French ewer, circa 1795, made of hard-paste porcelain Rococo French ewer, circa 1771, made of silver FromMiddle English ewer , fromAnglo-Norman orOld French ewer ,eawer (modernFrench évier ), fromLatin aquārium , fromaqua ( “ water ” ) .Doublet ofaquarium .
ewer (plural ewers )
A kind of widemouthedpitcher orjug with a shape like avase and ahandle . Originally used for carrying water widemouthed pitcher
Albanian:shtambë (sq) ,kënatë (sq) Arabic:إِبْرِيق m ( ʔibrīq ) Egyptian Arabic:ابريق m ( abrīʔ ) Armenian:սափոր (hy) ( sapʻor ) ,կուժ (hy) ( kuž ) Bulgarian:кана (bg) f ( kana ) Catalan:pitxer (ca) m Crimean Tatar:quman Czech:džbán (cs) m ,džbánek m Danish:kande (da) c Dutch:lampetkan (nl) c Finnish:kannu (fi) French:pichet (fr) m ,aiguière (fr) ,broc (fr) ,cruche (fr) f Georgian:დოქი ( doki ) ,კოკა (ka) ( ḳoḳa ) German:Krug (de) m Greek:λαγήνι (el) n ( lagíni ) Hungarian:vizeskancsó (hu) Italian:brocca (it) f ,caraffa (it) f ,lancella f Japanese:ピッチャー (ja) ( pitchā ) ,水差し (ja) ( みずさし, mizusashi ) Latin:aquāle n Macedonian:бо́кал m ( bókal ) Middle English:ewer Persian:سبو (fa) ( sabu ) ,کلیزه (fa) ( kelize ) Polish:dzban (pl) m Portuguese:jarro (pt) m ,jarra (pt) f Romanian:please add this translation if you can Russian:кувши́н (ru) m ( kuvšín ) (сручкой ( ručkoj ) ишироким ( širokim ) горлышком ( gorlyškom ) ),жбан (ru) m ( žban ) Sanskrit:कुम्भ (sa) m ( kumbha ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:врч m ,ибрик m Roman:vrč (sh) m ,ibrik (sh) m Spanish:aguamanil (es) m ,pichel (es) m ,jofaina (es) f Turkish:ibrik (tr) Ukrainian:глек m ( hlek ) ,глечик m ( hlečyk ) ( small ) ,дзбан (uk) m ( dzban )
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yes Borrowed fromOld French ewer , fromLatin aquārium .
ewer (plural ewers )
ewer [ 2] ^ Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957 ),English pronunciation 1500-1700 [1] , second edition, volume II: Phonology,Oxford :Clarendon Press , published1968 ,→OCLC ,§ 243 ,page799 . ^ “euē̆r,n.(1) ”, inMED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan ,2007 . ewer
alternative form ofeure ewe +-er , fromLatin aquārium , or from an unattestedVulgar Latin *aquāria , fromLatin aquārius , fromaqua .
ewer oblique singular , m (oblique plural ewers ,nominative singular ewers ,nominative plural ewer )
ewer FromMiddle English ewer , fromOld French ewer .
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jug Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990 ), “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, inlrish University Review [2] , volume20 , number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page156