persist

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• General-American: /pɚˈsɪst/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈsɪst/
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• rhymes with -ɪst
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• CMU ARPABET: P ER0 S IH1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French persister (Modern French persister), from Latin persistere, from per- + sistere (“to stand”).

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: настоявам (nastojavam) — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Bulgarian: упорствам (uporstvam) — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Danish: fortsætte — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Danish: vedblive — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Esperanto: persisto — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (þairhwisan) — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Hungarian: kitart — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Hungarian: ragaszkodik — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Hungarian: rendületlenül — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Hungarian: kitartóan — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Italian: persistere — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Latin: persistō — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Latin: persevērō — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Māori: whakakeke — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Māori: hohota — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Māori: oke — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Russian: упо́рствовать (upórstvovatʹ) — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Scottish Gaelic: lean air — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Swedish: envisas — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Thai: ยืนหยัด (yʉʉn-yàt) — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Turkish: sebat etmek — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Turkish: vazgeçmemek — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Ottoman Turkish: قوغمق (koğmak, kovmak) — go on stubbornly or resolutely
• Albanian: rri — continue to exist
• Arabic: ثَابَرَ (ṯābara) — continue to exist
• Bulgarian: устоявам (ustojavam) — continue to exist
• Catalan: persistir — continue to exist
• Chinese Mandarin: 堅持 /坚持 (jiānchí) — continue to exist
• Danish: fortsætte — continue to exist
• Danish: vedblive — continue to exist
• Dutch: volharden — continue to exist
• Finnish: itsepintaisesti pitää kiinni — continue to exist
• Finnish: pysyä järkähtämättömänä — continue to exist
• Finnish: olla edelleen olemassa — continue to exist
• French: persister — continue to exist
• Galician: persistir — continue to exist
• German: beharren — continue to exist
• Hungarian: fennáll — continue to exist
• Hungarian: fennmarad — continue to exist
• Hungarian: tovább él — continue to exist
• Hungarian: folytatódik — continue to exist
• Italian: persistere — continue to exist
• Japanese: 固執する (koshitsu-suru) — continue to exist
• Japanese: 言い張る (iiharu) — continue to exist
• Japanese: 貫く (tsuranuku) — continue to exist
• Japanese: 持続する (tsuranuku) — continue to exist
• Japanese: 残存する (tsuranuku) — continue to exist
• Japanese: 尾を引く (tsuranuku) — continue to exist
• Korean: 고집하다 (gojiphada) — continue to exist
• Māori: whakakeke — continue to exist
• Portuguese: persistir — continue to exist
• Russian: выживать (vyživatʹ) — continue to exist
• Scottish Gaelic: lean — continue to exist
• Spanish: persistir — continue to exist
• Swedish: framhärda — continue to exist
• Turkish: sürdürmek — continue to exist
• Turkish: sürmek — continue to exist
• Vietnamese: kiên trì — continue to exist