terror

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• General-American: /ˈtɛɹɚ/
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• /tɛɚ/ some accents
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹə/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈteɹə/
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• Scotland: /ˈtɛɾəɾ/
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• Wales: /ˈtɛɾə/
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• /ˈtʌɹɚ/ Philadelphia, merry–Murray merger
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• rhymes with -ɛɹə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• homophone: terra
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• homophone: (both non-rhotic) Terra
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• homophone: (Mary–marry–merry merger) tearer
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• homophone: tare
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• homophone: (some American dialects) tear
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• CMU ARPABET: T EH1 R ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

Proper noun form of terror. Translation of French Terreur, as coined by the Thermidorian Reaction

157 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: terror — extreme fear
• Albanian: tmerr — extreme fear
• Albanian: lebeti — extreme fear
• Arabic: رُعْب (ruʕb) — extreme fear
• Arabic: هَوْل (hawl) — extreme fear
• Arabic: ذُعْر (ḏuʕr) — extreme fear
• Arabic: خَوْف (ḵawf) — extreme fear
• Armenian: ահ (ah) — extreme fear
• Armenian: սարսափ (sarsapʻ) — extreme fear
• Azerbaijani: dəhşət — extreme fear
• Belarusian: жах (žax) — extreme fear
• Bulgarian: у́жас (úžas) — extreme fear
• Catalan: terror — extreme fear
• Chinese Cantonese: 恐怖 — extreme fear
• Chinese Mandarin: 恐怖 (kǒngbù) — extreme fear
• Czech: hrůza — extreme fear
• Danish: terror — extreme fear
• Egyptian: n:r-w-mwt-A24 (nrw) — extreme fear
• Esperanto: teruro — extreme fear
• Finnish: kauhu — extreme fear
• French: terreur — extreme fear
• French: effroi — extreme fear
• Galician: terror — extreme fear
• Galician: espanto — extreme fear
• German: Schrecken — extreme fear
• German: Grauen — extreme fear
• German: schreckliche Furcht — extreme fear
• Greek: τρόμος (trómos) — extreme fear
• Ancient Greek: δεῖμα (deîma) — extreme fear
• Ancient Greek: πτῆξις (ptêxis) — extreme fear
• Ancient Greek: πτοία (ptoía) — extreme fear
• Ancient Greek: ὀρρωδία (orrhōdía) — extreme fear
• Hebrew: אֵימָה (eimá) — extreme fear
• Hindi: दहशत (dahśat) — extreme fear
• Hindi: वहशत (vahśat) — extreme fear
• Hindi: सहम (saham) — extreme fear
• Hungarian: rettegés — extreme fear
• Hungarian: rémület — extreme fear
• Hungarian: borzalom — extreme fear
• Icelandic: ógn — extreme fear
• Icelandic: skelfing — extreme fear
• Icelandic: hræðsla — extreme fear
• Indonesian: kengerian — extreme fear
• Irish: uafás — extreme fear
• Irish: scéin — extreme fear
• Japanese: 恐怖 (kyōfu) — extreme fear
• Kazakh: қорқыныш (qorqynyş) — extreme fear
• Khmer: ភេរវារម្មណ៍ (pheirĕəʼviərɑm) — extreme fear
• Korean: 공포 (gongpo) — extreme fear
• Northern Kurdish: sehm — extreme fear
• Northern Kurdish: dehşet — extreme fear
• Kyrgyz: коркунуч (korkunuc) — extreme fear
• Ladino: espanto — extreme fear
• Ladino: estremisyon — extreme fear
• Ladino: terror — extreme fear
• Latin: terror — extreme fear
• Macedonian: ужас (užas) — extreme fear
• Malagasy: tahotra — extreme fear
• Malay: kengerian — extreme fear
• Malay: dahsyat — extreme fear
• Malay: seram — extreme fear
• Malayalam: ഭീകരത (bhīkarata) — extreme fear
• Malayalam: നടുക്കം (naṭukkaṁ) — extreme fear
• Marathi: दहशत (dahśat) — extreme fear
• Middle English: terrour — extreme fear
• Navajo: ił hóóyééʼ — extreme fear
• Nepali: भय (bhaya) — extreme fear
• Nepali: त्रास (trās) — extreme fear
• Norwegian Bokmål: terror — extreme fear
• Norwegian Nynorsk: terror — extreme fear
• Occitan: terror — extreme fear
• Old English: gryre — extreme fear
• Pashto: دهشت (dahšat) — extreme fear
• Pashto: وحشت (vahšat) — extreme fear
• Persian: وَحْشَت (vahšat) — extreme fear
• Persian: دَهْشَت (dahšat) — extreme fear
• Plautdietsch: Schrakj — extreme fear
• Polish: groza — extreme fear
• Portuguese: terror — extreme fear
• Romanian: spaimă — extreme fear
• Romanian: teroare — extreme fear
• Russian: у́жас (úžas) — extreme fear
• Sanskrit: त्रास (trāsa) — extreme fear
• Sanskrit: भय (bhaya) — extreme fear
• Scottish Gaelic: maoim — extreme fear
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏жа̄с — extreme fear
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕžās — extreme fear
• Slovak: hrôza — extreme fear
• Slovene: groza — extreme fear
• Spanish: terror — extreme fear
• Swedish: terror — extreme fear
• Tajik: даҳшат (dahšat) — extreme fear
• Tajik: ваҳшат (vahšat) — extreme fear
• Tocharian B: empelñe — extreme fear
• Tocharian B: īwate — extreme fear
• Turkish: dehşet — extreme fear
• Ottoman Turkish: دهشت (dehşet) — extreme fear
• Ottoman Turkish: قورقو (korku) — extreme fear
• Ottoman Turkish: وحشت (vahşet) — extreme fear
• Ukrainian: жах (žax) — extreme fear
• Urdu: دَہْشَت (dahśat) — extreme fear
• Urdu: وَحْشَت (vahśat) — extreme fear
• Urdu: سَہْم (sahm) — extreme fear
• Uzbek: dahshat — extreme fear
• Uzbek: qoʻrquv — extreme fear
• Uzbek: vahshat — extreme fear
• Vietnamese: sự khiếp — extreme fear
• Finnish: kauhu — instance of being intensely terrified
• Arabic: ترويع — action or quality of causing dread
• Finnish: kauhu — action or quality of causing dread
• Finnish: terrori — action or quality of causing dread
• Hungarian: rettenet — action or quality of causing dread
• Hungarian: borzalom — action or quality of causing dread
• Hungarian: terror — action or quality of causing dread
• Malayalam: ഭീകരത (bhīkarata) — action or quality of causing dread
• Polish: terror — action or quality of causing dread
• Armenian: սարսափ (sarsapʻ) — something causing fear
• Catalan: terror — something causing fear
• Chinese Mandarin: 詭異的事物 /诡异的事物 — something causing fear
• Chinese Mandarin: 恐怖 (kǒngbù) — something causing fear
• Dutch: verschrikking — something causing fear
• Esperanto: teruraĵo — something causing fear
• Finnish: kauhu — something causing fear
• French: terreur — something causing fear
• Galician: terror — something causing fear
• German: Terror — something causing fear
• Greek: τρόμος (trómos) — something causing fear
• Greek: φόβητρο (fóvitro) — something causing fear
• Ancient Greek: δεινόν (deinón) — something causing fear
• Hungarian: rém — something causing fear
• Japanese: 恐怖 (kyōfu) — something causing fear
• Korean: 공포 (gongpo) — something causing fear
• Malayalam: ഭീകരം (bhīkaraṁ) — something causing fear
• Middle English: ferdnesse — something causing fear
• Portuguese: terror — something causing fear
• Russian: у́жас (úžas) — something causing fear
• Spanish: terror — something causing fear
• Abkhaz: атеррор (atʼerror) — terrorism
• Arabic: إِرْهَاب (ʔirhāb) — terrorism
• Belarusian: тэра́кт (terákt) — terrorism
• Belarusian: тэро́р (terór) — terrorism
• Belarusian: тэрары́зм (terarýzm) — terrorism
• Bulgarian: теро́р (terór) — terrorism
• Bulgarian: терори́зъм (terorízǎm) — terrorism
• Dutch: terreur — terrorism
• French: terrorisme — terrorism
• Galician: terrorismo — terrorism
• Hebrew: טֶרוֹר (téror) — terrorism
• Hungarian: terror — terrorism
• Malayalam: ഭീകരത (bhīkarata) — terrorism
• Marathi: दहशतवाद (dahśatvād) — terrorism
• Russian: тера́кт (terákt) — terrorism
• Russian: терро́р (terrór) — terrorism
• Russian: террори́зм (terrorízm) — terrorism
• Ukrainian: тера́кт (terákt) — terrorism
• Ukrainian: теро́р (terór) — terrorism
• Ukrainian: терори́зм (terorýzm) — terrorism