# wander
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) +‎ *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɒndə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈwɑndɚ/
* (West Midlands, especially Birmingham) IPA: /ˈwʊndə/, IPA: /ˈwʌndə/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: wan‧der

### Verb

wander (third-person singular simple present wanders, present participle wandering, simple past and past participle wandered)
* (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
    Synonyms: err, roam
    to wander over the fields
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:37:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
** 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
* (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
    A writer wanders from his subject.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms cxix:10:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
* (intransitive) To commit adultery.
    Synonym: cheat
* (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
    Synonym: drift
* (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
    Synonyms: distract, scatter

#### Derived terms

* bewander
* Brazilian wandering spider
* forwander
* inwander
* miswander
* wanderer
* wandering spleen
* wandering star
* wandering whistling duck
* wandering womb
* wanderlust
* wander off
* wanderstar

#### Translations

Arabic: تَجَوَّلَ (tajawwala)
Egyptian Arabic: دار (dār)
Armenian: թափառել (hy) (tʻapʻaṙel)
Aromanian: alag, cutriyir
Belarusian: блука́ць impf (blukácʹ), блудзі́ць impf (bludzícʹ)
Bulgarian: лу́там се impf (lútam se), ски́там се impf (skítam se)
Catalan: vagar (ca), deambular (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 漫步 (zh) (mànbù), 徘徊 (zh) (páihuái)
Czech: toulat se
Danish: strejfe (da)
Dutch: zwerven (nl), rondtrekken (nl)
Egyptian: (šmꜣ)
Esperanto: vagi
Finnish: vaeltaa (fi), vaellella (fi), kierrellä (fi), harhailla (fi)
French: errer (fr), vaguer (fr), divaguer (fr)
Galician: vagar (gl), ruar (gl)
Georgian: ხეტიალი (ka) (xeṭiali), წანწალი (c̣anc̣ali)
German: umherstreifen (de), umherstreichen (de), herumziehen (de), stromern (de), (dated) zigeunern (de), schlendern (de), bummeln (de), wandeln (de)
Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐍂𐌱𐍉𐌽 (ƕarbōn)
Greek: τριγυρίζω (el) (trigyrízo), τριγυρνώ (el) (trigyrnó)
Ancient Greek: περιφοιτάω (periphoitáō)
Ancient: πλανάομαι (planáomai), ῥέμβομαι (rhémbomai), περιέρρω (periérrhō)
Hebrew: שׁוֹטֵט (he) (shotét), תָּעָה (he) (ta'á)
Hindi: भटकना (hi) (bhaṭaknā), घूमना (hi) (ghūmnā)
Hungarian: vándorol (hu), kóborol (hu), kószál (hu), barangol (hu), csatangol (hu), bolyong (hu), bóklászik (hu)
Ingrian: häylyä, häylää
Italian: errare (it), vagare (it), girovagare (it), passeggiare (it), bighellonare (it), vagabondare (it)
Japanese: ぶらつく (ja) (buratsuku), さ迷う (ja) (さまよう, samayou), うろつく (ja) (urotsuku)
Khmer: សាត់ (km) (sat)
Korean: 돌아다니다 (ko) (doradanida), 헤매다 (ko) (hemaeda)
Lao: ເລາະ (lǫ)
Latin: vagor, pālor, errō (la)
Lithuanian: klajoti
Macedonian: талка (talka), скита (mk) (skita), лута (luta)
Maori: kaewa, kāewaewa, whakakaewa, takiwhenua, takiwhenua, ānau, tīpao, taiāmiki, tīhoihoi, ānau, kaea, whakatīhohe, kōpikopiko, tiwhao
Nepali: डुल्नु (ḍulnu)
Norman: èrrer
Occitan: vagar (oc), errar (oc), trevar (oc)
Old Church Slavonic: заблѫждати (zablǫždati)
Old English: scrīþan
Ottoman Turkish: گزمك (gezmek)
Persian: پرسه زدن (fa) (porse zadan)
Polish: włóczyć się (pl), błąkać się (pl), tułać się (pl)
Portuguese: vagar (pt), perambular (pt), vadiar (pt)
Romanian: umbla (ro), plimba (ro), colinda (ro), cutreiera (ro)
Russian: броди́ть (ru) (brodítʹ), слоня́ться (ru) (slonjátʹsja), блужда́ть (ru) (bluždátʹ), шата́ться (ru) (šatátʹsja), шляться (ru) (šljatʹsja), скита́ться (ru) impf (skitátʹsja), блука́ть (ru) impf (blukátʹ), плута́ть (ru) impf (plutátʹ)
Sanskrit: वञ्चति (sa) (vañcati)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лу́тати impf, одлу́тати pf, блудити impf (Croatia)
Roman: lútati (sh) impf, odlútati (sh) pf, bluditi (sh) impf (Croatia)
Slovak: túlať sa impf
Spanish: vagar (es), divagar (es), errar (es), deambular (es), yirar (es) (River Plate), tunar (es), veletear (Central America), ruar (es)
Swedish: vanka (sv), vandra (sv)
Tamil: அலை (ta) (alai)
Thai: ท่องเที่ยว (th) (tɔ̂ng-tîao)
Turkish: gezinmek (tr)
Ukrainian: мандрува́ти impf (mandruváty), блука́ти (uk) impf (blukáty), плута́ти impf (plutáty), броди́ти (uk) impf (brodýty), ника́ти (uk) impf (nykáty), шве́ндяти impf (švéndjaty)
Vietnamese: lang thang (vi)
Welsh: crwydro (cy)
Yiddish: וואַנדערן (vandern) :

### Noun

wander (countable and uncountable, plural wanders)
* (countable) An act or instance of wandering.
    to go for a wander in the park
* (uncountable, of a value, signal or similar) Deviation from a correct or normal value.
    Hyponym: polar wander
    baseline wander in ECG signals

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Andrew, Darwen, Warden, drawne, warden, warned

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

wander
* inflection of wandern:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative