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TO WEAR

Modern Translation: TO WEAR

Language Translations for "TO WEAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i gatshëm (agreeable, available, content, fain, fit, forthcoming, forward, game, glad, inclined, off the peg, predisposed, prepared, ready, ready made, ready to wear, ready-for-service, willing, wishful). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

لبس. (various references)

   

Asturian

  

trayer. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

ukufwala. (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

sapskaohsatoo. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

готов (eager, fit, game, glib, ready, ready made, ready to wear, ready-for-service, ripe, set, store, unhesitating). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

mosul-ob. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(blanket, by, quilt, to cover), (apply, book, catch, ignited, -ing, outstanding, part. indicates accompanying action, plan, receive, settlement, suffer, to contact, to make known, to prove, to show, to touch, to use, to write), (clothes, gown, to dress), 穿 (pass through, penetrate, perforate, pierce, to bore through, to dress, to put on, to thread). (various references)

   

Cornish

  

gwysca. (various references)

   

Czech

  

konfekèní (off the peg, ready made, ready to wear). (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

churana. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

at vera í. (various references)

   

French

  

prêt à porter (ready to wear), défaillances d'usure (failures due to wear). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

drage (secrete). (various references)

   

German

  

tragen (bear, wear, carry, barrows, shoulder, stretchers, to carry). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

visel (bear, bore, borne, to bear, to port, wear, wore, worn), elnyű (to wear away), elkopik (to deteriorate, to wear out). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengauskan (cause something to wear out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

guasti dovuti all'usura (failures due to wear). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

衰える (to abate, to become weak, to decline), 着る, 召す (to call, to put on, to send for), 帯びる (to be entrusted, to carry, to have). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すれる (to become sophisticated, to chafe, to rub), おびる (to be entrusted, to be tinged with, to carry, to have, to have a trace of, to put on, to take on), おとろえる (to abate, to become weak, to decay, to decline, to waste away, to wither), きる (to be through, to behead, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to murder, to pause, to punch, to put on, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off), まとう (to be clad in, to put on), さげる (to dismiss, to grant, to hang, to hold in the hand, to lower, to move back, to take along), うがつ (to be true to, to bore, to drill, to hit, to pierce, to put on), つける (to add, to affix, to append, to apply, to appraise, to attach, to bring alongside, to dip in, to establish, to fasten, to follow, to furnish, to give, to glue, to join, to keep, to keep a diary, to light up, to load, to make an entry, to moisten, to pickle, to place, to put, to put on, to set, to sew on, to shadow, to soak, to stick, to switch on, to turn on), かぶる (to pour or dash water, to put on), かける (to advance, to be lacking, to begin to, to bet, to canter, to construct, to cover, to fly, to gallop, to gamble, to hang, to make a phone call, to multiply, to offer, to play, to pour, to put on, to puton the line, to risk, to run, to sit, to sit down, to soar, to stake, to wager), いただく (to accept, to be crowned with, to buy, to install, to live under, to receive, to take, to take food or drink), めす (female, to buy, to call, to catch, to drink, to eat, to put on, to ride in, to send for, to take), みにつける (to acquire knowledge, to learn, to put on), はく (be worn off, chief official, come off, command esteem, commanding esteem, count, counter for nights of a stay, discolor, doctor, earl, eldest brother, exhibition, exposition, fade, fair, gain, gaining, oak, peel off, Ph.D., receive, receiving, to breathe, to brush, to disgorge, to gather up, to put on, to sweep, to tell, to vomit, uncle, win acclaim, winning acclaim). (various references)

   

Kongo

  

ku-vwata. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

nosi. (various references)

   

Maya

  

kaschah (to wear out). (various references)

   

Papago

  

juhkch. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay earway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

roupa pronta (confection, ready to wear, ready to wear clothes), pronto para uso (ready to wear). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

portar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rezistenţã la uzurã (resistance to wear), gata confecţionat (ready made, ready to wear). (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

kwambara. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сопротивление износу (resistance to wear), готовый (ready), прочность на износ (resistance to wear). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

e ofu. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

spreman za nošenje (ready to wear). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

purtari. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hecho (fact, done, mature), fallas por desgaste (failures due to wear), de percha (ready made, ready to wear), confeccionado (made up, ready made, ready to wear), confección (making, manifacture, manufacture). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ha garderobssorg (have only one's sunday best to wear), färdiggjord (complete, finished, ready made, ready to wear, ready-for-service). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

готовий (finished, game, game for smth., hand-me-down, minded, officinal, prepared, provided, reach-me-down, ready, ready made, ready to wear, ready-cooked, ready-for-service, ripe, willing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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