strife

English

WOTD – 9 January 2016

From Old French estrif, from Frankish strīban, ultimately of Germanic origin, compare Dutch strijd (“fight, battle, conflict”), German Streit (“quarrel, dispute”), and Icelandic stríð (“war”).

IPA^(key): /stɹaɪf/

strife (countable and uncountable, plural strifes)

violent conflict

Arabic: فِتْنَة‎‎ (ar) f (fitna)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 衝突 (zh), 冲突 (zh) (chōngtū, chōngtú)
Czech: svár (cs) m, konflikt (cs) m, potyčka (cs) f
Dutch: geschil (nl) n, vijandige rivaliteit, strijd (nl), conflict (nl)
Esperanto: malpaco
Finnish: selkkaus (fi), yhteenotto (fi), konflikti (fi)
French: différends m plural, dispute (fr) f, querelle (fr) f
Galician: desputa (gl) f, rifa f, rixa f, tarapuxa f, learaza f, gurra f, liorta (gl) f, liorna f, esganifa f, baralla (gl) f, duia f, trepe f, enxerga f, cotifada f, arretío m, entirquinencia f, derriza f, barata f, brego (gl) m
German: Streit (de) m
Greek: διαμάχη (el) f (diamáchi), διαπάλη (el) f (diapáli), αλληλοσπαραγμός (el) m (allilosparagmós)
Gujarati: હિંસક તોફાન,ઝઘડો, m (hĩsak tophāna,jhaghḍo,)
Hebrew: מדון‎‎ (he)
Hungarian: viszály (hu)
Irish: imreas m, bruíon f

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