Norwegian–English dictionary

ferniss

An attractive appearance that covers or disguises one's true nature or feelings, the veneer of culture.

feromon

(biology) A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.

fersk

Not of a salty taste.

feste

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

festlig

(dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.

festning

A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

fett

Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.

fetter

(specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

fiasko

State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.

fiber

(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

Fiji

A country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania. Capital and largest city: Suva.

fike

(transitive) To give a slap to.

fiken

The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. [from 12th c.]

fikentre

A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. [from 14th c.]

fikse

(transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.

fiksere

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

fil

A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.

filibuster

(US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.

Filippinene

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Philippines. Capital: Manila.

Filippinsk

(uncountable) The national language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog.

filistrøs

(derogatory) Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.

filmmateriale

(usually, uncountable) An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.

filologi

(philosophy, rare) Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

filthatt

A hat made of felt.

fin

(informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.

finale

(North America, Philippines) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.

finansiell

Related to finances.

finér

A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.

finger

(anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.

finhakke

(transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.

finish

A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.

fink

Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.

finkjemme

(transitive) To search an area thoroughly.

finknuse

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.

Finland

A Nordic country having borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia in Europe. Official name: Republic of Finland.

finlesing

Intense study of someone or something.

finne ut

(informal) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.

finner

A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.

finsk

Of or pertaining to Finland or the Finns; Finlandic, Finlandish.

fint

(of weather) Sunny and not raining.

finte

A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.

fiolett

Of a violet colour.

fiolin

(string instrument) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.

fiolinist

A person who plays the violin.

fire

(countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

firedobbelt

Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.

firedoble

(transitive) To multiply by four.

firfisle

(chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

fisefin

Of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters.

fisk

Someone with a Pisces astrological sign.

fiske

(intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.

fiskeørn

A bird of prey of genus Pandion that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.

fiskerkone

(archaic) A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.

fitte

(slang, derogatory) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.

fix

A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

fjær

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.

fjære

The receding movement of the tide.

fjell

(archaic, _, outside, _, Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.

fjerde

The ordinal form of the number four.

Fjerde Mosebok

The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.

fjern

Distant; remote in space.

fjerne

(transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.

fjernkontroll

Ellipsis of remote control.

fjolle

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, derogatory, colloquial) A gay man; especially one who is effeminate.

fjollete

(cricket, of a fielding position) Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.

fjord

A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs.

fjorten

The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIV and in Arabic numerals as 14.

fjortende

The ordinal form of the number fourteen.

fjøl

(musical instrument) An electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard.

flå

(transitive, slang) To cheat or swindle, especially by charging an excessively high or unfair price.

flaggermus

(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.

flagrant

Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.

flaks

Good luck.

flamingo

(countable) A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.

flamme

The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

flamsk

Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.

flanør

One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace. One who walks to observe and enjoy rather than to get somewhere.

flåset

Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

flåsete

Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

flass

scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis

flåte

A group of vessels or vehicles.

flått

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

flatvogn

(rail, US) A railroad freight car without sides and roof.

flau

Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.

flekk

A small spot or streak; a speckle.

fleksibel

Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.

flens

An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.

fler

Consisting of a number more than one (especially, more than two) but not very many. [from 17th c.]

flere

Consisting of a number more than one (especially, more than two) but not very many. [from 17th c.]

flertydig

Open to multiple interpretations.

flette

A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16th c.]

flid

The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.

flink

(colloquial, somewhat, _, dated) Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way.

flint

A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.

flippe

To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.

flis

A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.

flittig

Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.

flo

(math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.

flodhest

A semi-aquatic, herbivorous, African hoofed mammal of the family Hippopotamidae.

floke

(countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

flokk

(zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.

flokke

(transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.

flom

An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

flomme

(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.

Flora

(Roman god) the goddess of flowers, nature and spring; she is also the wife of Favonius and the mother of Karpos. She is the Roman counterpart of Chloris.

flott

Of superior quality.

fløda

(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.

fløte

The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

fløte farget

Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

fløyel

A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.

fløyma

(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.

fløyte

(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

fluktuere

(intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.

fly

(transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.

flykte

(intransitive) To run away; to escape.

flyktig

Fleeing or running away; escaping.

flyktning

(attributive, also, figurative) A person seeking refuge (as for shelter or protection), especially in a foreign country, out of fear or prospect of political, religious persecution, war, natural disaster, etc. [from 1680s]

flyplass

An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.

flyselskap

A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.

flytende

Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently.

flytte

(intransitive, archaic) To change one's residence or place of business; to move.

fnise

To laugh gently in a playful, nervous, or affected manner.

fnising

A high-pitched, silly laugh.

fobi

An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).

fold

The quantity of something produced.

fole

A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

folk

(countable, archaic) A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

folkeleder

(historical) A leader of the people.

folkemengde

A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.

folkemord

The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.

Folkerepublikken Kina

A large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949.

fonem

(phonology) An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

fontene

An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.

for

In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.

for alltid

In a permanent manner; lastingly.

for øyeblikket

(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

for tidlig

Ahead of the correct time or schedule. [from 19th c.]

forakte

To regard with contempt or scorn.

forarget

Troubled, irritated by something unwanted or unliked (an annoyance); vexed.

forårsake

(transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.

foræde

(chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

forære

To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.

forbannelse

A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.

forbannet

Troubled, irritated by something unwanted or unliked (an annoyance); vexed.

forbedre

(transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.

forbehold

A conditional provision to an agreement.

forbeholde

To keep in store for future or special use.

forberede

(transitive) To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.

forberedelse

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.

forbi

More than (a given value, amount, limit etc.); beyond; past; exceeding.