widow

Значение (Английский)

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.

Напротив

orphan

Синонимы

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

Переводы

veuve

Witwe

viuda

vedova

weduwe

viúva

χήρα

vidua

viudo

vidu

vedovo

Witwer

vídua

veuf

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈwɪd.əʊ/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: widwe

Унаследовано от староанглийский: widuwe

Родственно староанглийский: widu

Родственно немецкий: Witwe

Родственно нидерландский: weduwe

Родственно готский: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉

Родственно староирландский: fedb

Родственно латинский: vidua

Родственно церковнославянский: въдова

Родственно санскрит: विधवा

Родственно персидский: 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" .

Предложения

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

Его вдова, Сахана Прадхан, взяла на себя руководство партией.

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

Его пережила его вдова, леди Скит, которая проживает в Милтоне Эрнесте, Бедфордшир.