nightmare

Etymology
From, from , equivalent to 🇰🇲. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A very bad or frightening dream.
 * 2) * July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
 * With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
 * 1)  Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
 * 2)  A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
 * 3)  A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis.
 * 4) * 1792,, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 209:
 * Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.
 * 1)  A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
 * 2)  A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis.
 * 3) * 1792,, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 209:
 * Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.
 * 1) * 1792,, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 209:
 * Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.
 * Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.

Synonyms

 * , succubus, night hag, sleep paralysis

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, , ajajainen
 * Galician: tardo
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἐφιάλτης
 * Old English: mare, *nihtmare
 * Polish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: nagmerrie, nagvrees
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ቅዠት
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: كابوس
 * Hijazi Arabic: كابوس
 * South Levantine Arabic: كابوس
 * Aramaic: ܟܒܘܫܐ
 * Armenian: մղձավանջ
 * Asturian: velea, pesadiella
 * Azerbaijani: kabus, qarabasma
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: кашма́р
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: အိပ်မက်ဆိုး, ခြောက်အိပ်မက်တခု
 * Catalan:
 * Central Huishui Hmong: npau suav phem
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏟᎩᎠ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Corsican: sunniacciu, sonniacciu, sugnacciu
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Divehi: ބިރުވެރި ހުވަފެން
 * Doteli: बहलो
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sonĝaĉo,, koŝmaro
 * Estonian: õudusunenägu, košmaar
 * Faroese: marra
 * Finnish:
 * French:, mauvais rêve
 * Friulian: čhalčhut
 * Galician: pesadelo
 * Georgian: კოშმარი, მაჯლაჯუნა
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐφιάλτης
 * Gujarati: દુઃસ્વપ્ન, ઓથાર
 * Haitian Creole: kochma
 * Hausa: mafarki mai ban tsoro
 * Hawaiian: moehewa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: बुरा सपना, दुःस्वप्न, कुस्वप्न, काबूस, आल-जंजाल
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: mimpi buruk
 * Interlingua: incubo
 * Irish: tromluí
 * Italian:, brutto sogno
 * Iu Mien: maaix
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: ngipi elek
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: қорқынышты түс, жаман түс, шатасқан түс
 * Khmer: សប្តិ​អាក្រក់, ទុសុបិន
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: خەوی ناخۆش
 * Kyrgyz: коркунучтуу жаман түш
 * Ladin: strassomech, trota
 * Lao: ຝັນຮ້າຍ
 * Latin: incubus, incubō
 * Latvian: murgi
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: Alpdröm
 * Lower Sorbian: mórawa
 * Luhya: liroro libi
 * Lushootseed: səsaʔalitut
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: кошмар
 * Malagasy: ny nofy ratsy
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: പേടിസ്വപ്നം, പേടിസപ്നം
 * Maltese: ħmar il-lejl
 * Maori: moepapa, moenanu, kuku, kuti
 * Marathi: दुःस्वप्न
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali: दुःस्वप्न
 * Norman: ponserêsse
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: giiwanaadingwaam, zegingwashi
 * Old English: *nihtmare, ielfādl
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਡਰਾਉਣਾ ਸੁਪਨਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: dischariel, derschalet, darschalet, dischöl, fulet, ischier
 * Russian:, стра́шный сон
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mearan-cadail, trom-laighe
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ноћна мора, кошмар
 * Roman: noćna mora,
 * Shan: ၽၼ်ႁၢႆႉ
 * Sinhalese: බියකරු සිහිනය
 * Slovak: nočná mora, nočný motýľ
 * Slovene: nočna mora
 * Spanish:, mal sueño
 * Sundanese: goreng ngimpina
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bangungot
 * Tajik: кобус
 * Tamil:
 * Tangut: 𗭨𘈛
 * Telugu: నైట్మేర్,, అయిన నైట్మేర్, నైట్ మేర్
 * Thai: ฝันร้าย
 * Tibetan: གཉིད་ལམ་འཚུབ་པོ
 * Turkish:, , korkulu rüya
 * Ukrainian: кошма́р
 * Urdu: کابوس, کسوپن
 * Uzbek: kobus
 * Vietnamese: (惡夢)
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: hunllef
 * West Frisian: nachtmerje, nachtmare
 * Yiddish: בײַזער חלום, קאָשמאַר, נייטמער
 * Yoruba: àlákálàá


 * Afrikaans: nagmerrie
 * Armenian: մղձավանջ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: travivaĉo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:

Verb

 * 1)  To experience a nightmare.
 * 2)  To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
 * 3)  To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
 * 1)  To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
 * 2)  To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
 * 1)  To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
 * 2)  To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
 * 1)  To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
 * 1)  To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
 * 1)  To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.