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Etymology 1
From, , from , from , (from and , from ), suggesting an original meaning of "a sworn statement rebutting a charge". The cognates suggest the existence of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬 (cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
 * Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.
 * 1) A solution to a problem.
 * There is no simple answer to corruption.
 * 1)  A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መልስ
 * Arabic:, جَوَاب, إِجَابَة
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: apocrisi, apandisi, giuvapi
 * Asturian: respuesta
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Baluchi: جواب
 * Bashkir: яуап
 * Basque: erantzun
 * Belarusian: адка́з, во́дпаведзь
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: simbag
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: харюу
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: жоп
 * Cherokee:
 * Chichewa: yankho
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 回答, 對答, 对答
 * Dungan: хуэйда, җәвабу
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Chukchi: татԓыӈ
 * Cornish: gorthyp
 * Corsican:
 * Crimean Tatar: cevap
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vastus
 * Faroese: svar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Gagauz: cuvap
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პასუხი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌹, 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀπόκρισις, ὑπόκρισις
 * Greenlandic: akissut
 * Gujarati: જવાબ,
 * Hawaiian: pane
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, ans
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingue: response
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Ivatan: atbay
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kalmyk: хәрү
 * Kapampangan: pakibat
 * Karachay-Balkar: жауап
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ពាក្យឆ្លើយ
 * Korean:, 회답 ,  ,  ,
 * Koryak: аӈъягыйӈын
 * Kumyk: жавап


 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຄຳຕອບ
 * Latin: responsum
 * Latvian: atbilde
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: одговор
 * Malay: jawaban,
 * Maltese: wieġeb
 * Manx: ansoor, freggyrt
 * Maori:
 * Mirandese: respuosta
 * Mongolian:
 * Nogai: явап
 * Northern Sami: vástádus
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: отъвѣтъ, отповѣдь, одповѣдь
 * Old English: andwyrde, andswaru
 * Old Norse: svar
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:, , پیواژ
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: freagairt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏дгово̄р
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: odpoveď
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: каруу, јооп
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sagot
 * Tajik: жавоб
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: คำตอบ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan: харыы
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: جواب,
 * Uyghur: جاۋاب
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, câu trả lời
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: baton, tubag
 * Welsh:
 * Yakut: эппиэт, харда, хоруй
 * Yiddish: ענטפֿער
 * Zazaki: ciwab


 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: حَلّ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 解答, 答案
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Esperanto: repliko
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:,  ,  ,


 * Luxembourgish: Léisung
 * Macedonian: решение
 * Malay: penyelesaian
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: freagairt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: рјеше́ње, реше́ње
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: riešenie, odpoveď
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: solusyon
 * Telugu:


 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: رَدّ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: जवाब देना, उत्तर देना
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Korean:,  , 회답 , 회신
 * Macedonian: о́дговор
 * Norwegian:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: freagairt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏дгово̄р
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: odpoveď
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sagot
 * Telugu: ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: viszontválasz
 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: odpoveď
 * Spanish:

Etymology 2
From, , , from , , from , , from , , from and , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To make a reply or response to.
 * 2) * 1593,, ,
 * She answers him as if she knew his mind:
 * 1) * 1611,  of the , 18:26,
 * there was no voice, nor any that answered.
 * 1)  To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
 * to answer a charge or accusation
 * 1)  To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
 * Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.
 * 1)  To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
 * 2) * 1871,, On Early English Pronunciation, London: Trübner & Co., Part III, Chapter 7, section 1, p. 656, footnote 1,
 * Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.
 * 1) To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
 * 2) * c. 1598, , Act IV, Scene 8,
 * An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the world.
 * 1)  To file a document in response to a complaint.
 * 2) To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
 * 3) * 1775,, , Dublin: G. Burnet et al., 1794, Act II, Scene 2, p. 25,
 * Egad, I wish she had answer’d her picture as well.
 * 1) * 1793,, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White, Volume II, Book V, Chapter 2, p. 231,
 * The use of dunder in the making of rum, answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.
 * 1) To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
 * 2) * 1786,, Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772: on several parts of England; particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland, London: R. Blamire, Volume II, Section 19, p. 85,
 * The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon through them
 * 1) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
 * 2) * c. 1604, , Act III, Scene 1,
 * that the time may have all shadow and silence in it; and the place answer to convenience.
 * 1) * c. 1608, , Act V, Scene 1,
 * If this but answer to my just belief,
 * I’ll well remember you.
 * 1) * 1611,  of the , 27:19,
 * As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
 * 1) * 1727,, , London: B. Motte, Part I, A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter 2, pp. 30-31,
 * I might carry about me several Weapons, which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the Bulk of so prodigious a Person.
 * 1) To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
 * 2) * 1611,  of the , 22:46,
 * no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
 * 1) * 1671,,  in Paradise Regain’d, to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, p. 73,
 * These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant
 * Though by his blindness maim’d for high attempts,
 * Who now defies thee thrice to single fight,
 * 1) * 1848,, , Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1849, Volume 3, Chapter 14, p. 354,
 * The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
 * 1) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
 * 2) * c. 1597, , Act I, Scene 3,
 * this proud king studies day and night
 * To answer all the debts he owes unto you
 * 1)  To render account to or for.
 * 2) * c. 1597, , Act II, Scene 4,
 * I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,
 * Send him to answer thee, or any man,
 * For any thing he shall be charged withal:
 * 1)  To atone for; to be punished for.
 * 2) * c. 1599, , Act III, Scene 2,
 * The noble Brutus
 * Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
 * If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
 * And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
 * 1)  To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
 * 2) * 1611,  of the , 10:19,
 * A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
 * 1) * c. 1597, , Act II, Scene 4,
 * I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,
 * Send him to answer thee, or any man,
 * For any thing he shall be charged withal:
 * 1)  To atone for; to be punished for.
 * 2) * c. 1599, , Act III, Scene 2,
 * The noble Brutus
 * Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
 * If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
 * And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
 * 1)  To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
 * 2) * 1611,  of the , 10:19,
 * A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أَجَابَ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: رد
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: apãndisescu, apocrisescu
 * Asturian: responder, contestar
 * Azerbaijani: cavab vermək, cavablandırmaq
 * Basque: erantzun
 * Belarusian: адка́зваць, адказа́ць, адпавяда́ць
 * Bengali: উত্তর দেত্তয়া
 * Bulgarian:, отгово́ря, , отвъ́рна
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chichewa: yankha
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: gorthebi
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vastama
 * Faroese: svara
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: rispuindi
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: პასუხობს
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἀποκρίνομαι
 * Hawaiian: pane
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: जवाब देना, उत्तर देना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: responder
 * Interlingue: responder
 * Irish: freagair
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: (對答-), 회답하다 (回答-), 회신하다 (回信-), 응답하다 (應答-), 답변하다 (答辯-),  (答-)


 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: respuender
 * Laboya: baleha
 * Lao: ຕອບ
 * Latin: respondeō, resequor,
 * Latvian: atbildēt
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: äntweren
 * Macedonian: одговара, одговори
 * Malay: jawab
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: nanquilia
 * Neapolitan: risponne
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan: respónder,
 * Old English: andwyrdan, andswarian
 * Old Norse: svara
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: auntwuate
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: kutichiy
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: respunder, raspunder, respuonder, rispunder
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: respúndiri, arraspundi, rispòndhere, rispònnere
 * Scottish Gaelic: freagair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: одгово́рити
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: odpovedať, reagovať
 * Slovene: odgovarjati,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: -sagutan
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin: bekim tok
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: jogap bermek
 * Ukrainian: відповіда́ти,
 * Urdu: جواب دینا
 * Uyghur: جاۋاب بەرمەك
 * Uzbek: javob bermoq
 * Venetian: responder, risponder
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ענטפֿערן


 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: رَدّ
 * Bulgarian:, отгово́ря
 * Burmese:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: freagair
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 전화를 받다 (電話-), 응하다 (應-)
 * Macedonian: одговара, одговори


 * Maori: whakaō
 * Ngazidja Comorian: viia
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: freagair
 * Serbo-Croatian: јавити
 * Spanish:
 * Tok Pisin: bekim tok
 * Ukrainian: відповіда́ти,
 * Vietnamese: đáp lời,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 대응하다 (對應-), 응하다 (應-)
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:


 * Macedonian: одговара, соодветствува
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: freagair
 * Slovak: zodpovedať
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ,
 * Korean: 답변하다 (答辯-)
 * Macedonian: одговара
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,


 * Breton:
 * French:
 * Hebrew: (1,2),  (1,3)


 * Latin:
 * Vietnamese: ,