fury

See also: Fury

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊə.ɹi/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊɚ.i/, /ˈfjʊɹ.i/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ʊəɹi

Noun

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

Extreme anger.
- 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228728136, 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.
Strength or violence in action.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎, London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:
  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 24962326:
  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, […]!
An angry or malignant person.

Derived terms

furious
hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
like fury
Spanish fury

Translations

extreme anger

Arabic: حَنَق‎ m (ḥanaq), غَيْظ‎ m (ḡayẓ)
Egyptian Arabic: غضب‎ m (ḡaḍab)
Armenian: կատաղություն (hy) (katałutʿyun)
Bulgarian: ярост (bg) f (jarost), бяс (bg) m (bjas)
Catalan: fúria (ca) f, ràbia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 狂怒 (zh) (kuángnù)
Danish: raseri 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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Translations to be checked

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

Etymology 2

Latin fur (“thief”).

Noun

fury (plural furies)

(obsolete) A thief.
- 1625, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, “The Elder Brother. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.

Middle English

Noun

fury

Alternative form of furie

Adjective

fury

Alternative form of fyry

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfu.rɨ/
Rhymes: -urɨ
Syllabification: fu‧ry

Noun

fury f

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