father

Anlam

Noun

1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
6. A pioneering figure in a particular field.
7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
8. Something inanimate that begets.
9. A member of a church council.
10. The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.

Verb

1. To be a father to; to sire.
2. To give rise to.
3. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
4. To provide with a father.
5. To adopt as one's own.

Tireli olarak

fa‧ther

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/ˈfɑːðə(ɹ)/

Etimoloji

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr?
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
Proto-Germanic *fadēr
Proto-West Germanic *fader
Old English fæder
Middle English fader
English father
From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père. The development of the /ɑː/ vowel (outside of those accents which also have it in rather, lather) is irregular and has not been conclusively explained.

Cümleler

His father introduced him to boxing around the age of seven .

Babası onu yedi yaşında boksla tanıştırdı.

Matthew had questions about his ancestry and ended up meeting his biological father .

Matthew'un ataları hakkında soruları vardı ve biyolojik babasıyla tanıştı.

Quibell was originally trained under Flinders Petrie , the father of modern Egyptology .

Quibell başlangıçta modern Mısır'ın babası Flinders Petrie altında eğitildi.