English

Etymology
From AGr. polytonic|ο��αν�� (orfanos) "without parents, fatherless".

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-orphan.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|��(r)f�n

Noun
en-noun

1. A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
2. A child without living parents.
3. A young animal with no mother.
4. typography A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
5. computing Any unreferenced abstract object.

Derived terms
orphanage
orphancy
orphandom
orphanhood
orphaner
orphanet
orphanism
orphanity
orphanize
orphanotropism
orphanry
orphanship
orphany

Translations

Afrikaans: weeskind
Albanian: jetim
Arabic: ARchar|�ت��
Bengali: তিম (etim)
Bosnian: siro�e n, sirotan m
Bulgarian: �и�ак (sirak)
Catalan: orfe
Chinese: 孤� (gū er)
Croatian: siro�e n, sirotan m
Czech: sirotek m
Danish: frisk
Dutch: wees
Esperanto: orfo
Estonian: orb, vaeslaps
Faeroese: foreldraloysingur
Finnish: orpo
French: orphelin
Georgian: ����� (oboli)
German: Waise f, Waisenkind n
Greek: ο��αν�� (orphanós)
Hebrew: �ָת�ֹ�
Hindi: �नाथ (an�th) m, यत�म (yatim) m
Hungarian: árva
Indonesian: anak yatim
Irish: dílleachta
Italian: orfano
Japanese: 孤� (��) (koji)
Korean: 고� (goa)
Kurdish: KUchar|���ت��
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Latin: orbus m, orba f
Latvian: b�renis
Lithuanian: našlaitis
Livonian: joutõm läpš, b�� läpš
Malay: yatim
Mongolian: eн�ин (en�in)
Norwegian: foreldreløst barn
Papiamentu: wérfano
Persian: FAchar|�ت��
Polish: sierota
Portuguese: órfão
Punjab: anuq
Romanian: orfan
Russian: �и�о�а (sirotá)
Scottish Gaelic: dìlleachd m, dìlleachdan m, tàcharan m
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: �и�о�е n, �и�о�ан m
:Roman: siro�e n, sirotan m
Slovak: sirota
Spanish: huérfano
Swahili: mfiwa
Swedish: föräldralöst barn
Tagalog: ulila
Telugu: �నాధ (anaadha)
Thai: �����ำ�ร�า (dèk gam práa)
Turkish: yetim
Ukrainian: �и�о�а (syrotá)
Urdu: URchar|ا�اتھ (an�th) m, URchar|�ت�� (yatīm) m
Vietnamese: �ứa trẻ m� côi
Welsh: amddifad
Yiddish: yosem

Adjective
en-adj|-
Also orphaned

1. Deprived of parents.

#: She is an orphan child.

1. Intended for orphans.

#: She made a generous contribution to the orphan fund.

1. context|sometimes figurative Of, pertaining to, or resembling the nature of an orphan.

#: With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.

Related terms
orphan drug

Verb
en-verb

1. To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)

#:What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?

1. computing To dereference or unlink the last remaining pointer to any object.

#:When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
#:Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

References
R:Webster 1828
R:Webster 1913
R:Dictionary.com
"orphan" in Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2007 Microsoft Corporation.
"orphan" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press 2007.
"orphan" in Compact Oxford English Dictionary, © Oxford University Press, 2007.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

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