awaken

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪkən

Etymology

awake +‎ -en

Verb

awaken (third-person singular simple present awakens, present participle awakening, simple past awoke, past participle awoken)

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.
2. (transitive) To cause to become conscious.
3. (intransitive) To stop sleeping.

Synonyms

• (intransitive, to stop sleeping): awake, stir

Antonyms

• (stop sleeping): fall asleep

Translations

transitive: to cause to become awake

• Arabic: أَفَاقَ (ar), أَيْقَظَ (ar), أَصْحَى (ar)

  Moroccan Arabic: فيّق (fejjeq)

• Armenian: զարթնեցնել (hy) (zart’nec’nel), արթնացնել (hy) (art’nac’nel)
• Czech: vzbudit (cs)
• Dutch: wekken (nl), wakker maken (nl)
• Finnish: herättää (fi)
• French: réveiller (fr)

• German: aufwecken (de)
• Interlingua: eveliar (ia)
• Latin: excito (la)
• Persian: بلند کردن (fa) (boland kardan), (colloquial) بلن کردن (fa) (bolan kardan), بیدار کردن (fa) (bidâr kardan)
• Romanian: scula (ro), deștepta (ro), trezi (ro)
• Spanish: despertar (es)
• Walloon: dispierter (wa), rewoeyî (wa)

transitive: to cause to become conscious

• Armenian: արթնացնել (hy) (art’nac’nel)
• Finnish: herättää (fi), havahduttaa (fi)
• German: erwachen (de)

• Latin: excito (la)
• Spanish: despertar (es)

intransitive: to stop sleeping

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: فاق (faq)

• Armenian: զարթնել (hy) (zart’nel), արթնանալ (hy) (art’nanal)
• Dutch: zich opwekken (nl), wakker worden (nl)
• Finnish: herätä (fi)
• French: se réveiller (fr)
• German: aufwachen (de), erwachen (de)

• Japanese: 起きる (ja) (okiru)
• Latin: excitor (la)
• Persian: بیدار شدن (fa) (bidâr šodan)
• Scottish Gaelic: dùisg (gd)
• Spanish: despertarse (es)
• Walloon: si dispierter (wa), si rewoeyî (wa)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Japanese: 起こす (ja) (okosu)