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See also: Row, ROW, and rów

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Rote with w as a placeholder.

Symbol

row

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

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Dela-Oenale terms

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”).

Cognate with Scots raw (“row”), dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Saterland Frisian Riege (“row”), West Frisian rige (“row”), Dutch rij (“row, line”), German Low German Reeg, Riege, Rieg (“row”), German Reihe (“row”), German Riege (“sports team”).

Alternative forms

  • rew (dialectal)

Pronunciation

Noun

row (plural rows)

  1. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
  2. A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
    Antonym: column
  3. (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of cornrow.
    • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 25:
      Vyreen had just finished braiding my hair, and his call had caught me coming out of her crib with my 'rows looking tight.
    • 2015 October 22, Stefan Bondy, “Kristaps Porzingis had cornrows as a kid because 'all the girls loved it'”, in New York Daily News‎, New York, N.Y.: Daily News L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 January 2022:
      If you thought it'd be hard to get a good cornrow braiding in Latvia, think again. Porzingis said he was re-braided almost every week to keep his rows fresh.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.

Pronunciation

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

  1. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
    Synonym: paddle
  2. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
    to row the captain ashore in his barge
  3. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
    The boat rows easily.
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Noun

row (plural rows)

  1. An act or instance of rowing.
    I went for an early-morning row.
  3. (weightlifting) Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
    Hyponyms: inverted row, renegade row
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Etymology 3

Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.

Pronunciation

Noun

row (plural rows)

  2. A noisy argument.
    Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
    There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
    • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
      As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […] ? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 27:
      […] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?
    • 2025 April 24, Sammi Awami, “Tanzania bans South Africa and Malawi imports as trade row escalates”, in BBC‎:
      The row comes at a time when Africa is supposed to be moving towards greater free trade through the establishment of a continent-wide free-trade area, which began operating four years ago.
  3. A continual loud noise.
    Synonyms: din, racket
    Who's making that row?
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Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

  2. (intransitive) To argue noisily.
    Synonyms: argue, fight
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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rovъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ров (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ровъ (rovŭ, “ditch”).

Pronunciation

Noun

row m inan (diminutive rowk)

  1. grave

Declension

Declension of row
More information Singular, Dual ...

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “row”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), “row”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Manx

Etymology

From an old perfective particle ro- + va.

Verb

row

  1. was, were (dependent form)
    Cha row aggle erbee er.
    He was not in the least afraid.
    Dooyrt eh dy row eh mac y ree.
    He claimed that he was the son of the king.

Usage notes

Part of the substantive verb bee. This is the dependent form of the past tense va used after negative and interrogative particles:

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rōu (“calm, rest”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rōw f

  1. quiet, rest, calm

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

More information singular, plural ...

Descendants

  • Middle English: ro, rou, rowe, roo

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Scots

Noun

row (plural rows)

  1. roll

Derived terms

  • row-cloth: a folding cloak of warm cloth

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rovъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʀɔw/
  • Rhymes: -ɔw
  • Hyphenation: row
  • Syllabification: row

Noun

row m inan

  1. grave

Declension

Declension of row (masculine hard stem)
More information singular, dual ...

References

  • “row” in Soblex
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Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

rōw f (plural rowa)

  1. rook (bird)
  2. raven

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