swell

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From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).

From Middle English swelle, from the verb swellen (modern swell).

From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-West Germanic *swellan, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian swälle (“to swell”), West Frisian swolle (“to swell”), Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), Low German swellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun.

293 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: моден (moden) — fashionable — see also fashionable
• Bulgarian: елегантен (eleganten) — fashionable — see also fashionable
• Finnish: makea — fashionable — see also fashionable
• Finnish: siisti — fashionable — see also fashionable
• German: adrett — fashionable — see also fashionable
• Bulgarian: отличен (otličen) — excellent — see also excellent
• Bulgarian: първокласен (pǎrvoklasen) — excellent — see also excellent
• Catalan: excel·lent — excellent — see also excellent
• Dutch: geweldig — excellent — see also excellent
• Dutch: mieters — excellent — see also excellent
• Finnish: mahtava — excellent — see also excellent
• French: sensass — excellent — see also excellent
• French: chouette — excellent — see also excellent
• German: klasse — excellent — see also excellent
• German: prima — excellent — see also excellent
• Hungarian: klassz — excellent — see also excellent
• Hungarian: szuper — excellent — see also excellent
• Hungarian: tök jó — excellent — see also excellent
• Japanese: 素晴らしい (subarashii) — excellent — see also excellent
• Portuguese: excelente — excellent — see also excellent
• Portuguese: ótimo — excellent — see also excellent
• Romanian: super — excellent — see also excellent
• Romanian: senzațional — excellent — see also excellent
• Romanian: minunat — excellent — see also excellent
• Russian: отли́чный (otlíčnyj) — excellent — see also excellent
• Russian: превосхо́дный (prevosxódnyj) — excellent — see also excellent
• Spanish: excelente — excellent — see also excellent
• Bulgarian: отлично (otlično) — very well
• Finnish: hienosti — very well
• Finnish: hyvin — very well
• German: super — very well
• German: glücklich — very well
• German: prima — very well
• Bulgarian: раздуване (razduvane) — act of swelling; increase in size
• Finnish: paisuminen — act of swelling; increase in size
• Finnish: turpoaminen — act of swelling; increase in size
• German: Anschwellen — act of swelling; increase in size
• Bulgarian: изпъкналост (izpǎknalost) — bulge or protuberance
• Finnish: patti — bulge or protuberance
• Finnish: uloke — bulge or protuberance
• German: Beule — bulge or protuberance
• Finnish: nousu — increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force
• German: Anstieg — increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force
• Bulgarian: мъртво вълнение (mǎrtvo vǎlnenie) — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Chinese Mandarin: 涌浪 (yǒnglàng) — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Danish: dønning — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Dutch: deining — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Finnish: maininki — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• French: houle — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Galician: vaga — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Galician: mar de fondo — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• German: Dünung — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• German: Seegang — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• German: Wellengang — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• German: Wogen — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Greek: ρεστία (restía) — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Greek: αποθαλασσία (apothalassía) — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Hebrew: גִּבּוּעַ (gibúa') — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Hungarian: hullámzás — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Hungarian: hullámverés — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Irish: mórtas — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Italian: rigonfiamento — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Italian: mare di fondo — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Italian: flutti — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Italian: onda lunga — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Italian: mareggiare — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Japanese: うねり (uneri) — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Latin: tumor — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Latvian: bangas — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Māori: āmai — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Māori: amotai — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Māori: huaroa — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Māori: huene — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Māori: tai whakarākau — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Māori: tārawa — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Nahuatl: timalla — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Nahuatl: timalloa — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Norwegian Bokmål: dønning — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dønning — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Occitan: estòbi — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Occitan: marejada — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Occitan: mar de fons — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Polish: falowanie — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Portuguese: swell — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Romanian: val — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Romanian: valuri — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Russian: зыбь (zybʹ) — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Sanskrit: क्षोदस् (kṣodas) — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Spanish: mar de fondo — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Swahili: kivimbe — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Swedish: dyning — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Swedish: svall — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Ottoman Turkish: صالندی (salındı) — series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased
• Finnish: svellari — music: gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo
• Japanese: 起伏 (kifuku) — music: gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo
• Swahili: kivimbe — music: gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo
• Swahili: kivimbe — music: device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ
• Swahili: kivimbe — music: division in pipe organ
• Bulgarian: възвишение (vǎzvišenie) — hillock or similar raised area of terrain
• Finnish: maaston kohouma — hillock or similar raised area of terrain
• German: Bodenerhebung — hillock or similar raised area of terrain
• German: Anhöhe — hillock or similar raised area of terrain
• Bulgarian: франт (frant) — person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner
• Bulgarian: денди (dendi) — person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner
• Finnish: keikari — person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner
• Finnish: komeljanttari — person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner
• German: Stutzer — person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner
• German: Geck — person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner
• Finnish: herra — person of high social standing
• German: Großkopferter (Austro-Bavarian) — person of high social standing
• German: feiner Pinkel — person of high social standing
• Aklanon: habok — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Albanian: ënjt — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Albanian: âj — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Southern Altai: тижиир (tižiir) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Arabic: اِنْتَفَخَ (intafaḵa) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Arabic: وَرِمَ (warima) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Armenian: ուռել (uṙel) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Armenian: ուռչել (uṙčʻel) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Assamese: ফুলা (phula) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Azerbaijani: şişmək — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Bengali: ফোলা (phōla) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Bulgarian: подувам се (poduvam se) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Catalan: inflar-se — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Catalan: rebotir — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Catalan: unflar-se — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Chechen: деста (desta) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Chinese Mandarin: 膨脹 /膨胀 (péngzhàng) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Chinese Mandarin: 擴大 /扩大 (kuòdà) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Chinese Mandarin: 隆起 (lóngqǐ) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Czech: otéct — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Czech: otéci — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Czech: zduřet — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Czech: opuchnout — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Czech: napuchnout — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Czech: naběhnout — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Danish: svulme — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Danish: erigere — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Dutch: zwellen — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Dutch: opzwellen — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Dutch: aanzwellen — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Esperanto: ŝveli — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Faroese: bólgna — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Faroese: hovna — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Faroese: trútna — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Faroese: túsna upp — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Faroese: týsna upp — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Faroese: svølpast — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Faroese: svølla upp — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Faroese: gerast hovin og trútin — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Finnish: turvota — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Finnish: paisua — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• French: gonfler — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• French: enfler — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Galician: inflarse — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Galician: incharse — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• German: schwellen — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• German: anschwellen — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Greek: πρήζομαι (prízomai) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Ancient Greek: οἰδέω (oidéō) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hebrew: תפח (tafákh) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hebrew: התנפח (hitnapéakh) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hebrew: צבה (tsavá) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hebrew: בטבט (bitbét) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hebrew: בצק (batsák) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hebrew: אבב (aváv) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hindi: सूजना (sūjnā) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hungarian: dagad — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hungarian: duzzad — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hungarian: megdagad — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Hungarian: megduzzad — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Ido: intumecar — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Indonesian: membengkak — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Ingush: деста (desta) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Italian: gonfiarsi — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Italian: ingrossarsi — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Japanese: 膨れる (fukureru) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Japanese: 隆起する (ryūki-suru) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Japanese: 腫れる (hareru) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Javanese: abuh — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Khmer: ហើម (haəm) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Korean: 부풀다 (bupulda) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Korean: 붓다 (butda) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Korean: 팽창하다 (paengchanghada) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Korean: 부어오르다 (bueooreuda) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Latgalian: tyukšt — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Latin: tumeō — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Latin: intumēscō — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Latin: turgescō — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Latin: adaestuō — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Latvian: tūkt — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Lingala: vimba — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Lithuanian: pūstis — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Lithuanian: tinti — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Lithuanian: brinkti — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Malay: membengkak — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Manx: mooadee — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Māori: tōuwha — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Māori: whakaahu — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Māori: kōpuku — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Māori: pupuhi — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Māori: uru(h)umu — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Marathi: सुजणे (sujṇe) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Nahuatl: timalla — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Nahuatl: timalloa — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Nanai: хаоло- (haolo-) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Norwegian Bokmål: svelle — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Norwegian Bokmål: svulme — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svelle — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svulme — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Occitan: enflar — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Occitan: conflar — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Papiamentu: hincha — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Persian: ورم کردن (varam kardan) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Persian: آماسیدن (âmâsidan) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Polish: puchnąć — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Polish: powiększać — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Polish: pęcznieć — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Portuguese: inchar — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Quechua: punkiy — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Quechua: saksay — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Romanian: se umfla — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Romansh: unflar — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Russian: раздува́ться (razduvátʹsja) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Russian: набуха́ть (nabuxátʹ) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Russian: увели́чиваться (uvelíčivatʹsja) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Scottish Gaelic: sèid — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Sicilian: usciari — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Slovak: opuchnúť — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Lower Sorbian: wopuchnuś — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Lower Sorbian: wopuchowaś — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Spanish: hincharse — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Spanish: inflarse — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Sundanese: bareuh — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Swahili: fura — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Swahili: vimba — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Swedish: svälla — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tày: bông — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tày: pổng — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tày: poòng — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tetum: bubu — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Thai: บวม (buuam) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Thai: โป่ง (bpòong) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Thai: พอง (pɔɔng) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tibetan: བསྐྲངས (bskrangs) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tibetan: སྦོ (sbo) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tibetan: སྦོས (sbos) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tooro: -zimba — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Tooro: -haga — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Turkish: şişmek — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Ottoman Turkish: شیشمك (şişmek) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Ottoman Turkish: قبارمق (kabarmak) — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Vietnamese: sưng — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Welsh: chwyddo — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Zealandic: opzwelle — intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
• Albanian: fry — to cause to become bigger
• Azerbaijani: şişirmək — to cause to become bigger
• Bulgarian: раздувам (razduvam) — to cause to become bigger
• Esperanto: ŝveligi — to cause to become bigger
• Finnish: turvottaa — to cause to become bigger
• Finnish: paisuttaa — to cause to become bigger
• French: gonfler — to cause to become bigger
• German: anschwellen lassen — to cause to become bigger
• Greek: πρήζω (prízo) — to cause to become bigger
• Hungarian: dagaszt — to cause to become bigger
• Hungarian: duzzaszt — to cause to become bigger
• Hungarian: felduzzaszt — to cause to become bigger
• Italian: far gonfiare — to cause to become bigger
• Māori: whakakōpuku — to cause to become bigger
• Occitan: conflar — to cause to become bigger
• Portuguese: inchar — to cause to become bigger
• Spanish: hinchar — to cause to become bigger
• Spanish: inflar — to cause to become bigger
• Spanish: finchar (disused) — to cause to become bigger
• Turkish: şişirmek — to cause to become bigger
• Bulgarian: усилвам се (usilvam se) — to grow gradually in force or loudness
• Finnish: voimistua — to grow gradually in force or loudness
• German: anschwellen — to grow gradually in force or loudness
• Bulgarian: надувам се (naduvam se) — to raise to arrogance
• Bulgarian: важнича (važniča) — to raise to arrogance
• Finnish: ylpistyttää — to raise to arrogance
• German: aufplustern — to raise to arrogance
• Finnish: ylpistyä — to be raised to arrogance
• German: aufblasen — to be raised to arrogance
• Finnish: pöyhkeillä — to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant
• German: geschwollen — to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant
• Finnish: pullistua — to protuberate; to bulge out
• German: anschwellen — to protuberate; to bulge out
• German: aufwölben — to protuberate; to bulge out
• German: ausbauchen — to protuberate; to bulge out
• Hungarian: kidudorodik — to protuberate; to bulge out
• Hungarian: kidomborodik — to protuberate; to bulge out
• Hungarian: kidülled — to protuberate; to bulge out