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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English dēaw (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz, *dawwą (“dew, moisture”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to run, flow”). Cognate with West Frisian dau, North Frisian dauw (“dew”), Dutch dauw (“dew”), Low German Dau, German Tau (“dew”), Danish dug (“dew”), Swedish dagg (“dew”), Icelandic dögg (“dew”) and Faroese døgg (“dew”), Ancient Greek θέω (théō, “run”, v), Persian دویدن (davidan, “run”, v), Albanian dejë (“spot where the snow thaws”), Sanskrit धावति (dhāvati, “run, flow, move”).
Pronunciation
Dew on a spider web
- Homophones: due, do, doo (US, some dialects)
Noun
dew (countable and uncountable; plural dews)
- (uncountable) moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.
- (countable, but see usage notes) an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc.
- There was a heavy dew this morning.
- (uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
- (figuratively) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
- Shakespeare
- The golden dew of sleep.
- An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
- Longfellow
- The dew of his youth.
Usage notes
- Although the countable sense is still used, the plural form is now archaic or poetic only.
Synonyms
- (moisture settling on plants): rore (obsolete)
Translations
moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Arabic: ندى (ar) (nada) m, طل (ar) (ṭall) m, سقيط (ar) (saqīṭ) m
- Armenian: ցող (hy) (c’oġ)
- Aromanian: aroauã (rup)
- Azeri: şeh (az)
- Bashkir: ысыҡ (ïsïq)
- Bau Bidayuh: jumieh
- Belarusian: раса (be) (rasá) f
- Bengali: শিশির (bn) (shishir)
- Bulgarian: роса (bg) (rosá) f
- Burmese: ဆီးနှင်း (my) (hci:hnang:)
- Catalan: rosada (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 露水 (cmn) (lùshuǐ), 露 (cmn) (lù)
- Czech: rosa (cs) f
- Danish: dug (da) c
- Dutch: dauw (nl) m
- Esperanto: roso (eo)
- Estonian: kaste (et)
- Faroese: døgg (fo) f
- Finnish: kaste (fi)
- French: rosée (fr) f
- Friulian: rosade f
- Georgian: ნამი (ka) (nami)
- German: Tau (de) m
- Greek: πάχνη (el) (páchni) f, δροσιά (el) (drosiá) f, δρόσος (el) (drósos) f
- Gujarati: ઝાકળ (jhākala) f
- Hebrew: טל (he) (t'al) m
- Hindi: ओस (hi) (os) f, शबनम (hi) (šabnam) f, नम (hi) (nam) f
- Hungarian: harmat (hu)
- Icelandic: dögg (is) f
- Indonesian: embun (id)
- Italian: rugiada (it)
- Japanese: 露 (ja) (つゆ, tsuyu)
- Kazakh: шық (kk) (şıq)
- Korean: 이슬 (ko) (iseul)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: şevnem, şewnem, şebnem
- Sorani: شهونم (ku)
- Kyrgyz: шүүдүрүм (ky) (şüüdürüm)
- Lao: ນ້ຳຄ້າງ (lo) (nâm kʰâːŋ)
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- Latgalian: rosa
- Latin: ros (la)
- Latvian: rasa (lv) f
- Lithuanian: rasa (lt) f
- Macedonian: роса (mk) (rósa) f
- Malagasy: ando (mg)
- Malay: embun (ms)
- Marathi: दव (mr) (dava) n
- Mongolian: шүүдэр (mn) (šüüder)
- Occitan: rosada (oc) f
- Old Church Slavonic: роса (rosa) f
- Old Norse: dǫgg f
- Persian: ژاله (fa) (žâle), شبنم (fa) (šabnam), نم (fa) (nam), سقیط (fa) (saqit), افشک (fa) (afšak), افشنگ (fa) (afšang), ارکاک (fa) (erkâk), بژم (fa) (bažm), پسگک (fa) (pasagak), پشتک (fa) (paštak), شهنگانه (fa) (šahangâne)
- Polish: rosa (pl) f
- Portuguese: orvalho (pt) m, riço (pt) m
- Romanian: rouă (ro)
- Romansch: rugada (rm) f
- Russian: роса (ru) (rosá) f
- Sanskrit: अवश्याय (sa) (avaśyāya) n, दव (sa) (dava) n
- Sardinian: lentore (sc), saghina (sc), sanenu (sc)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ро̀са (sh) f
- Roman: ròsa (sh) f
- Slovak: rosa (sk) f
- Slovene: rosa (sl) f
- Spanish: rocío (es), sereno (es) m
- Swedish: dagg (sv) c
- Tajik: жола (tg) (žola)
- Tatar: чык (tt) (çıq)
- Thai: น้ำค้าง (th) (nam khaang)
- Turkish: şebnem (tr), çiy (tr), çiğ (tr), kırağı (tr), jale (tr)
- Turkmen: çyg (tk)
- Ukrainian: роса (uk) (rosá) f
- Urdu: اوس (ur) (os) f, شبنم (ur) (šabnam) f, نم (ur) (nam) f, ژالہ (ur) (žāla) m
- Uzbek: shabnam (uz)
- Vietnamese: sương (vi)
- Welsh: gwlith (cy)
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Verb
dew (third-person singular simple present dews, present participle dewing, simple past and past participle dewed)
- To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
- A. B. Saxton
- The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.
Related terms
Translations
moisten
- Bulgarian: оросявам (bg) (orosjavam)
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