synonym of Peitsche (“whip”) · scourge (whip used for flagellation) · scourge (persistent source of harm, especially when seen as divine punishment)
çekim: çoğul Geißeln · tamlayan Geißeln
eş: Bakteriengeißel, Flagellum
köken: From Middle High German geisel(e), from Old High German geisila (“whip”). Cognate with Dutch gesel. The spelling with -ß- reflects sporadic devoicing; compare the frequent pronunciations of niesen or Preiselbeere. Its use for distinguishing between Geißel and Geisel (“hostage”) is an arbitrary convention, which fully established itself only around 1900. (The two words are not related but became…
aile: begeißelt, Geißel der Menschheit, Geißelhieb, geißeln
calamity, disaster
çekim: çoğul calamités
eş: cata, catastrophe, désastre, fléau
köken: From Latin calamitātem.
disaster, calamity
eş: catastrofe, disgrazia, flagello, sciagura, sventura, traversia
köken: Borrowed from Latin calamitātem.
whip, scourge · scourge (a source of trouble, suffering, or destruction) · swipple
çekim: çoğul бичи́ · tamlayan бича́
eş: кнут, плеть, плётка, нагайка, арапник, тройчатка
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bičь.
affliction
çekim: çoğul بلاها
köken: Borrowed from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ, “affliction”).
aile: بَلایِ عِشْق
a plague, pest, pestilence · a specific bovine plague · an obnoxious person
aile: als de pest, builenpest, koeienpest, pestbacil, pestblaar, pestbos, pestbuil, pesten, pestepidemie, pester
plague · contagious disease · annoying person
çekim: çoğul pestes
köken: From Latin pestis (“plague; pest”).
aile: peste branca, peste bubônica, peste negra, peste septicémica, pestear, pesteira, pestinha, pestoso
scourge (source that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction) · whip; lash
çekim: çoğul μάστιγες · tamlayan μάστιγας
köken: From Ancient Greek μάστιξ (mástix).
aile: μάστιγα του Θεού
contagion · infection
çekim: geçmiş 伝染した
eş: 感染
plague, scourge, blight ((source of) widespread affliction, calamity, trouble, grave nuisance) · synonym of vitsas (“twig, wicker”)
çekim: çoğul vitsaukset · tamlayan vitsauksen
köken: vitsata (“to lash; to tie with a twig”) + -us. The sense “plague, scourge, blight” (presumably derived from the sense “to lash” of vitsata) is originally from religious language and attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552).
aile: vitsauksenomainen
🔊 Egyptin vitsaukset
🔊 Kirput ovat kaalimaamme jokavuotinen vitsaus.
stroke, blow, hit · disaster, calamity, misfortune, blow (of fortune) · track, trail (of animals)
çekim: çoğul csapások
köken: csap (“to strike”) + -ás
aile: légicsapás, villámcsapás
nuisance, pest
çekim: çoğul plager · tamlayan plages
köken: From Low German plage, from Latin plaga (“blow, cut, strike”).
aile: plageånd, plagsom
calamity, disaster, scourge, adversity
çekim: çoğul бе́дствия
köken: Borrowed from Russian бе́дствие (bédstvije). By surface analysis, беда́ (bedá, “trouble”) + -ствие (-stvie).
aile: бе́дствам, бедству́вам
plague (disease)
çekim: çoğul katkud · tamlayan katku
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kacku.
Katalanca 🔊 plaga (dişil) /ˈpla.ɣə/ plague · jokester
çekim: çoğul plagues
köken: From Latin plāga.
Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia)
İrlandaca 🔊 plá (dişil) /pˠlˠaːj/ verbal noun of pláigh (“to plague, pester”) · plague · pestilence
çekim: çoğul plánna · tamlayan as verbal noun pláite
eş: aicíd
köken: From Old Irish plág, from Latin plāga. Cognate with Manx plaih and Scottish Gaelic plàigh.
aile: pláúil
🔊 plá is gorta
catastrophe, tragedy, disaster · massacre, destruction · epidemic, outbreak
çekim: çoğul աղետներ
köken: Learned borrowing from Old Armenian աղէտ (ałēt)
aile: բնական աղետ, տարերային աղետ
🔊 բնական աղետ
plague
çekim: çoğul plagoj
misery · misfortune, trouble, disaster, mischief
çekim: çoğul беди
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běda.