perturb

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• Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈtɜːb/
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• General-American: /pəɹˈtɜɹb/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)b
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• CMU ARPABET: P ER0 T ER1 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English perturben (“to disturb (someone) mentally, disquiet; to cause disorder to (something), confuse; to hinder (something)”), from Old French perturber, and from its etymon Latin perturbāre, the present active infinitive of perturbō (“to confuse; to alarm, disturb, trouble, perturb”), from per- (intensifying prefix) + turbō (“to agitate, disturb, unsettle, perturb; to upset”) (from turba (“disorder, disturbance, turmoil”) (possibly from Ancient Greek τῠ́ρβη (tŭ́rbē, “confusion, disorder, tumult”), either from Pre-Greek, or Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH- (“to agitate, stir up; to urge on, propel”)) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of regular first-conjugation verbs)).

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: խռովել (xṙovel) — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Bulgarian: смущавам (smuštavam) — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Chinese Mandarin: 打擾 /打扰 (dǎrǎo) — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Dutch: verstoren — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Finnish: häiritä — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Ido: perturbar — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Irish: buair — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Norwegian Bokmål: forurolige — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjøre forstyrret — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Norwegian Bokmål: ryste — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Norwegian Bokmål: skake (opp) — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Norwegian Bokmål: vekke uro — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Persian: ناراحت کردن (nârâhat kardan) — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Spanish: perturbar — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Spanish: conturbar — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Spanish: desatentar — (transitive) to cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed
• Finnish: häiritä — (transitive) of a celestial body: to modify the motion or orbit of (another celestial body) by exerting a gravitational force; to slightly modify (the motion of an object)
• Ido: perturbar — (transitive) of a celestial body: to modify the motion or orbit of (another celestial body) by exerting a gravitational force; to slightly modify (the motion of an object)
• Finnish: häiritä — (transitive) to slightly modify (a set of equations or their solutions), producing deviations from a simple, easily solvable problem
• Finnish: häiritä — (transitive) to influence (a process or system) so that it deviates from its normal state