chercher
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to look for, to seek
- (intransitive) to look (to do something)
- (transitive) to mess with someone, ask for trouble
- (transitive) to pick up, to go and get
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French chercher inherited from Old French cerchier inherited from Latin circāre, circa (around, about, near).
Origin
Latin
circa
Gloss
around, about, near
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
近
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- asearch English
- charper English
- circa English
- jobsearch English
- metasearch English
- oversearch English
- re-search English
- search English
- searchability English
- searchable English
- searcher English
- searchest English
- searcheth English
- searchless English
- searchlight English
- searcht English
- subsearch English
- circa Latin
- circus Latin
- circāre Latin
- circāre, circo, circō Latin
- circāre, circō Latin
- circō Latin
- cirka Hungarian
- cercabile Italian
- cercare Italian
- cercatore Italian
- circa Italian
- ricercare Italian
- circa Dutch, Flemish
- chercheur French
- chercheuse French
- circa French
- cerca Spanish, Castilian
- κίρκος Ancient Greek
- cirka Norwegian Bokmål
- sirka Norwegian Bokmål
- cirka Swedish
- cirka Norwegian Nynorsk
- sirka Norwegian Nynorsk
- serchen Middle English
- cercheor Old French
- cerchier Old French
- serĉi Esperanto
- cerca Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- circa Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- încerca Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- سرچ Persian
- chèrchi Norman
- chercher Middle French
- cercar Old Portuguese
- tscharcar Romansh
- tschartgear Romansh
- tschartger Romansh
- tschercar Romansh
- tscherchar Romansh
- tschercher Romansh
- tschertgan Romansh
- tschertgar Romansh
- cerca Asturian
- cercjâ Friulian
- cercar Old Occitan
- cercar Old Spanish
- circari Sicilian
- sercher xno
- chache Haitian, Haitian Creole
- cercà Neapolitan
- cherché Louisiana Creole French
- sirk Novial