menace

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• /ˈmɛnɪs/
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• CMU ARPABET: M EH1 N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English manace, from Old French manace, menace, &c., from Late Latin minācia (“threat, menace”), from Latin mināx (“threatening”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns).

First attested in 1303: from Middle English manacen, from Old French menacer, manecier, manechier and Anglo-Norman manasser, from the assumed Vulgar Latin *mināciāre, from Latin minācia, whence the noun.

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَهْدِيد (tahdīd) — perceived threat or danger
• Belarusian: пагро́за (pahróza) — perceived threat or danger
• Bulgarian: запла́ха (zapláha) — perceived threat or danger
• Bulgarian: опа́сност (opásnost) — perceived threat or danger
• Catalan: amenaça — perceived threat or danger
• Chinese Cantonese: 威脅 /威胁 (wai1 hip3) — perceived threat or danger
• Chinese Mandarin: 威脅 /威胁 (wēixié) — perceived threat or danger
• Czech: hrozba — perceived threat or danger
• Danish: trussel — perceived threat or danger
• Danish: fare — perceived threat or danger
• Finnish: uhka — perceived threat or danger
• French: menace — perceived threat or danger
• German: Drohung — perceived threat or danger
• German: Bedrohung — perceived threat or danger
• German: Druck — perceived threat or danger
• Italian: minaccia — perceived threat or danger
• Japanese: 脅威 (kyōi) — perceived threat or danger
• Korean: 위협 (wihyeop) — perceived threat or danger
• Macedonian: закана (zakana) — perceived threat or danger
• Middle English: manace — perceived threat or danger
• Occitan: menaça — perceived threat or danger
• Plautdietsch: Jedreiw — perceived threat or danger
• Polish: zagrożenie — perceived threat or danger
• Polish: groźba — perceived threat or danger
• Portuguese: ameaça — perceived threat or danger
• Russian: угро́за (ugróza) — perceived threat or danger
• Russian: опа́сность (opásnostʹ) — perceived threat or danger
• Slovak: hrozba — perceived threat or danger
• Spanish: amenaza — perceived threat or danger
• Turkish: tehdit — perceived threat or danger
• Ottoman Turkish: قورقو (korku) — perceived threat or danger
• Ukrainian: погро́за (pohróza) — perceived threat or danger
• Welsh: bygwl — perceived threat or danger
• Welsh: bygylau — perceived threat or danger
• Bulgarian: запла́шване (zaplášvane) — act of threatening
• Chinese Cantonese: 恐嚇 /恐吓 — act of threatening
• Chinese Mandarin: 恐嚇 /恐吓 (kǒnghè) — act of threatening
• Finnish: uhkailu — act of threatening
• Finnish: uhkaus — act of threatening
• German: Androhung — act of threatening
• German: Bedrohung — act of threatening
• Korean: 위협 (wihyeop) — act of threatening
• Korean: 협박 (hyeopbak) — act of threatening
• Middle English: manace — act of threatening
• Plautdietsch: Jedreiw — act of threatening
• Russian: угро́за (ugróza) — act of threatening
• Spanish: amenaza — act of threatening
• Spanish: menaza — act of threatening
• Welsh: bygwl — act of threatening
• Welsh: bygylau — act of threatening
• Finnish: ilkimys — annoying and bothersome person
• Finnish: ilkiö — annoying and bothersome person
• Finnish: maanvaiva — annoying and bothersome person
• Galician: escachapedras — annoying and bothersome person
• German: Plage — annoying and bothersome person
• German: Landplage — annoying and bothersome person
• Italian: peste — annoying and bothersome person
• Polish: zmora — annoying and bothersome person
• Bulgarian: заплашвам (zaplašvam) — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Bulgarian: застрашавам (zastrašavam) — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Czech: zastrašovat — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Czech: hrozit — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Estonian: ähvardama — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Finnish: uhkailla — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Finnish: pelotella — to make threats against, to intimidate
• German: androhen — to make threats against, to intimidate
• German: bedrohen — to make threats against, to intimidate
• German: einschüchtern — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Māori: whakahakahaka — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Middle English: manacen — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Polish: grozić — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Russian: угрожа́ть (ugrožátʹ) — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Russian: грози́ть (grozítʹ) — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Spanish: amenazar — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Spanish: menazar — to make threats against, to intimidate
• Czech: ohrožovat — to endanger
• Czech: ohrozit — to endanger
• Spanish: amenazar — to endanger