aware

See also: Aware

English

Etymology

From Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈwɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈwɛə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /əˈweːɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: aware

Adjective

aware (comparative more aware or awarer, superlative most aware or awarest)

1. Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

   Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.

2. Conscious or having knowledge of something.

   Are you aware of what is being said about you?

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

Synonyms

• (on one's guard): wary, watchful, sensitive, alert, attentive, observant
• (conscious of something): apprised, informed, cognizant, conscious, mindful

Antonyms

• unaware

Derived terms

• awarely
• awareness
• hyperaware
• locale-aware
• locale-awareness
• self-aware
• self-awareness
• well-aware
• well aware
• well-awareness

 

Related terms

• wary
• beware

Translations

vigilant, on one's guard

• Armenian: զգոն (hy) (zgon)
• Bulgarian: бдителен (bg) (bditelen)
• Catalan: vigilant (ca), a l’aguait, atent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 警惕的 (jǐngtì de)

• Czech: bdělý (cs), ostražitý
• Dutch: waakzaam (nl), op zijn hoede
• Finnish: valpas (fi)
• French: attentif (fr), vigilant (fr), en éveil, en alerte, sur ses gardes (fr)
• German: wachsam (de), gewahr (de)
• Indonesian: waspada (id)
• Italian: all'erta
• Marathi: जागृत (jāgŕt)
• Portuguese: alerta (pt)
• Russian: бди́тельный (ru) (bdítelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: будан, budan (sh)
• Spanish: alerta (es)
• Tagalog: naiino, nakaiino
• Tatar: saq
• Turkish: uyanık (tr), ayık (tr)
• Ukrainian: пи́льний (pýlʹnyj)

having knowledge of something

• Armenian: տեղյակ (hy) (teġyak), գիտակից (hy) (gitakicʻ)
• Azerbaijani: xəbərdar, agah (az), hali
• Belarusian: дасве́дчаны (dasvjédčany), ве́даючы (vjédajučy)
• Bulgarian: съзнаващ (bg) (sǎznavašt)
• Catalan: conscient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知道的 (zhīdào de), 意識到的／意识到的 (yìshídào de)

• Czech: vědom (cs), znalý
• Dutch: op de hoogte zijn
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tietoinen (fi)
• French: conscient (fr), au courant (fr)
• Galician: consciente (gl)
• German: bewusst (de), gewahr (de)
• Indonesian: sadar (id)
• Irish: eolach
• Italian: consapevole (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاگادار (agadar)

• Latin: cōnscius
• Old English: ġewær, ġecnǣwe
• Persian: آگاه (fa) (âgâh)
• Polish: świadom (pl), świadomy (pl)
• Portuguese: consciente (pt), ciente (pt)
• Russian: зна́ющий (ru) (znájuščij), осведомлённый (ru) (osvedomljónnyj), све́дущий (ru) (svéduščij), в ку́рсе (ru) (v kúrse)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiosrach
• Serbo-Croatian: свестан, svestan (sh), свестан, svjestan (sh)
• Spanish: consciente (es), conocedor (es), sabedor (es), entendido (es), entendedor (es), avezado (es)
• Swedish: medveten (sv)
• Tagalog: naiino, nakaiino
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: haberdar (tr)
• Ukrainian: зна́ючий (znájučyj), обі́знаний (uk) (obíznanyj)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} осведомен (bg) (osvedomen); ^{(please verify)} който съзнава, усеща, чувствува, долавя, знае (kojto sǎznava, usešta, čuvstvuva, dolavja, znae)
• German: ^{(please verify)} bewusst (de), ^{(please verify)} gewahr (de), ^{(please verify)} gewärtig (de)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} tudatában van (hu)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} conscio (it), ^{(please verify)} consapevole (it)

Verb

aware (third-person singular simple present awares, present participle awaring, simple past and past participle awared)

1. (transitive, nonstandard) To make (someone) aware of something.
   • 1799, William Earle, Junior, Natural Faults: A Comedy, in Five Acts, London: […] sold by Earle and Hemet […], [Act II, scene i], page 17:

     Conſcience is the director of all our actions, and diſcriminates them all, with the intentions of our hearts; awares us of the crime of the one, and the virtue of the other.

Japanese

Romanization

aware

1. Rōmaji transcription of あわれ

Kari'na

Etymology

From Cariban languages compare Trió aware, Wayana awale, Akawaio aware, Pemon aware, Ye'kwana yawade / dhawade, and from non-Cariban languages compare Lokono jaware, Sranan Tongo awari, Yanomamö aware.

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [aβaːɺ̢e]
• (West Suriname) IPA^(key): [aʋaːɺ̢e]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [awaːɺ̢e]

Noun

aware (possessed jawarery)

1. the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis
2. used as a strong insult when applied to people

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 248
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “aware”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 122; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 122

Yanomamö

Etymology

Compare Kari'na aware, Trió aware, Wayana awale, Akawaio aware, Pemon aware, Ye'kwana yawade / dhawade, Lokono jaware, Sranan Tongo awari.

Noun

aware

1. the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis