unfamiliar

English

Etymology

un- +‎ familiar

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Adjective

unfamiliar (comparative more unfamiliar, superlative most unfamiliar)

Strange, not familiar.
- 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎:
  United were second-best for long periods as they struggled to adapt to an unfamiliar line-up and were ultimately fortunate to leave Merseyside with their unbeaten league run still intact.

Translations

not familiar

Arabic: غَيْر مَأْلُوف (ḡayr maʔlūf)
Armenian: անծանոթ (hy) (ancanotʻ)
Bulgarian: непознат (bg) (nepoznat)
Burmese: စိမ်း (my) (cim:)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 陌生 (zh) (mòshēng)
Danish: uvant, ukendt (da)
Finnish: vieras (fi)
French: inconnu (fr)
German: unbekannt (de), unvertraut
Greek: άγνωστος (el) m (ágnostos), ασυνήθης (el) m (asyníthis)
Irish: aduain
Japanese: 知られていない (ja) (しられていない, shirarete inai)
Kazakh: бейтаныс (beitanys)
Latin: aliēnus (la)
Latvian: svešs, svešāds, neparasts
Norwegian:
Bokmål: uvant, ukjent (no)

Nynorsk: ukjent
Old English: uncūþ
Plautdietsch: framd, onbekaunt
Polish: nieznany (pl)
Russian: незнако́мый (ru) (neznakómyj)
Swedish: obekant (sv)

Noun

unfamiliar (plural unfamiliars)

An unfamiliar person; a stranger.

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