Omen

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
 * 2) A thing of prophetic significance.
 * 1) A thing of prophetic significance.
 * 1) A thing of prophetic significance.
 * 1) A thing of prophetic significance.
 * 1) A thing of prophetic significance.

Usage notes

 * Adjectives often applied to "omen": good, ill, bad, auspicious, evil, favorable, happy, lucky. The terms for a positive omen aren't used much negatively, and it's considered oxymoronic by some to use it positively.

Synonyms

 * augury, auspice, forecast, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, hint, indication, oracle, portent, prediction, presage, prophecy, sign, signal, token, warning; danger sign, straw in the wind, (hand)writing on the wall; see also Thesaurus:omen

Translations

 * Arabic:, نَذِيْر, طالِع
 * Catalan:, , ,
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 * Ancient: οἰωνός, κληδών
 * Irish:, , droch-tuar , teir
 * Italian:, , , , ,


 * Lao:
 * Latin: omen, praenuntia
 * Maori: takiari, tūpō, kōara , inati
 * Middle Persian: ytk, yhyšn', mwlw'k'
 * Norman: avèrti
 * Norwegian: omen
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Bediedunk
 * Portuguese:, , ,
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 * Tagalog: pangitain


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 * Greek:
 * Italian:, , prenunzio, , ,
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 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ,

Verb

 * 1)  To be an omen of.
 * 2)  To divine or predict from omens.

Synonyms

 * prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell, portend, foreshadow, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presage

Etymology
From, of uncertain ultimate origin. Ancient authors derived it from. Recently it was by some referred to (whence ) or to the source of 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) an omen

Descendants

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Etymology
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Noun

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Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) an