rampant

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• /ˈɹæm.pənt/
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• rhymes with -æmpənt
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From Middle English rampand, rampend, present participle of rampen (“to rise by climbing, shoot up, sprout, sty, ascend”), from Old French ramper (“to creep, climb”) (see below), equivalent to ramp + -and or ramp + -ant. Recorded since 1382, "standing on the hind legs" (as in heraldry), later, "fierce, ravenous" (1387). Compare Scots rampand (“rampant”). Alternatively from Middle English *rampant, from Old French rampant, the present participle of ramper (“to creep, climb”), equivalent to ramp + -ant. Old French ramper derives from Frankish *rampōn, *hrampōn (“to hook, grapple, climb”), from *rampa, *hrampa (“hook, claw, talon”), from Proto-Germanic *hrempaną (“to curve, shrivel, shrink, wrinkle”).

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: изправен на задни крака (izpraven na zadni kraka) — rearing animal
• Dutch: steigerend — rearing animal
• Finnish: takajaloilleen noussut — rearing animal
• Finnish: pystyyn noussut — rearing animal
• German: sich aufbäumend — rearing animal
• Irish: ar a ingne deiridh — rearing animal
• Macedonian: буен (buen) — rearing animal
• Russian: стоя́щий на за́дних ла́пах (stojáščij na zádnix lápax) — rearing animal
• Swedish: stegrande — rearing animal
• Finnish: pystyyn kavahtanut — heraldry
• Finnish: pystyyn noussut — heraldry
• French: rampant — heraldry
• Irish: ar a ingne deiridh — heraldry
• Italian: rampante — heraldry
• Macedonian: буен (buen) — heraldry
• Swedish: upprest — heraldry
• Bulgarian: с опори на различни нива (s opori na različni niva) — architecture
• Dutch: hellend — architecture
• Arabic: جَامِح (jāmiḥ) — unrestrained
• Arabic: هَائِج (hāʔij) — unrestrained
• Bulgarian: неистов (neistov) — unrestrained
• Bulgarian: необуздан (neobuzdan) — unrestrained
• Chinese Mandarin: 猖獗 (chāngjué) — unrestrained
• Chinese Mandarin: 繁茂 (fánmào) — unrestrained
• Dutch: ongebreideld — unrestrained
• Dutch: ongecontroleerd — unrestrained
• Dutch: woekerend — unrestrained
• Finnish: rehottava — unrestrained
• Finnish: hillitön — unrestrained
• Finnish: pidäkkeetön — unrestrained
• French: effréné — unrestrained
• German: zügellos — unrestrained
• Greek: ασυγκράτητος (asygkrátitos) — unrestrained
• Irish: uaibhreach — unrestrained
• Italian: sfrenato — unrestrained
• Japanese: 手がつけられない (te ga tsukerarenai) — unrestrained
• Occitan: desfrenat — unrestrained
• Occitan: descabestrat — unrestrained
• Portuguese: galopante — unrestrained
• Portuguese: desenfreado — unrestrained
• Russian: неи́стовый (neístovyj) — unrestrained
• Russian: безу́держный (bezúderžnyj) — unrestrained
• Russian: я́рый (járyj) — unrestrained
• Russian: бу́йный (bújnyj) — unrestrained
• Spanish: desenfrenado — unrestrained
• Spanish: galopante — unrestrained
• Spanish: rampante — unrestrained
• Spanish: sin mesura — unrestrained
• Swedish: otyglad — unrestrained
• Swedish: hejdlös — unrestrained
• Swedish: ohejdad — unrestrained
• Swedish: vild — unrestrained
• Bulgarian: яростен (jarosten) — rife and menacing
• Dutch: ongebreideld — rife and menacing
• Dutch: uit de hand gelopen — rife and menacing
• Finnish: rehottava — rife and menacing
• Finnish: hillitön — rife and menacing
• German: ungezügelt — rife and menacing
• Greek: αχαλίνωτος (achalínotos) — rife and menacing
• Italian: dilagante — rife and menacing
• Russian: неистовый (neistovyj) — rife and menacing
• Russian: угрожа́ющий (ugrožájuščij) — rife and menacing
• Spanish: endémico — rife and menacing
• Spanish: extendidísimo — rife and menacing
• Spanish: proliferante — rife and menacing
• Spanish: invasor — rife and menacing
• Spanish: invasivo — rife and menacing
• Spanish: rampante — rife and menacing
• Swedish: grasserande — rife and menacing