arise

See also: ärise and arisé

English

Alternative forms

• arize (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan (“to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend”), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną (“to rise up, arise”), equivalent to a- +‎ rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse (“to arise, rise up, come into existence”), Middle Low German errīsen (“to stand up, arise”), Old High German irrīsan (“to rise up, fall”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”). Eclipsed Middle English sourden, sorden, borrowed from Old French sordre, sourdre (“to arise, originate, fly up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -aɪz

Verb

arise (third-person singular simple present arises, present participle arising, simple past arose, past participle arisen)

1. To come up from a lower to a higher position.

   to arise from a kneeling posture

2. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.

   He arose early in the morning.

3. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.

   A cloud arose and covered the sun.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 1:8:

     There arose up a new king […] which knew not Joseph.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     the doubts that in his heart arose

   • 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,

     Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise.

Synonyms

• (come up from a lower positon): rise, spring, stand up
• (come up from one's bed): awaken; see also Thesaurus:wake
• (spring up; to come into being): appear, emerge, originate, pop up (idiomatic), reappear (resume existing), surface; see also Thesaurus:come into being
• (spring up; to come into action): come about, come to pass, occur; see also Thesaurus:happen

Related terms

• arisal

Translations

get up, stand up

• Bulgarian: излизам (bg) (izlizam), произлизам (bg) (proizlizam)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏗᏗᎠ (adidia)
• Danish: stå op
• Dutch: opstaan (nl)
• Finnish: nousta (fi)
• French: se lever (fr), se relever (fr)
• Georgian: ადგომა (adgoma)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan)
• Greek: σηκώνομαι (el) (sikónomai)
• Hungarian: felkel (hu), felemelkedik (hu)
• Interlingua: surger, altiar se
• Irish: éirigh

  Old Irish: at·reig

• Italian: sorgere (it)
• Latin: surgo (la), enascor, existo (la)
• Middle English: arisen

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stå opp (no)

  Nynorsk: stå opp

• Plautdietsch: oppstonen
• Portuguese: surgir (pt), levantar-se, ascender (pt)
• Quechua: hatariy
• Romanian: ridica (ro), scula (ro)
• Russian: встава́ть (ru) impf (vstavátʹ), встать (ru) pf (vstatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: èirich
• Spanish: surgir (es), levantarse
• Tocharian B: tsänk-
• Tok Pisin: kamap (tpi)
• Turkish: kalkmak (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎎 (qm)
• Ukrainian: встава́ти (vstaváty)

start to exist, originate

• Arabic: نَهَضَ‎ (ar) (nahaḍa)
• Bulgarian: възниквам (bg) (vǎznikvam), появявам се (pojavjavam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 起來 (zh), 起来 (zh) (qǐlái), 產生 (zh), 产生 (zh) (chǎnshēng)

• Czech: vzniknout (cs)
• Danish: opstå
• Dutch: ontstaan (nl)
• Finnish: syntyä (fi), saada alkunsa
• French: surgir (fr), apparaitre (fr), naitre (fr)
• Georgian: აღმოცენება (aɣmoceneba), წამოჭრა (c̣amoč̣ra)
• German: entstehen (de)
• Greek: ανακύπτω (el) (anakýpto)
• Hungarian: fakad (hu), ered (hu), származik (hu), keletkezik (hu)
• Interlingua: surger, provenir
• Italian: sorgere (it), apparire (it), nascere (it)

• Japanese: 起こる (ja) (おこる, okoru)
• Korean: 일어나다 (ko) (ireonada)
• Latin: surgere
• Middle English: arisen
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppstå

  Nynorsk: oppstå

• Portuguese: surgir (pt), provir (pt), aparecer (pt), nascer (pt)
• Russian: возника́ть (ru) impf (voznikátʹ), возни́кнуть (ru) pf (vozníknutʹ)
• Spanish: surgir (es), provenir (es), aparecer (es), nacer (es), dimanar (es) (formal)
• Swedish: uppstå (sv)
• Tok Pisin: kamap (tpi)
• Ukrainian: виника́ти (vynykáty)
• West Frisian: ûntstean

Noun

arise (plural arises)

1. (obsolete) Arising, rising.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:

References

• “arise” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “arise” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Aesir, Aries, ERISA, Resia, aesir, aires, raise, reais, serai

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: arisent, arises

Verb

arise

1. inflection of ariser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative