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| Language | Translations for "fumble"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kërkoj kuturu (grope), kërkim i ngathët, humbje e pasit, humbas pasin, bëj shkel-e-shko (bungle, scamp, skimp). (various references) | |
Arabic | فقد السيطرة (forget, lose oneself, spin out), حاول البحث, تلمس (feel, grope), تلعثم (falter, gibber, halt, hem, hum and haw, jerk, stammer, stumble, stutter, trip), تحسس (feel one's way, scrabble about, twiddle), جاوب بتردد, أخطأ (err, fluff, go wrong, goof, make a mistake, misfire, miss, mistake, sin, slip, stumble, trip up), بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look for, looking for, poke about, probe, prospection, pry, pursue, quest, research, retrieve, rummage, scrounge, scrutinize, search, see, see into, seek, seeking, sought, spy, study, talk over, think through, treatise, try, ventilate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тършувам (ferret, ferret about, forage around, fossick, rake about, rummage, scrounge, skirmish), опипвам (feel, feel about, finger, grope, handle), несполучлив опит (flash in the pan), непохватен опит, бърникам (fool around with, meddle, mess about, mess around, monkey, tamper, tinker), подхващам неумело, изпортвам (balk, boss, bungle, fluff, foozle, foul up). (various references) | |
Czech | neobratnì manipulovat, být nemotorný, šmátrat (grope). (various references) | |
Dutch | scharrelen (court, scratch, woo), morrelen, friemelen (bit twiddling). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fuŝpalpi, ĉirkaŭpalpi. (various references) | |
Farsi | من من کردن (Mumble, Mutter, Stammer), کورمالی (Grope), کورکورانه جلورفتن , لکنت زبان پیداکردن , سنبل کردن (Botch, Bunlge), اشتباه کردن (Blunder, Goof, Miscarry, Miscue, Mistake, Saturate, Slip), اشتباه (Blame, Erroneous, Error, Gaingiving, Goof, Inaccuracy, Mistake, Slip, Snafu, Wrong). (various references) | |
Finnish | tunnustella (feel, feel one's way, see how the land lies, sound), tunaroida (bungle), tapailla (grope), möhliä (bungle), möhläys (bungle), kopeloida (grope after, tamper with), hapuilla (grope), haparoida (grope). (various references) | |
French | fouillons, fouillez, fouillent, tâtonner, souiller, répondre avec maladresse, mal attraper la balle, chercher, agir avec maladresse. (various references) | |
German | fummeln (fiddle, grope, make out, pet), fingern (fiddle, fingers, wangle), umhertasten (feel about, feel around, fumble about, fumble around), tasten (grope, keys, buttons, feel), patzen (boob, slip up), nesteln (fiddle). (various references) | |
Greek | πασπατεύω (feel, fiddle), δεν πιάνω, δεν πίανω, ψηλαφώ (feel, finger, grope). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למשש (feel, grope, touch, twiddle), לגשש בכבדות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tapogat (to finger, to palpate, to paw), ügyetlenül kezel (to fumble, to thumb). (various references) | |
Italian | frugare (fossick, nuzzle, poke about, poke around, ransack, rifle through, root, root about, root around, rout about, rummage, scrabble, search), brancolare (grope), armeggiare (bustle, fuss, intrigue), annaspare (grope, reel). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 落球 (failing to catch a ball), ファロー鹿 (fallow deer, fan, fan club, fancy, fancy ball, fancy dress, fancy food, fancy goods, fancy store, fanfare, fan-jet, fan-out, fantastic, fantasy, feasibility study, feature, feed, feedback, feeder, feeding, feet, foot, foundation, fun, fun fair, function, function key, functor, fund, fund manager, fund trust, fundamental, fundamentals, funk, funky, phantom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ファンブル , らっきゅう (failing to catch a ball). (various references) | |
Manx | murtaghey (bungle), loayrt dy moandagh (lisp, stammering, stutter), jannoo brock jeh (botch, bungle, mismanage, spoil). (various references) | |
Norwegian | famle (grope), rote. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umblefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tatear (grope), inépcia, atrapalhar-se (hugger-mugger, puzzle), apalpar (handle). (various references) | |
Romanian | fi neîndemânatic, orbecãi (grabble), dibuire, bâjbâire, bâjbâi (grabble, grope). (various references) | |
Russian | шарить (fossick), вертеть в руках (twiddle), нащупывать;ронять;терять, нащупывать (grope). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | preturati (rummage), nespretno rukovati (mishandle), napipavati (fumble around), mumlati (grouse). (various references) | |
Spanish | manosear (tamper). (various references) | |
Swedish | fumla. (various references) | |
Thai | เงอะงะ (gauche, left-handed), ความซุ่มซ่าม (clumsiness). (various references) | |
Turkish | topu düşürme, el yordamıyle aramak (fumble around), bozmak (quash), beceriksizce yapmak (foozle), beceriksizce atak, becerememe. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sememek, semelemek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | незграбно поводитися, незграбне поводження, намацувати (grabble). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự vụng về (clumsiness, inaptitude, inaptness, maladroitness), sự sờ soạng, sự lần mò sự lóng ngóng, sự dò dẫm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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