: nalegać — to demand that something be done
• Serbo-Croatian: ustrajati — to demand that something be done
• Serbo-Croatian: ustrajavati — to demand that something be done
• Spanish: insistir — to demand that something be done
• Spanish: instar — to demand that something be done
• Ukrainian: наполяга́ти (napoljaháty) — to demand that something be done
• Ukrainian: наполягти́ (napoljahtý) — to demand that something be done