slumber

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈslʌm.bə/
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• General-American: slŭmʹbər
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• General-American: /ˈslʌm.bɚ/
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• Northern-England: /ˈslʊm.bə/
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• rhymes with -ʌmbə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S L AH1 M B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English slūma, from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”). Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”), Swedish slummer (“to slumber”). By surface analysis, sloom + -er.

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سِنَة (sina) — a very light state of sleep
• Armenian: նինջ (ninǰ) — a very light state of sleep
• Armenian: նիրհ (nirh) — a very light state of sleep
• Azerbaijani: mürgü — a very light state of sleep
• Bulgarian: дрямка (drjamka) — a very light state of sleep
• Danish: slummer — a very light state of sleep
• Danish: blund — a very light state of sleep
• Dutch: sluimering — a very light state of sleep
• Esperanto: dormeto — a very light state of sleep
• Finnish: uinuminen — a very light state of sleep
• Finnish: torkkuminen — a very light state of sleep
• French: somnolence — a very light state of sleep
• Galician: soneira — a very light state of sleep
• Galician: soneca — a very light state of sleep
• Georgian: თვლემა (tvlema) — a very light state of sleep
• Georgian: ძილი (ʒili) — a very light state of sleep
• Georgian: რული (ruli) — a very light state of sleep
• German: Halbschlaf — a very light state of sleep
• German: Schlummer — a very light state of sleep
• German: Schläfchen — a very light state of sleep
• Greek: υπνηλία (ypnilía) — a very light state of sleep
• Greek: νύστα (nýsta) — a very light state of sleep
• Hebrew: תְּנוּמָה (tnumá) — a very light state of sleep
• Hungarian: félálom — a very light state of sleep
• Italian: sonnolenza — a very light state of sleep
• Italian: dormiveglia — a very light state of sleep
• Central Kurdish: وەنەوز (wenewz) — a very light state of sleep
• Central Kurdish: خەوەنوچکە (xewenuçke) — a very light state of sleep
• Northern Kurdish: hînişk — a very light state of sleep
• Norwegian: slumre — a very light state of sleep
• Norwegian: dorme — a very light state of sleep
• Persian: پینکی (pinaki) — a very light state of sleep
• Plautdietsch: Schlop (nds) — a very light state of sleep
• Polish: drzemka — a very light state of sleep
• Portuguese: pestana — a very light state of sleep
• Portuguese: soneca — a very light state of sleep
• Portuguese: cochilo — a very light state of sleep
• Russian: сон (son) — a very light state of sleep
• Russian: дрёма (drjóma) — a very light state of sleep
• Sanskrit: निद्रा (nidrā) — a very light state of sleep
• Serbo-Croatian: drijémež — a very light state of sleep
• Serbo-Croatian: drijȇm — a very light state of sleep
• Slovene: dremež — a very light state of sleep
• Spanish: adormecimiento — a very light state of sleep
• Spanish: adormilamiento — a very light state of sleep
• Swedish: slummer — a very light state of sleep
• Akan: tɔ nko — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Armenian: նիրհել (nirhel) — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Armenian: ննջել (nnǰel) — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Azerbaijani: mürgüləmək — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Azerbaijani: mürgü basmaq — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Azerbaijani: mürgü vurmaq — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Azerbaijani: mürgü çalmaq — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Azerbaijani: mürgü döymək — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Azerbaijani: mürgü almaq — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Bulgarian: дремя (dremja) — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Catalan: ensopir — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Danish: slumre — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Danish: blunde — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Dutch: sluimeren — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Esperanto: dormeti — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Finnish: uinua — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Finnish: torkkua — to be in a very light state of sleep
• French: somnoler — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Galician: adurmiñar — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Georgian: თვლემა (tvlema) — to be in a very light state of sleep
• German: schlummern — to be in a very light state of sleep
• German: dösen — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Hungarian: szendereg — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Hungarian: szundít — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Hungarian: szundikál — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Hungarian: szunyókál — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Italian: dormiveglia — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Italian: appisolarsi — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Italian: assopirsi — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Polish: drzemać — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Polish: zdrzemnąć — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Portuguese: cochilar — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Portuguese: dormitar — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Romanian: dormita — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Romanian: somnola — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Serbo-Croatian: drijémati — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Slovene: dremati — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Spanish: adormecer — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Spanish: adormilar — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Spanish: dormitar — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Sranan Tongo: dyonko — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Swedish: slumra — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎐 (yšn) — to be in a very light state of sleep
• Finnish: lorvailla — to be inactive or negligent
• German: träumen — to be inactive or negligent
• Italian: appalugarsi — to be inactive or negligent
• Norwegian: sløve — to be inactive or negligent
• Spanish: estar aletargado — to be inactive or negligent