wonder

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwʌndə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈwʌ̹ndə]
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈwɐndə/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: [ˈwɐ̞ndə]
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• Northern-England: /ˈwʊndə/ without the foot-strut split
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• General-American: /ˈwʌndɚ/
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• General-American: [ˈwʌ̈ndɚ] ~ [ˈwʌ̈ndɹ̩]
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• Scotland: /ˈwʌndəɹ/
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• Scotland: [ˈwʌndəɹ]
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• rhymes with -ʌndə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: W AH1 N D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English wonder, wunder, from Old English wundor (“wonder, miracle, marvel”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundr, from Proto-Germanic *wundrą. Cognate with Scots wunner (“wonder”), West Frisian wonder, wûnder (“wonder, miracle”), Dutch wonder (“miracle, wonder”), Low German wunner, wunder (“wonder”), German Wunder (“miracle, wonder”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish under (“wonder, miracle”), Faroese and Icelandic undur (“wonder”). The verb is from Middle English wondren, from Old English wundrian, which is from Proto-Germanic *wundrōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wunnerje, West Frisian wûnderje, Dutch wonderen, German Low German wunnern, German wundern, Swedish undra, Icelandic undra. Via PIE cognate with English wish (see more).

307 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: удивление (udivlenie) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Chinese Mandarin: 敬畏 (jìngwèi) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Chinese Mandarin: 驚奇 /惊奇 (jīngqí) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Esperanto: miro — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Finnish: kummastus — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Finnish: ihmetys — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Galician: asombro — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Ancient Greek: θαῦμα (thaûma) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Hindi: आश्चर्य (āścarya) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Hindi: विस्मय (vismay) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Hungarian: csodálkozás — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Hungarian: csodálat — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Japanese: 驚嘆 (kyōtan) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Latin: formīdō — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Malayalam: വിസ്മയം (vismayaṁ) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Polish: zdumienie — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Russian: удивле́ние (udivlénije) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Spanish: asombro — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Spanish: pasmo — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Ukrainian: по́див (pódyv) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Ukrainian: дивува́ння (dyvuvánnja) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Ukrainian: здивува́ння (zdyvuvánnja) — sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity
• Albanian: thagmë — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Arabic: عَجَب (ʕajab) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Armenian: հրաշք (hraškʻ) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Azerbaijani: təəccüb — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Belarusian: цуд (cud) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Belarusian: дзі́ва (dzíva) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Bulgarian: чу́до (čúdo) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Catalan: meravella — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Chinese Mandarin: 奇跡 /奇迹 (qíjī) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Chinese Mandarin: 奧妙 /奥妙 (àomiào) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Czech: div — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Czech: zázrak — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Danish: vidunder — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Danish: under — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Danish: mirakel — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Dutch: wonder — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Dyirbal: (Jirribal) mali? — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Esperanto: mirindaĵo — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Estonian: ime — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Faroese: undur — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Finnish: ihme — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• French: merveille — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• West-Frisian: wûnder — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Galician: marabilla — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• German: Wunder — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• German: Mirakel — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌹 (fauratani) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺 (sildaleik) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Greek: θαύμα (thávma) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Ancient Greek: θαῦμα (thaûma) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Hawaiian: kāhāhā — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Hebrew: פֶּלֶא (pele) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Hindi: आश्चर्य (āścarya) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Hungarian: csoda — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Icelandic: undur — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Irish: ionadh — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Irish: iontas — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Italian: meraviglia — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Japanese: 驚異 (kyōi) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Khmer: អច្ឆរិយវត្ថុ (accha’re’ya’ voattho’) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Korean: 놀라움 (nollaum) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Korean: 경이 (gyeong'i) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Latin: mīrāculum — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Latin: mīrābilis — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Lithuanian: stebuklas — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Low German: Wunner — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Low German: Mirakel — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Macedonian: чудо (čudo) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Malagasy: fahagagana — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Malayalam: വിസ്മയം (vismayaṁ) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Malayalam: അത്ഭുതം (atbhutaṁ) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Manx: yindys — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Māori: autaia — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Mirandese: marabilha — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Norwegian Bokmål: under — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Norwegian Bokmål: underverk — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Norwegian Bokmål: vidunder — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: under — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: underverk — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Occitan: meravilha — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Old Church Slavonic: дивъ (divŭ) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Old Church Slavonic: чоудо (čudo) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Old English: wundor — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Persian: شگفتی (šegefti) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Polish: cud — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Polish: dziw — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Portuguese: maravilha — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Romanian: minune — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Romanian: mirare — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Russian: чу́до (čúdo) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Russian: ди́во (dívo) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Northern Sami: imaš — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Scottish Gaelic: mìorbhail — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Serbo-Croatian: чудо — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Serbo-Croatian: čudo — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Slovak: div — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Slovak: zázrak — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Slovene: čudež — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Somali: yaab — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Spanish: maravilla — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Spanish: portento — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Swahili: maajabu — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Swedish: under — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Swedish: mirakel — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Tagalog: paghanga — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Tatar: могҗиза (moğciza) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Turkish: harika — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Ukrainian: чу́до (čúdo) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Ukrainian: ди́во (dývo) — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Venetan: maraveja — something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel
• Armenian: հրաշք (hraškʻ) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Bulgarian: чудо (čudo) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Danish: under — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Danish: vidunder — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Finnish: ihme — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Finnish: kumma — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Finnish: kummallisuus — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Galician: marabilla — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Galician: milagre — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Greek: θαύμα (thávma) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Ancient Greek: θαῦμα (thaûma) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Hindi: चमत्कार (camatkār) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Hungarian: csoda — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Khmer: ឆ្ងល់ (cŋɑl) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Korean: 기적 (gijeok) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Latin: incrēdibilis — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Malayalam: വിസ്മയം (vismayaṁ) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Manx: yindys — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Khiamniungan Naga: thǖngō — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Polish: dziw — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Polish: dziwo — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Portuguese: maravilha — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Romanian: minune — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Russian: чу́до (čúdo) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Northern Sami: imaš — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Scottish Gaelic: mìorbhail — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Spanish: maravilla — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Spanish: milagro — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Tagalog: paghanga — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Tatar: могҗиза (moğciza) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Turkish: mucize — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Turkish: tansık — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Ottoman Turkish: كرامت (keramet) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Ottoman Turkish: معجزه (muʼcize) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Ottoman Turkish: علامت (ʼalamet) — something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable
• Bulgarian: чудо (čudo) — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Chinese Mandarin: 天才 (tiāncái) — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Danish: vidunder- — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Esperanto: talento — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Finnish: mestari — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Finnish: lahjakkuus — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Finnish: ilmiö — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Finnish: ihme — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Galician: marabilla — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Greek: θαύμα (thávma) — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Greek: ταλέντο (talénto) — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Greek: αστέρι (astéri) — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Hungarian: csoda- — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Hungarian: -zseni — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Icelandic: snillingur — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Korean: 천재 (cheonjae) — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Korean: 기인 (giin) — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Latin: ingeniōsus — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Latin: peringeniōsus — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Portuguese: maravilha — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Portuguese: genial — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Spanish: genio — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Spanish: maravilla — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Tagalog: henyo — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Turkish: deha — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Turkish: dâhi — someone very talented at something, a genius
• Czech: podivení — informal: thought
• Danish: fundere — informal: thought
• Danish: spekulere — informal: thought
• Danish: tænke — informal: thought
• Finnish: ihmettely — informal: thought
• Finnish: fundeeraus — informal: thought
• Greek: απορία (aporía) — informal: thought
• Latin: volūtātiō — informal: thought
• Latin: dubium — informal: thought
• Portuguese: pensamento — informal: thought
• Russian: интере́с (interés) — informal: thought
• Slovene: tuhtanje — informal: thought
• Spanish: pensamiento — informal: thought
• Swahili: maajabu — informal: thought
• Bulgarian: учудвам се (učudvam se) — to be affected with surprise
• Catalan: sorprendre's — to be affected with surprise
• Catalan: quedar-se estorat — to be affected with surprise
• Ngazidja Comorian: utaâdjaɓu — to be affected with surprise
• Danish: studse — to be affected with surprise
• Danish: forundre — to be affected with surprise
• Dutch: zich verwonderen — to be affected with surprise
• Finnish: hämmästellä — to be affected with surprise
• Finnish: ihmetellä — to be affected with surprise
• Finnish: kummastella — to be affected with surprise
• French: s'étonner — to be affected with surprise
• French: être étonné — to be affected with surprise
• Galician: marabillar — to be affected with surprise
• Galician: asombrar — to be affected with surprise
• Galician: abraiar — to be affected with surprise
• German: sich wundern — to be affected with surprise
• Greek: θαυμάζω (thavmázo) — to be affected with surprise
• Greek: μένω έκθαμβος (méno ékthamvos) — to be affected with surprise
• Ancient Greek: θαυμάζω (thaumázō) — to be affected with surprise
• Hebrew: הִתְפַּלֵּא (hitpalé) — to be affected with surprise
• Hungarian: csodálkozik — to be affected with surprise
• Hungarian: meglepődik — to be affected with surprise
• Icelandic: undra — to be affected with surprise
• Old Irish: ad·amraigedar — to be affected with surprise
• Korean: 놀라다 (nollada) — to be affected with surprise
• Latin: mīror — to be affected with surprise
• Malagasy: gaga — to be affected with surprise
• Malagasy: talanjona — to be affected with surprise
• Māori: māharo — to be affected with surprise
• Māori: mīharo — to be affected with surprise
• Māori: miha — to be affected with surprise
• Old English: wundrian — to be affected with surprise
• Persian: شگفتیدن (šegeftidan) — to be affected with surprise
• Polish: zdumiewać się — to be affected with surprise
• Polish: zdumieć się — to be affected with surprise
• Polish: nadziwić się (used with "nie móc") — to be affected with surprise
• Russian: удивля́ться (udivljátʹsja) — to be affected with surprise
• Northern Sami: imaštit — to be affected with surprise
• Northern Sami: imaštallat — to be affected with surprise
• Spanish: maravillarse — to be affected with surprise
• Spanish: sorprenderse — to be affected with surprise
• Swedish: förundras — to be affected with surprise
• Venetan: farse marevea — to be affected with surprise
• Venetan: meravejarse — to be affected with surprise
• Arabic: تَسَاءَلَ (tasāʔala) — to ponder about something
• Belarusian: здзіўля́цца (zdziwljácca) — to ponder about something
• Belarusian: ціка́віцца (cikávicca) — to ponder about something
• Bulgarian: пи́там се (pítam se) — to ponder about something
• Bulgarian: чудя се (čudja se) — to ponder about something
• Catalan: preguntar-se — to ponder about something
• Chickasaw: anhit ishtanokfilli — to ponder about something
• Chinese Mandarin: 思索 (sīsuǒ) — to ponder about something
• Czech: podivovat se — to ponder about something
• Czech: uvažovat — to ponder about something
• Danish: undre — to ponder about something
• Danish: spørge sig — to ponder about something
• Dutch: zich afvragen — to ponder about something
• Esperanto: scivoli — to ponder about something
• Esperanto: pripensi — to ponder about something
• Finnish: ihmetellä — to ponder about something
• Finnish: miettiä — to ponder about something
• Finnish: pohtia — to ponder about something
• Finnish: tuumia — to ponder about something
• Finnish: tuumailla — to ponder about something
• Finnish: aprikoida — to ponder about something
• French: se demander — to ponder about something
• French: conjecturer — to ponder about something
• German: sich fragen — to ponder about something
• Greek: αναρωτιέμαι (anarotiémai) — to ponder about something
• Greek: απορώ (aporó) — to ponder about something
• Hebrew: תהה (tahá) — to ponder about something
• Hungarian: tűnődik — to ponder about something
• Hungarian: eltűnődik — to ponder about something
• Hungarian: mereng — to ponder about something
• Hungarian: elmereng — to ponder about something
• Hungarian: kíváncsi — to ponder about something
• Hungarian: vajon — to ponder about something
• Italian: domandarsi — to ponder about something
• Italian: chiedersi — to ponder about something
• Korean: 의심하다 (uisimhada) — to ponder about something
• Korean: 궁금하다 (gunggeumhada) — to ponder about something
• Latin: volūtō — to ponder about something
• Latin: mēcum tacitus agitō — to ponder about something
• Latin: diū reputō (mēcum) — to ponder about something
• Latin: dubitō — to ponder about something
• Low German: sik wunnern — to ponder about something
• Low German: sik verwunnern — to ponder about something
• Low German: wunnerwarken — to ponder about something
• Low German: baff wesen — to ponder about something
• Macedonian: се пра́шува (se prášuva) — to ponder about something
• Māori: mīharo — to ponder about something
• Māori: whakamīharo — to ponder about something
• Norwegian: undres — to ponder about something
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lura på — to ponder about something
• Old English: wundrian — to ponder about something
• Polish: zastanawiać się — to ponder about something
• Polish: zastanowić się — to ponder about something
• Portuguese: ponderar — to ponder about something
• Portuguese: perguntar-se — to ponder about something
• Romanian: mira — to ponder about something
• Russian: интересова́ться (interesovátʹsja) — to ponder about something
• Russian: спра́шивать себя́ (sprášivatʹ sebjá) — to ponder about something
• Russian: интересно (interesno) — to ponder about something
• Northern Sami: imaštit — to ponder about something
• Northern Sami: imaštallat — to ponder about something
• Serbo-Croatian: pitati se — to ponder about something
• Serbo-Croatian: čuditi se — to ponder about something
• Slovene: tuhtati — to ponder about something
• Spanish: preguntarse — to ponder about something
• Spanish: ponderar — to ponder about something
• Spanish: querer saber — to ponder about something
• Swahili: maajabu — to ponder about something
• Swedish: undra — to ponder about something
• Swedish: fråga sig — to ponder about something
• Turkish: merak etmek — to ponder about something
• Ukrainian: дивува́тися (dyvuvátysja) — to ponder about something
• Ukrainian: ціка́витися (cikávytysja) — to ponder about something
• Venetan: dimandarse — to ponder about something
• Vietnamese: thắc mắc — to ponder about something