wait

Etymology
From, from , (compare 🇨🇬 from 🇨🇬, ), from , derivative of , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

In some senses, merged or influenced by, , from , from , from.

Largely overtook native, from.

Verb

 * 1)  To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
 * 2)  To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
 * 3)  To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
 * 4)  To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
 * 5)  To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
 * 6)  To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
 * 7)  To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
 * 8)  To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
 * 1)  To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
 * 2)  To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
 * 3)  To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
 * 4)  To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
 * 5)  To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
 * 6)  To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
 * 1)  To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
 * 2)  To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
 * 3)  To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
 * 4)  To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
 * 1)  To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
 * 2)  To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.

Usage notes

 * In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

 * , ; See also Thesaurus:wait for
 * ; See also Thesaurus:wait
 * ,, ; See also Thesaurus:serve
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:procrastinate

Translations

 * Afrikaans: wag
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: Claw5@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmUp-Claw5@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmUp Wiggle-Wiggle
 * Amharic: መጠበቅ
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: استنى
 * Hijazi Arabic: استنى, انتظر
 * Moroccan Arabic: تسنى, ستنى, عاين
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: ashteptu
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܵܦܹܪ
 * Asturian: esperar, aguardar
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: көтөү
 * Belarusian: чака́ць, пачака́ць; ждаць
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: hulat
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Dungan: дын
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vente
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: atendi
 * Estonian: ootama
 * Even: алат-
 * Evenki: алат-
 * Ewe: lala
 * Faroese: bíða
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: spietâ
 * Galician:, , mentrexar
 * Gallurese: asittà, ambarà
 * Georgian: დალოდება
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: beite
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: προσδέχομαι, μένω
 * Haitian Creole: tann
 * Hawaiian: kali
 * Hebrew: חיכה, הִמְתִּין
 * Hindi: इंतज़ार करना
 * Hungarian: vár#Hungarian-to_wait
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: aguray
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: fan, fuirigh
 * Istriot: spattà
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: күту, тосу
 * Khmer:, រងចាំ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: къаравулламакъ, къарамакъ, гёзлемек
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: چاوەڕێ کردن
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: asperar
 * Lao: ລໍ, ລໍຖ້າ
 * Latgalian: gaideit
 * Latin: expectō, exspectō, opperior
 * Latvian: gaidīt
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard:
 * Luxembourgish: waarden
 * Macedonian: че́ка
 * Malay: menunggu
 * Maltese: stenna
 * Maori: whanga, tatari, tatari
 * Marathi: वाट पाहणे, वाट बघणे
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: халачи-
 * Neapolitan: aspettà
 * Nepali: पर्खनु
 * Norman: attendre
 * Northern Sami: vuordit
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: venta
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: жьдати, чекати
 * Glagolitic: ⰶⱐⰴⰰⱅⰻ
 * Old English: bīdan, ġebīdan
 * Old Polish: żdać
 * Pashto: انتظارايستل
 * Persian: منتظر شدن,, , وایسادن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: suyay, suyai, şuyai
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: spetgar
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: abettài, agguardai, aspettài
 * Logudorese: appelidare, appittu, isettare, ispettare
 * Sassarese: aipittà, aisittà, aisitt'
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чекати
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: čakať
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: sugid
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: wakti
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: maghintay
 * Tajik: мунтазир шудан
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྒུག, ཕེབས་སྒུག་ཞུ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: garaşmak
 * Ukrainian:, жда́ти, очі́кувати
 * Urdu: انتظار کرنا, منتظر ہونا, صبر کرنا,
 * Uyghur: كۈتمەك
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: aspetar, spetar
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: וואַרטן
 * Zazaki: vende, pawen, pawen, poşeyen


 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: sirvir
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 企檯,
 * Czech: obsluhovat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, faire le service
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: servire a tavola
 * Japanese: ウエイターをする, ウエイトレスをする
 * Korean: 시중들다,
 * Latvian: apkalpot
 * Macedonian: слу́жи
 * Polish: kelnerować, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: servi masa
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ser camarero
 * Volapük:

Noun

 * 1) A delay.
 * I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
 * 1) An ambush.
 * They lay in wait for the patrol.
 * 1)  One who watches; a watchman.
 * 2)  Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
 * 3)  Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
 * 4) * 1819-1820,, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
 * The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
 * 1)  Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
 * 2) * 1819-1820,, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
 * The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
 * The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.

Translations

 * Asturian: espera
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: espera
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 기다림
 * Latin: expectatio
 * Macedonian: чекање, исчекувње
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: abetu, aspettu
 * Gallurese: asèttu
 * Logudorese: iséttu
 * Sassarese: aisettu
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: paghihintay

Interjection

 * 1)  Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment.

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) white

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) white