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Etymology [edit]
Middle English strange, from Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus, "that which is on the outside". Displaced native Middle English fremd, frempt (“strange”) (from Old English fremede, fremde).
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strange (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)
- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
- (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 93:
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
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not normal
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: i çuditshëm (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: غريب (ar) (ġarīb), عجيب (ar) (ʿajīb)
- Armenian: տարօրինակ (hy) (taròrinak)
- Azeri: please add this translation if you can
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- Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: странен (bg) (stránen) m
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: estrany (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎠᏎᎩ (chr) (asegi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 奇怪 (cmn) (qíguài)
- Crimean Tatar: hucur
- Czech: zvláštní (cs) m, divný (cs) m, podivný (cs) m
- Danish: underlig (da)
- Dutch: vreemd (nl), vreemde (nl), raar (nl), rare (nl)
- Esperanto: stranga (eo)
- Estonian: imelik (et)
- Faroese: løgin (fo)
- Finnish: outo (fi), vieras (fi), kummallinen (fi), ihmeellinen (fi)
- French: étrange (fr) m and f
- Galician: please add this translation if you can
- Georgian: უცნაური (ka) (uc'nauri)
- German: seltsam (de), sonderbar (de), komisch (de), verwunderlich (de)
- Greek: παράξενος (el) (paráksenos) m, παράδοξος (el) (parádoksos) m, αλλόκοτος (el) (allókotos) m, περίεργος (el) (períergos) m
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: מוזר (he) (muzár)
- Hindi: अजीब (hi) (ajīb)
- Hungarian: különös (hu), furcsa (hu), különleges (hu)
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- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: aneh (id)
- Irish: aisteach (ga), ait (ga), éagsúlach (ga)
- Italian: strano (it) m, strana (it) f
- Japanese: 変 (ja) (へん, hen), 奇妙 (ja) (きみょう, kimyō)
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
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- Khmer: ប្លែក (km) (plaek)
- Korean: 이상한 (ko) (isang-han)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: ecêb, seyr, sosret, mat
- Sorani: عهنتیکه (ku) (`anteeka), سهیر (ku) (sair)
- Latin: extraneus (la)
- Latvian: svešs (lv), dīvains (lv)
- Lithuanian: keistas (lt) m, keista (lt) f
- Livonian: vȭrõz
- Lojban: cizra (jbo)
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: aneh (ms), ganjil (ms), pelik (ms)
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: merkelig (no), sær (no), rar (no)
- Occitan: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: عجیب (fa) ('ajib), عجیب و غریب (fa) ('ajib-o-ğarib)
- Polish: dziwny (pl)
- Portuguese: estranho (pt) m
- Romanian: ciudat (ro), straniu (ro), neobișnuit (ro), nenatural (ro) m and n
- Russian: странный (ru) (stránnyj) m, чудной (ru) (čudnój)
- Scottish Gaelic: annasach (gd), neònach (gd), coimheach (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: необичан (sh), необичан (sh), чудноват (sh)
- Roman: neobičan (sh), čudan (sh), čudnovat (sh)
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: divný (sk)
- Slovene: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: extraño (es) m, raro (es)
- Swedish: främmande (sv), konstig (sv), underlig (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: వింత (te) (viṅta), విచిత్రమైన (te) (vicitramaina)
- Turkish: garip (tr), tuhaf (tr), yabancı (tr)
- Urdu: عجیب (ur) (ajīb)
- Vietnamese: lạ lùng (vi), lạ (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
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- West Frisian: frjemd (fy), frjemde (fy), nuver (fy), nuvere (fy)
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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not yet part of one’s experience
strange (third-person singular simple present stranges, present participle stranging, simple past and past participle stranged)
- (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Glanvill to this entry?)
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strange
- strangely
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strange
- Inflected form of strang
