Abbreviation
//əˌbɹiː.viˈeɪ.ʃən//
Translations of "abbreviation" (74 languages)
| Language | Translation | Romanization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | afkorting(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), afkorting(act or result of shortening or reducing), verkorting(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), verkorting(abridged version of a document), verkorting(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Ancient Greek | ἀποκοπή(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | apokopḗ | |
| Arabic | اختصار(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), اِخْتِصَار(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | eḵteṣār, iḵtiṣār | |
| Armenian | կրճատում(act or result of shortening or reducing), համառոտում(act or result of shortening or reducing), հապավում(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), հապավում(act or result of shortening or reducing) | krčatum, hamaṙotum, hapavum, hapavum | |
| Asturian | abreviatura(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Azerbaijani | abbreviatura(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Belarusian | абрэвіяту́ра(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), скарачэ́нне(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), скарачэ́ньне(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | abrevijatúra, skaračénnje, skaračénʹnje | |
| Bulgarian | абревиату́ра(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), абревиатура(music: a notation used in music score to denote a direction), абревиатура(music: one or more dashes through the stem of a note), скъсяване(act or result of shortening or reducing), съкращаване(act or result of shortening or reducing), съкращаване(mathematics: reduction to lower terms), съкраще́ние(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | abreviatúra, abreviatura, abreviatura, skǎsjavane, sǎkraštavane, sǎkraštavane, sǎkrašténie | |
| Catalan | abreviatura(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Chinese Mandarin | 略語 /略语(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 簡寫 /简写(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 約分 /约分(mathematics: reduction to lower terms), 縮寫 /缩写(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 縮寫 /缩写(act or result of shortening or reducing) | lüèyǔ, jiǎnxiě, yuēfēn, suōxiě, suōxiě | |
| Cornish | berrheans(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Crimean Tatar | qısqartma(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Czech | krácení(mathematics: reduction to lower terms), zkratka(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), zkrácení(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Danish | forkortelse(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), forkortelse(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Dutch | afkorting(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), afkorting(act or result of shortening or reducing), verkorting(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Eastern Mari | аббревиатур(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), аббревиаций(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), кӱчыкемдымаш(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | abbreviatur, abbreviacij, küčykemdymaš | |
| Esperanto | mallongigo(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Estonian | lühend(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Faroese | stytting(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Finnish | lyhenne(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), lyhennelmä(act or result of shortening or reducing), lyhennys(act or result of shortening or reducing), lyhennysmerkki(music: one or more dashes through the stem of a note), lyhennös(act or result of shortening or reducing), lyhentäminen(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| French | abréviation(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Galician | abreviatura(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Georgian | აბრევიატურა(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), შემოკლება(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | abreviaṭura, šemoḳleba | |
| German | Abbreviation(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), Abbreviatur(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), Abkürzung(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), Abkürzung(act or result of shortening or reducing), Abstract(abridged version of a document), Kurzbezeichnung(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), Kurzform(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), Kürzel(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), Kürzen(act or result of shortening or reducing), Zusammenfassung(abridged version of a document) | — | |
| Greek | βραχυγραφία(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), συντομογραφία(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), συντόμευση(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), σύνοψη(abridged version of a document), σύντμηση(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), σύντμηση(act or result of shortening or reducing) | vrachygrafía, syntomografía, syntómefsi, sýnopsi, sýntmisi, sýntmisi | |
| Hebrew | רָאשֵׁי תֵּבוֹת(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), ראשי תיבות(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | rashéi teivót | |
| Hindi | संक्षिप्तीकरण(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | saṅkṣiptīkraṇ | |
| Hungarian | rövidítés(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Icelandic | skammstöfun(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), stytting(act or result of shortening or reducing), stytting(music: one or more dashes through the stem of a note) | — | |
| Ido | abrevio(act or result of shortening or reducing), abreviuro(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Indonesian | abreviasi(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abreviasi(act or result of shortening or reducing), penyingkatan(act or result of shortening or reducing), singkatan(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Irish | giorrú(act or result of shortening or reducing), giorrúchán(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), nod(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Italian | abbreviatura(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abbreviazione(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abbreviazione(act or result of shortening or reducing), abbreviazione(music: one or more dashes through the stem of a note), acronimo(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), riassunto(abridged version of a document) | — | |
| Japanese | 略(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 略(act or result of shortening or reducing), 略称(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 略語(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 省略(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 省略(act or result of shortening or reducing), 短縮(act or result of shortening or reducing), 約分(mathematics: reduction to lower terms) | ryaku, ryaku, ryakushō, ryakugo, shōryaku, shōryaku, tanshuku, yakubun | |
| Kazakh | аббревиатура(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), қысқарған сөз(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | abbreviatura, qysqarğan söz | |
| Khmer | ពាក្យកាត់(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | piək kat | |
| Korean | 생략(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 약분(mathematics: reduction to lower terms), 약어(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 약자(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), 요약본(abridged version of a document), 축약(act or result of shortening or reducing) | saengnyak, yakbun, yageo, yakja, yoyakbon, chugyak | |
| Latin | abbreviātiō(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abbreviātiō(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Latvian | abreviatūra(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), saīsinājums(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Lithuanian | santrumpa(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), sutrumpinimas(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Lower Sorbian | krotceńka(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), skrotconka(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Luxembourgish | Ofkierzung(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Macedonian | кратенка(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), скратеница(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | kratenka, skratenica | |
| Malay | penyingkatan(act or result of shortening or reducing), singkatan(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Maltese | abbrevjazzjoni(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abbrevjazzjoni(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Māori | poronga(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Norwegian Bokmål | abbreviasjon(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abbreviatur(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abbreviatur(music: a notation used in music score to denote a direction), abbreviatur(music: one or more dashes through the stem of a note), abbreviering(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), forkortelse(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), forkortelse(act or result of shortening or reducing), forkorting(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), forkorting(act or result of shortening or reducing), oppsummering(abridged version of a document), sammendrag(abridged version of a document) | — | |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | abbreviatur(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), forkorting(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), forkorting(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Occitan | abreviacion(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Polish | abrewiatura(music: one or more dashes through the stem of a note), redukcja(mathematics: reduction to lower terms), skracanie(mathematics: reduction to lower terms), skrócenie(act or result of shortening or reducing), skrót(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), skrótowiec(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Portuguese | abreviatura(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abreviatura(act or result of shortening or reducing), abreviação(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abreviação(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Romagnol | abreviaziôn(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Romanian | abreviație(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abreviere(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abreviere(act or result of shortening or reducing), prescurtare(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Russian | аббревиа́ция(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), аббревиату́ра(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), сокраще́ние(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), сокраще́ние(act or result of shortening or reducing), уреза́ние(act or result of shortening or reducing) | abbreviácija, abbreviatúra, sokraščénije, sokraščénije, urezánije | |
| Scottish Gaelic | giorrachadh(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), giorrachadh(abridged version of a document), giorrachadh(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Serbo-Croatian | abrevijácija(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abrevijácija(act or result of shortening or reducing), kràtica(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), kràtica(act or result of shortening or reducing), skrȃćenica(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), абревија́ција(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), абревија́ција(act or result of shortening or reducing), кра̀тица(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), кра̀тица(act or result of shortening or reducing), скра̑ћеница(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Slovak | skratka(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Slovene | kratica(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), okrajšava(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Spanish | abreviación(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), abreviación(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Swahili | kifupisho(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Swedish | förkortande(act or result of shortening or reducing), förkortning(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), förkortning(act or result of shortening or reducing), förkortning(mathematics: reduction to lower terms) | — | |
| Tagalog | pagdadaglat(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Tamil | சுருக்கம்(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), சுருக்கம்(abridged version of a document), சுருக்கம்(act or result of shortening or reducing) | curukkam, curukkam, curukkam | |
| Telugu | సంక్షేపం(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | saṅkṣēpaṁ | |
| Thai | คำย่อ(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), ตัวย่อ(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), อักษรย่อ(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | kam-yɔ̂ɔ, dtuua-yɔ̂ɔ, àk-sɔ̌ɔn-yɔ̂ɔ | |
| Turkish | kısaltma(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Udmurt | вакчиятон(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | vakćijaton | |
| Ukrainian | абревіату́ра(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), скоро́чення(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | abreviatúra, skoróčennja | |
| Upper Sorbian | skrótšenka(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Urdu | مُخَفَّف(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | muxaffaf | |
| Vietnamese | bài tóm tắt(abridged version of a document), sự rút gọn(mathematics: reduction to lower terms), sự rút ngắn(act or result of shortening or reducing), sự tóm tắt(act or result of shortening or reducing), sự ước lược(mathematics: reduction to lower terms), viết tắt(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| Volapük | brefod(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase), brefükam(act or result of shortening or reducing) | — | |
| Welsh | byrfodd(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — | |
| West-Frisian | ôfkoarting(shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase) | — |
afkorting, afkorting, verkorting, verkorting, verkorting
abreviatura
abbreviatura
абревиату́ра, абревиатура, абревиатура, скъсяване, съкращаване, съкращаване, съкраще́ние
abreviatúra, abreviatura, abreviatura, skǎsjavane, sǎkraštavane, sǎkraštavane, sǎkrašténie
abreviatura
berrheans
qısqartma
krácení, zkratka, zkrácení
forkortelse, forkortelse
afkorting, afkorting, verkorting
mallongigo
lühend
stytting
lyhenne, lyhennelmä, lyhennys, lyhennysmerkki, lyhennös, lyhentäminen
abréviation
abreviatura
Abbreviation, Abbreviatur, Abkürzung, Abkürzung, Abstract, Kurzbezeichnung, Kurzform, Kürzel, Kürzen, Zusammenfassung
βραχυγραφία, συντομογραφία, συντόμευση, σύνοψη, σύντμηση, σύντμηση
vrachygrafía, syntomografía, syntómefsi, sýnopsi, sýntmisi, sýntmisi
rövidítés
skammstöfun, stytting, stytting
abrevio, abreviuro
abreviasi, abreviasi, penyingkatan, singkatan
giorrú, giorrúchán, nod
abbreviatura, abbreviazione, abbreviazione, abbreviazione, acronimo, riassunto
略, 略, 略称, 略語, 省略, 省略, 短縮, 約分
ryaku, ryaku, ryakushō, ryakugo, shōryaku, shōryaku, tanshuku, yakubun
abbreviātiō, abbreviātiō
abreviatūra, saīsinājums
santrumpa, sutrumpinimas
krotceńka, skrotconka
Ofkierzung
penyingkatan, singkatan
abbrevjazzjoni, abbrevjazzjoni
poronga
abbreviasjon, abbreviatur, abbreviatur, abbreviatur, abbreviering, forkortelse, forkortelse, forkorting, forkorting, oppsummering, sammendrag
abbreviatur, forkorting, forkorting
abreviacion
abrewiatura, redukcja, skracanie, skrócenie, skrót, skrótowiec
abreviatura, abreviatura, abreviação, abreviação
abreviaziôn
abreviație, abreviere, abreviere, prescurtare
аббревиа́ция, аббревиату́ра, сокраще́ние, сокраще́ние, уреза́ние
abbreviácija, abbreviatúra, sokraščénije, sokraščénije, urezánije
giorrachadh, giorrachadh, giorrachadh
abrevijácija, abrevijácija, kràtica, kràtica, skrȃćenica, абревија́ција, абревија́ција, кра̀тица, кра̀тица, скра̑ћеница
skratka
kratica, okrajšava
abreviación, abreviación
kifupisho
förkortande, förkortning, förkortning, förkortning
pagdadaglat
kısaltma
skrótšenka
bài tóm tắt, sự rút gọn, sự rút ngắn, sự tóm tắt, sự ước lược, viết tắt
brefod, brefükam
byrfodd
ôfkoarting
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