rêve

common nouninterjectionverb

Syllable Decomposition

rêve

Auguste Scheler develops an exceptionally long chapter on this apparently orphaned word (the Germanic languages share an etymon draum ('joy', 'ecstasy') and the Latin languages an etymon based on somnium which gave 'dream'). He starts from the observation that resver meant 'to wander about' and a resveur de nuit a 'nocturnal prowler'. To support his demonstration, he cites the use of the synonymous expressions: 'you are dreaming!' and 'you are wandering!'

Definitions

Synonym

Plural

rêves

Translations

  • germangerman:Traum
  • englishenglish:daydream
  • arabicarabic:حلم
  • chinesechinese:
  • koreankorean:
  • danishdanish:drøm
  • spanishspanish:sueño
  • finnishfinnish:uni
  • greekgreek:όνειρο
  • hebrewhebrew:חלום
  • hindihindi:सपना
  • italianitalian:sogno
  • japanesejapanese:
  • dutchdutch:wensdroom
  • polishpolish:marzenie
  • portugueseportuguese:devaneio
  • russianrussian:сон
  • swedishswedish:dröm
  • thaithai:ฝัน
  • turkishturkish:rüya

See also

rêve (v.) rêver (v.) rêveuse (adj.) rêveuse (cn.) rêve (int.) rêverie (cn.) rêveur (adj.) rêveur (cn.) rêves (v.) onirisme (cn.)