row

See also: Row and rów

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”).

Cognate with Scots raw (“row”), dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Saterland Frisian Riege (“row”), West Frisian rige (“row”), Dutch rij (“row, line”), German Low German Reeg, Riege, Rieg (“row”), German Reihe (“row”), German Riege (“sports team”).

Alternative forms

rew (dialectal)

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ/
(US) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊ/
Audio (US): (file)
Homophones: rho, roe
Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun

row (plural rows)

A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings vii:4:
  And there were windows in three rows.
- 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:
  The bright seraphim in burning row.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
Antonym: column
(slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of cornrow.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 25:
  Vyreen had just finished braiding my hair, and his call had caught me coming out of her crib with my 'rows looking tight.
- 2015 October 22, Stefan Bondy, “Kristaps Porzingis had cornrows as a kid because 'all the girls loved it'”, in New York Daily News‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Daily News L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-18:
  If you thought it'd be hard to get a good cornrow braiding in Latvia, think again. Porzingis said he was re-braided almost every week to keep his rows fresh.

Synonyms

(line of objects): line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats)
(in a table): line

Derived terms

Translations

line of objects

Albanian: rresht (sq) m
Arabic: صَفّ (ar) m (ṣaff)
Egyptian Arabic: صف m (ṣaff)
Armenian: շարք (hy) (šarkʻ)
Azerbaijani: sıra (az), cərgə (az)
Bashkir: рәт (rət)
Belarusian: шэ́раг m (šérah), рад m (rad), ра́да f (ráda)
Bulgarian: ред (bg) m (red), реди́ца (bg) f (redíca)
Catalan: fila (ca) f, filera (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 排 (zh) (pái)
Czech: řada (cs) f
Danish: række (da) c, rad c
Dutch: rij (nl) f
Egyptian:

(jtrt f)
Esperanto: vico (eo)
Estonian: rivi
Even: даран (daran)
Evenki: даран (daran)
Finnish: rivi (fi)
French: ligne (fr) f, rang (fr) m, rangée (fr) f
Galician: renque m, fila (gl) f, ringleira f, riola (gl) f, rea f
Georgian: რიგი (rigi)
German: Reihe (de) f
Greek: στοίχος (el) m (stoíchos)
Ancient: στίχος m (stíkhos)
Hebrew: טוּר (he) m (tur), שׁוּרָה (he) f (shurá)
Hungarian: sor (hu)
Icelandic: röð (is) f
Indonesian: baris (id)
Irish: líne f
Italian: fila (it) f, serie (it) f, sequenza (it) f, successione (it) f
Japanese: 列 (ja) (れつ, retsu)
Kazakh: қатар (qatar)
Khmer: ជួរ (km) (cuə)
Korean: 줄 (ko) (jul), 열(列) (ko) (yeol), 렬(列) (ko) (ryeol) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕیز (ckb) (rîz)
Kyrgyz: ирет (ky) (iret), катар (ky) (katar)
Latin: seriēs f
Latvian: rinda f
Macedonian: ред m (red)
Malay: baris
Malayalam: വരി (ml) (vari)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rekke (no) m or f
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رَدیف (fa) (radif), صَفّ (fa) (saff), قَطار (fa) (ğatâr)
Plautdietsch: Rieej f
Polish: rząd (pl) m, szereg (pl) m
Portuguese: fileira (pt) f, eito (pt) m
Romanian: rând (ro) n
Romansch: retscha
Russian: ряд (ru) m (rjad)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ре̑д m

Roman: rȇd (sh) m
Shan: တႅဝ်း (shn) (téao)
Slovak: rad m
Slovene: vrsta (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rěd m
Spanish: fila (es) f, línea (es) f, hilera (es) f, pista (es) f (of footprints), renglón (es) m (text line)
Swahili: safu (sw), mstari (sw)
Swedish: rad (sv) c
Tagalog: hanay
Tajik: қатор (qator), саф (saf), радиф (radif)
Tatar: рәт (tt) (rät)
Telugu: వరుస (te) (varusa)
Thai: แถว (th) (tɛ̌o), แนว (th) (nɛɛo)
Turkish: sıra (tr)
Ukrainian: ряд (uk) m (rjad)
Urdu: قِطار (ur) m or f (qitār)
Uyghur: قاتار (qatar)
Uzbek: qator (uz)
Vietnamese: hàng (vi)
Walloon: roye (wa) f, rindjeye (wa) f, rîlêye (wa) f
Yiddish: ריי f (rey)
Zazaki: qor, rêz

in a table

Arabic: صَفّ (ar) m (ṣaff)
Armenian: շարք (hy) (šarkʻ)
Azerbaijani: sıra (az)
Belarusian: рад m (rad)
Bulgarian: ред (bg) m (red)
Catalan: fila (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 行 (yue) (hong⁴)

Mandarin: 行 (zh) (háng), 列 (zh) (liè) (Taiwan, means "column" in mainland China)
Czech: řádek (cs) m
Danish: række (da) c
Dutch: rij (nl) f
Esperanto: horizontalo
Estonian: rida, kirje (et)
Finnish: rivi (fi)
French: ligne (fr) f
Galician: liña (gl) f
German: Zeile (de) f
Italian: riga (it) f
Japanese: 行 (ja) (ぎょう, gyō)
Korean: 행(行) (ko) (haeng)
Malay: baris
Malayalam: വരി (ml) (vari)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رَج (fa) (raj), رَژ (raž)
Polish: wiersz (pl) m
Portuguese: linha (pt) f
Romanian: linie (ro) f
Russian: ряд (ru) m (rjad), строка́ (ru) f (stroká)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ре̑д m, редац m

Roman: rȇd (sh) m, redac m
Slovak: riadok m
Slovene: vrsta (sl) f
Spanish: línea (es) f, renglón (es) m, registro (es) m
Swahili: safu (sw)
Swedish: rad (sv) c
Telugu: అడ్డు వరుస (aḍḍu varusa)
Turkish: satır (tr)
Ukrainian: ряд (uk) m (rjad), рядо́к (uk) m (rjadók)
Walloon: roye (wa) f, lene (wa) f
Zazaki: qor

Etymology 2

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ɹəʊ/
(US) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ɹoʊ/
Audio (US): (file)
Homophones: rho, roe
Rhymes: -əʊ

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

(transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
Synonym: paddle
(transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
to row the captain ashore in his barge
(intransitive) To be moved by oars.
The boat rows easily.

Derived terms

get in the boat and row, get in the boat and start rowing
row back
rowboat (see also rowing boat)
rower
row in the same boat

Translations

transitive: propel over water using oars

Arabic: جَدَّفَ (jaddafa)
Armenian: թիավարել (hy) (tʻiavarel)
Asturian: remar
Bashkir: ишеү (işew)
Basque: arraun egin
Belarusian: грэ́бці impf (hrébci), веслава́ць impf (vjeslavácʹ)
Bulgarian: греба́ (bg) impf (grebá)
Buryat: һэлихэ (helixe)
Catalan: remar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 划 (zh) (huá), 划船 (zh) (huáchuán)
Czech: veslovat (cs) impf
Danish: ro (da)
Dutch: roeien (nl)
Esperanto: remi
Estonian: aerutama
Faroese: rógva
Finnish: soutaa (fi)
French: ramer (fr)
Galician: remar (gl), vogar
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: rudern (de)
Greek: κωπηλατώ (el) (kopilató), τραβάω κουπί σε (traváo koupí se)
Ancient: ἐρέσσω (eréssō)
Hindi: खेना (hi) (khenā)
Hungarian: evez (hu)
Icelandic: róa, (informal) paddla
Italian: remare (it)
Japanese: 漕ぐ (ja) (こぐ, kogu)
Kabuverdianu: rema
Khmer: អុំទូក (ʼom tuuk)
Korean: 젓다 (ko) (jeotda)
Latin: rēmigō
Macedonian: весла impf (vesla)
Malayalam: തുഴയുക (ml) (tuḻayuka)
Maltese: qadef
Manchu: ᠮᡝᠯᠪᡳᠮᠪᡳ (melbimbi)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nanai: мэлбири (melbiri)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ro (no)

Nynorsk: ro
Occitan: remar (oc)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: грети impf (greti)
Old Norse: róa
Polish: wiosłować (pl) impf
Portuguese: remar (pt)
Russian: грести́ (ru) impf (grestí)
Scottish Gaelic: iomair
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐслати impf

Roman: vèslati (sh) impf
Shan: ၽၢႆး (shn) (pháai)
Slovak: veslovať impf
Slovene: veslati impf
Spanish: remar (es), bogar (es)
Swedish: ro (sv)
Telugu: తెడ్డు వేయుట (teḍḍu vēyuṭa)
Thai: พาย (th) (paai), แจว (th) (jɛɛo)
Turkish: kürek çekmek (tr) (intransitive)
Tày: bơi
Ukrainian: гребти́ impf (hrebtý), веслува́ти impf (vesluváty)
Uzbek: eshmoq (uz)
Vietnamese: chèo (vi)
Yiddish: רודערן (rudern)

intransitive: propel a boat or other craft over water using oars

Asturian: remar
Bashkir: ишеү (işew)
Belarusian: грэ́бці impf (hrébci)
Bulgarian: греба́ (bg) impf (grebá)
Catalan: remar (ca)
Cherokee: ᎦᎦᏪᏍᎦ (gagawesga)
Czech: veslovat (cs) impf
Danish: ro (da)
Esperanto: remi
Finnish: soutaa (fi)
French: ramer (fr), voguer (fr)
Friulian: remâ, vogâ
Galician: remar (gl), vogar
German: rudern (de)
Greek: τραβάω κουπί (traváo koupí)
Ancient: ἐρέσσω (eréssō)
Hindi: खेना (hi) (khenā)
Ingrian: soutaa
Italian: remare (it), vogare (it)
Latin: rēmigō
Latvian: airēt
Macedonian: весла impf (vesla)
Malayalam: തുഴയുക (ml) (tuḻayuka)
Occitan: remar (oc), vogar (oc)
Piedmontese: voghé
Polish: wiosłować (pl) impf
Portuguese: remar (pt), vogar (pt)
Romanian: vâsli (ro)
Russian: грести́ (ru) impf (grestí)
Sardinian: abogai, bogai, remai, arremai
Sicilian: vucari
Slovak: veslovať impf
Spanish: remar (es), bogar (es), proejar (es)
Ukrainian: гребти́ impf (hrebtý)
Venetan: remar, vogar

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Norman: ^{(please verify)} avithonner (Jersey)

Noun

row (plural rows)

An act or instance of rowing.
I went for an early-morning row.
(weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

Derived terms

Translations

exercise

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: alatalja, soutu (fi)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Rudern (de) n
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Italian: remata (it) f
Portuguese: remo (pt) m
Russian: тя́га к поя́су f (tjága k pojásu)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐсла̄ње (sh) n

Latin: vèslānje (sh) n
Spanish: remo (es), remado (es)
Swedish: rodd (sv) c

Etymology 3

Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.

Pronunciation

enPR: rou, IPA^(key): /ɹaʊ/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -aʊ

Noun

row (plural rows)

A noisy argument.
Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match

There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
  As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […] ? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 27:
  […] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?
A continual loud noise.
Synonyms: din, racket

Who's making that row?

Translations

noisy argument

Bulgarian: караница (bg) f (karanica)
Catalan: agafada (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 瞎鬧／瞎闹 (zh) (xiānào), 胡鬧／胡闹 (zh) (húnào)
Danish: spektakel n, tumult c, optøjer pl or n, ballade (da) c, strid (da) c, skænderi (da) n, slagsmål (da) n
Dutch: ruzie (nl) f
Finnish: riita (fi), rähinä (fi)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Streit (de) m, Auseinandersetzung (de) f, Krach (de) m (coll.), Spektakel (de) m (regional, coll.), Donnerwetter (de) n (coll. / dated)
Greek: αλληλοβρίσιμο n (allilovrísimo), καβγάς (el) m (kavgás)
Italian: lite (it) f, rissa (it) f, cazziata (it) f, cazziatone (it) m
Latin: turbellae f pl
Polish: awantura (pl) f
Russian: свара (ru) f (svara), склока (ru) f (skloka)
Scottish Gaelic: trod m
Spanish: pelea (es) f, riña (es) f, gresca f, reyerta (es) f, pitote, pifostio, pelotera (es), cisco (es), zafarrancho, trifulca (es) f
Swedish: gräl (sv), bråk (sv), tumult (sv)

continual loud noise

Bulgarian: дандани́я (bg) f (dandaníja), врява (bg) f (vrjava)
Danish: spektakel n, ballade (da) c
Dutch: kabaal (nl) n, lawaai (nl) n
Finnish: meteli (fi), rähinä (fi)
German: Krach (de) m, Krawall (de) m, Radau (de) m, Tumult (de) m, Lärm (de) m , Spektakel (de) m (regional, coll.)
Italian: chiasso (it) m, schiamazzo (it) m, baccano (it) m
Russian: тарарам (ru) m (tararam) (colloquial)
Spanish: bulla (es) f, barullo (es) m
Swedish: oväsen (sv)

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German: Klamauk (de) m, Krakeel (de) m, Rabatz (de) m

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

(intransitive) To argue noisily.
Synonyms: argue, fight

Translations

intransitive: argue noisily

Bulgarian: карам се (karam se)
Danish: skændes, skælde ud
Finnish: riidellä (fi)
German: streiten (de) (reflexive), zanken (de) (reflexive), krachen (de) (reflexive / coll.)
Greek: καβγαδίζω (el) (kavgadízo)
Italian: berciare (it), litigare (it), schiamazzare (it)
Portuguese: discutir (pt)
Romanian: certa (ro)
Russian: скандалить (ru) impf (skandalitʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: troid
Spanish: discutir (es), pelear (es), reñir (es)
Swedish: gräla (sv), bråka (sv)

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Translations to be checked‌: "intransitive: argue noisily"

German: any of the translations above for "noisy argument" followed by machen or by veranstalten or by verursachen

Anagrams

Wor., wor, ORW

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rovъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ров (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ровъ (rovŭ, “ditch”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /rɔw/, [row]

Noun

row m inan (diminutive rowk)

grave

Declension

Declension of row

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	row	rowa	rowy
Genitive	rowa	rowowu	rowow
Dative	rowoju	rowoma	rowam
Accusative	row	rowa	rowy
Instrumental	rowom	rowoma	rowami
Locative	rowje	rowoma	rowach

Manx

Etymology

From an old perfective particle ro- + va.

Verb

row

was, were (dependent form)
Cha row aggle erbee er.
He was not in the least afraid.

Dooyrt eh dy row eh mac y ree.
He claimed that he was the son of the king.

Usage notes

Part of the substantive verb bee. This is the dependent form of the past tense va used after negative and interrogative particles:

Old English

Alternative forms

rō

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rōu (“calm, rest”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /roːw/

Noun

rōw f

quiet, rest, calm

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	rōw	rōwa, rōwe
accusative	rōwe	rōwa, rōwe
genitive	rōwe	rōwa
dative	rōwe	rōwum

Descendants

Middle English: ro, rou, rowe, roo
- English: roo
- Scots: ro, ruve

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rōw”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scots

Noun

row (plural rows)

roll

Derived terms

row-cloth: a folding cloak of warm cloth

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rovъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʀɔw/
Rhymes: -ɔw
Hyphenation: row
Syllabification: row

Noun

row m inan

grave

Declension

Declension of row (masculine hard stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	row	rowaj	rowy
genitive	rowa	rowow	rowow
dative	rowej, rowu	rowomaj	rowam
accusative	row	rowaj	rowy
instrumental	rowom	rowomaj	rowami
locative	rowje	rowomaj	rowach
vocative	rowo, rowje	rowaj	rowy

References

“row” in Soblex

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

rōw f (plural rowa)

rook (bird)
raven

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

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Verb

Translations

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Manx

Etymology

Verb

Usage notes

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Descendants

References

Scots

Noun

Derived terms

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

References

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun