council

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• kounʹ-səl
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• /ˈkaʊn.səl/
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• Northumbria: /ˈkuːn.səl/
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• rhymes with -aʊnsəl
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• homophone: counsel
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• CMU ARPABET: K AW1 N S AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English counseil (“meeting, conference, commune”), from Old French conseil (“advice, deliberation, thought”), from Latin cōnsilium (“plan, intention, design, purpose”), from cōnsulō (“consult, seek counsel from, take counsel from, deliberate, reflect”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh1- (“take, grab”).

145 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: këshill — committee that leads or governs
• Arabic: مَجْلِس (majlis) — committee that leads or governs
• Arabic: مَجْمَع (majmaʕ) — committee that leads or governs
• Armenian: խորհուրդ (xorhurd) — committee that leads or governs
• Asturian: conceyu — committee that leads or governs
• Azerbaijani: şura — committee that leads or governs
• Azerbaijani: məclis — committee that leads or governs
• Belarusian: ра́да (ráda) — committee that leads or governs
• Bengali: মজলিস (mojoliś) — committee that leads or governs
• Bengali: পরিষদ (poriśod) — committee that leads or governs
• Breton: kuzul — committee that leads or governs
• Bulgarian: съве́т (sǎvét) — committee that leads or governs
• Burmese: ကောင်စီ (kaungci) — committee that leads or governs
• Catalan: consell — committee that leads or governs
• Chinese Mandarin: 理事會 /理事会 (lǐshìhuì) — committee that leads or governs
• Chinese Mandarin: 委員會 /委员会 (wěiyuánhuì) — committee that leads or governs
• Chinese Mandarin: 市政廳 /市政厅 (shìzhèngtīng) — committee that leads or governs
• Coptic: ⲙⲁⲛϩⲉⲙⲥⲓ (manhemsi) — committee that leads or governs
• Cornish: konsel — committee that leads or governs
• Czech: rada — committee that leads or governs
• Czech: zastupitelstvo — committee that leads or governs
• Danish: råd — committee that leads or governs
• Dutch: raad — committee that leads or governs
• Egyptian: DA-DA-nw*t:Aa8 (ḏꜣḏꜣt) — committee that leads or governs
• Esperanto: konsilio — committee that leads or governs
• Estonian: nõukogu — committee that leads or governs
• Finnish: neuvosto — committee that leads or governs
• Finnish: valtuusto — committee that leads or governs
• French: conseil — committee that leads or governs
• Galician: consello — committee that leads or governs
• Georgian: საბჭო (sabč̣o) — committee that leads or governs
• German: Rat — committee that leads or governs
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐍃 (gafaurds) — committee that leads or governs
• Greek: συμβούλιο (symvoúlio) — committee that leads or governs
• Ancient Greek: συνέδριον (sunédrion) — committee that leads or governs
• Hausa: majalisa — committee that leads or governs
• Hebrew: מוֹעָצָה (mo'atsá) — committee that leads or governs
• Hindi: परिषद (pariṣad) — committee that leads or governs
• Hindi: मजलिस (majlis) — committee that leads or governs
• Hungarian: tanács — committee that leads or governs
• Icelandic: ráð — committee that leads or governs
• Indonesian: dewan — committee that leads or governs
• Indonesian: konsil — committee that leads or governs
• Indonesian: majelis — committee that leads or governs
• Interlingua: consilio — committee that leads or governs
• Interlingua: concilio — committee that leads or governs
• Italian: consiglio — committee that leads or governs
• Japanese: 評議会 (hyōgikai) — committee that leads or governs
• Japanese: 協議会 (kyōgikai) — committee that leads or governs
• Karakalpak: keńes — committee that leads or governs
• Kazakh: кеңес (keñes) — committee that leads or governs
• Kazakh: мәжіліс (mäjılıs) — committee that leads or governs
• Khakas: чӧп (çöp) — committee that leads or governs
• Khmer: សភា (saʼphiə) — committee that leads or governs
• Korean: 이사회 (isahoe) — committee that leads or governs
• Korean: 평의회 (pyeong'uihoe) — committee that leads or governs
• Central Kurdish: ئەنجومەن (encumen) — committee that leads or governs
• Northern Kurdish: konsey — committee that leads or governs
• Kyrgyz: кеңеш (keŋeş) — committee that leads or governs
• Kyrgyz: мажилис (majilis) — committee that leads or governs
• Lao: ສະພາ (sa phā) — committee that leads or governs
• Latin: consilium — committee that leads or governs
• Latvian: dome — committee that leads or governs
• Latvian: padome — committee that leads or governs
• Limburgish: raod — committee that leads or governs
• Lithuanian: taryba — committee that leads or governs
• Macedonian: совет (sovet) — committee that leads or governs
• Malay: majlis — committee that leads or governs
• Malay: dewan — committee that leads or governs
• Maltese: kunsill — committee that leads or governs
• Māori: rūnanga — committee that leads or governs
• Middle English: counseil — committee that leads or governs
• Mongolian: зөвлөл (zövlöl) — committee that leads or governs
• Norman: conseil — committee that leads or governs
• Norwegian Bokmål: råd — committee that leads or governs
• Norwegian Nynorsk: råd — committee that leads or governs
• Church Slavic: вѣще (věšte) — committee that leads or governs
• Church Slavic: съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ) — committee that leads or governs
• Old East Slavic: вѣче (věče) — committee that leads or governs
• Old East Slavic: рада (rada) — committee that leads or governs
• Old East Slavic: съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ) — committee that leads or governs
• Old English: samnung — committee that leads or governs
• Old English: ġemōt — committee that leads or governs
• Old English: gaderung — committee that leads or governs
• Old Leonese: concello — committee that leads or governs
• Old Leonese: conceio — committee that leads or governs
• Pashto: شورا (šorã) — committee that leads or governs
• Pashto: مجلس (majləs) — committee that leads or governs
• Dari: شُورَا (šūrā) — committee that leads or governs
• Dari: مَجْلِس (majlis) — committee that leads or governs
• Iranian Persian: شُورا (šowrâ) — committee that leads or governs
• Iranian Persian: مَجْلِس (majles) — committee that leads or governs
• Polish: rada — committee that leads or governs
• Portuguese: conselho — committee that leads or governs
• Romanian: sfat — committee that leads or governs
• Romanian: consiliu — committee that leads or governs
• Russian: сове́т (sovét) — committee that leads or governs
• Sanskrit: परिषद् (pariṣad) — committee that leads or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: са́вјет — committee that leads or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: са́вет — committee that leads or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: вије́ће — committee that leads or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: ве́ће — committee that leads or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: sávjet — committee that leads or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: sávet — committee that leads or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: vijéće — committee that leads or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: véće — committee that leads or governs
• Sicilian: cunzigghiu — committee that leads or governs
• Sicilian: junta — committee that leads or governs
• Slovak: rada — committee that leads or governs
• Slovak: zastupiteľstvo — committee that leads or governs
• Slovene: svet — committee that leads or governs
• Spanish: concejo — committee that leads or governs
• Spanish: concilio — committee that leads or governs
• Swahili: kikao — committee that leads or governs
• Swahili: baraza — committee that leads or governs
• Swedish: råd — committee that leads or governs
• Swedish: styrelse — committee that leads or governs
• Tagalog: sanggunian — committee that leads or governs
• Tajik: шӯро (šüro) — committee that leads or governs
• Tajik: маҷлис (majlis) — committee that leads or governs
• Tatar: мәҗлис (mäclis) — committee that leads or governs
• Thai: สภา (sà-paa) — committee that leads or governs
• Tocharian B: wertsiya — committee that leads or governs
• Turkish: konsey — committee that leads or governs
• Turkish: meclis — committee that leads or governs
• Ottoman Turkish: مجلس (meclis) — committee that leads or governs
• Ottoman Turkish: مشورت (meşveret) — committee that leads or governs
• Turkmen: geňeş — committee that leads or governs
• Turkmen: mejlis — committee that leads or governs
• Tuvan: чөвүлел (çövülel) — committee that leads or governs
• Udmurt: кенеш (keńeš) — committee that leads or governs
• Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎃𐎗 (pḫr) — committee that leads or governs
• Ukrainian: ра́да (ráda) — committee that leads or governs
• Urdu: مَجْلِس (majlis) — committee that leads or governs
• Urdu: اَنْجُمَنْ (anjuman) — committee that leads or governs
• Urdu: کَونْسِل (kaunsil) — committee that leads or governs
• Uyghur: كېڭەش (kë'ngesh) — committee that leads or governs
• Uyghur: مەجلىس (mejlis) — committee that leads or governs
• Uyghur: кеңәш (kë'ngesh) — committee that leads or governs
• Uzbek: kengash — committee that leads or governs
• Uzbek: majlis — committee that leads or governs
• Vietnamese: hội đồng — committee that leads or governs
• Welsh: cyngor — committee that leads or governs
• Yiddish: ראַט (rat) — committee that leads or governs
• Yiddish: ראָט (rot) — committee that leads or governs