forsake

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• Received-Pronunciation: /fɔːˈseɪk/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /fə-/
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• General-American: /fɔɹˈseɪk/
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• rhymes with -eɪk
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• CMU ARPABET: F AO0 R S EY1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from”), from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”). By surface analysis, for- + sake. Cognates include Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), .

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: هَجَرَ (hajara) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Armenian: լքել (lkʻel) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Bulgarian: изоставям (izostavjam) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Bulgarian: напускам (napuskam) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Catalan: abandonar — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Chinese Mandarin: 放棄 /放弃 (fàngqì) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Chinese Mandarin: 拋棄 /抛弃 (pāoqì) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Dutch: verzaken — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Dutch: opgeven — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Estonian: hülgama — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Finnish: hylätä — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• French: abandonner — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• French: renoncer — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• German: aufgeben — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• German: im Stich lassen — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• German: verlassen — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌵𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌽 (afqiþan) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Greek: απαρνούμαι (aparnoúmai) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Greek: αποκηρύσσω (apokirýsso) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Greek: εγκαταλείπω (egkataleípo) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Greek: παρατώ (parató) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Ancient Greek: καταλείπω (kataleípō) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Hungarian: cserben hagy — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Indonesian: menelantarkan — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Irish: tréig — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Italian: abbandonare — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Italian: rinunciare — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Japanese: 放棄する (hōki-suru) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Japanese: 見捨てる (misuteru) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Kazakh: тастау (tastau) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Kazakh: безу (bezu) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Latin: dēserō — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Latin: relinquō — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Norwegian: forlate — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Norwegian: forsake — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Polish: opuścić — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Polish: porzucić — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Portuguese: abandonar — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Romanian: abandona — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Romanian: lăsa — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Romanian: lepăda — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Romanian: părăsi — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Romanian: renunța — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Russian: оста́вить (ostávitʹ) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Russian: оставля́ть (ostavljátʹ) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Russian: поки́нуть (pokínutʹ) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Russian: покида́ть (pokidátʹ) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Scottish Gaelic: trèig — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Serbo-Croatian: napustiti — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Sikkimese: ཀོས (kos) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Spanish: abandonar — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Spanish: naufragar — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Spanish: jaquir — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Spanish: desamparar — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Swedish: försaka — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Swedish: överge — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Tocharian B: ār- — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Turkish: bırakmak — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Turkish: terketmek — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Turkish: vazgeçmek — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Ottoman Turkish: براقمق (bırakmak) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Woiwurrung: yeaninin — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)
• Yiddish: אַוועקוואַרפֿן (avekvarfn) — to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)