scourge

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• Received-Pronunciation: /skɜːd͡ʒ/
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• General-American: /skɜɹd͡ʒ/
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• General-American: [skɔɹd͡ʒ]
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
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• CMU ARPABET: S K ER1 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English scourge (“a lash, whip, scourge; affliction, calamity; person who causes affliction or calamity; shoot of a vine”), and then either: * from Anglo-Norman scorge, escorge, escurge, or Old French scurge, escourge, escorge, escorgiee, escurge (modern French escourgée (“(archaic) whip made of leather strips”)), either: ** from Vulgar Latin *excoriāta (“strip of hide; a scourge”), from Late Latin excoriāre, the present active infinitive of excoriō (“to strip the skin from, to skin”), from Latin ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + corium (“skin; hide, leather”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”)); or ** from Latin ex- (intensifying prefix) + corrigia (“a whip”) (from corrigō (“to make right, correct; to reform”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h3reǵ- (“to righten; to straighten”)); or * from Middle English scourgen (verb) (see etymology 2). Cognates Italian scuriada, scuriata

From Middle English scourgen (“to whip, scourge; to afflict; to punish”), and then either: * from scourge (noun) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs); or * from Anglo-Norman escorger, and Old French escorgier (“to whip, to scourge”), which are either: ** from Anglo-Norman scorge, escorge (noun), etc., or Old French scurge, escourge (noun), etc. + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); or ** from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiō, from Latin ex- (intensifying prefix) + corrigia (“a whip”); or ** directly from Late Latin excoriāre. See further at etymology 1.

100 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سوط — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Bashkir: ҡамсы (qamsı) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Bulgarian: бич (bič) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Bulgarian: камшик (kamšik) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Czech: bič — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Czech: důtky — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Czech: karabáč — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Danish: svøbe — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Dutch: gesel — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Esperanto: skurĝo — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Finnish: piiska — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Finnish: ruoska — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• French: écourgée — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• French: fouet — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Galician: flaxelo — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• German: Geißel — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• German: Peitsche — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Greek: μαστίγιο (mastígio) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Ancient Greek: μάστιξ (mástix) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Hebrew: מגלב (maglév) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Hebrew: שוט (shot) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Irish: sciúirse — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Italian: scuriada — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Italian: scuriata — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Latin: verber — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Macedonian: бич (bič) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Macedonian: ка́мшик (kámšik) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Norwegian Bokmål: svøpe — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Portuguese: açoite — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Portuguese: flagelo — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Portuguese: azorrague — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Romanian: bici — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Russian: бич (bič) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Russian: плеть (pletʹ) — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Sicilian: zotta — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Spanish: flagelo — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Swedish: gissel — whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails
• Finnish: vitsaus — person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment
• French: fléau — person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment
• Galician: azoute — person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment
• Portuguese: flagelo — person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment
• Portuguese: azorrague — person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment
• Arabic: وباء — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Arabic: بَلْوَى (balwā) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Armenian: պատուհաս (patuhas) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Bashkir: бәлә (bələ) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Bulgarian: беда (beda) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Bulgarian: бедствие (bedstvie) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Chinese Mandarin: 禍害 /祸害 (huòhài) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Czech: metla — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Czech: mor — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Czech: pohroma — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Czech: bič — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Czech: zhouba — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Danish: svøbe — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Dutch: plaag — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Dutch: schrik — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Dutch: gesel — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Finnish: kirot — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Finnish: maanvaiva — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Finnish: riesa — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Finnish: vitsaus — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• French: fléau — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Galician: azoute — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Galician: flaxelo — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• German: Bürde — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• German: Geißel — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• German: Heimsuchung — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• German: Last — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• German: Pest — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• German: Plage — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Greek: μάστιγα (mástiga) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Ancient Greek: μάστιξ (mástix) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Hebrew: פגע (péga) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Hebrew: מפגע (mifgá) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Irish: sciúirse — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Italian: piaga — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Italian: flagello — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Latin: pestis — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Lithuanian: rykštė — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Macedonian: не́среќа (nésreḱa) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Macedonian: по́мор (pómor) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Norwegian Bokmål: svøpe — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svepe — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Polish: bicz boży — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Portuguese: flagelo — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Portuguese: tormento — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Romanian: flagel — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Russian: беда́ (bedá) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Russian: бе́дствие (bédstvije) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Russian: бич (bič) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Russian: ка́ра (kára) — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Sicilian: camurrìa — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Sicilian: rugna — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Sicilian: siḍḍiju — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Spanish: azote — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Spanish: flagelo — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Swedish: gissel — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Swedish: plåga — source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble
• Finnish: köyhdyttää — of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil)