Meaning

3 senses
  1. An expression of intent to injure or punish another.

    Drohung

    угро́заugróza

    погро́заpohróza, загро́заzahróza

  2. An indication of potential or imminent danger.

    Verifying and addressing actual threats is not paranoia.

    Bedrohung

    опа́сностьopásnostʹ

    загро́заzahróza, небезпе́каnebezpéka

    something that is a source of danger

  3. A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.

    исто́чник опа́сностиistóčnik opásnosti, злоzlo

    загро́заzahróza

Examples

428 sentences
  1. We think there is still a threat.

    Ми вважаємо, що й досі існує загроза. — deniko

  2. We think that there is still a threat.

    Ми вважаємо, що й досі існує загроза. — deniko

  3. There is a threat of a storm.

    Є небезпека шторму. — deniko

    ruЕсть опасность шторма. — shanghainese

  4. Is that a threat?

    Це погроза? — deniko

    ruЭто угроза? — odexed

    deIst das eine Drohung? — BerlinJakarta

  5. They're not a threat.

    Вони не є загрозою. — deniko

    ruОни не представляют угрозы. — paul_lingvo

    deDie sind keine Bedrohung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
expression of intent to injure or punish another:
indication of imminent danger:
Русский
By meaning 3
expression of intent to injure or punish another:
indication of imminent danger:
person regarded as a danger:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
expression of intent to injure or punish another:
indication of imminent danger:

Origin

From Middle English threte, thret, thrat, thræt, threat, from Old English þrēat (“crowd, s

From Middle English threte, thret, thrat, thræt, threat, from Old English þrēat (“crowd, swarm, troop, army, press; pressure, trouble, calamity, oppression, force, violence, threat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrautaz, closely tied to Proto-Germanic *þrautą (“displeasure, complaint, grievance, labour, toil”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”). Cognate with Scots thret, threte, threit (“threat”), Middle High German drōz (“annoyance, disgust, horror, terror, fright”), Middle Low German drōt (“threat, menace, danger”), Faroese treyt (“struggle, labour, distress”), Icelandic þraut (“struggle, labour, distress”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian труд (trud, “work, labour”), Czech trud (“effot, hard work”), Polish trud (“hard work”), Serbo-Croatian trȗd (“effort, hard work”).

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