fury

See also: Fury

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English

Etymology 1

From Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊəɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊɹi/

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Noun

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

1. Extreme anger.
2. Strength or violence in action.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto)‎^[1], London: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:

     Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.

   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, […]!

3. An angry or malignant person.

Derived terms

• furious

Translations

extreme anger

• Armenian: կատաղություն (hy) (katałutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: ярост (bg) f (jarost), бяс (bg) m (bjas)
• Catalan: fúria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂怒 (zh)

• Danish: raseri n
• Dutch: razernij (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolerego
• Finnish: raivo (fi)
• German: Wut (de) f
• Greek: οργή (el) f (orgí), μανία (el) f (manía), λύσσα (el) f (lýssa)
• Hebrew: זעם‎ (he) m (zá'am)
• Hungarian: düh (hu)
• Ido: furio (io)
• Indonesian: angkara (id)

• Irish: aonachas m
• Italian: furia (it) f
• Macedonian: јарост f (járost), бес m (bes)
• Maori: nguha
• Old English: geris n, gewed n, reþscipe m, wedenheortnes f, wodþrag f, wuhhung f, grama m, hæst f, hatheort n, hathyge m, wedenheort n, wodness f, wodscipe m
• Polish: furia (pl) f, szał (pl) m, wściekłość (pl) m
• Portuguese: fúria (pt) f, ira (pt) f, furor (pt) m, cólera (pt) f
• Romanian: furie (ro), mânie (ro)
• Russian: я́рость (ru) f (járostʹ), бе́шенство (ru) n (béšenstvo), неи́стовство (ru) n (neístovstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: jarost (sh) f
• Spanish: furia (es) f, rabia (es) f, furor (es) m
• Swedish: raseri (sv) n, vrede (sv) c, ursinne (sv) n
• Turkish: gazap (tr), hiddet (tr), hışım (tr), öfke (tr)
• Volapük: lezun (vo), vut (vo)

strength or violence in action

• Bulgarian: ярост (bg) f (jarost)
• Finnish: vimma (fi), kiihko (fi)
• Maori: nguha

• Spanish: furia (es) f
• Turkish: hışım (tr)

an angry or malignant person

• Bulgarian: фурия (bg) f (furija)
• German: Furie (de) f

• Swedish: furie (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} acharnement (fr) m

Etymology 2

Latin fur (“thief”).

Noun

fury (plural furies)

1. (obsolete) A thief.
   • J. Fletcher

     Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.