seek

Etymology
From (also, whence dialectal 🇨🇬), from  (compare ); from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The Middle English and later Modern English hard /k/ derives from, the third person singular; the forms with /k/ were then reinforced by cognate.

Verb

 * 1)  To try to find; to look for; to search for.
 * 2)  To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
 * 3)  To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
 * 4) * 1886, Constantine Popoff, translation of 's What I Believe:
 * I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.
 * 1)  To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
 * 2)  To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
 * 3)  To attempt, endeavour, try
 * 4)  To navigate through a stream.
 * 1) * 1886, Constantine Popoff, translation of 's What I Believe:
 * I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.
 * 1)  To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
 * 2)  To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
 * 3)  To attempt, endeavour, try
 * 4)  To navigate through a stream.
 * 1)  To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
 * 2)  To attempt, endeavour, try
 * 3)  To navigate through a stream.
 * 1)  To attempt, endeavour, try
 * 2)  To navigate through a stream.
 * 1)  To attempt, endeavour, try
 * 2)  To navigate through a stream.
 * 1)  To navigate through a stream.

Usage notes

 * The word is sometimes used to mean "try" or "want". This usage is criticized by Fowler in the entry "Formal Words".

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: دور
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:, tser
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, aramaq
 * Belarusian: шука́ць
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, тараша
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: леха
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏲᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Even: гэлэт-
 * Evenki: гэлэ-
 * Faroese: søkja
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: cirî
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: sueche
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽, 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ζητέω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingush: лаха
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: golèk
 * Karakhanid: اِرْتاماكْ, اِسْتاماكْ
 * Khmer: ស្វែងរក
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: bushkar
 * Lao: ຫາ, ຊອກ, ຊອກຫາ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: meklēt
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Macedonian: бара, трага
 * Malay: mencari
 * Malayalam:, ,
 * Maltese: fittex
 * Maori: auhaha, haha, kimi, kimikimi, rapa, rapu, rapurapu, whakarapu, pōrangi, raparapa, hāhau, ngaropoko
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nepali: खोज्नु
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: sēċan, nēosian
 * Papiamentu: buska
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: sieekjen
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ashiy,, maskai, aşii
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , пыта́ться найти́
 * Scottish Gaelic: lorg, sir, iarr
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тра́жити
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pytaś
 * Southern Altai: истеер
 * Spanish:
 * Old Spanish: buscar
 * Swahili: tafuta
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tabaru: tike
 * Tajik: ҷустуҷӯ кардан
 * Ternate: tike
 * Thai: มองหา
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ڈھونڈھنا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: risercar
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: chwilio am
 * West Frisian:
 * ǃXóõ: ǃxáa


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: voler aconseguir
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Italian:, chierere
 * Latin:, volō obtinēre
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Finnish: pyrkiä (jotakin kohti)


 * Bulgarian: стремя се
 * Finnish: pyrkiä (jonnekin),


 * Finnish: ,

Noun

 * 1)  The operation of navigating through a stream.

Etymology
(equivalent to ). From, ultimately from. Compare,.

Noun

 * 1) almshouse
 * 2) A residence and shelter for sick people in the Middle Ages.
 * 3)  A nursing home, retirement home; poorhouse

Etymology
, from, from , further etymology is.

Adjective

 * 1)  sick, ill
 * 2) infected
 * 3) sickly
 * 1) sickly
 * 1) sickly