threat

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• Received-Pronunciation, US: thrĕt
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• Received-Pronunciation, US: /θɹɛt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /θɹet/
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• Scotland, Wales: /θɾɛt/
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• Ireland: /tɹɛt/
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• /fɹɛt/ th-fronting
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• rhymes with -ɛt
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• homophone: fret (th-fronting)
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• CMU ARPABET: TH R EH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English threte, thret, thrat, thræt, threat, from Old English þrēat (“crowd, swarm, troop, army, press; pressure, trouble, calamity, oppression, force, violence, threat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrautaz, closely tied to Proto-Germanic *þrautą (“displeasure, complaint, grievance, labour, toil”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”). Cognate with Scots thret, threte, threit (“threat”), Middle High German drōz (“annoyance, disgust, horror, terror, fright”), Middle Low German drōt (“threat, menace, danger”), Faroese treyt (“struggle, labour, distress”), Icelandic þraut (“struggle, labour, distress”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian труд (trud, “work, labour”), Czech trud (“effot, hard work”), Polish trud (“hard work”), Serbo-Croatian trȗd (“effort, hard work”).

From Middle English threten, from Old English þrēatian (“to press, oppress, repress, correct, threaten”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”). Cognate with Scots threit (“to threaten”), Dutch verdrieten (“to sadden, displease”), Middle Low German drēten (“to threaten”), German verdrießen (“to bother, vex”), Faroese tróta (“to run out”), Icelandic þrjóta (“to run out, end”), Norwegian tryte (“to run out, end”), Swedish tryda (“to run out”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌸𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (usþriutan, “to harass, torment”), Latin trūdō (“to push”), Albanian ndrydh (“to sprain, supress, withdraw”), Belarusian трудзіць (trudzicʹ, “to burden, tire”), Bulgarian тру̀дя (trùdja, “to work”), Czech trudit (“to toil, worry”), Polish trudzić (“to toil, worry”), Russian труди́ть (trudítʹ, “to burden, tire”), Serbo-Croatian trúditi (“to try, make and effot”), Ukrainian труди́ти (trudýty, “to toil, tire”).

173 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kërcënim — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Arabic: تَهْدِيد (tahdīd) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Armenian: սպառնալիք (spaṙnalikʻ) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Aromanian: fuverã — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Azerbaijani: təhdid — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Azerbaijani: hədə — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Azerbaijani: hədə-qorxu — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Basque: mehatxu — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Belarusian: пагро́за (pahróza) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Bhojpuri: धमकी (dhaməkī) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Bulgarian: запла́ха (zapláha) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Catalan: amenaça — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Cebuano: hulga — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Cebuano: bahad — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Chinese Cantonese: 威脅 /威胁 (wai1 hip3) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Chinese Mandarin: 威脅 /威胁 (wēixié) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Czech: hrozba — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Czech: výhrůžka — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Danish: trussel — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Dutch: bedreiging — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Dutch: dreigement — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Esperanto: minaco — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Estonian: ähvardus — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Finnish: uhkaus — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• French: menace — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Galician: ameaza — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Georgian: მუქარა (mukara) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• German: Drohung — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Greek: απειλή (apeilí) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Ancient Greek: ἀπειλή (apeilḗ) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Hebrew: אִיּוּם (iyum) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Hindi: धमकी (dhamkī) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Hungarian: fenyegetés — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Icelandic: hótun — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Indonesian: ancaman — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Italian: minaccia — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Japanese: 脅迫 (kyōhaku) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Japanese: 脅かし (odokashi) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Javanese: inciman — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Kabuverdianu: amiasa — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Kabuverdianu: amiasá — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Kazakh: байбалам (baibalam) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Kazakh: қорқыту (qorqytu) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Kazakh: үркіту (ürkıtu) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Khmer: ការគំរាមកំហែង (kaa kumriəm kɑmhaeng) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Khmer: សំដីឈ្លានពាន (sɑmdəy chliən piən) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Korean: 위협 (wihyeop) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Korean: 협박 (hyeopbak) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Northern Kurdish: tehdît — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Northern Kurdish: gef — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Kyrgyz: опуза (opuza) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Kyrgyz: коркунуч (korkunuc) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Latin: minātiō — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Latin: minācia — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Latvian: draudi — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Lithuanian: grasinimas — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Macedonian: закана (zakana) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Malagasy: fandrahonana — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Malay: ugutan — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Māori: kapatau — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Mongolian: занал (zanal) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Norwegian Bokmål: trussel — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trussel — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Occitan: menaça — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Old English: þrēa — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Oromo: doorsisa — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Dari: تَهْدِید (tahdīd) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Iranian Persian: تَهْدید (tahdid) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Plautdietsch: Jedreiw — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Polish: groźba — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Polish: pogróżka — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Portuguese: ameaça — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Romanian: amenințare — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Russian: угро́за (ugróza) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Scottish Gaelic: bagairt — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Scottish Gaelic: bagradh — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Serbo-Croatian: пре́тња — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Serbo-Croatian: прије́тња — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Serbo-Croatian: prétnja — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Serbo-Croatian: prijétnja — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Slovak: hrozba — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Slovene: grožnja — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Swahili: tisho — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Swedish: hot — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Tagalog: bala — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Tagalog: banta — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Tajik: таҳдид (tahdid) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Thai: ภัย (pai) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Thai: คําขู่ — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Thai: ภยันตราย (pá-yan-dtà-raai) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Turkish: tehdit — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Ukrainian: погро́за (pohróza) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Ukrainian: загро́за (zahróza) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Urdu: ڈَپَٹ (ḍapaṭ) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Urdu: دَھمْکی (dhamkī) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Urdu: تَہْدِید (tahdīd) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Uyghur: تەھدىد (tehdid) — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Uzbek: doʻq — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Uzbek: tahdid — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Vietnamese: uy hiếp — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Vietnamese: lời đe doạ — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Zazaki: gef — expression of intent to injure or punish another
• Aromanian: fuverã — indication of imminent danger
• Catalan: amenaça — indication of imminent danger
• Chinese Mandarin: 危險 /危险 (wēixiǎn) — indication of imminent danger
• Czech: hrozba — indication of imminent danger
• Czech: ohrožení — indication of imminent danger
• Dutch: dreiging — indication of imminent danger
• Estonian: oht — indication of imminent danger
• Finnish: uhka — indication of imminent danger
• French: menace — indication of imminent danger
• Galician: ameaza — indication of imminent danger
• Georgian: საფრთხე (saprtxe) — indication of imminent danger
• German: Bedrohung — indication of imminent danger
• Greek: απειλή (apeilí) — indication of imminent danger
• Hindi: जोखिम (jokhim) — indication of imminent danger
• Hungarian: veszély — indication of imminent danger
• Indonesian: ancaman — indication of imminent danger
• Italian: minaccia — indication of imminent danger
• Japanese: 脅威 (kyōi) — indication of imminent danger
• Javanese: bebaya — indication of imminent danger
• Kazakh: қауіп (qauıp) — indication of imminent danger
• Korean: 협위 (hyeobwi) — indication of imminent danger
• Korean: 위험 (wiheom) — indication of imminent danger
• Central Kurdish: ھەڕەشە (herreşe) — indication of imminent danger
• Lithuanian: grėsmė — indication of imminent danger
• Mongolian: аюул занал (ajuul zanal) — indication of imminent danger
• Norwegian Bokmål: trussel — indication of imminent danger
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trussel — indication of imminent danger
• Plautdietsch: Jedreiw — indication of imminent danger
• Polish: zagrożenie — indication of imminent danger
• Portuguese: ameaça — indication of imminent danger
• Romanian: amenințare — indication of imminent danger
• Russian: опа́сность (opásnostʹ) — indication of imminent danger
• Serbo-Croatian: пре́тња — indication of imminent danger
• Serbo-Croatian: прије́тња — indication of imminent danger
• Serbo-Croatian: prétnja — indication of imminent danger
• Serbo-Croatian: prijétnja — indication of imminent danger
• Swahili: tisho — indication of imminent danger
• Swedish: hot — indication of imminent danger
• Tagalog: banta — indication of imminent danger
• Ottoman Turkish: قورقو (korku) — indication of imminent danger
• Ukrainian: загро́за (zahróza) — indication of imminent danger
• Ukrainian: небезпе́ка (nebezpéka) — indication of imminent danger
• Urdu: جوکِھم (jokhim) — indication of imminent danger
• Catalan: amenaça — person regarded as a danger
• Catalan: perill públic — person regarded as a danger
• Czech: hrozba — person regarded as a danger
• Esperanto: minaculo — person regarded as a danger
• Finnish: uhka — person regarded as a danger
• French: danger public — person regarded as a danger
• Galician: ameaza — person regarded as a danger
• Greek: απειλή (apeilí) — person regarded as a danger
• Italian: minaccia — person regarded as a danger
• Italian: pericolo a popolo — person regarded as a danger
• Japanese: 脅威 (kyōi) — person regarded as a danger
• Khmer: សីហលោ (səyhaʼloo) — person regarded as a danger
• Latin: minax — person regarded as a danger
• Latin: minacia — person regarded as a danger
• Malay: ancaman — person regarded as a danger
• Norwegian Bokmål: trussel — person regarded as a danger
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trussel — person regarded as a danger
• Polish: zagrożenie — person regarded as a danger
• Portuguese: ameaça — person regarded as a danger
• Portuguese: perigo público — person regarded as a danger
• Russian: исто́чник опа́сности (istóčnik opásnosti) — person regarded as a danger
• Russian: зло (zlo) — person regarded as a danger
• Spanish: peligro al público — person regarded as a danger
• Swahili: tisho — person regarded as a danger
• Swedish: hot — person regarded as a danger
• Tagalog: banta — person regarded as a danger
• Ukrainian: загро́за (zahróza) — person regarded as a danger
• Vietnamese: mối hiểm hoạ — person regarded as a danger