tear

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• târ
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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɛə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /tɛː/
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• General-American: târ
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• General-American: /tɛɹ/
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• Australian: /teː/
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• /tiə/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• New-Zealand: /teə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /teɹ/
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• /tɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• homophone: tare
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• tîr
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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɪə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /tɪː/
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• General-American: tîr
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• General-American: /tɪəɹ/
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• New-Zealand: /tiə/
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• homophone: tier (“layer or rank”)
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• CMU ARPABET: T EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: T IH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”). Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.

From Middle English tear, teer, teere, ter, tere, tyar, tyear, tyer, tær (“tear”), from Old English teagor, tēar, tæher, from Proto-West Germanic *tahr, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą (“tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (“tear”). Cognates Cognate with German Zähre (“tear”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tåre (“tear”), Faroese and Icelandic tár (“tear”), Swedish tår (“tear”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr, “teardrop”); also Cornish dager (“tear; drop”), Irish deoir (“tear”), Manx jeir (“tear”), Scottish Gaelic deur (“tear; drop”), Welsh deigryn (“tear”), Latin dacrima, dacruma, lachryma, lacrima, lacruma, lacryma (“tear”), Greek δάκρυ (dákry, “tear”), Armenian արտոսր (artosr, “tear”).

598 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَرْق (ḵarq) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Arabic: شَقّ (šaqq) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Armenian: պատռվածք (patṙvackʻ) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Bulgarian: прорез (prorez) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Bulgarian: скъсано място (skǎsano mjasto) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Czech: trhlina — hole or break caused by tearing
• Czech: prasklina — hole or break caused by tearing
• Danish: flænge — hole or break caused by tearing
• Danish: rift — hole or break caused by tearing
• Dutch: scheur — hole or break caused by tearing
• Finnish: reikä — hole or break caused by tearing
• Finnish: repeämä — hole or break caused by tearing
• French: déchirure — hole or break caused by tearing
• Galician: fenda — hole or break caused by tearing
• German: Riss — hole or break caused by tearing
• Ancient Greek: ῥῆγμα (rhêgma) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Hungarian: szakadás — hole or break caused by tearing
• Irish: roiseadh — hole or break caused by tearing
• Italian: strappo — hole or break caused by tearing
• Italian: squarcio — hole or break caused by tearing
• Central Kurdish: دڕین (drrîn) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Northern Kurdish: derz — hole or break caused by tearing
• Northern Kurdish: şeq — hole or break caused by tearing
• Latgalian: pleisums — hole or break caused by tearing
• Latgalian: īpleisšona — hole or break caused by tearing
• Latin: scissura — hole or break caused by tearing
• Latvian: plīsums — hole or break caused by tearing
• Malayalam: കീറൽ (kīṟal) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Portuguese: rasgo — hole or break caused by tearing
• Portuguese: fenda — hole or break caused by tearing
• Portuguese: buraco — hole or break caused by tearing
• Romanian: rupere — hole or break caused by tearing
• Romanian: ruptură — hole or break caused by tearing
• Romanian: tăietură — hole or break caused by tearing
• Russian: разры́в (razrýv) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Spanish: desgarrón — hole or break caused by tearing
• Spanish: rasgón — hole or break caused by tearing
• Spanish: roto — hole or break caused by tearing
• Spanish: rasgado — hole or break caused by tearing
• Spanish: jirón — hole or break caused by tearing
• Swedish: reva — hole or break caused by tearing
• Telugu: చిరుగు (cirugu) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Ottoman Turkish: فتق (fıtık) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Ottoman Turkish: چاك (çâk) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Ukrainian: розри́в (rozrýv) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Welsh: rhwyg — hole or break caused by tearing
• Yiddish: ריס (ris) — hole or break caused by tearing
• Afar: ximo — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Afrikaans: traan — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ahom: 𑜃𑜪 𑜄𑜡 (naṃ tā) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Aklanon: euha — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Albanian: lot — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Southern Altai: јаш (ǰaš) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Southern Altai: кӧс јажы (kös ǰažï) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Amharic: ዕምባ (ʿəmba) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Amharic: እንባ (ʾənba) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chungli Ao: nüktzü — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Arabic: دَمْع (damʕ) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Arabic: دَمْعَة (damʕa) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Archi: набхъ (nabq) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Armenian: արցունք (arcʻunkʻ) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Armenian: արտասուք (artasukʻ) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Aromanian: lacãrmã — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Aromanian: lacrimã — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Assamese: চকুপানী (sokupani) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Assamese: চকুলো (sokulü) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Assamese: লো (lü) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Asturian: llárima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Asturian: llágrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Avar: магӏу (maʻu) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Azerbaijani: göz yaşı — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Bakhtiari: هرس (hars) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Bashkir: йәш (yəş) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Basque: negar — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Basque: malko — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Belarusian: сляза́ (sljazá) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Bengali: অশ্রু (osru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Bengali: আঁখিজল (ãkhijol) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Bhojpuri: आँसू (ā̃sū) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Central Bikol: luha — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Breton: daerenn — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Bulgarian: сълза́ (sǎlzá) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Burmese: မျက်ရည် (myak-rany) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Catalan: llàgrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Cebuano: luha — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chechen: бӏаьрхи (bˀärxi) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chinese Cantonese: 眼淚 /眼泪 (ngaan5 leoi6) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chinese: нянлуй (nianluy) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chinese: 目屎 (zh-min-nan) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chinese: 珠淚 /珠泪 (zh-min-nan) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chinese Mandarin: 淚 /泪 (lèi) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chinese Mandarin: 眼淚 /眼泪 (yǎnlèi) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Wu Chinese: 眼泪水 — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chukchi: мэрэмэр (mėrėmėr) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chukchi: мэрэт (mėrėt) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Chuvash: куҫ-ҫуль (kuś-śulʹ) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ngazidja Comorian: tsozi — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Cornish: dager — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Crimean Tatar: közyaş — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Czech: slza — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Danish: tåre — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Dhivehi: ކަރުނަ (karuna) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Dutch: traan — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Elfdalian: tår — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Esperanto: larmo — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Estonian: pisar — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Faroese: tár — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Fijian: wai ni mata — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Finnish: kyynel — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• French: larme — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Friulian: lagrime — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Galician: bágoa — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Galician: bagulla — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Georgian: ცრემლი (cremli) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• German: Träne — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• German: Zähre — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Greek: δάκρυ (dákry) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ancient Greek: δάκρυ (dákru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ancient Greek: δάκρυον (dákruon) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Greenlandic: qulleq — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Gujarati: આંસુ (ā̃su) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Gujarati: અશ્રુ (aśru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Haitian Creole: dlo — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Hebrew: דִּמְעָה (dim'á) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Higaonon: luha — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Hindi: आँसू (ā̃sū) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Hindi: अश्क (aśk) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Hittite: 𒅖𒄩𒀪𒊒 (išḫaḫru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Hungarian: könny — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Hunzib: ма̇къу (måq̊u) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Iban: ai mata — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Icelandic: tár — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ido: lakrimo — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Indonesian: air mata — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ingrian: kyynel — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ingrian: pisar — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Interlingua: lacrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Iranun: lu — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Irish: deoir — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Old Irish: dér — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Istriot: lagrama — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Italian: lacrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Japanese: 涙 (namida) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Javanese: luh — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Javanese: waspa — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Old Javanese: luh — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kannada: ಕಣ್ಣೀರು (kaṇṇīru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kashmiri: اۆش (oś) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kashmiri: ऒश (oś) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kazakh: көз жасы (köz jasy) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kazakh: жас (jas) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Khmer: ទឹកភ្នែក (tɨk phnɛɛk) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Khmer: អស្សុ (ʼahsoʼ) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Khvarshi: мукъу (muq’u) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kikuyu: rĩithori — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Korean: 눈물 (nunmul) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Middle Korean: 누ᇈ믈 — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Middle Korean: 누ᇇ믈 — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kumzari: خَرس (xars) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Central Kurdish: فرمێسک (firmêsk) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Northern Kurdish: hêsir — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Northern Kurdish: rondik — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kyrgyz: көз жаш (köz jaş) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Kyrgyz: жаш (jaş) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Lak: макь (maqʼ) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Lao: ຍົມ (nyom) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Lao: ຍົມມະນາ (nyom ma nā) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Lao: ຊົນລະນາ (son la nā) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Latgalian: osora — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Latin: lacrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Latvian: asara — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Lezgi: нагъв (naġv) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Lithuanian: ãšara — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Low German: Traan — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Lun Bawang: abpa mateh — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Luxembourgish: Tréin — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Macedonian: солза (solza) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Malay: اءير مات — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Malay: air mata — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Malayalam: കണ്ണുനീർ (kaṇṇunīṟ) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Malayalam: കണ്ണീർ (kaṇṇīṟ) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Malayalam: അശ്രു (aśru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Maltese: demgħa — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Mansaka: lowa — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Māori: roimata — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Māori: waikamo — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Maranao: lo' — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Marwari: आंहू (ā̃hū) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Mazanderani: اسری (asri) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Mongolian: нулимс (nulims) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Nahuatl: ixayotl — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Classical Nahuatl: īxāyōtl — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Classical Nahuatl: īxxāyōtl — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Neapolitan: lacrema — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Norwegian Bokmål: tåre — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tåra — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Occitan: lagrema — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Odia: ଅଶ୍ରୁ (aśru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Church Slavic: сльза (slĭza) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Old East Slavic: сльза (slĭza) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Old English: tēar — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Old Norse: tár — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Old Norse: brúdǫgg — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Old Norse: bráregn — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Old Norse: skúrir — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Oromo: immimamaan — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Paiwan: ruseq — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Pali: assu — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Pannonian Rusyn: слиза (sliza) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Papiamentu: lágrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Pashto: اوښکه (úx̌ka) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Iranian Persian: اَشْک (ašk) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Iranian Persian: اَرْس (ars) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Plautdietsch: Tron — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Polabian: slåză — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Polish: łza — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Portuguese: lágrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Quechua: wiqi — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Quechua: wigi — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Romanian: lacrimă — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Romansh: larma — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Russian: слеза́ (slezá) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sabu: ei na mada — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Saho: dhiimo — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Northern Sami: ganjal — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sanskrit: अश्रु (aśru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sardinian: làcrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sardinian: làgrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sardinian: làmigra — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Scottish Gaelic: deur — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Serbo-Croatian: су̏за — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Serbo-Croatian: sȕza — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sicilian: làcrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sicilian: làgrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sicilian: làrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sicilian: larma — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sicilian: lasma — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sinhalese: කඳුළු (kanduḷu) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sinhalese: බපප (bapapa) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Sinhalese: අස්සු (assu) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Slovak: slza — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Slovene: solza — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Somali: ilmo — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Lower Sorbian: łdza — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Upper Sorbian: sylza — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Spanish: lágrima — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Swahili: chozi — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Swedish: tår — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tae': wai mata — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tagalog: luha — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tajik: aшк (ašk) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tajik: ашқ (ašq) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tajik: сиришқ (sirišq) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tamil: கண்ணீர் (kaṇṇīr) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tarifit: ameṭṭa — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tatar: күз яше (küz yäşe) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tatar: яшь (yäş) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tausug: luha — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Telugu: కన్నీరు (kannīru) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tetum: luun — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tetum: luu-been — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tetum: matan-been — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Thai: น้ําตา (nám-dtaa) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tibetan: མིག་ཆུ (mig chu) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tigrinya: ንብዓት (nəbʿat) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tocharian A: ākär — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tocharian B: akrūna — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Tok Pisin: aiwara — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Turkish: gözyaşı — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ottoman Turkish: اشك (eşk) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Turkmen: gözýaş — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎎𐎓𐎚 (dmʿt) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Ukrainian: сльоза́ (slʹozá) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Unami: spinkw — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Urdu: آن٘سُو (ā̃sū) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Urdu: آنْسُو (ānsū) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Urdu: اَشْک (aśk) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Uyghur: ياش (yash) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Uzbek: koʻz yoshi — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Venetan: łàgrema — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Venetan: làgrema — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Vietnamese: nước mắt — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Waray-Waray: luha — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Welsh: deigryn — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Woiwurrung: baañdji mirring — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Yakut: харах уута (qaraq uuta) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Yiddish: טרער (trer) — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Zhuang: raemxda — drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes
• Finnish: kyynel — something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter
• Galician: pinga — something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter
• Ainu: ヤサ (yasa) — to rend
• Southern Altai: јырт- (ǰïrt-) — to rend
• Arabic: مَزَّقَ (mazzaqa) — to rend
• Arabic: شَقَّ (šaqqa) — to rend
• Arabic: شَقّ (šagg) — to rend
• Armenian: պատռել (patṙel) — to rend
• Armenian: ճղել (čġel) — to rend
• Armenian: պատառել (pataṙel) — to rend
• Assamese: ফালা (phala) — to rend
• Assamese: ফলা (phola) — to rend
• Azerbaijani: cırmaq — to rend
• Belarusian: рваць (rvacʹ) — to rend
• Belarusian: ірва́ць (irvácʹ) — to rend
• Bulgarian: късам (kǎsam) — to rend
• Catalan: estripar — to rend
• Catalan: esquinçar — to rend
• Cebuano: gisi — to rend
• Cherokee: ᎦᏣᎦᎵᎭ (gatsagaliha) — to rend
• Chinese Mandarin: 撕 (sī) — to rend
• Chinese Mandarin: 撕破 (sīpò) — to rend
• Czech: roztrhnout — to rend
• Czech: rvát — to rend
• Danish: flå — to rend
• Danish: rive — to rend
• Danish: revne — to rend
• Dutch: scheuren — to rend
• Esperanto: ŝiri — to rend
• Faroese: skræða — to rend
• Finnish: repiä — to rend
• French: déchirer — to rend
• Galician: rachar — to rend
• German: reißen — to rend
• German: zerreißen — to rend
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (disskreitan) — to rend
• Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (tahjan) — to rend
• Greek: σκίζω (skízo) — to rend
• Hebrew: קָרַע (qará) — to rend
• Higaonon: ginisi — to rend
• White Hmong: dua — to rend
• Hungarian: tép — to rend
• Hungarian: szakít — to rend
• Icelandic: rífa — to rend
• Indonesian: robek — to rend
• Indonesian: sobek — to rend
• Indonesian: cabik — to rend
• Indonesian: carik — to rend
• Ingrian: reppiä — to rend
• Ingrian: revittää — to rend
• Irish: stróic — to rend
• Irish: rois — to rend
• Italian: strappare — to rend
• Italian: dilaniare — to rend
• Italian: squarciare — to rend
• Japanese: 破る (yaburu) — to rend
• Japanese: 引き裂く (hikisaku) — to rend
• Khmer: ហែក (haek) — to rend
• Korean: 찢다 (jjitda) — to rend
• Central Kurdish: دڕاندن (drrandin) — to rend
• Northern Kurdish: dirandin — to rend
• Northern Kurdish: peritandin — to rend
• Kyrgyz: жырт (jırt) — to rend
• Latgalian: plēst — to rend
• Latgalian: skombuot — to rend
• Latin: lanio — to rend
• Latvian: plēst — to rend
• Latvian: pārplēst — to rend
• Lithuanian: plyšti — to rend
• Maltese: qatta’ — to rend
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᡩᡠᠮᠪᡳ (tadumbi) — to rend
• Māori: tīhae — to rend
• Neapolitan: straccià — to rend
• Norman: dêchither — to rend
• Occitan: esquiçar — to rend
• Occitan: esquinçar — to rend
• Old English: rēofan — to rend
• Old English: slītan — to rend
• Old English: teran — to rend
• Persian: پاره کردن (pâre kardan) — to rend
• Persian: دریدن (daridan) — to rend
• Persian: دراندن (darândan) — to rend
• Polish: drzeć — to rend
• Polish: rwać — to rend
• Portuguese: rasgar — to rend
• Quechua: llik'iy — to rend
• Romanian: rupe — to rend
• Romanian: sfâșia — to rend
• Russian: рвать (rvatʹ) — to rend
• Russian: порва́ть (porvátʹ) — to rend
• Russian: разрыва́ть (razryvátʹ) — to rend
• Russian: разорва́ть (razorvátʹ) — to rend
• Sanskrit: दृणाति (dṛṇāti) — to rend
• Serbo-Croatian: тргати — to rend
• Serbo-Croatian: trgati — to rend
• Slovak: rvať — to rend
• Slovak: trhať — to rend
• Slovene: raztrgati — to rend
• Slovene: strgati — to rend
• Somali: jeexid — to rend
• Spanish: rasgar — to rend
• Spanish: desgarrar — to rend
• Spanish: irrumpir — to rend
• Swedish: riva — to rend
• Tamil: கிழி (kiḻi) — to rend
• Tamil: பிய் (piy) — to rend
• Tày: déc — to rend
• Tày: bí — to rend
• Tày: xẻ — to rend
• Telugu: చినుగు (cinugu) — to rend
• Telugu: తుంచు (tuñcu) — to rend
• Telugu: చించు (ciñcu) — to rend
• Thai: ฉีก (chìik) — to rend
• Tibetan: དབྲལ (dbral) — to rend
• Tok Pisin: brukim — to rend
• Turkish: kırmak — to rend
• Ottoman Turkish: یارمق (yarmak) — to rend
• Ukrainian: рва́ти (rváty) — to rend
• Ukrainian: де́рти (dérty) — to rend
• Ukrainian: розрива́ти (rozryváty) — to rend
• Ukrainian: розде́рти (rozdérty) — to rend
• Vietnamese: xé — to rend
• Walloon: dischirer — to rend
• Walloon: kischirer — to rend
• Walloon: xhiyî — to rend
• Walloon: kixhiyî — to rend
• Walloon: sclefer — to rend
• Welsh: rhwygo — to rend
• Yakut: хайыт (qayït) — to rend
• Yiddish: רײַסן (raysn) — to rend
• Bulgarian: разкъсвам (razkǎsvam) — to injure as if by pulling apart
• Dutch: scheuren — to injure as if by pulling apart
• Finnish: revähdyttää — to injure as if by pulling apart
• Finnish: revähtää — to injure as if by pulling apart
• White Hmong: dua — to injure as if by pulling apart
• Bulgarian: износвам (iznosvam) — to destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence
• Dutch: verscheuren — to destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence
• Finnish: repiä — to destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence
• Bulgarian: разкъсвам (razkǎsvam) — to make an opening with force or energy
• Finnish: repiä — to make an opening with force or energy
• Armenian: պոկել (pokel) — to remove by tearing
• Assamese: ছিঙা (siṅa) — to remove by tearing
• Assamese: চিৰা (sira) — to remove by tearing
• Bulgarian: откъсвам (otkǎsvam) — to remove by tearing
• Czech: utrhnout — to remove by tearing
• Czech: odtrhnout — to remove by tearing
• Dutch: uitscheuren — to remove by tearing
• Esperanto: ŝiri — to remove by tearing
• Esperanto: elŝiri — to remove by tearing
• Finnish: repiä — to remove by tearing
• French: déchirer — to remove by tearing
• French: détacher — to remove by tearing
• Galician: arrancar — to remove by tearing
• German: herausreißen — to remove by tearing
• German: abreißen — to remove by tearing
• White Hmong: dua — to remove by tearing
• Hungarian: letép — to remove by tearing
• Hungarian: leszakít — to remove by tearing
• Italian: strappare — to remove by tearing
• Italian: staccare — to remove by tearing
• Korean: 찢어내다 (jjijeonaeda) — to remove by tearing
• Northern Kurdish: piçandin — to remove by tearing
• Northern Kurdish: jê vekirin — to remove by tearing
• Maltese: qatta’ — to remove by tearing
• Mapudungun: üngarn — to remove by tearing
• Norman: dêchither — to remove by tearing
• Polish: odrywać — to remove by tearing
• Polish: oderwać — to remove by tearing
• Polish: zrywać — to remove by tearing
• Polish: zerwać — to remove by tearing
• Portuguese: destacar — to remove by tearing
• Portuguese: arrancar — to remove by tearing
• Portuguese: rasgar — to remove by tearing
• Romanian: rupe — to remove by tearing
• Romanian: scoate — to remove by tearing
• Romanian: smulge — to remove by tearing
• Romanian: detașa — to remove by tearing
• Russian: отрыва́ть (otryvátʹ) — to remove by tearing
• Russian: оторва́ть (otorvátʹ) — to remove by tearing
• Russian: срыва́ть (sryvátʹ) — to remove by tearing
• Russian: сорва́ть (sorvátʹ) — to remove by tearing
• Slovene: odtrgati — to remove by tearing
• Spanish: arrancar — to remove by tearing
• Spanish: terrafear — to remove by tearing
• Spanish: desgajar — to remove by tearing
• Spanish: arranchar — to remove by tearing
• Spanish: escarzar — to remove by tearing
• Telugu: తుంచు (tuñcu) — to remove by tearing
• Thai: ฉีก (chìik) — to remove by tearing
• Turkish: koparmak — to remove by tearing
• Ukrainian: віддирати (viddyraty) — to remove by tearing
• Ukrainian: відде́рти (viddérty) — to remove by tearing
• Ukrainian: зрива́ти (zryváty) — to remove by tearing
• Ukrainian: зірва́ти (zirváty) — to remove by tearing
• Czech: strhnout — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Dutch: slopen — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Finnish: repiä — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• French: démolir — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Galician: demoler — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• German: abreißen — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Hungarian: lebont — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Hungarian: lerombol — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Italian: demolire — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Northern Kurdish: herifandin — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Latvian: saplēst — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Māori: turaki — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Polish: burzyć — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Polish: zburzyć — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Portuguese: demolir — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Romanian: demola — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Romanian: dărâma — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Russian: разруша́ть (razrušátʹ) — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Russian: разру́шить (razrúšitʹ) — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Russian: сноси́ть (snosítʹ) — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Russian: снести́ (snestí) — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Ukrainian: руйнува́ти (rujnuváty) — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Ukrainian: зруйнува́ти (zrujnuváty) — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Ukrainian: зно́сити (znósyty) — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Ukrainian: знести́ (znestý) — to demolish; to tear down — see also demolish
• Armenian: պատռվել (patṙvel) — to become torn
• Armenian: ճղվել (čġvel) — to become torn
• Bulgarian: късам се (kǎsam se) — to become torn
• Catalan: esquinçar — to become torn
• Catalan: esgarrar — to become torn
• Maore Comorian: urandruha — to become torn
• Czech: roztrhnout se — to become torn
• Faroese: skrædna — to become torn
• Finnish: revetä — to become torn
• Finnish: repeytyä — to become torn
• Finnish: revähtää — to become torn
• French: se déchirer — to become torn
• Galician: desgarrar — to become torn
• German: reißen — to become torn
• German: einreißen — to become torn
• German: abreißen — to become torn
• German: zerreißen — to become torn
• White Hmong: dua — to become torn
• Hungarian: szakad — to become torn
• Hungarian: elszakad — to become torn
• Ingrian: revetä — to become torn
• Italian: strapparsi — to become torn
• Korean: 찢기다 (jjitgida) — to become torn
• Central Kurdish: دڕاو (drraw) — to become torn
• Northern Kurdish: dirîn — to become torn
• Latgalian: pleist — to become torn
• Latgalian: pleist kūpā — to become torn
• Latvian: plīst — to become torn
• Polish: rwać się — to become torn
• Polish: porwać się — to become torn
• Polish: drzeć się — to become torn
• Polish: podrzeć się — to become torn
• Portuguese: rasgar — to become torn
• Quechua: llik'iy — to become torn
• Romanian: se rupe — to become torn
• Russian: рва́ться (rvátʹsja) — to become torn
• Russian: порва́ться (porvátʹsja) — to become torn
• Slovene: strgati se — to become torn
• Spanish: desgarrarse — to become torn
• Tamil: கிழி (kiḻi) — to become torn
• Thai: ขาด (kàat) — to become torn
• Thai: ฉีกขาด — to become torn
• Tibetan: རལ (ral) — to become torn
• Turkish: yırtılmak — to become torn
• Bulgarian: нося се (nosja se) — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Dutch: scheuren — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Finnish: kaahata — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Finnish: syöksyä — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Finnish: rynnätä — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Finnish: käydä käsiksi — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Hungarian: száguld — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Hungarian: repeszt — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Italian: andare sparato — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Latvian: traukties — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Polish: pruć — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Polish: pędzić — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Romanian: alerga — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Russian: нести́сь (nestísʹ) — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Ukrainian: нести́ся (nestýsja) — to move at excessive speed, act with energy
• Finnish: repiä — to smash or enter something with great force
• Finnish: murskata — to smash or enter something with great force
• Northern Kurdish: perçiqandin — to smash or enter something with great force
• Arabic: دَمَعَ (damaʕa) — to produce tears
• Arabic: دَمَّع (dammaʕ) — to produce tears
• Bulgarian: сълзя (sǎlzja) — to produce tears
• Chinese Mandarin: 流泪 (liúlèi) — to produce tears
• Esperanto: larmi — to produce tears
• Faroese: tára — to produce tears
• Finnish: kyynelehtiä — to produce tears
• Finnish: vuotaa — to produce tears
• French: larmoyer — to produce tears
• Galician: chorar — to produce tears
• Galician: esbagullar — to produce tears
• Galician: esbagoar — to produce tears
• Galician: salaiar — to produce tears
• German: tränen — to produce tears
• Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (tahjan) — to produce tears
• Greek: δακρύζω (dakrýzo) — to produce tears
• Hungarian: könnyezik — to produce tears
• Korean: 눈물짓다 (nunmuljitda) — to produce tears
• Korean: 눈물 흘리다 (nunmul heullida) — to produce tears
• Latvian: asarot — to produce tears
• Macedonian: солзи (solzi) — to produce tears
• Old English: tīeran — to produce tears
• Portuguese: chorar — to produce tears
• Portuguese: lacrimejar — to produce tears
• Romanian: lăcrima — to produce tears
• Spanish: lagrimear — to produce tears
• Spanish: lagrimar — to produce tears
• Tibetan: མིག་ཆུ་ཤོར (mig chu shor) — to produce tears