frozen

English

Etymology

From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze +‎ -n.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹəʊzən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹoʊzən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊzən

Adjective

frozen (comparative more frozen, superlative most frozen)

1. Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

   The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.

2. Immobilized.

   I just stood frozen as the robber pointed at me with his gun.

3. (of a bank account or assets) In a state such that transactions are not allowed.
4. (grammar) Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.

   "Dice" is a frozen plural.

Derived terms

• deep-frozen
• frozen binomial
• frozen cow juice
• frozen custard
• frozen daiquiri
• frozen dinner
• frozen food
• frozen peaches
• frozen robot syndrome
• frozen rope
• frozen shoulder
• frozen star
• frozen stiff
• frozen tail
• frozen yoghurt
• frozen yogurt
• quick-frozen

 

Translations

having undergone freezing

• Afrikaans: bevrore (af)
• Arabic: مُجَمَّد (mujammad), مُصَقَّع (muṣaqqaʕ)
• Asturian: xeláu
• Bashkir: туң (tuñ), туңған (tuñğan), туңдырылған (tuñdırılğan)
• Bengali: নিথর (bn) (nithor)
• Bulgarian: замразен (bg) (zamrazen), замръзнал (bg) (zamrǎznal), леден (bg) (leden)
• Catalan: gelat (ca)
• Chickasaw: akmi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凍結的 / 冻结的 (dòngjié de), 冷凍的 / 冷冻的 (lěngdòng de), 結冰的 / 结冰的 (jiébīng de)

• Czech: zmrzlý (cs), zamrzlý
• Dalmatian: glazait
• Danish: frossen
• Dutch: bevroren (nl)
• Finnish: (something/-one else has done it) jäädytetty (fi), pakastettu (fi); (the thing/person has frozen on its own) jäätynyt (fi), pakastunut (fi)
• French: congelé (fr), gelé (fr)
• Friulian: inglačât, glačât
• Galician: xeado (gl), conxelado (gl)
• Georgian: გაყინული (gaq̇inuli)
• German: gefroren (de)
• Greek: κατεψυγμένος (el) (katepsygménos)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: קפוא (kafú')
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: fagyott (hu)
• Icelandic: freðinn (is), frosinn (is)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: reoite
• Italian: ghiacciato (it), gelato (it), congelato (it) m
• Japanese: 凍結 (ja) (tōketsu)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: тоңазыған (toñazyğan)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: gelātus
• Macedonian: замрзнат (zamrznat), смрзнат (smrznat)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: തണുത്തുറഞ്ഞ (taṇuttuṟañña)
• Maori: mae (with fear)
• Mongolian: хөлдүү (mn) (xöldüü)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frossen, frosset (no), tilfrosset

• Occitan: gelat
• Old English: ġefroren (ang)
• Old Norse: frørinn
• Persian: یخ‌زده (yax-zade), (rare) فسرده (fa) (fesorde)
• Polish: zamrożony m
• Portuguese: congelado (pt), gelado (pt)
• Romanian: înghețat (ro)
• Russian: (deliberately) заморо́женный (ru) (zamoróžennyj), моро́женый (ru) (moróženyj), (by its/his/her own) замёрзший (ru) (zamjórzšij)
• Scanian: frøsen, frøsed
• Scottish Gaelic: reòta
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Shuswap: alt
• Sicilian: jilatu m, gnilatu m
• Slovak: zamrznutý, zmrazený
• Spanish: congelado (es)
• Swedish: fryst (sv), frusen (sv)
• Tagalog: elado
• Telugu: గడ్డకట్టిన (gaḍḍakaṭṭina)
• Turkish: donuk (tr), donmuş (tr)
• Ukrainian: заморо́жений (zamoróženyj), моро́жений (moróženyj) (food)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: đông (vi)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Verb

frozen

1. past participle of freeze

   The mammoth was frozen shortly after death.