wean
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wenen, from Old English wenian (“to accustom; habituate; train; prepare; make fit”), from Proto-West Germanic *wannjan, from Proto-Germanic *wanjaną (“to make wont; accustom”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive for; wish; love”).
Cognate with Dutch wennen, German gewöhnen, Danish vænne, Swedish vänja, Icelandic venja. Related via PIE to wone, wont, and wonder, and perhaps win.
Inflected forms:
form: weans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: weaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: weaned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: weans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cow has weaned her calf.
Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
gloss: To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
often
transitive
examples: His generation was weaned on 1980's music.
gloss: To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The kittens are finally weaning.
gloss: To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: He managed to wean himself off heroin.
With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle.
The troubles of age were intended […] to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.
Dalai Lama: "Then, I suggested, “Drink much less vodka.” Instead of that, they traditionally also drink horse milk—"
Oliver: "Wait, hold on, you tried to wean them off vodka by giving them horse milk?"
Dalai Lama: "Oh yes, and they follow."
gloss: To cease to depend.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
examples: She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.
gloss: To raise, to help grow toward maturity
pos: verb
tags: broadly
obsolete
transitive
examples: For they are friends that help to weane my ſtate,
Till men and kingdomes help to ſtrengthen it: […]
gloss: A young child.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: I, being but a yearling wean.
And there were darker tales in the countryside, of weans stolen, of lassies misguided, of innocent beasts cruelly tortured, and in one and all there came in the name of the wife of the Skerburnfoot.
‘While I was his ward, he treated me no worse
as a wean about the place than one of his own boys.’
Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw.
Oh it is not weans it is children. Oh Kieron, it is children and girls, do not say weans and lasses.
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: فَطَمَ
roman: faṭama
lang: Belarusian
word: адняць ад грудзей
roman: adnjacʹ ad hrudzjej
lang: Belarusian
word: аднімаць ад грудзей
roman: adnimacʹ ad hrudzjej
lang: Belarusian
word: адлучыць ад грудзей
roman: adlučycʹ ad hrudzjej
lang: Belarusian
word: адлучаць ад грудзей
roman: adlučacʹ ad hrudzjej
lang: Bulgarian
word: отбивам
roman: otbivam
lang: Catalan
word: deslletar
lang: Catalan
word: desmamar
lang: Czech
word: odstavit
lang: Czech
word: přestat kojit
lang: Danish
word: afvænne
lang: Dutch
word: afnemen
lang: Finnish
word: vieroittaa
lang: French
word: sevrer
lang: German
word: abstillen
lang: German
word: entwöhnen
lang: Greek
word: απογαλακτίζω
roman: apogalaktízo
lang: Hebrew
word: גמל
roman: gamál
lang: Hungarian
word: elválaszt
lang: Ido
word: ablaktar
lang: Irish
word: scoith
lang: Italian
word: svezzare
lang: Ladino
word: destetar
lang: Māori
word: whakamutu i te kai waiū
lang: Māori
word: whakamakere ū
lang: Polish
word: odstawiać od piersi
lang: Polish
word: odstawić od piersi
lang: Portuguese
word: desmamar
lang: Quechua
word: hanuk'ay
lang: Romanian
word: înțărca
lang: Russian
word: отнима́ть от груди́
roman: otnimátʹ ot grudí
lang: Russian
word: отня́ть от груди́
roman: otnjátʹ ot grudí
lang: Russian
word: отлуча́ть
roman: otlučátʹ
lang: Russian
word: отлучи́ть
roman: otlučítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: destetar
lang: Spanish
word: desmamar
lang: Swedish
word: avvänja
lang: Turkish
word: sütten kesmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: відлучати від грудей
roman: vidlučaty vid hrudej
lang: Ukrainian
word: відлучити від грудей
roman: vidlučyty vid hrudej
lang: Vietnamese
word: dứt sữa
lang: Vietnamese
word: cai sữa
lang: Welsh
word: diddyfnu
lang: Yiddish
word: אַנטװײנען
roman: antveynen
lang: Arabic
word: اِنْفَطَمَ
roman: infaṭama
lang: Czech
word: odvyknout
lang: Czech
word: odnaučit se
lang: Dutch
word: spenen
lang: Finnish
word: vieroittua
lang: Greek
word: απογαλακτίζομαι
roman: apogalaktízomai
lang: Japanese
word: 乳離れさせる
roman: chichibanare saseru
lang: Macedonian
word: одвикнува
roman: odviknuva
lang: Russian
word: отуча́ть от груди́
roman: otučátʹ ot grudí
lang: Russian
word: отучи́ть от груди́
roman: otučítʹ ot grudí
lang: Russian
word: отуча́ть
roman: otučátʹ
lang: Russian
word: отучи́ть
roman: otučítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: destetarse
lang: Spanish
word: desmamarse
lang: Thai
word: หย่านม
roman: yàa-nom
lang: Turkish
word: sütten kesilmek