English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English awaken, from Old English awacan, from a- (intensive prefix) + wacan (“wake”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)
- Not asleep; conscious.
- (by extension) Alert, aware.
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conscious
- Arabic: مستيقظ (ar) (mustayqiZ), ساهد (ar) (saahid), يقظ (ar) (yaqiZ), متنبه (ar) (mutanabbih)
- Armenian: զարթուն (hy) (zart’un), արթուն (hy) (art’un)
- Asturian: epiertu (ast), despiertu (ast)
- Breton: dihun (br)
- Bulgarian: буден (bg) (buden)
- Catalan: despert (ca), llevat (ca)
- Chamicuro: ikakwi'ti
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 醒着 (cmn) (xǐngzhe), 醒覺 (cmn), 醒觉 (cmn) (xǐngjué), 清醒 (cmn) (qīngxǐng)
- Czech: vzhůru (cs), probuzený (cs), bdící (cs)
- Danish: vågen (da)
- Dutch: wakker (nl), ontwaakt (nl)
- Esperanto: maldorma (eo), veka (eo)
- Finnish: hereilläoleva (fi), valveillaoleva (fi)
- French: éveillé (fr), réveillé (fr)
- Galician: esperto (gl)
- German: wach (de)
- Greek: ξύπνιος (el) (ksýpnios) m, αφυπνισμένος (el) (afypnisménos) m
- Hebrew: ער (he) (er)
- Indonesian: bangun (id), terjaga, tidak tidur
- Irish: i do dhúiseacht (ga) f
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- Italian: veglia (it), essere sveglio
- Japanese: 目が覚めて (ja) (me-ga samete)
- Jèrriais: rêvilyi
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: بهخهبهر (ku) (bexeber)
- Kyrgyz: ойготуу (ky) (oygotuu), сезимин козгоо (ky) (sezimin kozgoo), ойгонуу (ky) (oygonuu), козголуу (ky) (kozgoluu), жандануу (ky) (candanuu), баамдоо (ky) (baamdoo), түшүнүү (ky) (tüşünüü), ойгоо (ky) (oygoo), уктабаган (ky) (uktabagan), уйкусуз (ky) (uykusuz), түшүнүүчү (ky) (tüşünüüçü), сак (ky) (sak), абайлагыч (ky) (abaylagıç), этият (ky) (etiyat), этияттуу (ky) (etiyattuu), акырын (ky) (akırın)
- Luxembourgish: waakreg (lb)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: våken (no)
- Nynorsk: vaken (nn)
- Polish: czujny (pl), przebudzony (pl)
- Portuguese: desperto (pt), acordado (pt)
- Russian: бодрствующий (ru) (bódrstvujuščij), проснувшийся (ru) (prosnúvšijsja)
- Scottish Gaelic: dùisgte (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: будан (sh) m
- Roman: budan (sh) m
- Slovak: zobudiť sa (sk)
- Slovene: buden (sl)
- Spanish: despierto (es)
- Swedish: vaken (sv)
- Telugu: మేలుకునియుండు (te)
- Turkish: uyanık (tr)
- Vietnamese: thức (vi), thức dậy (vi)
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awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or awaked, past participle awoken or awaked)
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:
- Than the good man awaked Sir Galahad and bade him aryse [...].
- (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- Freeman
- The national spirit again awoke.
- Bible, 1 Corinthians xv. 34
- Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
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Translations [edit]
to gain consciousness
- Arabic: صحى (ar) (SaHaa), استيقظ (ar) (istayaqaDHa)
- Armenian: զարթնել (hy) (zart’nel), արթնանալ (hy) (art’nanal)
- Asturian: espertar (ast), despertar (ast)
- Bengali: জাগা (bn) (jaga)
- Breton: dihuniñ (br)
- Bulgarian: събуждам се (bg) (sǎbuždam se)
- Catalan: llevar-se (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 醒 (cmn) (xǐng), 醒來 (cmn), 醒来 (cmn) (xǐnglái)
- Czech: vzbudit se (cs), probudit se (cs)
- Danish: vågne (da)
- Dutch: ontwaken (nl)
- Finnish: herätä (fi), havahtua (fi)
- French: se réveiller (fr)
- Galician: espertar (gl), acordar (gl), recordar (gl)
- German: aufwachen (de), erwachen (de)
- Greek: ξυπνώ (el) (ksypnó), αφυπνίζω (el) (afypnízo)
- Hebrew: התעורר (he) (hit'orér)
- Hindi: जागना (hi) (jāgnā)
- Indonesian: bangun (id), terjaga (id)
- Irish: dúisigh (ga)
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- Italian: svegliarsi (it)
- Japanese: 目覚める (ja) (めざめる, mezameru), 目を覚ます (ja) (めをさます, me-o samasu), 起きる (ja) (おきる, okiru)
- Korean: 일어나 (ko) (ireona)
- Latin: excito (la)
- Luxembourgish: erwächen (lb)
- Persian: بیدار شدن (fa) (bidâr šodan)
- Polish: obudzić się (pl)
- Portuguese: acordar (pt), despertar (pt)
- Romanian: deștepta (ro), scula (ro), trezi (ro)
- Russian: просыпаться (ru) (prosypát’sja) impf., проснуться (ru) (prosnút’sja) pf., пробуждаться (ru) (probuždát’sja) impf., пробудиться (ru) (probudít’sja) pf.
- Scottish Gaelic: dùisg (gd)
- Sicilian: ruspigghiari (scn)
- Slovene: zbuditi se (sl)
- Spanish: despertarse (es)
- Swedish: vakna (sv)
- Ukrainian: просипатися (uk) (prosypátysja)
- Urdu: جگنا (ur) (jagnā)
- Vietnamese: thức dậy (vi), dậy lên (vi), dậy (vi), thức (vi)
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to cause someone to stop sleeping
to excite something latent
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See also [edit]
References [edit]
- “awake” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- “awake” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- "awake" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
- awake in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
