serve
English
/sɜːv/, /sɝv/
noun
Definitions
- (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
- (chiefly) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English serven derived from Middle French servir.
Origin
Middle French
servir
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- chunkserver English
- cockserver English
- fileserver English
- interserver English
- keyserver English
- listserver English
- metaserver English
- microserver English
- misserve English
- multiserver English
- nonserver English
- outserve English
- overserve English
- self-serve English
- servable English
- serveable English
- servee English
- server English
- serverless English
- serverlet English
- serverwide English
- servery English
- servest English
- serveth English
- timeserver English
- underserve English
- unservable English
- servata Finnish
- servio, serviō Latin
- servio, servīre Latin
- servire Latin
- serviō Latin
- servīre Latin
- Server German
- servieren German
- szerver Hungarian
- szervál Hungarian
- serveur French
- serviette French
- servir French
- се́рвер Russian
- сервак Russian
- сервер Russian
- сервировать Russian
- server Norwegian Bokmål
- serve Swedish
- servera Swedish
- サーバー Japanese
- bor Polish
- serwer Polish
- serwować Polish
- serve Norwegian Nynorsk
- server Norwegian Nynorsk
- sørv Norwegian Nynorsk
- sørvar Norwegian Nynorsk
- sørve Norwegian Nynorsk
- serven Middle English
- servere Middle English
- servise Middle English
- servish Middle English
- servir Old French
- servi Esperanto
- servilo Esperanto
- servistino Esperanto
- servisto Esperanto
- servo Esperanto
- सर्वर Hindi
- servi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- เซิร์ฟเวอร์ Thai
- เสิร์ฟ Thai
- servar Ido
- sèrveux Norman
- servir Middle French
- 서버 Korean
- sèvi Haitian, Haitian Creole
- servi Mauritian Creole