altar

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• ôl′tər
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒl.tə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔːl.tə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈɔl.tə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈoːl.tə/
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• General-American: /ˈɔl.tɚ/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑl.tɚ/
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• Scotland: /ˈɔl.təɾ/
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• rhymes with -ɒltə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with -ɔːltə(ɹ)
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• homophone: alter
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 L T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English auter, inherited from Old English altar and borrowed from Old French auter, both derived from Latin altāre, probably related to adolere (“burn”); thus "burning place", influenced by altus (“high”). Displaced native Middle English wēved.

157 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: altaar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Albanian: ilter — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Albanian: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Albanian: therore — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Amharic: መሠውያ (mäśäwya) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Arabic: مَذْبَح (maḏbaḥ) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Arabic: هَيْكَل (haykal) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Arabic: مِحْرَاب (miḥrāb) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܕ݂ܒܚܵܐ (maḏbḥā) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܲܢܟܹܐ (qankē) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܪܘܿܢܘܿܣ (trōnōs) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Aramaic: ܡܕܒܚܐ (maḏbəḥā) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Aramaic: ܥܠܬܐ (ʿəlāṯā) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Aramaic: ܬܪܘܢܘܣ (tərōnōs) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מַדְבְּחָא (maḏbəḥā) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Armenian: սեղան (seġan) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Armenian: խորան (xoran) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Armenian: բագին (bagin) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Azerbaijani: mehrab — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Azerbaijani: qurbangah — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Azerbaijani: səcdəgah — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Basque: aldare — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Belarusian: алта́р (altár) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Bengali: পূজাবেদি (pujabedi) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Bengali: বেদি (bedi) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Biatah Bidayuh: panggoo bisadis — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Breton: aoter — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Bulgarian: олта́р (oltár) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Burmese: ယဇ် ပလ္လင် (yaj pallang) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Catalan: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Chavacano: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Chinese Mandarin: 祭壇 /祭坛 (jìtán) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Chinese Mandarin: 聖壇 /圣坛 (shèngtán) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Chuukese: antare — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Cimbrian: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Czech: oltář — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Dalmatian: altur — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Danish: alter — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Dutch: altaar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Egyptian: x-xA-A-w-t:-R1 (ḫꜣwt) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Esperanto: altaro — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Estonian: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Ewe: vɔsamlekpui — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Faroese: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Finnish: alttari — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• French: autel — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• West-Frisian: alter — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Galician: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Georgian: საკურთხეველი (saḳurtxeveli) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Georgian: სამსხვერპლო (samsxverṗlo) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• German: Altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (hunslastaþs) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Greek: βωμός (vomós) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Greek: Αγία Τράπεζα (Agía Trápeza) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Greek: θυσιαστήριο (thysiastírio) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Ancient Greek: βωμός (bōmós) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Ancient Greek: θυσιαστήριον (thusiastḗrion) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Gujarati: યજ્ઞવેદી (yajñavedī) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Hebrew: מִזְבֵּחַ (mizbéakh) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Hebrew: בָּמָה (bamá) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Hindi: वेदी (vedī) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Hungarian: oltár — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Icelandic: altari — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Ido: altaro — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Indonesian: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Indonesian: mezbah — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Irish: altóir — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Italian: altare — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Japanese: 祭壇 (saidan) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Kalmyk: мандл (mandl) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Kannada: ಬಲಿಪೀಠ (balipīṭha) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Kannada: ಯಜ್ಞವೇದಿಕೆ (yajñavēdike) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Kazakh: мехраб (mexrab) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Kazakh: алтарь (altar) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Khmer: បុចនីយដ្ឋាន (bocniiydthaan) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Khmer: អាសន (ʼasnô) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Korean: 제단 (jedan) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Northern Kurdish: text — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Northern Kurdish: mezheb — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Northern Kurdish: sexan — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Kyrgyz: алтарь (altar) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Lao: ຫີ້ງບູຊາ (hīng bū sā) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Lao: ຮ້ານບູຊາ (hān bū sā) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Latin: ara — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Latin: altāre — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Latin: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Latvian: altāris — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Lithuanian: aukuras — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Lithuanian: altorius — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Lombard: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Lutuv: tluophie — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Luxembourgish: Altor — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Macedonian: олтар (oltar) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Macedonian: жртвеник (žrtvenik) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Malay: mazbah — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Malay: mezbah — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Malayalam: അൾത്താര (aḷttāra) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Malayalam: മദ്ബഹാ (madbahā) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Maltese: artal — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Manx: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Māori: āta — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Māori: tūāhu — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Marathi: वेदी (vedī) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Mongolian: тахилын ширээ (taxilyn širee) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Nepali: वेदी (vedī) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Norman: autel — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Norwegian Bokmål: alter — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Norwegian Nynorsk: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Norwegian Nynorsk: alter — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Occitan: autar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Old English: wēofod — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Old Galician-Portuguese: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Old Norse: altari — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Old Norse: stalli — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Old Saxon: altari — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Pannonian Rusyn: олтар (oltar) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Persian: محراب (mehrâb) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Persian: مذبح (mazbah) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Polish: ołtarz — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Portuguese: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Punjabi: ਬੇਦੀ (bedī) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Punjabi: ਪੀਠ (pīṭh) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Romanian: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Russian: алта́рь (altárʹ) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Russian: же́ртвенник (žértvennik) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Scottish Gaelic: altair — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Serbo-Croatian: жртвеник — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Serbo-Croatian: олтар — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Serbo-Croatian: žrtvenik — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Serbo-Croatian: oltar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Sinhalese: පූජාසනය (pūjāsanaya) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Slovak: oltár — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Slovene: oltar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Spanish: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Spanish: ara — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Sranan Tongo: altari — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Swahili: altare — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Swahili: madhabahu — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Swedish: altare — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Tagalog: dambana — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Tagalog: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Tajik: меҳроб (mehrob) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Tajik: мазбаҳ (mazbah) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Tamil: பலிபீடம் (palipīṭam) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Telugu: బలిపీఠము (balipīṭhamu) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Thai: แท่นบูชา (tɛ̂ɛn-buu-chaa) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Tibetan: མཆོད་ཤོམས (mchod shoms) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Tibetan: མཆོད་སྟེགས (mchod stegs) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Turkish: sunak — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Turkish: mihrap — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎄𐎁𐎈 (mdbḥ) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Ukrainian: вівта́р (vivtár) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Urdu: قربان گاہ (qurban gāh) — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Uzbek: mehrob — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Uzbek: altar — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Vietnamese: bàn thờ — flat-topped structure used for religious rites
• Welsh: allor — flat-topped structure used for religious rites