danger

English

Etymology

Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *domniārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdeɪn.dʒə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /deIn.dZ@(r\)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈdeɪndʒɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"deIndZ@`/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)

Noun

danger (plural dangers)

1. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.

   "You stand within his danger, do you not?" (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180)

2. (obsolete) Liability.
   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:

     Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.

3. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
4. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
5. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
6. Exposure to liable harm.

   "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" (William Hazlitt, Table talk).

7. An instance or cause of liable harm.

   "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (Times, 5 Sept. 3/2).

8. Mischief.

   "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:danger

Derived terms

• kicking in danger

Translations

exposure to liable harm

• Afrikaans: gevaar (af)
• Albanian: rrezik (sq)
• Arabic: خَطَر (ar) (xaṭar) m
• Armenian: վտանգ (hy) (vtang) 
• Asturian: peligru (ast) m
• Azeri: təhlükə (az)
• Belarusian: небяспека (be) (niebjaspjéka) f 
• Bengali: বিপদ (bn) (bipôdô)
• Bulgarian: опасност (bg) (opásnost) f 
• Burmese: ဘယာ (my) (baja), ဘေး (my) (bei:)
• Catalan: perill (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎦᏂᏰᎩ (chr) (ganiyegi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 危險 (cmn), 危险 (cmn) (wēixiǎn)

• Czech: nebezpečí (cs) n
• Danish: fare (da) c
• Dutch: gevaar (nl) n
• Esperanto: danĝero (eo)
• Estonian: oht (et), hädaoht (et)
• Faroese: vandi (fo) m
• Finnish: vaara (fi), uhka (fi)
• French: danger (fr) m
• Galician: perigo (gl) m
• Georgian: საფრთხე (ka) (sap'rt'xe) 
• German: Gefahr (de) f, Risiko (de) n
• Greek: κίνδυνος (el) (kíndinos) m 
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Haitian Creole: danje
• Hebrew: סכנה (he) (sakaná) f
• Hindi: जोखिम (hi) (jōkhim), ख़तरा (hi) (xatrā)
• Hungarian: veszély (hu)
• Icelandic: hætta (is) f
• Indonesian: bahaya (id)
• Irish: contúirt (ga) f, dainséar (ga) m
• Italian: pericolo (it) m
• Japanese: 危険 (ja) (きけん, kiken)
• Kannada: ಕುತ್ತ (kn) (kutta)
• Kazakh: қауіп (kk) (qawip) , қатер (kk) (qater) , қауіптілік (kk) (qawiptilik) 
• Khmer: គ្រោះថ្នាក់ (km) (krʊəh tnak)

• Korean: 위험 (ko) (wiheom) (危險 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: коркунуч (ky) (korkunuç) 
• Lao: ອັນຕະຣາຽ (lo) (an tá ráːy)
• Latvian: briesmas (lv) m, bīstamība (lv) f
• Lithuanian: pavojus (lt) m
• Macedonian: опасност (mk) (ópasnost) f
• Malay: bahaya (ms)
• Malayalam: ആപത്ത് (ml) (āpatt)
• Maltese: periklu (mt)
• Mongolian: аюул (mn) (ajuul) , зэтгэр (mn) (zetger) 
• Norwegian: fare (no) c
• Old English: fǣr (ang) m, gefǣr (ang) n
• Old Saxon: fāra f, fār m and f, gifār n
• Persian: خطر (fa) (xatar)
• Polish: niebezpieczeństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: perigo (pt) m
• Romanian: pericol (ro), primejdie (ro) f
• Russian: опасность (ru) (opásnostʹ) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: cunnart (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опасност (sh) f

  Roman: opasnost (sh) f

• Sinhalese: අන්ත්‍රාව (si) (antarāva)
• Slovak: nebezpečie (sk) n
• Slovene: nevarnost (sl) f
• Spanish: peligro (es) m
• Swahili: hatari (sw)
• Swedish: fara (sv) c
• Tajik: хатар (tg) (xatar) , хавф (tg) (xavf) 
• Tamil: அபாயம் (ta) (apāyam), ஆபத்து (ta) (āpattu)
• Telugu: ప్రమాదము (te) (pramādamu)
• Thai: อันตราย (th) (an-dtà-raai)
• Turkish: tehlike (tr)
• Turkmen: howp (tk), hovp (tk)
• Ukrainian: небезпека (uk) (nebezpéka) f 
• Urdu: جوکھم (ur) (jōkhim), خطرہ (ur) (xatra)
• Uzbek: xatar (uz), xavflilik (uz)
• Vietnamese: nguy hiểm (vi) (危險 (vi))
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: perygl (cy) m
• Yiddish: געפאַר (yi) (gefar) f

instance or cause of liable harm

• Arabic: خَطَر (ar) (xaṭar) m
• Armenian: վտանգ (hy) (vtang) , սպառնալիք (hy) (spaṙnalik’) 
• Asturian: peligru (ast) m
• Bulgarian: заплаха (bg) f (zaplaha)
• Czech: nebezpečí (cs) n
• Danish: fare (da) c
• Dutch: gevaar (nl) n, bedreiging (nl) f
• Finnish: uhka (fi), vaara (fi)
• French: danger (fr) m
• Galician: perigo (gl) m
• German: Gefahr (de) f, Bedrohung (de) f
• Greek: κίνδυνος (el) (kíndinos) m 
• Haitian Creole: danje
• Hebrew: סכנה (he) (sakana) f

• Indonesian: bahaya (id)
• Irish: contúirt (ga) f, dainséar (ga) m
• Italian: pericolo (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: په‌رێشان (ku)

• Polish: zagrożenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: perigo (pt) m
• Russian: опасность (ru) (opásnost') f , угроза (ru) (ugróza) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: cunnart (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опасност (sh) f

  Roman: opasnost (sh) f

• Swahili: hatari (sw)
• Swedish: fara (sv) c

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• French: danger m (3)
• Hebrew: לסכן (lesaken) (2)
• Hindi: खत्रा (khatrā)
• Icelandic: hætta
• Ido: danjero
• Korean: 위험 (wi-hum)
• Kurdish: xeter f (3), talûke f (3), bive f (3), gef f (3), rîsk f (3)

• Lithuanian: pavojus m (3)
• Lojban: ckape
• Mandarin: 危险 (wēi-xiǎn)
• Norwegian: fare
• Old English: fǣr m

Verb

danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)

1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Related terms

• dungeon
• domain
• dame

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• gander, garden, grande, ranged

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French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

danger m (plural dangers)

1. danger
2. jeopardy (danger of loss, harm, or failure)

Derived terms

• dangereux

Anagrams

• de rang, grande