fatherless

English

Alternative forms

fatherlesse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English faderles, federles, from Old English fæderlēas, from Proto-Germanic *fadērlausaz, equivalent to father +‎ -less. Cognate with German vaterlos.

Adjective

fatherless (not comparable)

Without a (living) father.
- 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
  “Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.
(figurative) Without a known author or inventor.

Hypernyms

parentless

Coordinate terms

motherless

Derived terms

fatherlessness

Translations

without a living father

Danish: faderløs
Finnish: isätön (fi)
Georgian: უმამო (umamo)
German: vaterlos (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἀπάτωρ (apátōr)
Gujarati: નબાપું (nabāpũ)
Hungarian: apátlan (hu)
Ingrian: ätitöin
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bêbav (ku)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: farløs, farlaus

Nynorsk: farlaus
Sanskrit: अनाथ (sa) (anātha)
Swedish: faderlös (sv)
Telugu: తండ్రిలేని (te) (taṇḍrilēni)
Turkish: babasız (tr), yetim (tr)

See also

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