wise

Такође погледајте: -wise, Wise, и WISE

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• МФА^(key): /waɪz/

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• Homophones: whys, wyes, Ys, why's
• Риме: -aɪz

Етимологија 1

From Middle English wis, wys, from Old English wīs (wīs, “wise”), from , from , , a participle form of . Cognate with Dutch wijs, Немачки weise, Norwegian and Шведски vis. Compare wit.

Придев

1. Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.

   Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision.

   They were considered the wise old men of the administration.

   "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish" - Aeschylus

2. (colloquial, ironic) Disrespectful.

   Don't get wise with me!

3. (colloquial) Aware, informed.

   Be careful, the boss is wise.

Usage notes

• Objects: person, decision, advice, counsel, saying, adage, proverb etc.
• even though wise is an antonym of foolish, it does not mean smart or intelligent, both of which are antonyms of foolish.

Synonyms

• See Тезаурус:wise

Antonyms

• unwise
• foolish

Derived terms

Terms derived from wise (adjective)

• crack wise
• wisdom
• wiseacre
• wise apple
• wiseass
• wisecrack
• wise guy
• wise-hearted
• wiselike
• wiseling
• wisen
• wiseness
• wizard
• wizen
• word to the wise

 

Translations

showing good judgement

• Albanian: urtë (sq)
• Arabic: حَكِيم‎ (ḥakīm)
• Armenian: իմաստուն (hy) (imastun)
• Aromanian: mintimen
• Azerbaijani: ağıllı (az)
• Belarusian: му́дры (múdry)
• Bulgarian: мъ̀дър (bg) (mǎ̀dǎr)
• Catalan: savi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 明智 (zh) (míngzhì), 英明 (zh) (yīngmíng), 高明 (zh) (gāomíng)

• Czech: moudrý (cs) m
• Danish: vis (da)
• Dutch: wijs (nl)
• Esperanto: saĝa
• Estonian: tark (et)
• Finnish: viisas (fi)
• French: sage (fr)
• Galician: sabio m
• Georgian: ჭკვიანი (č̣ḳviani), ბრძენი (ka) (brʒeni)
• German: weise (de), klug (de)

  Alemannic German: wiis

• Greek: σοφός (el) (sofós)
• Hebrew: חָכָם‎ (he) (khakhám)
• Hindi: बुद्धिमान (buddhimān)
• Hungarian: bölcs (hu)
• Icelandic: vís (is)
• Indonesian: bijaksana (id), bijak (id), wicak
• Irish: críonna, fáidhiúil
• Italian: saggio (it)
• Japanese: ,
• Kannada: ಜಾಣ (kn) (jāṇa)
• Karakhanid: بِلْكا‎ (bilgē)
• Kazakh: дана (dana), данышпан (danyşpan)
• Khmer: ប្រាជ្ញា (km) (praacñiə), ប្រតិពល (km) (brâtĕplô), ប្រាជ្ញ (km) (praacñɔɔ), វិទូ (km) (vituu)
• Korean: 현명하다 (ko) (hyeonmyeonghada), 총명하다 (ko) (chongmyeonghada)
• Kyrgyz: акылман (ky) (akılman), даанышман (ky) (daanışman)
• Lao: ສັບປັນຍາ (sap pan nyā), ສະຫລາດ (sa lāt)
• Latgalian: gudrys
• Latin: sapiens
• Latvian: gudrs (lv)
• Lithuanian: išmintingas
• Luxembourgish: klug
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• Macedonian: му́дар (múdar)
• Malay: bijaksana, bijak
• Maore Comorian: -endza hikima
• Mongolian: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
• Navajo: hóyą́
• Norman: sage m or f
• Norwegian: vis (no)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: мѫдръ (mǫdrŭ)

• Old East Slavic: мудръ (mudrŭ)
• Old English: snotor (snotor), wīs (wīs)
• Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀‎ (bilge)
• Persian: دانا‎ (fa) (dânâ), خردمند‎ (fa) (xeradmand), زنیر‎ (zenir)
• Polish: mądry (pl)
• Portuguese: sábio (pt)
• Romanian: cu scaun la cap, înțelept (ro)
• Russian: му́дрый (ru) (múdryj)
• Scottish Gaelic: crìonna, glic, seanacheannach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: му́дар

  Roman: múdar (sh)

• Slovak: múdry m
• Slovene: moder (sl) m, modra f, modro n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mudry

• Spanish: sabio (es), juicioso (es)
• Swahili: -staarabu
• Swedish: vis (sv) (1), klok (sv)
• Tagalog:
• Tajik: доно (tg) (dono), хирадманд (tg) (xiradmand), донишманд (donišmand)
• Tamil: சாது (ta) (cātu)
• Telugu: తెలివైన (telivaina)
• Thai: เฉลียวฉลาด, ฉลาด (th) (chlàat)
• Turkish: akıllı (tr), bilge (tr)
• Turkmen: paýhasly (tk)
• Ukrainian: му́дрий (múdryj)
• Urdu: بدھمان‎ (buddhimān)
• Uzbek: ,
• Vietnamese: khôn (vi)
• Warlpiri: pina
• Welsh: cymen (cy), doeth (cy)

Verb

1. To become wise.
2. (ergative, сленг) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.

   Mo wised him up about his situation.

   After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.

Etymology 2

From Old English wīse (wīse), from . Cognate with Dutch wijze, Немачки Weise, Norwegian vis, Шведски visa, vis, Италијански guisa, Шпански guisa. Compare -wise.

Noun

wise (transliteration needed)

1. (archaic) Way, manner, method.
   • 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Fox

     In such wise that all the beasts, great and small, came to the court save Reynard the Fox.

   • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh, lines 2-5

     ... the prize

     Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, —

     Her Art for ever in fresh wise

     From hour to hour rejoicing me.

   • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Life, lines 28-30

     A riven hood was pulled across his eyes;

     The token of him being upon this wise

     Made for a sign of Lust.

   • 1926, J. S. Fletcher, Sea Fog, page 308

     And within a few minutes the rest of us were on our way too, judiciously instructed by Parkapple and the Brighton official, and disposed of in two taxi-cabs, the drivers of which were ordered to convey us to Rottingdean in such wise that each set his load of humanity at different parts of the village and at the same time that the bus was due to arrive at the hotel.

Derived terms

• -wise

Etymology 3

From Middle English wisen (“to advise, direct”), from Old English wisian (wisian, “to show the way, guide, direct”), from , , from . Cognate with Dutch wijzen (“to indicate, point out”), Немачки weisen (“to show, indicate”), Дански and Norwegian Bokmål vise (“to show”), Norwegian Nynorsk visa (“to show”).

Verb

1. (dialectal) to instruct
2. (dialectal) to advise; induce
3. (dialectal) to show the way, guide
4. (dialectal) to direct the course of, pilot
5. (dialectal) to cause to turn

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Contraction

wise (transliteration needed)

1. Contraction of wi se.