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English
Etymology
From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
swollen (comparative more swollen, superlative most swollen)
- protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
Derived terms
Translations
distended
- Akan: ahono
- Arabic: مُنْتَفِخ (muntafiḵ), مُتَوَرِّم (mutawarrim)
- Egyptian Arabic: وارم (wārim)
- Belarusian: апу́хлы (apúxly)
- Bulgarian: изду́т (bg) (izdút)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腫／肿 (zh) (zhǒng), 腫脹的／肿胀的 (zh) (zhǒngzhàng de), 膨脹的／膨胀的 (zh) (péngzhàng de)
- Czech: opuchlý, zduřelý, nabobtnalý, nateklý, vzedmutý, dmoucí se
- Esperanto: ŝvela, ŝveligita
- Finnish: ajettunut, turvonnut (fi), paisunut (fi)
- French: enflé (fr), gonflé (fr)
- German: angeschwollen (de), geschwollen (de)
- Greek: πρησμένος (el) (prisménos), φουσκωμένος (el) (fouskoménos)
- Japanese: 腫れた (はれた, hareta), 盛り上がった (ja) (もりあがった, moriagatta)
- Korean: 부푼 (ko) (bupun), 부은 (ko) (bueun)
- Latin: turgidus, tumidus, aemidus, praetumidus
- Maori: matakoma, tetere, uruuru
- North Moluccan Malay: bangka
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svullen
- Nynorsk: svullen, svollen
- Occitan: conflat, bufat, bofat, embofit, espompit
- Ottoman Turkish: شیش (şiş)
- Polish: spuchnięty
- Portuguese: inchado (pt)
- Russian: опу́хший (ru) (opúxšij), взду́тый (ru) (vzdútyj), набу́хший (ru) (nabúxšij), отёкший (otjókšij), опу́хлый (ru) (opúxlyj)
- Slovak: opuchnutý
- Swedish: svullen (sv), uppsvullen (very swollen, swollen up)
- Ukrainian: опу́хлий (opúxlyj)
- Yiddish: געשוואָלן (geshvoln)
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Verb
swollen
- past participle of swell
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Anagrams
Old English
Verb
swollen
- past participle of swellan