warlock

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɔː.lɒk/
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• General-American: /ˈwɔɹ.lɑk/
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• CMU ARPABET: W AO1 R L AO2 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wārulogō (“liar”), equivalent to Old English wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weh1- (“true”); whence also Latin vērus) + loga (“liar”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô, related to Old English lēogan (whence English lie). The hard -ck ending originated in Scottish and Northern English, like the sense "male magic-user" (from the notion that such men were in league with the Devil and had thus broken their baptismal vows / betrayed Christianity). Cognate with Old Saxon wārlogo (“liar, unfaithful or insidious one”). A few writers alternatively propose a derivation from Old Norse varðlokkur (“incantations, charms”, literally “ward songs”), but as the OED notes, this is implausible due to the extreme rarity of the Norse word, the semantic difference, and because forms without hard -k, which are consistent with the Old English etymology (“traitor”), are attested earlier than forms with -k, and forms with -ð- are not attested.

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: yshtës — male magic-user
• Arabic: سَاحِر (sāḥir) — male magic-user
• Arabic: مُشَعْوِذ (mušaʕwiḏ) — male magic-user
• Arabic: عَرَّاف (ʕarrāf) — male magic-user
• Arabic: مُحْتال (muḥtāl) — male magic-user
• Arabic: مُشْتَغِلٌ بِالسّحْر — male magic-user
• Arabic: ساحرة — male magic-user
• Belarusian: вядзьма́р (vjadzʹmár) — male magic-user
• Belarusian: чараўні́к (čarawník) — male magic-user
• Belarusian: чарадзе́й (čaradzjéj) — male magic-user
• Belarusian: вядзьма́к (vjadzʹmák) — male magic-user
• Belarusian: маг (mah) — male magic-user
• Belarusian: чарнакні́жнік (čarnaknížnik) — male magic-user
• Breton: sorser — male magic-user
• Breton: strobineller — male magic-user
• Catalan: bruixot — male magic-user
• Chinese Mandarin: 魔術師 /魔术师 (móshùshī) — male magic-user
• Cornish: pystrier — male magic-user
• Czech: černokněžník — male magic-user
• Czech: čaroděj — male magic-user
• Danish: heksemester — male magic-user
• Danish: troldkarl — male magic-user
• Danish: troldmand — male magic-user
• Danish: magiker — male magic-user
• Dutch: heksenmeester — male magic-user
• Esperanto: sorĉisto — male magic-user
• Finnish: velho — male magic-user
• French: enchanteur — male magic-user
• French: sorcier — male magic-user
• French: magicien — male magic-user
• German: Hexer — male magic-user
• German: Hexenmeister — male magic-user
• German: Zauberer — male magic-user
• Hebrew: מְכַשֵּׁף (mechashéf) — male magic-user
• Hungarian: varázsló — male magic-user
• Hunsrik: Hexer — male magic-user
• Icelandic: galdramaður — male magic-user
• Ido: sorcero — male magic-user
• Indonesian: ahli sihir — male magic-user
• Indonesian: tukang sihir — male magic-user
• Irish: fiaghruagach — male magic-user
• Italian: stregone — male magic-user
• Japanese: 魔法使い (mahō tsukai) — male magic-user
• Japanese: 魔術師 (majutsushi) — male magic-user
• Latin: veneficus — male magic-user
• Latin: magus — male magic-user
• Latin: fascinator — male magic-user
• Latin: fascinans — male magic-user
• Macedonian: ве́штер (véšter) — male magic-user
• Macedonian: ма́ѓепсник (máǵepsnik) — male magic-user
• Manx: fer obbee — male magic-user
• Māori: ruānuku — male magic-user
• Māori: tohunga ruānuku — male magic-user
• Mapudungun: kalku — male magic-user
• Classical Nahuatl: nāhualli — male magic-user
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trollkall — male magic-user
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trollmann — male magic-user
• Norwegian Nynorsk: runekall — male magic-user
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tauvrekall — male magic-user
• Occitan: brouch — male magic-user
• Occitan: bruèis — male magic-user
• Polish: czarnoksiężnik — male magic-user
• Polish: czarownik — male magic-user
• Portuguese: bruxo — male magic-user
• Portuguese: feiticeiro — male magic-user
• Portuguese: mago — male magic-user
• Romanian: vrăjitor — male magic-user
• Russian: чернокни́жник (černoknížnik) — male magic-user
• Russian: колду́н (koldún) — male magic-user
• Russian: волше́бник (volšébnik) — male magic-user
• Russian: маг (mag) — male magic-user
• Russian: чароде́й (čarodéj) — male magic-user
• Scots: juglour — male magic-user
• Scots: sorcerar — male magic-user
• Scots: varlet — male magic-user
• Scots: warlock — male magic-user
• Scots: weird — male magic-user
• Serbo-Croatian: čarobnjak — male magic-user
• Serbo-Croatian: чаробњак — male magic-user
• Slovak: strigôň — male magic-user
• Slovak: bosorák — male magic-user
• Slovak: černokňažník — male magic-user
• Slovene: čarovnik — male magic-user
• Spanish: brujo — male magic-user
• Spanish: hechicero — male magic-user
• Spanish: mago — male magic-user
• Swahili: mchawi — male magic-user
• Swedish: trollkarl — male magic-user
• Swedish: häxmästare — male magic-user
• Turkish: büyücü — male magic-user
• Turkish: sihirbaz — male magic-user
• Ukrainian: чаклу́н (čaklún) — male magic-user
• Ukrainian: чарівни́к (čarivnýk) — male magic-user
• Ukrainian: характе́рник (xaraktérnyk) — male magic-user
• Ukrainian: маг (mah) — male magic-user
• Ukrainian: чорнокни́жник (čornoknýžnyk) — male magic-user
• Welsh: dewin — male magic-user
• Xhosa: igqwirha — male magic-user
• Yucatec Maya: waay — male magic-user