widower

English

Etymology

From Middle English widwer, equivalent to widow +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪdoʊɚ/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

widower (plural widowers)

A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); masculine of widow. [from 14th c.]

Related terms

Translations

a man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried

Afrikaans: wewenaar (af)
Albanian: vejan (sq) m, i ve (sq) m
Arabic: أَرْمَل‎ m (ʾarmal)
Egyptian Arabic: ارمل‎ m (armil)
Armenian: այրի (hy) (ayri)
Aromanian: veduu m, veduv m
Azerbaijani: dul kişi
Bashkir: тол (tol), тол ир (tol ir)
Basque: alargun (eu)
Belarusian: удаве́ц m (udavjéc), ўдаве́ц m (ŭdavjéc)
Breton: intañv (br) m
Bulgarian: вдове́ц (bg) m (vdovéc)
Burmese: မုဆိုးဖို (my) (mu.hcui:hpui)
Catalan: vidu (ca) m
Chamicuro: maluti
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鰥夫, 鳏夫 (gwaan¹ fu¹)

Mandarin: 鰥夫／鳏夫 (zh) (guānfū), 寡夫 (zh) (guǎfū)
Czech: vdovec (cs) m
Danish: enkemand (da) c
Dutch: weduwnaar (nl) m
Erzya: доваля (dovalja)
Esperanto: vidvo (eo)
Estonian: leskmees (et)
Faroese: einkjumaður m
Finnish: leski (fi), leskimies (fi)
Franco-Provençal: vevo m
French: veuf (fr) m
Friulian: vedul m
Galician: viúvo m
Georgian: ქვრივი (kvrivi)
German: Witwer (de) m
Greek: χήρος (el) m (chíros)
Hebrew: אַלְמָן‎ (he) m (almán)
Hindi: विधुर (hi) m (vidhur)
Hungarian: özvegyember (hu)
Icelandic: ekkill (is) m
Ido: vidvulo (io)
Indonesian: duda (id)
Irish: baintreach fir f
Italian: vedovo (it)
Japanese: 寡夫 (ja) (かふ, kafu), 男やもめ (おとこやもめ, otokoyamome)
Kazakh: тұл ер (tūl er)
Korean: 홀아비 (ko) (horabi)
Latin: viduus
Latvian: atraitnis m
Lithuanian: našlys m
Livonian: lešk, atrāita
Macedonian: вдовец m (vdovec)
Malay: duda (ms)
Maori: pouaru, takahore
Norwegian:
Bokmål: enkemann (no) m

Nynorsk: enkjemann m, enkemann m
Occitan: veuse (oc)
Old English: widuwa m
Oriya: ବିପତ୍ନୀକ (or) (bipôtnikô), ମୃତଦାର (mrutôdarô)
Persian: مرد بیوه‎ (mard-e bive)
Piedmontese: vido m
Plautdietsch: Wätmaun m
Polish: wdowiec (pl)
Portuguese: viúvo (pt) m
Quechua: ikma
Romanian: văduv (ro) m
Russian: вдове́ц (ru) m (vdovéc)
Scots: weedae-man
Scottish Gaelic: banntrach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: удо́вац m

Roman: udóvac (sh) m
Sicilian: vìduvu (scn) m, vìduu (scn) m
Slovak: vdovec m
Slovene: vdovec (sl) m
Spanish: viudo (es) m
Swedish: änkeman (sv), änkling (sv) c
Tajik: занмурда (zanmurda), бева (beva)
Thai: พ่อม่าย, พ่อหม้าย, ม่าย (th) (mâai), หม้าย (th) (mâai)
Turkish: dul (tr)
Ukrainian: вдіве́ць (uk) m (vdivécʹ)
Uzbek: beva kishi
Venetian: védoo m
Vietnamese: người góa vợ
Volapük: hiviudan (vo)
Welsh: gŵr gweddw m, gwidwer m (South)
Yup'ik: aipaineq
Yámana: šupun-wa

References

James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Widower”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 2 (V–Z), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 114, column 1.

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