nuisance

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnjuː.səns/
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• General-American: /ˈnuː.səns/
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• rhymes with -uːsəns
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• CMU ARPABET: N UW1 S AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English noysaunce, from Anglo-Norman nusaunce, nussance and Old French nuisance, from nuisir (“to harm”), from Latin nocēre. Doublet of nocence and nocency.

113 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِزْعَاج (ʔizʕāj) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Bulgarian: досада (dosada) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Bulgarian: неприятност (neprijatnost) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Catalan: molèstia — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Catalan: incomoditat — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Catalan: lata — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 討厭的事 /讨厌的事 (tǎoyàn de shì) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻煩事 /麻烦事 (máfan shì) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 討厭的人 /讨厌的人 (tǎoyàn de rén) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻煩人 /麻烦人 (máfan rén) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Dutch: ergernis — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Dutch: ongemak — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Finnish: harmi — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Finnish: kiusa — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Finnish: riesa — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• French: embêtement — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• French: nuisance — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: encambullada — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: enfolico — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: engarro — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• German: Ärgernis — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• German: Ärger — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Greek: μπελάς (belás) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Greek: βάσανο (vásano) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Greek: ενόχληση (enóchlisi) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Hungarian: kellemetlenség — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Hungarian: bosszúság — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Indonesian: gangguan — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Irish: crá croí — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Japanese: 迷惑 (meiwaku) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Japanese: 迷惑な物 (meiwaku na mono) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Japanese: 迷惑な人 (meiwaku na hito) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Kabuverdianu: ingisu — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Korean: 성가심 (seonggasim) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Korean: 불쾌함 (bulkwaeham) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Māori: pōrearea — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Māori: whakahōhā — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Norman: emmèrde — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Plautdietsch: Ploag — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Polish: niedogodność — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Polish: uciążliwość — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Portuguese: incômodo — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Portuguese: distúrbio — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Portuguese: inconveniente — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Portuguese: pedra no sapato — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Russian: неприя́тность (neprijátnostʹ) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Russian: доса́да (dosáda) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Russian: неудо́бство (neudóbstvo) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Russian: поме́ха (poméxa) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Russian: ньюснс (nʹjusns) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: molestia — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: engorro — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: incomodidad — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: molienda — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: giba — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Swahili: kero — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Turkish: sıkıntı — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Ukrainian: незручність (nezručnistʹ) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Ukrainian: ніяковість (nijakovistʹ) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Ukrainian: зніяковілість (znijakovilistʹ) — minor annoyance or inconvenience
• Bulgarian: досадник (dosadnik) — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Catalan: pesat — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Catalan: plepa — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻煩事 /麻烦事 (máfan shì) — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 討厭的事 /讨厌的事 (tǎoyàn de shì) — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻煩人 /麻烦人 (máfan rén) — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 討厭的人 /讨厌的人 (tǎoyàn de rén) — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Chinese Mandarin: 討厭鬼 /讨厌鬼 (tǎoyànguǐ) — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Dutch: lastpost — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Esperanto: agacaĵo — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Esperanto: malagrablaĵo — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Finnish: kiusankappale — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Finnish: riesa — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Finnish: maanvaiva — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: arniveque — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: torgallo — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: pentenexo — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: pexo — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: enturro — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: canfornio — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: arrancallo — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: zaquizallo — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Galician: xecas — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• German: Quälgeist — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Indonesian: orang rewel — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Irish: crá croí — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Japanese: 厄介者 (yakkai-mono) — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Japanese: 迷惑な物 (meiwaku na mono) — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Japanese: 迷惑な人 — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Māori: pōrearea — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Plautdietsch: Onjenieech — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Polish: utrapieniec — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Polish: utrapienie — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Portuguese: inconveniente — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Portuguese: inadequado — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Portuguese: inoportuno — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Slovak: otrava — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: inconveniente — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: estorbo — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: pepla — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: engarnio — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Spanish: molienda — person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
• Dutch: overlast — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• German: Belästigung — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Hungarian: botrány — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Hungarian: botrányokozás — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Hungarian: közbotrányokozás — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Hungarian: botránkozás — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Hungarian: megbotránkozás — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Irish: núis — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Korean: 방해 (banghae) — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Middle English: noysaunce — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it
• Polish: zakłócenie porządku — law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it