Norwegian–English dictionary

Kamilla

A en given name.

kammer

A room or set of rooms, particularly:

kamp

(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.

kampestein

(chiefly, UK, Irish) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.

kan

(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests. [from 9th c.]

kan være

(modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly. [from 13th c.]

kanarifugl

(countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.

kanarigul

A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

kandidat

(originally, jargon) A participant in an examination. [from 1690s]

kandissukker

(British, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.

kanel

Of a yellowish-brown color.

kanelfarge

(countable) A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.

kaneltre

Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).

kanin

A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.

kannada

The Dravidian language that is the official language of the state of Karnataka, India.

kannik

A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

kano

(watercraft) A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.

kanonball

A team sport whose main objective is to dodge or catch balls thrown by the opposition.

kanonbåt

(nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.

kanonisere

(transitive) Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint.

kanskje

(modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly. [from 13th c.]

kant

(geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.

kantre

(transitive, nautical) To cause (a ship) to overturn.

kaos

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

kapell

(UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.

kapellan

A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.

kapers

The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.

kapitalisme

(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

kapp

(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.

kapring

An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.

kapsel

A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.

kar

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

karabin

A rifle with a short barrel.

karakteristisk

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

karantene

A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.

karate

An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.

karbon

(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.

kardemomme

(uncommon, inexact) , seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, of East Africa.

karikatur

An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation.

Karin

A en given name.

Karl

A en given name.

Karnataka

A state in southern India. Capital: Bangalore.

karneval

A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.

kårny

Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.

Karoline

A en given name.

kart

A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

kartagisk

Of or pertaining to Carthage.

Karthago

(historical) An ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia. [16th cent.]

kartografi

(uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]

kartong

An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.

Kasakhstan

A country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan.

Kaspar

(Biblical character) one of the Magi.

Kasper

A en given name, more popular in the form Jasper.

kasse

A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

kasserolle

(countable, cookware) A deep cooking vessel with a long protruding handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.

kaste

Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.

kaste opp

(colloquial, ambitransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.

kaste seg

To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.

kåt

(slang) Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.

katakana

(uncountable) A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.

katakombe

(often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.

katalansk

Of, from or relating to Catalonia, Spain.

katapult

A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.

Katarina

A en given name.

katastrofe

Any large and disastrous event of great significance.

kateter

(medicine) A small tube inserted into a body cavity to administer a drug, create an opening, distend a passageway, or remove fluid.

katode

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

katolikk

A member of a Catholic church.

katolisisme

The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.

katolsk

Of the Roman Catholic church in particular.

katt

A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]

katte

(nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.

kattemynte

Nepeta cataria and Nepeta grandiflora (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparently harmless pheromone-based intoxication among certain cats.

kattemynter

Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.

kattunge

A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months).

kaudervelsk

(informal) Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.

Kaukasus

(geopolitics) A geopolitical region in Eastern Europe and Western Asia, deriving its name from the aforementioned mountains.

kausjonere

To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.

kauterisere

To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.

kaviar

Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.

kavring

a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)

keiser

Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.

keiserinne

The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.

keiserlig

Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.

keitete

Clumsy, awkward.

kelvin

In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; 1⁄273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.

kenguru

A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.

kenotaf

A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.

kentaur

(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

Kenya

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

Kerberos

(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.

ketchup

(uncountable, chiefly, US, Canada, UK) Ellipsis of tomato ketchup (“a tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners”).

ketisk

The Yeniseian language of the Ket people.

Kharon

(Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.

khat

A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.

Khimaira

(Greek mythology) A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.

khmer

A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.

Khrusjtsjov

English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв; usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev.

kidnappe

(transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom. [from 17th c.]

kikert

A seed of this plant, often used as a food.

kikkert

A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.

kile

A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.

kilogram

In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Symbol: kg

kilometer

(metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 103 metres. Symbol: km

Kim

A en given name.

Kimære

(Greek mythology) A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.

kimono

A traditional Japanese T-shaped, wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, now generally worn only on formal occasions.

kimse av

(transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.

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.

kinaputt

A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.

kineser

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) A person from China or of Chinese descent.

kinesisk

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) A person from China or of Chinese descent.

kinetisk energi

(physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed.

kinky

(informal) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.

kinn

(anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.

kinnskjegg

Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

kirsebær

The wood of a cherry tree.

kirsebærtre

The wood of a cherry tree.

kirurg

One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.

kirurgi

(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

kiste

A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

kivi

A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand.

kjapp

Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid. [from 14th c.]

kjapt

Quickly, with great speed; within a short time [from 13th c.].

kjas

(countable, or, uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.

kjæle

(transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).

kjære

A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.

kjæreste

A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.

kjærlighet

(uncountable) Strong affection.

kjærlighetsløst

Without love.

kjærtegne

(transitive, intransitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.

kjed

Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

kjedelig

Boring; not exciting or interesting.

kjedsomhet

(countable) An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

kjegle

The fruit of a conifer.

kjekk

Excellent; first-rate.

kjekle

(intransitive) To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel.

kjekling

A minor fight or argument.

kjeks

(UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes, Canada, rare) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

kjekt

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

kjeleflikker

An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.

kjemiker

A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

Kjemisk

(biochemistry) A chemical that binds to a receptor but does not produce a physiological response, blocking the action of other agonist chemicals, such as endogenous chemical messengers.

kjemme

(transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.

kjempe

(intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

kjempe for

(intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.

kjempepanda

(colloquial, also, attributively) Ellipsis of giant panda (“Ailuropoda melanoleuca”). [from 19th c.]

kjendis

(countable) A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person. [from 19th c.]

kjent

Well known.

kjerra

(US, dated) An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.