urgent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”).

Pronunciation

(UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɜːdʒənt/
(US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɚdʒənt/
- Audio (US) (file)

Adjective

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

Requiring immediate attention.
An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

urge

Translations

requiring immediate attention

Arabic: مُسْتَعْجِل‎ (mustaʿjil)
Armenian: շտապ (hy) (štap)
Belarusian: тэрміно́вы (terminóvy), пі́льны (pílʹny)
Bulgarian: сро́чен (bg) (sróčen), спе́шен (bg) (spéšen)
Catalan: urgent (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 緊急 (zh), 紧急 (zh) (jǐnjí), 緊迫 (zh), 紧迫 (zh) (jǐnpò), 急迫 (zh) (jípò)
Czech: naléhavý (cs) m, urgentní (cs)
Dutch: dringend (nl)
Esperanto: urĝa
Finnish: kiireellinen (fi)
French: urgent (fr)
Galician: urxente
German: dringend (de), dringlich (de), eilig (de)
Greek: επείγων (el) (epeígon)
Hebrew: דחוף‎ (dakhúf)
Hungarian: sürgős (hu)
Ido: urjanta (io)
Interlingua: urgente

Irish: práinneach
Italian: urgente (it)
Japanese: 緊急の (ja) (きんきゅうの, kinkyū no), 急を要する (きゅうをようする, kyū o yō-suru)
Korean: 긴급한 (ko) (gingeup-han)
Kurdish: lezgîn (ku)
Maori: nonoi, kōhukihuki
Polish: pilny (pl) m
Portuguese: urgente (pt)
Russian: сро́чный (ru) (sróčnyj), э́кстренный (ru) (ékstrennyj), неотло́жный (ru) (neotlóžnyj), спе́шный (ru) (spéšnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: faochnach
Serbo-Croatian: hitan (sh) m
Slovak: naliehavý
Spanish: urgente (es), acuciante (es), apremiante
Swedish: brådskande (sv)
Telugu: అత్యవసరం (atyavasaraṃ)
Turkish: ivedi (tr), acil (tr), şaşılınç
Ukrainian: терміно́вий (terminóvyj), спі́шний (uk) (spíšnyj), пи́льний (pýlʹnyj), нега́йний (nehájnyj)
Yiddish: אײַליק‎ (aylik)

Anagrams

Gunter, gunter, gurnet

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin urgens, present participle of urgeō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /yʁ.ʒɑ̃/
audio (file)

Adjective

urgent (feminine singular urgente, masculine plural urgents, feminine plural urgentes)

urgent

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

pressé

Further reading

“urgent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

urgent

third-person plural present active indicative of urgeō

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