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• /ˈdɪf(ə)ɹəns/
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH1 F ER0 AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *bher- Proto-Indo-European *bhéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin differō Latin differēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin differentiader. Old French differencebor. Middle English difference English difference From Middle English difference, from Old French difference, from Latin differentia (“difference”), from differēns (“different”), present participle of differre. Doublet of differentia. Morphologically differ + -ence.

350 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: verskil — quality of being different
• Albanian: ndryshim — quality of being different
• Arabic: فَرْق (farq) — quality of being different
• Arabic: اِخْتِلَاف (iḵtilāf) — quality of being different
• Arabic: تَفَاوُت (tafāwut) — quality of being different
• Arabic: فرق (farg) — quality of being different
• Arabic: اختلاف (iḵtilāf) — quality of being different
• Arabic: فْرق (frəq) — quality of being different
• Arabic: فارق (fāreq) — quality of being different
• Arabic: فرق (farq) — quality of being different
• Armenian: տարբերություն (tarberutʻyun) — quality of being different
• Azerbaijani: fərq — quality of being different
• Azerbaijani: təfavüt — quality of being different
• Baluchi: پرک (park) — quality of being different
• Baluchi: فرق (farq) — quality of being different
• Bashkir: айырма (ayırma) — quality of being different
• Belarusian: ро́зніца (róznica) — quality of being different
• Bengali: পার্থক্য (parthokko) — quality of being different
• Bengali: তফাত (tophat) — quality of being different
• Bhojpuri: अंतर (antar) — quality of being different
• Bulgarian: ра́злика (rázlika) — quality of being different
• Bulgarian: разли́чност (razlíčnost) — quality of being different
• Burmese: ခြားနားချက် (hkra:na:hkyak) — quality of being different
• Catalan: diferència — quality of being different
• Cebuano: kalahian — quality of being different
• Chechen: башхо (bašxo) — quality of being different
• Chinese Mandarin: 差別 /差别 (chābié) — quality of being different
• Chinese Mandarin: 差異 /差异 (chāyì) — quality of being different
• Crimean Tatar: farq — quality of being different
• Crimean Tatar: ayırma — quality of being different
• Czech: rozdíl — quality of being different
• Danish: forskel — quality of being different
• Dutch: verschil — quality of being different
• Esperanto: malsameco — quality of being different
• Esperanto: diferenco — quality of being different
• Estonian: erinevus — quality of being different
• Ewe: vovototo — quality of being different
• Faroese: munur — quality of being different
• Finnish: erilaisuus — quality of being different
• French: différence — quality of being different
• Galician: diferenza — quality of being different
• Georgian: განსხვავებულობა (gansxvavebuloba) — quality of being different
• German: Unterschied — quality of being different
• German: Unterscheidung — quality of being different
• German: Andersartigkeit — quality of being different
• German: Anderssein — quality of being different
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (gaskaideins) — quality of being different
• Greek: διαφορά (diaforá) — quality of being different
• Ancient Greek: διαφορά (diaphorá) — quality of being different
• Hebrew: שוני — quality of being different
• Hebrew: שֹׁנִי (shóni) — quality of being different
• Hebrew: הֶבְדֵּל (hevdél) — quality of being different
• Hindi: अंतर (antar) — quality of being different
• Hindi: भेद (bhed) — quality of being different
• Hindi: फ़र्क़ (farq) — quality of being different
• Hindi: प्रभेद (prabhed) — quality of being different
• Hindi: अवकल (avkal) — quality of being different
• Hungarian: különbség — quality of being different
• Icelandic: munur — quality of being different
• Ido: difero — quality of being different
• Indonesian: perbedaan — quality of being different
• Irish: difear — quality of being different
• Italian: differenza — quality of being different
• Japanese: 違い (chigai) — quality of being different
• Japanese: 差異 (sai) — quality of being different
• Old Javanese: bheda — quality of being different
• Kannada: ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸ (vyatyāsa) — quality of being different
• Kazakh: айырма (aiyrma) — quality of being different
• Kazakh: айырмашылық (aiyrmaşylyq) — quality of being different
• Khmer: ត្រកាល (trɑɑkaal) — quality of being different
• Khmer: ចំឡែក (cɑmlaek) — quality of being different
• Khmer: ប្លែក (plaek) — quality of being different
• Khmer: ពិសេស (pisaeh) — quality of being different
• Khmer: វិសេស (visaeh) — quality of being different
• Khmer: អញ្ញត្រ (ʼaññat) — quality of being different
• Korean: 차이 (chai) — quality of being different
• Korean: 다름 (dareum) — quality of being different
• Central Kurdish: جیاوازی (cyawazî) — quality of being different
• Kyrgyz: айырма (ayırma) — quality of being different
• Lao: ຄວາມແຕກຕ່າງ (khuām tǣk tāng) — quality of being different
• Latin: differentia — quality of being different
• Latvian: atšķirība — quality of being different
• Latvian: starpība — quality of being different
• Lithuanian: skirtumas — quality of being different
• Luxembourgish: Ënnerscheed — quality of being different
• Macedonian: различност (različnost) — quality of being different
• Malay: beza — quality of being different
• Malayalam: വ്യത്യാസം (vyatyāsaṁ) — quality of being different
• Marathi: फरक (pharak) — quality of being different
• Marathi: वेगळेपण (vegḷepaṇ) — quality of being different
• Middle English: difference — quality of being different
• Mongolian: ялгаа (jalgaa) — quality of being different
• Nepali: फरक (pharak) — quality of being different
• Nepali: अन्तर (antar) — quality of being different
• Norwegian Bokmål: forskjell — quality of being different
• Norwegian Bokmål: skilnad — quality of being different
• Norwegian Bokmål: differanse — quality of being different
• Occitan: diferéncia — quality of being different
• Odia: ପ୍ରଭେଦ (prabheda) — quality of being different
• Old English: unġelīcnes — quality of being different
• Pashto: پرخ (parx) — quality of being different
• Pashto: اختلاف (extelãf) — quality of being different
• Pashto: تفاوت (tafāwót) — quality of being different
• Iranian Persian: فَرْق (farġ) — quality of being different
• Iranian Persian: تَفاوُت (tafâvot) — quality of being different
• Iranian Persian: اِخْتِلاف (extelâf) — quality of being different
• Polish: różnica — quality of being different
• Portuguese: diferença — quality of being different
• Romanian: diferență — quality of being different
• Russian: разли́чие (razlíčije) — quality of being different
• Russian: отли́чие (otlíčije) — quality of being different
• Russian: ра́зница (ráznica) — quality of being different
• Samoan: 'ese'esega — quality of being different
• Scottish Gaelic: caochladh — quality of being different
• Scottish Gaelic: diofar — quality of being different
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-dhealachadh — quality of being different
• Serbo-Croatian: ра́злика — quality of being different
• Serbo-Croatian: rázlika — quality of being different
• Slovak: rozdiel — quality of being different
• Slovene: različnost — quality of being different
• Spanish: diferencia — quality of being different
• Spanish: discrimen — quality of being different
• Swahili: tofauti — quality of being different
• Swedish: avvikelse — quality of being different
• Swedish: differens — quality of being different
• Swedish: skillnad — quality of being different
• Swedish: olikhet — quality of being different
• Tabasaran: тафавут (tafavut) — quality of being different
• Tagalog: pagkakaiba — quality of being different
• Tajik: фарқ (farq) — quality of being different
• Tajik: тафовут (tafovut) — quality of being different
• Tajik: ихтилоф (ixtilof) — quality of being different
• Tamil: வித்தியாசம் (vittiyācam) — quality of being different
• Tamil: வேறுபாடு (vēṟupāṭu) — quality of being different
• Tatar: аерма (ayırma) — quality of being different
• Telugu: భేదము (bhēdamu) — quality of being different
• Thai: ความต่าง (kwaam-dtàang) — quality of being different
• Turkish: fark — quality of being different
• Turkish: ayrım — quality of being different
• Turkmen: parh — quality of being different
• Turkmen: tapawut — quality of being different
• Ukrainian: різни́ця (riznýcja) — quality of being different
• Urdu: فَرْق (farq) — quality of being different
• Urdu: اَنْتَر (antar) — quality of being different
• Uyghur: ئايرىما (ayrima) — quality of being different
• Uyghur: پەرق (perq) — quality of being different
• Uzbek: tafovut — quality of being different
• Uzbek: farq — quality of being different
• Uzbek: ayirma — quality of being different
• Uzbek: ixtilof — quality of being different
• Vietnamese: sự khác nhau — quality of being different
• Walloon: diferince — quality of being different
• Yiddish: אונטערשייד (untersheyd) — quality of being different
• Yucatec Maya: hela’anil — quality of being different
• Zazaki: entar — quality of being different
• Zazaki: ferq — quality of being different
• Zazaki: ca (diq) — quality of being different
• Albanian: veçorite — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Arabic: فَرْق (farq) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Arabic: فُرُوق (furūq) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Bashkir: айырма (ayırma) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Basque: alde — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Bengali: তফাত (tophat) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Bulgarian: разли́чие (razlíčie) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Catalan: diferència — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Cebuano: kalahian — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Cebuano: diperensiya — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Chinese Mandarin: 差別 /差别 (chābié) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Chinese Mandarin: 差異 /差异 (chāyì) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Crimean Tatar: farq — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Czech: rozdíl — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Danish: forskel — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Dutch: verschil — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Dutch: onderscheid — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Esperanto: malsameco — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Esperanto: diferenco — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Esperanto: malsamo — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Estonian: erinevus — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Ewe: vovototo — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Finnish: ero — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Finnish: eroavaisuus — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• French: différence — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Georgian: განსხვავება (gansxvaveba) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• German: Unterschied — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• German: Differenz — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Greek: διαφορά (diaforá) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Ancient Greek: διαφορά (diaphorá) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Hebrew: הֶבְדֵּל (hevdél) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Hindi: विशेषता (viśeṣtā) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Hindi: प्रभेद (prabhed) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Hungarian: különbség — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Ido: difero — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Indonesian: perbedaan — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Irish: difríocht — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Italian: differenza — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Japanese: 違い (chigai) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Khmer: វិជាតិ (viciət) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Korean: 다름 (dareum) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Korean: 차이 (chai) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Latin: differentia — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Latvian: atšķirība — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Latvian: starpība — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Lithuanian: skirtumas — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Macedonian: разлика (razlika) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Malayalam: വ്യത്യാസം (vyatyāsaṁ) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Middle English: difference — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Norwegian Bokmål: forskjell — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Norwegian Bokmål: differanse — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skilnad — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Norwegian Nynorsk: forskjell — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Norwegian Nynorsk: differanse — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Old English: unġelīcnes — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Polish: różnica — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Portuguese: diferença — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Romanian: diferență — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Russian: отличи́тельная черта́ (otličítelʹnaja čertá) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Russian: разли́чие (razlíčije) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Sanskrit: विशेष (viśeṣa) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Scottish Gaelic: diofar — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-dhealachadh — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Slovene: razlika — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Spanish: diferencia — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Spanish: discrimen — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Swedish: avvikelse — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Swedish: differens — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Swedish: skillnad — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Swedish: olikhet — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Tatar: әһәмиятле үзенчәлек (ähämiyätle üzençälek) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Telugu: తేడా (tēḍā) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Thai: ความต่าง (kwaam-dtàang) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Tocharian B: wakītsñe — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Turkish: fark — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Vietnamese: sự khác biệt — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Vietnamese: sự khác nhau — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Walloon: adire — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Walloon: diferince — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Yiddish: חילוק (khilek) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Yiddish: אונטערשייד (untersheyd) — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Yucatec Maya: hela’anil — characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
• Arabic: خِلاف (ḵilāf) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Arabic: خِلافات — disagreement or argument about something important
• Bulgarian: несъгла́сие (nesǎglásie) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Bulgarian: разногла́сие (raznoglásie) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Catalan: diferència — disagreement or argument about something important
• Cebuano: bikil — disagreement or argument about something important
• Cebuano: kalahian — disagreement or argument about something important
• Crimean Tatar: farq — disagreement or argument about something important
• Dutch: meningsverschil — disagreement or argument about something important
• Finnish: erimielisyys — disagreement or argument about something important
• Finnish: mielipide-ero — disagreement or argument about something important
• French: différend — disagreement or argument about something important
• Georgian: უთანხმოება (utanxmoeba) — disagreement or argument about something important
• German: Meinungsverschiedenheit — disagreement or argument about something important
• German: Differenz — disagreement or argument about something important
• Greek: διαφορά (diaforá) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Hindi: विभेद (vibhed) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Indonesian: perselisihan — disagreement or argument about something important
• Khmer: ខ្វែងយោបល់ (khvaeng yoobɑl) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Malayalam: വ്യത്യാസം (vyatyāsaṁ) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Malayalam: ഭിന്നത (bhinnata) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Middle English: difference — disagreement or argument about something important
• Nepali: मतभेद (matbhed) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Polish: różnica — disagreement or argument about something important
• Portuguese: diferença — disagreement or argument about something important
• Russian: разногла́сие (raznoglásije) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Spanish: diferencia — disagreement or argument about something important
• Swedish: meningsskiljaktighet — disagreement or argument about something important
• Swedish: tvist — disagreement or argument about something important
• Swedish: tvistepunkt — disagreement or argument about something important
• Telugu: విభేదము (vibhēdamu) — disagreement or argument about something important
• Thai: ความเห็นต่าง — disagreement or argument about something important
• Vietnamese: sự bất đồng — disagreement or argument about something important
• Walloon: diferin — disagreement or argument about something important
• Arabic: فَرْق (farq) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Armenian: մնացորդ (mnacʻord) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Asturian: diferencia — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Asturian: resta — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Bashkir: айырма (ayırma) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Belarusian: ро́зніца (róznica) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Bulgarian: ра́злика (rázlika) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Catalan: diferència — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Cebuano: iban — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Czech: rozdíl — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Danish: differens — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Dutch: verschil — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Esperanto: diferenco — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Finnish: erotus — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• French: différence — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Galician: diferenza — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Georgian: სხვაობა (sxvaoba) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• German: Differenz — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Greek: διαφορά (diaforá) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Hebrew: הֶפְרֵשׁ (hefrésh) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Hindi: भेद (bhed) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Hindi: अवकल (avkal) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Icelandic: mismunur — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Ido: difero — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Indonesian: selisih — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Irish: difríocht — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Italian: differenza — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Japanese: 差 (sa) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Khmer: នានត្ត (niənat) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Korean: 차 (cha) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Korean: 차이 (chai) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Lao: ຜົນລັບ (phon lap) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Macedonian: разлика (razlika) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Māori: huatango — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Middle English: difference — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Iranian Persian: اِخْتِلاف (extelâf) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Iranian Persian: تَفاضُل (tafâzol) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Polish: różnica — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Portuguese: diferença — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Portuguese: resto — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Romanian: diferență — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Russian: ра́зность (ráznostʹ) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Russian: ра́зница (ráznica) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Serbo-Croatian: ра́злика — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Serbo-Croatian: rázlika — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Slovene: razlika — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Spanish: diferencia — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Swedish: differens — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Swedish: skillnad — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Tagalog: kaibhan — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Telugu: భేదము (bhēdamu) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Thai: ผลต่าง (pǒn-dtàang) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Turkish: fark — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Turkish: kalan — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Ukrainian: рі́зниця (ríznycja) — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Vietnamese: hiệu số — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Vietnamese: hiệu — arithmetic: result of a subtraction
• Arabic: مَيَّزَ (mayyaza) — to distinguish or differentiate
• Bulgarian: различавам (različavam) — to distinguish or differentiate
• Cebuano: sahin — to distinguish or differentiate
• Dutch: differentiëren — to distinguish or differentiate
• Dutch: onderscheiden — to distinguish or differentiate
• Finnish: erottaa — to distinguish or differentiate
• German: differenzieren — to distinguish or differentiate
• German: unterscheiden — to distinguish or differentiate
• Greek: διακρίνω (diakríno) — to distinguish or differentiate
• Hebrew: הבדיל (hivdíl) — to distinguish or differentiate
• Hindi: अंतर करना (antar karnā) — to distinguish or differentiate
• Ido: diferar — to distinguish or differentiate
• Nepali: फरक छुट्याउनू (pharak chuṭyāunū) — to distinguish or differentiate
• Persian: فرق گذاشتن (farq gozâštan) — to distinguish or differentiate
• Polish: odróżniać — to distinguish or differentiate
• Polish: odróżnić — to distinguish or differentiate
• Portuguese: diferenciar — to distinguish or differentiate
• Swedish: skilja — to distinguish or differentiate
• Swedish: skilja åt — to distinguish or differentiate
• Zazaki: ferq kerden — to distinguish or differentiate