fury

See also: Fury

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊri/

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NounEdit

fury ‎(countable and uncountable, plural furies)

1. Extreme anger.
2. Strength or violence in action.
   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:

     “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 termsEdit

• furious

TranslationsEdit

extreme anger

• Bulgarian: ярост (bg) f ‎(jarost), бяс (bg) m ‎(bjas)
• Catalan: fúria (ca) f
• Danish: raseri n
• Dutch: razernij f
• 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
• 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
• Maori: nguha

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

an angry or malignant person

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

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

Etymology 2Edit

Latin fur ‎(“thief”).

NounEdit

fury ‎(plural furies)

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

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