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partisan
English
Alternative forms
- partizan
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??.t??zæn/, /?p??.t??zæn/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p??.??.z?n/, /?p??.??.z?n/, /-s?n/
Etymology 1
From French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). Doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian ????????? (partizán), from the same source.The sense of "guerilla fighter" is from c. 1690.The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century.(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
partisan (plural partisans)
- An adherent to a party or faction.
- 1992, Thomas R. Pegram, "Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois
- "Strong partisans of neither party, Indiana farmers failed to act as a block […] "
- 1992, Thomas R. Pegram, "Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois
- A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
- A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
- (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Related terms
- copartisan
- part
- partisanism
- partisanry
- partisanship
- party
Translations
Adjective
partisan (comparative more partisan, superlative most partisan)
- Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops.
- Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party.
- Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause.
Translations
Etymology 2
From French partizaine, from Middle French partizaine, partisanne etc., from Italian partigiana, related to Etymology 1 above (apparently because it was seen as a typical weapon of such forces).
Noun
partisan (plural partisans)
- (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.
- I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave.
- (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.
Translations
See also
- halberd
References
Further reading
- Partisan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Partains, Sarpanit, aspirant, spartina
French
Etymology
From Italian partigiano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?.ti.z??/
Noun
partisan m (plural partisans, feminine partisane)
- supporter, proponent, advocate
- (sports) fan
Adjective
partisan (feminine singular partisane, masculine plural partisans, feminine plural partisanes)
- partisan, partial
- in favour of
Further reading
- “partisan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- aspirant
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French partisan.
Noun
partisan m (plural partisans)
- (Jersey) supporter
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Italian partigiano, via French partisan
Noun
partisan m (definite singular partisanen, indefinite plural partisaner, definite plural partisanene)
- a partisan (member of an armed group)
References
- “partisan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Italian partigiano, via French partisan
Noun
partisan m (definite singular partisanen, indefinite plural partisanar, definite plural partisanane)
- a partisan (member of an armed group)
References
- “partisan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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friend
English
Etymology
From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English fr?ond (“friend, relative, lover”, literally “loving[-one]”), from Proto-Germanic *frij?ndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to like, love”), equivalent to free +? -nd. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), Low German Frund, Fründ (“friend, relative”), German Freund (“friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (frij?nds, “friend”). More at free.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?nd, IPA(key): /f??nd/, [f??end?]
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /fr?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Noun
friend (plural friends)
- A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- An associate who provides assistance.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
- A person who backs or supports something.
- (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
- (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
- 1995, Rock Climbing Basics
- Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […]
- 1995, Rock Climbing Basics
- (euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
- 1813, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Etc., page 17:
- Time has been, when a gentleman wanted a friend, I could supply him with choice in an hour; but the market is spoiled, and a body might as soon produce a hare or a partridge […]
- 1975, Janis Ian, "In the Winter":
- I met your friend. She's very nice, what can I say?
- 1813, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Etc., page 17:
- (Scotland, obsolete) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
- Friends agree best at a distance.
- Make friends of framet folk.
- 1895, Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 232:
- He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.
Synonyms
- (person whose company one enjoys): See Thesaurus:friend
- (boyfriend or girlfriend): See Thesaurus:lover
- (person with whom you are acquainted): acquaintance, contact
- (person who provides assistance): ally
- (person who backs something): admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter
- (form of address used in warning someone): buster, mate (British), pal, buddy, sonny
Antonyms
- (person whose company one enjoys): See Thesaurus:enemy
- (person with whom you are acquainted): stranger
- (person who provides assistance): enemy, foe
Usage notes
- We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
- In older texts and certain dialects, the phrase to friend means "as a friend or an ally", for example? "with God to frend (Spenser)". The antonym to the phrase to friend is to fiend.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Cantonese: friend (fen1)
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: fr?nd
- Cyrillic: ??????
Translations
See friend/translations § Noun.
Verb
friend (third-person singular simple present friends, present participle friending, simple past and past participle friended)
- (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].
- 1896, Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad, LXII:
- ’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
Is not so brisk a brew as ale:
Out of a stem that scored the hand
I wrung it in a weary land.
But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the embittered hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul’s stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
- ’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
- 2006, David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal" (PDF version), Internet Research Annual Volume 4, Peter Lang, ?ISBN, page 99,
- The difference between responses to the statement, "If someone friends me, I will friend them," and "If I friend someone, I expect them to friend me back," is telling.
- 2006, Kevin Farnham and Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents, How-To Primers, ?ISBN, page 69,
- One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list.
- 2006, David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal" (PDF version), Internet Research Annual Volume 4, Peter Lang, ?ISBN, page 99,
Synonyms
- (to act as the friend of): befriend
Antonyms
- (social networking): defriend, unfriend
Translations
Anagrams
- Friden, finder, frined, redfin, refin'd, refind
Chinese
Etymology
Borrowed from English friend.
Pronunciation
Noun
friend
- (Cantonese) friend (Classifier: ???)
- ????friend??? [Cantonese, trad.]
- keoi5 hai6 ngo5 go3 fen1 lai4 gaa3. [Jyutping]
- He's my friend.
????friend??? [Cantonese, simp.]
- ??friend????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2008, ??? (Jessica Li), ?????????????????? (Theft and delinquency: juvenile crime prevention theories and practice), page 180
- ngo5 go3 fen1 waa6: “M4 wui5 seoi1 ge3, bin1 jau5 gam3 jung4 ji6 aa1, sai3 gaai3 gam3 do1 jan4 sei2 jau6 m4 gin3 nei5 heoi3 sei2.” [Jyutping]
- My friend said, "It's not gonna go wrong. It's not that easy [to go wrong]. There are so many people in the world, and I don't see you dying."
??friend??“?????????????????????????” [Cantonese, simp.]- ?????friend????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2015, Playboy ? (pseudonym), ???????, issue 18, page 69
- wai2, mat1 nei5 baan1 fen1 gam2 tek3 bo1 ge2, hai6 mai6 jau5 di1 m4 deoi3 lou6? [Jyutping]
- Hey, how come your friends play soccer like this. Is there some problem?
?????friend????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]- ??friend??????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2016, ???, ?????D?, page 101
- ngo5 go3 fen1 giu3 ngo5 heoi3 keoi5 uk1 kei5-2 co5 haa5, daan6 jau6 m4 waa6 ngo5 zi1 keoi5 neoi5 jau5 hai2 dou6, gaau2 dou3 ngo5 bin3 zo2 zou6 din6 dang1 daam2. [Jyutping]
- When my friend invited me to hang out at his house but he didn't tell me that his girlfriend would be there too, he made me a third wheel.
??friend??????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]
Synonyms
- ?? (péngyou)
Adjective
friend
- (Cantonese) in a close or friendly relationship
- ???friend?? [Cantonese] ? ngo5 dei6 hou2 fen1 gaa3. [Jyutping] ? We are really close.
- ???????friend? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 1985, ???, ??????
- sat6 hang4 jung6 gaa3 man4-2 gan1 keoi5 fen1 haa2 [Jyutping]
- Used a bit of Japanese to try and make friends with her
???????friend? [Cantonese, simp.]- ??????????friend??????? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2011, TVB-J2, K-ON?????? (K-On!!), season 2, episode 1
- “jan1 wai4 nei5 dei6 ng5 go3 hou2 ci5 hou2 fen1 hou2 hoi1 sam1 gam2 wo3.” [Jyutping]
- “It's because you five seem so close and happy.”
“?????????friend??????” [Cantonese, simp.]- ????????????????friend?? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2013, ??? (Dung Kai-cheung), ????????????????, page 124
- ngo5 giu3 ou3 gu2, wo4 taa1 sik1 liu5 han2 do1 nin4, syun3 hai6 hou2 fen1 haa5. [Jyutping]
- My name is Ou Gu. I knew her for many years, so we are pretty close.
????????????????friend?? [Cantonese, simp.]- ????????????Friend????????????Friend??????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2015, ??? (pseudonym), ????????????, page 243
- ngo5 m4 soeng2 ngo5 dei6 zi2 hai6 hai2 ni1 dyun6 si4 gaan3 fen1 faan1, ngo5 soeng2 ngo5 dei6 bin3 faan1 ji5 cin4 gam2, fen1 dou3 mat1 dou1 king1, ping4 si4 daai6 gaa1 jau5 di1 me1 dou1 wui5 wan2 daai6 gaa1 gong2. [Jyutping]
- I don't want us to just be close for this while. I want us to turn back into how we were before, when we were so close that we would chat about anything, when we would normally look for each other to talk if anything happens.
????????????Friend????????????Friend??????????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]- ??????????????friend???????????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2016, ???, (Q Bobo), ??????, page 32
- bat1 gwo3 ci2 zung1 daai6 gaa1 dou1 hai6 sai3 lou6, hou2 faai3 zau6 fen1 zo2, ngo5 go3 jan4 hou2 ji6 soeng1 cyu2, tung4 hoeng1 gong2 jan4, jan3 dou6 jan4 dou1 soeng1 cyu2 dou3-2, so2 ji5 kei4 sat6 duk6 me1 hok6 haau6 dou1 mou5 man6 tai4. [Jyutping]
- But since everyone is a kid, we quickly became close. I easily get along with others, no matter if it's with Hong Kongers or Indians, so it doesn't matter which school I go to.
??????????????friend???????????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]
References
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
Middle English
Noun
friend
- Alternative form of frend
Spanish
Etymology
From English friend.
Noun
friend m (plural friends)
- (climbing) cam
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