struggle

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
2. (figuratively) Strife, contention, great effort.

Verb

1. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
2. To have difficulty with something.
3. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

Conceptes

lluita

🤼

lluitar

batallar

batalla

pugna

esforç

barallar-se

combatre

combat

intent

afany

batussa

conat

punya

escaramussa

barallar

Sinònims

fight

battle

strive

combat

contend

conflict

wrestle

scuffle

strife

effort

contest

endeavor

war

exertion

action

scramble

quarrel

endeavour

compete

attempt

strain

wriggle

tussle

competition

work hard

grapple

labour

labor

writhe

dispute

squirm

toil

fray

fighting

exert

flounder

contention

wrestling

🤼

resist

revolt

clamber

trouble

duel

travail

try

grappling

dogfight

encounter

pains

argument

Traduccions

lutte

lotta

Kampf

lutter

kämpfen

luta

αγώνας

combat

lucha

strijd

lottare

luchar

gevecht

combattimento

combattre

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈstrʌɡəl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: struglen

Cognat amb escocès: strugil

Cognat amb Middle Low German: strûkelen

Cognat amb baix alemany: strükeln

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: strūhhēn

Cognat amb alemany: strauchen

Cognat amb suec: strug

Cognat amb noruec: stru

Cognat amb danès: struende

Cognat amb escocès: strug

In summary

From Middle English struglen, stroglen, strogelen, of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strugil (“to struggle, grapple, contend”). Perhaps from a variant of *strokelen, *stroukelen (> English stroll), from Middle Dutch struyckelen ("to stumble, trip, falter"; > Modern Dutch struikelen), the frequentative form of Old Dutch *strūkon (“to stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *strūkōną, *strūkēną (“to be stiff”), from Proto-Indo-European *strug-, *ster- (“to be stiff; to bristle, strut, stumble, fall”), related to Middle Low German strûkelen ("to stumble"; > Low German strükeln), Old High German strūhhēn, strūhhōn ("to stumble, trip, tumble, go astray"; > German strauchen, straucheln).
Alternative etymology derives the base of struggle from Old Norse strúgr (“arrogance, pride, spitefulness, ill-will”) + -le (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *strūkaz (“stiff, rigid”), ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European root above, which would make it cognate with dialectal Swedish strug (“contention, strife, discord”), Norwegian stru (“obstinate, unruly”), Danish struende (“reluctantly”), Scots strug (“difficulty, perplexity, a laborious task”).

Frases

There were raised voices , and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on . .