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• /wɪə(ɹ)/
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• wâr
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• Received-Pronunciation: /wɛə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /wɛː/
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• General-American: /wɛ(ə)ɹ/
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• General-American: [wɛɚ]
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• General-American: [wɛɹ]
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• Australian: /weː/
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• New-Zealand: /weə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• wîr New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• /wiə/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /weɹ/
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• wûr Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• /wɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• wîr South Asia, cheer–chair merger or spelling pronunciation
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• homophone: ware
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• homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
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• homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
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• homophone: were
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• homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
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Probably identical with British Latin Vedra, itself of Celtic origin.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wes- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti Proto-Germanic *wazjaną Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan Old English werian Middle English weren English wear Inherited from Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”). Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian զգենում (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite 𒉿𒀸- (waš-). Originally a weak verb (i.e. with a past tense in -ed), it became irregular during the Middle English period by analogy with verbs like beren (whence bear) and teren (whence tear).

From Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to guard, keep, defend; ward off, hinder, prevent, forbid; restrain; occupy, inhabit; dam up; discharge obligations on (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect, ward off”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”). Cognate with Scots wer, weir (“to defend, protect”), Dutch weren (“to aver, ward off”), German wehren (“to fight”), Swedish värja (“to defend, ward off”), Icelandic verja (“to defend”).

290 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: облекло (obleklo) — clothing
• Dutch: kledij — clothing
• Dutch: kleding — clothing
• Finnish: asu — clothing
• Finnish: vaatteet — clothing
• Finnish: vaate — clothing
• Finnish: pukimet — clothing
• German: Bekleidung — clothing
• German: Kleidung — clothing
• German: Mode — clothing
• Hungarian: viselet — clothing
• Hungarian: lábbeli — clothing
• Ido: vestaro — clothing
• Italian: abbigliamento — clothing
• Japanese: 服 (fuku) — clothing
• Japanese: 着物 (kimono) — clothing
• Malay: pakai — clothing
• Polish: ubranie — clothing
• Portuguese: vestimenta — clothing
• Romanian: îmbrăcăminte — clothing
• Romanian: haine — clothing
• Spanish: ropa — clothing
• Swedish: klädsel — clothing
• Ukrainian: о́дяг (ódjah) — clothing
• Arabic: اِهْتِراء (ihtirāʔ) — damage
• Azerbaijani: aşıntı — damage
• Bulgarian: износване (iznosvane) — damage
• Catalan: desgast — damage
• Czech: opotřebení — damage
• Dutch: sleet — damage
• Dutch: slijtage — damage
• Finnish: kuluminen — damage
• Finnish: kuluma — damage
• French: usure — damage
• Galician: desgaste — damage
• German: Abnutzung — damage
• German: Verschleiß — damage
• Hungarian: kopás — damage
• Italian: usura — damage
• Japanese: 疲労 (hirō) — damage
• Latvian: nolietojums — damage
• Latvian: nodilums — damage
• Norwegian Bokmål: slitasje — damage
• Norwegian Nynorsk: slitasje — damage
• Occitan: usança — damage
• Polish: zużycie — damage
• Portuguese: desgaste — damage
• Romanian: uzură — damage
• Russian: изно́с (iznós) — damage
• Sardinian: consumu — damage
• Spanish: desgaste — damage
• Swedish: slitage — damage
• Swedish: nötning — damage
• Turkish: yıpranma — damage
• Ukrainian: зно́шування (znóšuvannja) — damage
• Afrikaans: aanhê — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Afrikaans: dra — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Albanian: vesh — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Southern Altai: кийип јӱрер (kiyip ǰürer) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Southern Altai: кийер (kiyer) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Arabic: لَبِسَ (labisa) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Arabic: اِرْتَدَى (irtadā) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Arabic: لبس (libis) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Arabic: لْبس (lbəs) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܵܒ݂ܹܫ (laweš) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Armenian: հագնել (hagnel) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Armenian: կրել (krel) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Aromanian: portu — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Assamese: পিন্ধ (pindh) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Azerbaijani: geymək — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Azerbaijani: taxmaq — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Bashkir: кейеү (keyew) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Basque: jantzi — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Belarusian: насі́ць (nasícʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Belarusian: панасі́ць (panasícʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Belarusian: апрана́ць (apranácʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Belarusian: апрану́ць (apranúcʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Belarusian: надзява́ць (nadzjavácʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Belarusian: надзе́ць (nadzjécʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Bengali: পরা (pora) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Bhojpuri: पहिनल (pahinal) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Central Bikol: sulot — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Central Bikol: sulog — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Bulgarian: но́ся (nósja) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Burmese: ရုံ (rum) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Burmese: ဝတ် (wat) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Catalan: vestir — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Catalan: portar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Cebuano: sul-ob — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏄᏩ (unuwa) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏑᎳ (usula) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Cherokee: ᏚᎵᏰᏑᎳ (duliyesula) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Chinese Cantonese: 著 /着 (zoek3) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Chinese Cantonese: 戴 (daai3) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Hakka Chinese: 著 /着 (chok) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Hakka Chinese: 戴 (tai) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Chinese: 穿 (zh-min-nan) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Chinese: 戴 (zh-min-nan) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Chinese Mandarin: 穿 (chuān) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Chinese Mandarin: 戴 (dài) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Czech: mít na sobě — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Czech: mít — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Czech: nosit — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Danish: have på — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Dutch: dragen — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Dutch: aanhebben — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Egyptian: W-T:z-U39-A24 (wṯz) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Esperanto: porti — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Esperanto: surporti — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Estonian: kandma — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Faliscan: ceso (ceso) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Faroese: vera í — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Finnish: olla yllään — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Finnish: pitää — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Finnish: käyttää — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Finnish: olla päällään — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• French: porter — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• North Frisian: dreeg — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Friulian: puartâ — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Galician: vestir — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Georgian: ტარება (ṭareba) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Georgian: ცმევა (cmeva) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• German: tragen — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• German: anhaben — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Bavarian German: ohåm — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wasjan) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Greek: φορώ (foró) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Ancient Greek: ἐνδύω (endúō) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Ancient Greek: φορέω (phoréō) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Gujarati: પહેરવું (pahervũ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Hawaiian: komo — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Hebrew: לָבַשׁ (lavásh) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Higaonon: isol-ob — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Hindi: पहनना (pahannā) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Hungarian: hord — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Icelandic: vera í — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Ido: portar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Ido: metar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Ingrian: pittää — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Irish: iompair — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Irish: caith — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Italian: indossare — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Italian: portare — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Japanese: 着る (kiru) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Japanese: 掛ける (kakeru) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Japanese: 履く (haku) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Japanese: 被る (kaburu) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Kabuverdianu: bisti — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Kabuverdianu: vestí — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Kamta: pindh — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Khmer: ពាក់ (pĕək) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Khmer: ស្លៀកពាក់ (sliək pĕək) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Korean: 입다 (ipda) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Korean: 신다 (sinda) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Korean: 쓰다 (sseuda) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Korean: 끼다 (kkida) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Lao: ໃສ່ (sai) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Latgalian: nosuot — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Latin: portō — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Latin: gerō — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Latin: vestiō — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Latvian: valkāt — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Latvian: nēsāt — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Lithuanian: nešioti — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Lithuanian: vilkėti — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Macedonian: но́си (nósi) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Malay: pakai — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Māori: kokomo — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Māori: mau — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Miyako: カヴ (kavu) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Mongolian: өмсөх (ömsöx) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Khiamniungan Naga: thīh — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Nepali: लगाउनु (lagāunu) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Nepali: पहिरनु (pahiranu) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Nepali: पैह्रनु (paihranu) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Norwegian Bokmål: bære — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Norwegian Bokmål: ha på seg — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ha på seg — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Occitan: portar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Old English: beran — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Oromo: uffachuu — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Pashto: اغوستل (aγustəl) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Persian: پوشیدن (pušidan) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Polish: nosić — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Polish: mieć na sobie — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Portuguese: vestir — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Portuguese: trajar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Portuguese: usar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Romanian: purta — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Romansh: purtar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Romansh: purter — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Romansh: portar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Russian: носи́ть (nosítʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Russian: надева́ть (nadevátʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Russian: наде́ть (nadétʹ) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Russian: быть оде́тым в (bytʹ odétym v) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Sanskrit: वस्ते (vaste) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Sardinian: zúchere — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Scots: weir — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Serbo-Croatian: но̀сити — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Serbo-Croatian: nòsiti — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Sindhi: پائِڻُ (pāiṇu) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Sindhi: पाइणु — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Slovak: nosiť — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Slovene: nositi — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Spanish: llevar (puesto) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Spanish: vestir — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Spanish: vestir de — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Spanish: vestirse de — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Spanish: usar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Spanish: portar — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Spanish: peinarse — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Swahili: kuvaa — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Swedish: bära — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Swedish: ha på sig — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Sylheti: ꠙꠤꠘ꠆ꠗꠣ (findá) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Thai: ใส่ (sài) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Thai: สวมใส่ (sŭam sài) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Thai: สวม (sǔuam) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Thai: ครอง (krɔɔng) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Tibetan: གོན (gon) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Tibetan: བཞེས (bzhes) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Tibetan: མཆོད (mchod) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Tocharian A: pär- — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Tocharian B: pär- — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Tocharian B: wäs- — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Turkish: giymek — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Turkish: takmak — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Ukrainian: носи́ти (nosýty) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Ukrainian: надяга́ти (nadjaháty) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Ukrainian: наді́ти (nadíty) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Urdu: پہننا (pahannā) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Vietnamese: mặc — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Vietnamese: đeo — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Vietnamese: đi — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Vietnamese: mang — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Walloon: mete — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Walloon: poirter — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Welsh: gwisgo — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Yiddish: זיך אָנטאָן (zikh onton) — to have on (clothes or accessories)
• Bulgarian: но́ся (nósja) — to have or carry on one's person habitually, or in a particular manner
• Finnish: käyttää — to have or carry on one's person habitually, or in a particular manner
• Armenian: մաշվել (mašvel) — to erode due to use
• Bulgarian: изно́свам се (iznósvam se) — to erode due to use
• Chinese Mandarin: 磨 (mó) — to erode due to use
• Chinese Mandarin: 磨損 /磨损 (mósǔn) — to erode due to use
• Czech: opotřebit se — to erode due to use
• Ewe: nyi — to erode due to use
• Finnish: kulua — to erode due to use
• Finnish: kuluttaa — to erode due to use
• French: user — to erode due to use
• German: sich abnutzen — to erode due to use
• Japanese: 擦り切れる (surikireru) — to erode due to use
• Korean: 닳다 (dalta) — to erode due to use
• Korean: 해어지다 (haeeojida) — to erode due to use
• Polish: zużywać — to erode due to use
• Polish: zużyć — to erode due to use
• Portuguese: gastar — to erode due to use
• Portuguese: desgastar — to erode due to use
• Russian: изнашиваться (iznašivatʹsja) — to erode due to use
• Swedish: slita — to erode due to use
• Ukrainian: зно́шуватися (znóšuvatysja) — to erode due to use
• Walloon: uzer — to erode due to use
• Bulgarian: влоша́вам се (vlošávam se) — to undergo gradual deterioration
• Finnish: kulua — to undergo gradual deterioration
• Woiwurrung: tooroongjering-noorong — to undergo gradual deterioration
• Bulgarian: уморя́вам (umorjávam) — to exhaust physically
• Dutch: vermoeien — to exhaust physically
• Dutch: uitputten — to exhaust physically
• Finnish: kuluttaa — to exhaust physically
• Finnish: väsyttää — to exhaust physically
• Finnish: uuvuttaa — to exhaust physically
• French: épuiser — to exhaust physically
• French: fatiguer — to exhaust physically
• West-Frisian: skuorre — to exhaust physically
• Ido: fatigar — to exhaust physically
• Ido: tedar — to exhaust physically
• Portuguese: desgastar — to exhaust physically
• Spanish: fatigar — to exhaust physically
• Swedish: trötta ut — to exhaust physically
• Finnish: rasittaa — to cause annoyance or irritation near the point of an exhaustion of patience
• Finnish: kestää — to overcome one's reluctance and endure
• Finnish: sietää — to overcome one's reluctance and endure
• Bulgarian: издъ́ржам (izdǎ́ržam) — to last or remain durable under hard use or over time
• Finnish: kestää — to last or remain durable under hard use or over time
• Finnish: kulua — of time: to pass slowly, gradually or tediously
• Bulgarian: сме́ням галса (sménjam galsa) — nautical: to bring to other tack by bringing the wind around the stern
• Finnish: jiipata — nautical: to bring to other tack by bringing the wind around the stern
• French: empanner — nautical: to bring to other tack by bringing the wind around the stern
• Swedish: vända undan vinden — nautical: to bring to other tack by bringing the wind around the stern