varen
Meaning
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- to sail, to go by boat, to navigate
- to ascend or descend
- to fare
- (Eastern,archaic,dialectal) to travel over land, to go by bike, car, train etc.
Synonyms
zich begeven
van stapel lopen
het maken
gesteld zijn
zeilsport
bootje varen
op trektocht gaan
Frequency
Hyphenated as
va‧ren
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvaː.rə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch vāren (“to go, travel”), from Old Dutch faran, from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną. The restriction to “travel by water” comes (expectably) from the western dialects; the more general sense survives in the east, but is no longer part of standard Dutch.
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