aware

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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈwɛə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [əˈwɛə̯] ~ [əˈwɛː]
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• British, Southern, Standard: /əˈwɛː/
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• Australian: /əˈweː/
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• /əˈweə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• /əˈwiə/ cheer–chair merger
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• /əˈwɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• General-American: /əˈwɛɚ/
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• General-American: [əˈwɛɚ] ~ [əˈwɛɹ̩]
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Scotland: /əˈweɹ/
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• Scotland: [əˈweːɾ]
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 W EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: զգոն (zgon) — vigilant, on one's guard
• Bulgarian: бдителен (bditelen) — vigilant, on one's guard
• Catalan: vigilant — vigilant, on one's guard
• Catalan: a l’aguait — vigilant, on one's guard
• Catalan: atent — vigilant, on one's guard
• Chinese Mandarin: 警惕的 (jǐngtì de) — vigilant, on one's guard
• Czech: bdělý — vigilant, on one's guard
• Czech: ostražitý — vigilant, on one's guard
• Dutch: waakzaam — vigilant, on one's guard
• Dutch: op zijn hoede — vigilant, on one's guard
• Finnish: valpas — vigilant, on one's guard
• French: attentif — vigilant, on one's guard
• French: vigilant — vigilant, on one's guard
• French: en éveil — vigilant, on one's guard
• French: en alerte — vigilant, on one's guard
• French: sur ses gardes — vigilant, on one's guard
• German: wachsam — vigilant, on one's guard
• German: gewahr — vigilant, on one's guard
• Indonesian: waspada — vigilant, on one's guard
• Italian: all'erta — vigilant, on one's guard
• Marathi: जागृत (jāgŕt) — vigilant, on one's guard
• Portuguese: alerta — vigilant, on one's guard
• Russian: бди́тельный (bdítelʹnyj) — vigilant, on one's guard
• Serbo-Croatian: будан — vigilant, on one's guard
• Serbo-Croatian: budan — vigilant, on one's guard
• Spanish: alerta — vigilant, on one's guard
• Tagalog: naiino — vigilant, on one's guard
• Tagalog: nakaiino — vigilant, on one's guard
• Tatar: saq — vigilant, on one's guard
• Turkish: uyanık — vigilant, on one's guard
• Turkish: ayık — vigilant, on one's guard
• Ukrainian: пи́льний (pýlʹnyj) — vigilant, on one's guard
• Armenian: տեղյակ (teġyak) — having knowledge of something
• Armenian: գիտակից (gitakicʻ) — having knowledge of something
• Azerbaijani: xəbərdar — having knowledge of something
• Azerbaijani: agah — having knowledge of something
• Azerbaijani: hali — having knowledge of something
• Belarusian: дасве́дчаны (dasvjédčany) — having knowledge of something
• Belarusian: ве́даючы (vjédajučy) — having knowledge of something
• Bulgarian: съзнаващ (sǎznavašt) — having knowledge of something
• Catalan: conscient — having knowledge of something
• Chinese Mandarin: 知道的 (zhīdào de) — having knowledge of something
• Chinese Mandarin: 意識到的 /意识到的 (yìshídào de) — having knowledge of something
• Czech: vědom — having knowledge of something
• Czech: znalý — having knowledge of something
• Dutch: op de hoogte zijn — having knowledge of something
• Esperanto: konscia — having knowledge of something
• Finnish: tietoinen — having knowledge of something
• French: conscient — having knowledge of something
• French: au courant — having knowledge of something
• Galician: consciente — having knowledge of something
• German: bewusst — having knowledge of something
• German: gewahr — having knowledge of something
• Indonesian: insaf — having knowledge of something
• Irish: eolach — having knowledge of something
• Italian: consapevole — having knowledge of something
• Central Kurdish: ئاگادار (agadar) — having knowledge of something
• Latin: cōnscius — having knowledge of something
• Māori: aroā — having knowledge of something
• Old English: ġewær — having knowledge of something
• Old English: ġecnǣwe — having knowledge of something
• Persian: آگاه (âgâh) — having knowledge of something
• Polish: świadom — having knowledge of something
• Polish: świadomy — having knowledge of something
• Portuguese: consciente — having knowledge of something
• Portuguese: ciente — having knowledge of something
• Russian: зна́ющий (znájuščij) — having knowledge of something
• Russian: осведомлённый (osvedomljónnyj) — having knowledge of something
• Russian: све́дущий (svéduščij) — having knowledge of something
• Russian: в ку́рсе (v kúrse) — having knowledge of something
• Scottish Gaelic: fiosrach — having knowledge of something
• Serbo-Croatian: свестан — having knowledge of something
• Serbo-Croatian: svestan — having knowledge of something
• Serbo-Croatian: svjestan — having knowledge of something
• Spanish: consciente — having knowledge of something
• Spanish: cognoscente — having knowledge of something
• Spanish: cognoscitivo — having knowledge of something
• Spanish: concienciado — having knowledge of something
• Spanish: concientizado — having knowledge of something
• Swedish: medveten — having knowledge of something
• Tagalog: naiino — having knowledge of something
• Tagalog: nakaiino — having knowledge of something
• Turkish: haberdar — having knowledge of something
• Ottoman Turkish: خبردار (haberdâr) — having knowledge of something
• Ukrainian: зна́ючий (znájučyj) — having knowledge of something
• Ukrainian: обі́знаний (obíznanyj) — having knowledge of something