alert

English

Etymology

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t

Adjective

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)

1. Attentive; awake; on-guard.

Translations

attentive

Armenian: զգաստ (hy) (zgast), արթուն (hy) (art’un), զգոն (hy) (zgon) Bengali: সতর্ক (bn) (sôtôrkô) Bulgarian: бдителен (bg), внимателен (bg) Esperanto: vigla (eo), mallaca (eo) Finnish: virkeä (fi), pirteä (fi) Italian: allerta (it) Japanese: 機敏な (ja) (kibin na) Kurdish: Sorani: وریا (ku) (wirya)

Luxembourgish: aläert (lb) Maltese: attent (mt) m., attenta (mt) f. Norwegian: oppmerksom (no), våken (no) Portuguese: alerta (pt) Scottish Gaelic: grad (gd) Spanish: alerto (es), vigilante (es) Swahili: chonjo (sw), tahadhari (sw)

Noun

alert (plural alerts)

1. An alarm.
2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.

Translations

an alarm

Bulgarian: тревога (bg) Catalan: alerta (ca) f. Czech: výstraha (cs) f. Italian: allarme (it) m.

Norwegian: alarm (no) m. Spanish: alerta (es) f., alarma (es) f. Swahili: tahadhari (sw)

a notification

Czech: upozornění (cs) n. Norwegian: advarsel (no) m., varsel (no) n.

Swahili: chonjo (sw), tahadhari (sw)

Verb

alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)

1. To give warning to.

Translations

to give warning to

Catalan: alertar (ca) Norwegian: varsle (no)

Spanish: alertar (es) Swahili: chonjo (sw), tahadhari (sw)

Anagrams

• alter
• artel
• later
• ratel
• taler

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

alert (alerter, meest alert)

1. on one's guard

Anagrams

• later, ratel