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• Received-Pronunciation: ûrn
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɜːn/
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• US: ûrn
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• US: /ɝn/
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• Early, Modern: /ɛːrn/
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• Early, Modern: /ɛrn/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n
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• homophone: ern
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• homophone: erne
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• homophone: urn
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• CMU ARPABET: ER1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Scottish Gaelic Èireann, genitive singular of Èirinn (“Ireland”), closely related to the river name Erne.

From Middle English ernen, from Old English earnian, from Proto-West Germanic *aʀanōn, from Proto-Germanic *azanōną. This verb is denominal from the noun *azaniz (“harvest”).

Probably either: * from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnan (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h3er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or * a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”).

A variant of yearn.

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: كَسَبَ (kasaba) — gain through applied effort or work
• Arabic: كسب (kisib) — gain through applied effort or work
• Armenian: վաստակել (vastakel) — gain through applied effort or work
• Bulgarian: пече́ля (pečélja) — gain through applied effort or work
• Catalan: guanyar — gain through applied effort or work
• Dutch: verdienen — gain through applied effort or work
• Esperanto: perlabori — gain through applied effort or work
• Finnish: ansaita — gain through applied effort or work
• Galician: gañar — gain through applied effort or work
• Georgian: გამოიმუშავებს (gamoimušavebs) — gain through applied effort or work
• Georgian: შოულობს (šoulobs) — gain through applied effort or work
• Irish: cosain — gain through applied effort or work
• Italian: guadagnare — gain through applied effort or work
• Latin: mereō — gain through applied effort or work
• Quechua: usachiy — gain through applied effort or work
• Romanian: câștiga — gain through applied effort or work
• Russian: зараба́тывать (zarabátyvatʹ) — gain through applied effort or work
• Russian: зарабо́тать (zarabótatʹ) — gain through applied effort or work
• Spanish: ganar — gain through applied effort or work
• Spanish: granjear — gain through applied effort or work
• Spanish: conciliar — gain through applied effort or work
• Telugu: సంపాదించు (sampādiñcu) — gain through applied effort or work
• Turkish: hak etmek — gain through applied effort or work
• Arabic: كَسَبَ (kasaba) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Arabic: كسب (kisib) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Armenian: աշխատել (ašxatel) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Armenian: վաստակել (vastakel) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Armenian: ստանալ (stanal) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Aromanian: amintu — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Basque: irabazi — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Belarusian: зарабля́ць (zarabljácʹ) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Belarusian: зарабі́ць (zarabícʹ) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Bhojpuri: कमाईल (kamāīl) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Bulgarian: зарабо́твам (zarabótvam) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Bulgarian: зарабо́тя (zarabótja) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Catalan: guanyar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Catalan: cobrar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Eastern Min Chinese: 掙 /挣 (cĕng) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Chinese Mandarin: 掙 /挣 (zhèng) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Chinese Mandarin: 賺 /赚 (zhuàn) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Chinese Mandarin: 賺取 /赚取 (zhuànqǔ) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Chinese Mandarin: 獲得 /获得 (huòdé) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Czech: vydělat — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Dutch: verdienen — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Esperanto: enspezi — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Esperanto: perlabori — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Estonian: teenima — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Finnish: tienata — transitive: receive (money) for working
• French: gagner — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Friulian: vuadagnâ — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Friulian: vanzâ — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Galician: gañar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• German: verdienen — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Greek: κερδίζω (kerdízo) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Ancient Greek: μισθαρνέω (mistharnéō) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Hindi: कमाना (kamānā) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Hungarian: keres — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Ingrian: teenata — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Irish: tuill — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Italian: guadagnare — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Japanese: 稼ぐ (kasegu) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Japanese: 得る (eru) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Khmer: ស៊ី (sii) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Korean: 벌다 (beolda) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Latin: mereō — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Macedonian: заработува (zarabotuva) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Macedonian: заработи (zaraboti) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Mongolian: олох (olox) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Norman: gângni — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Polish: zarabiać — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Polish: zarobić — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Portuguese: ganhar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Portuguese: auferir — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Romanian: câștiga — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Russian: зараба́тывать (zarabátyvatʹ) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Russian: зарабо́тать (zarabótatʹ) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Scottish Gaelic: coisinn — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Sicilian: guadagnari — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Sicilian: vadagnari — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Sindhi: ڪَمائِڻُ (kamāiṇu) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Slovak: zarábať si — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Slovak: zarobiť si — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Spanish: ganar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Spanish: devengar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Tamil: சம்பாதி (campāti) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Telugu: సంపాదించు (sampādiñcu) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Thai: หาได้ — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Turkish: kazanmak — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Ukrainian: заробля́ти (zarobljáty) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Ukrainian: зароби́ти (zarobýty) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Urdu: کمانا (kamānā) — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Venetan: vadagnar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Venetan: davagnar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Venetan: ciapar — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Vietnamese: kiếm — transitive: receive (money) for working
• Arabic: اِسْتَحَقَّ (istaḥaqqa) — deserve
• Bulgarian: заслу́жавам (zaslúžavam) — deserve
• Chinese Mandarin: 值得 (zhíde) — deserve
• Chinese Mandarin: 應受 /应受 (yīngshòu) — deserve
• Esperanto: meriti — deserve
• Finnish: ansaita — deserve
• French: mériter — deserve
• Galician: merecer — deserve
• German: verdienen — deserve
• Irish: cosain — deserve
• Japanese: 値する (ataisuru) — deserve
• Polish: zasłużyć — deserve
• Portuguese: merecer — deserve
• Russian: заслу́живать (zaslúživatʹ) — deserve
• Russian: заслужи́ть (zaslužítʹ) — deserve
• Spanish: granjear — deserve
• Spanish: merecer — deserve
• Bulgarian: зарабо́твам (zarabótvam) — intransitive: receive money for working
• Bulgarian: зарабо́тя (zarabótja) — intransitive: receive money for working
• Catalan: guanyar — intransitive: receive money for working
• Czech: vydělávat — intransitive: receive money for working
• Finnish: tienata — intransitive: receive money for working
• French: gagner — intransitive: receive money for working
• Galician: gañar — intransitive: receive money for working
• Indonesian: berpenghasilan — intransitive: receive money for working
• Ingrian: teenata — intransitive: receive money for working
• Lao: ຫາເງິນ (hā ngœn) — intransitive: receive money for working
• Norman: gângni — intransitive: receive money for working
• Polish: zarabiać — intransitive: receive money for working
• Polish: zarobić — intransitive: receive money for working
• Portuguese: receber — intransitive: receive money for working
• Russian: зараба́тывать (zarabátyvatʹ) — intransitive: receive money for working
• Russian: зарабо́тать (zarabótatʹ) — intransitive: receive money for working
• Spanish: ganar — intransitive: receive money for working
• Thai: หาเงิน (hǎa-ngən) — intransitive: receive money for working
• Turkish: para kazanmak — intransitive: receive money for working
• Turkish: kazandırmak — cause someone to receive money