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From an irregular romanization of various Mandarin Chinese surnames including 吳/吴 (Wú), 伍 (Wǔ), 武 (Wǔ), and 巫 (Wū), or from Cantonese 胡 (wu4).

From Korean 우 (u). * (surname): from Korean 禹, 于

From Middle English wowen, woȝen, from Old English wōgian (“to woo, court, marry”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots wow (“to woo”). Perhaps related to Old English wōg, wōh (“bending, crookedness”), in the specific sense of "bend or incline (some)one toward oneself". If so, then derived from Proto-Germanic *wanhō (“a bend, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wonk- (“crooked, bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *wā- (“to bend, twist, turn”); related to Old Norse vá (“corner, angle”).

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَوَدَّدَ (tawaddada) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Bulgarian: ухажвам (uhažvam) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Catalan: festejar — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Chinese Mandarin: 追求 (zhuīqiú) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Chinese Mandarin: 求愛 /求爱 (qiú'ài) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Czech: dvořit se — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Danish: kurtisere — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Dutch: het hof maken — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Esperanto: amindumi — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Finnish: kosiskella — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Finnish: riiata — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Finnish: vokotella — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• French: courtiser — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• French: faire la cour (à) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Galician: facer as beiras — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Georgian: მოხიბვლა (moxibvla) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• German: umwerben — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Greek: κορτάρω (kortáro) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Ancient Greek: μνηστεύω (mnēsteúō) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Hebrew: חיזר — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Hebrew: חִזֵּר (khizér) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Hungarian: udvarol — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Ido: kurtezar — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Italian: corteggiare — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Italian: battere i pezzi — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Japanese: 求愛する (kyūai surú) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Māori: aruaru — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Māori: whakaipo — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Māori: whaipo — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Māori: whakawhaipo — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Māori: mātoro — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Polish: zalecać się — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Polish: umizgiwać się — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Portuguese: cortejar — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Romanian: curta — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Romanian: face curte — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Russian: уха́живать (uxáživatʹ) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Russian: сва́таться (svátatʹsja) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Russian: добива́ться расположе́ния (dobivátʹsja raspoložénija) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Serbo-Croatian: snubiti — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Spanish: cortejar — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Spanish: pololear — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Spanish: jotear — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Spanish: doñear — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Swedish: uppvakta — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Swedish: kurtisera — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Swedish: svärma — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Turkish: kur yapmak — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Turkish: yazmak — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Turkish: asılmak — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Ottoman Turkish: یشیللنمك (yeşillenmek) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• Yiddish: אָווירען (oviren) — to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support
• German: den Hof machen — to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
• German: umwerben — to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with