wear

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , from.

Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Originally a weak verb (i.e. with a past tense in -ed), it became irregular during the Middle English period by analogy with verbs like (whence bear) and  (whence tear).

Verb

 * 1)  To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
 * 2)  To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
 * 3)  To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
 * 4)  To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
 * 5) To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
 * 6)  To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
 * 7) To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
 * 8)  To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
 * 9)  (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
 * 10)  To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
 * 11)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
 * 1) To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
 * 2)  To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
 * 3) To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
 * 4)  To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
 * 5)  (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
 * 6)  To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
 * 7)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
 * 1) To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
 * 2)  To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
 * 3)  (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
 * 4)  To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
 * 5)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
 * 1)  (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
 * 2)  To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
 * 3)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
 * 1)  To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
 * 2)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
 * 1)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
 * 1)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
 * 1)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
 * 1)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, اِرْتَدَى
 * Egyptian Arabic: لبس
 * Moroccan Arabic: لْبس
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: portu
 * Assamese: পিন্ধ
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܵܒ݂ܹܫ
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: кейеү
 * Basque: jantzi
 * Bavarian: ohåm
 * Belarusian: насі́ць, панасі́ць, апрана́ць, апрану́ць, надзява́ць, надзе́ць
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: sul-ob
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏄᏩ,  ᎤᏑᎳ,  ᏚᎵᏰᏑᎳ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 著//着, 戴
 * Hakka: 著//着, 戴
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: surporti
 * Estonian: kandma
 * Faliscan: ceso
 * Faroese: vera í
 * Finnish: olla yllään,, , olla päällään
 * French:
 * Friulian: puartâ
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტარება, ცმევა
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐνδύω, φορέω
 * Hawaiian: komo
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: isol-ob
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Ingrian: pittää
 * Irish: iompair, caith
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,  ,
 * Kabuverdianu: bisti, vestí
 * Kamta: pindh
 * Khmer:, ស្លៀកពាក់
 * Korean:, ,  ,
 * Lao: ໃສ່
 * Latgalian: nosuot
 * Latin: vestio
 * Latvian: valkāt, nēsāt
 * Lithuanian: nešioti, vilkėti
 * Macedonian: но́си
 * Malay: pakai
 * Maori: mau
 * Miyako: カヴ
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali: लगाउनु, पहिरनु, पैह्रनु
 * North Frisian: dreeg
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, ha på seg
 * Nynorsk: ha på seg
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: beran
 * Oromo: uffachuu
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: purtar, purter, portar
 * Russian:, ,  ,  быть оде́тым в
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: zúchere
 * Scots: weir
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: но̀сити
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: nosiť
 * Slovene: nositi
 * Southern Altai: кийип јӱрер, кийер
 * Spanish:, , tener puesto
 * Swahili: kuvaa
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti: ꠙꠤꠘ꠆ꠗꠣ
 * Thai:, สวมใส่, ,
 * Tibetan: གོན, བཞེས, མཆོད
 * Tocharian A: pär-
 * Tocharian B: pär-, wäs-
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: носи́ти, надяга́ти, наді́ти
 * Urdu: پہننا
 * Vietnamese:, ,  ,
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: זיך אנטאן
 * Zhuang:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: изно́свам се
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: opotřebit se
 * Ewe: nyi
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * German: sich
 * Japanese: 擦り切れる
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: зно́шуватися
 * Walloon:


 * Bulgarian: влоша́вам се
 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Ido: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian: skuorre


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: сме́ням галса
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Swedish: vända undan vinden


 * Arabic:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Korean:

Noun

 * 1)  Clothing.
 * 2) Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
 * 3) Fashion.
 * 4) Wearing.
 * 1) Fashion.
 * 2) Wearing.
 * 1) Wearing.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * German:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Malay: pakai
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: اِهْتِراء
 * Azerbaijani: aşıntı
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: desgast
 * Czech: opotřebení
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: desgaste
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: nolietojums, nodilums
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: slitasje
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: consumu
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: зно́шування

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
 * 2)  To defend; protect.
 * 3)  To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
 * to wear the wolf from the sheep
 * 1)  To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.