| Example in Russian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Ждем результатов анализов отца, но я уже не могу там сидеть и слушать, как эти двое друг другу язвят. | We're waiting on the dad's labs, but I couldn't sit there and listen to those two bite each other's heads off anymore. |
| Он всегда язвил. | He was always bitter. |
| Порой, может быть, немного язвил, но не досаждал. | Rather nice, a bit sardonic at times maybe, but not nasty. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | byt | Albanian | kafshoj |
| Arabic | عض,عضه, نعض | Azeri | dişləmək |
| Catalan | mossegar | Danish | bide |
| Dutch | bijten, knauwen, knechten, vastbijten | English | bite |
| Esperanto | mordi | Faroese | bíta |
| Finnish | haukata, purra | French | mordre |
| German | anbeißen, beißen, hineinbeißen, verbeißen, zubeißen | Greek | δαγκάνω, δαγκώνω, δασώνω |
| Hungarian | harap, mar | Indonesian | gigit, menggigit |
| Italian | abboccare, acceffare, addentare, mordere, morsicare | Japanese | 噛む |
| Latvian | kost | Lithuanian | įkąsti, kandžioti, pakandžioti, perkąsti |
| Macedonian | гризе, гризне, каса, касне | Malay | gigit |
| Maltese | gidem | Norwegian | bite |
| Persian | گزیدن | Polish | gryźć, kasać, kąsać, nadjeść, nagryzać, pokąsać, przegryźć, przygryzać, przygryźć, ugryźć, ukąsić, wgryzać, wgryźć, zagryzać, zagryźć |
| Portuguese | abocanhar, morder | Quechua | kaniy, khachuy |
| Romanian | înțepa, mușca | Spanish | morder, picar |
| Swedish | bita, bitas, nappa | Thai | กัด, เกาะแกะ |
| Turkish | ısırmak | Vietnamese | cắn, đớp |