nervous

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnɜːvəs/
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• General-American: /ˈnɝːvəs/
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• New-England, obsolete: /ˈnɑvəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: N ER1 V AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English nervous (“composed of or incorporating nerves”), from Latin nervōsus (“nervous; sinewy; energetic, vigorous”), from nervus (“nerve; muscle; sinew, tendon; (figuratively) energy, power; nerve; force, strength, vigour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *snéh1wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). The English word is analysable as nerve + -ous.

130 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: նյարդային (nyardayin) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Armenian: ջղագրգիռ (ǰġagrgiṙ) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Armenian: ջղային (ǰġayin) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Bulgarian: нервен (nerven) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Bulgarian: раздразнителен (razdraznitelen) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Catalan: nerviós — easily agitated or alarmed
• Danish: nervøs — easily agitated or alarmed
• Danish: nervesvag — easily agitated or alarmed
• Dutch: nerveus — easily agitated or alarmed
• Esperanto: nervoza — easily agitated or alarmed
• Finnish: hermostunut — easily agitated or alarmed
• French: nerveux — easily agitated or alarmed
• Galician: nervioso — easily agitated or alarmed
• Greek: νευρικός (nevrikós) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Hungarian: ideges — easily agitated or alarmed
• Hungarian: feszült — easily agitated or alarmed
• Hungarian: ingerlékeny — easily agitated or alarmed
• Irish: faiteach — easily agitated or alarmed
• Italian: nervoso — easily agitated or alarmed
• Macedonian: ра́здразлив (rázdrazliv) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Macedonian: не́рвозен (nérvozen) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Māori: āmaimai — easily agitated or alarmed
• Māori: pūohorere — easily agitated or alarmed
• Norman: nèrveux — easily agitated or alarmed
• Norwegian Bokmål: nervøs — easily agitated or alarmed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nervøs — easily agitated or alarmed
• Polish: nerwowy — easily agitated or alarmed
• Portuguese: nervoso — easily agitated or alarmed
• Romanian: nervos — easily agitated or alarmed
• Russian: не́рвный (nérvnyj) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Scottish Gaelic: nearbhach — easily agitated or alarmed
• Serbo-Croatian: nervozan — easily agitated or alarmed
• Slovak: nervózny — easily agitated or alarmed
• Spanish: nervioso — easily agitated or alarmed
• Swedish: nervös — easily agitated or alarmed
• Ukrainian: нерво́вий (nervóvyj) — easily agitated or alarmed
• Welsh: cynhyrfus — easily agitated or alarmed
• Ainu: ホタㇱヌ (hotasnu) — apprehensive, anxious
• Arabic: عَصَبِيّ (ʕaṣabiyy) — apprehensive, anxious
• Armenian: նյարդային (nyardayin) — apprehensive, anxious
• Asturian: nerviosu — apprehensive, anxious
• Azerbaijani: həyəcanlı — apprehensive, anxious
• Bulgarian: нервен (nerven) — apprehensive, anxious
• Bulgarian: нервничещ (nervničešt) — apprehensive, anxious
• Catalan: nerviós — apprehensive, anxious
• Chinese Cantonese: 緊張 /紧张 (gan2 zoeng1) — apprehensive, anxious
• Chinese Mandarin: 緊張 /紧张 (jǐnzhāng) — apprehensive, anxious
• Czech: nervózní — apprehensive, anxious
• Danish: nervøs — apprehensive, anxious
• Dutch: nerveus — apprehensive, anxious
• Dutch: gespannen — apprehensive, anxious
• Esperanto: angora — apprehensive, anxious
• Estonian: kärsitu — apprehensive, anxious
• Finnish: hermostunut — apprehensive, anxious
• French: nerveux — apprehensive, anxious
• Galician: nervioso — apprehensive, anxious
• German: nervös — apprehensive, anxious
• Greek: αγχωμένος (anchoménos) — apprehensive, anxious
• Hungarian: ideges — apprehensive, anxious
• Hungarian: izgul — apprehensive, anxious
• Hungarian: nyugtalan — apprehensive, anxious
• Hungarian: aggódik — apprehensive, anxious
• Hungarian: tart — apprehensive, anxious
• Icelandic: flóttalegur — apprehensive, anxious
• Icelandic: taugatrekktur — apprehensive, anxious
• Irish: neirbhíseach — apprehensive, anxious
• Irish: imníoch — apprehensive, anxious
• Italian: nervoso — apprehensive, anxious
• Japanese: そわそわ (sowasowa) — apprehensive, anxious
• Khmer: តប់ប្រមល់ (tɑp prɑmɑl) — apprehensive, anxious
• Korean: 흥분된 (heungbundoen) — apprehensive, anxious
• Ladino: inyervozo — apprehensive, anxious
• Latin: trepidus — apprehensive, anxious
• Macedonian: не́рвозен (nérvozen) — apprehensive, anxious
• Māori: taiatea — apprehensive, anxious
• Māori: ngakau taiatea — apprehensive, anxious
• Māori: āmaimai — apprehensive, anxious
• Māori: manaka — apprehensive, anxious
• Māori: mānakanaka — apprehensive, anxious
• Norman: nèrveux — apprehensive, anxious
• Norwegian Bokmål: nervøs — apprehensive, anxious
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nervøs — apprehensive, anxious
• Polish: nerwowy — apprehensive, anxious
• Portuguese: nervoso — apprehensive, anxious
• Romanian: emoționat — apprehensive, anxious
• Romanian: nerăbdător — apprehensive, anxious
• Russian: не́рвный (nérvnyj) — apprehensive, anxious
• Scottish Gaelic: nearbhach — apprehensive, anxious
• Serbo-Croatian: nervozan — apprehensive, anxious
• Slovak: nervózny — apprehensive, anxious
• Slovene: živčen — apprehensive, anxious
• Spanish: nervioso — apprehensive, anxious
• Swedish: nervös — apprehensive, anxious
• Turkish: endişeli — apprehensive, anxious
• Turkish: gergin — apprehensive, anxious
• Ukrainian: нерво́вий (nervóvyj) — apprehensive, anxious
• Vietnamese: hồi hộp — apprehensive, anxious
• Welsh: nerfus — apprehensive, anxious
• Welsh: pryderus — apprehensive, anxious
• Armenian: նյարդային (nyardayin) — relating to the nerves
• Asturian: nerviosu — relating to the nerves
• Bulgarian: не́рвен (nérven) — relating to the nerves
• Bulgarian: на нервите (na nervite) — relating to the nerves
• Catalan: nerviós — relating to the nerves
• Czech: nervový — relating to the nerves
• Danish: nerve- — relating to the nerves
• Esperanto: nerva — relating to the nerves
• Finnish: hermo- — relating to the nerves
• French: nerveux — relating to the nerves
• Galician: nervioso — relating to the nerves
• Hindi: तंत्रिकीय (tantrikīya) — relating to the nerves
• Hungarian: ideg- — relating to the nerves
• Hungarian: idegi — relating to the nerves
• Irish: néarógach — relating to the nerves
• Italian: nervoso — relating to the nerves
• Japanese: 神経の (shinkei no) — relating to the nerves
• Northern Kurdish: agirnok — relating to the nerves
• Macedonian: не́рвен (nérven) — relating to the nerves
• Middle English: nervous — relating to the nerves
• Norman: nèrveux — relating to the nerves
• Polish: nerwowy — relating to the nerves
• Portuguese: nervoso — relating to the nerves
• Romanian: nervos — relating to the nerves
• Russian: не́рвный (nérvnyj) — relating to the nerves
• Slovak: nervový — relating to the nerves
• Slovene: živčen — relating to the nerves
• Spanish: nervioso — relating to the nerves
• Turkish: sinirsel — relating to the nerves
• Ukrainian: нерво́вий (nervóvyj) — relating to the nerves
• Welsh: nerfol — relating to the nerves