Ido-English-Ido dictionary

dazl-ar: (tr.) to dazzle: to overpower by bright or moving lights; (fig.) to blind; (fig.) to excite to admiration by brilliancy, display (of beauty, money, honors, etc.) (cf. facinar). Def.: Trublar instantale la vid-povo per tro brilanta lumo, o per tro rapida movado, agitado, e.c. VI-530. Ex.: La sun-radii dazlas la vidado. La fortuno e la honori dazlas la ambicioni. — E

de: (prep.) (starting point, origin, derivation) la treno de Lyon: the train from Lyons: blinda de nasko: blind from birth; de omna lateri: from all sides; de supre ad infre; from top to bottom; de ta vidpunto: from that viewpoint; komprar de ulu: to buy of someone; arachar de la morto: to snatch from death; malada de febro: sick with (from) fever; (measure, quantity) unu de li: one of them; un horo de marcho: an hour's walk; dek-e-duo de ovi: a dozen eggs; tri metri de rubando: three meters of ribbon; glaso de aquo: a glass of water; peco de pano: a piece of bread; el esas la maxim bela de la fratini: she is the most beautiful of the sisters; duo de rejini: a pair of queens; (after adjectives denoting dimenions, size, contents) ponto longa de du Angla milii: a bridge two English miles long; barelo plena de vino: a barrel full of wine; konstrukturo alta de duadek etaji: a building twenty stories high («since», duration of time). N. B. in this sense de-pos is preferable to de alone: me savas lo de(pos) quar dii: I have known it these (since, from) four days; me esas hike de du monati: I have been here for two months; de(pos) la morto di sua spozino: since the death of his wife; de kande vu lojas hike? me lojas hike de un monato: How long (from when) have you lived here? I have lived here one month (I am living here from one month); de pos: since, after; de longe: for a long time past; de kande: since when, how long since; de lore: from that time, since then; de pose: from that time, afterwards; de pos ke: (conj.) since (that); de nun: from now, henceforth, hereafter; de sub: from under; de dop: from behind. V. exp.: da, de, di: Praktikal regulo por selektar inter ta tri prepozicioni esas la sequanta: Se la senco postulas klare l'ideo di l'agento od autoro, uzez da; se ol postulas klare l'ideo di deveno, o di konteno o di quanto, uzez de; en cetera kazi (do en omna dubebla) uzez audace di; nam olca esas la maxim generala de la tri, korespondanta a la genitivo; II-33. On povas generale sequar ica regulo (por selektar inter de o di): Uzez di kande la sequanta substantivo havas artiklo; uzez de kande ol hava nula artiklo; III-624. — FIS

de-o: God, a god; -ino: goddess; -a, -ala: divine: of or relating to God; -ajo: a divinity: divine object; -eso: godhead; -igar: to deify; -ismo: deism; -atra: godlike; -o bona! ho Deo: good God! oh God!danko a Deo thank God; Deo pardonez: may God pardon; Se plezos a Deo, se Deo volos: if God wills. — EFIS

deb-ar: (tr.) to owe (ulo, ad ulu); (intr.) to be under obligation (ad ulu, por ulo); -ajo: a debt; -izar: to get (ulu) into debt; -o honor-ala (honor- -o): a debt of honor; charjar su per debi: to run into debt; -rest-ajo: balance due. Ex.: Pagez to quon vu debas. Me debas a lu mea vivo. Donar deb-atesto. — EFIRS

debat-ar: (tr.) to debate. Def.: Diskutar kun un o plura konversanti en ordinoza ed atencoza maniero, singlu prizentante l'argumenti servanta sua propra interesto o prefero; V-678, III-323. — DEFIRS

debet-o: (com.) debit (after the balance of an account), debit-balance; -igar: to d. (a sum to somebody's account); -konto: d. account. — DEFIRS

debil-a: (of persons) weak, feeble (cf. frajila); -igar: to debilitate, enfeeble; -ig-anta, -ig-iva: debilitating; -ach(ul)o: a puny person. Def.: Febla per naturo, temperamento; III-668. Ant.: forta, robusta, vigoroza. — EFIS

debit-ar: (tr.) to sell (goods, supplies, ordinarily at retail); -o, -ajo: sale, supply, retail; -ar engrose, endetale: to sell wholesale, by retail; vari di bona -o: goods that have a ready sale. — FIS