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• General-American: /ˈstʌbɚn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstʌbən/
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• Northern-England: /ˈstʊbən/
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• rhymes with -ʌbə(ɹ)n
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• CMU ARPABET: S T AH1 B ER0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English stiborne, stibourne, stoburn, stoburne, styburne, stiborn, of uncertain origin; one hypothesis is that it may be from Old English *stybbor, from Old English stybb (“a stump, stub”) + -or (adjective-formation suffix, as in bitor, whence English bitter).

175 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Amharic: ግትር (gətr) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Arabic: عَنِيد (ʕanīd) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Armenian: համառ (hamaṙ) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Assamese: আঁকোৰগোঁজ (ãkürgü̃z) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Assamese: গোঁৱাৰ (gü̃ar) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Asturian: neciu — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Azerbaijani: inad — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Azerbaijani: inadkar — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Azerbaijani: tərs — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Basque: kaskagogor — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Belarusian: упа́рты (upárty) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Breton: pennek — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Bulgarian: инат (inat) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Catalan: tossut — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Catalan: cabut — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Catalan: caparrut — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Catalan: enterc — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chamicuro: kashtakulu — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chinese Cantonese: 固執 /固执 (gu3 zap1) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chinese Cantonese: 硬頸 /硬颈 (ngaang6 geng2) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chinese Cantonese: 牛皮 (ngau4 pei4) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chinese Mandarin: 頑固 /顽固 (wángù) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chinese Mandarin: 固執 /固执 (gùzhí) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chinese Mandarin: 濃重 /浓重 (nóngzhòng) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chinese Mandarin: 頑重 /顽重 (wánzhòng) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Chinese Mandarin: 執拗 /执拗 (zhíniù) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Crimean Tatar: eriş — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Czech: tvrdohlavý — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Czech: neústupný — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Danish: stædig — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Dutch: hardnekkig — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Dutch: koppig — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Dutch: halsstarrig — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Dutch: eigenwijs — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Esperanto: obstina — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Estonian: kangekaelne — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Faroese: treiskur — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Faroese: stívrendur — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Finnish: itsepäinen — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• French: têtu — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• French: entêté — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• French: borné — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Galician: teimudo — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Galician: testán — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Galician: cornán — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Galician: cazurro — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Galician: túzaro — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Georgian: ჯიუტი (ǯiuṭi) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Georgian: შეუპოვარი (šeuṗovari) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Georgian: უდრეკი (udreḳi) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Georgian: კერპი (ḳerṗi) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• German: stur — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• German: dickköpfig — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Greek: πεισματάρης (peismatáris) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Ancient Greek: αὐθάδης (authádēs) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Ancient Greek: σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hawaiian: nuha — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hebrew: עַקְשָׁן ('aqshán) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hebrew: עִקֵּשׁ ('iqésh) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hebrew: קְשֵׁה עֹרֶף (qshe 'óref) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hindi: हठी (haṭhī) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hindi: ज़िद्दी (ziddī) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hindi: अक्खड़ (akkhaṛ) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hungarian: makacs — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Hungarian: konok — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Icelandic: þrjóskur — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Indonesian: kepala batu — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Indonesian: bebal — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Indonesian: keras kepala — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Ingrian: pero — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Irish: stalcach — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Irish: ceanndána — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Irish: stalcánta — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Irish: stuacach — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Italian: ostinato — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Italian: testardo — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Japanese: 頑固な (ganko na) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Kazakh: бірбеткей (bırbetkei) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Korean: 고집이 세다 (gojibi seda) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Korean: 고지식하다 (gojisikhada) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Central Kurdish: کەلە ڕەق (kele req) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Latin: obstinātus — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Latvian: spītīgs — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Lingala: mutu makasi — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Lithuanian: užsispyręs — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Macedonian: твр́доглав (tvŕdoglav) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Macedonian: у́порен (úporen) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Macedonian: сво́еглав (svóeglav) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Malay: kepala batu — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Māori: kōioio — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Māori: mōtohe — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Māori: whakangutungutu — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Māori: kakī mārō — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Māori: taringa kōhatu — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Māori: upoko mārō — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Māori: whakatohe — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Māori: taringa mārō — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Meru: ndemi — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norman: r'calcitrant — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norman: vithouard — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norman: hieux — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norwegian Bokmål: sta — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norwegian Bokmål: hardnakket — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norwegian Bokmål: vrangvillig — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sta — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hardnakka — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vrangviljug — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Old English: ānwille — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Pashto: خری (xəray) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Pashto: ځيلی (źilay) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Persian: کله شق (kale šaq) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Persian: سمج (semej) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Persian: سرتق (serteq) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Plautdietsch: baulstierich — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Plautdietsch: hoatnakich — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Polish: uparty — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Portuguese: teimoso — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Portuguese: cabeça-dura — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Portuguese: cabeçudo — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Portuguese: casmurro — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Portuguese: turrão — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Quechua: thalu — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Romanian: încăpățânat — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Romanian: căpățânos — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Romanian: îndărătnic — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Romanian: căpos — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Russian: упо́рный (upórnyj) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Russian: упря́мый (uprjámyj) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Russian: упёртый (upjórtyj) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Russian: насто́йчивый (nastójčivyj) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Russian: неусту́пчивый (neustúpčivyj) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Russian: жестоковыйный (žestokovyjnyj) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Scottish Gaelic: rag-mhuinealach — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Scottish Gaelic: rag — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Serbo-Croatian: тврдо̀глав — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Serbo-Croatian: tvrdòglav — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Slovak: tvrdohlavý — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Slovak: neoblomný — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Slovak: zarytý — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Slovak: zaťatý — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Slovak: tvrdošijný — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Slovak: úporný — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Slovene: trmast — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Slovene: trdoglav — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: testarudo — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: obstinado — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: cabezota — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: terco — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: cabezadura — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: porfiado — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: tozudo — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: obcecado — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: empecinado — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Spanish: necio — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Swedish: envis — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Swedish: hårdnackad — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Tagalog: malig-in — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Tagalog: matigas ang ulo — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Tagalog: maliwaliwa — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Telugu: మొండి (moṇḍi) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Turkish: inatçı — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Turkish: muannit — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Ottoman Turkish: صارپ (sarp) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Ukrainian: впе́ртий (vpértyj) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Urdu: ہٹھی (haṭhī) — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Uzbek: qaysar — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Vietnamese: bướng bỉnh — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Vietnamese: ngoan cố — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Vietnamese: lì lợm — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Vietnamese: lì — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Vietnamese: bảo thủ — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Walloon: tiestou — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Walloon: buké — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Walloon: macté — refusing to move or change one's opinion
• Welsh: styfnig — refusing to move or change one's opinion