dual

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• Received-Pronunciation: dyo͞oʹəl
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• Received-Pronunciation: jo͞oʹəl
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• /ˈd͡ʒuː.əl/ yod-coalescence
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• /ˈdjuː.əl/ non-yod-coalescence
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• General-American: d(y)o͞o'əl
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• General-American: /ˈdul/
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• General-American: /ˈd(j)u.əl/
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• homophone: duel
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• homophone: jewel (yod-coalescence)
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• rhymes with -uːəl
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• CMU ARPABET: D UW1 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: D UW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *dwóh1 Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.

126 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: от две части (ot dve časti) — having two components
• Catalan: dual — having two components
• Dutch: tweeledig — having two components
• Esperanto: duparta — having two components
• Esperanto: duala — having two components
• Esperanto: duobla — having two components
• Esperanto: binara — having two components
• Finnish: kaksi- — having two components
• Finnish: kaksois- — having two components
• Finnish: duaalinen — having two components
• Finnish: duaali- — having two components
• French: double — having two components
• French: duel — having two components
• French: dual — having two components
• Hungarian: kettős — having two components
• Indonesian: dwi — having two components
• Italian: duale — having two components
• Italian: doppio — having two components
• Latin: duālis — having two components
• Manx: dooblit — having two components
• Polish: dwoisty — having two components
• Polish: podwójny — having two components
• Portuguese: dual — having two components
• Russian: двойно́й (dvojnój) — having two components
• Russian: дво́йственный (dvójstvennyj) — having two components
• Slovene: dvojen — having two components
• Spanish: dual — having two components
• Welsh: deuol — having two components
• Arabic: مُثَنًّى (muṯannan) — double
• Arabic: دَبَل (dabal) — double
• Bulgarian: двоен (dvoen) — double
• Catalan: doble — double
• Dutch: dubbel- — double
• Esperanto: duobla — double
• Finnish: kaksi- — double
• Finnish: kaksinkertainen — double
• French: double — double
• Indonesian: ganda — double
• Manx: dooblit — double
• Polish: podwójny — double
• Portuguese: duplo — double
• Russian: двойно́й (dvojnój) — double
• Russian: двоя́кий (dvojákij) — double
• Russian: сдво́енный (sdvójennyj) — double
• Slovene: dvojen — double
• Spanish: dual — double
• Swedish: dubbel- — double
• Swedish: två- — double
• Turkish: çift — double
• Welsh: deuol — double
• Welsh: dwbl — double
• Arabic: مُثَنًّى (muṯannan) — in grammar
• Arabic: مُثَنَّى (muṯanna) — in grammar
• Armenian: երկակի (erkaki) — in grammar
• Bulgarian: двойствен (dvojstven) — in grammar
• Chinese Cantonese: 雙數 /双数 (soeng1 sou3) — in grammar
• Chinese: 雙數 /双数 (siang-sò͘) — in grammar
• Chinese Mandarin: 雙數 /双数 (shuāngshù) — in grammar
• Czech: duálový — in grammar
• Dutch: dualis- — in grammar
• Dutch: tweevouds- — in grammar
• Finnish: kaksikko- — in grammar
• Finnish: duaalinen — in grammar
• Finnish: duaali- — in grammar
• French: duel — in grammar
• German: dual — in grammar
• Ancient Greek: δυϊκός (duïkós) — in grammar
• Hebrew: זוגי — in grammar
• Hindi: द्विवचन (dvivcan) — in grammar
• Hungarian: kettős — in grammar
• Hungarian: duális — in grammar
• Indonesian: dual — in grammar
• Japanese: 双数 (sōsū) — in grammar
• Navajo: naakigo — in grammar
• Middle Persian: dw — in grammar
• Polish: podwójna — in grammar
• Portuguese: dual — in grammar
• Russian: дво́йственный (dvójstvennyj) — in grammar
• Russian: дуа́лис (duális) — in grammar
• Slovene: dvojinski — in grammar
• Spanish: dual — in grammar
• Swedish: dual — in grammar
• Tagalog: dalawahan — in grammar
• Thai: ทวิพจน์ — in grammar
• Turkish: ikil — in grammar
• Turkish: tesniye — in grammar
• Volapük: telnumik — in grammar
• Arabic: مُثَنَّى (muṯannā) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Armenian: երկակի (erkaki) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Armenian: երկակի թիվ (erkaki tʻiv) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Bulgarian: двойствено число (dvojstveno čislo) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Czech: duál — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Czech: dvojné číslo — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Danish: dualis — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Dutch: dualis — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Dutch: tweevoud — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Faroese: tvítal — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Finnish: kaksikko — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Finnish: duaali — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• French: duel — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• German: Dual — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• German: Zweizahl — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Greek: δυϊκός αριθμός (dyïkós arithmós) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Ancient Greek: δυϊκόν (duïkón) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Hungarian: kettős szám — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Hungarian: duális — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Irish: déach — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Japanese: 双数形 (sōsūkē) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Latvian: divskaitlis — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Lithuanian: dviskaita — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Navajo: nizhdiltʼéhígo — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Norwegian Bokmål: dualis — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Norwegian Bokmål: totall — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Polish: liczba podwójna — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Portuguese: dual — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Russian: дво́йственное число́ (dvójstvennoje čisló) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Samogitian: dvėskaita — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Serbo-Croatian: двојѝна — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Serbo-Croatian: dvojìna — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Slovene: dvojina — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Upper Sorbian: dwojota — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Upper Sorbian: dwójba — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Swedish: dualis — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Thai: ทวิพจน์ — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Ukrainian: двоїна́ (dvojiná) — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something
• Volapük: telnum — grammatical number of a noun marking two of something