mayhem

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.
2. (uncountable, usually) Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing.
3. (uncountable, usually) The maiming of a person by depriving them of the use of any of their limbs which are necessary for defense or protection.
4. (uncountable, usually) The crime of damaging things or harming people on purpose.

Verb

To commit mayhem.

Conceptos

alboroto

tumulto

desorden

caos

mutilación criminal

vandalismo

abigarramiento

disturbio

Sinónimos

turmoil

havoc

chaos

confusion

disorder

affray

riot

row

tumult

uproar

violence

disturbance

fray

anarchy

maiming

melee

mess

mishmash

mist

mutilating

outrage

pandemonium

perturbation

upheaval

garboil

scuffle

shambles

stir

balagan

agitation

clamour

convulsion

babel

disorderliness

disruption

Traducciones

Chaos

chaos

grabuge

bagarre

chaos

confusione

kargaşa

Aufruhr

Aufstand

chambard

Getümmel

avalot

aldarull

Tumult

Rauferei

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmeɪhɛm/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: mayme

Cognado con alto alemán medio: meidem, meiden

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: meiða

Cognado con gótico: 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽

Cognado con español: ganar

Cognado con italiano: gavagnare

In summary

From Middle English mayme, mahaime, from Anglo-Norman mahaim (“mutilation”), from Old French meshaing (“bodily harm, loss of limb”), from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (“to cripple, injure”) (compare Middle High German meidem, meiden (“gelding”), Old Norse meiða (“to injure”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (maidjan, “to alter, falsify”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change”). More at mad. The original meaning referred to the crime of maiming; the other senses derived from this.
Another possible etymology derives the Old French from Provençal maganhar, composed of mal (“evil”) and ganhar (“to obtain, receive”) (compare with Spanish ganar and Italian gavagnare and guadagnare), so literally "to obtain, receive something evil".
The sense "chaos" may have arisen by popular misunderstanding of the common journalese expression "rioting and mayhem".