swirl

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /swɜːl/
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• US: /swɝl/
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• New-Zealand, Wales: /swøːl/
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• Scotland: /swɪɾl/
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• /sweːl/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /swɛːl/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)l
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• CMU ARPABET: S W ER1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English swirlen (“to eddy, swirl”), probably from Old Norse *svirla (“to swirl”), a frequentative form of Old Norse sverra (“to swing, twirl”). Cognate with Scots swirl, sworl (“to eddy, swirl”), Norwegian Nynorsk svirla (“to whirl around; swirl”), Swedish sorla (“to murmur, buzz”), Dutch zwirrelen (“to swirl”). Compare also West Frisian swiere (“to reel, whirl”), Dutch zwieren (“to reel, swing around”), German Low German swirren (“to whizz, whirl or buzz around”), German schwirren (“to whirr, whizz, buzz”), Swedish svirra (“to whirr about, buzz, hum”), Danish svirre (“to whizz, whirr”). Related to English swarm.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: دُوَّامَة (duwwāma) — whirling eddy
• Bulgarian: водовъртеж (vodovǎrtež) — whirling eddy
• Catalan: remolí — whirling eddy
• Chinese Mandarin: 漩渦 /漩涡 (xuánwō) — whirling eddy
• Danish: hvirvel — whirling eddy
• Dutch: draaikolk — whirling eddy
• Estonian: keeris — whirling eddy
• Finnish: pyörre — whirling eddy
• French: tourbillon — whirling eddy
• French: remous — whirling eddy
• Galician: remuíño — whirling eddy
• Galician: rodopío — whirling eddy
• Galician: sorbedoiro — whirling eddy
• German: Wirbel — whirling eddy
• Hungarian: örvény — whirling eddy
• Ido: vortico — whirling eddy
• Italian: vortice — whirling eddy
• Japanese: 渦巻き (uzumaki) — whirling eddy
• Japanese: 渦 (uzu) — whirling eddy
• Korean: 소용돌이 (soyongdori) — whirling eddy
• Māori: kōriporipo — whirling eddy
• Portuguese: redemoinho — whirling eddy
• Portuguese: remoinho — whirling eddy
• Russian: водоворо́т (vodovorót) — whirling eddy
• Spanish: remolino — whirling eddy
• Turkish: anafor — whirling eddy
• Turkish: girdap — whirling eddy
• Turkish: burgaç — whirling eddy
• Walloon: toubion — whirling eddy
• Walloon: neyisse — whirling eddy
• Bulgarian: витка (vitka) — twist or coil of something
• Finnish: kierre — twist or coil of something
• Italian: riccio — twist or coil of something
• Russian: завито́к (zavitók) — twist or coil of something
• Bulgarian: завихрям се (zavihrjam se) — to twist or whirl
• Chinese Mandarin: 旋动 — to twist or whirl
• Danish: hvirvle — to twist or whirl
• Esperanto: kirliĝi — to twist or whirl
• Estonian: keerlema — to twist or whirl
• Finnish: pyörteillä — to twist or whirl
• Finnish: kieppua — to twist or whirl
• French: tourbillonner — to twist or whirl
• Italian: vorticare — to twist or whirl
• Italian: turbinare — to twist or whirl
• Japanese: 巻く — to twist or whirl
• Japanese: 渦巻く — to twist or whirl
• Khmer: កួច (kuəch) — to twist or whirl
• Māori: māwe — to twist or whirl
• Māori: māue — to twist or whirl
• Māori: whirowhiro — to twist or whirl
• Māori: kōripo — to twist or whirl
• Māori: miro — to twist or whirl
• Māori: kōmingo — to twist or whirl
• Māori: pioi — to twist or whirl
• Māori: pīoioi — to twist or whirl
• Spanish: girar — to twist or whirl
• Spanish: rotar — to twist or whirl
• Spanish: arremolinar — to twist or whirl
• Spanish: remolinear — to twist or whirl
• Zazaki: têvden — to twist or whirl
• Finnish: kiertyä — to be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl
• Khmer: បង្វិល (bɑɑbɑngvɨl) — to be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl
• Spanish: arremolinarse — to be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl
• Spanish: remolinear — to be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl
• Spanish: remolinearse — to be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl
• Spanish: remolinar — to be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl
• Spanish: remolinarse — to be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl
• Zazaki: tahnen — to be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl