seer

See also: SEER and şeer

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːɹ/, /siː.əɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ), -iːə(ɹ)
• Homophones: sear, sihr

Etymology 1

see +‎ -er ‎(“agent suffix”).

Noun

seer ‎(plural seers)

1. Agent noun of see; one who sees something; an eyewitness.
2. Someone who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.

Translations

someone who sees something; an eyewitness

• Dutch: ooggetuige (nl) m
• Georgian: მხედველი ‎(mxedveli)
• Latvian: aculiecinieks m
• Portuguese: testemunha (pt) f
• Russian: очеви́дец (ru) m ‎(očevídec), свиде́тель (ru) m ‎(svidételʹ)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: очевидац m

  Roman: očevidac (sh)

someone who foretells the future

• Czech: jasnovidec (cs), prorok
• Dutch: ziener (nl), helderziende (nl) m
• Finnish: näkijä (fi), tietäjä (fi)
• French: voyant (fr) m, voyante (fr) f
• Galician: vidente m, f
• Georgian: წინასწარმეტყველი ‎(c̣inasc̣armeṭq̇veli)
• German: Seher (de) m, Seherin (de) f, Wahrsager (de) m, Wahrsagerin (de) f, Weissager m, Weissagerin f, Hellseher (de) m, Hellseherin (de) f, Visionär (de) m, Visionärin (de) f, Prophet (de) m, Prophetin f
• Hindi: (rishi) ऋषि (hi) m ‎(r̥ṣi)
• Hungarian: látnok (hu)
• Irish: fáidh m
• Italian: veggente (it), chiaroveggente, indovino (it)
• Latin: fatidica f

• Latvian: pareģis, zīlētājs m
• Lithuanian: pranašas, aiškiaregys
• Polish: jasnowidz (pl)
• Portuguese: vidente (pt)
• Russian: прорица́тель (ru) m ‎(proricátelʹ), прови́дец (ru) m ‎(provídec)
• Scottish Gaelic: taibhsear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: видовњак, пророк m, пророчица f, видјелац

  Roman: vidovnjak (sh), pròrok (sh) m, pròročica (sh) f, vidjelac (sh)

• Slovak: jasnovidec, prorok, veštec
• Spanish: vidente (es) m, f, adivino (es) m, adivina (es) f
• Swedish: siare (sv) c, sierska (sv) (only female)
• Volapük: (♂♀) visionan, (♂) hivisionan, (♀) jivisionan

Etymology 2

See sihr.

Noun

seer ‎(plural seers)

1. Alternative form of sihr

Anagrams

• Erse
• Rees
• sere

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Danish

Etymology

From se ‎(“to see”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːər/, [ˈseːˀɐ]

Noun

seer c (singular definite seeren, plural indefinite seere)

1. viewer (someone who watches television)
2. seer (someone who foretells the future)

Inflection

Inflection of seer

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	seer	seeren	seere	seerne
genitive	seers	seerens	seeres	seernes

Synonyms

• (viewer): fjernseer, kigger, kikker, tv-kigger, tv-kikker, tv-seer

External links

• Seer on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From se +‎ -er

Noun

seer m ‎(definite singular seeren, indefinite plural seere, definite plural seerne)

1. (TV) a viewer
2. a seer, prophet

See also

• sjåar (Nynorsk)

References

• “seer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.