forbear

Etymology 1
From, from , from ; equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
 * 2)  To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
 * 3)  To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.
 * 4)  To control oneself when provoked.
 * 1)  To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
 * 2)  To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.
 * 3)  To control oneself when provoked.
 * 1)  To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.
 * 2)  To control oneself when provoked.
 * 1)  To control oneself when provoked.
 * 1)  To control oneself when provoked.

Translations

 * Basque: ez egin
 * Bulgarian:, страня от
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: zich onthouden
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: abstenerse


 * Bulgarian: въздържам се
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽


 * Bulgarian: контролирам се
 * Dutch: inho
 * Finnish: hillitä itsensä,
 * French:, garder son sang froid
 * Russian: быть терпели́вым, проявля́ть терпе́ние, контроли́ровать себя́
 * Spanish: retenerse

Noun

 * 1) * [1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.
 * Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold [...]
 * 1) * [1936] 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia
 * One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.
 * One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.