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abandon

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??bæn.d?n/
  • Hyphenation: aban?don

Etymology 1

  • From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (at, to) + bandon (jurisdiction, control), from Late Latin bannum (proclamation), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (to proclaim, command) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (to speak). See also ban, banal.
  • Displaced Middle English forleten (to abandon), from Old English forl?tan, anforl?tan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (to leave behind, abandon), from Old English forl?fan; see forleave.

Verb

abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)

  1. (transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
  2. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
  3. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
  6. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  7. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
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Etymology 2

  • From French, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.

Noun

abandon (countable and uncountable, plural abandons)

  1. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.]
  2. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
Synonyms
  • (giving up to impulses): wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint
Translations

References


French

Etymology

From Old French (mettre) a bandon ("to deliver, place at someone's disposition", literally "to place in someone's power"). Gamillscheg suggests a derivation from a ban donner, but the Trésor de la langue française considers this unlikely, as the phrase is not attested.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.b??.d??/
  • Rhymes: -??

Noun

abandon m (plural abandons)

  1. surrender
  2. abandonment
  3. (uncountable) complete neglect

Derived terms

  • abandon scolaire
  • à l'abandon
  • tour d'abandon

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: abandon

Further reading

  • “abandon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

abandon m (plural abandons)

  1. abandonment

References

  • ARLEF
  • Dizionari Furlan Talian

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • abandoun, abaundun

Etymology

From Old French abandon.

Adverb

abandon

  1. (not comparable) Freely; entirely.

References

  • “aband?un, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French abandon (surrender, abandonment), from Old French mettre a bandon (to deliver, place at someone's disposition), last part from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (to proclaim, command, summon, ban), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (to speak, say).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aba??d??/, /aban?d??/
  • Rhymes: -??
  • Hyphenation: a?ban?don

Noun

abandon m (definite singular abandonen, indefinite plural abandoner, definite plural abandonene)

  1. (law) the right to, under certain circumstances, waive ownership of an insured ship or cargo to the insurer and claim compensation for total loss
  2. (obsolete) indifference

Derived terms

References

  • “abandon” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French abandon.

Noun

abandon n (plural abandonuri)

  1. abandonment
  2. renouncement

Declension

Related terms

  • abandona

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fail

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: f?l, IPA(key): /fe?l/
  • Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English failen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (to deceive, disappoint), from Proto-Indo-European *b??l- (to lie, deceive) or Proto-Indo-European *sg??h?el- (to stumble). Compare Dutch feilen, falen (to fail, miss), German fehlen (to fail, miss, lack), Danish fejle (to fail, err), Swedish fela (to fail, be wanting, do wrong), Icelandic feila (to fail), Spanish fallar (to fail, miss).

Verb

fail (third-person singular simple present fails, present participle failing, simple past and past participle failed)

  1. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
  2. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
  3. (transitive) To neglect.
  4. (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
  5. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism
      A poor Irish Widow […] went forth with her three children, bare of all resource, to solicit help from the Charitable Establishments of that City. At this Charitable Establishment and then at that she was refused; referred from one to the other, helped by none; — till she had exhausted them all; till her strength and heart failed her: she sank down in typhus-fever […]
  6. (transitive, intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
  7. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
  9. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
  10. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
    • 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
      If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size.
  11. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
  12. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
  13. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
  14. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
  15. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
Usage notes
  • This is a catenative verb which takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Alternative forms
  • faile (obsolete)
  • fayle (obsolete)
Synonyms
  • (to be unsuccessful): fall on one's face
  • (to receive non-passing grades in academic pursuits): flunk (US)
Antonyms
  • (to be unsuccessful): succeed
Derived terms
  • failure
  • fail-safe
  • words fail someone
Related terms
  • default
  • fallacy
  • false
  • fault
Translations

Noun

fail (countable and uncountable, plural fails)

  1. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
  2. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
  3. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success)
  4. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
  5. A failing grade in an academic examination.
Derived terms

Adjective

fail (comparative more fail, superlative most fail)

  1. (slang, US) That is a failure.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàl (hedge), Scots faill (turf). Attested from the 16th century.

Alternative forms

  • feal

Noun

fail (plural fails)

  1. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
Derived terms
  • fail and divot

References

  • fail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • fail in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • fail at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • -afil, alif, fila

Indonesian

Etymology

From English file, from Old French fil (thread), from Latin filum (thread). Compare to Malay fail.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?fa?l]
  • Hyphenation: fa?il

Noun

fail

  1. file,
    1. a collection of papers collated and archived together.
      Synonyms: berkas, dokumen
    2. (computing) an aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
  2. file rack

Further reading

  • “fail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish foil, from Proto-Celtic *wali-, from Proto-Indo-European *wel-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (hélix, something twisted).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /f?al?/

Noun

fail f (genitive singular faile, nominative plural faileanna)

  1. ring
  2. bracelet
  3. wreath
  4. sty

Declension

Mutation


Malay

Etymology

From English file.

Noun

fail (plural fail-fail)

  1. file (collection of papers)
  2. information or a document about someone, something etc.
  3. (computing) file (aggregation of data on a storage device)

Derived terms

  • pemfailan (the process of filing)
  • berfail-fail (a lot of files)

Verb

fail (used in the form memfailkan)

  1. file (commit papers)
  2. file (to archive)
  3. (computing) file (store computer data)
  4. (with untuk) file (make a formal request)

Old Irish

Verb

fail

  1. Alternative form of fil

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