throng

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• Received-Pronunciation: /θɹɒŋ/
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• General-American: /θɹɔŋ/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /θɹɑŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɒŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: TH R AO1 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from *þrinhwaną (“to press, to push; to force”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkw- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”) and Persian ترنجیدن (Trenjidan, “to beat, to push”). Compare typologically crowd (see there for more).

135 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ամբոխ (ambox) — group of people
• Armenian: բազմություն (bazmutʻyun) — group of people
• Bulgarian: тълпа (tǎlpa) — group of people
• Bulgarian: множество (množestvo) — group of people
• Catalan: gent assai — group of people
• Catalan: munió — group of people
• Czech: dav — group of people
• Czech: zástup — group of people
• Czech: tlačenice — group of people
• Dutch: massa — group of people
• Dutch: menigte — group of people
• Dutch: drukte — group of people
• Esperanto: amaso — group of people
• Esperanto: homamaso — group of people
• Esperanto: svarmo — group of people
• Finnish: ihmisjoukko — group of people
• Finnish: väentungos — group of people
• Finnish: väkijoukko — group of people
• French: essaim — group of people
• French: foule — group of people
• Galician: multitude — group of people
• Galician: aglomeración — group of people
• Galician: xentío — group of people
• Gallurese: gjntória — group of people
• German: Menschengewühl — group of people
• German: Gewühl — group of people
• German: Gedränge — group of people
• German: Menschenmenge — group of people
• German: Menschentraube — group of people
• German: Traube — group of people
• Gothic: 𐌹𐌿𐌼𐌾𐍉 (iumjō) — group of people
• Ancient Greek: οὐλαμός (oulamós) — group of people
• Irish: plód — group of people
• Irish: slua — group of people
• Irish: pulcadh — group of people
• Italian: calca — group of people
• Italian: ressa — group of people
• Italian: folla — group of people
• Latin: multitūdō — group of people
• Latin: turba — group of people
• Latin: frequentia — group of people
• Latin: caterva — group of people
• Latin: vulgus — group of people
• Occitan: fola — group of people
• Occitan: molonada — group of people
• Persian: جمعیت (jam'eyat) — group of people
• Polish: tłok — group of people
• Polish: tłum — group of people
• Polish: ciżba — group of people
• Portuguese: turba — group of people
• Portuguese: aglomeração — group of people
• Romanian: mulțime — group of people
• Romanian: aglomerație — group of people
• Romanian: stol — group of people
• Romanian: îmbulzeală — group of people
• Romanian: claie — group of people
• Romanian: îngrămădeală — group of people
• Romanian: turmă — group of people
• Russian: толпа́ (tolpá) — group of people
• Russian: толчея́ (tolčejá) — group of people
• Russian: ку́ча (kúča) — group of people
• Campidanese Sardinian: stibbu — group of people
• Sardinian: càtticu — group of people
• Sardinian: lèrina — group of people
• Sardinian: zentoriu — group of people
• Sassarese: attruppogliu — group of people
• Sicilian: carca — group of people
• Sicilian: fuḍḍa — group of people
• Sicilian: caterba — group of people
• Spanish: muchedumbre — group of people
• Spanish: gentío — group of people
• Spanish: caterva — group of people
• Swedish: trängsel — group of people
• Swedish: mängd — group of people
• Ottoman Turkish: قالابالق (kalabalık) — group of people
• Ottoman Turkish: كومه (küme) — group of people
• Ottoman Turkish: سوری (sürü) — group of people
• Ukrainian: на́товп (nátovp) — group of people
• Volapük: menarunäd — group of people
• Armenian: բազմություն (bazmutʻyun) — group of things; host or swarm
• Dutch: zwerm — group of things; host or swarm
• Esperanto: amaso — group of things; host or swarm
• Esperanto: svarmo — group of things; host or swarm
• Finnish: joukko — group of things; host or swarm
• Finnish: lauma — group of things; host or swarm
• French: essaim — group of things; host or swarm
• Galician: turba — group of things; host or swarm
• Galician: multitude — group of things; host or swarm
• Galician: morea — group of things; host or swarm
• German: Schwarm — group of things; host or swarm
• German: Ansammlung — group of things; host or swarm
• Occitan: multitud — group of things; host or swarm
• Occitan: eissam — group of things; host or swarm
• Occitan: eissamat — group of things; host or swarm
• Occitan: molon — group of things; host or swarm
• Occitan: molonada — group of things; host or swarm
• Russian: мно́жество (mnóžestvo) — group of things; host or swarm
• Russian: ма́сса (mássa) — group of things; host or swarm
• Russian: ку́ча (kúča) — group of things; host or swarm
• Spanish: multitud — group of things; host or swarm
• Spanish: montón — group of things; host or swarm
• Spanish: caterva — group of things; host or swarm
• Spanish: hervidero — group of things; host or swarm
• Spanish: turba — group of things; host or swarm
• Spanish: recua — group of things; host or swarm
• Ukrainian: купа (kupa) — group of things; host or swarm
• Ukrainian: маса (masa) — group of things; host or swarm
• Bulgarian: тълпя се (tǎlpja se) — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Chinese Mandarin: 蜂擁 /蜂拥 (fēngyōng) — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Dutch: samenstromen — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Finnish: ahtautua — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Finnish: tungeksia — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Finnish: täyttää — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Irish: plúch — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Māori: tāmuimui — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Māori: popō — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Portuguese: lotar — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Portuguese: apinhar — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Russian: толпи́ться (tolpítʹsja) — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Russian: столпи́ться (stolpítʹsja) — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Spanish: abarrotar — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Spanish: llenar — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Swedish: tränga sig in — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Ukrainian: заповнювати (zapovnjuvaty) — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Ukrainian: переповнювати (perepovnjuvaty) — to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
• Dutch: vergaderen — to congregate
• Finnish: tungeksia — to congregate
• Finnish: kerääntyä — to congregate
• Irish: plódaigh — to congregate
• Māori: popō — to congregate
• Spanish: congregarse — to congregate
• Spanish: reunirse — to congregate
• Ukrainian: юрмитися (jurmytysja) — to congregate
• Ukrainian: юрбитися (jurbytysja) — to congregate
• Ukrainian: скупчуватися (skupčuvatysja) — to congregate