English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Late Latin orphanus Ancient Greek ὀρφανός orphanos , “ without parents, fatherless ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos अर्भ árbha ), Latin orbus “ orphaned ” ), Old High German erbi arbi Erbe “ heir ” )), Old English ierfa “ heir ” ). More at erf
Pronunciation [ edit ] orphan (plural orphans
A person , especially a minor , both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
1956 , Delano Ames , chapter 9, Crime out of Mind [1]
Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
A young animal with no mother .
( figuratively ) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.( typography ) A single line of type , beginning a paragraph , at the bottom of a column or page .( computing ) Any unreferenced object.
Derived terms [ edit ]
Terms derived from "orphan"
Translations [ edit ]
person whose (parent or) parents have died
Afrikaans: weeskind
Albanian: jetim m jetime f bonjak (sq) m bonjake (sq) f
Arabic: يتيم (ar) m yatiim )
Armenian: որբ orb )
Old Armenian: որբ orb )
Asturian: güérfanu m
Azeri: yetim (az)
Bashkir: етем yetem ), йәтим yätim )
Bengali: তিম etim )
Bulgarian: сирак (bg) (sirak )
Catalan: orfe (ca) m òrfena (ca) f
Chamicuro: wakcha
Chinese:
Mandarin: 孤兒 (zh) , 孤儿 (zh) (gū'ér )
Czech: sirotek (cs) m
Danish: forældreløst barn n hittebarn (da) n
Dutch: wees (nl) m , f weeskind (nl) n weesjongen (nl) m weesmeisje (nl) n
Egyptian: 𓏏𓆑𓈖𓅪𓀀 tfn )
Esperanto: orfo
Estonian: orb (et) , vaeslaps
Faroese: foreldraloysingur
Finnish: orpo (fi)
French: orphelin (fr) m orpheline (fr) f
Old French: orfelin m
Georgian: ობოლი oboli )
German: ( ♂♀ ) Waise (de) f ( both parents dead, ♂♀ ) Vollwaise f ( one parent dead, ♂♀ ) Halbwaise f ( ♂♀ ) Waisenkind (de) n Waisenknabe (de) m Waisenjunge m ( ♀ ) Waisenmädchen n Elternloser m Elternlose f
Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌰 m widuwaírna )
Greek: ορφανός (el) m orfanós ), ( colloquial, when both parents are dead ) πεντάρφανος (el) m pentárfanos )
Haitian Creole: òfelen
Hebrew: יָתוֹם (he) m yatóm ), יְתוֹמָה f yetomá )
Hindi: अनाथ m anāth ), यतीम m yatim )
Hungarian: árva (hu)
Icelandic: munaðarleysingi (is) m
Ido: orfano (io)
Indonesian: anak yatim (id)
Irish: dílleachta
Italian: orfano (it) m orfana (it) f
Japanese: 孤児 (ja) (こじ koji
Korean: 고아 (ko) (goa )
Kurdish:
Sorani: ههتیو (ku)
Latin: orbus m orba f
Latvian: bārenis
Lithuanian: našlaitis
Livonian: joutõmläpš bōr
Luhya: omufubi
Manx: treoghan
Maori: pani
Mongolian: енчин jenčin )
Norwegian: foreldreløst barn n
Ossetian: сидзæр siʒær )
Ottoman Turkish: يتيم yatim )
Papiamentu: wérfano
Persian: یتیم (fa) (yatim )
Polish: sierota (pl) f sierotka (pl) f ( diminutive )
Portuguese: órfão (pt) m órfã (pt) f
Romanian: orfan (ro) m orfană f
Russian: сирота (ru) m , f sirotá )
Scottish Gaelic: dìlleachd m dìlleachdan m tàcharan m
Serbian:
Cyrillic: сиро̀че n сиро̀та̄н m сиро̀та f сѝра̄к m сирота́нче n сиро̀тица f
Roman: siròče n siròtān m siròta f sìrāk m sirotánče n siròtica f
Slovak: sirota
Spanish: huérfano (es) m huérfana (es) f
Swahili: mfiwa mtoto yatima (sw)
Swedish: föräldralöst barn n
Tagalog: ulila
Taos: pènku’úna
Telugu: అనాధ (te) (anaadha )
Thai: เด็กกำพร้า dèk gam práa )
Turkish: yetim (tr)
Ukrainian: сирота syrotá )
Urdu: اناتھ m anāth ), یتیم m yatīm )
Vietnamese: đứa trẻ mồ côi mồ côi (vi)
Volapük: nenpalan (vo)
Welsh: amddifad (cy)
Yiddish: יתום m yosem ), יתומה f yesoyme )
Adjective [ edit ] orphan (not comparable )
Deprived of parents (also orphaned
She is an orphan child.
( by extension, figuratively ) Remaining after the removal of some form of support .
With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
Related terms [ edit ] orphan (third-person singular simple present orphans present participle orphaning simple past and past participle orphaned
( transitive ) To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive )
What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
( transitive , computing ) To make unavailable , as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to.
When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon. Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.
References [ edit ]
"orphan " at OneLook® Dictionary Search .
