biography

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• Received-Pronunciation: /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/
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• General-American: /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/
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• CMU ARPABET: B AY0 AA1 G R AH0 F IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gweyh3-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *gerbh- Proto-Hellenic *grə́phō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía) Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der. New Latin biographiabor. English biography Borrowed from New Latin biographia, from Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā), from βίος (bíos, life) + -γραφία (-graphía, writing).

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: biografi — personal life story
• Arabic: سِيرَة (sīra) — personal life story
• Arabic: تَرْجَمَةُ ٱلْحَيَاةِ (tarjamatu l-ḥayāti) — personal life story
• Armenian: կենսագրություն (kensagrutʻyun) — personal life story
• Asturian: biografía — personal life story
• Azerbaijani: bioqrafiya — personal life story
• Azerbaijani: tərcümeyi-hal — personal life story
• Belarusian: біягра́фія (bijahráfija) — personal life story
• Bulgarian: биогра́фия (biográfija) — personal life story
• Bulgarian: животопи́с (životopís) — personal life story
• Burmese: အတ္ထုပ္ပတ် (athtuppat) — personal life story
• Burmese: အတ္ထုပ္ပတ္တိ (athtuppatti.) — personal life story
• Catalan: biografia — personal life story
• Chinese Mandarin: 傳記 /传记 (zhuànjì) — personal life story
• Coptic: ⲃⲓⲟⲥ (bios) — personal life story
• Czech: životopis — personal life story
• Danish: biografi — personal life story
• Dutch: biografie — personal life story
• Esperanto: biografio — personal life story
• Estonian: elulugu — personal life story
• Estonian: biograafia — personal life story
• Faroese: ævisøga — personal life story
• Finnish: elämäkerta — personal life story
• French: biographie — personal life story
• Galician: biografía — personal life story
• Georgian: ბიოგრაფია (biograpia) — personal life story
• German: Biografie — personal life story
• German: Biographie — personal life story
• Greek: βιογραφία (viografía) — personal life story
• Ancient Greek: βιογραφία (biographía) — personal life story
• Haitian Creole: biyografi — personal life story
• Hebrew: קורות חיים (korót khayím) — personal life story
• Hebrew: סיפור חיים (sipúr khayím) — personal life story
• Hebrew: ביוגרפיה (biyográfya) — personal life story
• Hindi: जीवनी (jīvnī) — personal life story
• Hindi: जीवनकथा (jīvnakthā) — personal life story
• Hindi: ज़िंदगीनामा (zindgīnāmā) — personal life story
• Hungarian: életrajz — personal life story
• Hungarian: biográfia — personal life story
• Indonesian: biografi — personal life story
• Irish: beathaisnéis — personal life story
• Italian: biografia — personal life story
• Japanese: 伝記 (denki) — personal life story
• Kalmyk: намтр (namtr) — personal life story
• Korean: 전기 (jeon'gi) — personal life story
• Kyrgyz: өмүрбаян (ömürbayan) — personal life story
• Lao: ຊີວະປະຫວັດ (sī wa pa huat) — personal life story
• Latin: curriculum vitae — personal life story
• Latin: biographia — personal life story
• Latvian: biogrāfija — personal life story
• Lithuanian: biografija — personal life story
• Macedonian: биографија (biografija) — personal life story
• Macedonian: животопис (životopis) — personal life story
• Malayalam: ജീവചരിത്രം (jīvacaritraṁ) — personal life story
• Māori: kōrero haurongo — personal life story
• Māori: kōrero koiora — personal life story
• Māori: haurongo — personal life story
• Mongolian: намтар (namtar) — personal life story
• Mongolian: чадиг (čadig) — personal life story
• Mongolian: ᠨᠠᠮᠲᠠᠷ (namtar) — personal life story
• Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠳᠢᠭ (čadiɣ) — personal life story
• Nepali: जीवनी (jīvanī) — personal life story
• Norwegian Bokmål: biografi — personal life story
• Norwegian Nynorsk: biografi — personal life story
• Occitan: biografia — personal life story
• Persian: زندگینامه (zendegi-nâme) — personal life story
• Polish: biografia — personal life story
• Portuguese: biografia — personal life story
• Punjabi: ਜੀਵਨੀ (jīvnī) — personal life story
• Romanian: biografie — personal life story
• Russian: биогра́фия (biográfija) — personal life story
• Russian: жизнеописа́ние (žizneopisánije) — personal life story
• Scottish Gaelic: beath-eachdraidh — personal life story
• Scottish Gaelic: eachdraidh-beatha — personal life story
• Serbo-Croatian: животопис — personal life story
• Serbo-Croatian: биографија — personal life story
• Serbo-Croatian: životopis — personal life story
• Serbo-Croatian: biografija — personal life story
• Slovak: životopis — personal life story
• Slovene: življenjepis — personal life story
• Slovene: biografija — personal life story
• Spanish: biografía — personal life story
• Swedish: biografi — personal life story
• Tamil: வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு (vāḻkkai varalāṟu) — personal life story
• Thai: ชีวประวัติ (chii-wá-bprà-wàt) — personal life story
• Turkish: biyografi — personal life story
• Turkish: yaşamöyküsü — personal life story
• Turkish: tercümeihâl — personal life story
• Ottoman Turkish: تذكره (tezkere) — personal life story
• Udmurt: улонсюрес (ulonśures) — personal life story
• Ukrainian: біогра́фія (biohráfija) — personal life story
• Ukrainian: життє́пис (žyttjépys) — personal life story
• Uyghur: تەرجىمەھال (terjimehal) — personal life story
• Vietnamese: tiểu sử — personal life story
• Welsh: cofiant — personal life story
• Welsh: bywgraffiad — personal life story
• Yiddish: ביאָגראַפֿיע (byografye) — personal life story