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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/
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• US: /ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/
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From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kapitull — section in a book
• Albanian: krye — section in a book
• Amharic: ምዕራፍ (məʿraf) — section in a book
• Arabic: فَصْل (faṣl) — section in a book
• Arabic: بَاب (bāb) — section in a book
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܹܦܵܠܹܐܘܿܢ (qepaleʾon) — section in a book
• Armenian: գլուխ (glux) — section in a book
• Asturian: capítulu — section in a book
• Azerbaijani: fəsil — section in a book
• Bashkir: бүлек (bülek) — section in a book
• Basque: kapitulu — section in a book
• Belarusian: глава́ (hlavá) — section in a book
• Belarusian: раздзе́л (razdzjél) — section in a book
• Bengali: অধ্যায় (oddhaẏ) — section in a book
• Breton: chabistr — section in a book
• Breton: pennad — section in a book
• Bulgarian: глава́ (glavá) — section in a book
• Burmese: အခန်း (a.hkan:) — section in a book
• Burmese: ခန်း (hkan:) — section in a book
• Catalan: capítol — section in a book
• Cherokee: ᎠᏯᏙᏢᎢ (ayadotlvi) — section in a book
• Cherokee: ᎠᏯᏙᎸᎢ (ayadolvi) — section in a book
• Chichewa: mutu — section in a book
• Chinese Cantonese: 章 (zoeng1) — section in a book
• Chinese Cantonese: 章節 /章节 (zoeng1 zit3) — section in a book
• Chinese Mandarin: 章 (zhāng) — section in a book
• Chinese Mandarin: 章節 /章节 (zhāngjié) — section in a book
• Coptic: ⲕⲉⲫⲁⲗⲁⲓⲟⲛ (kephalaion) — section in a book
• Czech: kapitola — section in a book
• Czech: hlava — section in a book
• Danish: kapitel — section in a book
• Dutch: hoofdstuk — section in a book
• Dutch: kapittel — section in a book
• Esperanto: ĉapitro — section in a book
• Estonian: peatükk — section in a book
• Ewe: ta — section in a book
• Finnish: luku — section in a book
• Finnish: pykälä — section in a book
• French: chapitre — section in a book
• Galician: capítulo — section in a book
• Georgian: თავი (tavi) — section in a book
• German: Kapitel — section in a book
• German: Abschnitt — section in a book
• Greek: κεφάλαιο (kefálaio) — section in a book
• Ancient Greek: κεφάλαιον (kephálaion) — section in a book
• Greenlandic: kapitali — section in a book
• Gujarati: પ્રકરણ (prakraṇ) — section in a book
• Hebrew: פֶּרֶק (pérek) — section in a book
• Hindi: अध्याय (adhyāy) — section in a book
• Hindi: बाब (bāb) — section in a book
• Hindi: चैप्टर (caipṭar) — section in a book
• Hindi: खंड (khaṇḍ) — section in a book
• Hindi: खण्ड (khaṇḍ) — section in a book
• Hungarian: fejezet — section in a book
• Icelandic: kafli — section in a book
• Ido: chapitro — section in a book
• Indonesian: bab — section in a book
• Indonesian: bagian — section in a book
• Ingrian: glava — section in a book
• Irish: caibidil — section in a book
• Old Irish: caiptel — section in a book
• Italian: capitolo — section in a book
• Japanese: 章 (shō) — section in a book
• Japanese: 章節 (shōsetsu) — section in a book
• Kazakh: тарау (tarau) — section in a book
• Khmer: កណ្ឌ (kan) — section in a book
• Khmer: កថាភាគ (kaʼthaa phiək) — section in a book
• Khmer: ចំពូក (cɑmpuuk) — section in a book
• Korean: 장 (jang) — section in a book
• Korean: 장절 (jangjeol) — section in a book
• Kyrgyz: тароо (taroo) — section in a book
• Kyrgyz: глава (glava) — section in a book
• Lao: ບົດ (bot) — section in a book
• Latin: caput — section in a book
• Latin: capitulum — section in a book
• Latvian: nodaļa — section in a book
• Lithuanian: skyrius — section in a book
• Macedonian: глава (glava) — section in a book
• Macedonian: поглавје (poglavje) — section in a book
• Malay: bab — section in a book
• Malayalam: അദ്ധ്യായം (addhyāyaṁ) — section in a book
• Middle English: chapitre — section in a book
• Mongolian: бүлэг (büleg) — section in a book
• Norwegian Bokmål: kapittel — section in a book
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kapittel — section in a book
• Old English: capitul — section in a book
• Old English: hēafodweard — section in a book
• Iranian Persian: فَصْل (fasl) — section in a book
• Iranian Persian: فَرْگَرْد (fargard) — section in a book
• Iranian Persian: باب (bâb) — section in a book
• Polish: rozdział — section in a book
• Portuguese: capítulo — section in a book
• Romanian: capitol — section in a book
• Russian: глава́ (glavá) — section in a book
• Russian: разде́л (razdél) — section in a book
• Sanskrit: अध्याय (adhyāya) — section in a book
• Sanskrit: काण्ड (kāṇḍa) — section in a book
• Scottish Gaelic: caibideil — section in a book
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀гла̄вље — section in a book
• Serbo-Croatian: гла́ва — section in a book
• Serbo-Croatian: pòglāvlje — section in a book
• Serbo-Croatian: gláva — section in a book
• Slovak: kapitola — section in a book
• Slovak: hlava — section in a book
• Slovak: odsek — section in a book
• Slovene: poglavje — section in a book
• Spanish: capítulo — section in a book
• Swahili: sura — section in a book
• Swedish: kapitel — section in a book
• Tagalog: kabanata — section in a book
• Tajik: боб (bob) — section in a book
• Tajik: фасл (fasl) — section in a book
• Telugu: ప్రకరణము (prakaraṇamu) — section in a book
• Thai: บท (bòt) — section in a book
• Thai: ตอน (dtɔɔn) — section in a book
• Tocharian B: sargga — section in a book
• Turkish: bölüm — section in a book
• Turkmen: bap — section in a book
• Ukrainian: глава́ (hlavá) — section in a book
• Ukrainian: ро́зділ (rózdil) — section in a book
• Urdu: باب (bāb) — section in a book
• Urdu: فَصْل (fasl) — section in a book
• Urdu: کھَنْڈ (khanḍ) — section in a book
• Uyghur: باب (bab) — section in a book
• Uzbek: bob — section in a book
• Uzbek: fasl — section in a book
• Vietnamese: chương — section in a book
• Walloon: tchaptrê — section in a book
• Walloon: tchapite — section in a book
• Welsh: pennod — section in a book
• Yiddish: קאַפּיטל (kapitl) — section in a book
• Dutch: kapittel — ecclesiastical body
• French: chapitre — ecclesiastical body
• German: Kapitel — ecclesiastical body
• Hungarian: káptalan — ecclesiastical body
• Latin: capitulum — ecclesiastical body
• Middle English: chapitre — ecclesiastical body
• Polish: kapituła — ecclesiastical body
• Russian: капитул (kapitul) — ecclesiastical body
• Spanish: capítulo — ecclesiastical body
• Catalan: divisió — a division of an organization
• Chinese Mandarin: 支部 (zhībù) — a division of an organization
• Finnish: osasto — a division of an organization
• French: branche — a division of an organization
• French: section — a division of an organization
• Galician: cabido — a division of an organization
• German: Verband — a division of an organization
• German: Ortsverband — a division of an organization
• German: Sektion — a division of an organization
• Hindi: शाखा (śākhā) — a division of an organization
• Hindi: खंड (khaṇḍ) — a division of an organization
• Polish: dział — a division of an organization
• Polish: filia — a division of an organization
• Portuguese: divisão — a division of an organization
• Portuguese: capítulo — a division of an organization
• Russian: филиа́л (filiál) — a division of an organization
• Russian: отделе́ние (otdelénije) — a division of an organization
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀дружница — a division of an organization
• Serbo-Croatian: одеље́ње — a division of an organization
• Serbo-Croatian: одјеље́ње — a division of an organization
• Serbo-Croatian: pòdružnica — a division of an organization
• Serbo-Croatian: odeljénje — a division of an organization
• Serbo-Croatian: odjeljénje — a division of an organization
• Spanish: sede — a division of an organization
• Spanish: capítulo — a division of an organization
• Spanish: sección — a division of an organization
• Spanish: sucursal — a division of an organization
• Swahili: sura — a division of an organization
• Swedish: avdelning — a division of an organization