unfamiliar

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English familiar

English unfamiliar

From un- + familiar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

unfamiliar (comparative more unfamiliar, superlative most unfamiliar)

1. Strange, not familiar.
   • 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     United were second-best for long periods as they struggled to adapt to an unfamiliar line-up and were ultimately fortunate to leave Merseyside with their unbeaten league run still intact.

Translations

not familiar

• Arabic: غَيْر مَأْلُوف (ḡayr maʔlūf)
• Armenian: անծանոթ (hy) (ancanotʻ)
• Bulgarian: непознат (bg) (nepoznat)
• Burmese: စိမ်း (my) (cim:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陌生 (zh) (mòshēng)

• Danish: uvant, ukendt (da)
• Finnish: vieras (fi)
• French: inconnu (fr)
• German: unbekannt (de), unvertraut (de)
• Greek: άγνωστος (el) m (ágnostos), ασυνήθης (el) m (asyníthis)
• Irish: aduain, coimhthíoch
• Japanese: 知られていない (ja) (しられていない, shirarete inai)
• Kazakh: бейтаныс (beitanys)
• Latin: aliēnus (la)
• Latvian: svešs, svešāds, neparasts
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uvant, ukjent (no)

  Nynorsk: ukjent

• Old English: uncūþ
• Plautdietsch: framd, onbekaunt
• Polish: nieznany (pl)
• Russian: незнако́мый (ru) (neznakómyj)
• Spanish: no / poco familiar
• Swedish: obekant (sv)

Noun

unfamiliar (plural unfamiliars)

1. An unfamiliar person; a stranger.