teem

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From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Anglian Old English tēman (“to give birth”) (West Saxon Old English tīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *taumijan (“to bridle”), from Proto-Germanic *taumijaną, from *taumaz ("bridle", continued in Modern English as team).

From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *tōmijaną (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom.

From Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from Old English *teman, from Proto-Germanic *temaną (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem.

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِزْدَحَمَ (izdaḥama) — overflowing with
• Bulgarian: гъмжа (gǎmža) — overflowing with
• Chinese Mandarin: 富於 /富于 (fùyú) — overflowing with
• Czech: překypovat — overflowing with
• Czech: hemžit se — overflowing with
• Czech: oplývat — overflowing with
• Dutch: wemelen — overflowing with
• Faroese: yðja — overflowing with
• Faroese: ýa — overflowing with
• Finnish: vilistä — overflowing with
• French: grouiller — overflowing with
• French: foisonner — overflowing with
• German: von etwas wimmeln — overflowing with
• German: vor etwas strotzen — overflowing with
• German: überquellen — overflowing with
• German: überborden — overflowing with
• Ancient Greek: βρύω (brúō) — overflowing with
• Italian: brulicare — overflowing with
• Japanese: 富む (tomu) — overflowing with
• Latin: parturiō — overflowing with
• Norwegian: kry — overflowing with
• Norwegian: vrimla — overflowing with
• Norwegian: aula — overflowing with
• Norwegian: yrja — overflowing with
• Norwegian: myldra — overflowing with
• Occitan: grolhar — overflowing with
• Occitan: pullular — overflowing with
• Occitan: groar — overflowing with
• Occitan: formiguejar — overflowing with
• Polish: obfitować — overflowing with
• Polish: obradzać — overflowing with
• Polish: obrodzić — overflowing with
• Polish: roić się — overflowing with
• Portuguese: fervilhar — overflowing with
• Russian: изоби́ловать (izobílovatʹ) — overflowing with
• Russian: кише́ть (kišétʹ) — overflowing with
• Serbo-Croatian: врвити — overflowing with
• Serbo-Croatian: vrviti — overflowing with
• Spanish: rebosar de — overflowing with
• Spanish: hervir de — overflowing with
• Spanish: bullir — overflowing with
• Swedish: sprudla — overflowing with
• Ukrainian: бути повним (buty povnym) — overflowing with
• Ukrainian: переповнюватися (perepovnjuvatysja) — overflowing with
• Bulgarian: изобилствам (izobilstvam) — to be prolific; to abound
• Dutch: wemelen — to be prolific; to abound
• Esperanto: pleni — to be prolific; to abound
• German: von etwas wimmeln — to be prolific; to abound
• German: vor etwas strotzen — to be prolific; to abound
• Māori: whakarēwai — to be prolific; to abound
• Occitan: groar — to be prolific; to abound
• Occitan: fruchejar — to be prolific; to abound
• Occitan: frutar — to be prolific; to abound
• Occitan: abondar — to be prolific; to abound
• Occitan: foisonar — to be prolific; to abound
• Polish: obfitować — to be prolific; to abound
• Polish: obradzać — to be prolific; to abound
• Polish: obrodzić — to be prolific; to abound
• Polish: roić się — to be prolific; to abound
• Spanish: proliferar — to be prolific; to abound
• Turkish: kaynamak — to be prolific; to abound
• Ukrainian: кишіти (kyšity) — to be prolific; to abound
• Zazaki: gıreyen — to be prolific; to abound
• Bulgarian: плодовит съм (plodovit sǎm) — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• German: Nachwuchs zeugen — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• German: Nachwuchs hervorbringen — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• German: Junge werfen — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• German: schwanger sein — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• German: Früchte hervorbringen — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• German: Früchte tragen — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• Occitan: fruchejar — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• Occitan: frutar — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• Polish: obradzać — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• Polish: obrodzić — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• Polish: owocować — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• Polish: zaowocować — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• Spanish: fructificar — to bring forth young or to produce fruit
• Bulgarian: изпразвам (izprazvam) — to empty
• German: entleeren — to empty
• German: ausgießen — to empty
• German: schütten — to empty
• Russian: вылива́ть (vylivátʹ) — to empty
• Swedish: tömma — to empty
• Swedish: ösa — to empty
• Bulgarian: лея се (leja se) — to pour (rain)
• Czech: lít — to pour (rain)
• German: gießen — to pour (rain)
• Māori: pātere — to pour (rain)
• Māori: whakarēwai — to pour (rain)
• Russian: лить (litʹ) — to pour (rain)
• Swedish: ösa — to pour (rain)
• Bulgarian: изливам (izlivam) — to pour, to cast, to found; to fill, from a melting pot, with molten metal
• German: gießen — to pour, to cast, to found; to fill, from a melting pot, with molten metal
• Irish: taom — to drain the water from
• Irish: taosc — to drain the water from