Angry in Different Languages
Discover 'Angry' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Angry
Afrikaans kwaad | ||
Albanian i zemëruar | ||
Amharic ተናደደ | ||
Arabic غاضب | ||
Armenian զայրացած | ||
Assamese খঙাল | ||
Aymara phiñasita | ||
Azerbaijani hirsli | ||
Bambara dimilen | ||
Basque haserre | ||
Belarusian раззлаваны | ||
Bengali রাগান্বিত | ||
Bhojpuri खीसियाइल | ||
Bosnian ljut | ||
Bulgarian ядосан | ||
Catalan enfadat | ||
Cebuano nasuko | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 愤怒 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 憤怒 | ||
Corsican arrabiatu | ||
Croatian ljut | ||
Czech rozzlobený | ||
Danish vred | ||
Dhivehi ރުޅިއައުން | ||
Dogri गुस्सा | ||
Dutch boos | ||
English angry | ||
Esperanto kolera | ||
Estonian vihane | ||
Ewe kpᴐ dziku | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) galit | ||
Finnish vihainen | ||
French fâché | ||
Frisian lilk | ||
Galician enfadado | ||
Georgian გაბრაზებული | ||
German wütend | ||
Greek θυμωμένος | ||
Guarani pochy | ||
Gujarati ગુસ્સો | ||
Haitian Creole fache | ||
Hausa fushi | ||
Hawaiian huhū | ||
Hebrew כּוֹעֵס | ||
Hindi गुस्सा | ||
Hmong chim siab | ||
Hungarian mérges | ||
Icelandic reiður | ||
Igbo iwe | ||
Ilocano agung-unget | ||
Indonesian marah | ||
Irish feargach | ||
Italian arrabbiato | ||
Japanese 怒っている | ||
Javanese nesu | ||
Kannada ಕೋಪಗೊಂಡ | ||
Kazakh ашулы | ||
Khmer ខឹង | ||
Kinyarwanda arakaye | ||
Konkani रागार | ||
Korean 성난 | ||
Krio vɛks | ||
Kurdish hêrsbû | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تووڕە | ||
Kyrgyz ачууланган | ||
Lao ໃຈຮ້າຍ | ||
Latin iratus | ||
Latvian dusmīgs | ||
Lingala nkanda | ||
Lithuanian piktas | ||
Luganda okunyiiga | ||
Luxembourgish rosen | ||
Macedonian лут | ||
Maithili क्रोधित | ||
Malagasy tezitra | ||
Malay marah | ||
Malayalam ദേഷ്യം | ||
Maltese irrabjat | ||
Maori riri | ||
Marathi राग | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯥꯎꯕ | ||
Mizo thinrim | ||
Mongolian ууртай | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စိတ်ဆိုးတယ် | ||
Nepali रिसाउनु | ||
Norwegian sint | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wokwiya | ||
Odia (Oriya) କ୍ରୋଧିତ | ||
Oromo aaraa | ||
Pashto قهرجن | ||
Persian خشمگین | ||
Polish zły | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) bravo | ||
Punjabi ਗੁੱਸਾ | ||
Quechua piñasqa | ||
Romanian furios | ||
Russian сердитый | ||
Samoan ita | ||
Sanskrit क्रुद्धः | ||
Scots Gaelic feargach | ||
Sepedi befetšwe | ||
Serbian љут | ||
Sesotho koatile | ||
Shona hasha | ||
Sindhi ڪاوڙيل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තරහයි | ||
Slovak nahnevaný | ||
Slovenian jezen | ||
Somali xanaaqsan | ||
Spanish enojado | ||
Sundanese ambek | ||
Swahili hasira | ||
Swedish arg | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) galit | ||
Tajik хашмгин | ||
Tamil கோபம் | ||
Tatar ачулы | ||
Telugu కోపం | ||
Thai โกรธ | ||
Tigrinya ዝተናደደ | ||
Tsonga hlundzukile | ||
Turkish kızgın | ||
Turkmen gaharly | ||
Twi (Akan) abufuo | ||
Ukrainian злий | ||
Urdu ناراض | ||
Uyghur ئاچچىقلاندى | ||
Uzbek badjahl | ||
Vietnamese bực bội | ||
Welsh yn ddig | ||
Xhosa enomsindo | ||
Yiddish בייז | ||
Yoruba binu | ||
Zulu uthukuthele |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "kwaad" may also refer to a person's character or disposition, particularly when it is negative or harmful. |
| Albanian | "i zemëruar" (angry) is also an idiom used to refer to an |
| Amharic | The word 'ተናደደ' originally meant 'to be filled with rage' but now also means 'to be disappointed or frustrated'. |
| Arabic | The word "غاضب" in Arabic derives from the same root as "water" and can also mean "flooding" or "overflowing." |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "զայրացած" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*gʰers-/*ǵʰers-", meaning "to be hot or angry". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "hirsli" may derive from the Turkic word "hyrs" meaning "fierce, angry" or the Persian word "hirsu" meaning "bear". |
| Basque | "Haserre" comes from the verb "hasi" (to laugh) and the suffix "-erre" (to make do). |
| Belarusian | The literal meaning of this noun is "stirred up" as a liquid which has settled is stirred after some time. |
| Bengali | A popular Bengali saying goes 'রাগ আগুন' (anger is fire), which refers to anger as a volatile emotion. |
| Bosnian | The word "ljut" can also mean "hot" or "spicy" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | "Ядосан" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *jędъ, meaning "poison" or "venom". |
| Catalan | "Enfadat" comes from the Latin "infatus", meaning "blown up with wind" or "puffed up with anger". |
| Cebuano | The word "nasuko" can also mean "bad-smelling" or "stinky". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 愤怒 is also used as a literary term for the genre of political satire or lampoon. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The original meaning of "憤怒" is a feeling of indignation due to humiliation. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "arrabiatu" also means "unlucky". |
| Croatian | The word 'ljut' also means 'spicy' in Croatian, possibly due to the shared sensation of burning. |
| Czech | The word "rozzlobený" is derived from the verb "rozzlobit se", which means "to get angry". |
| Danish | The word "vred" in Danish derives from the Proto-Germanic root "*wræð-", meaning "wroth" or "angry". |
| Dutch | The word "boos" in Dutch can also mean "evil" or "wicked". |
| Esperanto | The word "kolera" is related to the word "koleriko", or "choleric" in English. |
| Estonian | The word vihane likely comes from the verb vihata, which meant to hate, dislike or persecute someone. |
| Finnish | Although the Finnish word vihainen means "angry," it was originally used to describe feelings of pity or grief. |
| French | The French word "fâché" originates from the Latin "fastidium" (disgust), suggesting an emotional state of annoyance and frustration. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "lilk" is likely cognate with the Old English word "lytle", meaning "small" or "insignificant", as is found in the Old English poem "Beowulf" |
| Galician | In Galician, the word "enfadado" also means "bored" or "annoyed", depending on the context. |
| German | The word "wütend" is derived from the Old High German word "wuoten", meaning "to rage" or "to be furious". |
| Greek | In addition to 'angry,' in the context of an argument 'θυμωμένος' might mean 'indignant' or 'outraged'. |
| Gujarati | The term "ગુસ્સો" is also used in Gujarati to describe a person who is stubborn or obstinate. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "fache" derives from the French "fâché" and also means "tired" or "upset". |
| Hausa | Hausa has two homophonous words spelled "fushi": one meaning "angry" and one meaning "to spit". |
| Hawaiian | "Huhū" derives from the word for "owl, |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "כּוֹעֵס" (kote'es), meaning "angry", is derived from the root "כוע" (ko'a), which also means "strength" or "power". |
| Hindi | The word "गुस्सा" (Hindi) is derived from the Sanskrit word "कुषा" (straw), as it is said that when a person is angry, their temper flares up like dry straw. |
| Hmong | In the Hmong language the word "chim siab" can be traced back to the word "siab" meaning "heart". |
| Hungarian | The word "mérges" in Hungarian also means "poisonous", and it shares a similar root with the word "méreg" (poison). |
| Icelandic | The word "reiður" originates from an Old Norse word meaning "well-prepared" or "ready for battle." |
| Igbo | The word 'iwe' can also refer to 'a state of being annoyed or irritated' in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | The word also means 'bitter,' especially in Biblical usage. |
| Irish | The word "feargach" in Irish is derived from the Old Irish word "fearchu"," meaning "a man" and "-ach", a suffix meaning "full of", so "feargach" literally means "full of manliness". |
| Italian | The term "arrabbiato" can also refer to a spicy Italian pasta sauce. |
| Japanese | 怒っている is a compound of 怒る (okoru, "to get angry") and いる, the progressive form of the verb いる (iru, "to be"). |
| Javanese | The term "nesu" can also refer to a feeling of discomfort or dissatisfaction. |
| Kannada | The word "ಕೋಪಗೊಂಡ" (kopagonda) in Kannada can also mean "to be in a rage" or "to be enraged". |
| Kazakh | The word "ашулы" also means "irritated" or "annoyed" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ខឹង" (angry) is derived from the Sanskrit word "कृष्ण" (dark), referring to the darkening of one's face when angry. |
| Korean | The word "성난" can also mean "furious" or "enraged" in Korean, though its literal translation is "to be hot." |
| Kurdish | The word "hêrsbû" also refers to "furious" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "ачууланган" is derived from the verb "ачуулоо," which means "to embitter". It can also refer to a person who is easily angered. |
| Latin | The word "Iratus" derives from the Indo-European root "*rei-**, meaning "to move violently". It originally referred to a state of violent anger, but gradually came to mean simply "angry". |
| Latvian | The word "dusmīgs" can also mean "foggy" in Latvian, which may reflect an association between anger and the obscuring effects of fog. |
| Lithuanian | In the 16th and 17th century Lithuanian texts, piktas often referred to the stinginess and greediness of a person. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "rosen" also means "red" in Luxembourgish, possibly due to its association with the color of anger. |
| Macedonian | The word "лут" is also used in Macedonian to refer to "the heat of the sun" or "the heat of a fire." |
| Malagasy | The word "TEZITRA" in Malagasy also referred to the feeling of being frustrated or annoyed. |
| Malay | The word "marah" in Malay can also mean "to scold" or "to reprimand" |
| Malayalam | In some contexts, "ദേഷ്യം" can also mean "anger", "resentment", or "wrath". |
| Maltese | The word 'irrabjat' in Maltese comes from the Arabic word 'rabb', meaning 'to tie up', and is often used to describe someone who is 'tied up' with anger. |
| Maori | The word "riri" in Maori also means "a tremor" or "a shiver". |
| Marathi | राग, a common word for 'anger' in Marathi, has alternate meanings including 'musical melody' and 'passion'. |
| Mongolian | The word "ууртай" can also refer to someone who is "hasty" or "impetuous" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The verb 'रिसाउनु' can also be used to mean 'to be sensitive' or 'to be easily offended'. Unlike 'क्रोधित हुनु', 'रिसाउनु' refers to a less intense or fleeting anger. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "sint" is related to the word "sinder", which means "ashes", suggesting an intense emotional state that is as hot and consuming as fire. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "wokwiya" also refers to a type of tree whose bark is used to make traditional medicine. |
| Pashto | The word "قهرجن" in Pashto can also mean "to be defeated" or "to be overpowered". |
| Persian | "خشمگین" is derived from the Middle Persian word "khushm" (anger) and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *keu- (to swell, to be angry). |
| Polish | "Zły" in Polish besides meaning "angry" can also mean "evil". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "bravo" also means "wild" or "fierce", like a "brave" animal |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, the word 'ਗੁੱਸਾ' ('angry') also means 'hot' or 'spicy' when used in the context of food. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "furios" has a second, archaic meaning: "thief". |
| Russian | Russian "сердитый" initially meant "poor" or "unhappy" and only later acquired the meaning of "angry". |
| Samoan | The word "ita" can also mean "jealous" or "envious". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "feargach" shares a common root with the Old Irish word "ferg" meaning "anger" and can also mean "furious" or "irritable". |
| Serbian | The word љут (angry) is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leudh- (to grow, increase). |
| Sesotho | The word "koatile" also means "to be hot" or "to be spicy" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | Shona word "hasha" initially meant "to grind," evolving to today's meaning through metaphors of "rough" or "irritating" things "grinding" on you. |
| Sindhi | ڪاوڙيل is also used to describe a person who is easily angered or irritable. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "තරහයි" can also mean "jealousy" or "envy" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | "Nahnevaný" also means "leaning forward" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | Beside the most common meaning "angry", "jezen" can also mean "autumn" or "north wind" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word 'xanaaqsan' has Indo-European roots, and is cognate with words such as 'canine' and 'canine tooth'. |
| Spanish | The word 'enojado' comes from the Latin verb 'ininiare', which means 'to grow dark with anger'. |
| Sundanese | Sundanese word "ambek" is probably borrowed from Chinese word "àm pék" meaning "dark and pale", as people who are angry tend to have pale face with reddish skin. |
| Swahili | The word 'hasira' in Swahili can also refer to firewood, meaning someone who is 'hasira' is 'hot' or 'fiery' like firewood. |
| Swedish | The word "arg" can also mean "bad" or "evil" in Swedish, and is cognate with the English word "arch". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "galit" can also mean "mad" or "furious" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "хашмгин" in Tajik could also refer to someone who is passionate or energetic. |
| Tamil | The word |
| Telugu | Derived from Sanskrit "kopas", meaning strong or severe, "కోపం" (kopam) connotes intense displeasure, ire, or irritation in Telugu. |
| Thai | The Thai word "โกรธ" can also refer to irritation, exasperation, or resentment. |
| Turkish | "Kızgın" also means "hot" in Turkish, sharing the same root with the word "kızarmak" (to blush). |
| Ukrainian | The word "злий" can also mean "bad" or "evil" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word "ناراض" can also mean "displeased" or "upset" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "badjahl" is derived from the Arabic word "badjaha" meaning "to be angry". |
| Vietnamese | The word "bực bội" also means "stuffy" or "irritated". |
| Welsh | The word 'yn ddig' derives from the PIE root *dheig-, from which English 'throe' also originates. |
| Xhosa | The word 'enomsindo' in Xhosa comes from the root word 'nmsindo', which means 'anger'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "bayz" ('angry') derives from the Middle High German "böse" ('evil') and the Old English "bysg" ('busy'), giving it connotations of chaos and frustration. |
| Yoruba | "Binu" can also mean "to be hot," as in weather or temperature. |
| Zulu | The word "uthukuthele" in Zulu can also refer to a state of extreme irritation or frustration. |
| English | The word "angry" comes from the Middle English word "anger," which is derived from the Old Norse word "angr," meaning "grief" or "sorrow." |