chasm

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• General-American: /ˈkæzəm/
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• /t͡ʃæzəm/ General American, uncommon, spelling pronunciation
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• rhymes with -æzəm
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 Z AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin chasma, from Ancient Greek χάσμα (khásma, “abyss, cleft”). Doublet of chasma. Compare schism. Displaced native Old English swelh and Old English elh.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فَجْوَة (fajwa) — gap
• Bulgarian: пропаст (propast) — gap
• Bulgarian: бездна (bezdna) — gap
• Catalan: avenc — gap
• Czech: propast — gap
• Danish: gab — gap
• Danish: afgrund — gap
• Dutch: kloof — gap
• Dutch: afgrond — gap
• Esperanto: fendego — gap
• Finnish: kuilu — gap
• Finnish: rotko — gap
• French: chasme — gap
• French: crevasse — gap
• French: fossé — gap
• French: gouffre — gap
• German: Abgrund — gap
• German: Kluft — gap
• German: Spalte — gap
• Greek: χάσμα (chásma) — gap
• Ancient Greek: χάσμα (khásma) — gap
• Icelandic: gjá — gap
• Indonesian: jurang — gap
• Irish: gáibéal — gap
• Irish: anscoilt — gap
• Irish: duibheagán — gap
• Italian: voragine — gap
• Italian: baratro — gap
• Italian: abisso — gap
• Japanese: 渓壑 (keigaku) — gap
• Javanese: jurang — gap
• Javanese: curah — gap
• Latin: chasma — gap
• Latin: barāthrum — gap
• Māori: tawhā — gap
• Old English: cleofa — gap
• Plautdietsch: Kjäajel — gap
• Polish: przepaść — gap
• Polish: otchłań — gap
• Polish: wyrwa — gap
• Portuguese: abismo — gap
• Russian: бе́здна (bézdna) — gap
• Russian: про́пасть (própastʹ) — gap
• Russian: рассе́лина (rassélina) — gap
• Russian: расще́лина (rasščélina) — gap
• Sanskrit: पर्शान (parśāna) — gap
• Serbo-Croatian: provalija — gap
• Slovak: roklina — gap
• Slovak: rokľa — gap
• Slovak: prepadlisko — gap
• Slovak: priepasť — gap
• Spanish: garganta — gap
• Spanish: cañón — gap
• Spanish: barranco — gap
• Spanish: barranca — gap
• Spanish: sima — gap
• Swedish: svalg — gap
• Telugu: అగాధం (agādhaṁ) — gap
• Turkish: derin yarık — gap
• Turkish: kanyon — gap
• Turkish: uçurum — gap
• Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز (boğaz) — gap
• Ottoman Turkish: دره — gap
• Ottoman Turkish: دریڭلك (deriñlik) — gap
• Ukrainian: прі́рва (prírva) — gap
• Ukrainian: безо́дня (bezódnja) — gap
• Arabic: فَجْوَة (fajwa) — difference of opinion
• Czech: rozkol — difference of opinion
• Czech: nesoulad — difference of opinion
• Dutch: kloof — difference of opinion
• Dutch: meningsverschil — difference of opinion
• Finnish: kuilu — difference of opinion
• French: fossé — difference of opinion
• French: divergence — difference of opinion
• German: Kluft — difference of opinion
• Greek: χάσμα (chásma) — difference of opinion
• Greek: ρήγμα (rígma) — difference of opinion
• Greek: σχίσμα (schísma) — difference of opinion
• Greek: διάσπαση (diáspasi) — difference of opinion
• Irish: deighilt — difference of opinion
• Irish: scaradh — difference of opinion
• Irish: briseadh (idir beirt) — difference of opinion
• Italian: divergenza — difference of opinion
• Italian: divario — difference of opinion
• Portuguese: abismo — difference of opinion
• Portuguese: cisma — difference of opinion
• Russian: разногла́сия (raznoglásija) — difference of opinion
• Russian: раско́л (raskól) — difference of opinion
• Spanish: disensión — difference of opinion
• Swedish: klyfta — difference of opinion
• Swedish: schism — difference of opinion
• Telugu: అగాధం (agādhaṁ) — difference of opinion
• Turkish: uçurum — difference of opinion