wig

See also: WIG and wīǵ

English

Colorful wigs.

Etymology

Shortening of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭg, IPA^(key): /wɪɡ/

• Audio (US)

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Rhymes: -ɪɡ

• Homophone: Whig (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wig (plural wigs)

1. A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
2. (dated, among fishermen) An old seal.

Synonyms

• hairpiece
• toupee, toupe
• peruke
• periwig

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bald wig
• bewigged
• fright wig

• wigmaker
• wig out

Translations

head of artificial hair

• Albanian: parukë (sq) f
• Arabic: شَعْر مُسْتَعَار‎ m (šaʿr mustaʿār), بَارُوكَة‎ f (bārūka)
• Armenian: կեղծամ (hy) (kełcam)
• Azerbaijani: parik
• Basque: ileorde
• Belarusian: пары́к m (parýk)
• Bengali: পরচুলা (pôrôcula)
• Bulgarian: перу́ка f (perúka)
• Burmese: ဆံပင်တု (my) (hcampangtu.)
• Catalan: perruca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 假髮 (zh), 假发 (zh) (jiǎfà)

• Cornish: peruken f
• Czech: paruka (cs) f
• Danish: paryk (da) c
• Dutch: pruik (nl) m
• Egyptian: (bbwt), (fḫt)
• Erzya: суречерьть (surečerʹtʹ)
• Esperanto: peruko
• Estonian: parukas
• Finnish: peruukki (fi)
• French: perruque (fr) f
• Georgian: პარიკი (ṗariḳi)
• German: Perücke (de) f
• Greek: περούκα (el) f (peroúka)

  Ancient: πηνήκη f (pēnḗkē), φενάκη f (phenákē)

• Hebrew: פֵּאָה‎ (he) f (peá), פֵּאָה נָכְרִית‎ (he) f (peá nochrít)
• Hindi: उपकेश m (upkeś), विग m (vig)
• Hungarian: paróka (hu)
• Hunsrik: Përuck f
• Icelandic: hárkolla (is) f
• Ido: peruko (io)
• Irish: bréagfholt m
• Italian: parrucca (it) f
• Japanese: 鬘 (ja) (かつら, katsura, かずら, kazura), 仮髪 (かはつ, kahatsu), ウィッグ (wiggu)
• Kazakh: парик (parïk)
• Khmer: ចំណងសក់ (cɑmnɑɑŋ sɑk)
• Korean: 가발 (ko) (gabal) (假髮 (ko)), 덧머리 (ko) (deonmeori) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: парик (parik)

• Lao: ຊ້ອງ (sǭng), ຊ້ອງຜົມ (sǭng phom), ຜົມປອມ (phom pǭm)
• Latin: capillamentum, caliandrum n
• Latvian: parūka f
• Lithuanian: perukas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Prüük f

• Luxembourgish: Parréck f
• Macedonian: перика f (perika)
• Malay: rambut palsu
• Manx: far folt, mwashag
• Maori: hururua, makawe kēhua, uru whakapīwari
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parykk (no) m

  Nynorsk: parykk m

• Occitan: perruca
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: парик (parik)
• Persian: کلاه‌گیس‎ (kolâh-gis)
• Plautdietsch: Perrikje f, Pruck f
• Polish: peruka (pl) f
• Portuguese: peruca (pt) f
• Romanian: perucă (ro) f
• Russian: пари́к (ru) m (parík)
• Scottish Gaelic: piorbhaig f, gruag-bhrèige m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: перика f, власуља f

  Roman: perika (sh) f, vlasulja (sh) f

• Slovak: parochňa f
• Slovene: lasulja (sl) f
• Spanish: peluca (es) f
• Swedish: peruk (sv) c
• Tajik: парик (parik)
• Thai: ผมปลอม (pǒm-bplɔɔm), วิก (th) (wík)
• Turkish: peruka (tr), peruk (tr)
• Turkmen: parik
• Ukrainian: перу́ка (uk) f (perúka)
• Uzbek: parik (uz)
• Vietnamese: tóc giả
• Volapük: herot (vo), (obsolete) helot
• Welsh: wig (cy) m, perwig f, perwigau f pl
• Yiddish: שייטל‎ n (sheytl)

Verb

wig (third-person singular simple present wigs, present participle wigging, simple past and past participle wigged)

1. To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
2. (colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
3. (colloquial, slang) To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions.

Related terms

• wig out

See also

• earwig
• merkin
• periwig
• peruke

Further reading

• wig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wig in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəχ/

Noun

wig (plural wîe)

1. wedge
2. quoin

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wegghe, from Old Dutch *weggi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɪx
• IPA^(key): /ʋɪx/

Noun

wig f (plural wiggen, diminutive wiggetje n)

1. wedge

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Gothic

Romanization

wig

1. Romanization of 𐍅𐌹𐌲

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːj/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wīg

Noun

wīġ n

1. war, battle

   Oft ic wig seo, frecne feohtan ― often I see war, brave men fighting. (AS Riddles)

Declension

Declension of wig (strong-a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wīġ	wīg
accusative	wīġ	wīg
genitive	wīġes	wīga
dative	wīġe	wīgum

Derived terms

• ānwīġ
• wīga

Etymology 2

Variant of wēoh.

Noun

wīġ m

1. idol

   wīġġield ― idol

   wīġweorþung ― idol-worship

   wiġle ― divination

2. (in compounds) holy, consecrated

   wīġbed, wēofod ― altar

Declension

Declension of wig (strong-a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wīġ	wīġ
accusative	wīġ	wīġ
genitive	wīġes	wīġa
dative	wīġe	wīġum

Derived terms

• wīġweorþung (“idol-worship”)
• wīġbed > wēofod (“altar”)
• wīġsmiþ (“idol-carver”)

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Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wīg

Noun

wīg n

1. war, battle

Declension

Declension of wīg (neuter a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	wīg	wīg
accusative	wīg	wīg
genitive	wīges	wīgō
dative	wīge	wīgun
instrumental	—	—

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *wigi

Noun

wig n

1. horse, steed

Declension

Declension of wig (neuter ja-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	wig	wig
accusative	wig	wig
genitive	wiggies	wiggiō
dative	wiggie	wiggium
instrumental	—	—