swell

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , of unknown origin.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The adjective may derive from the noun.

Verb

 * 1)  To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
 * 2)  To cause to become bigger.
 * 3)  To grow gradually in force or loudness.
 * 4)  To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
 * 5)  To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
 * 6)  To be raised to arrogance.
 * 7) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
 * 8) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
 * 9) To protuberate; to bulge out.
 * 1)  To grow gradually in force or loudness.
 * 2)  To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
 * 3)  To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
 * 4)  To be raised to arrogance.
 * 5) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
 * 6) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
 * 7) To protuberate; to bulge out.
 * 1)  To be raised to arrogance.
 * 2) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
 * 3) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
 * 4) To protuberate; to bulge out.
 * 1) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
 * 2) To protuberate; to bulge out.
 * 1) To protuberate; to bulge out.
 * 1) To protuberate; to bulge out.

Translations

 * Aklanon: habok
 * Albanian: ënj (tosk), âj (gheg)
 * Arabic: اِنْتَفَخَ, وَرِمَ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: ফুলা
 * Azerbaijani: şişmək
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: подувам се
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, , unflar-se
 * Chechen: деста
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: otéct, otéci,, , napuchnout, naběhnout
 * Danish: svulme, erigere
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ŝveli
 * Faroese:, , , túsna upp, týsna upp, svølpast, svølla upp, gerast hovin og trútin
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: inflarse, incharse
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: οἰδέω
 * Hebrew: אבב
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: деста
 * Italian:, ingrossarsi
 * Japanese:, 隆起する, 腫れる
 * Javanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, , , 부어오르다
 * Latgalian: tyukšt
 * Latin: tumeō, intumēscō, turgescō, adaestuō
 * Latvian: tūkt
 * Lithuanian:, tinti , brinkti
 * Malay: membengkak
 * Manx: mooadee
 * Maori: tōuwha, whakaahu, kōpuku, pupuhi, uru(h)umu
 * Marathi: सुजणे
 * Nahuatl: timalla, timalloa
 * Nanai: хаоло-
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: svelle, svulme
 * Nynorsk: svelle, svulme
 * Occitan: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: شیشمك, قبارمق
 * Papiamentu: hincha
 * Persian: ورم کردن,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: punkiy, saksay
 * Romanian: se umfla
 * Romansch: unflar
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sèid
 * Sicilian: usciari
 * Slovak: opuchnúť
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wopuchnuś, wopuchowaś
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese: bareuh
 * Swahili: fura,
 * Swedish:
 * Tetum: bubu
 * Thai:, โป่ง,
 * Tibetan: བསྐྲངས, སྦོ, སྦོས
 * Turkish:
 * Tày: bông, pổng, poòng
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish:
 * Zealandic: opzwelle


 * Azerbaijani: şişirmək
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, paisuttaa
 * French:
 * German: anschwellen lassen
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: far gonfiare
 * Maori: whakakōpuku
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: усилвам се
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Bulgarian: надувам се,
 * Finnish: ylpistyttää
 * German:


 * Finnish: ylpistyä
 * German:


 * Finnish: pöyhkeillä
 * German:


 * Finnish:
 * German:, aufwölben, ausbauchen
 * Hungarian:, ,

Etymology 2
From, from the verb (modern ).

Noun

 * 1) The act of swelling; increase in size.
 * 2) A bulge or protuberance.
 * 3) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
 * 4) A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
 * 5)  A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
 * 6)  A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
 * 7)  A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
 * 8) A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
 * 9)  An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
 * 10)  A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
 * 11)  A person of high social standing; an important person.
 * 12)  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 1)  An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
 * 2)  A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
 * 3)  A person of high social standing; an important person.
 * 4)  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 1)  A person of high social standing; an important person.
 * 2)  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 1)  A person of high social standing; an important person.
 * 2)  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 1)  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 1)  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 1)  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 1)  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: раздуване
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Anschwellen


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ;
 * German:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Bulgarian: мъртво вълнение
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 涌浪
 * Danish: dønning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, mar de fondo
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:, αποθαλασσία
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: mórtas
 * Italian:, mare di fondo, , onda lunga, mareggiare
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: tumor
 * Latvian: bangas
 * Maori: āmai, amotai, huaroa, huene, tai whakarākau, tārawa
 * Nahuatl: timalla, timalloa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: dønning
 * Nynorsk: dønning
 * Occitan: estòbi, marejada, mar de fons
 * Ottoman Turkish: صالندی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, valuri
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Spanish: mar de fondo
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Japanese:
 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: maaston kohouma
 * German: Bodenerhebung,


 * Bulgarian: франт,
 * Finnish:, komeljanttari
 * German: ,


 * Finnish:
 * German:, feiner Pinkel

Etymology 3
From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).

Adjective

 * 1)  Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
 * 2)  Excellent.
 * 3) * 1927 Mar. 31,, letter to :
 * ...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
 * ...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, , tök jó
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: super, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

Adverb

 * 1)  Very well.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From the verb.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   series of waves