wayfarer

English

Etymology

From Middle English weyfarere, weifarere; equivalent to way +‎ farer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪˌfɛəɹ.ə(ɹ)/

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Noun

wayfarer (plural wayfarers)

1. A traveller, especially one on foot.
   • 1954, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot‎^[1], →ISBN, page 8:

     ESTRAGON: That would be too bad, really too bad. [Pause.] Wouldn't it, Didi, be really too bad? [Pause.] When you think of the beauty of the way. [Pause.] And the goodness of the wayfarers. [Pause. Wheedling.] Wouldn't it, Didi?

2. A type of glasses, with pointed ends and rounded bottoms.

Related terms

• wayfare
• wayfaring

Translations

traveller

• Arabic: ibn sabīlمُسَافِر ,ابن السبيل musāfir
• Armenian: ճանապարհորդ (hy) (čanaparhord), (colloquial, dialectal) ճամփորդ (hy) (čampʻord), ուղևոր (hy) (uġewor)
• Bengali: মুসাফির (bn) (musafir), রাহী (bn) (rahī)
• Bulgarian: пътник (bg) m (pǎtnik)
• Catalan: caminant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旅行者 (zh) (lǚxíng zhě)

• Czech: poutník (cs) m, pocestný m
• Dutch: reiziger (nl) m
• Finnish: kulkija (fi)
• French: voyageur (fr) m
• German: Wandersmann (de)
• Greek: ταξιδιώτης (el) m (taxidiótis), ταξιδιώτρια f (taxidiótria), ταξιδιώτισσα (el) f (taxidiótissa)

  Ancient: ὁδοιπόρος m (hodoipóros)

• Hungarian: utazó (hu), vándor (hu)
• Ingrian: matkalain
• Irish: rianaí m
• Italian: viaggiatore (it) m, viandante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 旅人 (ja) (tabibito), トレッカー (torekkā)
• Latin: viātor (la) m, viātrix (la) f
• Latvian: ceļinieks (lv) m, ceļotāja f
• Macedonian: патник m (patnik)
• Old English: weġfarend
• Ottoman Turkish: یولجی (yolcu)
• Polish: wędrowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: viajante (pt), andarilho (pt)
• Russian: пу́тник (ru) m (pútnik), стра́нник (ru) m (stránnik)
• Spanish: caminante (es) m or f
• Swedish: vägfarande
• Tatar: мосафир (mosafir), сәфәрче (tt) (säfärçe)
• Welsh: fforddolyn m