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• /dɪˈskɹɪpʃən/
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From Middle English descripcioun, from Old French description and its etymon, Latin dēscrīptiō, noun of action of dēscrībō (“to describe”). Equivalent to describe + -tion.

152 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: përshkrim — account in words
• Arabic: وَصْف (waṣf) — account in words
• Arabic: تَوْصِيف (tawṣīf) — account in words
• Arabic: تَصْوِير (taṣwīr) — account in words
• Arabic: تَفْصِيل (tafṣīl) — account in words
• Armenian: նկարագրություն (nkaragrutʻyun) — account in words
• Azerbaijani: təsvir — account in words
• Belarusian: апіса́нне (apisánnje) — account in words
• Belarusian: апіса́ньне (apisánʹnje) — account in words
• Bengali: বয়ান (boẏan) — account in words
• Bulgarian: описа́ние (opisánie) — account in words
• Burmese: ဖေါ်ပြချက် (hpau-pra.hkyak) — account in words
• Catalan: descripció — account in words
• Chinese Mandarin: 描寫 /描写 (miáoxiě) — account in words
• Chinese Mandarin: 描述 (miáoshù) — account in words
• Czech: popis — account in words
• Danish: beskrivelse — account in words
• Dutch: beschrijving — account in words
• Dutch: descriptie — account in words
• Esperanto: priskribo — account in words
• Estonian: kirjeldus — account in words
• Finnish: kuvaus — account in words
• Finnish: selitys — account in words
• French: description — account in words
• Galician: descrición — account in words
• Georgian: აღწერა (aɣc̣era) — account in words
• German: Beschreibung — account in words
• German: Deskription — account in words
• Greek: περιγραφή (perigrafí) — account in words
• Ancient Greek: ἔκφρασις (ékphrasis) — account in words
• Ancient Greek: περιήγησις (periḗgēsis) — account in words
• Hebrew: תיאור \ תֵּאוּר (te'ur) — account in words
• Hindi: विवरण (vivraṇ) — account in words
• Hindi: वर्णन (varṇan) — account in words
• Hindi: व्याख्या (vyākhyā) — account in words
• Hungarian: leírás — account in words
• Icelandic: lýsing — account in words
• Ido: deskripto — account in words
• Indonesian: deskripsi — account in words
• Italian: descrizione — account in words
• Japanese: 記述 (kijutsu) — account in words
• Japanese: 説明 (setsumei) — account in words
• Japanese: 描写 (byōsha) — account in words
• Kazakh: баяндау (baändau) — account in words
• Kazakh: сипаттау (sipattau) — account in words
• Khmer: ពិពណ៌នា (pipɔəniə) — account in words
• Khmer: ពណ៌នា (pɔənaʼniə) — account in words
• Khmer: ព្យាករណ៍ (pyiəkɑɑ) — account in words
• Korean: 묘사 (myosa) — account in words
• Korean: 기술 (gisul) — account in words
• Korean: 서술 (seosul) — account in words
• Korean: 설명 (seolmyeong) — account in words
• Central Kurdish: وەسف (wesf) — account in words
• Kyrgyz: баяндоо (bayandoo) — account in words
• Kyrgyz: сыпаттоо (sıpattoo) — account in words
• Ladino: deskripsion — account in words
• Lao: ການພັນລະນາ (kān phan la nā) — account in words
• Latin: dēscrīptiō — account in words
• Latvian: apraksts — account in words
• Latvian: attēlojums — account in words
• Ligurian: descriçion — account in words
• Lithuanian: aprašymas — account in words
• Macedonian: опис (opis) — account in words
• Māori: whakaahuatanga — account in words
• Meänkieli: kuvvailu — account in words
• Mongolian: тодорхойлолт (todorxojlolt) — account in words
• Mongolian: дүрслэл (dürslel) — account in words
• Mongolian: тайлбар (tajlbar) — account in words
• Norwegian Bokmål: beskrivelse — account in words
• Occitan: descripcion — account in words
• Oromo: ibsa — account in words
• Pashto: توصيف (tawsīf) — account in words
• Pashto: تصوير (taswīr) — account in words
• Dari: تَوصِیف (tawsīf) — account in words
• Dari: وَصْف (wasf) — account in words
• Dari: تَصْوِیر (taswīr) — account in words
• Iranian Persian: تُوصیف (towsif) — account in words
• Iranian Persian: وَصْف (vasf) — account in words
• Iranian Persian: تَصْویر (tasvir) — account in words
• Polish: opis — account in words
• Portuguese: descrição — account in words
• Romanian: descripție — account in words
• Romanian: descriere — account in words
• Russian: описа́ние (opisánije) — account in words
• Scots: descreeption — account in words
• Scottish Gaelic: tuairisgeul — account in words
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀пис — account in words
• Serbo-Croatian: òpis — account in words
• Slovak: popis — account in words
• Slovene: opis — account in words
• Spanish: descripción — account in words
• Swedish: beskrivning — account in words
• Tagalog: paglalarawan — account in words
• Tagalog: deskripsyon — account in words
• Tajik: тавсиф (tavsif) — account in words
• Tajik: тасвир (tasvir) — account in words
• Tajik: васф (vasf) — account in words
• Tatar: тасвир (taswir) — account in words
• Tatar: тасвирлама (taswirlama) — account in words
• Telugu: వర్ణన (varṇana) — account in words
• Thai: การพรรณนา (gaan-pan-ná-naa) — account in words
• Tibetan: འགྲེལ་བཤད། ('grel bshad) — account in words
• Turkish: tanım — account in words
• Turkish: tavsif — account in words
• Turkmen: beýan — account in words
• Ukrainian: о́пис (ópys) — account in words
• Urdu: بَیان (bayān) — account in words
• Urdu: تَعْرِیف (ta'rīf) — account in words
• Urdu: وَصْف (vasf) — account in words
• Uyghur: تەسۋىر (teswir) — account in words
• Uzbek: tasvir — account in words
• Uzbek: tavsif — account in words
• Uzbek: vasf — account in words
• Vietnamese: sự miêu tả — account in words
• Vietnamese: sự mô tả — account in words
• Yiddish: באַשרײַבונג (bashraybung) — account in words
• Yiddish: באַשרײַבעכץ (bashraybekhts) — account in words
• Estonian: kirjeldamine — act of describing
• Finnish: kuvailu — act of describing
• Finnish: kuvaaminen — act of describing
• Hindi: विवरण (vivraṇ) — act of describing
• Hindi: व्याख्या (vyākhyā) — act of describing
• Lithuanian: apibūdinimas — act of describing
• Russian: описа́ние (opisánije) — act of describing
• Tatar: тасвирлау (taswirlaw) — act of describing
• Thai: การพรรณนา (gaan-pan-ná-naa) — act of describing
• Tibetan: ངོ་སྤྲོད་བྱེད་པ། (ngo sprod byed pa) — act of describing
• Turkish: tasvir — act of describing
• Ottoman Turkish: تصویر (tasvir) — act of describing
• Bulgarian: описа́ние (opisánie) — set of characteristics
• Finnish: määritelmä — set of characteristics
• French: signalement — set of characteristics
• Hungarian: leírás — set of characteristics
• Hungarian: személyleírás — set of characteristics
• Irish: comharthaí — set of characteristics
• Irish: comharthaí aithne — set of characteristics
• Irish: comharthaí sóirt — set of characteristics
• Russian: описа́ние (opisánije) — set of characteristics
• Scottish Gaelic: tuairisgeul — set of characteristics
• Spanish: señalamiento — set of characteristics
• Swedish: signalement — set of characteristics
• Tibetan: ཁས་གསལ་བའི་བྱིན་གྲངས། (khas gsal ba'i byin grangs) — set of characteristics
• Turkish: vasif — set of characteristics
• Yiddish: באַשרײַבונג (bashraybung) — set of characteristics
• Yiddish: באַשרײַבעכץ (bashraybekhts) — set of characteristics
• Finnish: kuvaus — taxonomy: scientific documentation of a taxon
• Japanese: 記載 (kisai) — taxonomy: scientific documentation of a taxon
• Tibetan: རིག་གནས་ཀྱི་དོན་སྤྲོད་དངོས་འཛིན། (rig gnas kyi don sprod dngos 'dzin) — taxonomy: scientific documentation of a taxon
• Finnish: kuvailu — linguistics: act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage
• Tibetan: སྐད་སྒྲ་གོ་རྒྱུ་བཤད་མཁས་གྲུབ། (skad sgra go rgyu bshad mkhas grub) — linguistics: act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage
• Finnish: kuvaileva tutkimus — linguistics: descriptive linguistic survey
• Tibetan: སྐད་ཡིག་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཞིབ་འཇུག། (skad yig ngo sprod zhib 'jug) — linguistics: descriptive linguistic survey