Norwegian–English dictionary

å

Expression of surprise.

Å få endene til å møtes

To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.

å frigjøre

To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.

å gi opp

(transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.

å ikke anbefale

(transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).

å legge an på

(intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]

å sjekke opp

(intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]

å skjære

(transitive) To cut into slices.

abbed

The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. [First attested around the early 12th century.]

abbed-

Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess. [late 17th century]

abbedi

A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

abbedi-

Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess. [late 17th century]

abbedisse

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. [First attested around 1150 to 1350]

abbedisse-

Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess. [late 17th century]

abdikasjon

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

Abdullah

A en given name.

Abel

A en given name.

abonnement

Access to a resource for a period of time, generally for payment.

abonnent

A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.

abonnere

(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

abort

An induced abortion.

absorbere

(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. [first attested c. 1350 to 1470.]

abstrakt

Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

absurd

Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. [from mid-16th c.]

aceton

(organic compound) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent.

ad hoc

For a particular purpose.

addere

(intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

adekvat

Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

adel

(uncountable) The quality of being noble.

adept

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

adjektiv

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

adjø

A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

adle

To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.

adlyde

(intransitive) To do as one is told.

adm.dir

(countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.

administrasjon

(countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.

administrator

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

administrerende direktør

(countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.

Adolf

A en given name.

Adonis

(Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.

adopsjon

The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

adressat

The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.

adresse

A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter. [from 17th c.]

advarsel

A notification of higher importance than an advisory.

advent

(Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.

adynaton

(rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility; an instance of such hyperbole.

Aegidius

A en given name.

aerodynamikk

The science of the dynamics of bodies moving relative to gases, especially the interaction of moving objects with the atmosphere.

afar

A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.

afarsk

A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.

afasi

(pathology) A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area, causes aphasia.

affekt

(psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs. [from 19th c.]

affiks

(linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix.

Afghanistan

A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia. Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city: Kabul. [from 1768]

Afrika

The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.

afrikaner

A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

afrikansk

Of or pertaining to Africa.

afrofletter

(chiefly, in plural) One of a set of rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp, forming a hairstyle, of African origin.

aften

The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.

agenda

A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).

agn

Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.

agnostisisme

The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.

agorafobi

The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.

agorisme

(politics, economics) A revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market).

Ågot

A en given name.

agurk

(vegetable) The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

aha

An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.

ai

Expression of surprise.

akademiker

A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

akasie

(countable) A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

Akilles

(Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.

akkar

(cooking) Squid as food, especially cooked in the form of calamari rings.

akkord

(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.

akkurat

Moments ago, only very recently.

åkorn

(nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

Aksel

A en given name in quiet use since the 19th century.

akselerere

(transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

aksentuere

(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.

aksepetere

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

akseptant

One who accepts.

akseptere

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

aksess

(countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.

aksessere

(transitive, computing) To have access to (data).

aksiom

(philosophy) A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.

aksje

(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

aktelse

One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. [from 16th c.]

aktenfor

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. [First attested around the late 15th century.]

akter

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. [First attested around the late 15th century.]

akterlig

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. [First attested around the late 15th century.]

akterut

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. [First attested around the late 15th century.]

aktuell

Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.

akustikk

(physics) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws.

akvedukt

An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.

ål

Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.

alarm

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

Alban

A en given name.

Albania

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Albania. Capital and largest city: Tirana. [from ca. 1503]

albansk

Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language. [from 1593]

albatross

Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.

Albert

A en given name.

Alberta

A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary.

Albin

A en given name.

albue

(anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.

aldri

At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.

ale

A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.

Aleksander

A en given name, most famously held by Alexander the Great.

alen

(historical) A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm), a Scottish ell was about 37 inches (94 cm), a Flemish ell was ¾ yard (27 inches or 69 cm), while certain European ells were less than 50 cm.

Aleppo

The capital city of Aleppo Governorate, Syria.

Alexander

A en given name, most famously held by Alexander the Great.

Alexandra

A en given name.

Alfred

A en given name.

Alger

The capital and largest city of Algeria.

Algerie

A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers. [from 1575]

algerier

A person from Algeria or of Algerian descent.

algerisk

Of, from, or pertaining to Algeria or the Algerian people.

alibi

(legal) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.

Alice

A en given name popular in England since the Middle Ages.

alkalinitet

(chemistry) The state of being, or the degree to which a thing is, alkaline.

alkan

(organic compound) Any acyclic saturated hydrocarbon (methane, ethane, etc.).

alkoholisme

A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.

alkove

(architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

alkymi

(uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

alkymist

One who practices alchemy.

Allah

(Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

alle

Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).

aller

Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.

allerede

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

allergi

(medicine, immunology, broadly) A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.

alligator

Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.

allmenn

Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal. [from 13th c.]

allminnelig

Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual. [from 14th c.]

alltid

At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning.

allting

(literally) All the things under discussion.

alm

(countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.

Alma

A en given name, popular in the 19th century.

alminnelig

(set theory, of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.

alpakka

A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.

Alpene

A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.

alpint

(skiing) Of or relating to slalom and downhill skiing.

alt

(with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.

alt i orden

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

altar

A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

Altaret

(constellation) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an altar.