cosplay

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• UK: /ˈkɒz.pleɪ/
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• UK: /ˈkɒs.pleɪ/
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• US: /ˈkɑz.pleɪ/
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• US: /ˈkɑs.pleɪ/
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• US: /ˌkoʊˈspleɪ/ hyperforeign
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Borrowed from Japanese コスプレ (kosupure), which is a clipping of コスチュームプレイ (kosuchūmu purei), from a compound of English costume + play.

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: كُوسْبْلَاي (kusplay) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Bulgarian: коспле́й (kospléj) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Chinese Mandarin: 角色扮演 (juésè bànyǎn) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Chinese Mandarin: 色扮演秀 (sèbànyǎnxiù) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Chinese Mandarin: 角演 (juéyǎn) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Chinese Mandarin: cos — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Dutch: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Esperanto: rolkostumado — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Finnish: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Finnish: pukuilu — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• French: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• French: costumade — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Galician: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• German: Cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Hungarian: jelmezbál — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Hungarian: beöltözősdi — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Hungarian: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Italian: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Japanese: コスプレ (kosupure) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Korean: 코스프레 (koseupeure) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Marathi: कॉस्प्ले (kŏsple) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Norwegian Bokmål: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Norwegian Nynorsk: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Persian: کوزپلی (kospley) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Polish: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Portuguese: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Russian: коспле́й (kospléj) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Russian: коспле́й (kosplɛ́j) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Spanish: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Swedish: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Tagalog: cosplay — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Thai: คอสเพลย์ (kɔ́ɔs-plee) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Ukrainian: коспле́й (kospléj) — subculture centered on dressing as characters
• Bulgarian: коспле́йвам (kospléjvam) — to costume oneself as a character
• Catalan: vestir-se com — to costume oneself as a character
• Chinese Mandarin: cos — to costume oneself as a character
• Esperanto: rolkostumigi — to costume oneself as a character
• Finnish: pukuilla — to costume oneself as a character
• French: cosplayer — to costume oneself as a character
• French: costumader — to costume oneself as a character
• Italian: fare un cosplay — to costume oneself as a character
• Italian: vestirsi come — to costume oneself as a character
• Japanese: コスプレする — to costume oneself as a character
• Latin: vestior quā — to costume oneself as a character
• Polish: uprawiać cosplay — to costume oneself as a character
• Portuguese: fazer cosplay — to costume oneself as a character
• Russian: коспле́ить (kospléitʹ) — to costume oneself as a character
• Spanish: vestirse como — to costume oneself as a character
• Spanish: disfrazarse de — to costume oneself as a character
• Swedish: cosplaya — to costume oneself as a character
• Thai: คอสเพลย์ (kɔ́ɔs-plee) — to costume oneself as a character