# awrath
## English
### Etymology 1

From Old English ġewrāþian; equivalent to the a- +‎ wrath.

#### Alternative forms

* awroth

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ə.rŏthʹ, IPA: /əˈɹɒθ/

#### Verb

awrath (third-person singular simple present awraths, present participle awrathing, simple past and past participle awrathed)
* (obsolete, transitive and reflexive) Anger; enrage.
** 1916, Casper Salathiel Yost, Pearl Lenore Pollard Curran, Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery, H. Holt and Company, page 157:Telka arounded and awrathed be like unto a thunder-storm, […]

##### References

* “†aˈwrath, awroth, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ə.rŏthʹ, IPA: /əˈɹɒθ/

#### Adjective

awrath
* (predicative) Wrathful; incensed; enraged; irate.
** 1862, Duffy’s Hibernian magazine, volume 2, page 161, “The Flight of the Earls”, lines 1–4
    ‛Tis an old story: Might awrath with right: A nation conquered and her shrines o’erthrown; Her chieftains flying seaward in the night, And not a trumpet of departure blown.
** 1908, Miguel Zamacoïs, translated by John Nathan Raphael, The Jesters: A Simple Story in Four Acts of Verse, Brentano’s, page 22:Nay, never sneer! Enough! I am awrath today! Give me the gold you owe, or by the saints —
** a. 1931, Elsdon Best, Māori Religion and Mythology: Being an Account of the Cosmogony, Anthropogeny, Religious Beliefs and Rites, Magic and Folk Lore of the Māori Folk of New Zealand, part 2, page 295 (Te Papa Press; →ISBN, 9781877385063)
    These are felt in the upper world, where Hine-puia, who personifies volcanoes, is awrath, and who sweeps before her Hine-uku […]
** 1976, “Collected Early poems of Ezra Pound”, in Malrin, →ISBN, page 34:But one left me awroth and went in unto thy table. I tarried, till his anger was blown out.
** 2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 491:After awhile, Guest Gulkan no longer knew whether he was alive or dead, awake or awrath in nightmare.

#### Noun

awrath (uncountable)
* wrath
** 2008, Randal Chase, Making Precious Things Plain: A Book of Mormon Study Guide, Cedar Fort, →ISBN, page 128, →ISBN:Moroni expected no positive response, saying, “Ye have once rejected these things, and have fought against the people of the Lord, even so I may expect you will do it again. And now behold, we are prepared to receive you; yea, and except you withdraw your purposes, behold, ye will pull down the awrath of that God whom you have rejected upon you, even to your utter destruction” (v. 8–9).

### Etymology 3

From the Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “imperfection”, “nakedness”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”).

#### Alternative forms

* aurat
* awrah

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaʊ.ɹæt/

#### Noun

awrath (uncountable)
* (Islam) Those parts of one’s body which must be covered for decency, which vary according to sect and circumstance (for example, a woman covers different parts around men than around women).

##### See also

* awrah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia