own

Etymology 1
From, , from , originally the past participle of ; from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Originally past participle of the verb at hand in.

Also cognate with 🇨🇬.

Alternative forms

 * owne (obsolete)
 * (informal contraction)

Adjective

 * 1)  Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
 * 2) Not shared.
 * 3)  Peculiar, domestic.
 * 4)  Not foreign.
 * 1) Not shared.
 * 2)  Peculiar, domestic.
 * 3)  Not foreign.
 * 1)  Peculiar, domestic.
 * 2)  Not foreign.
 * 1)  Not foreign.

Usage notes

 * Often used for implication of ownership, often with emphasis. In modern usage, it always follows a possessive determiner, or a noun in the possessive case.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Assamese: নিজৰ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: үҙ
 * Belarusian: свой, ула́сны, ўла́сны
 * Bulgarian: свой,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: honen
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: propra
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: საკუთარი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌴𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἴδιος
 * Hawaiian: ponoʻī
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: féin
 * Istriot: pruoprio
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:, ខ្លួនឯង
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: savs
 * Macedonian: свој, сопствен
 * Malay:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: āgen
 * Old Saxon: ēgan
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: ain
 * Scottish Gaelic: fhèin
 * Serbo-Croatian: властит,, сопствен,
 * Slovak: svoj,
 * Slovene: svoj,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:, вла́сний
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: propio
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: אייגן

Etymology 2
A, and. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
 * 2)  To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
 * 3)  To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
 * 4)  To virtually or figuratively enslave.
 * 5)  To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled.
 * 6)  To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
 * 7)  To be very good.
 * 8)  To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
 * 9)  To admit; concede; acknowledge.
 * 10)  To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
 * 11)  To take responsibility for.
 * 12)  To recognise; acknowledge.
 * 13)  To claim as one's own.
 * 14)  To confess.
 * 1)  To admit; concede; acknowledge.
 * 2)  To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
 * 3)  To take responsibility for.
 * 4)  To recognise; acknowledge.
 * 5)  To claim as one's own.
 * 6)  To confess.
 * 1)  To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
 * 2)  To take responsibility for.
 * 3)  To recognise; acknowledge.
 * 4)  To claim as one's own.
 * 5)  To confess.
 * 1)  To claim as one's own.
 * 2)  To confess.

Synonyms

 * to possess, acquire, have to one's name, property of, titled to

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Aleut: ux̂tal
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: вало́даць,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Cheyenne: -á'en
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ფლობს
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κέκτημαι
 * Hebrew: יש ל־, היה ל־, שייך ל־
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ជាម្ចាស់
 * Korean:
 * Latin: possideō,
 * Macedonian: поседува, има
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old Saxon: ēgan
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: jap'iy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: ईष्टे
 * Scots: awn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: властити, поседовати, имати
 * Roman: vlastiti, posedovati,
 * Slovak: vlastniť,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: володі́ти,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:


 * Afrikaans:, toegee
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νομίζω
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Ido:
 * Old English:

Noun

 * 1)  A crushing insult.

Interjection

 * 1) aw used to express affection