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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
A sign indicating that a shop is open
From Middle English open , from Old English open ( “ open ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *opan , from Proto-Germanic *upanaz ( “ open ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *upo ( “ up from under, over ” ) .
Cognate with Scots apen ( “ open ” ) , Saterland Frisian eepen ( “ open ” ) , West Frisian iepen ( “ open ” ) , Dutch open ( “ open ” ) , Low German open , apen ( “ open ” ) , German offen ( “ open ” ) , Danish åben ( “ open ” ) , Swedish öppen ( “ open ” ) , Norwegian Bokmål åpen ( “ open ” ) , Norwegian Nynorsk open ( “ open ” ) , Icelandic opinn ( “ open ” ) . Compare also Latin supinus ( “ on one's back, supine ” ) , Albanian hap ( “ to open ” ) . Related to up .
Adjective
open (comparative more open , superlative most open )
( usually not comparable ) Not closed .
Able to be accessed (physically).
Able to have something pass through or along it.
Turn left after the second open door.
( of a body part ) Not covered; showing what is inside.
It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open .
( of a sandwich, etc. ) Composed of a single slice of bread with a topping .
Synonyms: open-face , open-faced
2001 , Jennie Walters, Caz’s Birthday Blues (Party Girls) , London: Hodder Children’s Books , →ISBN :Starry food is fun to make. You can buy bright yellow American mustard (which isn’t too strong!) in squeezy bottles and pipe stars on to hot dogs and open burgers or sandwiches.
2012 , Jo McAuley, “ Turkey Burgers with Spicy Salsa”, in Hamlyn QuickCook: Low Fat , London: Hamlyn , →ISBN , page 152 :When the burgers are ready, place them on the toasted rolls with the romaine lettuce leaves and top with the salsa. Serve as open burgers.
2015 , Michael Robotham , chapter 17, in Close Your Eyes , London: Sphere , →ISBN , page 133 :Sunday morning in Wellow and we feast on open bagels with grilled ham, tomato and Swiss cheese, requested and highly praised.
Not physically drawn together , closed , folded or contracted ; extended .
an open hand; an open flower
( not comparable ) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business .
Banks are not open on bank holidays.
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs ”, in The Economist , volume 408 , number 8845 :Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
( comparable ) Receptive .
I am open to new ideas.
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :The service that I truly did his life, / Hath left me open to all injuries.
2005 , Pamela J. Carter, Susan Lewsen, Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants , page 277 :When the top sheet, blanket, and bedspread of a closed bed are turned back, or fanfolded, the closed bed becomes an open bed, or a bed ready to receive a patient or resident.
2021 April 2, Ciara Nugent, “Can Public Transit Survive the Pandemic? London's New Transport Commissioner Wants You to Believe It Can”, in Time :A U.K. survey found attitudes toward public transit had been set back by two decades, with only 43% of drivers open to using their car less, even if public transport improves.
( not comparable ) Public
He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of The New York Times .
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Merry Wiues of Windsor ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :His thefts were too open .
1667 , John Milton , “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons ], , →OCLC ; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873 , →OCLC :That I may find him, and with secret gaze / Or open admiration him behold.
2001 , Xiaopei He, “Chinese Queer (Tongzhi ) Women Organizing in the 1990s”, in Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, Cecilia Milwertz, Red Chan, editors, Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers , Berg , →ISBN , →LCCN , →OCLC , page 41 :Due to severe and pervasive discrimination, people dared not be open about their homosexuality, and because no one would be open , social prejudice and discrimination became even stronger.
( not comparable ) With open access , of open science , or both.
hopes for all aspects of the project being open rather than paywalled
( not comparable ) Candid , ingenuous , not subtle in character .
The man is an open book.
1731-1735 , Alexander Pope , Moral Essays
with aspect open , shall erect his head
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :The Moor is of a free and open nature.
1705 , J[oseph] Addison , Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703 , London: Jacob Tonson , , →OCLC :The French are always open , familiar, and talkative.
( now regional ) Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow .
c. 1794 , Jane Austen , Lady Susan :He desires me to tell you that the present open weather induces him to accept Mr Vernon's invitation to prolong his stay in Sussex that they may have some hunting together.
( mathematics , logic , of a formula ) Having a free variable .
( mathematics , topology , of a set ) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of
X
{\displaystyle X}
, that defines a topological space on
X
{\displaystyle X}
.
( graph theory , of a walk ) Whose first and last vertices are different.
( computing , not comparable , of a file, document, etc.) In current use; connected to as a resource.
I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open .
( engineering , gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
( electricity , of a switch or circuit breaker) To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
( sometimes business ) Not fulfilled or resolved; incomplete.
I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.
Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
an open question
to keep an offer or opportunity open
Your account will remain open until we receive final settlement.
( music , stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard .
( music ) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
an open winter
( law , of correspondence ) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial , rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement .
You will observe that this is an open letter and we reserve the right to mention it to the judge should the matter come to trial.
( phonetics ) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels .
1959 , Anthony Burgess , Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972 , page 421 :"Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)
( phonetics ) Uttered, as a consonant , with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
( phonetics , of a syllable) That ends in a vowel ; not having a coda .
( computing , education ) Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
( medicine ) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
( computing , used before "code") Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
( of a multi-word compound ) Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot .
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Translations
not closed
Abkhaz: аарты ( aartʼə )
Aghwan: 𐔰𐕀𐔰𐔺 ( axay )
American Sign Language: ( with relevant classifier, e.g. of a swinging door ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmForward-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-PalmAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward , ( of a gate ) FlatB@TipFinger-FingerAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-FingerBack-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross , ( of a box ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmDown-A@CenterChesthigh FlatB@SideShoulderHigh-PalmAcross-A@CenterChesthigh , ( of a book ) FlatB@Palm-PalmAcross-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmAcross FlatB@Ulnar-PalmUp-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Apache:
Western Apache: gháʼátʼé
Arabic: مَفْتُوح ( maftūḥ )
Egyptian Arabic: مفتوح ( maftūḥ )
Levantine Arabic: مفتوح ( maftūḥ )
Moroccan Arabic: محلول m ( maḥlūl ) , مفتوح ( maftūḥ )
Armenian: բաց (hy) ( bacʿ )
Assamese: খোলা ( khüla )
Asturian: abiertu
Avar: рагьун буго ( rahun bugo )
Azerbaijani: açıq (az)
Bashkir: асыҡ ( asıq )
Basque: ireki , zabal
Belarusian: адкры́ты (be) m ( adkrýty )
Bengali: খোলা (bn) ( khōla )
Bulgarian: отво́рен (bg) m ( otvóren ) , откри́т (bg) m ( otkrít ) , разтво́рен (bg) m ( raztvóren )
Catalan: obert (ca)
Chechen: dillana
Chinese:
Mandarin: 開着 / 开着 (zh) ( kāizhe )
Czech: otevřený (cs) m
Dalmatian: apiart
Danish: åben (da)
Dutch: open (nl)
Esperanto: malfermita (eo) , aperta , malferma
Estonian: lahtine
Faroese: opin
Finnish: avoin (fi) , avonainen (fi) , auki (fi) ( adverb )
French: ouvert (fr)
Friulian: viert , aviert
Galician: aberto (gl)
Gallurese: abbaltu
Georgian: ღია ( ɣia )
German: auf (de) , offen (de)
Alemannic German: offe , offä
Greek: ανοιχτός (el) ( anoichtós )
Ancient: ἀνοικτός ( anoiktós )
Hebrew: פָּתוּחַ (he) ( patúakh )
Hindi: खुला (hi) ( khulā )
Hungarian: nyílt (hu) , nyitott (hu)
Icelandic: opinn (is)
Indonesian: buka (id)
Ingrian: avonain , aukinain
Irish: oscailte , ar oscailt
Italian: aperto (it) , dischiuso (it)
Japanese: 開いた ( あいた, aita ) , 開けた (ja) ( あけた, aketa )
Kazakh: ашу ( aşu )
Khmer: ដែលបើក ( daelbaək ) , ដែលចំហរ ( dêlchâmhâr )
Korean: 연 (ko) ( yeon )
Kumyk: ачыкъ ( açıq ) , ачылгъан ( açılğan )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کراوەتەوە ( krawetewe )
Northern Kurdish: vekirî (ku) , vebûyî (ku)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: apertus (la)
Latvian: atvērts , attaisīts , atdarīts
Lithuanian: atidaryta
Livonian: vāldiņ
Lombard: avert (lmo) , vèrt
Low German: open (nds) , apen (nds)
Luxembourgish: oppen
Macedonian: отворен ( otvoren )
Malay: dibuka
Malayalam: തുറന്ന ( tuṟanna )
Maltese: miftuħ m , miftuħa f
Maori: tu(w)hera , ango , tāmoremore , poare , manahua ( of a flower ) , matatewha ( of eyes )
Maranao: okab
Marathi: उघडे ( ughḍe )
Mauritian Creole: ouver
Mongolian: нээлттэй ( neelttej )
Nepali: खुल्ला ( khullā )
Norman: ouvèrt
Norwegian:
Bokmål: åpen (no)
Nynorsk: open (nn)
Occitan: dobèrt (oc) m
Old French: overt
Ossetian: гом ( gom )
Ottoman Turkish: آچق ( açık ) , مفتوح ( meftuh ) , آپلمش ( açılmış )
Persian: باز (fa) ( bâz )
Plautdietsch: open (nds)
Polish: otwarty (pl)
Portuguese: aberto (pt)
Romanian: deschis (ro)
Romansch: ( Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader ) avert , ( Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter ) aviert
Russian: откры́тый (ru) ( otkrýtyj )
Sardinian:
Campidanese: tzaccàu
Logudorese: abbertu
Sassarese: abértu , ibarràdu
Scottish Gaelic: fosgailte
Slovak: otvorený
Slovene: odprt (sl)
Spanish: abierto (es)
Swedish: öppen (sv)
Sylheti: ꠈꠥꠟꠣ ( kúla )
Tagalog: bukas (tl)
Tamil: திறந்த (ta) ( tiṟanta )
Tausug: ukab
Telugu: తెరిచిన ( tericina )
Thai: เปิด (th) ( bpə̀ət ) , อ้า (th) ( âa )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: açık (tr)
Tuvan: ажык ( ajık )
Udi: хъай ( qaj )
Ukrainian: відкри́тий m ( vidkrýtyj ) , відве́ртий ( vidvértyj ) , відчи́нений ( vidčýnenyj )
Urdu: کھلا ( khulā ) , باز ( bāz ) , واز ( vāz ) , وا ( vā )
Venetian: verto
Vietnamese: mở (vi)
Walloon: drovou (wa) m , drouviet m , å lådje (wa) m or f
Waray-Waray: abre
Welsh: agored (cy) , ar agor
West Frisian: iepen
White Hmong: qhib
Yiddish: אָפֿן ( ofn )
Zazaki: akerde (diq)
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
prepared to conduct business
math: having a free variable
math: which is part of a predefined collection of subsets
computing: in current use
music: without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard
Translations to be checked
Etymology 2
From Middle English openen , from Old English openian ( “ to open ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *opanōn , from Proto-Germanic *upanōną ( “ to raise; lift; open ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *upanaz ( “ open ” , adjective ) .
Cognate with Saterland Frisian eepenje ( “ to open ” ) , West Frisian iepenje ( “ to open ” ) , Dutch openen ( “ to open ” ) , German öffnen ( “ to open ” ) , Danish åbne ( “ to open ” ) , Swedish öppna ( “ to open ” ) , Norwegian Bokmål åpne ( “ to open ” ) , Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic opna ( “ to open ” ) . Related to English up .
Verb
open (third-person singular simple present opens , present participle opening , simple past and past participle opened )
( transitive ) To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
Turn the doorknob to open the door.
1913 , Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company , →OCLC :I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. [ …] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
( transitive ) To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access , or visibility .
He opened a path through the undergrowth.
1996 , Stephen King, Desperation :He had kept on recording everything then, when he had been sure he was going to die, and he went on recording everything now, when he was suddenly consumed with hate for the boy in his arms and overwhelmed by a desire to put something—his motorcycle key would do nicely — into the interfering little prayboy’s throat and open him like a can of beer.
( transitive , intransitive , engineering , gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
( transitive , intransitive , electricity , of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
( Manglish , Philippines ) To turn on ; to switch on .
Open your webcam. ― Turn on your webcam.
Open the fan please. ― Please switch on the fan.
Open the lights please. ― Please turn on the lights.
( transitive ) To bring up , broach .
I don't want to open that subject.
( transitive ) To enter upon, begin .
to open a discussion
to open fire upon an enemy
to open trade, or correspondence
to open a case in court, or a meeting
( transitive ) To spread ; to expand into an open or loose position.
to open a closed fist
to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
to open a map, book, or scroll
( transitive ) To make accessible to customers or clients .
I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.
1934 , White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934 , →OCLC , page 76 :Suiping was opened as a main station in 1912 when Rev. H. M. Nesse arrived to take charge of the mission work.
( transitive ) To start (a campaign).
Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.
( intransitive ) To become open .
The door opened all by itself.
1913 , Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company , →OCLC :I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
( intransitive ) To begin conducting business .
The shop opens at 9:00.
( intransitive ) To perform before others at a concert or show .
Our band opened for Nirvana.
( intransitive , cricket ) To begin a side 's innings as one of the first two batsmen .
( intransitive , poker ) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.
( transitive , intransitive , poker ) To reveal one's hand.
Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.
( computing , transitive , intransitive ) To connect to a resource (a file, document, etc.) for viewing or editing.
( transitive , nursing) To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
2013 , Susan C. deWit, Patricia A. Williams, Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing , page 318 :Follow agency policy, or open the bed by folding the top linens back.
( obsolete ) To disclose ; to reveal ; to interpret ; to explain .
1622 , Francis Bacon , The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh :The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death.
Usage notes
Due to the near-opposite meanings relating to fluid flow and electrical components, these usages are deprecated in safety-critical instructions, with the words to on or to off preferred, so instead of Open valve A; open switch B" use Turn valve A to ON; turn switch B to OFF.
Conjugation
Synonyms
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of "to make accessible" ): bare , shut
Hyponyms
( to make accessible ) : crack ( open a bit )
Derived terms
Translations
to make something accessible
Afrikaans: oopmaak
Aklanon: buka'
Albanian: çel (sq) , hap (sq)
American Sign Language: ( with relevant classifier, e.g. a swinging door ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmForward-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-PalmAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward , ( a gate ) FlatB@TipFinger-FingerAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-FingerBack-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross , ( a box ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmDown-A@CenterChesthigh FlatB@SideShoulderHigh-PalmAcross-A@CenterChesthigh , ( a book ) FlatB@Palm-PalmAcross-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmAcross FlatB@Ulnar-PalmUp-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Andi: архинну ( arxinnu )
Arabic: فَتَحَ (ar) ( fataḥa )
Egyptian Arabic: فتح ( fataḥ )
Moroccan Arabic: حل ( ḥall ) , فتح ( ftaḥ )
Aragonese: ubrir (an)
Armenian: բացել (hy) ( bacʿel ) , բանալ (hy) ( banal )
Aromanian: dishcljid
Assamese: খুল ( khul )
Asturian: abrir
Avar: рагьизе ( rahize )
Azerbaijani: açmaq (az)
Bashkir: асыу ( asıw )
Basque: ireki , zabaldu
Belarusian: адкрыва́ць impf ( adkryvácʹ ) , адкры́ць pf ( adkrýcʹ ) , адчыня́ць ( adčynjácʹ ) , адчыні́ць pf ( adčynícʹ )
Bengali: খোলা (bn) ( khōla )
Bulgarian: отва́рям (bg) impf ( otvárjam ) , отво́ря pf ( otvórja )
Burmese: ဖွင့် (my) ( hpwang. )
Catalan: obrir (ca) , descloure (ca)
Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏚᎢᎠ ( asduia )
Chickasaw: tiwa ( intransitive ) , tiwwi ( transitive )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 開 / 开 ( hoi1 )
Mandarin: 開 / 开 (zh) ( kāi ) , 打開 / 打开 (zh) ( dǎkāi )
Czech: otevírat (cs) impf , otevřít (cs) pf
Dalmatian: apiar , aprer , apriar , aprier
Danish: åbne (da) , lukke op
Dutch: openen (nl) , opendoen (nl) , openmaken (nl)
Egyptian: (wn ), (wpj )
Esperanto: malfermi (eo)
Estonian: avama (et)
Ewe: ʋu
Faroese: opna , lata upp
Fataluku: loke
Finnish: avata (fi)
French: ouvrir (fr)
Friulian: vierzi , avierzi , viergi , aviergi
Galician: abrir (gl)
Georgian: გაღება ( gaɣeba )
German: öffnen (de) , aufmachen (de)
Greek: ανοίγω (el) ( anoígo )
Ancient: ἀνοίγω ( anoígō ) , ἀνοίγνυμι ( anoígnumi ) , οἴγω ( oígō )
Greenlandic: ammarpaa
Guaraní: pe'a
Haitian Creole: ouvri , louvri
Hebrew: פָּתַח (he) ( patákh )
Hindi: खोलना (hi) ( kholnā )
Hungarian: nyit (hu) , kinyit (hu) , tár (hu) , kitár (hu) , tát (hu) , kitát (hu)
Icelandic: opna (is)
Ido: apertar (io)
Indonesian: buka (id) , membuka (id)
Ingrian: avata
Interlingua: aperir
Irish: oscail
Old Irish: as·oilgi
Italian: aprire (it) , schiudere , dischiudere (it)
Japanese: 開ける (ja) ( あける, akeru ) , 開く (ja) ( ひらく, hiraku )
Javanese: mbukak
Kabuverdianu: abri , abrí
Kambera: bunggah
Kazakh: ашу ( aşu )
Khmer: បើក (km) ( baək )
Kituba: kangula
Korean: 열다 (ko) ( yeolda ) , 펴다 (ko) ( pyeoda ) ( e.g. a book )
Kumyk: ачмакъ ( açmaq )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: vekirin (ku)
Kyrgyz: ач- ( ac- ) , ачуу (ky) ( acuu )
Lao: ເປີດ ( pœ̄t )
Latin: aperio (la)
Latvian: atvērt (lv)
Lingala: fungola , kangola
Lithuanian: atidaryti
Low German:
German Low German: apendoon , apenmaken
Macedonian: отвори ( otvori )
Makasae: lo'e
Malay: buka , membuka
Maltese: fetaħ
Manchu: ᠮᡳᠯᠠᡵᠠᠪᡠᠮᠪᡳ ( milarabumbi )
Mansaka: bokas
Manx: foshil
Maori: are , puare , whakatu(w)hera , matata , tīwara ( a container ) , tiora ( a shellfish ) , uaki , huaki ( a door or cupboard ) , kowhera ( shellfish ) , kūwhera ( refers to body parts only ) , hāmama ( refers to the mouth ) , pāoraora ( shellfish ) , whakahāmama ( of the mouth )
Marathi: उघडणे ( ughaḍṇe )
Mauritian Creole: ouver
Minangkabau: buko (min)
Mongolian: нээх (mn) ( neex ) , задлах (mn) ( zadlax ) , онгойлгох ( ongojlgox )
Nanai: нихэли- ( niheli- )
Neapolitan: arapì , arape
Nepali: खोल्नु ( kholnu )
Ngazidja Comorian: uɓua
Norman: ouvri
Norwegian: åpne (no) , lukke opp
Occitan: dobrir (oc)
Old French: ovrir
Old Javanese: wĕnga
Old Portuguese: abrir
Old Turkic: 𐰲 ( ač- )
Oromo: banuu
Persian: گشودن (fa) ( gošudan ) , باز کردن (fa) ( bâz kardan )
Polish: otwierać (pl) impf , otworzyć (pl) pf
Portuguese: abrir (pt)
Quechua: kichay , kicai , kichariy
Romanian: deschide (ro)
Romansch: ( Rumantsch Grischun, Puter ) avrir , ( Sursilvan ) arver , ( Sutsilvan ) earver , ( Sutsilvan ) duvrir , ( Surmiran ) darveir , ( Vallader ) rivir , ( Vallader ) drivir
Russian: открыва́ть (ru) impf ( otkryvátʹ ) , откры́ть (ru) pf ( otkrýtʹ ) , отворя́ть (ru) impf ( otvorjátʹ ) , отвори́ть (ru) pf ( otvorítʹ ) ( a door only )
Sanskrit: उद्घाटयति ( udghāṭayati )
Sardinian: abbèrrere , abèrriri , apèrrere
Scottish Gaelic: fosgail
Serbo-Croatian: отво̀рити , otvòriti (sh)
Shan: ၽုၺ်ႇ (shn) ( phùi ) , ပိုတ်ႇ (shn) ( pùet )
Sicilian: apriri (scn) , iàpriri (scn) , jàpriri (scn) , gràpiri (scn)
Sinhalese: අරිනවා ( arinawā )
Slovak: otvárať impf , otvoriť pf
Slovene: odpreti (sl)
Spanish: abrir (es)
Swahili: fungua (sw)
Swedish: öppna (sv)
Sylheti: ꠈꠥꠟꠣ ( kúla )
Tagalog: buksan (tl)
Tajik: кушодан (tg) ( kušodan ) , боз кардан ( boz kardan ) , во кардан ( vo kardan )
Tamil: திற (ta) ( tiṟa )
Tày: ả
Telugu: తెరుచు (te) ( terucu )
Tetum: loke
Thai: เปิด (th) ( bpə̀ət )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tocharian B: ru-
Turkish: açmak (tr)
Turkmen: açmak (tk)
Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎚𐎈 ( ptḥ )
Ukrainian: відкрива́ти (uk) impf ( vidkryváty ) , відкри́ти pf ( vidkrýty ) , ( a door, a window ) відчиня́ти impf ( vidčynjáty ) , відчини́ти pf ( vidčynýty )
Urdu: کھولنا ( kholnā ) , باز کرنا ( bāz karnā ) , واز کرنا ( vāz karnā ) , وا کرنا ( vā karnā )
Uzbek: ochmoq (uz)
Venetian: vèrzar , verxar , averzir , avèrzer , avèrxer , vèrxer , vèrdher
Vietnamese: mở (vi)
Walloon: drovi (wa)
Welsh: agor (cy)
White Hmong: qhib
Yakut: ас ( as )
Yiddish: עפֿענען ( efenen )
Zazaki: akerden , wekerden
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
to make accessible to customers
to become open
Afrikaans: oopmaak
American Sign Language: ( with relevant classifier, e.g. of a swinging door ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmForward-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-PalmAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward , ( of a gate ) FlatB@TipFinger-FingerAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-FingerBack-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross , ( of a box ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmDown-A@CenterChesthigh FlatB@SideShoulderHigh-PalmAcross-A@CenterChesthigh , ( of a book ) FlatB@Palm-PalmAcross-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmAcross FlatB@Ulnar-PalmUp-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Arabic: اِنْفَتَحَ ( infataḥa )
Armenian: բացվել (hy) ( bacʿvel )
Bashkir: асылыу ( asılıw )
Bulgarian: отварям се ( otvarjam se )
Czech: (please verify ) otevřít se
Danish: åbnes
Dutch: opengaan (nl)
Esperanto: malfermiĝi
Estonian: avanema
Evenki: нив- ( ņiw- )
Ewe: ʋu
Finnish: aueta (fi) , avautua (fi)
French: s’ouvrir (fr)
German: sich öffnen
Greek: ανοίγω (el) ( anoígo )
Hindi: खुलना (hi) ( khulnā )
Hungarian: nyílik (hu) , tárul (hu) , kinyílik (hu) , megnyílik (hu)
Ingrian: avveta , avahua
Irish: oscail
Korean: 열리다 (ko) ( yeollida )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کردنەوە ( kirdnewe )
Northern Kurdish: vebûn (ku)
Latin: aperio (la)
Latvian: atvērt (lv)
Manchu: ᠮᡳᠯᠠᡵᠠᠮᠪᡳ ( milarambi )
Manx: foshil
Maore Comorian: udziɓua
Maori: manahua ( referring to a flower ) , ngaora ( of a flower ) , ngawhā ( of a flower )
Marathi: उघडणे ( ughaḍṇe )
Ngazidja Comorian: uɓuha
Norwegian: åpnes
Persian: باز شُدَن (fa) ( bâz šodan )
Polish: otwierać się (pl)
Portuguese: abrir (pt)
Romansch: ( Rumantsch Grischun ) s'avrir , ( Sursilvan ) sarver , ( Sutsilvan ) searver , ( Sutsilvan ) saduvrir , ( Surmiran ) sa darveir , ( Puter ) as avrir , ( Vallader ) as rivir , ( Vallader ) as drivir
Russian: открыва́ться (ru) impf ( otkryvátʹsja ) , откры́ться (ru) pf ( otkrýtʹsja ) , отворя́ться (ru) impf ( otvorjátʹsja ) , отвори́ться (ru) pf ( otvorítʹsja ) ( a door only )
Scottish Gaelic: fosgail
Slovene: ( se ) odpreti (sl)
Spanish: abrir (es)
Swahili: kufunguka
Swedish: öppnas (sv) , öppna sig
Thai: เปิด (th) ( bpə̀ət )
Urdu: کھلنا ( khulnā ) , باز ہونا ( bāz honā ) , واز ہونا ( vāz honā ) , وا ہونا ( vā honā )
to begin conducting business
cricket: to begin a side's innings
poker: to bet before any other player
poker: to reveal one's hand
computing: to connect to a resource
Translations to be checked
Etymology 3
From Middle English open ( “ an aperture or opening ” ) , from the verb (see Etymology 2 above). In the sports sense, however, a shortening of “open competition”.
Noun
open (plural opens )
( in the definite ) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location .
I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open , dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
( in the definite ) Public knowledge or scrutiny ; full view .
We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open .
( electronics ) A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
A sports event in which anybody can compete .
The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message.
2016 , Ian Dodson, The Art of Digital Marketing , page 144 :The total number of opens from original, or unique, subscribers.
Derived terms
Translations
public knowledge; (to bring into) the open
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch openen , from Middle Dutch ōpenen , from Old Dutch opanon , from Proto-Germanic *upanōną .
Pronunciation
Verb
open (present open , present participle openende , past participle geopen )
( transitive ) to open
Related terms
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English open .
Pronunciation
Noun
open m (plural open or òpens )
( sports ) open
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch ōpen , from Old Dutch opan , from Proto-West Germanic *opan , from Proto-Germanic *upanaz .
Adjective
open (comparative opener , superlative openst )
open , not closed
Antonyms: gesloten , dicht , toe
open for business
Antonyms: gesloten , dicht
open , receptive
Antonym: gesloten
Inflection
Antonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
open
inflection of openen :
first-person singular present indicative
imperative
Anagrams
Finnish
Noun
open
genitive singular of ope
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English open .
Pronunciation
Noun
open m (plural opens )
open ; open tournament
Further reading
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch opan , from Proto-West Germanic *opan .
Adjective
ōpen
open , not closed
open , accessible
freely accessible, public
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template .
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English open , from Proto-West Germanic *opan .
Adjective
open (comparative more open , superlative most open )
open
14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer , The Canterbury Tales . General Prologue: 9-11.
And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open eye- (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages); And many little birds make melody That sleep through all the night with open eye (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)
Related terms
Descendants
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse opinn , from Proto-Germanic *upanaz . Compare Faroese opin , Icelandic opinn , Swedish öppen , Danish åben , Dutch open , Low German apen , open , German offen , West Frisian iepen , English open .
Pronunciation
Adjective
open (neuter ope or opent , definite singular and plural opne , comparative opnare , indefinite superlative opnast , definite superlative opnaste )
open
Kvifor er døra open ? Why is the door open ?
Usage notes
A common, but unofficial, feminine form is opa (“ei opa dør”, compare lita and inga ). Up until 2012 , opi was an optional official form, but was removed along with other forms like liti and ingi .
Related terms
References
“open” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *opan , from Proto-Germanic *upanaz .
Originally a past participle of Proto-Germanic *ūpaną ( “ to lift up, open ” ) . Related to Old English upp ( “ up ” ) . Cognate with Old Frisian open , Old Saxon opan , Old High German offan , and Old Norse opinn .
Pronunciation
Adjective
open
open
11th century , unknown translator, the Old English Apollonius of Tyre
Þā ġeseah hē ānne nacodne cnapan ġeond þā strǣte rinnan. Sē wæs mid ele ġesmiered and mid sċīetan beġierded, and cleopode mid miċelre stefne and cwæþ, "Ġehīeraþ ġē ċeasterwaran, ġehīeraþ ġē ælþēodiġe, friġe and þēowe, æðele and unæðele: sē bæþstede is open !" Then he saw a naked boy running through the street. His body was smeared with oil and he was wearing a sheet around his waist, when he called out in a loud voice, "Attention citizens, attention foreigners, free and slave, noble and ignoble: the bathhouse is open !"
Declension
Declension of open — Strong
Declension of open — Weak
Derived terms
Descendants
Plautdietsch
Adjective
open
open
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English open .
Noun
open n (plural openuri )
open ( sports event )
Declension
References
open in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a , Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English open .
Pronunciation
Noun
open m (plural opens or open )
( sports ) open