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| 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 | 被 (blanket, by, quilt, to cover), 著 (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), 衣 (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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