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From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. The computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious. Doublet of delible and deleble.

From the verb delete.

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: touche de suppression — a key that may be pressed to delete something
• German: Entfernen — a key that may be pressed to delete something
• Spanish: tecla de suprimir — a key that may be pressed to delete something
• Vietnamese: phím xóa — a key that may be pressed to delete something
• Vietnamese: phím xóa tiến — a key that may be pressed to delete something
• Afrikaans: skrap — to remove
• Afrikaans: wis — to remove
• Afrikaans: uitwis — to remove
• Arabic: حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa) — to remove
• Arabic: مسح (masaḥ) — to remove
• Arabic: شطب (šaṭab) — to remove
• Arabic: حذف (ḥaḏaf) — to remove
• Bashkir: юйыу (yuyıw) — to remove
• Bengali: হজফ করা (hôzôf kôra) — to remove
• Bulgarian: према́хвам (premáhvam) — to remove
• Bulgarian: изтривам (iztrivam) — to remove
• Catalan: esborrar — to remove
• Chinese Mandarin: 刪除 /删除 (shānchú) — to remove
• Czech: vymazat — to remove
• Czech: smazat — to remove
• Dutch: verwijderen — to remove
• Esperanto: forpreni — to remove
• Esperanto: forstreki — to remove
• Esperanto: eksigi — to remove
• Esperanto: forigi — to remove
• Finnish: poistaa — to remove
• French: supprimer — to remove
• West-Frisian: fuortsmite — to remove
• Galician: borrar — to remove
• Galician: sacar — to remove
• Galician: suprimir — to remove
• Georgian: წაშლა (c̣ašla) — to remove
• Georgian: ამოშლა (amošla) — to remove
• German: streichen — to remove
• German: löschen — to remove
• Greek: διαγράφω (diagráfo) — to remove
• Greek: καταργώ (katargó) — to remove
• Hungarian: töröl — to remove
• Hungarian: kitöröl — to remove
• Icelandic: fjarlægja — to remove
• Indonesian: menghapus — to remove
• Irish: scrios — to remove
• Italian: cancellare — to remove
• Italian: eliminare — to remove
• Japanese: 消す (kesu) — to remove
• Japanese: 削除する (sakujo-suru) — to remove
• Khmer: លុប (lup) — to remove
• Korean: 삭제(削除)하다 (sakjehada) — to remove
• Latin: dēleō — to remove
• Latin: ērādō — to remove
• Latin: ablēgō — to remove
• Malayalam: കളയുക (kaḷayuka) — to remove
• Malayalam: നീക്കംചെയ്യുക (nīkkañceyyuka) — to remove
• Malayalam: ഇല്ലാതാക്കുക (illātākkuka) — to remove
• Malayalam: മായ്ക്കുക (māykkuka) — to remove
• Māori: whakakore — to remove
• Māori: whakakorekore — to remove
• Māori: whākorekore — to remove
• Māori: muku — to remove
• Persian: حذفیدن — to remove
• Polish: usuwać — to remove
• Portuguese: apagar — to remove
• Portuguese: excluir — to remove
• Portuguese: deletar — to remove
• Portuguese: eliminar — to remove
• Romanian: șterge — to remove
• Russian: удаля́ть (udaljátʹ) — to remove
• Russian: удали́ть (udalítʹ) — to remove
• Sanskrit: नाशयति (nāśayati) — to remove
• Scottish Gaelic: sguab às — to remove
• Serbo-Croatian: brisati — to remove
• Serbo-Croatian: izbrisati — to remove
• Serbo-Croatian: obrisati — to remove
• Sicilian: scanciḍḍari — to remove
• Sicilian: livari — to remove
• Spanish: borrar — to remove
• Spanish: elidir — to remove
• Spanish: eliminar — to remove
• Spanish: deletear — to remove
• Spanish: suprimir — to remove
• Swedish: ta bort — to remove
• Swedish: radera — to remove
• Tagalog: burahin — to remove
• Thai: ลบ (lóp) — to remove
• Turkish: silmek — to remove
• Ottoman Turkish: قازیمق (kazımak) — to remove
• Ukrainian: видалити (vydalyty) — to remove
• Ukrainian: видаляти (vydaljaty) — to remove
• Vietnamese: xóa — to remove
• Vietnamese: gạch — to remove
• Vietnamese: gạt bỏ — to remove
• Welsh: dileu — to remove
• Yiddish: אויסמעקן (oysmekn) — to remove
• Zazaki: esteren — to remove