urgent

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• Australian, UK: /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/
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• Canada, US: /ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
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Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵh- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُسْتَعْجِل (mustaʕjil) — requiring immediate attention
• Armenian: շտապ (štap) — requiring immediate attention
• Azerbaijani: təcili — requiring immediate attention
• Belarusian: тэрміно́вы (terminóvy) — requiring immediate attention
• Belarusian: пі́льны (pílʹny) — requiring immediate attention
• Bulgarian: сро́чен (sróčen) — requiring immediate attention
• Bulgarian: спе́шен (spéšen) — requiring immediate attention
• Bulgarian: неотложен (neotložen) — requiring immediate attention
• Catalan: urgent — requiring immediate attention
• Chinese Mandarin: 緊急 /紧急 (jǐnjí) — requiring immediate attention
• Chinese Mandarin: 緊迫 /紧迫 (jǐnpò) — requiring immediate attention
• Chinese Mandarin: 急迫 (jípò) — requiring immediate attention
• Czech: naléhavý — requiring immediate attention
• Czech: urgentní — requiring immediate attention
• Danish: påtrængende — requiring immediate attention
• Danish: presserende — requiring immediate attention
• Danish: uopsættelig — requiring immediate attention
• Dutch: dringend — requiring immediate attention
• Esperanto: urĝa — requiring immediate attention
• Finnish: kiireellinen — requiring immediate attention
• French: urgent — requiring immediate attention
• Galician: urxente — requiring immediate attention
• German: dringend — requiring immediate attention
• German: dringlich — requiring immediate attention
• German: eilig — requiring immediate attention
• Greek: επείγων (epeígon) — requiring immediate attention
• Hebrew: דחוף (dakhúf) — requiring immediate attention
• Hungarian: sürgős — requiring immediate attention
• Ido: urjanta — requiring immediate attention
• Indonesian: mendesak — requiring immediate attention
• Ingrian: hätähiin — requiring immediate attention
• Interlingua: urgente — requiring immediate attention
• Irish: práinneach — requiring immediate attention
• Italian: urgente — requiring immediate attention
• Japanese: 緊急の (kinkyū no) — requiring immediate attention
• Japanese: 急を要する (kyū o yō-suru) — requiring immediate attention
• Korean: 긴급한 (gin'geuphan) — requiring immediate attention
• Northern Kurdish: lezgîn — requiring immediate attention
• Latin: instans — requiring immediate attention
• Macedonian: и́тен (íten) — requiring immediate attention
• Macedonian: сро́чен (sróčen) — requiring immediate attention
• Macedonian: прек (prek) — requiring immediate attention
• Macedonian: а́кутен (ákuten) — requiring immediate attention
• Macedonian: го́рлив (górliv) — requiring immediate attention
• Māori: nonoi — requiring immediate attention
• Māori: kōhukihuki — requiring immediate attention
• Plautdietsch: drinjent — requiring immediate attention
• Polish: pilny — requiring immediate attention
• Portuguese: urgente — requiring immediate attention
• Russian: сро́чный (sróčnyj) — requiring immediate attention
• Russian: э́кстренный (ékstrennyj) — requiring immediate attention
• Russian: неотло́жный (neotlóžnyj) — requiring immediate attention
• Russian: спе́шный (spéšnyj) — requiring immediate attention
• Scottish Gaelic: faochnach — requiring immediate attention
• Serbo-Croatian: hitan — requiring immediate attention
• Slovak: naliehavý — requiring immediate attention
• Spanish: urgente — requiring immediate attention
• Spanish: acuciante — requiring immediate attention
• Spanish: apremiante — requiring immediate attention
• Spanish: apremiar — requiring immediate attention
• Swedish: brådskande — requiring immediate attention
• Telugu: అత్యవసరం (atyavasaraṁ) — requiring immediate attention
• Thai: ด่วน (dùuan) — requiring immediate attention
• Turkish: acil — requiring immediate attention
• Turkish: ivedi — requiring immediate attention
• Ukrainian: терміно́вий (terminóvyj) — requiring immediate attention
• Ukrainian: спі́шний (spíšnyj) — requiring immediate attention
• Ukrainian: пи́льний (pýlʹnyj) — requiring immediate attention
• Ukrainian: нега́йний (nehájnyj) — requiring immediate attention
• Yiddish: אײַליק (aylik) — requiring immediate attention