wayfarer

English

Etymology

From Middle English weyfarere, weifarere; equivalent to way +‎ farer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪˌfɛəɹ.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

wayfarer (plural wayfarers)

1. A traveller, especially one on foot.
   • 1904, L. Higgin, Eugène E. Street, Spanish Life in Town and Country‎^[1]:

     English travellers are sometimes found grumbling because the señor who keeps a wayside posada, or even a more pretentious inn in one of the towns, does not stand, hat in hand, bowing obsequiously to the wayfarer who deigns to use the accommodation provided.

   • 1954 [1948], Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot […] , New York: Grove Press, translation of En attendant Godot, page 11:

     ESTRAGON: That would be too bad, really too bad. (Pause.) Wouldn't it, Didi, be really too bad? (Pause.) When you think of the beauty of the way. (Pause.) And the goodness of the wayfarers. (Pause. Wheedling.) Wouldn't it, Didi?

Related terms

• wayfare
• wayfaring

Translations

traveller

• Arabic: ibn sabīlمُسَافِر ,ابن السبيل musāfir
• Armenian: ճանապարհորդ (hy) (čanaparhord), (colloquial, dialectal) ճամփորդ (hy) (čampʻord), ուղևոր (hy) (uġewor)
• Bengali: মুসাফির (bn) (musafir), রাহী (bn) (rahī)
• Bulgarian: пътник (bg) m (pǎtnik)
• Catalan: caminant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旅行りょこう者しゃ (zh) (lǚxíng zhě)

• Czech: poutník (cs) m, pocestný m
• Dutch: reiziger (nl) m
• Finnish: kulkija (fi)
• French: voyageur (fr) m
• German: Wandersmann (de)
• Greek: ταξιδιώτης (el) m (taxidiótis), ταξιδιώτρια f (taxidiótria), ταξιδιώτισσα (el) f (taxidiótissa)

  Ancient: ὁδοιπόρος m (hodoipóros)

• Hungarian: utazó (hu), vándor (hu)
• Ingrian: matkalain
• Irish: rianaí m
• Italian: viaggiatore (it) m, viandante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 旅人たびびと (ja) (tabibito), トレッカー (torekkā)
• Latin: viātor (la) m, viātrix (la) f
• Latvian: ceļinieks (lv) m, ceļotāja f
• Macedonian: патник m (patnik)
• Old English: weġfarend
• Ottoman Turkish: یولجی (yolcu)
• Polish: wędrowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: viajante (pt), andarilho (pt)
• Russian: пу́тник (ru) m (pútnik), стра́нник (ru) m (stránnik)
• Spanish: caminante (es) m or f
• Swedish: vägfarande
• Tatar: мосафир (mosafir), сәфәрче (tt) (säfärçe)
• Welsh: fforddolyn m