friar

See also: Friar

English

Alternative forms

• frier, fryar (obsolete)

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

From Middle English frere, from Old French frere, from Latin frāter (“brother”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of frater and brother.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: frier, fryer

Noun

friar (plural friars)

1. A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
2. (printing, dated) A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking.
3. An American fish, the silverside.

Synonyms

• (member of religious order): brother, frater or father

Coordinate terms

• (member of religious order): sister
• (white patch on a printed page): monk

Derived terms

Derived terms

• black friar
• friary

• grey friar
• white friar

Translations

member of certain Christian orders

• Armenian: վանական (hy) (vanakan), կրոնավոր (hy) (kronavor), եղբայր (hy) (eġbayr), ֆրեր (frer)
• Bulgarian: монах (bg) m (monah)
• Catalan: frare (ca) m
• Chinese: 男修道士 (nán xiū dào shì)
• Czech: fráter m
• Esperanto: monaĥo
• Finnish: veli (fi)
• French: frère (fr) m
• Galician: freire (gl) m, frade m
• Georgian: ლორენცო (lorenco)
• German: Mönch (de) m, Ordensbruder (de) m
• Greek: μοναχός (el) m (monachós)
• Hungarian: barát (hu)
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
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• Irish: bráthair m, coirneach m
• Italian: frate (it) m
• Latin: frater (la)
• Middle English: frere
• Occitan: fraire (oc) m
• Polish: zakonnik (pl) m, brat (pl) m
• Portuguese: frade (pt) m, frei (pt) m, freire (pt) m
• Russian: мона́х нищенствующего ордена m (monáx niščenstvujuščevo ordena)
• Scottish Gaelic: manach m
• Spanish: fraile (es)
• Tagalog: frayle
• Volapük: (male or female) rodan (vo), (male) hirodan (vo)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From fri (“to ask for (someone's) hand in marriage”) +‎ -ar.

Noun

friar m (definite singular friaren, indefinite plural friarar, definite plural friarane)

1. one (traditionally a man) who proposes marriage

Related terms

• frieri (“marriage proposal”)

References

• “friar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• firar

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Swedish

Verb

friar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of fria.

Anagrams

• firar