war

Beta war kami iskola dia pung ana sampe masu kaskola tinggi.

I am able to send their children to our high school.

Unknown. Perhaps from Dutch vermogen or Portuguese saber.


war

War ar sizhun.

War an doal emañ ar bara.

War an doal e vez ar bara.

warnon (singular)
warnomp (plural)
warnout (singular)
warnoc'h (plural)
warnañ (singular)
warno (plural third-person)
warni (singular)
warnor (plural)

From Proto-Brythonic *gwor, from Old Breton guar, from Proto-Celtic *uɸer. Cognate to Welsh ar (“on”), Irish ar (“on, upon”), and Scottish Gaelic air (“on, upon”).


war

warnav (first-person singular)
warnam (first-person singular)
warna vy (first-person singular)
warnan (first-person plural)
wara nei (first-person plural)
warnas (second-person singular)
warna chy (second-person singular)
warnowgh (plural second-person)
wara hwei (plural second-person)
warnodho (singular third-person)
war ev (singular third-person)
war evm (singular third-person)
warnedhi (singular third-person)
war hei (singular third-person)
war heif (singular third-person)
warnedha (plural third-person)
warnedhans (plural third-person)
war anjei (plural third-person)

From Proto-Brythonic *gwor, from Proto-Celtic *uɸer.


war

Volgens een bovenbuurvrouw kwamen hulpdiensten rond 12 uur 's middags naar de fietsenwinkel. "Ik had geen idee wat er aan de hand was. Maar de zoon van de eigenaar kwam eraan en was helemaal in de war. (...)"

2016 March 15, Josien Wolthuizen, Hanneloes Pen, “Man doodgestoken in fietsenwinkel Nieuw-West”, in Het Parool:

Van statief voor je smartphone tot instrument om oortjes uit de war te houden, tot zelfs een portefeuille. De mogelijkheden met papierklemmen zijn eindeloos, maar de Japanner Venlee geeft je alvast 15 lifehacks.

2016 January 29, “Wist je dat papierklemmen je leven veel gemakkelijker kunnen maken?”, in Het Laatste Nieuws:

Welnu, deze stoepen of warren bevonden zich aan de walkant en niet midden in het water.

1949, G. Karsten, “Eenvorme, Informe, Yefforme”, in De Speelwagen, 10, no. 4: 307:

De Schutters van de respective Steden, werden geauctoriseert, alle de Fuycken, buyten de benoemde Warren in de Wateringh staende, te mogen visiteren, of de selve keur mogen houden ofte niet, (...)

1667, Handtvesten, privilegien, willekeuren ende ordonnantien der Stadt Enchuysen, page 345:

an elevated area on the floor of a body of water, a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish, where nets and fykes could be installed

nl-noun

war f (plural warren, diminutive warretje n)

warren (plural)
warretje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch werre, warre (“confusion, disarray, conflict”), from Old Dutch *werra, from Proto-West Germanic *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).


war

From Low German wahr, from Middle Low German wâr, from Old Saxon wār. Cognate to German wahr.


war

From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar. Cognate with Swedish var.


war

holy war; just war; civil war

Come on, let vs deale wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to passe that when there falleth out any warre, they ioyne also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and so get them vp out of the land.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:10:

And when yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of warres, be yee not troubled: For such things must needs be, but the end shall not be yet.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 13:7:

War is indeed a fearful thing and the more I see it the more dreadful it appears.

1854, Prince George, letter to his wife from Crimea

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out... You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.

1864 Sept. 12, William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to the mayor of Atlanta & al.

I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!

1879 June 19, William Tecumseh Sherman, speech to the Michigan Military Academy

Here Lee and Longstreet stood during most of the fighting [at Fredericksburg], and it is told that, on one of the Federal repulses from Marye's Hill, Lee put his hand upon Longstreet's arm and said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it."

1907, Edward Porter Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate, page 302:

Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.

1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, chapter 17, in My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC:

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.

1935, Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket, page 1 & 7:

War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

1944 June 27, Herbert Hoover, speech to the Republican National Convention

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 7:

War, huh, Good God, y'all!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing...

1969, “War”, in Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong (lyrics), War & Peace, performed by Edwin Starr:

War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes.

Edward Wilson, the inventor of the field of sociobiology, once wrote that "war is embedded in our very nature". This is a belief commonly held not just by sociobiologists but also by anthropologists and other students of human behaviour. They base it not only on the propensity of modern man to go to war with his neighbours (and, indeed, with people halfway around the world, given the chance) but also on observations of the way those who still live a pre-agricultural "hunter-gatherer" life behave... Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine... One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries... Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.

2013 July 20, "Old Soldiers?", The Economist, Vol. 408, No. 8845

(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.

All human tribes glad token see
In the close of the wars of Grant and Lee.

1865, Herman Melville, The Surrender at Appomattox:

A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.

1999 Nov. 8, Bill Clinton, speech at Georgetown University

a war of succession... a war of attrition... the Cold War... World War III...

(countable) A particular conflict of this kind.

Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.

2001 Sept. 20, George W. Bush, speech before Congress, White House Archives

...These wars are not going away. This is at least a generational struggle.

2021 Sept. 8, Seth G. Jones, quoted in Chris Moody, "Twenty Years after 9/11, Did US Win Its ‘War on Terror’?" Al-Jazeera

the Great Emu War... the Global War on Terrorism...

(countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party... Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history... and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, ar the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition.

1906, William James, The Moral Equivalent of War:

the War on Poverty... the War on Drugs... the War on Christmas...

(countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly

(chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.

Campaigns against various social problems.

price wars... Cola Wars... format wars...

(business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.

turf war... gang war... Castellammarese War...

(crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.

flame war... edit war...

(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.

The God of Love himſelf inhabits there,
With all his rage, and dread, and grief, and care,
His complement of ſtores, and total war...

1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 245:

(obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.

An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.

On thir imbattelld ranks the Waves return,
And overwhelm thir Warr

1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.

2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven:

(uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.

en-noun

war (countable and uncountable, plural wars)

wars (plural)
warre (alternative)
warr (alternative)

we have always been at war with Eastasia

аибашьра

conflict involving organized use of arms

From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.

cog

Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”)

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River

Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting)


war

...to war the Scot, and borders to defend...

1595, Samuel Daniel, The First Four Books of the Civil Wars:

And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males

1611, King James Bible, Book of Numbers, 31:7

Once more vnto the Breach,
Deare friends, once more...
Be Coppy now to men of groſſer blood,
And teach them how to Warre.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 77:

This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . ., produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.

1882, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 14, in Cashel Byron's Profession:

People keep on learning
 Soldiers keep on warring
 World keep on turning
 'Cause it won't be too long

1973, Stevie Wonder (lyrics and music), “Higher Ground”, in Innervisions:

In a paradox, language wars against the world.

1979 April 28, Gerry McNamara, “Life for Art's Sake”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).

[…], that thou by them mighteſt warre a good warfare,[…].

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:18, column 2:

(transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

en-verb

war (third-person singular simple present wars, present participle warring, simple past and past participle warred)

wars (present singular third-person)
warring (participle present)
warred (participle past)
warred (past)
warre (alternative)
warr (alternative)


war

Ich hätte ihn heiraten können, und glaube, ich war nie in ihn verliebt.

1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont, archived from the original on 2009-09-26, (English translation):

I could have married him; yet I believe I was never really in love with him.


war

first-person singular preterite indicative of sinn

third-person singular preterite indicative of sinn


war

warre (first-person singular)
warkai (first-person plural)
warren (second-person singular)
warken (plural second-person)
warro (singular third-person)
warrok (plural third-person)
warpas (indefinite singular)
warpwi (indefinite plural)
warwa (definite singular)
warkoa (definite plural)
woaroai (first-person)
woaroamw (second-person)
warah (third-person)
warasa
warama
waramwa (second-person)
warara (third-person)
warasai
waramai
waramwai (second-person)
wararai (third-person)
warahs
weremi
weremwi (second-person)
warahr (third-person)
weren


war

Middle English: wor

English: ware

From Proto-West Germanic *wair, related to *wīraz.


war

first/third-person singular indicative past of wara

From Proto-Norse ᚹᚨᛊ (was), from Proto-Germanic *was, first/third-person singular indicative past of *wesaną.


war

Middle High German: wār

Cimbrian: baar

German: wahr

Hunsrik: woher

Luxembourgish: wouer

Yiddish: וואָר (vor)

From Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz, whence also Old English wǣr, Old Norse værr.


war

Tako ony rzeczy parzyl od syebye, yako pssy z kuchnyey parzą varem

1874 [1499], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące, volume XVIII, page 622:

Post sex annos debet... Stanislao... per sexagenam soluere de censv et eciam per tenam siliqui a qualibet ceruisia al. warv

1856-1870 [1499], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki, volume IX, number 1251:

Polish: war

Silesian: wŏr

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vȃrъ (“boiling; boiling liquid”). By surface analysis, deverbal of wrzeć /warzyć. First attested in 1499.


war

wār (canonical)
wār (masculine nominative singular strong)
wār (feminine nominative singular strong)
wār (neuter nominative singular strong)
wāre (masculine nominative plural strong)
wāra (masculine nominative plural strong)
wāra (feminine nominative plural strong)
wār (neuter nominative plural strong)
wāra (neuter nominative plural strong)
wāran (accusative masculine singular strong)
wāren (accusative masculine singular strong)
wāra (accusative feminine singular strong)
wār (accusative neuter singular strong)
wāra (accusative masculine plural strong)
wāre (accusative masculine plural strong)
wāra (accusative feminine plural strong)
wār (accusative neuter plural strong)
wāra (accusative neuter plural strong)
wāres (genitive masculine singular strong)
wāras (genitive masculine singular strong)
wārara (feminine genitive singular strong)
wāraro (feminine genitive singular strong)
wāres (genitive neuter singular strong)
wāras (genitive neuter singular strong)
wāraro (genitive masculine plural strong)
wāroro (genitive masculine plural strong)
wārero (genitive masculine plural strong)
wāraro (feminine genitive plural strong)
wāroro (feminine genitive plural strong)
wārero (feminine genitive plural strong)
wāraro (genitive neuter plural strong)
wāroro (genitive neuter plural strong)
wārero (genitive neuter plural strong)
wārumu (dative masculine singular strong)
wārum (dative masculine singular strong)
wārun (dative masculine singular strong)
wāron (dative masculine singular strong)
wāren (dative masculine singular strong)
wāran (dative masculine singular strong)
wāraro (dative feminine singular strong)
wāraru (dative feminine singular strong)
wārara (dative feminine singular strong)
wārumu (dative neuter singular strong)
wārum (dative neuter singular strong)
wārun (dative neuter singular strong)
wāron (dative neuter singular strong)
wāren (dative neuter singular strong)
wāran (dative neuter singular strong)
wārun (dative masculine plural strong)
wāron (dative masculine plural strong)
wārum (dative masculine plural strong)
wārun (dative feminine plural strong)
wāron (dative feminine plural strong)
wārun (dative neuter plural strong)
wāron (dative neuter plural strong)
wārum (dative neuter plural strong)
wāro (masculine nominative singular weak)
wāra (masculine nominative singular weak)
wāra (feminine nominative singular weak)
wāre (feminine nominative singular weak)
wāra (neuter nominative singular weak)
wāre (neuter nominative singular weak)
wāron (masculine nominative plural weak)
wārun (masculine nominative plural weak)
wāron (feminine nominative plural weak)
wārun (feminine nominative plural weak)
wāran (feminine nominative plural weak)
wāron (neuter nominative plural weak)
wārun (neuter nominative plural weak)
wāron (accusative masculine singular weak)
wāran (accusative masculine singular weak)
wārun (accusative feminine singular weak)
wāron (accusative feminine singular weak)
wāran (accusative feminine singular weak)
wāra (accusative neuter singular weak)
wāre (accusative neuter singular weak)
wāron (accusative masculine plural weak)
wārun (accusative masculine plural weak)
wāron (accusative feminine plural weak)
wārun (accusative feminine plural weak)
wāran (accusative feminine plural weak)
wāron (accusative neuter plural weak)
wārun (accusative neuter plural weak)
wāren (genitive masculine singular weak)
wāran (genitive masculine singular weak)
wārun (feminine genitive singular weak)
wāran (feminine genitive singular weak)
wāren (feminine genitive singular weak)
wāren (genitive neuter singular weak)
wāran (genitive neuter singular weak)
wārono (genitive masculine plural weak)
wāreno (genitive masculine plural weak)
wārono (feminine genitive plural weak)
wārono (genitive neuter plural weak)
wāreno (genitive neuter plural weak)
wāron (dative masculine singular weak)
wāren (dative masculine singular weak)
wāran (dative masculine singular weak)
wārun (dative feminine singular weak)
wāran (dative feminine singular weak)
wāron (dative neuter singular weak)
wāren (dative neuter singular weak)
wāran (dative neuter singular weak)
wāron (dative masculine plural weak)
wārun (dative masculine plural weak)
wāron (dative feminine plural weak)
wārun (dative feminine plural weak)
wāron (dative neuter plural weak)
wārun (dative neuter plural weak)

From Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.


war

(obsolete) boiling water or other liquid

war (nominative singular)
waru (genitive singular)
warowi (dative singular)
war (accusative singular)
warem (instrumental singular)
warze (locative singular)
warze (singular vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish war. By surface analysis, deverbal of warzyć.


war

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vȃrъ (“heat”).


war

(physics) var, volt-ampere reactive (unit of electrical power)

war (nominative singular)
wary (nominative plural)
waru (genitive singular)
warów (genitive plural)
warowi (dative singular)
warom (dative plural)
war (accusative singular)
wary (accusative plural)
warem (instrumental singular)
warami (instrumental plural)
warze (locative singular)
warach (locative plural)
warze (singular vocative)
wary (plural vocative)


war

war (masculine nominative singular)
waru (feminine nominative singular)
war (neuter nominative singular)
waranā (accusative masculine singular)
warā (accusative feminine singular)
war (accusative neuter singular)
waras (genitive masculine singular)
wareʀā (feminine genitive singular)
waras (genitive neuter singular)
warumē (dative masculine singular)
wareʀē (dative feminine singular)
warumē (dative neuter singular)
waru (instrumental masculine singular)
wareʀu (feminine instrumental singular)
waru (instrumental neuter singular)
warē (masculine nominative plural)
warō (feminine nominative plural)
waru (neuter nominative plural)
warā (accusative masculine plural)
warā (accusative feminine plural)
waru (accusative neuter plural)
wareʀō (genitive masculine plural)
wareʀō (feminine genitive plural)
wareʀō (genitive neuter plural)
warēm (dative masculine plural)
warum (dative masculine plural)
warēm (dative feminine plural)
warum (dative feminine plural)
warēm (dative neuter plural)
warum (dative neuter plural)
warēm (instrumental masculine plural)
warum (instrumental masculine plural)
warēm (feminine instrumental plural)
warum (feminine instrumental plural)
warēm (instrumental neuter plural)
warum (instrumental neuter plural)

Old English: wær

Middle English: war, ware

English: ware

Old Frisian: war, ware

⇒ West Frisian: warskôgje

Old Saxon: war

Old Dutch: *war

Middle Dutch: waer (in compounds: waerschuwen, ontware, ontwaer, etc.)

Old High German: war


war

first/second/third-person plural simple past indicative of be; were

From Middle English were, weren, from Old English wǣre, wǣron, wǣren, from Proto-Germanic *wēz-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.


war

wars (plural)
wer (alternative)
weir (alternative)


war

Wax war miyaa hey-sa?


war

From Proto-Tocharian *wär (whence Tocharian A wär), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”) through a regular (endocentric) thematicization via *udrom.


war

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Waray.


war

A war cowdealeen wi ooree.

1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 32:

Trippeathès an brand-eyrons war ee-brougkt to a big breal.

1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:

[Trippets and brandirons were brought to the large fire.]

Baakhooses an lauckès war aul ee a zweal.

[Ovens and locks were all in the swale.]

Tibbès an crockès wee drink war ee-felt.

[Tubs and crocks were filled with drink.]

From Middle English ware, from Old English wǣre.