concise

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• /kənˈsaɪs/
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From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: beknopt — brief and precise
• Arabic: وَجِيز (wajīz) — brief and precise
• Arabic: مُوجَز (mūjaz) — brief and precise
• Armenian: սեղմ (seġm) — brief and precise
• Azerbaijani: yığcam — brief and precise
• Azerbaijani: müxtəsər — brief and precise
• Belarusian: каро́ткі (karótki) — brief and precise
• Belarusian: сці́слы (scísly) — brief and precise
• Belarusian: лакані́чны (lakaníčny) — brief and precise
• Bulgarian: кра́тък (krátǎk) — brief and precise
• Bulgarian: сте́гнат (stégnat) — brief and precise
• Catalan: concís — brief and precise
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡明 /简明 (jiǎnmíng) — brief and precise
• Czech: stručný — brief and precise
• Danish: koncis — brief and precise
• Danish: kortfattet — brief and precise
• Dutch: beknopt — brief and precise
• Dutch: bondig — brief and precise
• Esperanto: konciza — brief and precise
• Finnish: ytimekäs — brief and precise
• Finnish: lyhytsanainen — brief and precise
• French: concis — brief and precise
• Galician: conciso — brief and precise
• Georgian: მოკლე (moḳle) — brief and precise
• Georgian: შემოკლებული (šemoḳlebuli) — brief and precise
• German: kurz — brief and precise
• German: prägnant — brief and precise
• German: knapp — brief and precise
• German: konzis — brief and precise
• German: bündig — brief and precise
• German: gedrängt — brief and precise
• Greek: σύντομος (sýntomos) — brief and precise
• Greek: περιεκτικός (periektikós) — brief and precise
• Greek: συνοπτικός (synoptikós) — brief and precise
• Greek: λακωνικός (lakonikós) — brief and precise
• Hebrew: תַּמְצִיתִי (tamtsití) — brief and precise
• Hindi: संक्षिप्त (saṅkṣipt) — brief and precise
• Hungarian: tömör — brief and precise
• Hungarian: velős — brief and precise
• Irish: achomair — brief and precise
• Italian: conciso — brief and precise
• Japanese: 簡潔な (kanketsu na) — brief and precise
• Japanese: 手短な (temijika na) — brief and precise
• Latin: succīnctus — brief and precise
• Latin: astrictus — brief and precise
• Macedonian: кра́ток (krátok) — brief and precise
• Macedonian: зби́ен (zbíen) — brief and precise
• Macedonian: сте́гнат (stégnat) — brief and precise
• Macedonian: ла́конски (lákonski) — brief and precise
• Mongolian: авсар (avsar) — brief and precise
• Norwegian: konsis — brief and precise
• Persian: مختصر (moxtasar) — brief and precise
• Polish: zwięzły — brief and precise
• Polish: lakoniczny — brief and precise
• Portuguese: conciso — brief and precise
• Portuguese: sucinto — brief and precise
• Russian: кра́ткий (krátkij) — brief and precise
• Russian: лакони́чный (lakoníčnyj) — brief and precise
• Russian: сжа́тый (sžátyj) — brief and precise
• Scottish Gaelic: pongail — brief and precise
• Serbo-Croatian: sažet — brief and precise
• Spanish: conciso — brief and precise
• Spanish: breve — brief and precise
• Spanish: sucinto — brief and precise
• Spanish: escueto — brief and precise
• Swedish: koncis — brief and precise
• Swedish: kortfattad — brief and precise
• Thai: กระชับ (grà-cháp) — brief and precise
• Thai: สั้นได้ใจความ — brief and precise
• Tibetan: བསྡུས་པ (bsdus pa) — brief and precise
• Tibetan: ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ (tshig nyung don bsdus pa) — brief and precise
• Tibetan: ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང (tshig nyung don tshang) — brief and precise
• Tibetan: རྡོག་རྩ་བསྒྲིལ་བའི (rdog rtsa bsgril ba'i) — brief and precise
• Turkish: mucez — brief and precise
• Turkish: özlü — brief and precise
• Ottoman Turkish: وجیز (veciz) — brief and precise
• Ukrainian: коро́ткий (korótkyj) — brief and precise
• Ukrainian: сти́слий (stýslyj) — brief and precise
• Ukrainian: лаконі́чний (lakoníčnyj) — brief and precise