# weep
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: wēp, IPA: /wiːp/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”).
Cognate with Scots wepe, weip (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”).

#### Verb

weep (third-person singular simple present weeps, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle wept or (poetic, otherwise nonstandard) weeped)
* To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
** 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I:They wept together in silence.
* To lament; to complain.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 11:13:They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
* To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
** (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
** To flow in drops; to run in drops.
    a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
*** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:The blood weeps from my heart.
* To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
* (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
** 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove:Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XIII, page 20:[…] Which weep a loss for ever new, ⁠A void where heart on heart reposed; ⁠And, where warm hands have prest and closed, Silence, till I be silent too.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:weep

##### Derived terms

* beweep
* enough to make the angels weep
* forweep
* read 'em and weep
* weep buckets
* weephole, weep hole
* weeping willow
* weep in one's beer
* weep into one's beer
* weep Irish
* weepy

##### Translations

Adyghe: гъын (ğən)
Afrikaans: huil (af)
Albanian: qaj (sq)
Arabic: بَكَى (bakā), يَبْكِي (yabkī) (present tense)
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܒܟܐ (bka)
Armenian: լալ (hy) (lal), լաց լինել (lacʻ linel)
Aromanian: plãngu, lãcãrmedz, lãcrimedz
Asturian: llorar (ast)
Azerbaijani: ağlamaq (az)
Balinese: ngeling
Bashkir: илау (ilaw)
Basque: negar egin
Belarusian: пла́каць impf (plákacʹ)
Bengali: কাঁদা (bn) (kãda), কান্দা (kanda), ক্রন্দন করা (krondon kora)
Bulgarian: пла́ча (bg) impf (pláča)
Burmese: ငို (my) (ngui)
Catalan: plorar (ca)
Chechen: делха (delxa)
Cherokee: ᎠᏦᏱᎭ (atsoyiha)
Cheyenne: -a'xaame
Chinese:
Cantonese: 喊 (haam$^3$), 哭 (huk$^1$) (formal writing)
Dungan: кў (kw)
Eastern Min: 啼嘛 (tiè-mà), 啼 (tiè)
Gan: 哭 (kuh$^6$), 叫 (jieu$^4$)
Hakka: 叫 (kieu)
Hokkien: 吼 (háu), 哭 (zh-min-nan) (khàu)
Jin: 哭 (kueh$^4$)
Mandarin: 哭 (zh) (kū), 抽泣 (zh) (chōuqì), 泣 (zh) (qì) (literary), 流眼淚 / 流眼泪 (zh) (liú yǎnlèi), 流淚 / 流泪 (zh) (liúlèi)
Northern Min: 啼 (tî)
Wu: 哭 ($^7$khoq)
Xiang: 哭 (ku$^6$)
Coptic: ⲣⲓⲙⲉ (rime)
Czech: plakat (cs) impf, brečet (cs) impf
Danish: græde (da)
Drung: ngeu
Dutch: huilen (nl), wenen (nl), schreien (nl)
Eastern Cham: ꨨꨳꨩ
Egyptian: (rmj)
Esperanto: larmi
Estonian: nutma (et), nuuksuma
Even: хоӈ- (hoŋ-)
Evenki: соңо-
Fijian: tagica
Finnish: itkeä (fi), kyynelehtiä (fi)
French: pleurer (fr)
Friulian: vaî, lagrimâ
Galician: lagrimexar (gl), chorar (gl), bagoar (gl)
Gallo: breur'
Georgian: ტირილი (ṭirili)
German: weinen (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (grētan)
Greek: κλαίω (el) (klaío)
Ancient: κλαίω (klaíō), δακρύω (dakrúō)
Hebrew: בָּכָה (he) (bachá)
Hindi: रोना (hi) (ronā)
Hungarian: sír, könnyezik (hu)
Icelandic: gráta (is)
Indonesian: tangis (id), menangis (id)
Ingrian: itkiä, ulissa
Ingush: велха (velxa)
Interlingua: plorar, lacrimar
Irish: caoin, goil
Italian: piangere (it), versare lacrime, lacrimare (it)
Japanese: 泣く (ja) (なく, naku), すすり泣く (ja) (susurinaku), しくしく泣く (ja) (shikushiku naku)
Kabardian: гъын (kbd) (ğən)
Kabuverdianu: txora
Kalmyk: уульх (uulʹx)
Kazakh: жылау (jylau)
Khmer: យំ (km) (yum)
Korean: 울다 (ko) (ulda)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گریان (giryan)
Northern Kurdish: girîn (ku)
Kyrgyz: ыйлоо (ky) (ıyloo)
Lao: ກຳສວນ (kam sūan), ຍົມ (nyom)
Latin: fleō (la), lacrimō (la)
Latvian: raudāt (lv)
Lithuanian: verkti (lt), raudoti
Lombard: piang (lmo), piangg
Luxembourgish: kräischen (lb)
Macedonian: плаче impf (plače)
Malay: tangis (ms), menangis
Malayalam: കരയുക (ml) (karayuka)
Maltese: beka
Maori: wairutu, wairurutu, tangitangi, rutu, rurutu, taurere
Mongolian: уйлах (mn) (ujlax)
Mpade: swe
Nahuatl: chocaya
Nanai: сонго- (soŋo-)
Neapolitan: chiagne
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gråte (no)
Nǀuu: tsʼaxamǃqhaake jaqn, tsʼaxamǃqhaake dyaqn, kxʼaa
Ojibwe: mawi
Old Church Slavonic: плакати impf (plakati)
Old East Slavic: плакати impf (plakati)
Old English: grēotan
Oromo: boo'uu
Ottoman Turkish: آغلامق (ağlamak)
Pacoh: nhiêm
Paicî: kââ
Persian: گریستن (fa) (geristan), گریه کردن (fa) (gerye kardan)
Polish: płakać (pl) impf
Portuguese: chorar (pt), lacrimejar (pt)
Romanian: plânge (ro), lăcrima (ro)
Russian: пла́кать (ru) impf (plákatʹ), рыда́ть (ru) impf (rydátʹ), лить слёзы impf (litʹ sljózy)
Sanskrit: रोदिति (sa) (roditi)
Scottish Gaelic: caoin, guil
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пла̏кати impf, јецати impf
Roman: plȁkati (sh) impf, jecati (sh) impf
Sinhalese: අඬනවා (aⁿḍanawā)
Slovak: plakať impf
Slovene: jokati (sl) impf
Sotho: lla (st)
Spanish: llorar (es), lagrimar (es), lacrimar
Swedish: gråta (sv), grina (sv)
Tagalog: lumuha, umiyak, humagulgol, humagulhol
Tajik: геристан (geristan), герйе кардан (gerye kardan)
Tamil: அழு (ta) (aḻu)
Tatar: еларга (tt) (yelarga)
Telugu: ఏడ్చు (te) (ēḍcu)
Thai: ร้องไห้ (th) (rɔ́ɔng-hâai), ร่ำไห้ (râm-hâi)
Turkish: ağlamak (tr)
Turkmen: aglamak (tk)
Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎋𐎊 (bky), 𐎄𐎎𐎓 (dmʿ)
Ukrainian: пла́кати impf (plákaty), схли́пувати impf (sxlýpuvaty), реві́ти impf (revíty), рида́ти impf (rydáty)
Urdu: رونا (ronā)
Uzbek: yigʻlamoq (uz)
Vietnamese: khóc (vi)
Võro: ikma
Yiddish: וויינען (veynen) :

#### Noun

weep (plural weeps)
* A session of crying.
    Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
* A sob.
** 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page v. 62:He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
* A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
    Synonym: purge

### Etymology 2

Imitative of its cry.

#### Noun

weep (plural weeps)
* A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).