tremble

See also: Tremble and tremblé

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French trambler and its variants, from Vulgar Latin tremulō, a derivative of Classical Latin tremō; cf. also tremulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛmbl̩/
• Hyphenation: trem‧ble

Verb

tremble (third-person singular simple present trembles, present participle trembling, simple past and past participle trembled)

1. (intransitive) To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

   Her lip started to tremble as she burst into tears.   The dog was trembling from being in the cold weather all day.

Translations

to shake

• Arabic: اِخْتَلَجَ (iḵtalaja), اِرْتَجَفَ (irtajafa)
• Aromanian: treambur, treamur
• Belarusian: дрыжа́ць impf (dryžácʹ)
• Bulgarian: треперя (bg) impf (treperja)
• Catalan: tremolar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哆嗦 (zh) (duōsuo), 顫抖／颤抖 (zh) (chàndǒu), 颤抖 (zh) (chàndǒu or zhàndǒu), 發抖／发抖 (zh) (fādǒu), 发抖 (zh) (fādǒu), 顫慄／颤栗 (zh) (zhànlì), 颤栗 (zh) (zhànlì), 震顫／震颤 (zh) (zhènchàn), 震颤 (zh) (zhènchàn)

• Crimean Tatar: qaltıramaq
• Czech: třást se (cs) impf, chvět se (cs) impf
• Dutch: beven (nl)
• Esperanto: tremi
• Finnish: väristä (fi)
• French: trembler (fr), vibrer (fr)
• Friulian: trimâ, trimulâ, balitâ, fremi
• Galician: tremer, treinar, buligar
• German: zittern (de)
• Greek: τρέμω (el) (trémo)

  Ancient: τρέμω (trémō)

• Hungarian: reszket (hu)
• Irish: creath
• Italian: tremare (it), tremolare (it)
• Japanese: 震える (ja) (ふるえる, furueru)
• Korean: 떨다 (ko) (tteolda)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: لەرزین (lerzîn)

• Latgalian: treisēt
• Latin: tremō
• Latvian: trīcēt
• Luxembourgish: zidderen
• Macedonian: трепери impf (treperi)
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• Maori: rūrūtaina (with fear), ngāueue (as with an earthquake), kūnāwiri (with cold)
• Norman: tremblier
• Occitan: tremolar (oc)
• Old English: bifian
• Persian: لرزیدن (fa) (larzidan)
• Polish: drżeć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: tremer (pt)
• Quechua: chuhchuy
• Romanian: tremura (ro)
• Russian: дрожа́ть (ru) impf (drožátʹ), трясти́сь (ru) impf (trjastísʹ), трепета́ть (ru) impf (trepetátʹ)
• Sardinian: tremuài, tremulai, tremulare, trimulare
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дрхтати impf

  Roman: drhtati (sh) impf

• Sicilian: trimari
• Slovak: triasť sa impf, chvieť sa impf
• Slovene: tresti se impf, drhteti impf
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rdžaś impf

• Spanish: tiritar (es)temblar (es)
• Telugu: అదురు (te) (aduru)
• Thai: สั่น (th) (sàn)
• Tok Pisin: guria
• Turkish: titremek (tr), ürpermek (tr)
• Ukrainian: тремті́ти (uk) impf (tremtíty), труси́тися impf (trusýtysja)
• Venetian: tremar (vec), tremołar
• Vietnamese: run (vi), rung (vi)
• Welsh: crynu (cy)
• Yiddish: ציטערן (tsitern)

Noun

tremble (plural trembles)

1. A shake, quiver, or vibration.

Translations

a shake

• Catalan: tremolor (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哆嗦 (zh) (duōsuo), 顫抖／颤抖 (zh) (chàndǒu), 颤抖 (zh) (chàndǒu or zhàndǒu), 發抖／发抖 (zh) (fādǒu), 发抖 (zh) (fādǒu), 顫慄／颤栗 (zh) (zhànlì), 颤栗 (zh) (zhànlì), 震顫／震颤 (zh) (zhènchàn), 震颤 (zh) (zhènchàn)

• Finnish: värinä
• French: tremblement (fr) m, vibration (fr) f
• Galician: tremor m
• German: Zittern n
• Italian: tremore (it)
• Japanese: 震え (ふるえ, furue)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Maori: korohāwini
• Portuguese: tremor (pt)
• Russian: дрожь (ru) f (drožʹ), дрожа́ние (ru) n (drožánije)
• Spanish: temblor (es), vibración (es), temblequera (es) f (colloquial)
• Tok Pisin: guria
• Yiddish: ציטער m (tsiter)

Related terms

• tremor
• tremulous
• tremblor

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃bl/

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Noun

tremble m (plural trembles)

1. aspen

Verb

tremble

1. first-person singular present indicative of trembler
2. third-person singular present indicative of trembler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of trembler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of trembler
5. second-person singular imperative of trembler

Further reading

• “tremble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.