ὀρφανός

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”), from *h₃erbʰ- (“to change ownership”). Cognate with Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha, “small”), Old Armenian որբ (orb, “orphan”).

ὀρφᾰνός • (orphanós) m (feminine ὀρφᾰνή, neuter ὀρφᾰνόν); first/second declension

1. left orphan, without parents
2. childless
3. destitute, bereft
   • Κατά Ἰωάννην 14:18

     Οὐκ ἀφήσω ὑμᾶς ὀρφανούς· ἔρχομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

     "I will not leave you destitute; I will come for you."

In some writings, the adjective is declined -ός, -όν.

• → Coptic: ⲟⲣⲫⲁⲛⲟⲥ (orphanos)
• → Greek: ορφανός (orfanós)
• → Latin: orphanus, orfanus
  • → Albanian: varfër, vorfën
  • Aromanian: oarfãn, oarfãnu, orfãn
  • Asturian: güérfanu
  • Catalan: orfe
  • → English: orphan
  • Esperanto: orfo
  • Old French: orfene
    • ⇒ Old French: orfenin
      • French: orphelin
  • Friulian: vuarfin
  • Galician: orfo
  • Italian: orfano
  • Leonese: güerfano, guérfanu
  • Mirandese: uorfano
  • Occitan: òrfe, orfanèl
  • Portuguese: órfão
  • Romanian: orfan, oarfăn
  • Sardinian: òlfanu, òrfanu
  • Spanish: huérfano

• “ὀρφανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀρφανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὀρφανός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὀρφανός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὀρφανός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὀρφανός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3737 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὀρφανός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bereft idem, page 74.
  • orphan idem, page 580.
  • orphaned idem, page 580.