widow

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

weduwe

weduwnaar

wedumnaar

Tegenovergesteld aan

orphan

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

veuve

Witwe

viuda

vedova

viúva

χήρα

vidua

viudo

vedovo

vidu

Witwer

vídua

veuf

أرملة

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈwɪd.əʊ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: widwe

Overgenomen van Oudengels: widuwe

Verwant aan Oudengels: widu

Verwant aan Duits: Witwe

Verwant aan Nederlands: weduwe

Verwant aan Gothisch: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉

Verwant aan Oudiers: fedb

Verwant aan Latijn: vidua

Verwant aan Kerkslavisch: въдова

Verwant aan Sanskriet: विधवा

Verwant aan Perzisch: 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" .

Zinnen

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

Zijn weduwe, Sahana Pradhan, nam het leiderschap van de partij over.

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

Hij wordt overleefd door zijn weduwe, Lady Skeet, die woont in Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire.