threat

Etymology 1
From, , , , , from , from , closely tied to 🇨🇬, from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
 * 2) An indication of potential or imminent danger.
 * 3) A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
 * 1) An indication of potential or imminent danger.
 * 2) A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
 * 1) A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.

Collocations
Adjectives commonly used along with the noun: existential, possible, potential

Translations

 * Arabic: تَهْدِيد
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: fuverã
 * Azerbaijani:, hədə, hədə-qorxu
 * Basque: mehatxu
 * Belarusian: пагро́за
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: hulga, bahad
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 威脅
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: trussel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: minaco
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀπειλή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 脅かし
 * Javanese: inciman
 * Kabuverdianu: amiasa, amiasá
 * Kazakh: байбалам
 * Khmer: ការគំរាមកំហែង, សំដីឈ្លានពាន
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: minatio
 * Macedonian: закана
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: ugutan
 * Maori: kapatau
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: trussel
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: þrēa
 * Oromo: doorsisa
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Jedreiw
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bagairt, bagradh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пријетња, претња
 * Roman:, pretnja
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, banta
 * Tajik: таҳдид
 * Thai:, คำขู่,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: погро́за, загро́за
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: lời đe doạ
 * Zazaki: gef


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: fuverã
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: bebaya
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ھەڕەشە
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Mongolian: аюул занал
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: trussel
 * Ottoman Turkish: قورقو
 * Plautdietsch: Jedreiw
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пријетња, претња
 * Roman:, pretnja
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: banta
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: загро́за, небезпе́ка


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:, perill públic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: minaculo
 * Finnish:
 * French: danger public
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, pericolo a popolo
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Latin: minax, minacia
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: trussel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, perigo público
 * Russian: источник опасности,
 * Spanish:, peligro público
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: banta
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: загро́за
 * Vietnamese: mối hiểm hoạ


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Korean:

Etymology 2
From, from. Akin to Middle Dutch.

Verb

 * 1)  To press; urge; compel.
 * 2)  To threaten.
 * 3)  To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
 * 1)  To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
 * 1)  To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.