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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜː.ʃəl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜː.sjəl/
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• General-American: /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/
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• General-American: [ˌkɑn.t͡ʃɹəˈvɝ.ʃɫ̩]
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• General-American: /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.sjəl/
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• General-American: /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.si.əl/
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• Australian: /ˌkɔn.tɹəˈvɜː.ʃəl/
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• New-Zealand: /ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvøː.ʃəl/
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• New-Zealand: [ˌkɔ̟n.tɹəˈvøː.ʃɫ̩]
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA2 N T R AH0 V ER1 SH AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin contrōversiālis, from contrōversia + -ālis. By surface analysis, controversy + -al.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُثِيرٌ لِلْجَدَل (muṯīrun liljadal) — arousing controversy
• Arabic: مَحَل جَدَل (maḥal jadal) — arousing controversy
• Armenian: վիճահարույց (vičaharuycʻ) — arousing controversy
• Azerbaijani: mübahisəli — arousing controversy
• Belarusian: спрэ́чны (spréčny) — arousing controversy
• Belarusian: спо́рны (spórny) — arousing controversy
• Bulgarian: спо́рен (spóren) — arousing controversy
• Catalan: controvertit — arousing controversy
• Catalan: polèmic — arousing controversy
• Chinese Mandarin: 有爭議 /有争议 (yǒuzhēngyì) — arousing controversy
• Czech: kontroverzní — arousing controversy
• Czech: sporný — arousing controversy
• Danish: kontroversiel — arousing controversy
• Danish: omstridt — arousing controversy
• Dutch: omstreden — arousing controversy
• Esperanto: polemika — arousing controversy
• Estonian: vastuoluline — arousing controversy
• Faroese: umstríddur — arousing controversy
• Finnish: kiistelty — arousing controversy
• Finnish: kiistanalainen — arousing controversy
• French: controversé — arousing controversy
• French: polémique — arousing controversy
• Galician: controvertido — arousing controversy
• Georgian: საკამათო (saḳamato) — arousing controversy
• German: umstritten — arousing controversy
• German: kontrovers — arousing controversy
• Greek: αμφιλεγόμενος (amfilegómenos) — arousing controversy
• Gujarati: વિવાદાસ્પદ (vivādāspad) — arousing controversy
• Hebrew: שָׁנוּי בְּמַחֲלֹקֶת (shanúy bemaḥlóqet) — arousing controversy
• Hindi: विवादास्पद (vivādāspad) — arousing controversy
• Hungarian: vitás — arousing controversy
• Hungarian: vitatott — arousing controversy
• Hungarian: megosztó — arousing controversy
• Hungarian: ellentmondásos — arousing controversy
• Hungarian: nagy port kavaró — arousing controversy
• Hungarian: sok vitát kiváltó — arousing controversy
• Icelandic: umdeildur — arousing controversy
• Indonesian: kontroversial — arousing controversy
• Irish: conspóideach — arousing controversy
• Irish: aighneasach — arousing controversy
• Italian: controverso — arousing controversy
• Japanese: 論争の的の — arousing controversy
• Kazakh: даулы (dauly) — arousing controversy
• Kazakh: таласты (talasty) — arousing controversy
• Kazakh: жанжалды (janjaldy) — arousing controversy
• Khmer: ចម្រូងចម្រាស់ (cɑmrooŋ cɑmreah) — arousing controversy
• Korean: 논쟁의 여지가있는 (nonjaeng'ui yeojigainneun) — arousing controversy
• Latin: contrōversus — arousing controversy
• Latvian: pretrunīgs — arousing controversy
• Latvian: strīdīgs — arousing controversy
• Latvian: kontroversiāls — arousing controversy
• Māori: whakawehewehe — arousing controversy
• Māori: kūraruraru — arousing controversy
• Norwegian Bokmål: kontroversiell — arousing controversy
• Norwegian Bokmål: omstridt — arousing controversy
• Norwegian Bokmål: omstridd — arousing controversy
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kontroversiell — arousing controversy
• Norwegian Nynorsk: omstridd — arousing controversy
• Polish: kontrowersyjny — arousing controversy
• Portuguese: polémico — arousing controversy
• Portuguese: polêmico — arousing controversy
• Portuguese: controverso — arousing controversy
• Romanian: controversabil — arousing controversy
• Romanian: controversat — arousing controversy
• Romanian: discutabil — arousing controversy
• Romanian: polemizat — arousing controversy
• Russian: спо́рный (spórnyj) — arousing controversy
• Russian: сомни́тельный (somnítelʹnyj) — arousing controversy
• Russian: дискуссио́нный (diskussiónnyj) — arousing controversy
• Scottish Gaelic: connsachail — arousing controversy
• Scottish Gaelic: connspaideach — arousing controversy
• Serbo-Croatian: kontrovèrzan — arousing controversy
• Slovak: kontraverzný — arousing controversy
• Slovak: sporný — arousing controversy
• Spanish: polémico — arousing controversy
• Spanish: controvertido — arousing controversy
• Spanish: controversial — arousing controversy
• Spanish: controvertible — arousing controversy
• Swedish: kontroversiell — arousing controversy
• Swedish: omstridd — arousing controversy
• Turkish: tartışmalı — arousing controversy
• Turkish: ihtilaflı — arousing controversy
• Turkish: çelişmeli — arousing controversy
• Ukrainian: спі́рний (spírnyj) — arousing controversy
• Ukrainian: дискусі́йний (dyskusíjnyj) — arousing controversy
• Welsh: dadleuol — arousing controversy
• West Frisian: kontroversjeel — arousing controversy