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Etymology 1
From Middle English springen , from Old English springan ( “ to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *springan , from Proto-Germanic *springaną ( “ to burst forth ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- ( “ to move, race, spring ” ) , from *sper- ( “ to jerk, twitch, snap, shove ” ) .
Other possible cognates include Lithuanian spreñgti ( “ to push (in) ” ) , Old Church Slavonic прѧсти ( pręsti , “ to spin , to stretch ” ) , Latin spargere ( “ to sprinkle , to scatter ” ) , Ancient Greek σπέρχω ( spérkhō , “ to hasten ” ) , Sanskrit स्पृहयति ( spṛháyati , “ to be eager ” ) . Some newer senses derived from the noun.
Verb
spring (third-person singular simple present springs , present participle springing , simple past sprang or sprung , past participle sprung )
( intransitive ) To move or burst forth.
c. 1540 , Livy, translated by John Bellenden, History of Rome , Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125 :
To appear .
1611 , The Holy Bible, (King James Version ), London: Robert Barker , , →OCLC , Judges 19:25 :...so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring , they let her goe .
1682 , Thomas Otway , Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. , London: Jos Hindmarsh , →OCLC , Act I, scene i, page 4 :Home I would go, But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping Creditors, Watchfull as Fowlers when their Game will ſpring ; [ …]
To grow , to sprout.
1974 , James Albert Michener , Centennial , page 338 :There was moisture in the ground, and from it sprang a million flowers, gold and blue and brown and red.
2006 , N. Roberts, Morrigann's Cross , section VI:Foxglove sprang tall and purple among the trees.
( UK dialectal ) To mature.
( figurative ) To arise , to come into existence .
Synonyms: arise , form , take shape
( sometimes figurative ) To enliven .
( figurative , usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy .
Synonyms: bound , jump , leap
Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.
c. 1250 , Life of St Margaret , Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v:
...into helle spring ...
1474 , William Caxton, transl., Game and Playe of the Chesse , iii, vii, 141 :
1722 , Ambrose Philips , The Briton :...the Mountain Stag, that springs From Height to Height, and bounds along the Plains, Nor has a Master to restrain his Course...
1827 , Clement Clarke Moore , ( A Visit from St. Nicholas ) :...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
2011 April 11, The Atlantic :Reporters sprang to the conclusion that the speech would make detailed new commitments...
( usually with from ) To be born , descend , or originate from
He sprang from peasant stock.
2008 , George McCandless, The ABCs of RBCs , Harvard University Press, page 7:From this basis, a first-order difference equation for the evolution of capital per worker is found, and the time path of the economy springs from this equation.
( obsolete ) To rise in social position or military rank , to be promoted .
( transitive ) To cause to spring (all senses).
( of mechanisms ) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure .
He sprang the trap.
1625 , Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes , Vol. II, x, ix:They sprung another Mine... wherein was placed about sixtie Barrels of Powder.
1747 , The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer :On the 23d, the Besiegers sprung a Mine under the Salient Angle, upon the Right of the Haif Moon, which had the desired Success, the Enemy's Gallery on that Side, and the Mason-Work of the Counterscarp, being thereby demolished.
( obsolete , of horses) To breed with, to impregnate .
1585 , Nicolas De Nicolay, translated by Thomas Washington, The Navigations, Peregrinations, and Voyages, Made into Turkie... , Bk. IV, p. 154 :...[they] sought the fairest stoned horses to spring their mares...
( transitive , obsolete ) To wetten , to moisten .
( intransitive , now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces , to explode , to shatter .
1698 , François Froger, A Relation of a Voyage Made... on the Coasts of Africa , page 30 :On the 22nd the mines sprang , and took very good effect.
( obsolete , military ) To go off .
2012 April 21, Sydney Morning Herald , page 5:The whole contraption appears liable to spring apart at any moment.
( intransitive , nautical , usually perfective) To crack .
1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary:
The Edward sprang hir foremast .
( Can we verify (+ ) this sense?) ( transitive , figurative ) To surprise by sudden or deft action .
To come upon and flush out .
1921 , Field and Stream , page 832 :For generations of men the springer spaniel has been looked upon as the dog for springing pheasants in covert and finding and retrieving dead birds or winged runners when ordered to do so. The properly broken dog will not chase, but drop to wing and shot.
1940 , Allen A. Day, “Dachsunds for Woodchucks”, in Dwight Williams Huntington, editor, The Game Breeder and Sportsman , page 94 :[ …] by the beginning of this century a still smaller breed, with a weight of 4 of 5 pounds and a chest measurement of around 12 inches, had come into being for springing rabbits. Such, then, is a rough, quick ancestral picture of our modern Dachshund, and [ …]
2003 August 1, Dennis Walrod, Grouse Hunter's Guide: Solid Facts, Insights, and Observations on How to Hunt Ruffled Grouse , Stackpole Books, →ISBN :I winter, ruffed grouse sometimes roost at night on the ground under the insulating snow. Even during the midday hours, I have often flushed grouse out from under the snow-bowed branches of "buck-brush," the type of environment where a hunter would more likely expect to spring a rabbit or two.
( Australia , slang ) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position .
1980 , John Hepworth et al. , Boozing Out in Melbourne Pubs... , page 42 :He figured that nobody would ever spring him, but he figured wrong.
( obsolete ) To begin .
( obsolete , slang ) To put bad money into circulation .
To tell , to share .
2012 February 29, Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea: The Denuclearisation Dance Resumes”, in BBC News :North Korea loves to spring surprises. More unusual is for its US foe to play along.
Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.
( transitive , slang , US ) To free from imprisonment , especially by facilitating an illegal escape .
Synonyms: free , let out , release , spring loose , jailbreak
His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.
( intransitive , slang , rare ) To be free of imprisonment , especially by illegal escape .
( transitive , architecture , of arches) To build , to form the initial curve of.
They sprung an arch over the lintel.
( intransitive , architecture , of arches, with "from") To extend , to curve .
The arches spring from the front posts.
( transitive , nautical ) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable .
( transitive ) To pay or spend a certain sum , to yield .
( obsolete , intransitive , slang ) To raise an offered price .
( transitive , US , dialectal ) Alternative form of sprain .
( transitive , US , dialectal ) Alternative form of strain .
( intransitive , obsolete ) To act as a spring : to strongly rebound .
( transitive , rare ) To equip with springs , especially ( of vehicles ) to equip with a suspension .
( figurative , rare , obsolete ) to inspire , to motivate .
( transitive , intransitive ) To deform owing to excessive pressure , to become warped ; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place .
1873 July, Routledge's Young Gentleman's Magazine , page 503 :Don't drive it in too hard, as it will ‘spring ’ the plane-iron, and make it concave.
A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
He sprang in the slat.
( intransitive , UK , dialectal , chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy .
1955 , Patrick White , chapter 15, in The Tree of Man , New York: Viking, page 228 :“Gee, Dad, Nancy’s springing all right,” Ray said and paused in spontaneous pleasure. Stan Parker came, and together they looked at their swelling heifer.
( transitive , of rattles, archaic ) To sound , to play .
1850 , Samuel Prout Newcombe, Pleasant pages , page 197 :I do not know how John and his mistress would have settled the fate of the thief, but just at this moment a policeman entered — for the cook had sprung the rattle, and had been screaming "Murder" and "Thieves."
( intransitive ) To spend the springtime somewhere
1835 May, “Northern Germany. A Sketch.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country , volume XI, number LXV, page 507 :True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;
1912 , William C Sprague, Tad, the Story of a Boy who Had No Chance , page 2:If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed , summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could [ …]
1937 , Mortimer Jones, “Lines of No Importance”, in The Alphi Phi Quarterly , page 29 :They wintered in a warm place And summered in a cold, But where they springed and autumned I never have been told.
1950 , Chambers’s Journal , page 269 :She springed in London, summered in Stockholm, autumned at Vichy, and wintered at Monte Carlo.
2006 , Tim Pratt , “The Third-Quarter King”, in Jonathan Strahan , Jeremy G Byrne, editors, Eidolon I , →ISBN , page 2:In recent years his friend the fourth-quarter king summered, autumned, and springed in nearby Southern California, which was how they stayed so easily in touch.
2010 , Larry Stettner, Bill Morrison, Cooking for the Common Good: The Birth of a Natural Foods Soup Kitchen , Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books , →ISBN , page 84 :Larry and Bill had planned to hold a white-linen “fancy” fund-raiser dinner in late June or early July, which would bring out the moneyed crowd who “summered” on the Island. If you summer or winter somewhere you are affluent, Larry knew. (Funny, though, he had never heard of anyone who “autumned” in Vermont or who was “springing ” in Colorado.)
( of animals ) To find or get enough food during springtime .
Usage notes
The past-tense forms sprang and sprung are both well attested historically. In modern usage, sprang is comparatively formal (and more often considered correct), sprung comparatively informal. The past participle, however, is overwhelmingly sprung ; sprang as a past participle is attested, but is no longer in standard use.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English spryng ( “ a wellspring , tide , branch , sunrise , kind of dance or blow , ulcer , snare , flock ” ) ; partly from Old English spring ( “ wellspring , ulcer ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *spring , from Proto-Germanic *springaz ( “ a wellspring, fount ” ) ; and partly from Old English spryng ( “ a jump ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *sprungi , from Proto-Germanic *sprungiz ( “ a jump ” ) . Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring , springtime , spring tide , etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lente , lentin , from Old English lencten ( “ spring, Lent ” ) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall .
Noun
Spring (season) in Germany
A coil spring (mechanical device)
spring (countable and uncountable , plural springs )
( countable ) An act of springing : a leap , a jump .
( countable ) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life .
Synonym: springtime
Coordinate terms: summer , autumn or fall , winter
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
You can visit me in the spring , when the weather is bearable.
1850 , [Alfred, Lord Tennyson ], In Memoriam , London: Edward Moxon , , →OCLC , Canto XXXVIII, page 59 :No joy the blowing season gives, The herald melodies of spring , But in the songs I love to sing A doubtful gleam of solace lives.
2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist , volume 100 , number 2, page 172 :Last spring , the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
( astronomy ) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere ) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars .
( meteorology ) The three months of March , April , and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September , October , and November in the Southern Hemisphere .
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
The spring issue will be out next week.
( uncountable , figurative ) The time of something 's growth ; the early stages of some process .
c. 1590–1591 (date written) , William Shakespeare , “The Two Gentlemen of Verona ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day.
( figurative , politics ) a period of political liberalization and democratization
( countable , fashion ) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
( countable ) Something which springs , springs forth, springs up , or springs back , particularly
( geology ) A spray or body of water springing from the ground .
Synonyms: fount , source
( oceanography , obsolete ) The rising of the sea at high tide .
( oceanography ) Short for spring tide , the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons .
Antonym: neap tide
A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent , compressed , or stretched .
Synonym: coil
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
( nautical ) A line from a vessel 's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement .
1836 , Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy , volume III, page 72 :He had warped round with the springs on his cable, and had recommenced his fire upon the Aurora .
( nautical ) A line laid out from a vessel 's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement .
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
1769 , William Falconer, An Universal Dictionary of the Marine , s.v:Spring is likewise a rope reaching diagonally from the stern of a ship to the head of another which lies along-side or a-breast of her.
2007 January 26, Business Times: :‘Springs ’ are the ropes used on a ship that is alongside a berth to prevent fore and aft movements.
( figurative ) A race , a lineage .
( figurative ) A youth .
A shoot , a young tree .
A grove of trees ; a forest .
( countable , slang ) An erection of the penis . (Can we add an example for this sense?)
( countable , nautical , obsolete ) A crack which has sprung up in a mast , spar , or ( rare ) a plank or seam .
1846 , Arthur Young, Nautical Dictionary , page 292 :A spar is said to be sprung , when it is cracked or split,... and the crack is called a spring .
( uncountable ) Springiness : an attribute or quality of springing , springing up , or springing back , particularly
Elasticity : the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression , stretching , etc.
Synonyms: bounce , bounciness , elasticity , resilience , springiness
the spring of a bow
Elastic energy , power , or force .
1697 , John Dryden , Virgil's Aeneis , Bk. xi, ll. 437–8:
Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw: How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry blow!
1891 , Thomas Hardy , Tess of the d'Urbervilles , volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30 :Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
( countable ) The source from which an action or supply of something springs .
Synonyms: impetus , impulse
1693 , The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism... , Richard Bentley, Sermon 1:Such a man can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth him , he can patiently suffer all things with cheerfull submission and resignation to the Divine Will. He has a secret Spring of spiritual Joy, and the continual Feast of a good Conscience within, that forbid him to be miserable.
1748 , David Hume, Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals , London: Oxford University Press, published 1973 , §9 :[ …] discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?
1991 September, Stephen Fry , “ ”, in The Liar , London: Heinemann , →ISBN , →OCLC , page 1 :‘Have you ever contemplated, Adrian, the phenomenon of springs ?’ ‘Coils, you mean?’ ‘Not coils, Adrian, no. Coils not. Think springs of water. Think wells and spas and sources. Well-springs in the widest and loveliest sense. Jerusalem , for instance, is a spring of religiosity. One small town in the desert, but the source of the world’s three most powerful faiths. [ …] Religion seems to bubble from its sands.’
( countable ) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action , particularly
A cause , a motive , etc.
1712 (date written), [Alexander] Pope , “Prologue, by Mr. Pope. Spoken by Mr. Wilks. ”, in [Joseph] Addison , Cato, a Tragedy. , London: J Tonson , , published 1713 , →OCLC :Our Author ſhuns by vulgar Springs to move / The Hero's Glory, or the Virgin's Love; [ …]
( obsolete ) A lively piece of music .
Usage notes
Note that season names are not capitalized in modern English except where any noun would be capitalized, e.g. at the beginning of a sentence or as part of a name (Old Man Winter , the Winter War , Summer Glau ). This is in contrast to the days of the week and months of the year, which are always capitalized (Thursday or September ).
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Translations
season between winter and summer in temperate climates
Abkhaz: ааԥын ( aapən ) , ( old spelling ) ааҧын ( aapən ) , ааԥынра ( aapənra ) , ( old spelling ) ааҧынра ( aapənra )
Adyghe: гъатхэ ( ğatxɛ )
Afrikaans: lente (af)
Albanian: pranverë (sq) f
Amharic: ምንጭ ( mənč̣ )
Arabic: رَبِيع m ( rabīʕ )
Egyptian Arabic: ربيع m ( rabīʕ )
Hijazi Arabic: رَبيع m ( rabīʕ )
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ݇ܢܝܼ̈ܣܵܢܹܐ m pl ( bīnīsane )
Classical Syriac: ܬܸܕ݂ܐܵܐ m ( teḏʾāʾ )
Armenian: գարուն (hy) ( garun )
Aromanian: primuvearã f , prumuvearã f
Assamese: বসন্ত ( boxonto )
Asturian: primavera (ast) f
Atayal: ttungan abaw
Avar: их ( ix )
Azerbaijani: yaz (az) , bahar (az)
Bashkir: яҙ ( yaź )
Basque: udaberri (eu)
Belarusian: вясна́ f ( vjasná ) ; ( adverb, in spring ) уве́сну ( uvjésnu ) , ўве́сну ( ŭvjésnu )
Bengali: বসন্ত (bn) ( bośonto ) , বাহার (bn) ( bahar ) , নওবাহার (bn) ( noōbahar )
Bikol Central: tagburakan
Breton: nevezamzer (br) f
Brunei Malay: musim bunga
Bulgarian: про́лет (bg) f ( prólet )
Burmese: နွေဦးပေါက် (my) ( nweu:pauk ) , နွေဦး (my) ( nweu: ) , နွေဦးရာသီ ( nweu:rasi ) , ဝသန္တ (my) ( wa.santa. ) , ဝသန် (my) ( wa.san )
Buryat: хабар ( xabar )
Carpathian Rusyn: ярь f ( jarʹ )
Catalan: primavera (ca) f
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⵙⵓⵜ ( tafsut ) , ⵜⴰⵍⴷⵔⴰⵔ ( taldrar )
Chechen: бӏаьсте̄ ( bˀästee )
Cherokee: ᎪᎨᏱ ( gogeyi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 春天 ( ceon1 tin1 )
Dungan: чунтян ( čunti͡an )
Eastern Min: 春天 ( chŭng-tiĕng )
Gan: 春天 ( 'cun1 tien1 )
Hakka: 春天 ( chhûn-thiên )
Hokkien: 春 (zh-min-nan) ( chhun ) , 春天 (zh-min-nan) ( chhun-thiⁿ )
Jin: 春天 ( cung1 tie1 )
Mandarin: 春天 (zh) ( chūntiān ) , 春季 (zh) ( chūnjì )
Northern Min: 春天 ( ché̤ng-tíng )
Wu: 春天 ( 1 tshen-thi)
Xiang: 春天 ( qyn1 tienn1 )
Chuvash: ҫуркунне ( śurk̬unne ) , ҫур ( śur )
Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡄࡀࡓ m ( bhar )
Coptic: ⲉⲁⲣ ( ear )
Cornish: gwenton m
Crimean Tatar: baar
Czech: jaro (cs) n , ( dated ) /( poetic ) vesna (cs) f
Danish: forår (da) n , vår (da) c
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: lente (nl) m , voorjaar (nl) n
Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
Erzya: тундо ( tundo )
Esperanto: printempo (eo)
Estonian: kevad (et)
Even: нэгин ( nəgin )
Evenki: ненңени
Faroese: vár n
Finnish: kevät (fi)
French: printemps (fr) m
Friulian: primevere f , vierte f
Galician: primavera (gl) f
Georgian: გაზაფხული (ka) ( gazapxuli )
German: Frühling (de) m , Frühjahr (de) n , ( dated ) /( poetic ) Lenz (de) m , Frühlingszeit (de) f , Frühjahrszeit f
Alemannic German: Früelig m
Greek: άνοιξη (el) f ( ánoixi ) , ( archaic ) έαρ (el) n ( éar )
Ancient: ἔαρ n ( éar )
Greenlandic: upernaaq , ( old orthography ) upernâĸ
Guaraní: arapoty , arahaku ñepyrũ , arayvoty
Gujarati: બસંત ( basant )
Hebrew: אָבִיב (he) m ( avív )
Hindi: बसंत (hi) m ( basant ) , वसंत (hi) m ( vasant )
Hungarian: tavasz (hu)
Hunsrik: Frihling m
Icelandic: vor (is) n
Ido: printempo (io)
Indonesian: musim semi
Ingrian: kevät
Ingush: бӏаьсти ( bˀästi )
Interlingua: primavera (ia)
Irish: earrach (ga) m
Italian: primavera (it) f
Japanese: 春 (ja) ( はる, haru ) , 春季 (ja) ( しゅんき, shunki ) , 春期 (ja) ( しゅんき, shunki )
Jeju: 봄 ( bom )
Kabyle: tafsut f
Kalmyk: хавр ( xavr )
Kannada: ವಸಂತ (kn) ( vasanta )
Karachay-Balkar: джаз ( caz )
Karelian: kevät
Kashmiri: سونٛتھ ( sōnth ) , بَہار ( bahār )
Kazakh: көктем (kk) ( köktem )
Khakas: часхы ( çasxı )
Khmer: ឧតុរាជ ( ʼutoriəc )
Klamath-Modoc: sqo
Komi-Permyak: тулыс ( tulys )
Korean: 봄 (ko) ( bom ) , 춘계(春季) ( chun'gye )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەھار (ckb) ( behar )
Gurani: wehar
Northern Kurdish: bihar (ku) f
Zazaki: wesar (diq)
Kyrgyz: жаз (ky) ( jaz )
Ladin:
badiot: aisciöda f
fascian: aisciuda f
gherdëina: ansciuda f
Lao: ວະສັນ ( wa san ) , ວະສັນຕະ ( wa san ta ) , ວະສັນຕະຣະດູ ( wa san ta ra dū ) , ລະດູບານໃໝ່ (lo) ( la dū bān mai )
Latin: vēr (la) n
Latvian: pavasaris (lv) m
Lezgi: гатфар ( gatfar )
Ligurian: primmaveja f
Lithuanian: pavasaris (lt) m
Livonian: kievād
Louisiana Creole French: printem
Low German:
German Low German: Fröhjohr n , Fröhjohrstiet f , Vörjohr n , Blöhtiet f
Luxembourgish: Fréijoer (lb) n
Macedonian: пролет (mk) f ( prolet )
Malagasy: lohataona (mg)
Malay: musim semi , musim bunga
Malayalam: വസന്തം (ml) ( vasantaṁ )
Maltese: rebbiegħa f
Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᡝᠩᠨᡳᠶᡝᡵᡳ ( niyengniyeri )
Manx: Yn Arragh f
Maori: kōanga , aroaromahana
Marathi: बसन्त ( basanta )
Mari:
Eastern Mari: шошо ( šošo )
Middle English: lenten
Middle Korean: 봄〮 ( pwóm )
Mingrelian: აფუნი ( apuni )
Mirandese: primabera
Mòcheno: langes m
Moksha: тунда ( tunda )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хавар (mn) ( xavar )
Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠪᠤᠷ ( qabur )
Montagnais: shikuan
Muong: mùa xân , xân
Nanai: ненгне ( njeŋnje )
Navajo: daan
Nivkh: ӿонф ( honf )
Nogai: язлык ( yazlık )
Norman: r'nouvé m ( Jersey, Guernsey ) , èrnouvé m ( Jersey ) , renouvé m ( continental Normandy )
Northern Mansi: (please verify ) тӯя̄ ( tūâ̄ )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vår (no) m
Nynorsk: vår (nn) m
Occitan: prima (oc)
Odia: ବସନ୍ତ (or) ( basanta )
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: весна f ( vesna )
Old East Slavic: весна f ( vesna )
Old English: lencten m
Old French: printans m
Old Norse: vár n
Oromo: arfaasaa
Ossetian: уалдзӕг ( walʒæg )
Pannonian Rusyn: яр f ( jar )
Pashto: پسرلۍ ( psarləy )
Persian:
Dari: بَهَار (fa) ( bahār )
Iranian Persian: بَهار (fa) ( bahâr )
Plautdietsch: Farjoa m
Polabian: püzaimă f
Polish: wiosna (pl) f
Portuguese: primavera (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਬਸੰਤ f ( basant )
Romani: primavara f
Romanian: primăvară (ro) f
Romansch: primavaira f
Russian: весна́ (ru) f ( vesná )
Sami:
Northern: giđđa
Southern: gïjre
Sanskrit: कुसुमाकर (sa) m ( kusumākara ) , वसन्त (sa) m ( vasanta )
Sardinian: banau , baranu , benau , beranu , veranu
Saterland Frisian: Foarjier
Scots: voar ( Shetlandic )
Scottish Gaelic: earrach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: про̀леће n , про̀љеће n , пролиће n , пролитје n
Roman: pròleće n , pròljeće n , proliće n , prolitje n
Shor: часқы ( çasqı )
Sicilian: primavera (scn) f
Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
Sindhi: بَہارَ ( bahāra )
Sinhalese: වසන්ත ඍතුව ( wasanta r̥tuwa )
Slovak: jar (sk) f
Slovene: pomlád (sl) f
Somali: gu’
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: nalěśe n , nalěto n
Upper Sorbian: nalěćo n
Southern Altai: јас ( ǰas )
Southern Ohlone: tiusa pire
Spanish: primavera (es) f
Swahili: masika (sw) , bamvua (sw) , majira ya chipuko , kipindi cha demani
Swedish: vår (sv) c
Tagalog: tagsibol
Tajik: баҳор (tg) ( bahor )
Talysh: əvəsor
Tamil: வசந்த காலம் (ta) ( vacanta kālam )
Tat: vasal
Tatar: яз (tt) ( yaz )
Tày: xuân , bó
Telugu: వసంత ఋతువు ( vasanta r̥tuvu ) , పుష్పసమయము (te) ( puṣpasamayamu )
Thai: ใบไม้ผลิ ( bai-máai-plì ) , ฤดูใบไม้ผลิ ( rʉ́-duu-bai-máai-plì ) , หน้าใบไม้ผลิ ( nâa-bai-máai-plì )
Tibetan: དཔྱིད ( dpyid )
Tlingit: khukalt'éex' ká
Turkish: ilkbahar (tr) , bahar (tr) , ilkyaz (tr)
Turkmen: ýaz , bahar (tk)
Udi: жӏогъул ( ž:oɣul )
Udmurt: тулыс ( tulys )
Ukrainian: весна́ (uk) f ( vesná )
Ulch: неӈне
Urdu: بَہار (ur) f ( bahār ) , بَسَنْت m ( basant )
Uyghur: باھار ( bahar ) , ئەتىياز ( etiyaz )
Uzbek: bahor (uz)
Venetan: verta f
Veps: keväz'
Vietnamese: mùa xuân (vi) (務春 ), xuân (vi) (春 )
Vilamovian: fiywyt
Volapük: florüp (vo)
Võro: kevväi
Votic: tševäd
Walloon: bontins (wa) m , prétins (wa) m
Welsh: gwanwyn (cy) m
West Frisian: maaitiid m , maitiid (fy) m , foarjier (fy)
Winnebago: weeną
Wolof: noor (wo)
Xhosa: intwasahlobo
Yagnobi: буҳор ( buhor )
Yakut: саас ( saas )
Yiddish: פֿרילינג (yi) m ( friling ) , וועסנע ( vesne ) , פֿאַרפּסח ( farpeysekh )
Yoruba: sípíríǹgì , ìgbà ìrúwé
Yup'ik: up'nerkaq
Zazaki: wesar (diq) , vasar
Zhuang: mboq
Zulu: intwasahlobo
period from vernal equinox to summer solstice
the three months March to May (N. Hem.) or September to November (S. Hem.)
water springing from the ground
Afrikaans: bron (af)
Albanian: burim (sq) m
Arabic: عَيْن (ar) m ( ʕayn ) , يَنْبُوع (ar) m ( yanbūʕ )
Moroccan Arabic: عْيْن m ( ʕin )
Aragonese: fuent (an)
Armenian: աղբյուր (hy) ( aġbyur ) , ակ (hy) ( ak ) , ակունք (hy) ( akunkʻ ) , ակունք (hy) ( akunkʻ )
Assamese: উঁহ ( ũh ) , পুং ( puṅ )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܸܒ݂ܥܵܐ ( niwʿa )
Asturian: fonte (ast) f , fuente (ast) f
Atong (India): tyimuk
Avar: ицц ( icc )
Azerbaijani: bulaq (az)
Baluchi: چمگ ( cammag )
Bashkir: шишмә ( şişmə )
Basque: iturri
Belarusian: жарало́ (be) n ( žaraló ) , крыні́ца f ( kryníca )
Bikol Central: burabod (bcl)
Breton: eienenn (br) f eien, andon (br) f , mammenn (br) f
Bulgarian: и́звор (bg) m ( ízvor )
Catalan: font (ca) , deu (ca) f
Cebuano: tubod
Chinese:
Eastern Min: 泉 ( ciòng )
Mandarin: 泉 (zh) ( quán ) , 源泉 (zh) ( yuánquán )
Classical Nahuatl: āmēyalli
Czech: zřídlo (cs) n , pramen (cs) m
Danish: kilde (da) c
Dutch: bron (nl) f , wel (nl) f
Eastern Bontoc: fofon , ogwor
Esperanto: fonto (eo)
Estonian: allikas (et) , läte , veesilm
Faroese: kelda f
Finnish: lähde (fi)
Franco-Provençal: font
French: source (fr) f
Galician: fonte (gl) f , manancial (gl) m , manadeiro m , gorgolo m , xurre m , rieiro m , corga (gl) f , troa f , olleiro m
Garo: chimik
Georgian: წყარო (ka) ( c̣q̇aro )
German: Quelle (de) f
Greek: πηγή (el) f ( pigí )
Ancient: πηγή f ( pēgḗ ) , κρήνη f ( krḗnē )
Hawaiian: puna
Hebrew: מַעְיָן (he) m ( ma'ayán ) , עַיִן (he) f ( 'áyin )
Higaonon: tubod
Hindi: चश्मा (hi) m ( caśmā )
Hungarian: forrás (hu)
Icelandic: lind (is) f , uppspretta (is) f , brunnur (is) m , vatnsrás f
Ido: fonto (io)
Ilocano: ubbug
Indonesian: mata air
Interlingua: fonte
Irish: foinse f
Italian: fonte (it) f , sorgente (it) f
Japanese: 泉 (ja) ( いずみ, izumi ) , 温泉 (ja) ( おんせん, onsen ) ( hot spring, spa )
Kashaya: ʔahqʰa
Kazakh: бұлақ (kk) ( būlaq )
Korean: 샘 (ko) ( saem )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کانی (ckb) ( kanî )
Laki: کەنی (ku) ( kenî )
Northern Kurdish: kanî (ku) , kehnî (ku) f
Southern Kurdish: کیەنی ( kyenî )
Kyrgyz: булак (ky) ( bulak )
Lao: ນ້ຳພຸ ( nam phu )
Latgalian: olūts
Latin: scatebra f , scaturgō f
Latvian: avots m
Lithuanian: šaltinis m , versmė f , verdenė f
Lubuagan Kalinga: uud
Luxembourgish: Quell f
Macedonian: извор (mk) m ( izvor ) , вруток m ( vrutok )
Malay: mata air
Maltese: nixxiegħa f , għajn (mt) m
Manchu: ᡧᡝᡵᡳ ( šeri )
Mansaka: tobod
Maori: puna , kōmanawa
Meänkieli: kaltio
Middle English: spryng
Minangkabau: mato aia (min)
Mòcheno: prunn m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: булаг (mn) ( bulag )
Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠯᠠᠭ ( bulag )
Ngazidja Comorian: dzitso la madji class 5 /6
Norman: r'source f ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kilde (no) m
Occitan: font (oc) , dotz (oc) m
Ojibwe: dakib
Old French: fontaine f
Ottoman Turkish: قایناق ( kaynak ) , چشمه ( çeşme )
Persian: چشمه (fa) ( čašme ) , خانی (fa) ( xâni )
Phoenician: 𐤏𐤍 f ( ʿn )
Polish: źródło (pl) n , zdrój (pl) m , krynica (pl) f
Portuguese: fonte (pt) f , manancial (pt) m
Quechua: pukyu
Romani: zvoro m
Romanian: izvor (ro) n
Russian: исто́чник (ru) m ( istóčnik ) , ключ (ru) m ( ključ ) , родни́к (ru) m ( rodník ) , студене́ц m ( studenéc )
Samoan: puna
Sanskrit: उत्स (sa) m ( utsa )
Sardinian: mitza
Scottish Gaelic: fuaran m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ѝзвор m
Roman: ìzvor (sh) m
Shan: ႁူးၼမ်ႉၸိုမ်း ( húu nâ̰m tsúem )
Sicilian: fonti f , funti f
Slovak: žriedlo n , prameň m
Slovene: izvír (sl) m
Southern Kalinga: chagsi
Spanish: fuente (es) f , manantial (es) m , vertiente (es)
Swahili: kisima (sw) class 7 /8
Swedish: källa (sv) c
Tagalog: bukal , batis
Tajik: чашма (tg) ( čašma )
Tarifit: tara f
Tatar: чишмә (tt) ( çişmä )
Thai: น้ำพุ (th) ( náam-pú )
Tibetan: ཆུ་མིག ( chu mig )
Tocharian B: ālme
Turkish: kaynak (tr) , pınar (tr) , bulak (tr) , memba (tr)
Turkmen: çeşme
Tuwali Ifugao: ob-ob , hobwak , otbol
Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎁𐎋 ( nbk )
Ukrainian: джерело́ (uk) n ( džereló ) , крини́ця (uk) f ( krynýcja )
Urdu: چشمہ
Uyghur: بۇلاق ( bulaq )
Uzbek: buloq (uz) , chashma (uz)
Venetan: fontego m , fóntego m
Walloon: sourdant (wa) m , sourdon (wa) m , sourd (wa) m , fontinne (wa) f ( in place names )
Waray-Waray: burabod
Welsh: ffynnon (cy) f
West Frisian: welle f
Yagnobi: чишма ( čišma )
Yakut: дьүүктэ ( jüükte )
Yiddish: קוואַל m ( kval ) , קרעניצע f ( krenitse )
Zazaki: çıme (diq) , çem (diq)
device made of flexible material
Abkhaz: аиҵас ( ajcʼas )
Afrikaans: veer (af)
Arabic: يَاي m ( yāy ) , زُنْبُرُك m ( zunburuk ) , نَابِض m ( nābiḍ )
Egyptian Arabic: سوستة f ( sósta )
Armenian: զսպանակ (hy) ( zspanak )
Azerbaijani: yay (az)
Basque: Malguki
Belarusian: спружы́на f ( spružýna )
Bengali: স্প্রিং (bn) ( spriṅ )
Breton: gwinterell f
Bulgarian: пружи́на (bg) f ( pružína )
Catalan: molla (ca) f , ressort (ca) m
Chechen: ӏад ( ˀad )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 彈簧 / 弹簧 (zh) ( tánhuáng ) , 發條 / 发条 (zh) ( fātiáo )
Czech: pružina (cs) f
Danish: fjeder (da) c
Dutch: veer (nl) f
Esperanto: risorto
Estonian: vedru (et)
Faroese: fjøður (fo) f
Finnish: jousi (fi) , vieteri (fi) , joustin (fi)
French: ressort (fr) m
Galician: resorte m
Georgian: ზამბარა ( zambara )
German: Sprungfeder (de) f , Feder (de) f
Greek: ελατήριο (el) n ( elatírio )
Gujarati: કમાન f ( kamān )
Hebrew: קְפִיץ (he) m ( kfitz )
Hindi: कमानी (hi) f ( kamānī )
Hungarian: rugó (hu)
Icelandic: gormur m , fjöður (is) f
Indonesian: pegas (id) , per (id)
Interlingua: resorto
Italian: molla (it) f
Japanese: 発条 (ja) ( ばね, bane )
Kazakh: серіппе ( serıppe )
Khmer: ឡាន (km) ( laan )
Korean: 용수철(龍鬚鐵) (ko) ( yongsucheol ) , 출렁쇠 ( chulleongsoe )
Lao: ສະປິງ ( sa ping ) , ສະປຣິງ ( sap ring )
Latgalian: atspera
Latvian: atspere f
Lithuanian: spyruoklė f
Macedonian: пружина f ( pružina ) , федер m ( feder )
Malay: pegas , per , spring , paha belalang
Maltese: molla f
Maori: piringi , panapana ( of a trap ) , tupa ( of a trap ) , pūniko
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: пүрш (mn) ( pürš )
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjær (no) m or f
Nynorsk: fjør (nn) f
Ottoman Turkish: زنبرك ( zenberek )
Persian: فنر (fa) ( fanar )
Polish: sprężyna (pl) f
Portuguese: mola (pt) f
Romanian: arc (ro) n
Russian: пружи́на (ru) f ( pružína ) , рессо́ра (ru) f ( ressóra )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̏пруга f , фе́дер m
Roman: ȍpruga (sh) f , féder (sh) m
Shan: ၸပြိင်ႇ ( tsǎ prìng ) , လဵၵ်းၵူင်ႇပိုတ်း ( láek kùung púet )
Slovak: pružina f
Slovene: vzmét f , peró (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pjero n
Spanish: resorte (es) m , muelle (es) m
Swahili: kosa (sw)
Swedish: fjäder (sv) c
Tagalog: muwelye , paigkas , kuwerdas
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: สปริง (th) ( sà-bpring )
Tibetan: སི་པིརིང ( si piring )
Turkish: yay (tr) , zemberek (tr)
Ukrainian: пружи́на f ( pružýna ) , спружи́на f ( spružýna )
Vietnamese: lò xo (vi)
Welsh: sbring m or f , twyth m
West Frisian: fear f
Yiddish: ספּרענזשינעס f ( sprenzhines ) , ספּרונזשינע f ( sprunzhine )
nautical: line from an end or side to the anchor cable
nautical: line from an end to another vessel or mooring to limit surging
nautical: crack or fissure in a mast or yard
source of an action or a supply
Translations to be checked
See also
References
“spring, n¹. ”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press , 2017 .
“spring, n². ”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press , 2017 .
“spring, n³. ”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press , 2017 .
“spring, v¹. ”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press , 2017 .
“spring, v². ”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press , 2017 .
“spring, n. ”, in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan , 2018 .
“springen, v. ”, in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan , 2018 .
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch springen .
Pronunciation
Verb
spring (present spring , present participle springende , past participle gespring )
to leap , jump
Derived terms
Danish
Etymology
Verbal noun to springe .
Noun
spring n (singular definite springet , plural indefinite spring )
( athletics , gymnastics ) spring , jump , vault , leap
Declension
Verb
spring
imperative of springe
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
spring
inflection of springen :
first-person singular present indicative
(in case of inversion ) second-person singular present indicative
imperative
German
Pronunciation
Verb
spring
singular imperative of springen
( colloquial ) first-person singular present of springen
Icelandic
Verb
spring
inflection of springa :
first-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
spring
Alternative form of spryng
Etymology 2
Verb
spring
Alternative form of spryngen
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
spring
imperative of springe
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
spring
present of springa
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *spring , from Proto-Germanic *springaz
Pronunciation
Noun
spring m
a spring ( source of water )
an ulcer , sore , pustule
Declension
Declension of spring (strong a-stem)
Descendants
Scots
Pronunciation
Noun
spring (plural springs )
spring , springtime
growth of vegetation in springtime
Verb
tae spring (third-person singular simple present springs , present participle springin , simple past sprang , past participle sprung )
to spring
to leap over , cross at a bound
to put forth , send up or out
to burst , split , break apart , break into
to dance a reel
Swedish
Noun
spring n
a running (back and forth)
1918 , Goss-skolan i Plumfield , the Swedish translation of Louisa M. Alcott, Little Men : Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
Eftermiddagen tillbragtes med att ordna sakerna, och när springet och släpet och hamrandet var förbi, inbjödos damerna att beskåda anstalten. The afternoon was spent in arranging things, and when the running and lugging and hammering was over, the ladies were invited to behold the institution.
Barnen hade spring i benen The children had lots of energy ("running in the legs")
Declension
Verb
spring
imperative of springa
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