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Fumble

Modern Translation: Fumble

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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