So-called
Translations of "so-called" (45 languages)
| Language | Translation | Romanization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | ashtuquajtur(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Ancient Greek | λεγόμενος(so named, but wrongly so), οὕτω καλούμενος(so named, but wrongly so), οὕτω ὀνομαζόμενος(so named, but wrongly so) | legómenos, hoútō kaloúmenos, hoútō onomazómenos | |
| Arabic | مَا يُسَمَّى(so named) | mā yusammā | |
| Armenian | այսպես կոչված(so named), այսպես կոչված(so named, but wrongly so) | ayspes kočʻvac, ayspes kočʻvac | |
| Azerbaijani | adlanan(so named), dırnaqarası(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Belarusian | т.з.(so named), т.з.(so named, but wrongly so), так зва́ны(so named), так зва́ны(so named, but wrongly so) | t.z., t.z., tak zvány, tak zvány | |
| Bulgarian | така́ наре́чен(so named), така́ наре́чен(so named, but wrongly so) | taká naréčen, taká naréčen | |
| Catalan | anomenat(so named, but wrongly so), dit(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Central Kurdish | بە ناو(so named) | be naw | |
| Chinese Cantonese | 所謂嘅 /所谓嘅(so named, but wrongly so) | so² wai⁶ ge³ | |
| Chinese Mandarin | 所謂 /所谓(so named), 所謂 /所谓(so named, but wrongly so) | suǒwèi, suǒwèi | |
| Czech | takzvaný(so named), takzvaný(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Danish | såkaldt(so named), såkaldt(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Dutch | zgn.(so named), zgn.(so named, but wrongly so), zogeheten(so named), zogenaamd(so named), zogenaamd(so named, but wrongly so), zogenoemd(so named) | — | |
| Estonian | nõndanimetatud(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Finnish | muka(so named, but wrongly so), niin kutsuttu(so named), niin kutsuttu(so named, but wrongly so), niin sanottu(so named), niin sanottu(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| French | dénommé(so named), prétendu(so named, but wrongly so), soi-disant(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| German | sog.(so named, but wrongly so), sogenannt(so named), sogenannt(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Greek | αποκαλούμενος(so named), αποκαλούμενος(so named, but wrongly so), δήθεν(so named, but wrongly so), λεγόμενος(so named), λεγόμενος(so named, but wrongly so) | apokaloúmenos, apokaloúmenos, díthen, legómenos, legómenos | |
| Hebrew | not an adjective(so named, but wrongly so), כביכול used as a conjunctive adverb(so named, but wrongly so), כך נקרא(so named), נקרא כך(so named), שנקרא כך(so named) | kiv’yakhól, k’vayaklhól, kakh nikrá, nikrá kakh, shenikrá kakh | |
| Hindi | कहने को(so named, but wrongly so), बोलने को(so named, but wrongly so) | kahne ko, bolne ko | |
| Hungarian | úgynevezett(so named), úgynevezett(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Italian | cosiddetto(so named), cosiddetto(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Japanese | 所謂(so named), 所謂(so named, but wrongly so) | iwayuru, iwayuru | |
| Korean | 소위(so named), 소위(so named, but wrongly so), 이른바(so named), 이른바(so named, but wrongly so) | sowi, sowi, ireunba, ireunba | |
| Latin | nuncupativus(so named) | — | |
| Macedonian | таканаречен(so named) | takanarečen | |
| Norwegian Bokmål | såkalt(so named), såkalt(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Pannonian Rusyn | такволани(so named) | takvolani | |
| Persian | به اصطلاح(so named), به اصطلاح(so named, but wrongly so), کذایی(so named, but wrongly so) | kazâyi | |
| Polish | rzekomy(so named, but wrongly so), tak zwany(so named), tak zwany(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Portuguese | assim chamado(so named, but wrongly so), chamado(so named), chamado(so named, but wrongly so), dito(so named), dito(so named, but wrongly so), suposto(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Romanian | așa-numit(so named), așa-zis(so named), așa-zis(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Russian | т.н.(so named), т.н.(so named, but wrongly so), так называ́емый(so named), так называ́емый(so named, but wrongly so) | t.n., t.n., tak nazyvájemyj, tak nazyvájemyj | |
| Serbo-Croatian | takòzvānī(so named), takòzvānī(so named, but wrongly so), тако̀зва̄нӣ(so named), тако̀зва̄нӣ(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Sindhi | نام نهاد(so named, but wrongly so) | nām ̃hād | |
| Slovak | takzvaný(so named) | — | |
| Slovene | tako imenovan(so named), tako imenovan(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Spanish | (ansí) llamado(so named), denominado(so named), dizque(so named, but wrongly so), presunto(so named, but wrongly so), supuesto(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Swedish | så kallad(so named), så kallad(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Tibetan | གྲག་པའི(so named), གྲག་པའི(so named, but wrongly so), ཅེས་བྱ་བ(so named), ཅེས་བྱ་བ(so named, but wrongly so), ཅེས་བྱ་ཞིང(so named), ཅེས་བྱ་ཞིང(so named, but wrongly so), ཅེས་བྱ་སྟེ(so named), ཅེས་བྱ་སྟེ(so named, but wrongly so), ཅེས་ཟེར་བ(so named), ཅེས་ཟེར་བ(so named, but wrongly so), ཞེས་བྱ་བ(so named), ཞེས་བྱ་བ(so named, but wrongly so), ཟེར་བའི(so named), ཟེར་བའི(so named, but wrongly so) | grag pa'i, grag pa'i, ces bya ba, ces bya ba, ces bya zhing, ces bya zhing, ces bya ste, ces bya ste, ces zer ba, ces zer ba, zhes bya ba, zhes bya ba, zer ba'i, zer ba'i | |
| Turkish | sözde(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Ukrainian | т.з.(so named), т.з.(so named, but wrongly so), так зва́ний(so named), так зва́ний(so named, but wrongly so) | t.z., t.z., tak zványj, tak zványj | |
| Vietnamese | cái gọi là(so named, but wrongly so) | — | |
| Yiddish | אַזוי גערופֿן(so named, but wrongly so) | azoy gerufn |
ashtuquajtur
λεγόμενος, οὕτω καλούμενος, οὕτω ὀνομαζόμενος
legómenos, hoútō kaloúmenos, hoútō onomazómenos
adlanan, dırnaqarası
anomenat, dit
takzvaný, takzvaný
såkaldt, såkaldt
zgn., zgn., zogeheten, zogenaamd, zogenaamd, zogenoemd
nõndanimetatud
muka, niin kutsuttu, niin kutsuttu, niin sanottu, niin sanottu
dénommé, prétendu, soi-disant
sog., sogenannt, sogenannt
αποκαλούμενος, αποκαλούμενος, δήθεν, λεγόμενος, λεγόμενος
apokaloúmenos, apokaloúmenos, díthen, legómenos, legómenos
not an adjective, כביכול used as a conjunctive adverb, כך נקרא, נקרא כך, שנקרא כך
kiv’yakhól, k’vayaklhól, kakh nikrá, nikrá kakh, shenikrá kakh
úgynevezett, úgynevezett
cosiddetto, cosiddetto
nuncupativus
såkalt, såkalt
rzekomy, tak zwany, tak zwany
assim chamado, chamado, chamado, dito, dito, suposto
așa-numit, așa-zis, așa-zis
takòzvānī, takòzvānī, тако̀зва̄нӣ, тако̀зва̄нӣ
takzvaný
tako imenovan, tako imenovan
(ansí) llamado, denominado, dizque, presunto, supuesto
så kallad, så kallad
གྲག་པའི, གྲག་པའི, ཅེས་བྱ་བ, ཅེས་བྱ་བ, ཅེས་བྱ་ཞིང, ཅེས་བྱ་ཞིང, ཅེས་བྱ་སྟེ, ཅེས་བྱ་སྟེ, ཅེས་ཟེར་བ, ཅེས་ཟེར་བ, ཞེས་བྱ་བ, ཞེས་བྱ་བ, ཟེར་བའི, ཟེར་བའི
grag pa'i, grag pa'i, ces bya ba, ces bya ba, ces bya zhing, ces bya zhing, ces bya ste, ces bya ste, ces zer ba, ces zer ba, zhes bya ba, zhes bya ba, zer ba'i, zer ba'i
sözde
cái gọi là
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