orphan

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔːfən/
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• General-American: /ˈɔɹfən/
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• archaic, dialectal: /ˈɔːɹfənt/
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)fən
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• homophone: often (non-rhotic, lot–cloth split)
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 R F AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h3órbhos. PIE word *h3órbhos Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.

279 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сирашки (siraški) — deprived of parents
• Hindi: अनाथ (anāth) — deprived of parents
• Ingrian: armatoin — deprived of parents
• Ingrian: armotoin — deprived of parents
• Marathi: अनाथ (anāth) — deprived of parents
• Russian: сиротливый (sirotlívyj) — deprived of parents
• Sanskrit: अनाथ (anātha) — deprived of parents
• Spanish: expósito — deprived of parents
• Spanish: guácharo — deprived of parents
• Spanish: huérfano — deprived of parents
• Spanish: guacho — deprived of parents
• Ottoman Turkish: اوكسز (öksüz) — deprived of parents
• Afrikaans: weeskind — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Dupaningan Agta: golang — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ahtna: titahen — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Albanian: jetim — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Albanian: jetime — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Albanian: bonjak — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Albanian: bonjake — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Northern Altai: ӧскис (öskis) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Northern Altai: ӧксӱс (öksüs) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Southern Altai: ӧскӱс (ösküs) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Southern Altai: ӧксӱс (öksüs) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Arabic: يَتِيم (yatīm) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Arabic: يَتِيمَة (yatīma) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Arabic: يتيم (yatīm) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Aramaic: ܝܬܡܐ (yaṯmāʾ) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Armenian: որբ (orb) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Old Armenian: որբ (orb) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Asturian: güérfanu — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Azerbaijani: yetim — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Bangi: etike — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Bashkir: етем (yetem) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Bashkir: йәтим (yətim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Basque: umezurtz — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Belarusian: сірата́ (siratá) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Bengali: এতিম (etim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Central Bikol: ilo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Bulgarian: сира́к (sirák) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Bulgarian: сирота́ (sirotá) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Burmese: မိဘမဲ့ (mi.bha.mai.) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Cahuilla: 'aminat — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Catalan: orfe — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Catalan: òrfena — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Cebuano: ilo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chamicuro: wakcha — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chechen: бо (bo) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Cherokee: ᎤᏓᏂᏯᏛ (udaniyadv) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chinese Cantonese: 孤兒 /孤儿 (gu1 ji4) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chinese Cantonese: 孤兒仔 /孤儿仔 (gu1 ji4 zai2) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chinese: етиму (iətimu) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Eastern Min Chinese: 無奶囝 /无奶囝 (mò̤-nā̤-giāng) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Gan Chinese: 孤兒 /孤儿 (gu1 eo4) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chinese: 孤兒 /孤儿 (zh-min-nan) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Jin Chinese: 孤兒 /孤儿 (gu1 er1) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chinese Mandarin: 孤兒 /孤儿 (gū'ér) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chinese Mandarin: 遺孤 /遗孤 (yígū) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Xiang Chinese: 孤兒 /孤儿 (gu1 e2) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chukchi: ейвэл (jejwel) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Chuvash: тӑлӑх (tălăh) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ngazidja Comorian: yatima — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Czech: sirotek — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Czech: sirota — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Danish: forældreløst barn — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Danish: hittebarn — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Dongxiang: oliechin — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Dutch: wees — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Dutch: weeskind — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Dutch: weesjongen — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Dutch: weesmeisje — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Egyptian: t:f-n:nDs-A1 (tfn) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Egyptian: n-nm-m-H-Xrd-nDs-A1 (nmḥ) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Esperanto: orfo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Estonian: orb — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Estonian: vaeslaps — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Faroese: foreldraloysingur — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Finnish: orpo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• French: orphelin — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• French: orpheline — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Old French: orfelin — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Friulian: vuarfin — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Friulian: vuarfine — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Galician: orfo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Galician: orfa — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Georgian: ობოლი (oboli) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Waise — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Vollwaise — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Halbwaise — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Waisenkind — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Waisenknabe — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Waisenjunge — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Waisenmädchen — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Elternloser — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• German: Elternlose — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌰 (widuwairna) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Greek: ορφανός (orfanós) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Greek: πεντάρφανος (pentárfanos) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Haitian Creole: òfelen — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Hebrew: יָתוֹם (yatóm) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Hebrew: יְתוֹמָה (yetomá) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Higaonon: ilo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Hiligaynon: ilo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Hindi: अनाथ (anāth) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Hindi: यतीम (yatīm) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Hindi: लावारिस (lāvāris) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Hungarian: árva — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Icelandic: munaðarleysingi — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ido: orfano — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Indonesian: yatim — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Indonesian: anak piatu — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Indonesian: anak yatim piatu — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ingrian: armatoin — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ingrian: armotoin — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ingrian: orpo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ingush: бо (bo) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Irish: dílleachta — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Irish: tachrán — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Irish: aindílleachta (uncared-for) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Italian: orfano — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Italian: orfana — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Japanese: 孤児 (koji) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Javanese: lola — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Judeo-Italian: אוֹרְפֵֿינוֹ — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Kazakh: жетім (jetım) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Khmer: ក្មេងកំព្រា (kmeeng kɑmpriə) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Korean: 고아 (goa) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Central Kurdish: ھەتیو (hetîw) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Northern Kurdish: sêwî — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Northern Kurdish: êtîm — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Kyrgyz: жетим (jetim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lao: ກໍາພອຽ (kamp ʼīa) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lao: ກໍາພ້າກໍາພອຽ (kam phā kamp ʼīa) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lao: ກໍາພ້າ (kam phā) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lao: ອະນາຖາ (ʼa nā thā) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Latin: orbus — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Latin: orba — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Latvian: bārenis — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Latvian: bārene — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lezgi: етим (etim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lingala: etike — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lithuanian: našlaitis — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lithuanian: našlaitė — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Livonian: joutõmläpš — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Livonian: bōr — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lombard: orfen — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lombard: orfena — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lower Tanana: titwxenh — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lü: ᦂᧄᧈᦘᦱᧉ (k̇am1phaa2) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Luhya: omufubi — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Macedonian: сираче (sirače) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Malagasy: kamboty — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Malay: anak yatim — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Malayalam: അനാഥ (anātha) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Maltese: orfni — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Maltese: ltim — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Manchu: ᡠᠮᡠᡩᡠ (umudu) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Manchu: ᡠᠮᡠᡩᡠ ᠵᡠᡳ (umudu jui) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Manx: treoghan — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Māori: pani — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Maranao: ilo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Marathi: अनाथ मूल (anāth mūl) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Middle English: stepchild — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Middle English: stepbarn — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Mongolian: өнчин (önčin) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Mongolian: ᠥᠨᠦᠴᠢᠨ (önüčin) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Navajo: bąąh ádahasdįįdígíí — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Nogai: етим (yetim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Norwegian Bokmål: foreldreløst barn — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Norwegian Nynorsk: foreldrelaust barn — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Occitan: orfanèl — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Occitan: orfanèla — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Church Slavic: сирота (sirota) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Church Slavic: ⱄⰻⱃⱁⱅⰰ (sirota) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Old East Slavic: сирота (sirota) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Old English: stēopċild — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Old English: stēopbearn — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Old Turkic: 𐰖𐰃𐱃𐰀 (y1it1a) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Old Turkic: 𐰖𐱃𐰀 (y1t1a) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ossetian: сидзӕр (siʒær) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Papiamentu: wérfano — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Pashto: يتيم (yatim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Pashto: پلارمړی (plārmǝṛay) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Pashto: مورمړی (mormǝṛay) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Persian: یَتیم (yatim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Plautdietsch: Weis — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Polish: sierota — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Polish: sierotka — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Portuguese: órfão — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Portuguese: órfã — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Punjabi: ਅਨਾਥ (anāth) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Punjabi: ਯਤੀਮ (yatīm) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Quechua: wakcha — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Romanian: orfan — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Romanian: orfană — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Russian: сирота́ (sirotá) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Russian: сиро́тка (sirótka) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Saho: xeewo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Northern Sami: oarbbis — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Samoan: matuaoti — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Sanskrit: अनाथ (ánāthá) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Scottish Gaelic: dìlleachd — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Scottish Gaelic: dìlleachdan — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Scottish Gaelic: tàcharan — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: сиро̀че — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: сиро̀та̄н — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: сиро̀та — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: сѝра̄к — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: сирота́нче — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: сиро̀тица — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: siròče — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: siròtān — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: siròta — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: sìrāk — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: sirotánče — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Serbo-Croatian: siròtica — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Sicilian: prujettu — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Sicilian: prujetta — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Sinhalese: අනාථ (anātha) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Slovak: sirota — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Slovene: sirota — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Lower Sorbian: syrota — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Upper Sorbian: syrota — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Spanish: huérfano — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Spanish: huérfana — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Spanish: huacho — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Spanish: huaccho — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Spanish: guacho — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Spanish: guácharo — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Spanish: expósito — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Sundanese: yatim piatu — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Swahili: mfiwa — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Swahili: yatima — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Swahili: mtoto yatima — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Swedish: föräldralöst barn — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tabasaran: йитим (jitim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tagalog: ulila — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tajik: ятим (yatim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tajik: сағир (saġir) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tamil: அனாதை (aṉātai) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Taos: pènkuʼúna — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tarifit: ayujir — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tatar: ятим (yätim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tatar: үксез (üksez) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tauya: ataya — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Telugu: అనాధ (anādha) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Thai: เด็กกําพร้า (dèk gam-práa) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Tlingit: kuhaankée — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Turkish: yetim — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Turkish: öksüz — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ottoman Turkish: اوكسز (öksüz) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ottoman Turkish: یتیم (yetim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Turkmen: ýetim — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎚𐎎 (ytm) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Ukrainian: сирота́ (syrotá) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Urdu: یَتِیم (yatīm) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Urdu: اَناتھ (anāth) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Uyghur: يېتىم (yëtim) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Uzbek: yetim — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Vietnamese: trẻ mồ côi — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Vietnamese: cô nhi — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Volapük: nenpalan — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Welsh: amddifad — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Yiddish: יתום (yosem) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Yiddish: יתומה (yesoyme) — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Yup'ik: elliraq — person whose (parent or) parents have died
• Finnish: orpo — young animal with no mother
• Mongolian: өнчин (önčin) — young animal with no mother
• Finnish: orpo — anything unsupported
• Danish: fransk horeunge — single line of type at the bottom of page
• Finnish: orporivi — single line of type at the bottom of page
• German: Schusterjunge — single line of type at the bottom of page
• Hungarian: árvasor — single line of type at the bottom of page
• Portuguese: órfã — single line of type at the bottom of page
• Finnish: orpo — computing: unreferenced object
• German: zur Waise machen — deprive of parents
• German: verwaisen — deprive of parents
• Greek: απορφανίζω (aporfanízo) — deprive of parents
• Portuguese: orfanar — deprive of parents
• Spanish: enechar (anticuated) — deprive of parents