err

See also: Err.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɜː(ɹ)/, (rare) /ɛə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• /ɜː(ɹ)/ Homophone: er
• /ɛə(ɹ)/ Homophones: air, are (unit of measurement), ayr, Ayr, e'er, ere, eyre, heir

Verb

err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

1. (intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.

   He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.

   • 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation‎^[1], page 7:

     Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.

2. (intransitive) To sin.
3. (archaic) to stray.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

Derived terms

Terms derived from "err"

• err on the side of
• err on the side of caution
• erroneous
• error
• to err is human

Translations

make a mistake — see also be wrong

• Arabic: غَلِطَ‎ (ḡaliṭa), أَخْطَأَ‎ (ʔaḵṭaʔa)

  Egyptian Arabic: غلط‎ (ġeleṭ)

• Armenian: սխալվել (hy) (sxalvel)
• Bashkir: яңылышыу (yañılışıw), хата ебәреү (xata yibəriw)
• Belarusian: памыля́цца impf (pamyljácca), памылі́цца (be) pf (pamylícca), хі́біць impf (xíbicʹ), схі́біць pf (sxíbicʹ)
• Bulgarian: греша́ (bg) impf (grešá), заблужда́вам се (bg) impf (zabluždávam se), допу́скам гре́шка impf (dopúskam gréška), допу́сна гре́шка pf (dopúsna gréška)
• Burmese: မှား (my) (hma:), ချော်ချွတ် (my) (hkyauhkywat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 犯錯／犯错 (zh) (fàncuò), 做錯／做错 (zh) (zuòcuò), (colloquial) 走眼 (zh) (zǒuyǎn)

• Czech: chybovat impf, chybit (cs) pf, mýlit se (cs) impf
• Danish: fejle
• Dutch: een fout maken, een vergissing maken, zich vergissen (nl), dwalen (nl)
• Esperanto: erari (eo)
• Finnish: erehtyä (fi), tehdä virhe
• French: se tromper (fr), errer (fr)
• German: irren (de), sich irren (de), Fehler machen
• Hindi: ग़लती करना (ġaltī karnā)
• Hungarian: téved (hu)
• Ido: erorar (io)
• Italian: errare (it), sbagliare (it)
• Japanese: 間違える (ja) (まちがえる, machigaeru)
• Kazakh: қателесу (qatelesu), жаңылу (jañylu), жаңылысу (jañylysu)
• Khmer: ភាន់ (km) (phŏən)
• Korean: 잘못하다 (ko) (jalmothada), 틀리다 (ko) (teullida)
• Kyrgyz: жаңылуу (ky) (jaŋıluu), жаңылышуу (jaŋılışuu)
• Ladino: yerrar
• Latin: errō (la)
• Macedonian: греши impf (greši), погреши pf (pogreši)
• Manchu: ᡝᠨᡩᡝᠮᠪᡳ (endembi)
• Mwotlap: higap
• Occitan: s'enganar, errar (oc)
• Persian: اشتباه کردن‎ (fa) (eštebâh kardan), خطا کردن‎ (xatâ kardan)
• Polish: mylić się (pl) impf, pomylić się (pl) pf, popełniać błąd impf, popełnić błąd pf, błądzić (pl) impf, zbłądzić pf
• Portuguese: errar (pt)
• Quechua: pantay
• Romanian: greși (ro), se înșela (ro)
• Russian: ошиба́ться (ru) impf (ošibátʹsja), ошиби́ться (ru) pf (ošibítʹsja), допуска́ть оши́бку impf (dopuskátʹ ošíbku), допусти́ть оши́бку pf (dopustítʹ ošíbku), заблужда́ться (ru) impf (zabluždátʹsja)
• Sanskrit: स्रेधति (sredhati)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гре́шити impf, погре́шити pf, грије́шити impf, погрије́шити pf

  Roman: gréšiti (sh) impf, pogréšiti (sh) pf, grijéšiti (sh) impf, pogrijéšiti (sh) pf

• Slovak: mýliť sa impf
• Slovene: motiti se impf, zmotiti se pf
• Spanish: errar (es), equivocar (es)
• Swedish: fela (sv), göra misstag
• Tajik: иштибоҳ кардан (ištiboh kardan), хато кардан (xato kardan)
• Thai: ทำผิด (tam-pìt)
• Turkish: yanılmak (tr), hata yapmak, yanlış yapmak
• Ukrainian: помиля́тися impf (pomyljátysja), помили́тися pf (pomylýtysja)
• Urdu: غلطی کرنا‎ (ġaltī karnā)
• Uzbek: yanglishmoq (uz), adashmoq (uz), xato qilmoq
• Vietnamese: phạm lỗi
• Volapük: pölön (vo)

sin — see sin

Etymology 2

Interjection

err

1. Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”).

   Err... what did you just say?

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, “evening”), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, “dimness, darkness, mist”) and Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “it can't be from both sources”)

Noun

err m

1. dark, darkness

Synonyms

• terr

Derived terms

• errem
• irë

Estonian

Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Faroese

Noun

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

n9	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	err	errið	err	errini
Accusative	err	errið	err	errini
Dative	erri	errinum	errum	errunum
Genitive	ers	ersins	erra	erranna

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrː]
• Hyphenation: err
• Rhymes: -ɛrː

Noun

err

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	err	errek
accusative	erret	erreket
dative	errnek	erreknek
instrumental	errel	errekkel
causal-final	errért	errekért
translative	erré	errekké
terminative	errig	errekig
essive-formal	errként	errekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	errben	errekben
superessive	erren	erreken
adessive	errnél	erreknél
illative	errbe	errekbe
sublative	erre	errekre
allative	errhez	errekhez
elative	errből	errekből
delative	erről	errekről
ablative	errtől	errektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	erré	erreké
non-attributive possessive - plural	erréi	errekéi

Possessive forms of err
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	errem	errjeim
2nd person sing.	erred	errjeid
3rd person sing.	errje	errjei
1st person plural	errünk	errjeink
2nd person plural	erretek	errjeitek
3rd person plural	errjük	errjeik

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

Further reading

• r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛrː/

  Rhymes: -ɛrː

Noun

err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

declension of err

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	err	errið	err	errin
accusative	err	errið	err	errin
dative	erri	errinu	errum	errunum
genitive	errs	errsins	erra	erranna

Võro

Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.