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From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-West Germanic *streun, from Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).

From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringō (“to draw tight together, to tie”).

From Middle English strenen (“to beget, father, procreate”), from Old English strēonan, strīenan, strȳnan (“to beget, generate, gain, acquire”), from Proto-West Germanic *striunijan, from Proto-Germanic *striunijaną (“to furnish, decorate, acquire”).

369 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سُلَالَة (sulāla) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Belarusian: паро́да (paróda) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Belarusian: сорт — race, lineage, pedigree
• Belarusian: штам (štam) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Bulgarian: вид (vid) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Bulgarian: род (rod) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Bulgarian: порода (poroda) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Dutch: bloedlijn — race, lineage, pedigree
• Finnish: lajike — race, lineage, pedigree
• Finnish: kanta — race, lineage, pedigree
• Finnish: sukujuuri — race, lineage, pedigree
• Finnish: suku — race, lineage, pedigree
• French: race — race, lineage, pedigree
• French: variété — race, lineage, pedigree
• Friulian: raze — race, lineage, pedigree
• Galician: liñaxe — race, lineage, pedigree
• Galician: cepa — race, lineage, pedigree
• Galician: variedade — race, lineage, pedigree
• Galician: raza — race, lineage, pedigree
• Georgian: ჯიში (ǯiši) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Georgian: სახეობა (saxeoba) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Georgian: სახესხვაობა (saxesxvaoba) — race, lineage, pedigree
• German: Sorte — race, lineage, pedigree
• German: Rasse — race, lineage, pedigree
• German: Abstammung — race, lineage, pedigree
• German: Stamm — race, lineage, pedigree
• German: Geschlecht — race, lineage, pedigree
• Hungarian: származás — race, lineage, pedigree
• Hungarian: család — race, lineage, pedigree
• Hungarian: törzs — race, lineage, pedigree
• Hungarian: eredet — race, lineage, pedigree
• Italian: razza — race, lineage, pedigree
• Italian: varietà — race, lineage, pedigree
• Italian: lignaggio — race, lineage, pedigree
• Italian: ceppo — race, lineage, pedigree
• Italian: discendenza — race, lineage, pedigree
• Kazakh: штам (ştam) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Occitan: raça — race, lineage, pedigree
• Occitan: varietat — race, lineage, pedigree
• Persian: سویه — race, lineage, pedigree
• Polish: szczep — race, lineage, pedigree
• Portuguese: linhagem — race, lineage, pedigree
• Russian: поро́да (poróda) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Russian: сорт — race, lineage, pedigree
• Russian: штамм (štamm) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Sicilian: razza — race, lineage, pedigree
• Sicilian: varità — race, lineage, pedigree
• Sicilian: lignaggiu — race, lineage, pedigree
• Sicilian: cippu — race, lineage, pedigree
• Sicilian: discinnenza — race, lineage, pedigree
• Spanish: cepa — race, lineage, pedigree
• Spanish: raza — race, lineage, pedigree
• Spanish: linaje — race, lineage, pedigree
• Ottoman Turkish: صوی (soy) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Ottoman Turkish: نسل (nesl) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Ukrainian: поро́да (poróda) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Ukrainian: сорт — race, lineage, pedigree
• Ukrainian: штам (štam) — race, lineage, pedigree
• Bulgarian: щам (štam) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Catalan: soca — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Chinese Mandarin: 株 (zhū) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Czech: kmen — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Esperanto: specio — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Finnish: kanta (microbe) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Finnish: rotu — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Finnish: lajike — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• French: race — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• French: souche — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Galician: cepa — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Galician: raza — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Galician: variedade — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Georgian: შტამი (šṭami) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• German: Stamm — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• German: Erregerstamm — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• German: Züchtung — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• German: Sorte — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• German: Rasse — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• German: Form — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• German: Linie — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Hungarian: törzs — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Hungarian: fajta — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Indonesian: galur — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Italian: ceppo — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Kazakh: штам (ştam) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Khmer: ប្រភេទ (prɑɑpheit) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Norwegian Bokmål: stamme — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Occitan: raça — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Occitan: cepa — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Occitan: varietat — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Polish: odmiana — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Polish: szczep — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Polish: rasa — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Portuguese: cepa — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Portuguese: estirpe — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Romanian: tulpină — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Russian: род (rod) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Russian: поро́да (poróda) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Russian: штамм (štamm) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Sicilian: cippu — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Slovene: sev (microbe) — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Spanish: cepa — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Spanish: variedad — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Swedish: stam — particular variety of microbe, organism etc.
• Bulgarian: наследствена черта (nasledstvena čerta) — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Finnish: perintö — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Finnish: taipumus — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• French: hérédité — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• German: Veranlagung — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• German: Disposition — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• German: Charakterzug — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• German: Zug — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• German: Tendenz — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• German: Hang — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• German: Ausprägung — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Hungarian: hajlam — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Italian: disposizione — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Italian: predisposizione — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Italian: carattere ereditario — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Italian: ereditarietà — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Italian: tendenza — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Norwegian Bokmål: tendens — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Norwegian Bokmål: hang — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Norwegian Bokmål: anlegg — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Norwegian Bokmål: disposisjon — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Portuguese: feição — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Sicilian: natura — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Sicilian: caràttiri riditariu — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Sicilian: riditarità — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Spanish: trazas — hereditary character, quality, or disposition
• Bulgarian: напев (napev) — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Finnish: taipumus — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• German: Weise — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Hungarian: ének — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Hungarian: költemény — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Hungarian: dal — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Hungarian: hangulat — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Hungarian: hangnem — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Irish: ábhann — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Sicilian: manera — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Sicilian: mutivu — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Sicilian: stili — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Sicilian: tema — music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
• Finnish: tyyppi — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• German: Art — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• German: Form — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• German: Typ — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• German: Ausprägung — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Hungarian: fajta — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Sicilian: gèniri — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Sicilian: speci — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Sicilian: sorta — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Sicilian: tipu — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Spanish: clase — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Spanish: tipo — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Swedish: sort — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Ottoman Turkish: صوی (soy) — kind or sort (of person etc.)
• Bulgarian: опъване (opǎvane) — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Bulgarian: разтягане (raztjagane) — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Catalan: pressió — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Catalan: tensió — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Danish: pres — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Finnish: rasitus — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• French: tension — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• French: pression — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Belastung — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Spannung — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Inanspruchnahme — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Beanspruchung — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Dehnung — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Stress — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Strapaze — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Anspannung — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Druck — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• German: Anstrengung — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Hungarian: feszítés — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Hungarian: terhelés — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Hungarian: megterhelés — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Hungarian: igénybevétel — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Hungarian: erőltetés — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Latin: tēnsiō — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Russian: напряже́ние (naprjažénije) — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Spanish: tensión — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Swedish: press — act of straining, or the state of being strained
• Bulgarian: напрягане (naprjagane) — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Catalan: estrebada — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Finnish: ponnistus — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Finnish: jännitys — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• German: Kraftaufwand — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• German: Anspannung — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• German: Anstrengung — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• German: Strapaze — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• German: Überanstrengung — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Hungarian: megerőltetés — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Irish: masla — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Occitan: esperfòrç — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Portuguese: distensão — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Spanish: tirón — violent effort, excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles
• Bulgarian: разтежение (razteženie) — injury resulting from violent effort
• Catalan: estrebada — injury resulting from violent effort
• Finnish: venähdys — injury resulting from violent effort
• French: élongation — injury resulting from violent effort
• French: claquage — injury resulting from violent effort
• German: Überdehnung — injury resulting from violent effort
• German: Verdehnung — injury resulting from violent effort
• German: Krampf — injury resulting from violent effort
• German: Überanstrengung — injury resulting from violent effort
• German: Verrenkung — injury resulting from violent effort
• German: Zerrung — injury resulting from violent effort
• Hungarian: rándulás — injury resulting from violent effort
• Hungarian: húzódás — injury resulting from violent effort
• Hungarian: meghúzódás — injury resulting from violent effort
• Irish: masla — injury resulting from violent effort
• Portuguese: contusão — injury resulting from violent effort
• Spanish: tirón — injury resulting from violent effort
• Bulgarian: деформация (deformacija) — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Finnish: venymä — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Finnish: venyminen — engineering: measure of object deformation
• French: déformation — engineering: measure of object deformation
• German: Verformung — engineering: measure of object deformation
• German: Dehnung — engineering: measure of object deformation
• German: Deformation — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Hungarian: nyúlás — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Hungarian: deformáció — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Hungarian: alakváltozás — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Hungarian: igénybevétel — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Hungarian: torzulás — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Irish: straidhn — engineering: measure of object deformation
• Finnish: hirven jälki — track of a deer
• German: Fährte — track of a deer
• German: Spur — track of a deer
• Bulgarian: опъвам (opǎvam) — to apply a force
• Bulgarian: обтягам (obtjagam) — to apply a force
• Danish: belaste — to apply a force
• Danish: trække — to apply a force
• Danish: trykke — to apply a force
• Dutch: forceren — to apply a force
• Finnish: rasittaa — to apply a force
• Finnish: kuormittaa — to apply a force
• Galician: tensar — to apply a force
• German: beanspruchen — to apply a force
• German: belasten — to apply a force
• German: anstrengen — to apply a force
• German: anspannen — to apply a force
• German: strapazieren — to apply a force
• German: dehnen — to apply a force
• German: drücken — to apply a force
• German: ziehen — to apply a force
• Hungarian: feszít — to apply a force
• Hungarian: megfeszít — to apply a force
• Hungarian: meghúz — to apply a force
• Irish: freang — to apply a force
• Italian: tendere — to apply a force
• Italian: tirare — to apply a force
• Italian: forzare — to apply a force
• Italian: bistrattare — to apply a force
• Korean: 당기다 (danggida) — to apply a force
• Māori: riaka — to apply a force
• Māori: whakawhēnanau — to apply a force
• Māori: whakatoutou — to apply a force
• Norwegian Bokmål: strekke — to apply a force
• Norwegian Bokmål: belaste — to apply a force
• Persian: تنجیدن (tanjidan) — to apply a force
• Russian: напряга́ть (naprjagátʹ) — to apply a force
• Russian: напря́чь (naprjáčʹ) — to apply a force
• Slovak: napnúť — to apply a force
• Spanish: esforzar — to apply a force
• Ottoman Turkish: كرمك (germek) — to apply a force
• Ottoman Turkish: قاصمق (kasmak) — to apply a force
• Bulgarian: разтягам (raztjagam) — to stretch too far
• Danish: overstrække — to stretch too far
• Dutch: overstrekken — to stretch too far
• Finnish: venäyttää — to stretch too far
• French: étirer — to stretch too far
• German: überdehnen — to stretch too far
• German: überbeanspruchen — to stretch too far
• German: überstrecken — to stretch too far
• German: überstrapazieren — to stretch too far
• German: überspannen — to stretch too far
• German: überlasten — to stretch too far
• German: überanstrengen — to stretch too far
• German: verrenken — to stretch too far
• German: zerren — to stretch too far
• German: recken — to stretch too far
• German: reißen — to stretch too far
• Hungarian: túlfeszít — to stretch too far
• Hungarian: túlterhel — to stretch too far
• Hungarian: terhet jelent — to stretch too far
• Hungarian: túlzottan megterhel — to stretch too far
• Hungarian: megerőltet — to stretch too far
• Hungarian: túlerőltet — to stretch too far
• Ingrian: venahtaa — to stretch too far
• Irish: sníomh — to stretch too far
• Italian: slogare — to stretch too far
• Italian: stravolgere — to stretch too far
• Italian: distorcere — to stretch too far
• Italian: protrudere — to stretch too far
• Māori: tanuku — to stretch too far
• Māori: whakatoutou — to stretch too far
• Māori: whakawhēnanau — to stretch too far
• Portuguese: distender — to stretch too far
• Russian: растя́гивать (rastjágivatʹ) — to stretch too far
• Russian: растяну́ть (rastjanútʹ) — to stretch too far
• Slovak: natiahnuť — to stretch too far
• Aromanian: stricor — to separate solid from liquid
• Asturian: colar — to separate solid from liquid
• Bashkir: һөҙөү (höźöw) — to separate solid from liquid
• Bulgarian: прецеждам (preceždam) — to separate solid from liquid
• Catalan: colar — to separate solid from liquid
• Cherokee: ᎧᏅᏐᎸᏍᏗᎭ (kanvsolvsdiha) — to separate solid from liquid
• Chinese Mandarin: 過濾 /过滤 (guòlǜ) — to separate solid from liquid
• Chinese Mandarin: 濾 /滤 (lǜ) — to separate solid from liquid
• Czech: cedit — to separate solid from liquid
• Danish: si — to separate solid from liquid
• Dutch: scheiden — to separate solid from liquid
• Dutch: afscheiden — to separate solid from liquid
• Dutch: zeven — to separate solid from liquid
• Esperanto: filtri — to separate solid from liquid
• Finnish: siivilöidä — to separate solid from liquid
• Galician: coar — to separate solid from liquid
• Galician: escoar — to separate solid from liquid
• Galician: escorrer — to separate solid from liquid
• Galician: decorrer — to separate solid from liquid
• German: durchsieben — to separate solid from liquid
• German: filtern — to separate solid from liquid
• German: sieben — to separate solid from liquid
• German: abscheiden — to separate solid from liquid
• German: seihen — to separate solid from liquid
• German: abseihen — to separate solid from liquid
• German: passieren — to separate solid from liquid
• Greek: σουρώνω (souróno) — to separate solid from liquid
• Greek: στραγγίζω (strangízo) — to separate solid from liquid
• Hungarian: szűr — to separate solid from liquid
• Irish: síothlaigh — to separate solid from liquid
• Irish: scag — to separate solid from liquid
• Italian: colare — to separate solid from liquid
• Italian: passare — to separate solid from liquid
• Italian: scolare — to separate solid from liquid
• Italian: drenare — to separate solid from liquid
• Italian: filtrare — to separate solid from liquid
• Italian: setacciare — to separate solid from liquid
• Italian: percolare — to separate solid from liquid
• Japanese: 濾す (kosu) — to separate solid from liquid
• Korean: 거르다 (georeuda) — to separate solid from liquid
• Latin: percolō — to separate solid from liquid
• Latin: saccō — to separate solid from liquid
• Māori: tātari — to separate solid from liquid
• Norman: êputher — to separate solid from liquid
• Norwegian: sile — to separate solid from liquid
• Occitan: colar — to separate solid from liquid
• Persian: صاف کردن (sâf kardan) — to separate solid from liquid
• Persian: ماشیوه کردن (mâšive kardan) — to separate solid from liquid
• Portuguese: coar — to separate solid from liquid
• Quechua: suysuy — to separate solid from liquid
• Romanian: strecura — to separate solid from liquid
• Russian: цедить (ceditʹ) — to separate solid from liquid
• Russian: процеди́ть (procedítʹ) — to separate solid from liquid
• Russian: проце́живать (procéživatʹ) — to separate solid from liquid
• Scottish Gaelic: sìolaidh — to separate solid from liquid
• Spanish: colar — to separate solid from liquid
• Spanish: tamizar — to separate solid from liquid
• Swedish: sila — to separate solid from liquid
• Tagalog: salain — to separate solid from liquid
• Turkish: süzmek — to separate solid from liquid
• Ottoman Turkish: سوزمك (süzmek) — to separate solid from liquid
• Ukrainian: проці́джувати (procídžuvaty) — to separate solid from liquid
• Ukrainian: проціди́ти (procidýty) — to separate solid from liquid
• Ukrainian: ціди́ти (cidýty) — to separate solid from liquid
• Venetan: cołar — to separate solid from liquid
• Venetan: colar — to separate solid from liquid