# friend
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English frēond (“friend”, literally “loving[-one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to like, love”), equivalent to free +‎ -nd.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fjund, Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), Low German Frund, Fründ (“friend, relative”), Luxembourgish Frënd (“friend”), German Freund (“friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Welsh ffrind (“friend”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”). More at free.
Other cognates include Russian прия́тель (prijátelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: frĕnd, IPA: /fɹɛnd/, [fɹ̥ɛnd̥]
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* Audio (General American):(file)
* (dialectal, especially with pin–pen merger) IPA: /frɪnd/
* Rhymes: -ɛnd
* Hyphenation: friend

### Noun

friend (plural friends)
* A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
** 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship”, in Essays, volume I:The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
** 1917, Richard M. Gummere translating Seneca as Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. I, No. 3:
    ...if you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means.
** 1923, William Armistead Falconer translating Cicero as De Amicitia, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. XX, p. 34:
    ...he who looks upon a true friend, looks, as it were, upon a sort of image of himself. Wherefore friends, though absent, are at hand; though in need, yet abound; though weak, are strong; and—harder saying still—though dead, are yet alive; so great is the esteem on the part of their friends, the tender recollection and the deep longing that still attends them.
** 1927 Mar. 31, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald:
    ...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
** 1933 Dec. 12, Walter Winchell, "On Broadway", Scranton Republican, p. 5:
    Definition of a friend: One who walks in—when the rest of the world walks out.
    John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college. Trust is important between friends. I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
    We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day. We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.
* An associate who provides assistance.
    The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
* A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
** 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
    a friend of a friend
    I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know him.
* A person who backs or supports something.
    I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
* (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
    Fruit is your friend.
* (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
    You’d better watch it, friend.
* (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
** 1991, Tom Swan, Learning C++:But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends. Top C++ programmers avoid using friends unless absolutely necessary.
** 2001, Stephen Prata, C++ primer plus:In that case, the function needn't (and shouldn't) be a friend.
** 2008, D S Malik, C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design:To make a function be a friend to a class, the reserved word friend precedes the function prototype […]
* (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
** 1995, Rock Climbing Basics:Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […]
* (euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
** c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ; Nor never come in visard to my friend
** 1813, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Etc., page 17:Time has been, when a gentleman wanted a friend, I could supply him with choice in an hour; but the market is spoiled, and a body might as soon produce a hare or a partridge […]
** 1975, Janis Ian, In the Winter:I met your friend. She's very nice, what can I say?
* (Scotland, obsolete) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
    Friends agree best at a distance.
    Make friends of framet folk.
** 1895, Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 232:
    He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.
* (in the plural, usually preceded by "and") Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew
    Synonyms: and company, et al.
    Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...

#### Usage notes

* friends is found as an invariable plural in the phrases make friends with and be friends with: I am friends with her; He made friends with his co-worker.
* We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
* In older texts and certain dialects, the prepositional phrase to friend means "as a friend or an ally", for exampleː "with God to frend (Spenser)". The antonym to the phrase to friend is to fiend.

#### Synonyms

* (person whose company one enjoys): See Thesaurus:friend
* (boyfriend or girlfriend): See Thesaurus:lover
* (person with whom you are acquainted): acquaintance, contact
* (person who provides assistance): ally
* (person who backs something): admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter
* (form of address used in warning someone): buster, mate (British), pal, buddy, sonny

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “person whose company one enjoys”): See Thesaurus:enemy
* (antonym(s) of “person with whom you are acquainted”): stranger
* (antonym(s) of “person who provides assistance”): enemy, foe

#### Derived terms

* affriended
* a friend in need is a friend indeed
* all-weather friend
* asking for a friend
* back-friend
* backfriend
* befriend
* best friend
* best friend forever
* big friend
* bosom friend
* boy friend
* boyfriend
* boy-friend
* chick friend
* chick-friend
* childhood friend
* circle of friends
* close friend
* cyberfriend
* diamonds are a girl's best friend
* Dorothy's friend
* dumb friend
* e-friend
* enbyfriend
* enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
* ex-friend
* fair-weather friend
* fairweather friend
* fair weather friend
* false friend
* family friend
* fast friend
* feathered friend
* fine-feathered friend
* flu friend
* four-legged friend
* framily
* fremesis
* frenemy
* friend at court
* friendboy
* friend boy
* friendess
* friendful
* friend girl
* friendgirl
* friend group
* friendhood
* friendish
* friendiversary
* friendless
* friendlike
* friendling
* friendlist
* friendly
* friendmaking
* friendo
* friend of a friend
* friend of Bill
* friend of Bill's
* friend of Bill W.
* friend of Bluey
* friend of court
* friend of Dorothy
* friend of mine
* friend of ours
* friend of the court
* friendom
* friend request
* Friends
* Friendsgiving
* friend-shaped
* friendship
* friendshiply
* friendshoring
* friendsies
* friends in high places
* friends in low places
* friends list
* Friendsmas
* friendsome
* Friendster
* friends-to-lovers
* friend-to-friend
* friend with benefits
* friendworthy
* friendy
* friend-zone
* friend zone
* friend-zonee
* friend zonee
* fuckfriend
* furriend
* galfriend
* girl-friend
* girlfriend
* girl friend
* good friend
* Google is your friend
* grandfriend
* guy friend
* guy-friend
* half-friend
* hi-bye friend
* identification friend or foe
* imaginary friend
* just friends
* lady friend
* litigation friend
* little friend
* make friends
* manfriend
* man's best friend
* McKenzie friend
* merfriend
* misfriend
* m'learned friends
* monthly friend
* more than friends
* motorman's friend
* mouth-friend
* mutual friend
* my enemy's enemy is my friend
* my learned friend
* nepo friend
* nepotism friend
* newfriend
* next friend
* Nigel no friends
* Nigel No Friends
* Nigel no-friends
* non-friend
* nonfriend
* old friend
* old man's friend
* out-friend
* outfriend
* partial false friend
* penfriend
* pen-friend
* pen friend
* playfriend
* plumber's friend
* prisoner's friend
* Religious Society of Friends
* say hello to my little friend
* schoolfriend
* semifriend
* short accounts make long friends
* short reckonings make long friends
* Society of Friends
* special friend
* squirrel friend
* stepfriend
* superfriend
* the enemy of my enemy is my friend
* the enemy of your enemy is your friend
* theyfriend
* true friend
* un-friend
* unfriend
* waiter's friend
* what are friends for
* wife's best friend
* Wigner's friend
* with friends like these who needs enemies
* womanfriend

#### Descendants

* Jamaican Creole: fren
* Krio: frɛn
* → Cantonese: friend (fen$^1$)
* → Finnish: frendi
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Latin script: frȅnd
** Cyrillic script: фре̏нд
* → Spanish: friend

#### Translations
### Verb

friend (third-person singular simple present friends, present participle friending, simple past and past participle friended)
* (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].
** 1896, Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad, section LXII:’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale Is not so brisk a brew as ale: Out of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a weary land. But take it: if the smack is sour, The better for the embittered hour; It should do good to heart and head When your soul is in my soul’s stead; And I will friend you, if I may, In the dark and cloudy day.
* (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
    Antonyms: defriend, unfriend
** 2006, Kevin Farnham, Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents‎, How-To Primers, →ISBN, page 69:One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list.
** 2007, David Fono, Kate Raynes-Goldie, “Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal”, in Mia Consalvo, Caroline Haythornthwaite, editors, Internet Research Annual: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2005 (Digital Formations; 33), volume 4, New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 99:The two distributions which exhibited this property were in response to the statements, “I am careful about who I friend,” and, “If someone friends me, I will friend them.” (Figure 3).
** 2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Bingham, Caleb (1808) “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎, 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, →OCLC, page 75.

### Further reading

* “friend”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Friden, finder, frined, redfin, refin'd, refind

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* fd, frd

### Etymology

Borrowed from English friend.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): fen$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fen$^1$
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fen$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɛːn⁵⁵/
* (Cantonese (alternative)): IPA: /fɹɛːn⁵⁵/

### Noun

friend
* (Cantonese) friend (Classifier: 個／个 c)
       keoi$^5$ hai$^6$ ngo$^5$ go$^3$ fen$^1$ lai$^4$ gaa$^3$. [Jyutping]
       He's my friend.
    From: 2008, 李紫媚 (Jessica Li), 《盜與罪：青少年犯罪預防理論與對策》 (Theft and delinquency: juvenile crime prevention theories and practice), page 180
    ngo$^5$ go$^3$ fen$^1$ waa$^6$: “m$^4$ wui$^5$ seoi$^1$ ge$^3$, bin$^1$ jau$^5$ gam$^3$ jung$^4$ ji$^6$ aa$^1$, sai$^3$ gaai$^3$ gam$^3$ do$^1$ jan$^4$ sei$^2$ jau$^6$ m$^4$ gin$^3$ nei$^5$ heoi$^3$ sei$^2$.” [Jyutping]
    My friend said, "It's not gonna go wrong. It's not that easy [to go wrong]. There are so many people in the world, and I don't see you dying."
    From: 2015, Playboy 文 (pseudonym), 《港股策略王》, issue 18, page 69
    wai$^2$, mat$^1$ nei$^5$ baan$^1$ fen$^1$ gam$^2$ tek$^3$ bo$^1$ ge$^2$, hai$^6$ mai$^6$ jau$^5$ di$^1$ m$^4$ deoi$^3$ lou$^6$? [Jyutping]
    Hey, how come your friends play soccer like this. Is there some problem?
    From: 2016, 董德偉, 《英語講呢D》, page 101
    ngo$^5$ go$^3$ fen$^1$ giu$^3$ ngo$^5$ heoi$^3$ keoi$^5$ uk$^1$ kei$^2$ co$^5$ haa$^5$, daan$^6$ jau$^6$ m$^4$ waa$^6$ ngo$^5$ zi$^1$ keoi$^5$ neoi$^5$ jau$^5$ hai$^2$ dou$^6$, gaau$^2$ dou$^3$ ngo$^5$ bin$^3$ zo$^2$ zou$^6$ din$^6$ dang$^1$ daam$^2$. [Jyutping]
    When my friend invited me to hang out at his house but he didn't tell me that his girlfriend would be there too, he made me a third wheel.
* (Cantonese, always with the classifier) the likes of; something similar to (Classifier: 啲 c)
** 2021 September 18, Ming Pao‎:
       ging$^2$ fong$^1$ zok$^3$ hoeng$^3$ wong$^4$ faat$^3$ seon$^3$, zi$^2$ maan$^6$ waa$^{6-2}$ tai$^4$ dou$^3$ gaa$^2$ san$^1$ man$^4$ si$^6$ cung$^4$ “siu$^3$ nin$^4$ ging$^2$ seon$^3$ di$^1$ fen$^1$ cyun$^4$ ceot$^1$ lai$^4$ gaa$^3$”, deoi$^3$ maan$^6$ waa$^{6-2}$ dik$^1$ mou$^4$ lei$^5$ zi$^2$ hung$^3$ biu$^2$ daat$^6$ koeng$^4$ lit$^6$ bat$^1$ mun$^5$ wo$^4$ gwaan$^1$ zyu$^3$, jiu$^1$ kau$^4$ cing$^4$ cing$^1$. [Jyutping]
       The police sent a letter to Wong yesterday, claiming the comic had mentioned that the fake news was “spread out from the likes of Junior Police Call”. They expressed strong dissatisfaction and attention towards the unreasonable accusation by the comic, requesting a clarification.

#### Synonyms

* (friend):
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 友, 朋, 朋友, 友人, 友生 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 朋友, 友人 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Chengde | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Chifeng | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Hulunbuir (Hailar) | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Heihe | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Qiqihar | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 朋友, 老鐵 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Jiamusi | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Baicheng | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Changchun | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Tonghua | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Shenyang | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Jinzhou | 朋友 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 朋友 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tianjin | 朋友 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tangshan | 朋友 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Cangzhou | 朋友 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Baoding | 朋友 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Shijiazhuang | 朋友 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Lijin | 朋友 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 朋友 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Dalian | 朋友 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Dandong | 朋友 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai | 朋友 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 朋友 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Qingdao | 朋友 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Zhucheng | 朋友, 相好的 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Lingbao | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Jining | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Linfen | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Shangqiu | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Yuanyang | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Zhengzhou | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xinyang | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Baihe | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Baoji | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Tianshui | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 朋友 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 朋友, 夥計 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Fuyang | 朋友 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 朋友 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 朋友 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Dunhuang | 朋友 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Hami | 朋友 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Nanchong | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Dazhou | 朋友, 耍得好 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Hanyuan | 朋友, 夥計 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Xichang | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zigong | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chongqing | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Yichang | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Xiangyang | 朋友, 老把 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Tianmen | 朋友, 老夥計 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zunyi | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Bijie | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liping | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zhaotong | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Dali | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Kunming | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Mengzi | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Jishou | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Changde | 朋友 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Hanzhong | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Lianyungang | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Lianshui | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nantong | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Anqing | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Wuhu | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 朋友 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hong'an | 朋友, 夥計 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 朋友 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 朋友, friend, friend子 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 朋友 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 朋友 |
| Cantonese | Singapore (Guangfu) | 朋友 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 朋友 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 朋友 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 朋友 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 朋友 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 朋友 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 朋友 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 朋友 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 朋友 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 朋友 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 朋友 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 朋友 |
| Huizhou | Shexian | 朋友 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 朋友 |
| Jin | Yangyuan | 朋友, 相好的 |
| Jin | Datong | 朋友 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 朋友, 結拜 dated |
| Jin | Lüliang (Lishi) | 朋友, 拜識 |
| Jin | Changzhi | 朋友, 相好的 |
| Jin | Linhe | 朋友 |
| Jin | Jining | 朋友 |
| Jin | Hohhot | 朋友 |
| Jin | Erenhot | 朋友 |
| Jin | Pingshan | 朋友, 相好的 |
| Jin | Zhangjiakou | 朋友 |
| Jin | Handan | 朋友 |
| Jin | Linzhou | 朋友 |
| Jin | Suide | 朋友, 相好的 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 朋友, 朋友伙 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 朋友 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 朋友, 交丸 dated |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 朋友 |
| Southern Min | Jinjiang | 朋友 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 朋友 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 朋友 |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | 朋友, 交丸 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 朋友, 交丸 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 朋友 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Teochew) | 朋友 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 朋友 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hainanese) | 朋友 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 朋友 |
| Waxiang | Guzhang (Gaofeng) | 朋子 |
| Waxiang | Yuanling (Shaojiwan) | 朋 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 朋友 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 朋友 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 朋友 |
| Wu | Danyang | 朋友 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 朋友 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 朋友, 朋友家 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 朋友家, 朋友 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 朋友 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 朋友 |
| Xiang | Xiangxiang | 朋友 |

### Adjective

friend
* (Cantonese) in a close or friendly relationship
    我哋好friend㗎。 [Cantonese] ― ngo$^5$ dei$^6$ hou$^2$ fen$^1$ gaa$^3$. [Jyutping] ― We are really close.
    From: 1985, 許冠傑, 《日本娃娃》
    sat$^6$ hang$^4$ jung$^6$ gaa$^4$ man$^{4-2}$ gan$^1$ keoi$^5$ fen$^1$ haa$^2$ [Jyutping]
    Used a bit of Japanese to try and make friends with her
    From: 2011, TVB-J2, K-ON！！輕音少女 (K-On!!), season 2, episode 1
    “jan$^1$ wai$^6$ nei$^5$ dei$^6$ ng$^5$ go$^3$ hou$^2$ ci$^5$ hou$^2$ fen$^1$ hou$^2$ hoi$^1$ sam$^1$ gam$^2$ wo$^3$.” [Jyutping]
    “It's because you five seem so close and happy.”
    From: 2013, 董啟章 (Dung Kai-cheung), 《體育時期（劇場版）【上學期】》, page 124
    ngo$^5$ giu$^3$ ou$^3$ gu$^2$, wo$^4$ taa$^1$ sik$^1$ liu$^5$ han$^2$ do$^1$ nin$^4$, syun$^3$ hai$^6$ hou$^2$ fen$^1$ haa$^5$. [Jyutping]
    My name is Ou Gu. I knew her for many years, so we are pretty close.
    From: 2015, 少少肥 (pseudonym), 《自修室‧學界嘅蘭桂坊》, page 243
    ngo$^5$ m$^4$ soeng$^2$ ngo$^5$ dei$^6$ zi$^2$ hai$^6$ hai$^2$ ni$^1$ dyun$^6$ si$^4$ gaan$^3$ fen$^1$ faan$^1$, ngo$^5$ soeng$^2$ ngo$^5$ dei$^6$ bin$^3$ faan$^1$ ji$^5$ cin$^4$ gam$^2$, fen$^1$ dou$^3$ mat$^1$ dou$^1$ king$^1$, ping$^4$ si$^4$ daai$^6$ gaa$^1$ jau$^5$ di$^1$ me$^1$ dou$^1$ wui$^5$ wan$^2$ daai$^6$ gaa$^1$ gong$^2$. [Jyutping]
    I don't want us to just be close for this while. I want us to turn back into how we were before, when we were so close that we would chat about anything, when we would normally look for each other to talk if anything happens.
    From: 2016, 喬寶寶, (Q Bobo), 《香港製造》, page 32
    bat$^1$ gwo$^3$ ci$^2$ zung$^1$ daai$^6$ gaa$^1$ dou$^1$ hai$^6$ sai$^3$ lou$^6$, hou$^2$ faai$^3$ zau$^6$ fen$^1$ zo$^2$, ngo$^5$ go$^3$ jan$^4$ hou$^2$ ji$^6$ soeng$^1$ cyu$^2$, tung$^4$ hoeng$^1$ gong$^2$ jan$^4$, jan$^3$ dou$^6$ jan$^4$ dou$^1$ soeng$^1$ cyu$^2$ dou$^{3-2}$, so$^2$ ji$^5$ kei$^4$ sat$^6$ duk$^6$ me$^1$ hok$^6$ haau$^6$ dou$^1$ mou$^5$ man$^6$ tai$^4$. [Jyutping]
    But since everyone is a kid, we quickly became close. I easily get along with others, no matter if it's with Hong Kongers or Indians, so it doesn't matter which school I go to.

### Derived terms

* friend子 (fen$^1$ zi$^2$)
* friend底
* friend過夾band / friend过夹band (fen$^1$ gwo$^3$ gaap$^3$ ben$^1$)
* friend過打band / friend过打band

### References

* English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

## Middle English
### Noun

friend
* Alternative form of frend

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fri͜yːnd/

### Noun

frīend
* dative singular of frēond
* nominative and accusative plural of frēond

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English friend.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾend/ [ˈfɾẽn̪d̪]
* Rhymes: -end

### Noun

friend m (plural friends)
* (climbing) cam

## Yola
### Noun

friend
* Alternative form of vriene
** 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:Mye thee friend ne're waant welcome, nor straayart comfoort.May thy friend ne'er want welcome, nor the stranger comfort.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 100