fury

See also: Fury

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊə.ɹi/, /ˈfjɔːɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊɹ.i/, /ˈfjɚ.i/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʉːɹi/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːɹi/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹi

Noun

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

1. Extreme anger.
   • 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:

     Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

   • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155:

     The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.

2. Strength or violence in action.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎^[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

     Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, […]!

3. An angry or malignant person.

Derived terms

• furious
• hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
• like fury
• sound and fury
• Spanish fury

 

Translations

extreme anger

• Arabic: حَنَق m (ḥanaq), غَيْظ m (ḡayẓ)

  Egyptian Arabic: غضب m (ḡaḍab)

• Armenian: կատաղություն (hy) (kataġutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: ярост (bg) f (jarost), бяс (bg) m (bjas)
• Catalan: fúria (ca) f, ràbia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂怒 (zh) (kuángnù)

• Danish: raseri (da) n
• Dutch: razernij (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolerego
• Finnish: raivo (fi)
• German: Wut (de) f
• Greek: οργή (el) f (orgí), μανία (el) f (manía), λύσσα (el) f (lýssa)

  Ancient: λύσσα f (lússa)

• Hebrew: זעם (he) m (zá'am)
• Hungarian: düh (hu), dühöngés (hu), tombolás (hu), őrjöngés (hu)
• Ido: furio (io)
• Indonesian: angkara (id)
• Irish: aonachas m
• Italian: furia (it) f, furore (it) m
• Kazakh: қаһар (qahar), зығырдан (zyğyrdan)
• Latin: furia f
• Macedonian: јарост f (jarost), бес m (bes)
• Maori: nguha
• Middle English: furie
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: raseri (no) n

  Nynorsk: raseri n

• Old English: hātheortnes f
• Old Saxon: ābolganhēd
• Ottoman Turkish: اوفكه (ufke, öfke)
• Plautdietsch: Wutt f
• Polish: furia (pl) f, szał (pl) m, wściekłość (pl) m
• Portuguese: fúria (pt) f, ira (pt) f, furor (pt) m, cólera (pt) f
• Romanian: furie (ro), mânie (ro)
• Russian: я́рость (ru) f (járostʹ), бе́шенство (ru) n (béšenstvo), неи́стовство (ru) n (neístovstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: jarost (sh) f
• Spanish: furia (es) f, rabia (es) f, furor (es) m
• Swedish: raseri (sv) n, vrede (sv) c, ursinne (sv) n
• Turkish: gazap (tr), hiddet (tr), hışım (tr), öfke (tr)
• Volapük: lezun (vo), vut (vo)

strength or violence in action

• Bulgarian: ярост (bg) f (jarost)
• Finnish: vimma (fi), kiihko (fi)
• Maori: nguha
• Sanskrit: त्विष् (sa) f (tviṣ)
• Spanish: furia (es) f
• Turkish: hışım (tr)

an angry or malignant person

• Arabic: حَنِق m (ḥaniq), مُغْتَاظ m (muḡtāẓ)
• Bulgarian: фурия (bg) f (furija)
• German: Furie (de) f
• Swedish: furie (sv) c

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• French: ^{(please verify)} acharnement (fr) m

Etymology 2

Latin fur (“thief”).

Noun

fury (plural furies)

1. (obsolete) A thief.
   • 1625 (date written), Iohn Fletcher, [Philip Massinger], The Elder Brother. A Comedie. […], London: […] F[elix] K[ingston] for J[ohn] W[aterson] and J[ohn] B[enson], published 1637, →OCLC, Act III, scene (please specify |scene=i or ii):

     But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

fury

1. Alternative form of furie

Etymology 2

Adjective

fury

1. Alternative form of fyry

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.rɘ/
• Rhymes: -urɘ
• Syllabification: fu‧ry

Noun

fury f

1. inflection of fura:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural