warn

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• Received-Pronunciation: /wɔːn/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /woːn/
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• General-American: /woɹn/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Scotland: /wɔɾn/
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• /wɒːn/ Manchester
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• Eastern-New-England: /wɒn/
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
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• homophone: worn (horse–hoarse merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: W AO1 R N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English warnen, warnien (“to warn; admonish”), from Old English warnian (“to take heed; warn”), from Proto-Germanic *warnōną (“to warn; take heed”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to be aware; give heed”). Cognate with Dutch waarnen (obsolete), German Low German warnen, German warnen, Swedish varna, Icelandic varna.

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: paralajmëroj — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Arabic: حَذَّرَ (ḥaḏḏara) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Armenian: զգուշացնել (zgušacʻnel) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Azerbaijani: xəbərdar etmək — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Basque: abisatu — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Belarusian: папярэ́джваць (papjarédžvacʹ) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Belarusian: папярэ́дзіць (papjarédzicʹ) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Bulgarian: предупрежда́вам (predupreždávam) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Bulgarian: предупредя́ (predupredjá) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Burmese: သတိပေး (sa.ti.pe:) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Catalan: advertir — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Catalan: avisar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Chinese Mandarin: 警告 (jǐnggào) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Chinese Mandarin: 提醒 (tíxǐng) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Chinese Mandarin: 警戒 (jǐngjiè) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Czech: varovat — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Czech: upozorňovat — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Czech: upozornit — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Danish: advare — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Dutch: waarschuwen — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Dutch: verwittigen — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Dutch: waarnen — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Esperanto: averti — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Estonian: hoiatama — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Finnish: varoittaa — to make someone aware of impending danger
• French: avertir — to make someone aware of impending danger
• French: alerter — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Galician: aprenxer — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Galician: deñar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Galician: advertir — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Galician: avisar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Georgian: გაფრთხილება (gaprtxileba) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• German: warnen — to make someone aware of impending danger
• German: mahnen — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Greek: προειδοποιώ (proeidopoió) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Ancient Greek: νουθετέω (nouthetéō) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Hindi: चेताना (cetānā) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Hungarian: figyelmeztet — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Icelandic: aðvara — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Irish: fógra a thabhairt do — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Irish: fainic a chur ar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Italian: avvertire — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Italian: avvisare — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Japanese: 警告する (keikoku suru) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Japanese: 言い聞かせる (iikikaseru) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Kazakh: ескерту (eskertu) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Khmer: ព្រមាន (prɔɔmiən) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Korean: 경고하다 (gyeonggohada) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Kyrgyz: эскертүү (eskertüü) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Lao: ເຕືອນ (tư̄an) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Latin: moneō — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Latvian: brīdināt — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Lithuanian: įspėti — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Lithuanian: perspėti — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Macedonian: предупредува (predupreduva) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Macedonian: предупреди (predupredi) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Malayalam: മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് നൽകുക (munnaṟiyippŭ nalkuka) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Mansaka: bara — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Māori: whakaohiti — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Mongolian: анхааруулах (anxaaruulax) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Norwegian Bokmål: advare — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Church Slavic: варити (variti) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Iranian Persian: هُشْدار دادَن (hošdâr dâdan) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Iranian Persian: اِخْطار دادَن (extâr dâdan) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Iranian Persian: تَنْبیه کَرْدَن (tanbih kardan) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Polish: ostrzegać — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Polish: ostrzec — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Polish: uprzedzać — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Polish: uprzedzić — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Portuguese: avisar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Portuguese: alertar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Portuguese: advertir — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Romanian: avertiza — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Romanian: alerta — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Russian: предупрежда́ть (predupreždátʹ) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Russian: предупреди́ть (predupredítʹ) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Russian: предостерега́ть (predosteregátʹ) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Russian: предостере́чь (predosteréčʹ) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Northern Sami: váruhit — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Serbo-Croatian: упозора́вати — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Serbo-Croatian: упозо̀рити — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Serbo-Croatian: upozorávati — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Serbo-Croatian: upozòriti — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Slovak: varovať — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Slovak: vystríhať — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Slovene: svariti — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Spanish: alertar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Spanish: avisar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Spanish: advertir — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Spanish: aldabear — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Spanish: amonestar — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Swahili: onya — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Swedish: varna — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Swedish: varsko — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Tagalog: ipababala — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Tagalog: babalaan — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Tajik: огоҳ кардан (ogoh kardan) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Thai: เตือน (dtʉʉan) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Turkish: uyarmak — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Ottoman Turkish: ایقاظ ایتمك (ikâz etmek) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Ukrainian: попереджа́ти (poperedžáty) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Ukrainian: попере́джувати (poperédžuvaty) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Ukrainian: попере́дити (poperédyty) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Urdu: خَبَرْدار کَرْنا (xabardār karnā) — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Uzbek: ogohlantirmoq — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Vietnamese: cảnh báo — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Welsh: rhybuddio — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Zazaki: iqaz kerden — to make someone aware of impending danger
• Dutch: verwittigen — to notify someone of something
• Dutch: waarnen — to notify someone of something
• Finnish: ilmoittaa — to notify someone of something
• Finnish: varoittaa — to notify someone of something
• French: prévenir — to notify someone of something
• German: warnen — to notify someone of something
• Greek: προειδοποιώ (proeidopoió) — to notify someone of something
• Russian: предупрежда́ть (predupreždátʹ) — to notify someone of something
• Russian: предупреди́ть (predupredítʹ) — to notify someone of something
• Swahili: ashiria — to notify someone of something
• Swedish: förvarna — to notify someone of something
• Ukrainian: попереджа́ти (poperedžáty) — to notify someone of something
• Ukrainian: попере́джувати (poperédžuvaty) — to notify someone of something
• Ukrainian: попере́дити (poperédyty) — to notify someone of something
• Ngazidja Comorian: uhadharisha — intransitive: to give warning
• Finnish: varoittaa — intransitive: to give warning