hurry

English

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Etymology

Middle English horyed ‘rushed, impelled’, frequentative of hurren ‘to vibrate rapidly, buzz’, from Proto-Germanic *hurzanan ‘to rush’ (compare Middle High German hurren ‘to hasten’, Norwegian hurre ‘to whirl around’), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-, *ḱors- (“to run, hurry”) (compare Welsh carrog ‘torrent’, Latin currere ‘to run’, Tocharian A/B kursär/kwärsar ‘league; course’, Lithuanian karsiù ‘to go quickly’). Related to horse, rush.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈhʌ.ɹi/

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• (US) IPA: /ˈhʌ.ɹi/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)

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• (US) IPA: /ˈhɝ.ɹi/ (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)

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• Rhymes: -ʌri

Noun

hurry (countable and uncountable; plural hurries)

1. Rushed action.

   Why are you in such a big hurry?

2. Urgency.

   There is no hurry on that paperwork.

3. (sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.

Derived terms

• in a hurry

Translations

rushed action

• Czech: spěch (cs) m
• French: précipitation (fr) f, hâte (fr) f
• German: Eile (de) f
• Italian: precipitazione (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خێرا (ku)

• Latvian: skuba (lv) f

• Neapolitan: pressa f
• Norwegian: travelhet (no) m and f
• Portuguese: pressa (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: cabhag (gd) f, deann (gd) f
• Spanish: prisa (es) f
• Swedish: jäkt (sv) c, hast (sv) c, brådska (sv) c, hets (sv) c

(American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to

• Norwegian: press (no) n (soccer)

Verb

hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)

1. To do things quickly.

   He's hurrying because he's late.

2. Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.

   If you don't hurry you won't finish on time.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:rush

Translations

to do things quickly

• Albanian: nxitoj (sq)
• Arabic: أسرع (ar) ('asra`a), اندفع (ar) (indafa`a)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 趕工 (cmn), 赶工 (cmn) (gǎngōng), 忙 (cmn) (máng), 趕來 (cmn), 赶来 (cmn) (gǎnlái)

• Czech: spěchat (cs)
• Danish: skynde sig (da)
• Finnish: kiiruhtaa (fi), pitää kiirettä (fi)
• French: se dépêcher (fr), se hâter (fr)
• German: sich beeilen (de), eilen (de)
• Hungarian: siet (hu)

• Italian: affrettarsi (it), precipitarsi (it)
• Japanese: 急ぐ (ja) (isogu)
• Jèrriais: dêpêchi
• Latin: festīnō (la)
• Neapolitan: fa' ampressa
• Norwegian: skynde seg (no)
• Oriya: ତରବର (or)
• Portuguese: apressar (pt)
• Russian: спешить (ru) (spešít') , торопиться (ru) (toropít'sja) 
• Spanish: apresurarse (es), apurarse (es), darse prisa (es)
• Turkish: acele etmek (tr), aşıkmak (tr)

to speed up the rate

• Catalan: apressar (ca)(-se)
• Finnish: kiirehtiä (fi), nopeuttaa (fi), lisätä (fi) vauhtia (fi)
• German: sich beeilen (de)
• Hungarian: siet (hu)

• Norwegian: skynde seg (no)
• Portuguese: apressar (pt)
• Spanish: apresurarse (es) (formal usage), darse prisa (es), apurarse (es) (Latin America)

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• Albanian: nxiton
• Breton: hasta
• Crimean Tatar: aşıqmaq
• Esperanto: rapidi
• Hungarian: siet
• Italian: affrettarsi
• Kurdish:
• Serbo-Croatian: hitati, žuriti

  Sorani: زوو

• Swedish: skynda (sv) (sig)
• Volapük: spidön

See also

• haste
• hurry up