sorrow

== English == === Alternative forms === sorrowe (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English sorwe, sorow, sorewe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related to sorry and sore. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sŏrʼō, IPA(key): /ˈsɒɹəʊ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɑɹoʊ/ (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɔɹoʊ/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈsɔɾo/ (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA(key): /ˈsɔɾou/ Rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ Hyphenation: sor‧row === Noun === sorrow (countable and uncountable, plural sorrows) (uncountable) unhappiness, woe Synonyms: dejection; see also Thesaurus:sadness August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47 The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. Synonyms: misfortune, woe; see also Thesaurus:disaster, Thesaurus:woe ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed) (intransitive) To feel or express grief. Synonyms: grieve, mourn; see also Thesaurus:be sad (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret. Synonyms: bewail, grieve; see also Thesaurus:lament ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “sorrow”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. "sorrow" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011. == Middle English == === Noun === sorrow (Late Middle English, Ireland) alternative form of sorwe