scream

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• Received-Pronunciation: /skɹiːm/
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• rhymes with -iːm
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• CMU ARPABET: S K R IY1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English scremen, borrowed from or cognate with Middle Dutch scremen (“to yell; shout”) and Old Norse skræma (“to terrify; scare”); compare West Flemish schreemen, Zealandic schreême (“to shout; yell; cry”), Swedish skrämma (“to spook; frighten”), Danish skræmme (“to scare”), West Frisian skrieme (“to weep”). Compare also Swedish skräna (“to yell; shout; howl”), Dutch schreien (“to cry; weep”), German schreien (“to scream”). Related to shriek, skrike.

211 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صرخة (ṣarkha) — loud exclamation
• Assamese: চিঞৰা (sio͂ra) — loud exclamation
• Bengali: চিল্লানি (cillani) — loud exclamation
• Bhojpuri: चीख (cīkh) — loud exclamation
• Bulgarian: вик (vik) — loud exclamation
• Bulgarian: писък (pisǎk) — loud exclamation
• Catalan: crit — loud exclamation
• Chinese Mandarin: 喊聲 /喊声 (hǎnshēng) — loud exclamation
• Czech: výkřik — loud exclamation
• Danish: skrig — loud exclamation
• Dutch: schreeuw — loud exclamation
• Egyptian: s-b-H-bH-A2 (sbḥ) — loud exclamation
• Esperanto: krio — loud exclamation
• Finnish: kirkuna — loud exclamation
• Finnish: kirkuminen — loud exclamation
• French: cri — loud exclamation
• Galician: berro — loud exclamation
• Galician: brado — loud exclamation
• Galician: grido — loud exclamation
• Galician: argüido — loud exclamation
• Galician: frémito — loud exclamation
• Georgian: კივილი (ḳivili) — loud exclamation
• Georgian: ყვირილი (q̇virili) — loud exclamation
• German: Schrei — loud exclamation
• Greek: ξεφωνητό (xefonitó) — loud exclamation
• Greek: κραυγή (kravgí) — loud exclamation
• Greek: ουρλιαχτό (ourliachtó) — loud exclamation
• Greek: φωνή τρόμου (foní trómou) — loud exclamation
• Greek: φωνή πόνου (foní pónou) — loud exclamation
• Greek: οξεία κραυγή (oxeía kravgí) — loud exclamation
• Gujarati: ચીસ (cīs) — loud exclamation
• Hebrew: צרחה (tsrachá) — loud exclamation
• Hungarian: sikoly — loud exclamation
• Hungarian: sikítás — loud exclamation
• Hungarian: visítás — loud exclamation
• Icelandic: öskur — loud exclamation
• Irish: scread — loud exclamation
• Italian: urlo — loud exclamation
• Italian: grido — loud exclamation
• Japanese: 悲鳴 (himei) — loud exclamation
• Kapampangan: kulayit — loud exclamation
• Korean: 비명 (bimyeong) — loud exclamation
• Korean: 소리 (sori) — loud exclamation
• Korean: 절규 (jeolgyu) — loud exclamation
• Central Kurdish: قیژە (qîje) — loud exclamation
• Latvian: kliegt — loud exclamation
• Macedonian: вресок (vresok) — loud exclamation
• Macedonian: пискотница (piskotnica) — loud exclamation
• Malay: jeritan — loud exclamation
• Malayalam: അലർച്ച (alaṟcca) — loud exclamation
• Māori: whakatioro — loud exclamation
• Occitan: crit — loud exclamation
• Old English: hrēam — loud exclamation
• Persian: جیغ (jiġ) — loud exclamation
• Polish: krzyk — loud exclamation
• Portuguese: grito — loud exclamation
• Portuguese: berro — loud exclamation
• Romanian: strigăt — loud exclamation
• Romanian: țipat — loud exclamation
• Russian: крик (krik) — loud exclamation
• Russian: вопль (voplʹ) — loud exclamation
• Russian: визг (vizg) — loud exclamation
• Scottish Gaelic: sgreuch — loud exclamation
• Serbo-Croatian: vrisak — loud exclamation
• Serbo-Croatian: врисак — loud exclamation
• Sicilian: vuciata — loud exclamation
• Slovene: krik — loud exclamation
• Spanish: grito — loud exclamation
• Spanish: alarido — loud exclamation
• Spanish: baladro — loud exclamation
• Swahili: nduru — loud exclamation
• Swedish: skrik — loud exclamation
• Tibetan: ཀི་སྒྲ (ki sgra) — loud exclamation
• Tibetan: ངུ་འབོད་ཆེན་པོ (ngu 'bod chen po) — loud exclamation
• Turkish: çığlık — loud exclamation
• Turkish: bağırma — loud exclamation
• Turkish: haykırış — loud exclamation
• Ottoman Turkish: صراخ (surah) — loud exclamation
• Ukrainian: крик (kryk) — loud exclamation
• Ukrainian: ве́реск (véresk) — loud exclamation
• Urdu: چیخ (cīx) — loud exclamation
• Volapük: luvokäd — loud exclamation
• Welsh: sgrech — loud exclamation
• Afrikaans: skreeu — to make the sound of a scream
• Arabic: صَرَخَ (ṣaraḵa) — to make the sound of a scream
• Arabic: صَرَّخ (ṣarraḵ) — to make the sound of a scream
• Arabic: زَعَّق (zaʕʕag) — to make the sound of a scream
• Azerbaijani: bağırmaq — to make the sound of a scream
• Azerbaijani: qışqırmaq — to make the sound of a scream
• Basque: oihukatu — to make the sound of a scream
• Bengali: চিল্লানি (cillani) — to make the sound of a scream
• Breton: choual — to make the sound of a scream
• Breton: krial — to make the sound of a scream
• Bulgarian: викам (vikam) — to make the sound of a scream
• Bulgarian: извикам (izvikam) — to make the sound of a scream
• Bulgarian: крещя (kreštja) — to make the sound of a scream
• Bulgarian: изкрещя (izkreštja) — to make the sound of a scream
• Catalan: xisclar — to make the sound of a scream
• Catalan: cridar — to make the sound of a scream
• Cherokee: ᎨᏡᎲᏍᎦ (getluhvsga) — to make the sound of a scream
• Chinese Mandarin: 叫喊 (jiàohǎn) — to make the sound of a scream
• Chinese Mandarin: 嗷叫 (áojiào) — to make the sound of a scream
• Chinese Mandarin: 尖叫 (jiānjiào) — to make the sound of a scream
• Crimean Tatar: cekirmek — to make the sound of a scream
• Czech: vykřiknout — to make the sound of a scream
• Czech: křičet — to make the sound of a scream
• Czech: ječet — to make the sound of a scream
• Danish: skrige — to make the sound of a scream
• Dutch: schreeuwen — to make the sound of a scream
• Egyptian: s-b-H-bH-A2 (sbḥ) — to make the sound of a scream
• Esperanto: krii — to make the sound of a scream
• Esperanto: kriĉi — to make the sound of a scream
• Estonian: hüüdma — to make the sound of a scream
• Estonian: karjuma — to make the sound of a scream
• Faroese: skríggja — to make the sound of a scream
• Finnish: huutaa — to make the sound of a scream
• Finnish: kirkua — to make the sound of a scream
• French: crier — to make the sound of a scream
• German: schreien — to make the sound of a scream
• Greek: φωνάζω (fonázo) — to make the sound of a scream
• Greek: ουρλιάζω (ourliázo) — to make the sound of a scream
• Greek: κραυγάζω (kravgázo) — to make the sound of a scream
• Greek: ωρύομαι (orýomai) — to make the sound of a scream
• Greek: ξεφωνίζω (xefonízo) — to make the sound of a scream
• Greek: σκούζω (skoúzo) — to make the sound of a scream
• Gujarati: ચીસ પાડવી (cīs pāḍvī) — to make the sound of a scream
• Hebrew: צרח (tsarách) — to make the sound of a scream
• Hungarian: visít — to make the sound of a scream
• Hungarian: sikít — to make the sound of a scream
• Hungarian: ordít — to make the sound of a scream
• Icelandic: öskra — to make the sound of a scream
• Ido: klamar — to make the sound of a scream
• Interlingua: critar — to make the sound of a scream
• Irish: scread — to make the sound of a scream
• Italian: gridare — to make the sound of a scream
• Italian: sbraitare — to make the sound of a scream
• Italian: urlare — to make the sound of a scream
• Japanese: 悲鳴を上げる (himei o ageru) — to make the sound of a scream
• Japanese: 喚く (wameku) — to make the sound of a scream
• Japanese: 怒鳴り付ける (donaritsukeru) — to make the sound of a scream
• Japanese: キャーと叫ぶ (kyā to sakebu) — to make the sound of a scream
• Korean: 소리지르다 (sorijireuda) — to make the sound of a scream
• Central Kurdish: قیژاندن (qîjandin) — to make the sound of a scream
• Latin: clāmō — to make the sound of a scream
• Latin: vōciferor — to make the sound of a scream
• Lithuanian: rėkti — to make the sound of a scream
• Malay: jerit — to make the sound of a scream
• Malayalam: അലറുക (alaṟuka) — to make the sound of a scream
• Maltese: werżaq — to make the sound of a scream
• Māori: kē — to make the sound of a scream
• Māori: pioro — to make the sound of a scream
• Māori: tioro — to make the sound of a scream
• Māori: koekoe — to make the sound of a scream
• Māori: koe — to make the sound of a scream
• Māori: ngoengoe — to make the sound of a scream
• Māori: ngoe — to make the sound of a scream
• Māori: tīwē — to make the sound of a scream
• Norwegian: skrike — to make the sound of a scream
• Norwegian: hyle — to make the sound of a scream
• Occitan: sisclar — to make the sound of a scream
• Occitan: cridar — to make the sound of a scream
• Northern Ohlone: 'iuqí — to make the sound of a scream
• Old English: hrīeman — to make the sound of a scream
• Oromo: iyyuu — to make the sound of a scream
• Papiamentu: grità — to make the sound of a scream
• Plautdietsch: schrieen — to make the sound of a scream
• Polish: krzyczeć — to make the sound of a scream
• Polish: krzyknąć — to make the sound of a scream
• Polish: wrzeszczeć — to make the sound of a scream
• Polish: wrzasnąć — to make the sound of a scream
• Portuguese: gritar — to make the sound of a scream
• Portuguese: berrar — to make the sound of a scream
• Romanian: țipa — to make the sound of a scream
• Romanian: striga — to make the sound of a scream
• Romanian: urla — to make the sound of a scream
• Russian: крича́ть (kričátʹ) — to make the sound of a scream
• Northern Sami: čeargut — to make the sound of a scream
• Northern Sami: biškut — to make the sound of a scream
• Scottish Gaelic: sgal — to make the sound of a scream
• Scottish Gaelic: ràn — to make the sound of a scream
• Scottish Gaelic: sgreuch — to make the sound of a scream
• Serbo-Croatian: кричати — to make the sound of a scream
• Serbo-Croatian: викати — to make the sound of a scream
• Serbo-Croatian: kričati — to make the sound of a scream
• Serbo-Croatian: vikati — to make the sound of a scream
• Sicilian: buciari — to make the sound of a scream
• Slovene: kričati — to make the sound of a scream
• Slovene: zakričati — to make the sound of a scream
• Spanish: gritar — to make the sound of a scream
• Spanish: alaridar — to make the sound of a scream
• Spanish: desgañitarse — to make the sound of a scream
• Spanish: desgañifarse — to make the sound of a scream
• Spanish: desgalillarse — to make the sound of a scream
• Spanish: huchear — to make the sound of a scream
• Spanish: baladrar — to make the sound of a scream
• Swahili: kulia — to make the sound of a scream
• Swedish: skrika — to make the sound of a scream
• Swedish: gasta — to make the sound of a scream
• Tagalog: umiyák — to make the sound of a scream
• Tamil: கத்து (kattu) — to make the sound of a scream
• Tibetan: སྐད་ཤོར (skad shor) — to make the sound of a scream
• Tibetan: ཀི་སྒྲ་རྒྱབ་པ (ki sgra rgyab pa) — to make the sound of a scream
• Turkish: bağırmak — to make the sound of a scream
• Turkish: haykırmak — to make the sound of a scream
• Turkish: çığlık atmak — to make the sound of a scream
• Ottoman Turkish: چاغرمق (çağırmak) — to make the sound of a scream
• Ottoman Turkish: سسلنمك (seslenmek) — to make the sound of a scream
• Turkmen: arlamak — to make the sound of a scream
• Ukrainian: кричати (kryčaty) — to make the sound of a scream
• Ukrainian: вереща́ти (vereščáty) — to make the sound of a scream
• Volapük: luvokädön — to make the sound of a scream