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Our Father en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. God; God the Father.
2. The Lord's Prayer, which begins with these words.
   • [T]hen sing three times: Miserere mei deus [Psalm 56] and nine times the Our Father. 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 130:
   • "You are our Father as well as theirs. Permit us, for a short space, to meet in brotherhood, that we may have an added knowledge of that eternal life which awaits us, and so be helped during our years of waiting in this lower world." He ended with the "Our Father", in which we all joined. 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
   • “What did the priest, and all of you, keep on saying when we first went in?” / “Our Fathers, Hail Maries, and Glorias; couldn’t you hear?” asked Emily, laughing. 1872, F. A., chapter V, in Marion Howard; or Trials and Triumphs, Philadelphia: Peter F. Cunningham, […], page 100:

Forms

Coordinates

Holy Mother · Hail Mary · Old Man

Synonyms

paternoster · Heavenly Father · Man Upstairs

Translations (44)

kne Amami (Lord's Prayer) · fi Isä meidän (Lord's Prayer) · pl Nasz Ojciec (God) · sv vår fader (God) · pam Ibpa Mi (Lord's Prayer) · gd Ar n-Athair (Lord's Prayer) · sv fadervår (Lord's Prayer) · ru О́тче Наш (Lord's Prayer) · da Vorherre (God) · sv vår Fader (Lord's Prayer) · sv Fader vår (God) · hy Հայր Մեր (Lord's Prayer) · pl Ojcze nasz (Lord's Prayer) · ceb Amahan Namo (Lord's Prayer) · tl Ama Namin (Lord's Prayer) · sw Baba Yetu (Lord's Prayer) · am አባታችን ሆይ (Lord's Prayer) · it Padre nostro (Lord's Prayer) · am አባታችን ሆይ (God) · ga Ár nAthair (God) · hil Amay Namon (Lord's Prayer) · ga Ár nAthair (Lord's Prayer) · bcl Ama Niamo (Lord's Prayer) · gv Nyn Ayr (God) · ms Bapa Kami (Lord's Prayer) · sv fader vår (God) · sv vår Fader (God) · ilo Amami (Lord's Prayer) · fi Isä (God) · sv Fadervår (Lord's Prayer) · sv fader vår (Lord's Prayer) · da fadervor (Lord's Prayer) · rmw 'måro dad (God) · de Vaterunser (Lord's Prayer) · hy Հայր Մեր (God) · war Amay Namon (Lord's Prayer) · sv Fader vår (Lord's Prayer) · pag Ama Mi (Lord's Prayer) · id Doa Bapa Kami (Lord's Prayer) · ibl Amami (Lord's Prayer) · sv vår fader (Lord's Prayer) · fr Notre Père (Lord's Prayer) · sv Herrens bön (Lord's Prayer) · gd Ar n-Athair (God)