dispute

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpjuːt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [dɪsˈphjʊu̯t]
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪs.pjuːt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈdɪs.phjʊu̯t]
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• General-American: /ˈdɪs.pjut/
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• General-American: [ˈdɪs.phjʊu̯t]
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• General-American: /dɪsˈpjut/
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• General-American: [dɪsˈphjʊu̯t]
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• Australian: /dɪsˈpjʉːt/
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• Australian: [dɪsˈphjʊ̈ʉ̯t]
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• Australian: /ˈdɪs.pjʉːt/
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• Australian: [ˈdɪs.phjʊ̈ʉ̯t]
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• Received-Pronunciation: [dɪsˈpjʊu̯t]
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• General-American: [dɪsˈpjʊu̯t]
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• rhymes with -uːt
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S P Y UW1 T 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- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin disputo Old French desputerbor. Middle English disputen English dispute From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disputāre (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + putāre (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”), related to purus (“pure”). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.

245 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: mosmarrëveshje — argument, failure to agree
• Albanian: diskutim — argument, failure to agree
• Arabic: خِلَاف (ḵilāf) — argument, failure to agree
• Arabic: مُبَاحَثَة (mubāḥaṯa) — argument, failure to agree
• Arabic: مُنَاقَشَة (munāqaša) — argument, failure to agree
• Arabic: جَدَل (jadal) — argument, failure to agree
• Arabic: نِزَاع (nizāʕ) — argument, failure to agree
• Arabic: بَحْث (baḥṯ) — argument, failure to agree
• Armenian: վեճ (več) — argument, failure to agree
• Azerbaijani: mübahisə — argument, failure to agree
• Azerbaijani: münaqişə — argument, failure to agree
• Belarusian: спор (spor) — argument, failure to agree
• Belarusian: ды́спут (dýsput) — argument, failure to agree
• Belarusian: спрэ́чка (spréčka) — argument, failure to agree
• Belarusian: пале́міка (paljémika) — argument, failure to agree
• Bengali: বিবাদ (bibad) — argument, failure to agree
• Bulgarian: спор (spor) — argument, failure to agree
• Bulgarian: поле́мика (polémika) — argument, failure to agree
• Bulgarian: ра́зпра (rázpra) — argument, failure to agree
• Bulgarian: диспу́т (dispút) — argument, failure to agree
• Burmese: အငြင်း (a.ngrang:) — argument, failure to agree
• Burmese: ပဋိပက္ခ (pa.ti.pakhka.) — argument, failure to agree
• Chinese Mandarin: 爭論 /争论 (zhēnglùn) — argument, failure to agree
• Chinese Mandarin: 爭議 /争议 (zhēngyì) — argument, failure to agree
• Chinese Mandarin: 爭端 /争端 (zhēngduān) — argument, failure to agree
• Chinese Mandarin: 糾紛 /纠纷 (jiūfēn) — argument, failure to agree
• Czech: spor — argument, failure to agree
• Danish: strid — argument, failure to agree
• Danish: tvist — argument, failure to agree
• Dutch: geschil — argument, failure to agree
• Dutch: twist — argument, failure to agree
• Esperanto: disputo — argument, failure to agree
• Estonian: vaidlus — argument, failure to agree
• Finnish: kiista — argument, failure to agree
• French: dispute — argument, failure to agree
• French: litige — argument, failure to agree
• Galician: rifa — argument, failure to agree
• Galician: tarapuxa — argument, failure to agree
• Galician: retesía — argument, failure to agree
• Galician: learaza — argument, failure to agree
• Galician: barata — argument, failure to agree
• Georgian: დავა (dava) — argument, failure to agree
• Georgian: კამათი (ḳamati) — argument, failure to agree
• German: Streit — argument, failure to agree
• German: Disput — argument, failure to agree
• Greek: διένεξη (diénexi) — argument, failure to agree
• Greek: έριδα (érida) — argument, failure to agree
• Greek: διαμάχη (diamáchi) — argument, failure to agree
• Hebrew: רִיב (riv) — argument, failure to agree
• Hindi: असहमति (ashamti) — argument, failure to agree
• Hindi: विवाद (vivād) — argument, failure to agree
• Hungarian: vita — argument, failure to agree
• Icelandic: deila — argument, failure to agree
• Icelandic: ágreiningur — argument, failure to agree
• Indonesian: sengketa — argument, failure to agree
• Indonesian: perselisihan — argument, failure to agree
• Irish: imreas — argument, failure to agree
• Italian: disputa — argument, failure to agree
• Italian: lite — argument, failure to agree
• Italian: bega — argument, failure to agree
• Japanese: 論争 (ronsō) — argument, failure to agree
• Japanese: 議論 (giron) — argument, failure to agree
• Kazakh: дау (dau) — argument, failure to agree
• Kazakh: талас (talas) — argument, failure to agree
• Kazakh: жанжал (janjal) — argument, failure to agree
• Khmer: ជម្លោះ (cɔɔcumlŭəh) — argument, failure to agree
• Khmer: កលហៈ (kaʼlaʼhaʼ) — argument, failure to agree
• Korean: 논쟁 (nonjaeng) — argument, failure to agree
• Korean: 론쟁 (ronjaeng) — argument, failure to agree
• Korean: 의논 (uinon) — argument, failure to agree
• Kyrgyz: талаш (talaş) — argument, failure to agree
• Kyrgyz: чатак (catak) — argument, failure to agree
• Lao: ການໂຕ້ຖຽງ (kān tō thīang) — argument, failure to agree
• Latgalian: streids — argument, failure to agree
• Latvian: strīds — argument, failure to agree
• Latvian: ķilda — argument, failure to agree
• Lithuanian: kivirčas — argument, failure to agree
• Lithuanian: ginčas — argument, failure to agree
• Macedonian: спор (spor) — argument, failure to agree
• Macedonian: диспут (disput) — argument, failure to agree
• Malay: sengketa — argument, failure to agree
• Malay: pertikaian — argument, failure to agree
• Malayalam: തർക്കം (taṟkkaṁ) — argument, failure to agree
• Māori: whakatete — argument, failure to agree
• Māori: ngutungutu — argument, failure to agree
• Marshallese: akwāāl — argument, failure to agree
• Norwegian Bokmål: uenighet — argument, failure to agree
• Norwegian Bokmål: disputt — argument, failure to agree
• Norwegian Bokmål: tvist — argument, failure to agree
• Pashto: شخړه (šx̌aṛa) — argument, failure to agree
• Pashto: دعوه (da'wá) — argument, failure to agree
• Iranian Persian: دَعْوا (da'vâ) — argument, failure to agree
• Iranian Persian: نِزَاع (nezâ') — argument, failure to agree
• Iranian Persian: بَحْث (bahs) — argument, failure to agree
• Polish: spór — argument, failure to agree
• Polish: kłótnia — argument, failure to agree
• Polish: sprzeczka — argument, failure to agree
• Polish: dysputa — argument, failure to agree
• Portuguese: disputa — argument, failure to agree
• Romanian: dispută — argument, failure to agree
• Russian: спор (spor) — argument, failure to agree
• Russian: ди́спут (dísput) — argument, failure to agree
• Russian: поле́мика (polémika) — argument, failure to agree
• Scottish Gaelic: connsachadh — argument, failure to agree
• Scottish Gaelic: connspaid — argument, failure to agree
• Serbo-Croatian: спо̏р — argument, failure to agree
• Serbo-Croatian: spȍr — argument, failure to agree
• Slovak: spor — argument, failure to agree
• Slovak: rozopra — argument, failure to agree
• Slovene: spor — argument, failure to agree
• Spanish: disputa — argument, failure to agree
• Spanish: contencioso — argument, failure to agree
• Spanish: disputación — argument, failure to agree
• Spanish: trabacuenta — argument, failure to agree
• Swedish: dispyt — argument, failure to agree
• Swedish: tvist — argument, failure to agree
• Tajik: баҳс (bahs) — argument, failure to agree
• Tajik: низоъ (nizo') — argument, failure to agree
• Tajik: муноқиша (munoqiša) — argument, failure to agree
• Tajik: мубоҳиса (mubohisa) — argument, failure to agree
• Telugu: వివాదం (vivādaṁ) — argument, failure to agree
• Thai: ความขัดแย้ง (kwaam-kàt-yɛ́ɛng) — argument, failure to agree
• Thai: การโต้เถียง (gaan-dtôo-tǐiang) — argument, failure to agree
• Thai: ข้อพิพาท (kɔ̂ɔ-pí-pâat) — argument, failure to agree
• Tibetan: རྩོད་པ (rtsod pa) — argument, failure to agree
• Tibetan: རྩོད་གླེང (rtsod gleng) — argument, failure to agree
• Turkish: tartışma — argument, failure to agree
• Turkish: kavga — argument, failure to agree
• Turkish: ihtilaf — argument, failure to agree
• Turkish: münakaşa — argument, failure to agree
• Ottoman Turkish: نزاع (nizaʿ) — argument, failure to agree
• Ottoman Turkish: چكیش (çekiş) — argument, failure to agree
• Ottoman Turkish: پرخاش (perhaş) — argument, failure to agree
• Turkmen: dawa — argument, failure to agree
• Turkmen: jedel — argument, failure to agree
• Ukrainian: спір (spir) — argument, failure to agree
• Ukrainian: ди́спут (dýsput) — argument, failure to agree
• Ukrainian: супере́ка (superéka) — argument, failure to agree
• Ukrainian: поле́міка (polémika) — argument, failure to agree
• Urdu: تَنازَعَہ (tanāza'a) — argument, failure to agree
• Uyghur: تالاش-تارتىش (talash-tartish) — argument, failure to agree
• Uzbek: bahs — argument, failure to agree
• Uzbek: mubohasa — argument, failure to agree
• Uzbek: nizo — argument, failure to agree
• Vietnamese: sự tranh luận — argument, failure to agree
• Waigali: pad — argument, failure to agree
• Arabic: نِزَاع (nizāʕ) — verbal controversy
• Arabic: شِجَار (šijār) — verbal controversy
• Belarusian: сва́рка (svárka) — verbal controversy
• Bulgarian: ка́раница (káranica) — verbal controversy
• Esperanto: disputo — verbal controversy
• Finnish: kiista — verbal controversy
• Finnish: erimielisyys — verbal controversy
• French: dispute — verbal controversy
• Galician: retesía — verbal controversy
• Galician: entenzón — verbal controversy
• Galician: tenzón — verbal controversy
• Galician: barata — verbal controversy
• Galician: reviravolta — verbal controversy
• German: Debatte — verbal controversy
• Greek: αντιπαράθεση (antiparáthesi) — verbal controversy
• Hindi: विवाद (vivād) — verbal controversy
• Latin: disputātiō — verbal controversy
• Malayalam: തർക്കം (taṟkkaṁ) — verbal controversy
• Norwegian Bokmål: disputt — verbal controversy
• Romanian: dispută — verbal controversy
• Russian: спор (spor) — verbal controversy
• Russian: ссо́ра (ssóra) — verbal controversy
• Russian: деба́ты (debáty) — verbal controversy
• Russian: ди́спут (dísput) — verbal controversy
• Scottish Gaelic: connspaid — verbal controversy
• Spanish: disputación — verbal controversy
• Spanish: disputa — verbal controversy
• Spanish: trabacuenta — verbal controversy
• Tagalog: balitaktak — verbal controversy
• Tibetan: རྩོད་གླེང (rtsod gleng) — verbal controversy
• Ukrainian: сва́рка (svárka) — verbal controversy
• Ukrainian: супере́чка (superéčka) — verbal controversy
• Waigali: pad — verbal controversy
• Armenian: վիճարկել (vičarkel) — to argue against
• Armenian: վիճել (vičel) — to argue against
• Bulgarian: споря (sporja) — to argue against
• Catalan: disputar — to argue against
• Esperanto: disputi — to argue against
• Finnish: kiistää — to argue against
• French: discuter — to argue against
• French: argumenter — to argue against
• Galician: baticar — to argue against
• Galician: latricar — to argue against
• Galician: entenzar — to argue against
• Galician: gurrar — to argue against
• Galician: rifar — to argue against
• Galician: barallar — to argue against
• Galician: enterquinar — to argue against
• Galician: duiar — to argue against
• Galician: lidar — to argue against
• Galician: esganifar — to argue against
• Galician: cotifar — to argue against
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan) — to argue against
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (andsakan) — to argue against
• Ancient Greek: ἀμφιλέγω (amphilégō) — to argue against
• Hindi: वितर्क (vitark) — to argue against
• Japanese: 反論する (hanron suru) — to argue against
• Latin: altercor — to argue against
• Māori: wenewene — to argue against
• Māori: taupetupetu — to argue against
• Marshallese: akwāāl — to argue against
• Scottish Gaelic: connsaich — to argue against
• Ukrainian: спереча́тися (sperečátysja) — to argue against
• Armenian: քննարկել (kʻnnarkel) — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Bulgarian: дискутирам (diskutiram) — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Catalan: disputar — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Esperanto: diskuti — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Finnish: kiistellä — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Finnish: väitellä — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• French: évaluer — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• German: erörtern — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Hindi: तर्क (tark) — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Japanese: 議論する (giron suru) — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Latin: disputō — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Māori: taupetupetu — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Norwegian: diskutere — to argue pro and con; to discuss
• Armenian: վիճարկել (vičarkel) — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Catalan: disputar — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Esperanto: kontraŭi — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Finnish: kiistää — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Finnish: kyseenalaistaa — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• French: argumenter — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• German: bestreiten — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Hindi: वितर्क (vitark) — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Japanese: 反対する (hantai suru) — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Marshallese: akwāāl — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Norwegian: argumentere — to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
• Armenian: վիճարկել (vičarkel) — to strive or contend about; to contest
• Bulgarian: оспорвам (osporvam) — to strive or contend about; to contest
• Catalan: disputar — to strive or contend about; to contest
• Finnish: haastaa — to strive or contend about; to contest
• French: contester — to strive or contend about; to contest
• Japanese: 争う (arasou) — to strive or contend about; to contest
• Māori: taupetupetu — to strive or contend about; to contest
• Esperanto: rezisti — to struggle against; to resist
• Finnish: kiistää — to struggle against; to resist
• Finnish: vastustaa — to struggle against; to resist
• French: résister — to struggle against; to resist
• Japanese: 抵抗する (teikō suru) — to struggle against; to resist