criterion

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From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic.

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kriter — standard for comparison and judgment
• Arabic: مِعْيَار (miʕyār) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Armenian: չափանիշ (čʻapʻaniš) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Asturian: criteriu — standard for comparison and judgment
• Azerbaijani: meyar — standard for comparison and judgment
• Azerbaijani: mizan — standard for comparison and judgment
• Azerbaijani: kriteri — standard for comparison and judgment
• Belarusian: крытэ́рый (krytéryj) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Belarusian: ме́рыва (mjéryva) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Belarusian: ме́рка (mjérka) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Bulgarian: крите́рий (kritérij) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Bulgarian: мери́ло (merílo) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Catalan: criteri — standard for comparison and judgment
• Chinese Mandarin: 標準 /标准 (biāozhǔn) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Chinese Mandarin: 尺度 (chǐdù) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Chinese Mandarin: 準則 /准则 (zhǔnzé) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Chinese Mandarin: 軌範 /轨范 (guǐfàn) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Czech: kritérium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Czech: kriterium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Danish: kriterium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Dutch: criterium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Esperanto: kriterio — standard for comparison and judgment
• Estonian: kriteerium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Finnish: kriteeri — standard for comparison and judgment
• French: critère — standard for comparison and judgment
• Georgian: კრიტერიუმი (ḳriṭeriumi) — standard for comparison and judgment
• German: Kriterium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Greek: κριτήριο (kritírio) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Ancient Greek: κριτήριον (kritḗrion) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Hebrew: קרִיטֶרִיוֹן (kriteryón) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Hindi: मानदंड (māndaṇḍ) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Hindi: मापदंड (māpdaṇḍ) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Hungarian: ismérv — standard for comparison and judgment
• Hungarian: kritérium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Hungarian: szempont — standard for comparison and judgment
• Icelandic: greinimark — standard for comparison and judgment
• Indonesian: kriteria — standard for comparison and judgment
• Indonesian: kriterium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Italian: criterio — standard for comparison and judgment
• Japanese: 基準 (kijun) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Japanese: 判断基準 (handan kijun) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Kazakh: өлшемшарт (ölşemşart) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Kazakh: өлшем (ölşem) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Korean: 표준 (pyojun) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Central Kurdish: میزان (mîzan) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Central Kurdish: کریتێر (krîtêr) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Central Kurdish: پێوەر (pêwer) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Northern Kurdish: pîvan — standard for comparison and judgment
• Northern Kurdish: krîter — standard for comparison and judgment
• Kyrgyz: критерий (kriteriy) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Latvian: kritērijs — standard for comparison and judgment
• Lithuanian: kriterijus — standard for comparison and judgment
• Macedonian: критериум (kriterium) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Malayalam: മാനദണ്ഡം (mānadaṇḍaṁ) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Māori: paearu — standard for comparison and judgment
• Mongolian: шалгуур (šalguur) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Norwegian Bokmål: kriterium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Pashto: معيار (me'yār) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Persian: معیار (me'yâr) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Persian: سنجه (sanjeh) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Polish: kryterium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Portuguese: critério — standard for comparison and judgment
• Romanian: criteriu — standard for comparison and judgment
• Russian: крите́рий (kritɛ́rij) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Russian: мери́ло (merílo) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Scottish Gaelic: slat-tomhais — standard for comparison and judgment
• Serbo-Croatian: ме̏рило — standard for comparison and judgment
• Serbo-Croatian: мје̏рило — standard for comparison and judgment
• Serbo-Croatian: критеријум — standard for comparison and judgment
• Serbo-Croatian: mȅrilo — standard for comparison and judgment
• Serbo-Croatian: mjȅrilo — standard for comparison and judgment
• Serbo-Croatian: kriterijum — standard for comparison and judgment
• Slovak: kritérium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Slovene: merilo — standard for comparison and judgment
• Slovene: kriterij — standard for comparison and judgment
• Spanish: criterio — standard for comparison and judgment
• Spanish: criteriómetro (foundationless) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Swahili: kigezo — standard for comparison and judgment
• Swedish: kriterium — standard for comparison and judgment
• Tagalog: panuntunan — standard for comparison and judgment
• Tajik: меъёр (me'yor) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Turkish: ölçüt — standard for comparison and judgment
• Turkish: kriter — standard for comparison and judgment
• Turkish: kıstas — standard for comparison and judgment
• Ottoman Turkish: معیار (miʼyâr) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Ukrainian: крите́рій (krytérij) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Ukrainian: міри́ло (mirýlo) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Urdu: مِعْیار (me'yār) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Uyghur: ئۆلچەم (ölchem) — standard for comparison and judgment
• Uzbek: mezon — standard for comparison and judgment
• Uzbek: meʼyor — standard for comparison and judgment
• Uzbek: kriteriy — standard for comparison and judgment
• Vietnamese: tiêu chuẩn — standard for comparison and judgment
• Welsh: maen prawf — standard for comparison and judgment