ruckus

English

Recorded since 1890; probably a blend of ruction (“disturbance”) +‎ rumpus (“disturbance, fracas”).

ruckus (plural ruckuses)

a noisy disturbance and/or commotion

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: commoció f, aldarull (ca) m
Chinese: 騷動／骚动 (zh) (sāodòng), 骚动 (zh) (sāodòng)
Dutch: oproer (nl), commotie (nl), lawaai (nl), ophef (nl)
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kohu (fi), meteli (fi), metakka (fi)
French: chahut (fr) m
Galician: please add this translation if you can
German: Tumult (de) m, Spektakel (de) n, Tohuwabohu (de) m, Theater (de) n, Affentheater (de) n, Wirrwarr (de) m, Zirkus (de) m
Greek: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: lárma (hu), zűrzavar (hu), ricsaj (hu), zenebona (hu),felfordulás (hu), kavarodás (hu), összevisszaság (hu), hűhó (hu), kalamajka (hu), zavargás (hu), ramazúri (hu), rumli (hu), zrí (hu)
Maori: tutūnga o te puehu
Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
Polish: zamieszanie (pl) n
Portuguese: alvoroço (pt) m, tumulto (pt) m
Russian: суматоха (ru) f (sumatoxa), шум (ru) m (šum), гам (ru) m (gam), волнения (ru) n pl (volnenija), кипеш (ru) m (kipeš) (slang)
Spanish: bullicio (es) m, alboroto (es) m, gresca, pelotera (es), tremolina (es), batahola (es) f
Welsh: please add this translation if you can

a row, fight

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese: 爭吵／争吵 (zh) (zhēngchǎo), 爭執／争执 (zh) (zhēngzhí)
Dutch: oproer (nl) n, opstoot (nl) m, rel (nl) (letje)
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: tappelu (fi), käsirysy (fi)
French: grabuge (fr) m, commotion (fr) f
Galician: please add this translation if you can
German: please add this translation if you can
Greek: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: veszekedés (hu), vita (hu), perpatvar (hu), csihi-puhi (hu), haddelhadd (hu)
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
Russian: потасовка (ru) f (potasovka), скандал (ru) m (skandal), разборка (ru) f (razborka) (slang)
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: kalabalik (sv) c
Welsh: please add this translation if you can

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “ruckus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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