swollen

English

Etymology

From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈswəʊ.lən/, /ˈswɒ.lən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈswoʊ.lən/
• Rhymes: -əʊlən
• Hyphenation: swol‧len

Adjective

swollen (comparative more swollen, superlative most swollen)

1. Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

   swollen ankle

   swollen knee

   swollen salaries

   swollen thumb

Derived terms

• swollen assets theory
• swollen-headed
• swollenly
• swollenness

Translations

distended

• Akan: ahono
• Albanian: Enjtur, Aj(gheg)
• Arabic: مُنْتَفِخ (muntafiḵ), مُتَوَرِّم (mutawarrim)

  Egyptian Arabic: وارم (wārim)

• Belarusian: апу́хлы (apúxly)
• Bulgarian: изду́т (bg) (izdút)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腫 / 肿 (zh) (zhǒng), 腫脹的 / 肿胀的 (zh) (zhǒngzhàng de), 膨脹的 / 膨胀的 (zh) (péngzhàng de)

• Czech: opuchlý, zduřelý, nabobtnalý, nateklý, vzedmutý, dmoucí se
• Esperanto: ŝvela, ŝveligita
• Finnish: ajettunut, turvonnut (fi), paisunut (fi)
• French: enflé (fr), gonflé (fr)
• German: angeschwollen (de), geschwollen (de)
• Greek: πρησμένος (el) (prisménos), φουσκωμένος (el) (fouskoménos)
• Japanese: 腫れた (はれた, hareta), 盛り上がった (ja) (もりあがった, moriagatta)
• Korean: 부푼 (ko) (bupun), 부은 (ko) (bueun)
• Latin: turgidus, tumidus, aemidus, praetumidus
• Māori: matakoma, tetere, uruuru, uruumu
• North Moluccan Malay: bangka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svullen, oppblåst

  Nynorsk: svullen, svollen

• Occitan: conflat, bufat, bofat, embofit, espompit
• Polish: spuchnięty
• Portuguese: inchado (pt)
• Russian: опу́хший (ru) (opúxšij), взду́тый (ru) (vzdútyj), набу́хший (ru) (nabúxšij), отёкший (otjókšij), опу́хлый (ru) (opúxlyj)
• Slovak: opuchnutý
• Swedish: svullen (sv), uppsvullen (very swollen, swollen up)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: شیش (şiş)

• Ukrainian: опу́хлий (opúxlyj)
• Yiddish: געשוואָלן (geshvoln)

Verb

swollen

1. past participle of swell

See also

• swole

Anagrams

• Nowells, nowells

Old English

Verb

swollen

1. past participle of swellan