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Definition: Prepare |
PrepareVerb1. Make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war". 2. Prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?" "fix breakfast for the guests, please". 3. To prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery; "prepare a report"; "prepare a speech". 4. Arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office". 5. Prepare (someone) for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior". 6. Create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists; "we develop the leaders for the future". 7. Make suitable for eating; of foods. 8. Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prepare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Prepare \Pre*pare"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Prepare; Preparing.]. (references) |
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Mining | A. To shear or undermine coal so that it can be readily blasted loose b. Arkansas. To make a cartridge for a blast. (references) |
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Synonyms: PrepareSynonyms: cook (v), develop (v), devise (v), educate (v), fix (v), gear up (v), get up (v), groom (v), machinate (v), make (v), organise (v), organize (v), ready (v), set (v), set up (v), train (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Compendium | Verb: abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract; n. |
Expectation | Foresee; prepare for; forestall; (be early); count upon; (believe in); think likely; (probability). |
Facility | Leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open; give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the way, bridge over; permit. |
Lamentation | Phrase: tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes; eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears; "if you have tears prepare to shed them now"; interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent; "strangled his language in his tears"; "tears such as angels weep". |
Plan | Verb: plan,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent; (imagine); set one's wits to work; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures. |
Preparation | Verb: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation. set in order, put in order; (arrange); forecast; (plan) prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil; predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first stone; (begin). |
Train; (teach); inure; (habituate); breed; prepare; for; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door to; (facilitate). | |
Prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship; (learn); lay oneself out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor, reculer pour mieux sauter, prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to. | |
Guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest; lay in provisions; make investments; keep on foot. | |
Safety | Make assurance doubly sure; (caution); take up a loose thread; take precautions; (prepare for); double reef topsails. |
Teaching | Train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure; (habituate). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prepare |
| English words defined with "prepare": prepare for. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prepare": Vituperate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Prepare" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Haitian Creole (prepare). |
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Screenplays | Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;) Prepare to die. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) I even got in early to prepare orange drink (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Prepare to meet Kali in Hell (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; writing credit: George Lucas; Willard Huyck) This is where I shall prepare our gourmet feasts (She-Wolf of London; writing credit: Hans Beimler) | |
Lyrics | Just prepare yourself or be ready to go (Cool It Now; performing artist: New Edition) My mind says prepare 2 fight ("1999"; performing artist: Prince) All I do is prepare (My God; performing artist: The Jets) | |
Clever | It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. (references; author: Mark Twain) Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. (references; author: unknown) He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail. (references; author: unknown) The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. (references; author: unknown) Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Prepare for Advancement (1955) | |
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![]() | "Buy boat" ROBERT LEE, working with the Oyster Recovery Partnership, maneuvers among pallets of oyster hatchery bags. Volunteers from the Bay Bus Partnership Project in the water prepare the pallets to be loaded onto the boat. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | The galley slave getting ready to prepare the evening meal. Aboard the headboat YANKEE CAPTAIN out of Gloucester. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | NOAA volunteers prepare to travel to the clean-up sites. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Dave Meyer in the marsh mud begins to prepare the site for a fyke net collection. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Scientists and fishermen aboard the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship MILLER FREEMAN prepare to examine a trawl load of Bering Sea fish. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Ensign Dann Karlson assists divers with tide gauge installation, while Lt. E. J. Van Den Ameele (Field Operations Officer) and Ordinary Seaman Chip Miller prepare additional gear. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Nighthawks prepare to soar over Southwest Asia. | ![]() | Prepare munitions to be loaded on a B-1B Lancer. |
![]() | Conservation tillage system (full width tillage to prepare the ground for planting) that leaves at least 30 percent of the soil covered after planting with last year's crop residue. Central Iowa. Credit: Laura Greiner. | ![]() | Cooperator sets up a laser leveler to prepare irrigated field for leveling. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
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| Ding; air pressure; wing; airplane; pilot; test; precautionary; prepare; preparation. | Hair dryer; hair blower; blower; blow; dryer; dry; fan; heat; primp; deck out; doll up; dress up; fix up; groom; gussy up; preen; prepare; prink; slick; smarten; spiff; spruce; titivate. | ||
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Abraham Lincoln | I will prepare and some day my chance will come. |
Aesop | It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. |
Author Unknown | Look for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes. |
Benjamin Franklin | By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. |
Edward Blishen | Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement. |
John Wooden | Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. |
Samuel Johnson | Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. |
Sterling W. Sill | We were born to prepare to live, and we live to prepare to die. |
Vegetius | Let him who desires peace prepare for war. |
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John Locke | 1690 | To prepare such an assembly as this, and endeavour to set up the declared abettors of his own will, for the true representatives of the people, and the law-makers of the society, is certainly as great a breach of trust, and as perfect a declaration of a design to subvert the government, as is possible to be met with. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | It will prepare the agenda for the meetings of the Conference. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Thenardiess had had time to prepare herself for the shock |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Prepare your child for medical tests. (references) | |
Clean surfaces well before using them to prepare foods. (references) | ||
Often it is helpful to prepare a list of questions in advance. (references) | ||
Business | Tenderers usually have about six weeks to prepare their offers. (references) | |
More money is flowing in from the European Union to help Romania prepare for EU entry. (references) | ||
There is a trend by many African governments to prepare network operators for competition and privatization. (references) | ||
Children | Czech Republic | Local NGO's support additional studies and private initiatives to prepare Romani children for mainstream schools. (references) |
Czech Republic | Many districts with high concentrations of Roma participate in year-long programs (so-called zero grades) to prepare for their first year in school; these programs are funded solely by local authorities. (references) | |
Mauritius | No action was taken during the year on the Government's 1998 plan to prepare a curriculum for human rights education to be introduced into social studies courses at the primary and secondary levels. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | The Uzbekistan Information Agency cooperates closely with the presidential staff to prepare and distribute all officially sanctioned news and information. (references) |
Guinea | There was credible evidence that RUF forces used refugees as informants and disguised themselves as refugees to prepare for attacks on the country. (references) | |
Belarus | When the Cuban Embassy began the to prepare the documents, the Ministry of Justice recommended that Cuba invite the representatives of the proregime Belarusian Patriotic Youth Union instead. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | The sea defenses in Guyana are being repaired and constructed to prevent further flooding, and to prepare the sea defenses to withstand future shocks. (references) |
Korea | Foreign applicants are required to retain a licensed local attorney in order to prepare applications in Korean and to conduct necessary follow-up correspondences locally. (references) | |
Malaysia | Financial sector consolidation has been a long-running policy objective to prepare Malaysia's financial sector for increased competition and globalization. (references) | |
Human Rights | Honduras | In August, at the invitation of the Government, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary, and Summary Executions visited the country to investigate these allegations and prepare a report. (references) |
Japan | Critics claimed that legal representatives of defendants do not always have access to all needed relevant material in the police record to prepare their defense. (references) | |
Iran | He reported having been taken on numerous occasions before a firing squad, told to prepare for death, only to be allowed to live. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | The mandate of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, created by Parliament in 1991, expired in 2000. The Council's final report was released in December 2000, and it included recommendations that the federal and state governments set performance benchmarks and timelines for overcoming Aboriginal disadvantage and enact legislation to further the principles of legislation; that Parliament prepare legislation providing for a referendum on deleting a constitutional amendment on racial criteria for voting; and that the Constitution be amended to make racial discrimination unlawful. (references) |
Minorities | Benin | Candidate Sacca Lafia, first vice-president of the National Assembly, gave speeches urging his fellow northerners and members of his own Bariba group to prepare to seize power from other groups. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | Lawyers complain that they sometimes are granted access to court documents too late to prepare an effective defense. (references) |
Political Rights | Uzbekistan | Only the Central Election Commission may prepare and release presidential campaign posters. (references) |
Russia | However, in spite of efforts made by authorities to prepare for safe and orderly elections in the Chechen Republic, observers stated that many of the conditions associated with democratic elections could not be met. (references) | |
Hong Kong | The Basic Law states that "the ultimate aim is the selection of the Chief Executive by universal suffrage upon nomination by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures." To date, the Government has not initiated any steps to prepare for a change in the procedure for choosing the Chief Executive. (references) | |
Trade | Hungary | However, Hungary's duty-free zone policy will be reviewed and subject to change as they prepare for accession to the EU. (references) |
Ireland | The transit document provides the basis for a single, comprehensive procedure covering the goods within the EU. Since this is an EU procedure, the European importer, customhouse broker, freight forwarder, or shipper must prepare these documents at point of entry into the EU region. (references) | |
Turkey | Cigarettes can only be imported by TEKEL and cigarette producers who are permitted by the government under a special decree (such as Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, British Tobacco, etc.). A draft tobacco law, scheduled to be submitted to parliament in fall 2001, would prepare TEKEL for privatization and would end TEKEL's role over tobacco farming in Turkey. (references) | |
Travel | Kazakhstan | Otherwise, travelers should expect to spend one full day at the main Almaty OVIR office, located on the corner of Bogenbay Batyr and Masanchi Streets, Registration Department: Tel: 7 (3272) 62-54-62, 63-86-81. Travelers should prepare a written request for registration, which should include full name; citizenship, passport number; duration of stay; address in Kazakhstan; purpose of the trip; and places in Kazakhstan to be visited. (references) |
Italy | Officially, national banknotes and coins are scheduled to be withdrawn from use by February 28, 2002. More detailed information regarding the Euro -- including a conversion timetable -- can be found on the European Union's official website: http://europa.eu.int/. This website also carries articles concerning the impact that the Euro will have on non-EU countries and how businesses can prepare for this important change. (references) | |
Women | Sweden | All employers with more than 10 employees must prepare an annual equality plan, including a survey of pay differences between male and female employees. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read them. A synposis of the entire work would be still better. The late James F. Bowman was writing a serial tale for a weekly paper in collaboration with a genius whose name has not come down to us. They wrote, not jointly but alternately, Bowman supplying the installment for one week, his friend for the next, and so on, world without end, they hoped. Unfortunately they quarreled, and one Monday morning when Bowman read the paper to prepare himself for his task, he found his work cut out for him in a way to surprise and pain him. His collaborator had embarked every character of the narrative on a ship and sunk them all in the deepest part of the Atlantic. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | To effect the object of the act the officers of the Board of Engineers, with Commodore Bainbridge, were directed to prepare plans and estimates of piers sufficient to answer the purpose intended by the act. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Undoubtedly the clarification of the principles of international law would be helpful, and the efforts of scholars to prepare such a work for adoption by the various nations should have our sympathy and support. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | This constitutes, then, as complete a report as I find it possible to prepare now. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We must have the wisdom, the stamina, and the courage to prepare today for the perils of tomorrow, and I believe we will. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | So we must prepare for peace not only by reducing weapons but by bolstering prosperity, liberty, and democracy however and wherever we can. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | My fellow Americans, every time I prepare for the State of the Union, I approach it with hope and expectation and excitement for our nation. |
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| "Prepare" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 71.39% of the time. "Prepare" is used about 3,020 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 71.39% | 2,156 | 4,050 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 28.58% | 863 | 8,199 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,020 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "prepare". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Memucan | N/A | Biblical | To prepare |
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Expressions using "prepare": prepare a sandwich ♦ prepare budget ♦ prepare food ♦ prepare for ♦ prepare for action ♦ prepare for an exam ♦ prepare for dispatch ♦ prepare for the future ♦ prepare oneself ♦ prepare oneself for ♦ prepare the ground ♦ prepare under construction. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "prepare": quick-to-prepare. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "prepare"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | voorberei (prepared), berei (finish), bedissel (arrange, fix, fix up). (various references) | |
Albanian | përgatitem (await, be about to, impend, study, work up), përgatit (coach, compose, concoct, cook up, dispense, dress, fit, fit up, get, get ready, get up, make, make ready, make up, mix up, mobilize, produce, qualify, stage-manage, train), gatis (make ready). (various references) | |
Arabic | هيأ (adapt, arm, dress, fix, gear, get, make, predestine, ready), حضر (assist, attend, bring, call in, civilize, come, elaborate, fetch, make, present, report, send around, turn up), تأهب (alertness, get ready, preparedness, provide, readiness, set, square up to, stand by), جهز (accommodate, activate, appoint, device, equip, equip with, fit, fit out, furnish, gear, get ready, outfit, pack up, provide, set off, set smb. up in smth., stand by, think out), إستعد (brace, get ready, groom, provide against, ready, run in, stand by, tool up, wind up), أعد حضر (concoct, give one's word, groom, promise, ready), ركب (assemble, compact, compose, construct, fabricate, frame, mount, put together, ride, rig up, set, set up, straddle, superimpose), دبر (administer, brew, cogitate, concoct, conduct, contrive, devise, engineer, lay, set, spare). (various references) | |
Asturian | facer la cena (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Aymara | huaquichaña (to prepare). (various references) | |
Bemba | ukupekanya umulalilo (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Breton | aozañ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | готвя (concoct, cook, do), приготвям се (busk, equip oneself, get ready, poise), приготвям (fix, get ready, make, make ready, make up, put up, ready), подработвам (work up), подковавам (brief, horseshoe, nail, shoe), подготвям (equip, fit, get up, make ready, precede, prelude, string up, tee up, train, tutor, work up). (various references) | |
Cebuano | maglutog panihapon (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma fatinas i sena (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Chinese | 賅 (include in), 蕆 (complete), 豫 (beforehand), 庀 , 準備 (preparation), 准备 (PREP, Preparation, Preparatory, Prepared, Preparedness, Preparing, readiness, readying, warm-up). (various references) | |
Cornish | darbary (to prepare). (various references) | |
Croatian | pekom (clay coverused to prepare food). (various references) | |
Czech | připravit se (get ready), připravit (busk, concoct, cook, dispense, engineer, get ready, provide, temper), chystat se (be about to, be in the offing, get ready). (various references) | |
Danish | fuldende (accomodate, end, finish, terminate), forberede. (various references) | |
Dutch | toebereiden (finish), bereiden (finish), aanmaken (achieve, act, carry out, do, fabricate, kindle, light, make, manufacture, perform). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pretigi (finish), prepari, preparas. (various references) | |
Faeroese | gera til, fyrireika. (various references) | |
Farsi | پستاکردن , مهیاساختن , مجهزکردن (Dight, Equip, Furnish, Imp), ساختن (Build, Compose, Establish, Form, Invent, Make, Manufacture, Mint, Model, Move, Upbuild, Weave), اماده شدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | valmistella, valmistautua (get ready, make preparations), valmistaa (complete, finish, make, manufacture, produce), muokata (break up, curry, dress, till, work up), laittaa (arrange, fix, make, mend, repair), laatia (compile, compose, create, draw up, make, work out, write). (various references) | |
French | préparer. (various references) | |
Frisian | it miel reemeitsje (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Galician | prepara. (various references) | |
German | vorbereiten (be boiling, groom, Mount, prearrange, prepaid, prepair, prime, priming, set up), bereiten (cause, give, make up, ready), zurichten (dress, finish, injure, justify, make a mess of, mangle), anfertigen (achieve, act, carry out, do, draw up, fabricate, make, make up, manufacture, perform). (various references) | |
Greek | προετοιμάζω (set the scene for). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | prepare. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לערוך (arrange, array, dispose, draw up, edit, give, organize, range), לזמן (convene, invite, summon), ל"תכו ן (get ready, habilitate), ל"כין (concoct, get ready, groom, ready), ל"כשיר (adapt, fit, groom, make fit, qualify, school), "כין. (various references) | |
Hungarian | készít (concoct, finish, make, sprang, sprung, to cartoon, to concoct, to construct, to fabricate, to proof, to reticulate, to spring, to strike a balance, to tailor, to take a rubbing of an inscription, to track). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyiapkan, menyediakan (equip, funds), make available, provide, set aside (foods), mengulah, mempersiapkan. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | niqiliuqluni (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Irish | ullmhaigh. (various references) | |
Italian | preparare (arrange, be about to, concoct, dress, finish, fit, get ready, lay, make, prime), allestire (dress, equip, fit out, organise, put on, stage), apprestare (finish). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 調える (to arrange, to prepare, to raise money). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | したてる (to make, to prepare, to send, to tailor, to train), そなえる (to be armed with, to be endowed with, to be furnished with, to dedicate, to equip, to furnish, to have, to have ready, to install, to offer, to possess, to prepare for, to provide for, to sacrifice), し"む (to educate, to prepare, to stock, to teach, to train), きりととのえる (to cut and prepare, to trim), つくる (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to make up, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write), せ"じ す (to decoct, to extract by broiling, to prepare an infusion of), りょそう'ととのえる (to prepare for a journey), りょうりのたね'し"む (to prepare for cooking), ととのえる (to adjust, to arrange, to get ready, to prepare, to put in order, to raise money). (various references) | |
Kongo | ku-lamba madia (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Korean | 준비하십시". (various references) | |
Macedonian | podgotvi vechera (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Manx | shiaullaghey (equip, equip as boat, fit out, ready, rig, tune, tune as engine, tune up, tuning), kiartaghey (accommodate, accommodate arrange, adjust, adjusting, amend, correct, correct as mistake, correction, even out, fix, make, modification, modify, preparation, qualify, ready, rectification, redress, setting, settle, settling, true), jannoo aarloo, geddyn aarloo, aarlaghey (dressing, get out, groom, qualify, train). (various references) | |
Maori | taka (to prepare). (various references) | |
Maya | dzaah-hanal (to prepare a meal). (various references) | |
Papiamen | prepará. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eparepray.(various references) | |
Polish | przygotować. (various references) | |
Portuguese | preparar (arrange, coach, confection, do, do up, draw up, finish, fix up, frame, groom, lay, make, mobilize, process, ready, square up, study, temper, to prepare, train), aprontar (finish, get ready, make, make ready, ready), aparelhar (finish, furnish, gear, harness, outfit, rig, tool up). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | prepare-se. (various references) | |
Provencal | aprestar lo sopar (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Romanian | prepara (concoct, confection, dispense, dress, make up), pregãti (coach, compose, concoct, cook, do, dress, fit, get up, lay out, make, make ready, prime, put in, train, tutor), studia (consider, examine, explore, follow, learn, read, study, survey), se pregãti (be about, cook), redacta (compose, couch, draft, draw, draw up, edit, frame, indite, redact, word, write), griji (provide oneself, take care of), gãti (attire, caparison, cook, doll, dress, end, fig out, prank, preen, rig, Spruce, trim), face (achieve, act, anoint, appoint, be, be up to smth., bear, build, carry out, commit, compose, conclude, cook, cost, create, cut, dispense, do, does, draw, drive, effect, form, give, give forth, grow, happen, have, hold, induce, it does, keep, lead, leave, let, make, move, perform, perpetrate, persuade, produce, prompt, render, say, scoop in, strike, work, write, yield), fabrica (coin, concoct, fabricate, forge, make, manufacture, mint, process, produce, work), executa (accomplish, carry out, cut, do, effect, execute, fill, fulfil, interpret, perform, submit, work), echipa (accoutre, appoint, commission, equip, fit, man, outfit, rig, set out). (various references) | |
Romansch | preparar (to prepare). (various references) | |
Ruanda | gutegura ibiryo (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Russian | готовиться (qualify), готовить (cook, make, qualify, ready), наготавливать (make ready), приготавливаться, приготавливать, подготавливать (arrays, condition the team, readied, readies, ready). (various references) | |
Samoan | e sauni le meaai o le afiafi (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Scottish | innil, gréidh (va. prepare or dress victuals), gleus (adjust, order, put in trim, put in tune, readiness or preparation), giullaich. (various references) | |
Sepedi | itokiaa (to prepare). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pripremiti (brace, make ready, prearrange), spremiti (fix, lay out, make, prime), spremati (place). (various references) | |
Shona | -gadzira (to prepare). (various references) | |
Sicilian | priparari (to prepare). (various references) | |
Spanish | preparar (build, coach, cook up, dispense, do, draft, draught, draw up, extract, get, get out, get up, infuse, ingrain, lay, lead up, make, make ready, make up, poise, prime, put up, ready, tee up, train, train up). (various references) | |
Swedish | förbereda (forearm, get ready, Mount, prime), tillreda, rusta (arm, equip, forage), preparera (process), bereda (curry, dress, furnish, give, make, process, temper), bearbeta (adapt, canvass, cultivate, machine, ply, process, tool, treat, work), anrätta (cook, do, dress). (various references) | |
Turkish | hazırlamak (arrange, coach, concoct, engross, equip, formulate, groom, knock up, lay, lay out, make ready, set, set by, stage, work up), hazırlık yapmak (make arrangements, make provision, make provision for), düzmek (knock off). (various references) | |
Turkmen | toplanmak (assemble, gather), taяyarlamak (compose, cook), ta, hдzirlemek, зemelenmek (train). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | готуватися (buckle, study), виготовляти (fabricate, produce, shape), оснащувати (fit up, rig), підготувати, підготовляти (arrange, get ready, make ready, ready), приготувати. (various references) | |
Welsh | paratoi (get ready). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | accincta, accinctaeque, accincti, accinctisque, accinctos, accinctum, accinctus, accinctusque, accingatur, accinge, accingens, accingent, accingentes, accingentur, accingere, accingetur, accingimini, accingit, accingite, accinxerunt, accinxi, accinxisti, accinxit, adornatus, adparatu, adparatum, adparatus, apparare, apparere, apparet, apta, aptari, aptas, aptasti, aptata, aptaverunt, aptavit, aptet, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, consurgam, consurgamus, consurgant, consurgat, consurgatis, consurge, consurgebant, consurgens, consurgensque, consurgent, consurgente, consurgentes, consurgere, consurgerent, consurgeret, consurges, consurget, consurgetis, consurgit, consurgite, consurgitis, consurgunt, consurrexeris, consurrexerunt, consurrexit, instituere, instituerunt, instituisti, instituit, instituta, institutum, institutus, instruam, instruat, instructa, instructi, instructus, instrue, instruebat, instruere, instrueret, instruis, instruite, instruo, instruxerunt, instruxit, parare, parer, praepara, praeparabat, praeparabis, praeparabit, praeparabitur, praeparabo, praeparabor, praeparabuntur, praeparamini, praeparandum, praeparans, praeparant, praeparantis, praeparantur, praeparare, praepararent, praepararentur, praepararet, praepararetur, praeparari, praeparasset, praeparasti, praeparat, praeparata, praeparatas, praeparate, praeparati, praeparatis, praeparato, praeparatum, praeparatumque, praeparatur, praeparatus, praeparaveram, praeparaverat, praeparaveris, praeparaverit, praeparavero, praeparaverunt, praeparavi, praeparavit, praeparent, praeparentur, praepares, providere. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | bywan, gearcian, gearwian, ge-gearwian, gyrwan. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | correier, parer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi murmhkeV oiV mh estin iscuV kai etoimazontai qerouV thn trofhn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Formicae populus infirmus quae praeparant in me |