orphan

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
2. A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
3. A young animal with no mother.
4. Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
5. A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
6. Any unreferenced object.

Adj

1. Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
2. Remaining after the removal of some form of support.

Verb

1. To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
2. To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.

Konzepte

Waise

Waisenkind

Schusterjunge

Waisenknabe

Witwe

Witwer

Vollwaise

Kind

des Gestorbenen

Kind des Gestorbenen

hinterlassenes Kind

Kind ohne Eltern

allein

einsam

einzig

ledig

verlassen

landloser Bauer

armer Nächster

Waisenmädchen

Halbwaise

Elternlose

Waisenjunge

Elternloser

-er

-n

Waisenkind - s

Waise -n

verwaist

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈɔːfən/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.