• Irish: garbh
• Italian: mosso

• Italian: difficile

• Chinese: 粗躁 (cūzào)
• French: rugueux
• Ido: aspera
• Portuguese: áspero
• Spanish: aspero
• Telugu: ఉరామరిక (uraamarika), సుమారు (sumaaru), రమారమి (ramaarami) (2), కల్లోలం (kallOlaM) (3), మోటు (mOTu) (5), మొరటు (moraTu) (6)

Noun

1. The unmowed part of a golf course.
2. A crude person.
3. A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.

Translations

Verb

1. To create in an approximate form.

   Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.

2. To physically assault someone in retribution for something specific.

   The gangsters roughed him up a little.

See also

• diamond in the rough
• roughhouse
• roughness
• rough in
• rough out
• rough up
• bit of rough

Rough may refer to:

• Roughness
• Rough, the area outside the fairway in golf
• Rough (manga)
• Rough (facility), gas storage in England
• Rough (Tina Turner Album)

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