malaise

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• Received-Pronunciation: /məˈleɪz/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /mæˈleɪz/
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• General-American: /məˈleɪz/
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• General-American: /mɑˈleɪz/
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• General-American: /-ˈlɛz/
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• rhymes with -eɪz
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• homophone: Malays
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• CMU ARPABET: M AE0 L EY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French malaise (“ill ease”), from mal- (“bad, badly”) + aise (“ease”). Compare ill at ease.

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَوَعُّك (tawaʕʕuk) — bodily feeling
• Arabic: عَلَز (ʕalaz) — bodily feeling
• Bulgarian: неразположение (nerazpoloženie) — bodily feeling
• Catalan: malestar — bodily feeling
• Chinese Mandarin: 不舒服 (bùshūfu) — bodily feeling
• Chinese Mandarin: 不適 /不适 (bùshì) — bodily feeling
• Chinese Mandarin: 欠安 (qiàn'ān) — bodily feeling
• Czech: malátnost — bodily feeling
• Dutch: ongesteldheid — bodily feeling
• Finnish: huonovointisuus — bodily feeling
• Finnish: pahanolontunne — bodily feeling
• French: malaise — bodily feeling
• German: Unbehagen — bodily feeling
• German: Unwohlsein — bodily feeling
• Greek: αδιαθεσία (adiathesía) — bodily feeling
• Hungarian: gyengélkedés — bodily feeling
• Hungarian: rossz közérzet — bodily feeling
• Irish: easláinte — bodily feeling
• Irish: meath-thinneas — bodily feeling
• Italian: malessere — bodily feeling
• Japanese: 不快 (fukai) — bodily feeling
• Korean: 불쾌감 (bulkwaegam) — bodily feeling
• Macedonian: малаксаност (malaksanost) — bodily feeling
• Persian: ناخوشی (nâxoši) — bodily feeling
• Portuguese: mal-estar — bodily feeling
• Romanian: indispoziție — bodily feeling
• Russian: недомога́ние (nedomogánije) — bodily feeling
• Serbo-Croatian: malaksalost — bodily feeling
• Lower Sorbian: njederjeměśe — bodily feeling
• Spanish: malestar — bodily feeling
• Swedish: sjukdomskänsla — bodily feeling
• Swedish: illamående — bodily feeling
• Swedish: olust — bodily feeling
• Arabic: كَرَب (karab) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Arabic: كَآبَة (kaʔāba) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Arabic: أَسَف (ʔasaf) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Bulgarian: безпокойство (bezpokojstvo) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Chinese Mandarin: 不安 (bù'ān) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Dutch: teneergeslagenheid — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Finnish: mielipaha — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Finnish: pahanolontunne — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Japanese: 不快 (fukai) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Japanese: 不安 (fuan) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Korean: 불안감 (buran'gam) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Persian: ناخوشی (nâxoši) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Russian: дискомфо́рт (diskomfórt) — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
• Swedish: olust — ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression