comma

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• kŏm'ə
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• Canada, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmə/
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• Australian, British, Southern, Standard: /ˈkɔmə/
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• Atlantic-Canada, US: [ˈkɑ.mə ~ ˈkɑ.mʌ] weak vowel merger
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• South-Asia: /ˈkɔmɑ/
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• dialectal: kə-mä'
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• dialectal: /kəˈmɑ/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA1 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: presje — punctuation mark ','
• Amharic: ንኡስ ሰረዝ (nəʾus säräz) — punctuation mark ','
• Arabic: فَصْلَة (faṣla) — punctuation mark ','
• Arabic: فَاصِلَة (fāṣila) — punctuation mark ','
• Arabic: شَوْلَة (šawla) — punctuation mark ','
• Arabic: فارِزَة (fāriza) — punctuation mark ','
• Arabic: ، — punctuation mark ','
• Armenian: ստորակետ (storaket) — punctuation mark ','
• Asturian: coma — punctuation mark ','
• Azerbaijani: vergül — punctuation mark ','
• Bashkir: өтөр (ötör) — punctuation mark ','
• Belarusian: ко́ска (kóska) — punctuation mark ','
• Bengali: কমা (koma) — punctuation mark ','
• Bulgarian: запета́я (zapetája) — punctuation mark ','
• Burmese: ပုဒ်ကလေး (pudka.le:) — punctuation mark ','
• Burmese: ၊ — punctuation mark ','
• Burmese: ကော်မာ (kauma) — punctuation mark ','
• Carpathian Rusyn: запята́ (zapjatá) — punctuation mark ','
• Catalan: coma — punctuation mark ','
• Chinese Cantonese: 逗號 /逗号 (dau6 hou6) — punctuation mark ','
• Chinese Mandarin: 逗號 /逗号 (dòuhào) — punctuation mark ','
• Chinese Mandarin: 逗點 /逗点 (dòudiǎn) — punctuation mark ','
• Chinese Mandarin: 頓號 /顿号 (dùnhào) — punctuation mark ','
• Cornish: komma — punctuation mark ','
• Cornish: kommas — punctuation mark ','
• Crimean Tatar: virgül — punctuation mark ','
• Czech: čárka — punctuation mark ','
• Danish: komma — punctuation mark ','
• Dutch: komma — punctuation mark ','
• Esperanto: komo — punctuation mark ','
• Estonian: koma — punctuation mark ','
• Faroese: komma — punctuation mark ','
• Finnish: pilkku — punctuation mark ','
• French: virgule — punctuation mark ','
• West-Frisian: komma — punctuation mark ','
• West-Frisian: skrapke — punctuation mark ','
• Friulian: virgule — punctuation mark ','
• Galician: coma — punctuation mark ','
• Galician: vírgula — punctuation mark ','
• Georgian: მძიმე (mʒime) — punctuation mark ','
• German: Beistrich — punctuation mark ','
• German: Komma — punctuation mark ','
• Greek: κόμμα (kómma) — punctuation mark ','
• Hebrew: פְּסִיק (psik) — punctuation mark ','
• Hindi: अल्पविराम (alpavirām) — punctuation mark ','
• Hindi: कामा (kāmā) — punctuation mark ','
• Hungarian: vessző — punctuation mark ','
• Icelandic: komma — punctuation mark ','
• Ido: komo — punctuation mark ','
• Indonesian: koma — punctuation mark ','
• Interlingua: virgula — punctuation mark ','
• Interlingua: comma — punctuation mark ','
• Irish: camóg — punctuation mark ','
• Italian: virgola — punctuation mark ','
• Japanese: コンマ (konma) — punctuation mark ','
• Japanese: 読点 (tōten) — punctuation mark ','
• Kazakh: үтір (ütır) — punctuation mark ','
• Khmer: សញ្ញាក្បៀស (saññaa kbiəh) — punctuation mark ','
• Khmer: កណ្ដកសញ្ញា (kɑɑkɑndɑk saññaa) — punctuation mark ','
• Korean: 쉼표 (swimpyo) — punctuation mark ','
• Korean: 콤마 (komma) — punctuation mark ','
• Northern Kurdish: vîrgul — punctuation mark ','
• Northern Kurdish: bêhnok — punctuation mark ','
• Northern Kurdish: koma — punctuation mark ','
• Kyrgyz: үтүр (ütür) — punctuation mark ','
• Lao: ຈຸດ (chut) — punctuation mark ','
• Lao: ຈຸນລະພາກ (chun la phāk) — punctuation mark ','
• Latin: comma — punctuation mark ','
• Latin: sīcīlicus — punctuation mark ','
• Latin: diastolē — punctuation mark ','
• Latvian: komats — punctuation mark ','
• Ligurian: còmma — punctuation mark ','
• Lithuanian: kablelis — punctuation mark ','
• Luxembourgish: Komma — punctuation mark ','
• Macedonian: запирка (zapirka) — punctuation mark ','
• Malay: koma — punctuation mark ','
• Malayalam: അല്പവിരാമം (alpavirāmaṁ) — punctuation mark ','
• Māori: piko — punctuation mark ','
• Mongolian: таслал (taslal) — punctuation mark ','
• Norwegian Bokmål: komma — punctuation mark ','
• Occitan: virgula — punctuation mark ','
• Ossetian: къӕдзыг (k’æʒyg) — punctuation mark ','
• Pannonian Rusyn: запята (zapjata) — punctuation mark ','
• Pashto: کامه (kāma) — punctuation mark ','
• Pashto: وېرګول (wirgul) — punctuation mark ','
• Pashto: ، — punctuation mark ','
• Iranian Persian: ویرْگول (virgul) — punctuation mark ','
• Iranian Persian: واوَک (vâvak) — punctuation mark ','
• Iranian Persian: دِرَنْگنَما (derang-namâ) — punctuation mark ','
• Iranian Persian: کاما (kâmâ) — punctuation mark ','
• Iranian Persian: مُمَیِّز (momayyez) — punctuation mark ','
• Iranian Persian: ، — punctuation mark ','
• Polish: przecinek — punctuation mark ','
• Portuguese: vírgula — punctuation mark ','
• Romanian: virgulă — punctuation mark ','
• Russian: запята́я (zapjatája) — punctuation mark ','
• Campidanese Sardinian: vírgula — punctuation mark ','
• Serbo-Croatian: за́рез — punctuation mark ','
• Serbo-Croatian: за̏пета — punctuation mark ','
• Serbo-Croatian: zárez — punctuation mark ','
• Serbo-Croatian: zȁpeta — punctuation mark ','
• Shor: сеткин (setkin) — punctuation mark ','
• Slovak: čiarka — punctuation mark ','
• Slovene: vejica — punctuation mark ','
• Lower Sorbian: koma — punctuation mark ','
• Upper Sorbian: koma — punctuation mark ','
• Spanish: coma — punctuation mark ','
• Swahili: alama ya mkato — punctuation mark ','
• Swahili: koma — punctuation mark ','
• Swedish: komma — punctuation mark ','
• Tagalog: kuwit — punctuation mark ','
• Tajik: вергул (vergul) — punctuation mark ','
• Tamil: காற்புள்ளி (kāṟpuḷḷi) — punctuation mark ','
• Tatar: өтер (öter) — punctuation mark ','
• Thai: จุลภาค (jun-lá-pâak) — punctuation mark ','
• Thai: ลูกน้ํา (lûuk-náam) — punctuation mark ','
• Thai: จุดลูกน้ํา (jùt-lûuk-náam) — punctuation mark ','
• Turkish: virgül — punctuation mark ','
• Turkmen: otur — punctuation mark ','
• Ukrainian: пере́тинка (perétynka) — punctuation mark ','
• Ukrainian: ко́ма (kóma) — punctuation mark ','
• Urdu: کاما (kāmā) — punctuation mark ','
• Urdu: سَکْتَہ (sakta) — punctuation mark ','
• Urdu: ، — punctuation mark ','
• Uyghur: پەش (pesh) — punctuation mark ','
• Uzbek: vergul — punctuation mark ','
• Vietnamese: phẩy — punctuation mark ','
• Volapük: liunül — punctuation mark ','
• Welsh: atalnod — punctuation mark ','
• Welsh: coma — punctuation mark ','
• Yakut: тарып (tarïp) — punctuation mark ','
• Yiddish: קאָמע (kome) — punctuation mark ','
• Zulu: uqhwishi class 1a/2a — punctuation mark ','
• Catalan: papallona de la c blanca — butterfly
• Dutch: gehakkelde aurelia — butterfly
• Finnish: herukkaperhonen — butterfly
• German: C-Falter — butterfly
• Hungarian: c-betűs lepke — butterfly
• Irish: camóg — butterfly
• Norwegian Bokmål: hvit C — butterfly
• Norwegian Bokmål: hvit — butterfly
• Polish: rusałka ceik — butterfly
• Turkish: yırtık pırtık — butterfly
• Welsh: mantell garpiog — butterfly
• Chinese Mandarin: 音差 — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• French: comma — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• German: Komma — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• Italian: comma — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• Japanese: コンマ (konma) — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• Spanish: coma — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• Persian: کُما کاما — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• Russian: комма (komma) — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• Ukrainian: кома (koma) — very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways
• French: virguler — to place a comma