busy

Etymology
From, , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɪ/ is from the dialects of the East Midlands.

Adjective

 * 1) Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
 * 2) Engaged in activity or by someone else.
 * 3) Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
 * 4) Officious; meddling.
 * 1) Engaged in activity or by someone else.
 * 2) Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
 * 3) Officious; meddling.
 * 1) Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
 * 2) Officious; meddling.
 * 1) Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
 * 2) Officious; meddling.
 * 1) Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
 * 2) Officious; meddling.
 * 1) Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
 * 2) Officious; meddling.
 * 1) Officious; meddling.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَشْغُول
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 忙, 唔得閒
 * Eastern Min: 忙
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: befærdet
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: homplena
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ocupado
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄσχολος
 * Hebrew:, , הוֹמֶה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: broidiúil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: aizņemts
 * Malay:
 * Maori: toritori
 * Plautdietsch: drock, beschafticht
 * Scots: thrang
 * Scottish Gaelic: trang
 * Slovak: rušný
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, traffic livligt trafikerad
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans: besig
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: B@RadialWrist-PalmForward-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Sidetoside
 * Arabic: مَشْغُول
 * Egyptian Arabic: مشغول
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, əlində iş olan, başıqarışıq
 * Bashkir: мәшғүл
 * Belarusian: за́няты
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 忙, 唔得閒
 * Eastern Min: 忙
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, zaneprázděný
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: okupata
 * Estonian: toimekas
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: trang
 * Georgian: დაკავებული
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄσχολος
 * Hawaiian: paʻahana
 * Hebrew: עָסוּק, עסוקה
 * Hindi:, मसरूफ़, मशग़ूल
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic: upptekinn
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: gnóthach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 使用中
 * Khmer: រវីរវល់
 * Korean: 바쁜,
 * Kumyk: машгъул
 * Lao: ຄາວຽກ, ຫຍຸ້ງ
 * Latin: occupātus, operosus
 * Latvian: nodarbināts
 * Lithuanian: užsiėmusiam
 * Macedonian: зафатен
 * Malay:
 * Maori: toritori
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: embarrassaï
 * Norwegian:, opptatt
 * Occitan: ocupat
 * Old English: bisiġ
 * Papiamentu: okupá
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: drock, beschafticht
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: thrang
 * Scottish Gaelic: trang
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: прометан, наметљив
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: činný
 * Slovene: zaposlen
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: bizi
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tatar: мәшгуль
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: meşgul
 * Ukrainian: за́йнятий
 * Urdu: مصروف, مشغول
 * Uyghur: مەشغۇل, ئالدىراش
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: beset
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרנומען


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ocupado
 * Georgian: დაკავებული
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ἐνεργός
 * Hebrew: עסוק
 * Hungarian:, ,  dolga van
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: occupatus
 * Maori: tāuteute, korewātea, arokē
 * Norman: embarrassaï
 * Norwegian: opptatt,
 * Pashto: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: zaneprázdnený
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: за́йнятий, за́йнята, за́йняті
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרנומען


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: zaměstnávat
 * Finnish:, askaroida,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Maori: w(h)aihanga
 * Norwegian: sysselsette
 * Bokmål: beskjeftige


 * Finnish:

Noun

 * 1)  A police officer.