swarm

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
2. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
3. A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
4. A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
2. (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
3. (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
4. (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
5. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
6. To breed multitudes.

Conceptes

eixam

multitud

pila

munt

massa

trepa

xusma

formiguejar

anar a patolls

horda

tropell

púrria

aglomeració

xurma

abundar

Sinònims

flock

crowd

throng

herd

gather

teem

horde

mass

mob

group

multitude

school

🏫

stream

shoal

flight

✈️

bevy

drove

heap

pack

pullulate

congregate

crowd around

mill about

cluster

troop

cloud

☁️

assemble

rabble

pile

company

come together

collection

body

gaggle

cluster around

circle

⭕

pod

hive

crowd round

colony

band

accumulation

huddle

assemblage

surge

pour

pride

covey

team

army

Traduccions

essaim

Schwarm

enjambre

sciame

menigte

multidão

zwerm

muchedumbre

schwärmen

essaimer

zwermen

masse

enxame

krielen

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/swɔɹm/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: swarm

Heretat de anglès antic: swearm

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Swoorm

Cognat amb neerlandès: zwerm

Cognat amb alemany: Schwarm

Cognat amb danès: sværm

Cognat amb suec: svärm

Cognat amb islandès: svarmur

Cognat amb llatí: susurrus

Cognat amb lituà: surma

Cognat amb rus: свире́ль

Heretat de anglès mitjà: swarmen

Heretat de anglès antic: swierman

Cognat amb escocès: swairm

Cognat amb neerlandès: zwermen

Cognat amb alemany: schwärmen

Cognat amb danès: sværme

Cognat amb suec: svärma

In summary

From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian свире́ль (svirélʹ, “a pipe, reed”).
The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swirman (“to swarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma.