rot

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• Received-Pronunciation: rŏt
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɒt/
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• General-American: /ɹɑt/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /ɹɔt/
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• Scotland: /ɾɔt/
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• homophone: wrought (cot–caught merger)
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• rhymes with -ɒt
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• CMU ARPABET: R AA1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).

155 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: гниене (gniene) — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Finnish: mätäneminen — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Latin: cariēs — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Latin: tabēs — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Latin: pūtor — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Malayalam: ചീയൽ (cīyal) — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Pohnpeian: soumet — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Spanish: putrefacción — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Spanish: podre — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Spanish: podredumbre — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Spanish: pudrimiento — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Spanish: podrimiento — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Spanish: podredura — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Spanish: pudrición — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Turkish: çürüme — process of becoming rotten — see also decay, putrefaction
• Bulgarian: глупости (gluposti) — verbal nonsense — see also nonsense
• Māori: kohe — verbal nonsense — see also nonsense
• Chinese Mandarin: 腐病 (fǔbìng) — disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs
• Southern Altai: чириир (čiriir) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Southern Altai: ылјыраар (ïlǰïraar) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Arabic: أَفْسَدَ (ʔafsada) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Arabic: فَسَدَ (fasada) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Arabic: خاس (ḵās) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Arabic: عَفَّن (ʕaffan) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Arabic: خَمَّج (ḵammaj) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Arabic: خاس (ḵās) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Arabic: خْمج (ḵməj) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Armenian: փտել (pʻtel) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Armenian: նեխել (nexel) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Aromanian: putridzãscu — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Assamese: গেলা (gela) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Azerbaijani: çürümək — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Bangi: pola — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Bashkir: сереү (serew) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Basque: usteldu — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Belarusian: гніць (hnicʹ) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Breton: breinañ — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Bulgarian: гни́я (gníja) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Catalan: podrir — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Chinese Cantonese: 爛 /烂 (laan6) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Chinese Mandarin: 腐化 (fǔhuà) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Chinese Mandarin: 腐壞 /腐坏 (fǔhuài) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Chinese Mandarin: 腐爛 /腐烂 (fǔlàn) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Cornish: pedri — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Cornish: breyna — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Czech: hnít — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Danish: rådne — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Dutch: rotten — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Dutch: vergaan — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Erzya: наксадомс (naksadoms) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Esperanto: putri — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Estonian: mädanema — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Finnish: mädäntyä — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Finnish: mädätä — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Finnish: lahota — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• French: pourrir — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Galician: podrecer — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Georgian: ლპობა (lṗoba) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Georgian: დალპობა (dalṗoba) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Georgian: ჩალპობა (čalṗoba) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Georgian: ხრწნა (xrc̣na) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• German: verrotten — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• German: verderben — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• German: faulen — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• German: verfaulen — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• German: verwesen — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• German: putreszieren — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• German: sich zersetzen — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• German: in Fäulnis übergehen — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Greek: σαπίζω (sapízo) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Ancient Greek: σήπομαι (sḗpomai) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Hebrew: נרקב (nirkáv) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Hindi: सड़ना (saṛnā) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Hungarian: rohad — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Hungarian: rothad — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Ingrian: märätä — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Ingrian: mehestyä — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Ingrian: märkänessä — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Irish: lobh — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Italian: marcire — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Italian: putrefare — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Italian: putrefarsi — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Italian: imputridire — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Italian: putrire — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Japanese: 腐る (kusaru) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Khmer: រលួយ (rɔluəy) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Kituba: bola — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Korean: 썩다 (sseokda) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Korean: 부패하다 (bupaehada) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Kyrgyz: чирүү (cirüü) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Kyrgyz: ылжыроо (ıljıroo) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Latgalian: pyut — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Latgalian: trupēt — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Latin: pūtrescō — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Latin: putrefaciō — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Latin: tābescō — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Latvian: pūt — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Lingala: pola — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Lithuanian: pūti — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Macedonian: гние (gnie) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Malayalam: ചീയുക (cīyuka) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Māori: whakapopo — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Māori: ane — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Moksha: наксадомс (naksadoms) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Occitan: poirir — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Church Slavic: гнити (gniti) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Old Tupi: tuîuk — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Oromo: tortoruu — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Persian: پوسیدن (pusidan) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Persian: گندیدن (gandidan) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Pohnpeian: soumetla — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Polish: gnić — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Polish: zgnić — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Portuguese: putrefazer — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Portuguese: apodrecer — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Quechua: ismuy — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Romanian: putrezi — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Romanian: descompune — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Russian: гнить (gnitʹ) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Russian: сгнить (sgnitʹ) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Russian: разлага́ться (razlagátʹsja) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Serbo-Croatian: трулити — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Serbo-Croatian: truliti — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Slovak: hniť — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Slovene: gniti — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Spanish: pudrirse — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Spanish: podrirse — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Swedish: ruttna — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Tajik: вайрон шудан (vayron šudan) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Tajik: пӯсидан (püsidan) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Tamil: அழுகு (aḻuku) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Thai: ผุ (pù) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Tibetan: རུལ (rul) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Tocharian B: āmp- — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Turkish: çürümek — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Ukrainian: гни́ти (hnýty) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Ukrainian: згнити (zhnyty) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Unami: alët — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Unami: alël — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Uzbek: chirimoq — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Vietnamese: rữa — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Vietnamese: rã — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Walloon: pouri — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Welsh: pydru — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Welsh: braenu — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Welsh: madru — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Yiddish: פֿוילן (foyln) — (intransitive) to suffer decomposition
• Greek: σαπίζω (sapízo) — (transitive) to make putrid
• Ancient Greek: σήπω (sḗpō) — (transitive) to make putrid
• Ancient Greek: σαπρίζω (saprízō) — (transitive) to make putrid
• Malayalam: ചീയിക്കുക (cīyikkuka) — (transitive) to make putrid
• Spanish: pudrir — (transitive) to make putrid
• Spanish: podrir — (transitive) to make putrid
• Ancient Greek: σήπω (sḗpō) — (transitive) to cause to deteriorate in any way, as in morals
• Russian: разлага́ть (razlagátʹ) — (transitive) to cause to deteriorate in any way, as in morals