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[edit] Etymology
From night + mare (“evil spirit believed to afflict a sleeping person”).
[edit] Pronunciation
nightmare (plural nightmares)
- (now rare) A female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- It haunted me, however, more than once, like the nightmare.
- A very bad or frightening dream.
- I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
- Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.
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a very bad or frightening dream
- Albanian: ankth (sq)
- Arabic: كابوس (ar) (kābūs) m.
- Armenian: մղձավանջ (hy) (mġjavanǰ)
- Asturian: velea, pesadiella
- Basque: amesgaizto
- Bengali: দুঃস্বপ্ন (bn) (duḥsbôpnô), কুস্বপ্ন (bn) (kusbôpnô)
- Catalan: malson m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 噩夢 (cmn), 噩梦 (cmn) (èmèng), 惡夢 (cmn), 恶梦 (cmn) (èmèng)
- Corsican: sunniacciu, sonniacciu, sugnacciu
- Czech: noční můra (cs) f.
- Danish: mareridt (da) n.
- Dutch: nachtmerrie (nl) f.
- Esperanto: sonĝaĉo (eo)
- Estonian: õudusunenägu, košmaar
- Finnish: painajainen (fi)
- French: cauchemar (fr) m., mauvais rêve, mauvais rêve (fr) m.
- Friulian: čhalčhut
- Galician: pesadelo
- Georgian: კოშმარი (ka) (košmari), მაჯლაჯუნა (ka) (madžladžuna)
- German: Albtraum (de) m., Alptraum (de) m., (dated) Albdruck (de) m., Nachtmahr (de) f.
- Greek: εφιάλτης (el) (efiáltis) m.
- Gujarati: દુઃસ્વપ્ન (gu) (duḥsvapna)
- Hawaiian: moehewa
- Hebrew: סִיּוּט (he) (siyút) m.
- Hindi: दुःस्वप्न (hi) (duḥsapn) m., कुस्वप्न (hi) (kusapn) m.
- Hungarian: lidércnyomás (hu), rémálom (hu)
- Icelandic: martröð (is) f.
- Indonesian: mimpi buruk (id)
- Irish: tromluí (ga) m.
- Italian: incubo (it) m., brutto sogno
- Japanese: 悪夢 (ja) (あくむ, akumu)
- Khmer: សប្តិអាក្រក់ (km) (sopdteu aagrok), ទុសុបិន (km) (dtosobeun)
- Korean: 악몽 (ko) (akmong) (惡夢 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: خهوی ناخۆش (ku)
- Ladin: strassomech, trota
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- Latin: incubus (la)
- Latvian: murgi (lv)
- Lithuanian: košmaras (lt)
- Low Saxon: Alpdröm
- Lower Sorbian: mórawa
- Luhya: liroro libi
- Luxembourgish: Alpdram (lb) m.
- Macedonian: кошмар m.
- Maori: moepapa (mi), moenanu (mi)
- Mongolian: аймшиг (mn) (aymšig)
- Norwegian: mareritt n.
- Ojibwe: giiwanaadingwaam, zegingwashi
- Old English: ælfādl (ang) f.
- Persian: کابوس (fa) (kâbus)
- Polish: koszmar (pl) m.
- Portuguese: pesadelo (pt) m.
- Romanian: coșmar (ro) n.
- Romansh: dischariel, derschalet, darschalet, dischöl, fulet, ischier
- Russian: кошмар (ru) (košmár) m., страшный сон (ru) (strášnyj son) m.
- Sanskrit: दुःस्वप्न (sa) (duḥsvapna) m.
- Saterland Frisian:
- Scottish Gaelic: mearan-cadail, trom-laighe
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ноћна мора (sh) f., кошмар (sh) m.
- Roman: noćna mora (sh) f., košmar (sh) m.
- Spanish: pesadilla (es) f.
- Swahili: jinamizi (noun 5/6)
- Swedish: mardröm (sv) c.
- Tagalog: bangungot
- Tamil: அமுக்கி (ta) (amukki)
- Thai: ฝันร้าย (th) (făn ráai)
- Turkish: kâbus (tr)
- Urdu: کابوس (ur) (kābūs) m., کسوپن (ur) (kusapn) m.
- Vietnamese: ác mộng (vi)
- Volapük: kojmar (vo)
- Welsh: hunllef (cy) f.
- Yiddish: בײַזער חלום (yi) (bayzer kholem) m.
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a bad or difficult experience
