Norwegian–English dictionary

Donau

(with the) A river in Europe; flowing 2850 kilometers from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania.

dongeribukse

Heavy denim pants or trousers, usually with bib and braces, worn especially as work clothing.

Dorkas

A woman who is said, in the Bible, to have been restored to life by Peter.

dose

A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

doskål

(US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.

doven

(of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.

Dover

A town, civil parish (with a town council) and major port in Kent, England, the closest point to France (OS grid ref TR3141).

dø

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

død

(hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

dødfødt

(figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.

dødsannonse

A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete) , the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.

dødsbo

The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19th c.]

dødsleie

The bed on which someone dies.

døende

Approaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.

dømme

(transitive) To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.

døpe

(Christianity) To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.

dør

(architecture) A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.

dørklinke

(architectural elements) A knocker mounted on a door.

dørslag

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

døv

Unable (or partially able) to hear.

dra

(intransitive) To leave the company of.

dra fordel av

(transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

drag

(British, slang) : A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).

drage

In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.

drager

A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.

dragon

(by extension) Originally (historical) , a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.

drake

In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.

drama

(countable) A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

dråpe

A drop of a liquid.

drefse

To hit, slap or strike.

dreie

(transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.

dreiebenk

(tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

dreiepunkt

(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.

dreiningspunkt

(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.

drepe

(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

Dresden

The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe. [1735]

drevgarn

Fibres chiefly obtained by untwisting old rope, which are used to caulk or pack gaps between boards of wooden ships and joints in masonry and plumbing, and sometimes for dressing wounds.

drikke

The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.

drikkevann

Water that is suitable or intended for ingestion by humans: potable water.

drikking

An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.

drikkofferet

The act of pouring a liquid, most often wine, in sacrifice on the ground, on a ritual object, or on a victim, in honor of some deity.

drill

An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.

drille

(ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.

dristig

Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.

drita

Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

dritt

The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

drittunge

(pejorative) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.

drive

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at,‎ home. In one's place of residence.

drivhus

A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.

drivkraft

A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.

drivstoff

Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

drivved

A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current of a body of water.

dromedar

The single-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius).

drone

A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.

dronte

A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

drosje

A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

drøfte

(transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.

drønn

A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

drøvtygge

(intransitive) To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.

druesukker

The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.

druide

(historical) One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions.

drukne

(intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

drypp

(medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

dryppert

(slang, usually with "the") Gonorrhea.

du

(archaic, dialectal, literary, religion) . [chiefly up to early 17th c.]

dubbe

To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation

dubbing

(film) The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing.

Dublin

(metonym) The government of the Republic of Ireland.

due

(countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.

duestegg

(countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.

duft

A pleasant smell or odour.

duftende

Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.

dugg

(uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.

dugleik

A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.

duk

A cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.

dulle

(transitive) To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.

dulting

Hinting or influencing people's choices (according to nudge theory); softly controlling.

dum

Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.

dumpe

(intransitive) To use a seesaw.

dumphuske

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

dumrian

(pejorative) A person who is deficient in intelligence.

dun

Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.

dunke

(transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

dupere

To swindle, deceive, or trick.

dupp

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

duppeditt

(slang) Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term.

durian

The spiky edible fruit of this tree, known for its strong taste and very strong, unpleasant odor.

durra

A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).

dusj

An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

dusje

To bathe using a shower.

dusk

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.

duskregn

Light rain.

dust

(pejorative) A person who is deficient in intelligence.

dverg-

(especially in, _, botany) Miniature.

dvergfalk

A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia.

dykker

Someone who works underwater; a frogman.

dyktigheit

A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.

dyktighet

A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.

dynamitt

A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.

dynasti

A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.

dyne

(geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.

dyp

Extending far down from the top, or surface, to the bottom, literally or figuratively.

dypdykke

(ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.

dypt

(of sleeping) Deeply or soundly [from 13th c.].

dyr

Having a high price or cost.

dyrekrets

(astrology) The twelve equal divisions of the zodiacal region into signs or houses, each named for a prominent constellation in the region.

dyrisk

Of or relating to animals.

dyrke

(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).

dyrlege

A medical doctor who treats non-human animals.

dysfori

A state of feeling unwell or unhappy; a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort and suffering from restlessness, malaise, depression, or anxiety.

dysfunksjonell

Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.

dysleksi

(neurology, pathology) A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.

dyst

A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.

dysting

A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.

dystopi

A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.

dytte

(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

ecstasy

(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.

Ecuador

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Ecuador. Capital: Quito.

edd

A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.

edderkopp

Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

edderkoppdyr

Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders, mites, and scorpions, of the class Arachnida.

eddik

(uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.

Edel

A en given name, popular at the turn of the 20th century.

edelgran

(chiefly, countable) A conifer of the genus Abies.

edelstein

(colloquial) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.

Edgar

A en given name.

Edit

A en given name.

Edvard

A en given name.

effekt

(sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.

effektiv

Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.

eføy

Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.

egalitarist

A person who accepts or promotes social equality and equal rights for all people.

egalitær

Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.

egen

Belonging to oneself or itself; own. [14th c.]

egenskap

(biology, psychology) An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.

egentlig

(often, _, postpositive) In the very strictest sense of the word. [14th c.]

egg

(also, figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.

eggcelle

(cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

eggfrukt

(North America, AU, NZ, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

eggløsning

(physiology) The release of an ovum from an ovary.

eggplanta

(North America, AU, NZ, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

eggplante

(North America, AU, NZ, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

eggstokk

(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.

egnet

Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.

egnethet

The condition of being suitable.

egoist

An egocentric or self-centered person.

egomaniker

A person obsessed with their own (supposed) importance.

Egypt

A country in North Africa and West Asia. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt. Capital: Cairo.

egypter

A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.

egyptisk

The Afroasiatic language spoken (and written) in ancient Egypt