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** English
*** Etymology
[en], [sco]. Origin [en]. Perhaps related to [sco], also of unknown origin.
Compare [en], variant of [en]. More at [en]. Perhaps related to [ga],
[ga].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [bŏʹ- _th_ ər] [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To annoy , to disturb , to irritate ; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
1. [en] Damn ; curse .
2. [en] To feel care or concern ; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
3. * [page=87]
4. [en] To take the trouble , to trouble oneself (to do something).
1. To do something which is of negligible inconvenience .
**** Usage notes
- In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the _to infinitive_ or the _gerund (-ing)_ . See Appendix:English catenative verbs
**** Descendants
- [ga]
- [gmw-jdt]
**** Translations
[to annoy, to disturb, to be troublesome to]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] [Canada, Louisiane] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [of a person, deliberately] [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Ladin: [lld] , [lld]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no] , [no]
- Oromo: [om]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] (vulgar)
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[to feel care or concern]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to take the trouble, to trouble oneself to do something]
- Arabic:
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] [Quebec]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Venetan: [vec]
[trans-bottom]
[to do something which is of negligible inconvenience]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[~]
1. Fuss , ado .
2. * [en]
3. Trouble , inconvenience .
**** Translations
[fuss, ado]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[trouble, inconvenience]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt] , [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Santali: [sat]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
*** Interjection
[head=bother!]
1. [en] [A mild expression of annoyance.]
2. * [1=en]
3. * 1926 , A A Milne, _Winnie the Pooh_ , Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 _...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place_ :
4. *: "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
5. *: "Oh, BOTHER !" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
6. *: "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and BOTHER !"
**** Synonyms
- botheration , [en] , [en] ( _US_ ), darn , drat , phooey , fiddlesticks
**** Translations
[mild expression of annoyance/irritation]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] !, [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Derived terms
{{col3|en|bother one's arse |bebother |be bothered |botheration |bothered
|bothersome |father-bother merger |not a bother on someone |spot of
bother|botherance|botherer|botherless|botherment }}
*** References
References:
[1]. Concise Oxford English Dictionary 2011
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]