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See also:Row,ROW,andrów

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping ofEnglishRote withw as a placeholder.

Symbol

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row

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forDela-Oenale.

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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishrewe,rowe,rawe, fromOld Englishrǣw,rāw, probably fromProto-Germanic*raiwō,*raigwō,*rīgǭ(“row, streak, line”), fromProto-Indo-European*reyk-(“to carve, scratch, etch”).

Cognate withScotsraw(“row”), dialectalNorwegianrå(“boundary line”),Saterland FrisianRiege(“row”),West Frisianrige(“row”),Dutchrij(“row, line”),German Low GermanReeg,Riege,Rieg(“row”),GermanReihe(“row”),GermanRiege(“sports team”).

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Noun

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row (pluralrows)

  1. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in atheatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
  2. Ahorizontal line ofentries in atable, etc., going fromleft toright, as opposed to acolumn going fromtop tobottom.
    Antonym:column
  3. (slang, chiefly in the plural)Clipping ofcornrow.
    • 2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page25:
      Vyreen had just finished braiding my hair, and his call had caught me coming out of her crib with my 'rows looking tight.
    • 2015 October 22, Stefan Bondy, “Kristaps Porzingis had cornrows as a kid because 'all the girls loved it'”, inNew York Daily News‎[1], New York, N.Y.:Daily News L.P.,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on18 January 2022:
      If you thought it'd be hard to get a good cornrow braiding in Latvia, think again. Porzingis said he was re-braided almost every week to keep hisrows fresh.
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Translations
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line of objects
in a table

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishrowen(“to row”), fromOld Englishrōwan(“to row”), fromProto-Germanic*rōaną(“to row”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₁reh₁-(“to row”). CompareWest Frisianroeie,Dutchroeien,Danishro. More atrudder. Related toRussia.

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Verb

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row (third-person singular simple presentrows,present participlerowing,simple past and past participlerowed)

A boyrowing a boat inUganda (1)
  1. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) Topropel (aboat or othercraft) over water usingoars.
    Synonym:paddle
  2. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
    torow the captain ashore in his barge
  3. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
    The boatrows easily.
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Translations
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transitive: propel over water using oars
intransitive: propel a boat or other craft over water using oars
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Noun

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row (pluralrows)

  1. An act or instance ofrowing.
    I went for an early-morningrow.
  3. (weightlifting) Any of several thematically similarexercise movements performed with apulling motion of the arms towards the back.
    Hyponyms:inverted row,renegade row
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exercise

Etymology 3

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Unclear; some suggest it is aback-formation fromrouse, verb.

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Noun

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row (pluralrows)

  2. A noisyargument.
    Synonyms:argument,disturbance,fight,fracas,quarrel,shouting match,slanging match
    There was arow among the oarsmen about how to row.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      In the autumn there was arow at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
    • 1923,P.G. Wodehouse,The Inimitable Jeeves:
      As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into FamilyRows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt likemastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 18, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make arow with the police[…]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
    • 1991,Stephen Fry,The Liar, page27:
      […]he wrote to me last week telling me about an incrediblebitch of arow blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine calledRaddled, full of obscene libellousOz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?
    • 2025 April 24, Sammi Awami, “Tanzania bans South Africa and Malawi imports as trade row escalates”, inBBC‎[2]:
      Therow comes at a time when Africa is supposed to be moving towards greater free trade through the establishment of a continent-wide free-trade area, which began operating four years ago.
  3. Acontinual loud noise.
    Synonyms:din,racket
    Who's making thatrow?
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Translations
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noisy argument
continual loud noise
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Verb

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row (third-person singular simple presentrows,present participlerowing,simple past and past participlerowed)

  2. (intransitive) Toargue noisily.
    Synonyms:argue,fight
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intransitive: argue noisily
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Anagrams

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Lower Sorbian

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row

Etymology

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FromProto-Slavic*rovъ. Cognate withUpper Sorbianrow,Polishrów(“ditch”),Czechrov,Russianров(rov,“ditch”),Old Church Slavonicровъ(rovŭ,“ditch”).

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Noun

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row m inan (diminutiverowk)

  1. grave

Declension

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Declension ofrow
SingularDualPlural
Nominativerowrowarowy
Genitiverowarowowurowow
Dativerowojurowomarowam
Accusativerowrowarowy
Instrumentalrowomrowomarowami
Locativerowjerowomarowach

Further reading

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  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “row”, inSłownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague:ОРЯС РАН,ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag,2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), “row”, inDolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Manx

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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row

  1. past dependent ofve
    Row ee ayns shoh?
    Was she here?
    Charow mee drappal billey marish.
    I was not climbing a tree with him.
    Naghrow Paaie feer doaieagh?
    Wasn't Paaie very decent?

Usage notes

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Contracts with personal pronoun inr'ou.

Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromProto-West Germanic*rōu(“calm, rest”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rōw f

  1. quiet,rest,calm

Declension

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Strongō-stem:

singularplural
nominativerōwrōwa,rōwe
accusativerōwerōwa,rōwe
genitiverōwerōwa
dativerōwerōwum

Descendants

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References

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Scots

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Noun

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row (pluralrows)

  1. roll

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Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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Inherited fromProto-Slavic*rovъ. Cognate withLower Sorbianrow.

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Noun

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row m inan (relational adjectiverowowyorrowny,diminutiverowkorrowčk)

  1. grave

Declension

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Declension ofrow (masculine hard stem)
singulardualplural
nominativerowrowajrowy
genitiverowarowowrowow
dativerowej,rowurowomajrowam
accusativerowrowajrowy
instrumentalrowomrowomajrowami
locativerowjerowomajrowach
vocativerowo,rowjerowajrowy

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nouns

Further reading

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  • Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), “row”, inŁužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch‎[3] (in German), Budyšin:Maćica Serbska, page592
  • “row”, inMudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech),2024–2026
  • “row” in Soblex

Vilamovian

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row (1)
row (2)

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Noun

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rōw f (pluralrowa)

  1. rook (bird)
  2. raven
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