English
Verb
look after (third-person singular simple present looks after, present participle looking after, simple past and past participle looked after)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To watch or protect; to keep safe.
- He asked me to look after his daughter while he was away.
- (dated) To expect.
- Bible, Luke xxi. 26
- Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.
- (dated) To seek or search for.
- Woodward
- My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place where to it is now retreated.
- 1893, Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
- If they are not married, they should be looking after a wife.
Translations
to watch, to protect
- Arabic: اِهْتَمَّ (ihtamma), اِعْتَنَى (iʿtanā)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 關照 (zh), 关照 (zh) (guānzhào), 照顧 (zh), 照顾 (zh) (zhàogu)
- Dutch: verzorgen (nl), behartigen (nl), naar omkijken
- Esperanto: flegi (eo)
- French: s'occuper de (fr), garder (fr), veiller sur (fr), soigner (fr)
- German: sich kümmern um (de), pflegen (de)
- Japanese: 世話をする (sewa o suru), 面倒を見る (mendō o miru)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: چاو لێبوون, ئاگالێبوون
- Lao:
- Ngazidja Comorian: hwangalia, ushishia
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- Novial: sorga
- Polish: opiekować się (pl)
- Portuguese: cuidar de
- Romansch: pertgirar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran), partgirar (Sutsilvan), perchürer (Puter, Vallader)
- Russian: забо́титься (ru) (zabótitʹsja), уха́живать (ru) (uxáživatʹ), пригля́дывать (ru) impf (prigljádyvatʹ), пригляде́ть (ru) pf (prigljadétʹ), присма́тривать (ru) impf (prismátrivatʹ), присмотре́ть (ru) pf (prismotrétʹ), следи́ть (ru) impf (sledítʹ)
- Spanish: cuidar de
- Swedish: passa (sv)
- Thai: ดูแล (th), เลี้ยงดู (th)
- Turkish: göz kulak olmak (tr), bakmak (tr)
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