English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English awaken Old English awacan a- wacan ( “ wake ” ) . Compare Saterland Frisian woak ( “ awake ” ) , German Low German waak ( “ awake ” ) , German wach ( “ awake ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ] Adjective [ edit ] awake (comparative more awakesuperlative most awakepredicative only)
Not asleep ; conscious .
( by extension ) Alert , aware .
Synonyms [ edit ] Antonyms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
conscious
Arabic: مُسْتَيْقِظ ( mustayqiẓ ) , سَاهِد ( sāhid ) , يَقِظ ( yaqiẓ ) , مُتَنَبِّه ( mutanabbih )
Egyptian Arabic: صاحي ( ṣāḥī )
Armenian: զարթուն (hy) ( zartʿun ) , արթուն (hy) ( artʿun )
Asturian: epiertu despiertu
Breton: dihun (br)
Bulgarian: буден (bg) ( buden )
Catalan: despert (ca) , llevat (ca)
Chamicuro: ikakwi'ti
Chinese:
Mandarin: 醒 着 ( xǐngzhe ) , 醒覺 (zh) , 醒觉 (zh) ( xǐngjué ) , 清醒 (zh) ( qīngxǐng )
Czech: vzhůru (cs) , probuzený bdící
Danish: vågen (da)
Dutch: wakker (nl) , ontwaakt (nl)
Esperanto: maldorma veka
Faroese: vakin
Finnish: hereillä oleva valveilla oleva
French: éveillé (fr) , réveillé (fr)
Galician: esperto
Georgian: მღვიძარე ( mɣviʒare ) , გამოღვიძებული ( gamoɣviʒebuli ) , ფხიზელი ( pxizeli )
German: wach (de)
Greek: ξύπνιος (el) ( xýpnios ) , αφυπνισμένος (el) ( afypnisménos )
Hebrew: ער (he) ( er )
Indonesian: bangun (id) , terjaga , tidak tidur
Irish: i do dhúiseacht f
Italian: sveglio (it) , desto (it)
Japanese: 目が覚めた ( me ga sameta ) , 目ざめた ( めざめた, mezameta )
Kurdish:
Sorani: بهخهبهر ( bexeber )
Kyrgyz: ойготуу (ky) ( oygotuu ) , сезимин козгоо ( 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
Macedonian: буден ( buden )
Ngazidja Comorian: hashiri
Norman: rêvilyi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: våken (no)
Nynorsk: vaken
Persian: بیدار (fa) ( bidâr )
Polish: czujny (pl) , przebudzony
Portuguese: desperto (pt) , acordado (pt)
Romanian: treaz (ro)
Russian: бо́дрствующий (ru) ( bódrstvujuščij ) , просну́вшийся (ru) ( prosnúvšijsja ) , не спя́щий ( ne spjáščij )
Scottish Gaelic: dùisgte
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: будан m
Roman: budan (sh) m
Slovak: zobudiť sa
Slovene: buden
Spanish: despierto (es)
Swedish: vaken (sv)
Telugu: మేలుకునియుండు ( mēlukuniyuṃḍu )
Turkish: uyanık (tr)
Vietnamese: thức (vi) , thức dậy (vi)
awake (third-person singular simple present awakes present participle awaking simple past awoke or ( rare ) awaked past participle awoken or ( rare ) awaked or ( rare ) awoke or ( rare ) awaken
( intransitive ) To become conscious after having slept .
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989):
Each morning when I awake , I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
( transitive ) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping .
1485 , Sir Thomas Malory , chapter primum , in Le Morte Darthur
Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
1665 Robert Hooke , Micrographia
[This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
( transitive ) to excite or to stir up something latent .( transitive , figuratively ) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy .( intransitive , figuratively ) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy .
Synonyms [ edit ] Antonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
to gain consciousness
Arabic: صَحَى ( ṣaḥā ) , اِسْتَيَقَظَ (ar) ( istayaqaẓa )
Armenian: զարթնել (hy) ( zartʿnel ) , արթնանալ (hy) ( artʿnanal )
Asturian: espertar despertar
Bengali: জাগা ( jaga )
Breton: dihuniñ (br)
Bulgarian: събуждам се ( sǎbuždam se )
Catalan: llevar-se (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 醒 (zh) ( xǐng ) , 醒來 (zh) , 醒来 (zh) ( xǐnglái )
Czech: vzbudit se probudit se
Danish: vågne (da)
Dutch: ontwaken (nl)
Finnish: herätä (fi) , havahtua
French: se réveiller (fr)
Galician: espertar acordar (gl) , recordar (gl)
Georgian: გაღვიძება ( gaɣviʒeba ) , გამოღვიძება ( gamoɣviʒeba )
German: aufwachen (de) , erwachen (de)
Greek: ξυπνώ (el) ( xypnó ) , αφυπνίζω (el) ( afypnízo )
Hebrew: התעורר (he) ( hit'orér )
Hindi: जागना (hi) ( jāgnā )
Ido: vekar (io)
Indonesian: bangun (id) , terjaga (id)
Irish: dúisigh
Italian: svegliarsi (it)
Japanese: 目覚める ( めざめる, mezameru ) , 目を覚ます ( めをさます, me-o samasu ) , 起きる (ja) ( おきる, okiru )
Korean: 일어나 ( ireona )
Latin: excito
Luxembourgish: erwächen
Persian: بیدار شدن (fa) ( bidâr šodan )
Polish: obudzić się (pl)
Portuguese: acordar (pt) , despertar (pt)
Romanian: deștepta (ro) , scula (ro) , trezi (ro)
Russian: просыпа́ться (ru) impf ( prosypátʹsja ) , просну́ться (ru) pf ( prosnútʹsja ) , пробужда́ться (ru) impf ( probuždátʹsja ) , пробуди́ться (ru) pf ( probudítʹsja )
Scottish Gaelic: dùisg
Sicilian: ruspigghiari
Slovene: zbuditi se (sl)
Spanish: despertarse (es)
Swedish: vakna (sv)
Ukrainian: просипа́тися ( prosypátysja )
Urdu: جگنا ( jagnā )
Vietnamese: thức dậy (vi) , dậy lên dậy (vi) , thức (vi)
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 Houghton Mifflin , 2000, ISBN 978-0-395-82517-4
“awake ” in Dictionary.com Unabridged , Dictionary.com, LLC , 1995–.
"awake " in WordNet 2.0 , Princeton University, 2003.
awake in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co., New York, 1911awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
