Norwegian–English dictionary

alter

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

Alteret

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

altruist

A person showing altruism.

altruistisk

Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish

aluminium

A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.

alv

(Germanic mythology) A supernatural being or spirit associated with illness, mischief, and harmful or dangerous magical influence; in later Norse sources, sometimes divided into benevolent light elves (inhabiting Álfheimr) and malevolent dark elves.

alvorlig

Having relevant and crucial value; having import.

amalgam

(metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.

Amalie

A en given name.

ambassade

An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.

ambolt

A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.

ambra

A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, produced in the intestines of the sperm whale. It is used in perfumes.

ambulanse

An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854]

ametyst

A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone.

amfora

(chiefly, _, historical) A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.

amme

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

amnesti

An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.

Amos

(book of the bible) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

amper

Childishly irritable.

amplitude

The measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.

ampulle

A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection.

amputere

To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Amsterdam

A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; the capital city of the Netherlands.

amulett

A religious article, protective charm, or ornament, usually bearing cultural or magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences, or evil spirits.

anagram

(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

analog

(of a device or system) In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial).

anarki

(countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.

anatomi

The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.

anbefale

To spur on, strongly recommend.

anbefaling

A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.

anbringe

(transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

Andalucía

A historical region and autonomous community in southern Spain, the most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain. Capital: Seville.

ånde

(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.

åndedrag

(countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.

åndedrett

The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.

andel

A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.

åndelig

Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

Anders

(countable) A en given name.

Andersen

A town, the county seat of Grimes County, Texas; named for Kenneth Lewis Anderson, 4th Vice President of the Republic of Texas.

Andes

Synonym of Andes Mountains.

André

(countable) A en given name.

Andre kongebok

One of the various books called Kings in the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.

Andre Krønikebok

(book of the bible) A book of the Jewish Tanakh, divided into two Books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible.

Andreas

(countable) A en given name.

anelse

A faint or remote possibility (as it were a flash of light).

anfall

(countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.

angå

(transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

angående

Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of. [from ca. 1150–1350]

angi

(transitive) To refer to literally; to convey as objective meaning.

Angola

Synonym of angora (cat).

angrep

(military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.

angriper

Someone who attacks.

angst

(pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.

anis

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice. It has a licorice scent.

Ankara

The capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province.

ankel

The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.

anker

(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

ankomme

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

Anna

A en given name.

anneks

An addition, an extension.

annektere

To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

annonse

(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.

annulere

(transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

annullere

(transitive, law) To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.[First attested in the early 16th century.]

anode

(electricity) An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows inwards (and thus, electrons flow outwards). It can have either a positive or a negative voltage with respect to cathode of the same polarized device (depending on whether the device is a load or a source, respectively).

ansette

(rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.

ansiennitet

A measure of the amount of time a person has been a member of an organization, as compared to other members, and with an eye towards awarding privileges to those who have been members longer.

ansikt

(in expressions such as make a face) A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.

ansiktsklut

A face cloth.

ansjos

Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in sixteen genera, those of the genus Engraulis being widely sold as food.

anskaffe

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.

anspent

(figuratively) Experiencing anxiety or stress.

anstrengt

(figuratively) Experiencing anxiety or stress.

ansvar

A responsibility, onus.

anta

(transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.

antakelig

Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure.

Antares

Alpha Scorpii (α Sco), the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. It is a M type red giant, and is a binary with a B type companion visible in greenish.

Antarktika

The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.

Antarktis

A continental region, one of the major ecozones of the world, covering the south polar regions, especially those south of the Antarctic Convergence; or, in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty System, the 60th parallel south.

antatt

Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.

antibiotikum

(pharmaceutical drug) Any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria and similar microorganisms, generally transported by the lymphatic system.

antibiotisk

(pharmaceutical effect) Of or relating to antibiotics.

antihelt

(literature, RPG) A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.

antilope

Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.

antimaterie

(physics) Matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter.

antipartikkel

(particle) A subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign; a particle that has a reversed world line to another.

Anton

A en given name, in regular use since the Middle Ages.

Antonie

A en given name.

antrekk

Clothing.

antropolog

An expert in anthropology.

antropologi

The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.

anus

(anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

anvise

(transitive) To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

apatisk

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion.

ape

(loosely, sometimes, _, proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.

åpen

(abstract) Unconstrained.

åpenbar

Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.

åpenbart

In an obvious or clearly apparent manner.

apne

(pathology) The cessation of breathing, most often in reference to transient instances thereof during sleep.

åpnes

(obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

apokalypse

(Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction. [from 19th c.]

apostel

A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).

appellativ

A noun that denotes any member, or all members, of a class; an ordinary noun such as dog or city; contrasted with a proper noun, which refers to a single named entity, such as Socrates or Tokyo.

appelsin

(countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.

appetitt

The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

applikasjon

(computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)

aprikos

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

aprikostre

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

april

The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May.

ar

(rare) An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.

araber

A Semitic person, whose forebears were from the Arabian Peninsula.

arabisk

Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.

Aragón

An autonomous community in northeastern Spain. Capital: Zaragoza.

arameisk

Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.

arbeidsky

Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.

arbeidsløs

Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.

arbeidsplass

The place where someone works.

åre

A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

Ares

(Greek god) The Greek god of war, considered equivalent to the Roman Mars and usually described as a son of Zeus and Hera, companion of Eris and Enyo, and by Aphrodite father of Deimos and Phobos.

Argentina

A country in South America. Official name: Argentine Republic. Capital: Buenos Aires.

argon

The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas.

argumentere

to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of

århundre

A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

Ariadne

(Greek mythology) The daughter of King Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasiphae.

Aristoteles

An ancient Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist (382–322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

aritmetikk

The mathematics of numbers (integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers) under the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

aritmetisk

(mathematics) Of, relating to, or using arithmetic; arithmetical.

arkaisk

Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.

arkeolog

Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

arkeologi

The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.

arki

form of government or rule

arkipel

(collective, geography) A group of islands.

arkitektur

The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.

arkivere

(transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.

Arktis

A continental region consisting of the portion of the Earth north of the Arctic Circle, containing the North Pole. [from 17th c.]

armatur

(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.

armbrøst

A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.

armener

A person from Armenia or of Armenian descent.

Armenia

(historical) Ancient kingdom in the Armenian Highland southeast of Black Sea and southwest of Caspian Sea; area now divided between Turkey, Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.

armenier

A person from Armenia or of Armenian descent.

armensk

Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet.

armod

The quality or state of being poor; lack of money

Arne

A en given name occasionally used in English.

Arnold

A en given name brought to England by Normans.

aroma

A pleasant smell or odour.

arr

A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

arrestere

(transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]

arrogant

Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.

årsak

(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.

arsen

A toxic grey brittle nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.