sorg

• IPA^(key): /sɔrχ/

From Dutch zorg.

sorg (plural sorge)

1. care; worry; concern

From Dutch zorgen.

sorg (present sorg, present participle sorgende, past participle gesorg)

1. to care; to care for

• sorre (obsolete)

Older also sorrig, from Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔrˀɣ/, [ˈsɒˀw], [ˈsɒwˀ]
• Homophone: sov

sorg c (singular definite sorgen, plural indefinite sorger)

1. sorrow, grief

• “sorg” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔɹk/

sorg f (genitive singular sorgar, plural sorgir)

1. sorrow, grief

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sorg

1. imperative singular of sorgen (‘to worry’, ‘to care’)

• sorg dich nicht! - don't worry!

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔrk/

  Rhymes: -ɔrk

sorg f (genitive singular sorgar, nominative plural sorgir)

1. sorrow, grief

   Synonyms: harmur, hryggð

2. mourning

• sorgarbúningur
• sorgarlag
• sorgarsaga

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

sorg f or m (definite singular sorga or sorgen, indefinite plural sorger, definite plural sorgene)

1. sorrow, grief, sadness

• landesorg
• omsorg
• sorgløs
• ta sorgene på forskudd

• sørge

• “sorg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”). Akin to sorrow.

• IPA^(key): /sɔrɡ/

sorg f (definite singular sorga, indefinite plural sorger, definite plural sorgene)

1. sorrow, grief, sadness

• landesorg
• omsorg
• ta sorgene på forskot

• sørgja, sørgje, syrgja, syrgje ("to mourn, take care")

• “sorg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• sorh

From Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō.

Cognate with Old Frisian sorge, Old Saxon sorga, Old Dutch sorga, Old High German sorga, Old Norse sorg, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌰 (saurga).

• IPA^(key): /sorɡ/, [sorˠɣ]

sorg f

1. worry, anxiety
2. sorrow, grief
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     oþþe mec frēondlēasne · frēfran wolde,
     wēman mid wynnum. · Wāt sē þe cunnað,
     hū slīþen bið · sorg tō ġefēran,
     þām þe him lȳt hafað · lēofra ġeholena.

     or friendless me would soothe,
     allure with glees. Knows the one who undergoes,
     how tough is sorrow as a companion,
     to whom little has dear confidants for himself.

Strong ō-stem:

• sorgful
• sorgian
• sorglēas
• orsorg

• Middle English: sorȝe, sorwe, sorow
  • English: sorrow
  • Scots: sorow

From Proto-Germanic *surgō, from Proto-Indo-European *surgh- (“worry, care, be sick”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”). Compare Old English sorh, sorg, Old Frisian sorge, Old Saxon sorga, Old High German sworga, sorga, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌰 (saurga).

sorg f (genitive sorgar, plural sorgir)

1. sorrow, grief

• Icelandic: sorg
• Faroese: sorg
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sorg
• Norwegian Bokmål: sorg
• Old Swedish: sorgh
  • Swedish: sorg
• Danish: sorg

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sorg”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Borrowed from French sorgho, Italian sorgo.

• IPA^(key): /sorɡ/

sorg m (uncountable)

1. sorghum (cereal)

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

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• IPA^(key): /sɔrj/

sorg c

1. sorrow, sadness (usually due to loss or other misfortune, often someone's death)

   Det var en djup sorg i hennes ögon

   There was a deep sadness in her eyes

   dränka sina sorger

   drown one's sorrows [idiomatic]

   1. mourning, grief

      sorgen efter hans döda kanin

      his mourning for his dead rabbit

      sorg och saknad

      grief and loss [grief and missing]

      svår sorg

      severe grief

      Jag beklagar sorgen

      I am sorry for your loss [idiomatic]

      hantera sorg

      cope with grief / deal with loss

2. a sorrow (something causing sorrow)

   Att tvingas stänga teatern är en stor sorg

   Being forced to close the theater is a great sorrow

• glädje

• sorglig
• sorgsen
• sörja

• ledsen
• lidande
• saknad

• sorg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sorg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sorg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)