alert

See also: Alert

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈlɜːt/
• enPR: ə-lûrtʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈlɝt/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation: a‧lert

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)

2. Attentive; awake; on guard.
3. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
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     an alert young fellow

Translations

attentive

• Arabic: يَقِظ (yaqiẓ)
• Armenian: զգաստ (hy) (zgast), արթուն (hy) (artʻun), զգոն (hy) (zgon)
• Bengali: সতর্ক (sôtôrkô)
• Bulgarian: бдителен (bg) (bditelen), внимателен (bg) (vnimatelen)
• Catalan: vigilant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 警惕 (zh) (jǐngtì)

• Esperanto: vigla, mallaca
• Finnish: virkeä (fi), pirteä (fi)
• French: alerte (fr)
• German: aufmerksam (de), wachsam (de)
• Hebrew: עֵרָנִי m (eraní), דָּרוּךְ (he) m (darúkh)
• Hindi: सतर्क (hi) (satark)
• Interlingue: ,
• Irish: airdeallach, beo-intinneach, biorbach, braiteach, fuireachair
• Italian: allerta (it)
• Japanese: 機敏な (ja) (きびんな, kibin na), 警戒する (ja) (けいかいする, keikai suru)
• Korean: 기민하다 (ko) (giminhada), 경계하다 (ko) (gyeonggyehada)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: intentus, vigilans
• Latvian: modrs
• Luxembourgish: aläert
• Maltese: attent m, attenta f
• Maori: matawhiuwhiu, hiwa, mataara, ohiti, ohitu, matatū, tauwhiro
• Norwegian: oppmerksom (no), våken (no)
• Polish: czujny (pl), uważny (pl)
• Portuguese: alerta (pt)
• Russian: бди́тельный (ru) (bdítelʹnyj), внима́тельный (ru) (vnimátelʹnyj), насторо́женный (ru) (nastoróžennyj)
• Sanskrit: सतर्क (sa) (satarka)
• Scottish Gaelic: grad
• Spanish: alerto (es), vigilante (es)
• Swahili: chonjo (sw), tahadhari (sw)
• Swedish: alert (sv), vaken (sv)
• Urdu: سترک (satark)
• Westrobothnian:

Noun

alert (plural alerts)

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

Translations

an alarm

• Bulgarian: тревога (bg) (trevoga)
• Catalan: alerta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 警報／警报 (zh) (jǐngbào), 警报 (zh) (jǐngbào)

• Czech: výstraha f, poplach (cs) m
• Esperanto: alarmo, averto
• Finnish: hälytys (fi)
• French: alarme (fr) f
• German: Alarm (de) m
• Hebrew: אַזְעָקָה (he) (aza'qá), הַתְרָעָה (hatra'á)
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• Italian: allarme (it) m
• Japanese: 警告 (ja) (けいこく, keikoku), 警報 (ja) (けいほう, keihō)
• Norwegian: alarm (no) m
• Polish: alarm (pl) m
• Portuguese: alerta (pt) m, alarme (pt) m
• Russian: трево́га (ru) f (trevóga), сигнализа́ция (ru) f (signalizácija) (alarm system)
• Spanish: alerta (es) f, alarma (es) f
• Swedish: larm (sv) n

a notification

• Czech: upozornění (cs) n
• Esperanto: sciigo
• Finnish: varoitus (fi)
• Hebrew: הַתְרָעָה f (hatra'á), כּוֹנְנוּת (he) (konenút)
• Indonesian: pemberitahuan (id), lansiran
• Norwegian: advarsel (no) m, varsel (no) n
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• Polish: powiadomienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: alerta (pt) m
• Russian: предупрежде́ние (ru) n (predupreždénije), оповеще́ние (ru) n (opoveščénije), сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: obavijest (sh), obavještenje (sh) n
• Swahili: chonjo (sw)

Etymology 2

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.

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)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 警告 (zh) (jǐnggào)

• Esperanto: alarmi
• Finnish: varoittaa (fi), hälyttää (fi)
• German: verständigen (de)
• Hebrew: הִזְהִיר (he) (hizhír), הִתְרִיעַ (hitría')
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• Norwegian: varsle (no)
• Portuguese: alertar (pt)
• Spanish: alertar (es)
• Swahili: chonjo (sw)

Anagrams

• alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar

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Dutch

Etymology

From French alerte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːˈlɛrt/

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• Hyphenation: alert
• Rhymes: -ɛrt

Adjective

alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)

1. alert

Inflection

Declension of alert
uninflected	alert
inflected	alerte
comparative	alerter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		alert	alerter	het alertst het alertste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	alerte	alertere	alertste
	n. sing.	alert	alerter	alertste
	plural	alerte	alertere	alertste
definite		alerte	alertere	alertste
partitive		alerts	alerters	—

Derived terms

• alertheid

Anagrams

• later, ratel

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German

Etymology

From French alerte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈlɛʁt]

• Audio

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Adjective

alert (comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)

1. alert

Further reading

• “alert” in Duden online

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Swedish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlæʈ/
• Rhymes: -æʈː

Adjective

alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)

1. alert

Declension

Inflection of alert
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	alert	alertare	alertast
Neuter singular	alert	alertare	alertast
Plural	alerta	alertare	alertast
Masculine plural3	alerte	alertare	alertast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	alerte	alertare	alertaste
All	alerta	alertare	alertaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Anagrams

• artel, later, letar, realt