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** English
*** Etymology
[en] Attested in English since 1530, from [en], past participle of [la] from
[la], [la], see [en]. Displaced native Middle English [enm], from Old English
[ang] (“to protect,” literally “to shield”).
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To keep safe ; to defend ; to guard ; to prevent harm coming to.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2012-03
|author=William E. Carter; Merri Sue Carter |title=The British Longitude Act
Reconsidered |volume=100|issue=2|page=87 |magazine=w:American Scientist
|url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-british-longitude-act-reconsidered
|passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without
other efforts to PROTECT British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a
disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life
at sea.}}
1. [en] To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
**** Conjugation
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**** Synonyms
- [en]
- [en]
- See also Thesaurus:defend
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to keep safe]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Egyptian: [ḫwj] , [mkj] , [nḏ]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] [against a concrete threat] ; [fi] , [fi] [against an abstract threat]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian:, [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maore Comorian: [swb]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] [With a spell] , [mi] , [mi] [referring to trade]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no] , [no] , [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Occitan: [pro]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sindhi: [sd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
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- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
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