From earlier tanterum. Further etymology unknown.
tantrum (plural tantrums)
- An often childish display or fit of bad temper.
Many parents become embarrassed by their children throwing tantrums in public places.
Baby Shawn threw a tantrum when he was told the bicycle was not his.
2003, Saralea E. Chazan, Simultaneous Treatment of Parent and Child, page 185:When he became frustrated, he threw a tantrum, and his mother would attempt to comfort him.
often childish display of bad temper
- Arabic: فَوْرة غَضَب f (fawra(t) ḡaḍab), نَوْبة غَضَب f (nawba(t) ḡaḍab), سَوْرة (ar) f (sawra), هَيَجان m (hayajān)
- Basque: haserrealdi
- Bikol Central: urag-urag (bcl)
- Bulgarian: фасон (bg) m (fason), тръшкане n (trǎškane)
- Catalan: enrabiada (ca) f, rebequeria (ca) f, enreveixinament m, rabiola f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (no exact word, to lose one's temper:) 發脾氣/发脾气 (zh) (fā píqi)
- Czech: záchvat vzteku
- Danish: raserianfald n, hysterisk anfald n, vredesanfald n, raseriudbrud n
- Dutch: driftbui (nl) f, woedeaanval (nl) m
- Finnish: kiukunpuuska (fi), raivonpuuska, raivari (fi), itkupotkuraivari (fi)
- French: excès de colère, caprice (fr) m
- Galician: perrencha (gl) f, rabecha (gl), cabuxo (gl) m
- German: Wutanfall (de) m, Ausraster m, Koller (de) m, Tobsuchtsanfall (de) m
- Greek: νευράκια n pl (nevrákia), (regarding children) πείσματα (el) n pl (peísmata)
- Hebrew: התקף זעם n
- Hungarian: hiszti (hu), hisztéria (hu), dühkitörés (hu), cirkusz (hu), rapli (hu)
- Icelandic: bræðikast n, illskukast n
- Italian: bizza (it) f, capriccio (it) m
- Japanese: 癇癪 (ja) (かんしゃく, kanshaku), ぎゃんなき (gyannaki)
- Kapampangan: kasat
- Maori: rūtakitanga, rūtānga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: raserianfall n, raseriutbrudd n, slå seg vrang (no) (verb)
- Persian: کج خلقی, خشم (fa), قهر (fa)
- Polish: histeria (pl)
- Portuguese: birra (pt), chilique (pt), piti (pt) m, pirraça (pt)
- Romanian: pandalie (ro) f, toană (ro) f
- Russian: исте́рика (ru) f (istérika), при́ступ гнева m (prístup gneva)
- Serbo-Croatian: izljev bijesa m, napad bijesa m
- Spanish: rabieta (es) f, berrinche (es) m, pataleta f, cortón, corajina (es) f, perrera f
- Swedish: raserianfall (sv) n, raseriutbrott (sv) n, vredesutbrott n, utbrott (sv) n
- Tagalog: pag-aalumihit
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Translations to be checked
tantrum (third-person singular simple present tantrums, present participle tantruming or tantrumming, simple past and past participle tantrumed or tantrummed)
- (intransitive) To throw a tantrum.