From Middle English widwer, equivalent to widow + -er.
widower (plural widowers)
- A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow. [from 14th c.]
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XIII, page 20:Tears of the widower, when he sees
A late-lost form that sleep reveals,
And moves his doubtful arms, and feels
Her place is empty, fall like these; […]
1988 April 2, Lori Kenschaft, “Film on lovers of PWAs in works”, in Gay Community News, page 6:What happens to the lovers of people with AIDS? How do they experience the passage from lover to caregiver to "widower"?
a man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried
- Afrikaans: wewenaar (af)
- Albanian: vejan (sq) m, i ve (sq) m
- Arabic: أَرْمَل m (ʔarmal)
- Egyptian Arabic: ارمل m (armil)
- Armenian: այրի (hy) (ayri)
- Aromanian: veduu m, veduv m
- Asturian: viudu
- Azerbaijani: dul kişi
- Bashkir: тол (tol), тол ир (tol ir)
- Basque: alargun (eu)
- Belarusian: удаве́ц m (udavjéc), ўдаве́ц m (ŭdavjéc)
- Breton: intañv (br) m
- Bulgarian: вдове́ц (bg) m (vdovéc)
- Burmese: မုဆိုးဖို (my) (mu.hcui:hpui)
- Catalan: vidu (ca) m
- Chamicuro: maluti
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 鰥夫／鳏夫 (gwaan1 fu1)
- Mandarin: 鰥夫／鳏夫 (zh) (guānfū), 寡夫 (zh) (guǎfū)
- Czech: vdovec (cs) m
- Danish: enkemand (da) c
- Dutch: weduwnaar (nl) m
- Erzya: доваля (dovaľa)
- Esperanto: vidvo (eo)
- Estonian: leskmees (et)
- Faroese: einkjumaður m
- Finnish: leski (fi), leskimies (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: vevo m
- French: veuf (fr) m
- Friulian: vedul m
- Galician: viúvo (gl) m
- Georgian: ქვრივი (kvrivi)
- German: Witwer (de) m
- Greek: χήρος (el) m (chíros)
- Hebrew: אַלְמָן (he) m (almán)
- Hindi: विधुर (hi) m (vidhur)
- Hungarian: özvegyember (hu)
- Icelandic: ekkill (is) m
- Ido: vidvulo (io)
- Indonesian: duda (id)
- Ingrian: leski, leskimees
- Irish: baintreach fir f
- Italian: vedovo (it)
- Japanese: 寡夫 (ja) (かふ, kafu), 男やもめ (ja) (おとこやもめ, otokoyamome)
- Kazakh: тұл ер (tūl er)
- Korean: 홀아비 (ko) (horabi)
- Latin: viduus
- Latvian: atraitnis m
- Lithuanian: našlys m
- Livonian: lešk, atrāita
- Macedonian: вдовец m (vdovec)
- Malay: duda (ms)
- Maori: pouaru, takahore
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: enkemann (no) m
- Nynorsk: enkjemann m, enkemann m
- Occitan: veuse (oc)
- Odia: ବିପତ୍ନୀକ (or) (bipatnika), ମୃତଦାର (mrutadāra)
- Old English: widuwa m
- Persian: مرد بیوه (mard-e bive)
- Piedmontese: vido m
- Plautdietsch: Wätmaun m
- Polish: wdowiec (pl)
- Portuguese: viúvo (pt) m
- Quechua: ikma
- Romanian: văduv (ro) m
- Russian: вдове́ц (ru) m (vdovéc)
- Scots: weedae-man
- Scottish Gaelic: banntrach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: удо́вац m
- Roman: udóvac (sh) m
- Sicilian: vìduvu (scn) m, vìduu (scn) m
- Slovak: vdovec m
- Slovene: vdovec (sl) m
- Spanish: viudo (es) m
- Swahili: mjane (sw)
- Swedish: änkeman (sv), änkling (sv) c
- Tajik: занмурда (zanmurda), бева (beva)
- Tarifit: ajjar m
- Thai: พ่อม่าย, พ่อหม้าย, ม่าย (th) (mâai), หม้าย (th) (mâai)
- Turkish: dul (tr)
- Ukrainian: вдіве́ць (uk) m (vdivécʹ)
- Uzbek: beva kishi
- Venetan: védoo m
- Vietnamese: người góa vợ
- Volapük: hiviudan (vo)
- Welsh: gŵr gweddw m, gwidwer m (South)
- Yámana: šupun-wa
- Yup'ik: aipaineq
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