forlorn

Anlam (İngilizce)

Adj

1. Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
2. Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
3. Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.

Noun

1. A forlorn hope.
2. A member of a forlorn hope.

Verb

past participle of forlese.

Tireli olarak

for‧lorn

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/fəˈlɔːn/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

From Middle English forlorn, forloren, from Old English forloren (past participle of forlēosan (“to lose”)), from Proto-Germanic *fraluzanaz (“lost”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną (“to lose”), equivalent to for- + lorn. Cognate with West Frisian ferlern (“lost”), Saterland Frisian ferlädden (“lost”), Dutch verloren (“lost”), German Low German verloren (“lost”),
German verloren (“lost”), Swedish förlorad (“lost”). See further at lese/leese, lorn.