Swedish–English dictionary

jugoslav

(historical) A native of Yugoslavia.

Jugoslavien

(historical) A former country in Southeast Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.

jugoslavisk

(historical) Of or relating to Yugoslavia.

juica

(transitive) To extract the juice from something.

juice

(countable) A beverage made of juice.

juicepress

A manual or electrical device used for rendering the juice of fruits or vegetables.

jukebox

A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections. [from 1939]

jul

(originally, Christianity) A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.

julgranskula

A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

juli

The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.

Julia

A en given name.

julig

Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.

Julius

A en given name.

jumper

(countable) A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

jungfru

Someone with a Virgo star sign

jungfrudom

The state or characteristic of being a virgin.

jungfrulig

Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.

jungian

One who follows the psychology of Carl Jung

jungiansk

(psychology) Of or pertaining to the psychology of Carl Jung.

juni

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.

junior

(countable) A younger person.

Juno

(Roman god) The queen of the gods, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Hera.

junta

The ruling council of a military dictatorship.

jupp

(informal) Yes.

juridik

(legal) The theoretical study of law.

juridisk

Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.

jurisdiktion

The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.

jurist

(law) An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence.

jurt

A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).

jurta

A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).

juryledamot

(law) A member of a jury.

jurymedlem

(law) A member of a jury.

juryordförande

(legal) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.

just

Moments ago, only very recently.

just det

Used by players of bingo to claim a win.

justera

(transitive) To modify.

justerbar

capable of being adjusted

justering

The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration

justitiepalats

A public building housing courts of law.

justitieråd

A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized when placed before a name.

juvel

A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.

juvelerare

A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry.

juver

An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.

jycke

(slang) A dog.

Jylland

A cultural region and peninsula in northwestern Europe, consisting of the mainland part of Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, which is part of Germany.

kå

The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

kabaré

Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.

kabbala

(Judaism) A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures.

käbbel

Petty quarreling.

käbbla

To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

kabel

An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.

kabellängd

(nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.

kabin

A private room on a ship.

kabinett

A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.

kabla

(transitive) To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.

kabuki

(often, capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.

Kabul

The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

kabyss

(nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

käck

Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.

kackel

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

kackla

(intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.

kåda

A viscous water-insoluble hydrocarbon exudate of certain plants, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications.

kadaver

(literary, medicine) A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. [from late 14th c.]

kadett

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

kådig

Of or relating to resin.

kadrilj

(dance) A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.

kafé

(chiefly, US, Canada) A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.

kafeteria

(US) A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.

kaffe latte

(figurative, informal, attributive) Affluent leftism.

kaffebryggare

Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.

kaffebuske

A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.

kaffefärgad

A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

kaffekokare

Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.

kaffekopp

A cup, typically a small one, in which coffee can be served.

kaffer

(countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, Namibia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person. [from 17th c.]

kaffeträd

A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.

kafir

(Islam, countable, offensive, religious slur, political) A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.

kafkaartad

Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.

käft

(archaic, often, in the plural) The jaw.

kaftan

A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.

käftsmäll

(countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

kagge

A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.

kägla

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.

Kain

(biblical character) The son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel.

kaj

(US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.

Kajafas

A Jewish high priest in the first century CE who is said to have organized the plot to kill Jesus.

kajak

A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck.

kajakpaddling

water sport

kajakrodd

water sport

kajal

Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.

kajuta

A private room on a ship.

käk

(uncountable, slang) Food.

kaka

(Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.

kakadua

A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot. [from 1610s]

kakao

A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

kakaoböna

The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.

kakaobrun

Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

kakaobrunt

(countable) A light to medium brown colour.

kakaoträd

A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

käkben

(countable) The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.

käke

One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

kakel

A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.

kåken

(slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.

kaki

The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

kakiträd

The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.

kakofemism

(countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.

kakofoni

A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.

kakofonisk

Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.

kåkstad

An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

kaktus

(botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

kal

(heraldry, of a, tree, bush, etc) Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.

kalabalik

A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar. [from 17th c.]

Kalabrien

A peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy.

kalas

A feast or banquet.

kalasa

(intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.

kalasjnikov

The Soviet-built 1947 Kalashnikov assault rifle or any similar rifle built to this design.

kalcit

(mineral) A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found as limestone, chalk and marble.

kalcium

The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.

kaldeisk

Of or pertaining to Chaldea specifically, or ancient Babylonia in general.

kaldeiska

The West Semitic language of the ancient Chaldeans.

kaldera

(vulcanology) A large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano.

Kaleb

(Biblical) Caleb the son of Jephunneh, an Israelite who entered Canaan with Joshua.

kaleidoskopisk

Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.

kalender

A list of planned events.

kalfatra

To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.

Kali

(Hinduism) A male demon, lord of Kali Yuga and the nemesis of Kalki, tenth avatar of Vishnu.

kalibrera

(technology) To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.

kalibrering

(technology) The act of calibrating something.

kalif

The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.

kalifat

Monarchical government based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, ruled by a caliph.

Kalifornien

The most populous state of the United States. Capital: Sacramento. Largest city: Los Angeles.

kalifornier

A native or resident of the state of California in the United States of America.

kalifornisk

Of or relating to California.

kalikå

(textiles) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.

kalium

A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.

kalk

(chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).

kalka

(transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).

kalkavlagring

A white, chalky deposit of calcium carbonate found in kettles, washing machines etc., especially in a hard water area.

kälkborgare

(derogatory) A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.

kälkborgerlig

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

kalkbrott

(mining) A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.

kälke

Something that coasts or is used to coast.

kalkljus

A type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls, producing a bright light by the use of incandescent quicklime.

kalkspat

(mineral) A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found as limestone, chalk and marble.

kalksten

An abundant rock of marine and freshwater sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO3); and occurring in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.

kalkyl

(countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.

kalkylark

(computing) A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.

kalkylator

A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; sometimes, an electronic one specifically.

kalkylera

(transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

kalkylerbar

Able to be calculated; calculatable.