endow

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdaʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɛn-/
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• General-American: /ɪnˈdaʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -aʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: EH0 N D AW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin dōtāre (present active infinitive of dōtō (“to endow”)); modern French douer). Dōtō is derived from dōs (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh3- (“to give”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: дарявам (darjavam) — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Catalan: dotar — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Chinese Mandarin: 贈予 /赠予 (zèngyǔ) — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Chinese Mandarin: 賦予 /赋予 (fùyǔ) — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Dutch: begiftigen — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Dutch: doteren — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Finnish: antaa perintö — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Finnish: lahjoittaa — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• French: doter — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• German: ausstatten — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Irish: maoinigh — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Italian: dotare — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Italian: finanziare — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Italian: foraggiare — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Italian: provvedere — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Italian: sovvenzionare — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Japanese: 寄付する (kifu suru) — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Māori: waiho iho — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Portuguese: custear — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Portuguese: financiar — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Romanian: dota — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Romanian: înzestra — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Russian: обеспе́чивать (obespéčivatʹ) — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Spanish: dotar — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Spanish: costear — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Spanish: financiar — to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits
• Bulgarian: надарявам (nadarjavam) — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Chinese Mandarin: 賦予 /赋予 (fùyǔ) — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Czech: obdařit — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Dutch: begiftigen — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Dutch: doteren — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Finnish: antaa — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Finnish: suoda — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Finnish: varustaa — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• French: doter — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• French: enrichir — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Italian: arricchire — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Italian: dotare — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Italian: garantire — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Māori: waiho iho — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Portuguese: dotar — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Russian: одаривать (odarivatʹ) — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Spanish: dotar — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Swedish: donera — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Ukrainian: наділя́ти (nadiljáty) — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Ukrainian: наділи́ти (nadilýty) — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Ukrainian: обдаро́вувати (obdaróvuvaty) — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Ukrainian: обдарува́ти (obdaruváty) — to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality
• Czech: obdařit — to naturally furnish
• Czech: propůjčit — to naturally furnish
• Dutch: begiftigen — to naturally furnish
• Finnish: antaa — to naturally furnish
• Finnish: siunata — to naturally furnish
• Finnish: suoda — to naturally furnish
• Indonesian: dianugerahi — to naturally furnish
• Indonesian: diberkati — to naturally furnish
• Italian: dotare — to naturally furnish
• Macedonian: обдарува (obdaruva) — to naturally furnish
• Portuguese: dotar — to naturally furnish
• Russian: быть одарённым (bytʹ odarjónnym) — to naturally furnish
• Spanish: ser bendecido — to naturally furnish
• Spanish: ser dotado — to naturally furnish
• Swedish: begåvas — to naturally furnish
• Ukrainian: наділя́ти (nadiljáty) — to naturally furnish
• Ukrainian: наділи́ти (nadilýty) — to naturally furnish