widow

(Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A person whose spouse is absent:
2. (uncommon) A person whose spouse is absent:
3. (broadly, humorous, in-compounds, informal, often, sarcastic) A person whose spouse is absent:
4. An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
5. A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
6. Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To strip of anything valued.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To be widow to.

Απέναντι από

orphan

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈwɪd.əʊ/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: widwe

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: widuwe

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Αγγλικά: widu

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: Witwe

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: weduwe

Συγγενές με Γοτθικά: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Ιρλανδικά: fedb

Συγγενές με Λατινικά: vidua

Συγγενές με Εκκλησιαστικά Σλαβικά: въдова

Συγγενές με Σανσκριτικά: विधवा

Συγγενές με Περσικά: بیوه

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

Έννοιες

χήρα

χήρος

καθιστώ

’xira

chíra

Συνώνυμα

widower

dowager

widow woman

single

spinster

widowed

widowhood

relict

orphan

make

matron

only

render

separated

alone

surviving wife

survivors

unmarried

widow bird

bachelor

bereave

unmarried man

widowman

whidah

whydah

bereaved person

become widowed

dame

champagne

🍾

divorced person

grass widow

lay

Μεταφράσεις

veuve

Witwe

viuda

vedova

weduwe

viúva

wdowa

vidua

viudo

vedovo

vidu

Witwer

vídua

أرملة

ارملة

Προτάσεις

His widow , Sahana Pradhan , took over the leadership of the party .

Η χήρα του, Sahana Pradhan, ανέλαβε την ηγεσία του κόμματος.

He is survived by his widow , Lady Skeet , who resides in Milton Ernest , Bedfordshire .

Έχει επιβιώσει από τη χήρα του, Lady Skeet, που κατοικεί στο Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire.