English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old English dēaf, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
deaf (comparative deafer, superlative deafest)
- Not having the faculty of hearing, or only partially able to hear.
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
not hearing
- Afrikaans: dowe (af)
- Albanian: i shurdhër (sq)
- American Sign Language: 1@Jaw 1@Chin
- Arabic: أصم (ar) (ʾaṣamm)
- Armenian: խուլ (hy) (xul)
- Aromanian: surdu (rup)
- Asturian: sordu (ast), xordu (ast)
- Azeri: kar (az)
- Belarusian: глухі (be) (hluxí)
- Breton: bouzar (br)
- Bulgarian: глух (bg) (gluh)
- Catalan: sord (ca)
- Chamicuro: majchayi
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 聾 (cmn), 聋 (cmn) (lóng), 耳聾 (cmn), 耳聋 (cmn) (ěrlóng)
- Crimean Tatar: sağır
- Czech: hluchý (cs) m
- Danish: døv (da)
- Dutch: doof (nl), dove (nl)
- Esperanto: surda (eo)
- Estonian: kurt (et)
- Faroese: deyvur (fo)
- Finnish: kuuro (fi), kuulovammainen (fi)
- French: sourd (fr)
- Friulian: sord
- Galician: xordo (gl)
- Georgian: ყრუ (ka) (qru)
- German: taub (de), gehörlos (de)
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs)
- Greek: κωφός (el) (kofós) m , κουφός (el) (koufós) m
- Hawaiian: kuli
- Hebrew: חירש (he) (kheresh) m, חירשת (khereshet) f (not having faculty of hearing)
- Hindi: बहरा (hi) (bahrā)
- Hungarian: süket (hu)
- Icelandic: daufur (is)
- Indonesian: tuli (id)
- Irish: bodhar (ga)
- Old Irish: bodar
- Italian: sordo (it)
- Japanese: 聴覚障害者 (ja) (chōkaku-shōgaisha), 耳の聞こえない (ja) (mimi-no kikoenai), 聾 (ja) (tsunbo) , 聾者 (ja) (ろうしゃ, rōsha)
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- Kazakh: саңырау (kk) (sañıraw)
- Korean: 귀머거리의 (ko) (gwimeogeori-ui)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: kerr (ku), guhgiran (ku), کهڕ (ku)
- Latgalian: kūrslys m
- Latin: surdus (la) m
- Latvian: kurls (lv) m, nedzirdīgs (lv)
- Lithuanian: kurčias (lt)
- Low German: dow (nds)
- Macedonian: глув (mk) (gluv)
- Malay: pekak (ms), tuli (ms), congek (ms)
- Maori: turi (mi)
- Navajo: ajéékałgo ąąh dahazʼą́, jééhkał
- Ngarrindjeri: plombatji
- Northern Sami: bealjeheapmi
- Norwegian: døv (no)
- Occitan: sord (oc)
- Old English: dēaf (ang)
- Pashto: کوڼ (ps) (kuṇ)
- Persian: کر (fa) (kar), ناشنوا (fa) (nâšenavâ)
- Polish: głuchy (pl) m
- Portuguese: surdo (pt)
- Romanian: surd (ro)
- Russian: глухой (ru) (gluxój)
- Sanskrit: बधिर (sa) (badhira)
- Sardinian: suldu (sc), surdu (sc)
- Scots: deif
- Scottish Gaelic: bodhar (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: глув (sh) (Serbia), глух (sh) (Bosnia, Croatia)
- Roman: gluv (sh) (Serbia), gluh (sh) (Bosnia, Croatia)
- Slovak: hluchý (sk) m
- Slovene: gluh (sl)
- Spanish: sordo (es)
- Swedish: döv (sv)
- Telugu: చెవిటి (te) (cheviTi)
- Thai: หูหนวก (th) (hŏo nùak)
- Turkish: sağır (tr)
- Ukrainian: глухий (uk) (hluxýj)
- Urdu: بہرا (ur) (bahrā)
- Vietnamese: điếc (vi)
- Welsh: byddar (cy)
- West Frisian: dôf (fy)
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See also [edit]
deaf
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) Deaf people considered as a group.
Translations [edit]
deaf people considered as a group
Derived terms [edit]
deaf (third-person singular simple present deafs, present participle deafing, simple past and past participle deafed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deafen.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
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Old English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Indo-European *dheubh- (“smoky, foggy, dim”). Germanic cognates include Old Frisian dāf, Old Saxon dōf (Low German dow), Old High German toub (German taub), Old Norse daufr (Swedish döv). The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek τυφλός (“blind”).
Adjective [edit]
dēaf
- deaf
Deafness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
