Ill start:

“Me cago en tus muertos” - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.

  • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 years ago

    German: “Du Lappen”

    Translates to “You rag”, pretty much calling someone a loser or idiot.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    2 years ago

    Salame

    Yes that’s right, it means salami and in spanish it’s used to call someone an idiot. Soft insult, but I use it, and saying so and so is a salami in english would only get me weird looks.

    • Darkblue@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Same in Dutch: azijnzeiker (azijn = vinegar, zeiker = pisser). So that one does translate well (but not to English :))

    • max@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Neat! In Dutch we have azijnpisser/azijnzeiker which means the exact same thing.

  • kuneho@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Altough it’s more like a “gypsy curse”, but there’s one that translates to sth like “I wish you’ll having ten rings but none fingers”

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    In polish, calling people with the neutral gender. It’s a grave insult which implies lack of agency and dehumanisation, and thank to some rightwinger assholes in parliament is also a specific transphobic insult now.

    While in english it’s completely normal thing to say if you’re not sure of a person’s gender.

    So definitely not my “favourite”, i would never said this to anyone in polish and i occasionally get a hiccup of misgendering someone in english because of that, but interesting from language point of view.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        The neutral gender is perfectly grammatical in polish, just it was never used for people other than small babies, i seen some effort to use it in literature for gender fluid or genderless people but it’s rare and don’t get positive reviews. It might catch some day though, i don’t know.

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      In polish, calling people with the neutral gender…While in english it’s completely normal thing to say if you’re not sure of a person’s gender.

      Maybe I misunderstand, but you should never call someone “it” in English, except for animals and babies. Calling someone “it” is considered dehumanizing in English.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Yes, what i meant that in english you call people in 3rd person “them”, “they” regardless of their gender, but in polish neutral gender would always be “it”. That’s why it’s so insulting to use it despite it is gramatically existing. Polish had pronouns literally build in every noun, verb and adjective.

  • xbhaktapur@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Word: Muji

    In Devnagari (Nepali): मुजी

    Meaning: A woman’s pubic hair

    In sentence: तँ मुजीको गाला फुट्नेगरी पड्काउॅछु।

    Translation: I’ll slap the living crap out of you muji.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    In the dialect of the Italian province I’m from, my favorite insult is “Perdabàll”, which literally means “balls loser” as someone who’s so stupid and useless that could even manage to lose his testicles

      • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        No but for that we use another genital: we say “S’é infigá” which roughly translates to “He got pussy-ed”, meaning someone that got enslaved by a vagina

  • owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    “Κλάσε μου τα αρχίδια” which literally stands for “fart my balls” in Greek.

    It’s a way of telling someone to go fuck himself.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      Which can also be lovely further embellished such as “πάρε φορά και κλάσε μου τ’αρχιδια” (“take momentum and fart my testicles”) or “θα μου κλάσεις μια μάντρα αρχίδια” (“You’ll fart me a yard of testicles”, usually utilized as a defiant answer to a physical threat)

  • YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    German: “Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen” - Lightning shall strike you while you’re taking a shit

    Best insult ever, imo.

  • lukem@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Greetings from Poland.

    “bambaryła” - someone who is very silly. Also: someone who is very fat. A little old-fashioned.

  • Square Singer@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Here are a few Austrian ones:

    “Häferl” (Cup): someone with anger management issues

    “Du rüttelst am Watschenbaum” (You are shaking the slap tree): I’m close to deliver the fruit of said tree to you.

    “Ohrwaschlkaktus” (Ear cactus): Someone with large, protruding ears

    “Saubauch” (Hog belly): A way of telling someone that they are fat and dumb at the same time. But in a nice way.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    Triangeljosti.

    The Jostiband is a Dutch orchestra for people with a developmental disability, mainly people with down syndrome.

    A [triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument\)) , or triangel in Dutch, is possibly the simplest instrument you can think of.

    So calling someone a ‘triangeljosti’ is basically comparing them to someone who plays the simplest possible instrument in a band for developmentally disabled people.

  • schnokobaer@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Yiddish is not my native language but I think this one is so good it absolutely deserves a mention:

    All of your teeth shall fall out except one that gives you a massive toothache.