err

See also: Err.

Translingual

Symbol

err

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Erre.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Erre terms

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜː/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɛr/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /øː/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /eː/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ɛː/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: (all non-US pronunciations, /ɝ/ US pronunciation:) er
• Homophones: (/ɛɚ/ US pronunciation, all fair–fur merger pronunciations:) 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, 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.

   To err is human, to forgive, divine.

3. (archaic) to stray.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

Derived terms

• errable
• erroneous
• err on the side of
• err on the side of caution
• error
• inerrable
• 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 yebərew) 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) Catalan: equivocar (ca), errar (ca) 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, mokata (fi) (colloquial), tyriä (fi) (colloquial), haksahtaa (fi), kämmätä (fi) (colloquial), munata (fi) (colloquial), möhlätä (fi) (colloquial), töpätä (fi) French: se tromper (fr), errer (fr) Gagauz: yanılmaa, pişiklemää, pişik yapmaa German: irren (de), sich irren (de), Fehler machen Hebrew: שגה (he) (shagá) 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) Old Anatolian Turkish: آزمق (azmaq), یازمق (yazmaq) 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 Sicilian: sbagghiari (scn) Slovak: mýliť sa impf Slovene: motiti se impf, zmotiti se pf Spanish: errar (es), equivocarse (es), marrar (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

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

Another theory links it to Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos, but the phonological development required seems implausible.

Noun

err m

1. dark, darkness

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• terr

Derived terms

• errem
• irë
• errësirë

Estonian

Noun

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

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

Faroese

Noun

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

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

Declension

Declension of err (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/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 Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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/r.

Declension

Declension of err (neuter)

	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/r.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.