obituary

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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈbɪt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈbɪt͡ʃɹi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈbɪtjʊ(ə)ɹi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /əʊ-/
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• General-American: /əˈbɪt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/
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• General-American: /əˈbɪt͡ʃuˌɜɹi/
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• General-American: /əˈbɪt͡ʃəɹi/
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• General-American: /oʊ-/
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• CMU ARPABET: OW0 B IH1 CH UW0 EH2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *h1epi Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin obituārius (“obituary”) + English -ary (suffix denoting something relating to another thing or used in a place). Obituārius is derived from Latin obitus (“act of approaching or going toward, an approach; act of going down, setting; of the sun: sunset; death; destruction, downfall, ruin”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); while obitus is a noun use of the perfect passive participle of obeō (“to go to meet, go towards; (figurative) to die, pass away, perish; (astronomy) to set”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘toward’) + eō (“to go, move”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1ey- (“to go”).

140 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: doodberig — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Arabic: نَعْي (naʕy) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Azerbaijani: nekroloq — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Bulgarian: некролог (nekrolog) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Bulgarian: скръ́бна вест (skrǎ́bna vest) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Catalan: obituari — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Catalan: esquela — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏃᏣᎸᎤᏲᎱᏒ (deganotsalvuyohusv) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Chinese: 白帖 (pe̍h-thiap, pe̍eh-thiap) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Chinese: 白帖仔 (zh-min-nan) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Chinese Mandarin: 訃告 /讣告 (fùgào) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Chinese Mandarin: 訃聞 /讣闻 (fùwén) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Chinese Mandarin: 訃音 /讣音 (fùyīn) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Danish: dødsannonce — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Dutch: doodsbrief — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Esperanto: nekrologo — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Finnish: kuolinilmoitus — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• French: nécrologie — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• French: nécro — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Galician: obituario — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Galician: necrolóxica — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Georgian: ნეკროლოგი (neḳrologi) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• German: Nekrolog — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• German: Parte — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• German: Partezettel — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• German: Todesanzeige — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• German: Totenzettel — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• German: Traueranzeige — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Greek: αναγγελία θανάτου (anangelía thanátou) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Greek: νεκρολογία (nekrología) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Gujarati: અવસાન નોંધ (avasān nondh) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Hebrew: מוֹדַעַת אֵבֶל (moda'át evel) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Hindi: इत्तेला-ए-वफ़ात (ittelā-e-vafāt) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Hungarian: gyászjelentés — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Icelandic: minning — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Ido: nekrologo — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Indonesian: berita duka — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Indonesian: kabar duka — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Irish: scéala báis — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Italian: necrologio — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Japanese: 訃 (fu) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Japanese: 訃報 (fuhō) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Japanese: 死亡記事 (shibō kiji) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Korean: 부음 (bueum) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Korean: 부고 (bugo) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Korean: 행장 (haengjang) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Latin: obituārius — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Lithuanian: nekrologas — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Macedonian: некроло́г (nekrológ) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Macedonian: посмр́тница (posmŕtnica) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Malay: obituari — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Norwegian: dødsannonse — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Norwegian: nekrolog — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Persian: اعلامیه فوت (e'lâmiye-ye fowt) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Plautdietsch: Läwensvezeichniss — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Polish: klepsydra — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Polish: nekrolog — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Portuguese: obituário — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Romanian: necrolog — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Russian: некроло́г (nekrológ) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Scottish Gaelic: iomradh-bàis — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Serbo-Croatian: osmrtnica — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Serbo-Croatian: umrlica — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Serbo-Croatian: parta — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Serbo-Croatian: partecetl — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Serbo-Croatian: умрлица — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Slovene: osmrtnica — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Spanish: obituario — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Spanish: esquela — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Spanish: necrología — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Swahili: tanzia — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Swedish: dödsannons — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Swedish: dödsnotis — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Swedish: minnesord — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Tagalog: obitwaryo — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Telugu: స్మృతి (smr̥ti) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Ukrainian: некроло́г (nekrolóh) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Urdu: اطلاع وفات (ittelā-e-vafāt) — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Vietnamese: cáo phó — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Welsh: ysgrif goffa — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Yoruba: òbíṣúárì — brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper
• Armenian: մահախոսական (mahaxosakan) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Azerbaijani: nekroloq — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Basque: hilberri — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Bulgarian: некролог (nekrolog) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Bulgarian: скръ́бна вест (skrǎ́bna vest) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏃᏣᎸᎤᏲᎱᏒ (deganotsalvuyohusv) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Chinese Mandarin: 訃告 /讣告 (fùgào) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Chinese Mandarin: 訃聞 /讣闻 (fùwén) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Czech: nekrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Danish: nekrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Dutch: necrologie — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Estonian: nekroloog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Finnish: muistokirjoitus — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• French: nécrologie — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• West-Frisian: nekrology — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Galician: obituario — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Georgian: ნეკროლოგი (neḳrologi) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• German: Nachruf — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• German: Nekrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Greek: νεκρολογία (nekrología) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Hebrew: מוֹדַעַת אֵבֶל (moda'át evel) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Hebrew: נקרולוג — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Hungarian: gyászjelentés — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Hungarian: nekrológ — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Ido: nekrologo — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Indonesian: berita duka — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Italian: necrologio — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Japanese: 死亡者略歴 (shibousharyakureki) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Kyrgyz: некролог (nekrolog) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Latvian: nekrologs — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Lithuanian: nekrologas — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Macedonian: некроло́г (nekrológ) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Māori: kupu poroporoaki — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Eastern Mari: некролог (ńekrolog) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Norwegian Bokmål: minneord — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Norwegian Bokmål: nekrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nekrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Persian: آگهی ترحیم — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Polish: nekrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Portuguese: obituário — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Romanian: necrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Russian: некроло́г (nekrológ) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Scottish Gaelic: iomradh-bàis — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Serbo-Croatian: некро̀лог — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Serbo-Croatian: nekròlog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Slovene: nekrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Slovene: osmrtnica — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Spanish: obituario — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Swedish: dödsruna — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Swedish: eftermäle — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Swedish: minnesord — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Swedish: nekrolog — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Tagalog: obitwaryo — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Turkish: ölüm ilanı — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Ukrainian: некроло́г (nekrolóh) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Urdu: وفاتیہ (ofāteh) — brief biography of a person who has recently died
• Finnish: kuolinilmoitus — announcement or description of the end of something
• German: Abgesang — announcement or description of the end of something
• German: Abschreiben — announcement or description of the end of something