ewer

See also: Ewer

English

WOTD – 3 November 2010

A ewer.

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman or Old French ewer, eawer (modern French évier), from Latin aquārium, from aqua (“water”). Doublet of aquarium.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.ə/, /ˈjʊə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ɚ/

Noun

ewer (plural ewers)

A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle.

Hypernyms

pitcher

Translations

widemouthed pitcher

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: إِبْرِيق‎ m (ʾibrīq)
Egyptian Arabic: ابريق‎ m (abriiʔ)
Armenian: սափոր (hy) (sapʿor), կուժ (hy) (kuž)
Bulgarian: кана (bg) f (kana)
Catalan: pitxer (ca) m
Crimean Tatar: quman
Finnish: kannu (fi)
French: pichet (fr) m, aiguière (fr), broc (fr), cruche (fr) f
Georgian: დოქი (doki), კოკა (ḳoḳa)
German: Krug (de) m
Greek: λαγήνι (el) n (lagíni)
Hungarian: vizeskancsó (hu)

Italian: brocca (it) f, caraffa f
Japanese: ピッチャー (ja) (pitchā), 水差し (みずさし, mizusashi)
Persian: سبو‎ (fa) (sabu), کلیزه‎ (fa) (kelize)
Portuguese: jarro (pt) m, jarra (pt) f
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: кувши́н (ru) m (kuvšín) (с ручкой (ručkoj) и широким (širokim) горлышком (gorlyškom)), жбан (ru) m (žban)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: врч m, ибрик m

Roman: vrč (sh) m, ibrik (sh) m
Spanish: aguamanil (es) m, pichel m, jofaina (es) f
Turkish: ibrik (tr)
Ukrainian: глек m (hlek), глечик m (hlečyk) (small), дзбан m (dzban)

Anagrams

ewre, rewe, we're, weer, were, were-

Chuukese

Interjection

ewer

yes

Old French

Etymology

ewe +‎ -er, or from an unattested Vulgar Latin *aquāria.

Noun

ewer m (oblique plural ewers, nominative singular ewers, nominative plural ewer)

ewer

Descendants

English: ewer

References

ewer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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