Orphan

"Orphan" in German

Elternlose

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

Elternloser

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

Halbwaise

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

Schusterjunge

(single line of type at the bottom of page)

Vollwaise

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

Waise

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

Waisenjunge

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

Waisenkind

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

Waisenknabe

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

Waisenmädchen

(person whose (parent or) parents have died)

verwaisen

(deprive of parents)

zur Waise machen

(deprive of parents)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.