swoon

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• swo͝on
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• /swuːn/
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• obsolete: so͝on
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• obsolete: /suːn/
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From Middle English swoune, swone, from the verb (see below).

From Middle English swounen, swonen (“to faint”), and aswoune (“in a swoon”), both ultimately from Old English ġeswōgen (“insensible, senseless, dead”), past participle of swōgan (“to make a sound, overrun, suffocate”) (compare Old English āswōgan (“to cover over, overcome”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swōgan, from Proto-Germanic *swōganą (“to make a noise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh2gh-. Cognates Cognate with German Low German swogen, swögen (“to faint, sigh, groan”), Dutch zwoegen (“to groan, breathe heavily”), dialectal Norwegian søgja (“to whistle, hum, talk loudly”). More at sough.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِغْمَاء (ʔiḡmāʔ) — a faint
• Bulgarian: припадък (pripadǎk) — a faint
• Catalan: desmai — a faint
• Chinese Mandarin: 昏厥 (hūnjué) — a faint
• Czech: mdloby — a faint
• Dutch: bezwijming — a faint
• Finnish: tajuttomuus — a faint
• French: pâmoison — a faint
• Galician: trastavai — a faint
• Galician: testabau — a faint
• Galician: agavante — a faint
• Galician: dada — a faint
• Galician: desmaio — a faint
• Galician: pasamento — a faint
• German: Ohnmacht — a faint
• Ancient Greek: λιποθυμία (lipothumía) — a faint
• Irish: aisnéal — a faint
• Irish: fanntais — a faint
• Irish: laige — a faint
• Irish: néal — a faint
• Irish: támh — a faint
• Irish: támhnéal — a faint
• Italian: spasmo — a faint
• Japanese: 失神 (shisshin) — a faint
• Japanese: 気絶 (kizetsu) — a faint
• Portuguese: desmaio — a faint
• Russian: о́бморок (óbmorok) — a faint
• Russian: поте́ря созна́ния (potérja soznánija) — a faint
• Scottish Gaelic: neul — a faint
• Serbo-Croatian: нѐсвестица — a faint
• Serbo-Croatian: nèsvestica — a faint
• Spanish: desmayo — a faint
• Spanish: deliquio — a faint
• Swedish: svimning — a faint
• Swedish: svimningsanfall — a faint
• Telugu: మూర్ఛ (mūrcha) — a faint
• Chinese Mandarin: 昏倒 (hūndǎo) — to faint — see also faint
• Chinese Mandarin: 暈厥 /晕厥 (yūnjué) — to faint — see also faint
• Chinese Mandarin: 昏厥 (hūnjué) — to faint — see also faint
• Czech: omdlít — to faint — see also faint
• Czech: omdlévat — to faint — see also faint
• Czech: padat do mdlob — to faint — see also faint
• Dutch: flauw vallen — to faint — see also faint
• Japanese: 気絶する (kizetsu suru) — to faint — see also faint
• Russian: па́дать в о́бморок (pádatʹ v óbmorok) — to faint — see also faint
• Russian: упа́сть в о́бморок (upástʹ v óbmorok) — to faint — see also faint
• Russian: теря́ть созна́ние (terjátʹ soznánije) — to faint — see also faint
• Russian: потеря́ть созна́ние (poterjátʹ soznánije) — to faint — see also faint
• Spanish: desmayarse — to faint — see also faint
• Tamil: மயங்கு (mayaṅku) — to faint — see also faint
• Ottoman Turkish: بایلمق (bayılmak) — to faint — see also faint
• Ukrainian: непритомніти (neprytomnity) — to faint — see also faint
• Ukrainian: мліти (mlity) — to faint — see also faint
• Ukrainian: втрачати свідомість (vtračaty svidomistʹ) — to faint — see also faint
• Dutch: zwijmelen — to be overwhelmed by emotion
• German: schwärmen — to be overwhelmed by emotion
• German: in Verzückung geraten — to be overwhelmed by emotion
• Spanish: derretirse — to be overwhelmed by emotion
• Swedish: dåna — to be overwhelmed by emotion
• Ukrainian: мліти (mlity) — to be overwhelmed by emotion
• Ukrainian: непритомніти (neprytomnity) — to be overwhelmed by emotion