friar

See also: Friar and friår

English

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friar

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• frier, fryar (obsolete)

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

From Middle English frere, from Old French frere, from Latin frāter (“brother”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, frater, pal, and vai.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: frier, fryer

Noun

friar (plural friars)

2. A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).

   Synonyms: brother, frater

   Coordinate terms: father, sister, mother

4. (printing, dated) A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking.

   Coordinate term: monk

6. An American fish, the silverside.
   1. Such fish prepared as food.

Derived terms

• black friar
• curtal friar
• friarbird, friar bird
• friaress
• friarhood
• friarlike
• friarly
• Friar Minor
• Friar Preacher
• friar's balsam
• friar's cap
• friar's cowl
• friarship
• friar's omelette
• friary
• greyfriar
• greyfriar, grey friar, grayfriar, gray friar
• preaching friar
• white friar

Translations

member of certain Christian orders

Armenian: վանական (hy) (vanakan), կրոնավոր (hy) (kronavor), եղբայր (hy) (eġbayr), ֆրեր (frer) Bulgarian: монах (bg) m (monah) Catalan: frare (ca) m Chinese: 男修道士 (nán xiū dào shì) Czech: fráter m Esperanto: monaĥo Finnish: veli (fi) French: frère (fr) m Galician: freire (gl) m, frade (gl) m Georgian: ლორენცო (lorenco) German: Mönch (de) m, Ordensbruder (de) m Greek: μοναχός (el) m (monachós) Hungarian: barát (hu) Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Irish: bráthair m, coirneach m Italian: frate (it) m Latin: frater (la) Middle English: frere Occitan: fraire (oc) m Polish: zakonnik (pl) m, brat (pl) m Portuguese: frade (pt) m, frei (pt) m, freire (pt) m Russian: мона́х нищенствующего ордена m (monáx niščenstvujuščevo ordena) Scottish Gaelic: manach m Spanish: fraile (es) Tagalog: frayle Volapük: (male or female) rodan (vo), (male) hirodan (vo)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From fri (“to ask for (someone's) hand in marriage”) +‎ -ar.

Noun

friar m (definite singular friaren, indefinite plural friarar, definite plural friarane)

1. one (traditionally a man) who proposes marriage

Related terms

• frieri (“marriage proposal”)

References

• “friar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• firar

Swedish

Verb

friar

1. present indicative of fria

Anagrams

• firar