abbreviation

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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˌbɹiː.viˈeɪ.ʃən/
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• General-American: /əˌbɹi.viˈeɪ.ʃn̩/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 B R IY2 V IY0 EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested 1400–50. From Middle English abbreviacioun, from Middle French abreviation, from Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātiō, from Latin ad + breviō (“shorten”), from brevis (“short”). By surface analysis, abbreviate + -ion.

212 source translations are retained for this English entry.

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