dever

dever (first-person singular present devo, first-person singular preterite devim or devi, past participle devido, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of deber

• “dever” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Old Spanish dever, from Latin debeo, debere.

• IPA^(key): /deˈver/

dever

1. to have to
2. should
3. must
   • 2020 January 29, Metin Delevi, “El 27 de Enero es el dia de memoria de las viktimas del Nazismo, del Olokosto…”, in Şalom‎^[1]:

     Devemos de akodrar i azer akodrar de este kavzo, ke se finalizo kon 11 milyones de viktimas entre eyos 6 milyones de djudios, para luchar kontra el antisemitizmo i el rasizmo.

     We must remember and make others remember this event that ended with 11 million victims, among them 6 million Jews, to fight antisemitism and racism.

dever m

1. duty
   • 2020 January 29, Metin Delevi, “El 27 de Enero es el dia de memoria de las viktimas del Nazismo, del Olokosto…”, in Şalom‎^[2]:

     Ija de imigrantes djudios rusos ke aviyan sufriyido del aborresimyento i del antisemitizmo, se sintyo ke el aktivizmo sovre este sujeto era su dever.

     The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who had suffered from hatred and from antisemitism, she felt that activism on this subject was her duty.

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈvɛɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ

dever f (Arabic spelling دەۊەر)

1. place, spot
2. region, area

• dews
• der

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “dever”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[3], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 143

• deure

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”).

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dever

1. (Gascony, Provençal, Limousin, Vivaro-alpine) to have to
2. to owe

dever m (plural devers)

1. duty, obligation

   Synonym: obligacion

Inherited from Latin dēbēre (“to owe, to must”).

• IPA^(key): /deˈβeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ

dever

1. (transitive, intransitive) must; to have to

• Fala: debel
• Galician: deber
• Portuguese: dever

• Universo Cantigas - "dever"

• deuer

Inherited from Latin dēbēre (“to owe, to must”).

• IPA^(key): /deˈβeɾ/

dever

1. (transitive, intransitive) must; to have to
   • 1017, Fuero de León:

     Nenguna muyer que uiuir en Leom non deue ser trayda a finir el pan del Rey sem so grado, senom fur sua sierua.

     No woman who lived in Leon should be brought to prepare the King's bread without his consent, unless she is a servant.

   • 1243, Arriendo de Nora a Nora:

     t dizemos que todo ome que uenga morar entre nos dientro la alfoz de Nora a nora. deue fazer el foro

     and we say that every man who comes to live among us within the territory of Nora to Nora, must make the forum

   • 1247, Fuero de Campumanes‎^[4]:

     que cada uno de uso deuedes a dar cada uno anno al Obispo de Sant Saluador

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1275, "Piece of a testament"‎^[5]:

     E mando que quanto en este testamento sie scripto que vala rodo e cada uno dello por cualquier guisa que testamento deue valer

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to owe
   • 1275, "Piece of a testament"‎^[6]:

     Et esto ye lo que yo devo a Thomas Perez 411 mar. de blancos. Et esto ye al que devo a auer de mios prestamos e otras debdas e otras cosas que tengo en mia casa sont duas collechas

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1282, "Pact between Oviedo and Avilés":

     saluo las deuedas que nuestros vezinos se deuen unos aotros que sse deuen pagar

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Asturian: deber
• Leonese: debere
• Mirandese: deber

From Old Galician-Portuguese dever, from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”).

• Hyphenation: de‧ver

dever (first-person singular present devo, first-person singular preterite devi, past participle devido)

1. should (indicates that an action is considered by the speaker to be obligatory)
2. ought (indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate.)
3. will likely (indicates that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.)

   Deve chover.

   (It looks like) it's going to rain.

4. owe (to be in debt.)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dever.

• → Makalero: deue (“debt, to borrow”)

Nominalization of Etymology 1.

• Hyphenation: de‧ver

dever m (plural deveres)

1. duty (that which one is morally or legally obligated to do)
2. (in the plural, dated) homework

   Synonyms: trabalho de casa, TPC

   Já fizeste os teus deveres?

   Have you done your homework yet?

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dever.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دور (devir), from Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

dever n (uncountable)

1. total sales

Borrowed from Bulgarian девер (dever), from Proto-Slavic *dě̀verь.

dever m (plural deveri)

1. (regional) in the country, a boy who welcomes the guests and serves them dishes at traditional weddings and also leads the wedding processional; (through extension) a person accompanying the bride

   Synonym: vornicel

• diavor, deavur, gheaver

• “dever”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• djȅver (Ijekavian)
• dȉver (Ikavian)
• đȅver (Montenegro)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děverь, from Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr. Compare Russian деверь (deverʹ).

• IPA^(key): /dêver/
• Hyphenation: de‧ver

dȅver m anim (Cyrillic spelling де̏вер)

1. brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)

dever (first-person singular present devo, first-person singular preterite deví, past participle devido)

1. obsolete spelling of deber