nightmare

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A very unpleasant or frightening dream.
2. (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
3. (archaic) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
4. (historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To experience a nightmare.
2. (transitive) To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
3. (transitive) To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.

Sinónimos

incubus

bad dream

horror

toss and turn

oneirodynia

paroniria

night-hag

goblin

riding-hag

mare

bete noire

Traducións

pesadilla

cauchemar

incubo

Albtraum

Alptraum

nachtmerrie

pesadelo

εφιάλτης

malson

Alpdruck

mauvais rêve

Nachtmahr

angstdroom

كابوس

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈnaɪt.mɛə/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: night-mare

Herdado de Old English: *nihtmare

Relativo a escocés: nichtmare

Relativo a neerlandés: nachtmerrie

Relativo a Middle Low German: nachtmār

Relativo a alemán: Nachtmahr

In summary

From Middle English night-mare, from Old English *nihtmare, equivalent to night + mare (“evil spirit believed to afflict a sleeping person”). Cognate with Scots nichtmare and nichtmeer, Dutch nachtmerrie, Middle Low German nachtmār, German Nachtmahr.

Frases

Their main enemy is the Nightmare Prince .