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• /ɹɛt͡ʃ/
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• homophone: wretch
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From Middle English *recchen, *rechen (attested in arechen), hræcen (“to cough up”), from Old English hrǣċan (“to clear the throat, hawk, spit”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrākijan, from Proto-Germanic *hrēkijaną (“to clear one's throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreg- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Icelandic hrækja (“to hawk, spit”), Limburgish räöke (“to induce vomiting”), Bavarian reckn (“to retch, gag”) and German recken (“to retch, gag”). Also related with German Rachen (“throat”).

From Middle English recchen (“to care; heed”), from Old English rēċċan, variant of rēċan (“to care; reck”), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“straight, right, just”).

From Middle English recchen, from Old English reċċan (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną (“to straighten, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h3roǵéyeti.

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: гадене (gadene) — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Bulgarian: повдигане (povdigane) — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Catalan: arcada — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Chinese Mandarin: 乾嘔 /干呕 (gān'ǒu) — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Dutch: braakneiging — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• French: haut-le-cœur — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Italian: conato — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Italian: conato di vomito — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Māori: whakapoutikitanga — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Persian: هراش (harâš) — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Portuguese: arranco — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Spanish: arcada — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Spanish: basca — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Tagalog: duwal — an unsuccessful effort to vomit
• Bulgarian: гади ми се (gadi mi se) — to make an effort to vomit
• Bulgarian: повдига ми се (povdiga mi se) — to make an effort to vomit
• Czech: dávit se — to make an effort to vomit
• Czech: zvracet — to make an effort to vomit
• Danish: gylpe — to make an effort to vomit
• Dutch: kokhalzen — to make an effort to vomit
• Dutch: braken — to make an effort to vomit
• Finnish: kakoa — to make an effort to vomit
• Galician: arquexar — to make an effort to vomit
• German: würgen — to make an effort to vomit
• Hungarian: öklendezik — to make an effort to vomit
• Italian: avere conati di vomito — to make an effort to vomit
• Māori: pūtanetane — to make an effort to vomit
• Māori: whakapoutiki — to make an effort to vomit
• Māori: pūkanekane — to make an effort to vomit
• Mongolian: огих (ogix) — to make an effort to vomit
• Norman: haler au tchoeu — to make an effort to vomit
• Portuguese: engulhar — to make an effort to vomit
• Russian: пыта́ться рыгнуть (pytátʹsja) — to make an effort to vomit
• Serbo-Croatian: на̀пињати се на повраћање — to make an effort to vomit
• Serbo-Croatian: nàpinjati se na povraćanje — to make an effort to vomit
• Spanish: tener arcadas — to make an effort to vomit
• Spanish: basquear — to make an effort to vomit
• Swedish: hulka — to make an effort to vomit
• Tagalog: maduwal — to make an effort to vomit
• Turkish: öğürmek — to make an effort to vomit
• Ottoman Turkish: اوكورمك (öğürmek) — to make an effort to vomit
• Vietnamese: ọe — to make an effort to vomit