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Translingual

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awe

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Awetí.

English

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Pronunciation

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(UK) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /ɔː/
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(US) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /ɔ/
(cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA(key): /ɑ/
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Homophones: aw; oar, or, ore, o'er (non-rhotic)
Rhymes: -ɔː

Etymology 1

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From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.

Noun

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awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)

A feeling of fear and reverence.
- 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 172:Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
A feeling of amazement.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
- 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
(archaic) Power to inspire awe.

Derived terms

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aweful
awe-inspiring
aweless
awesome
awestricken
awestrike
awestruck
awe walk
awful
inawe
overawe
shock and awe
underawe

Translations

[edit] feeling of fear and reverence

Arabic: هَيْبَة (hayba)
Bulgarian: страхопочитание (bg) (strahopočitanie), благоговение (bg) (blagogovenie)
Catalan: temor (ca) m, paüra (ca) f
Chinese: Mandarin: 敬畏 (zh) (jìngwèi)
Czech: strach (cs) m, hrůza (cs) f
Danish: ærefrygt c
Dutch: ontzag (nl) n, vrees (nl) f
Finnish: syvä kunnioitus, kunnioittava pelko, pelko (fi), pelonsekainen kunnioitus
French: crainte (fr) f, révérence (fr) f
German: Ehrfurcht (de) f
Greek: δέος (el) n (déos), σέβας (el) n (sévas) Ancient Greek: ἄγος m (ágos)
Hungarian: áhítat (hu), félelem (hu), tisztelet (hu), megilletődés (hu), megilletődöttség
Italian: timore (it) m
Latin: formido f
Macedonian: стравопо́чит f (stravopóčit)
Norwegian: Bokmål: ærefrykt (no) m
Polish: groza (pl) f, trwoga (pl) f, respekt (pl) m, podziw (pl) m
Portuguese: temor (pt) m
Russian: благогове́ние (ru) n (blagogovénije), тре́пет (ru) m (trépet)
Serbo-Croatian: strahopoštovanje (sh) n
Slovak: bázeň f, úcta hraničiaca so strachom
Spanish: pavor (es) m, temor (es) m, medrosía f
Swedish: fruktan (sv) c, bävan (sv)
Turkish: huşu (tr)

feeling of amazement

Arabic: ذُهُول (ar) (ḏuhūl)
Catalan: esbalaïment m, astorament m
Czech: úžas (cs) m, údiv (cs) m, ohromení n
Danish: ærefrygt c
Esperanto: miro, admirego
Finnish: hämmästys (fi), ällistys (fi)
French: admiration (fr) f
German: Staunen (de) n
Greek: κατάπληξη (el) f (katáplixi)
Hungarian: bámulat (hu), csodálat (hu), lenyűgözöttség
Persian: تعجب (fa)
Polish: zachwyt (pl) m
Portuguese: espanto (pt) m, admiração (pt) f
Russian: изумле́ние (ru) n (izumlénije)
Slovak: úžas m
Spanish: asombro (es) m
Swedish: häpnad (sv), förundran (sv), förvåning (sv), bestörtning (sv), extas (sv)
Turkish: huşu (tr)

Verb

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awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)

(transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎[2]:That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
(transitive) To control by inspiring dread.
- 1982 August 21, Bob Nelson, “Harnessing Our Anger”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 6, page 5:While a sense of outrage is the only rational response to atrocity, if that outrage is maintained at too high a level over too long a time it can generate feelings of impotence, as we permit ourselves to be awed by this irrational act of violence.

Synonyms

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(inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

Derived terms

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awed

Translations

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Bulgarian: внушавам страхопочитание (vnušavam strahopočitanie)
Czech: vyděsit (cs) pf, vyvolat hrůzu
Dutch: ontzag inboezemen
Finnish: pelottaa (fi), herättää pelkoa, herättää kunnioitusta
Greek: προκαλώ δέος (prokaló déos), καταπλήσσω (el) (kataplísso)
Hungarian: áhítattal/félelemmel/tisztelettel tölt el, áhítatot/félelmet/megilletődést kelt, tiszteletet parancsol, lenyűgöz (hu)
Persian: نهازیدن (fa) (nehâzidan)
Polish: zachwycać (pl) impf, zachwycić (pl) pf
Russian: внуша́ть тре́пет (vnušátʹ trépet), внуша́ть благогове́ние (vnušátʹ blagogovénije)
Slovak: budiť rešpekt
Spanish: asombrar (es), abrumar (es), zozobrar (es), desasosegar (es), desosegar (es)
Turkish: huşu uyandırmak, huşulandırmak

to control by inspiring dread

Finnish: pelotella (fi)
German: einschüchtern (de)
Greek: εκφοβίζω (el) (ekfovízo)
Hungarian: megfélemlít (hu)
Polish: trwożyć (pl) impf, strwożyć pf

Etymology 2

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From French auve.

Noun

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awe (plural awes)

(obsolete) A bucket (blade) attached to water wheels.

Anagrams

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AEW, EAW, WAE, WEA, eaw, wae

Anyi

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awe

rice mɩn nin a tʋn awe.My mother prepared rice.

Baoule

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Noun

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awe

hunger

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