widower

§English

§Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪdoʊɚ/

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§Noun

widower (plural widowers)

1. A man whose wife has died (and who has not remarried); masculine of widow.

§Translations

a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried

• Arabic: أرمل m (ʾármal)

  Egyptian Arabic: أرمل m (ʔarmal)

• Armenian: այրի (ayri)
• Bashkir: тол (tol), тол ир (tol ir)
• Belarusian: удавец m (udavéc), ўдавец m (ŭdavéc)
• Breton: intañv (br) m
• Bulgarian: вдовец m (vdovec)
• Catalan: vidu m
• Chamicuro: maluti
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鰥夫, 鳏夫 (zh) (guānfū)

• Czech: vdovec (cs) m
• Danish: enkemand c
• Dutch: weduwnaar (nl) m
• Erzya: доваля (dovalja)
• Esperanto: vidvo
• Finnish: leski (fi), leskimies (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: vevo m
• French: veuf (fr) m
• Friulian: vedul m
• German: Witwer (de) m
• Greek: χήρος (el) m (chíros)
• Hebrew: אַלְמָן m (almán)
• Hungarian: özvegyember (hu)
• Indonesian: duda (id)
• Irish: baintreach fir f
• Italian: vedovo (it)
• Japanese: 男やもめ (おとこやもめ, otoko-yamome)

• Korean: 홀아비 (ko) (horabi)
• Latin: viduus
• Lithuanian: našlys m
• Livonian: lešk, atrāita
• Macedonian: вдовец m (vdóvec)
• Malay: duda
• Maori: pouaru, takahore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: enkemann (no) m

  Nynorsk: enkjemann m, enkemann m

• Oriya: ବିପତ୍ନୀକ (bipatnīka), ମ୍ୄତଦାର (mrutadāra)
• Polish: wdowiec (pl)
• Portuguese: viúvo (pt) m
• Romanian: văduv (ro)
• Russian: вдовец (ru) m (vdovéc)
• Scots: weedae-man
• Scottish Gaelic: banntrach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: удовац m

  Roman: udovac m

• Slovak: vdovec m
• Slovene: vdovec (sl) m
• Spanish: viudo (es) m
• Swedish: änkeman (sv), änkling (sv) c
• Turkish: dul (tr)
• Ukrainian: вдівець (uk) m (vdivécʹ)
• Venetian: védoo m
• Vietnamese: người góa vợ

§Related terms

• widow
• widowerhood