envelope

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛnvə(ˌ)ləʊp/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒnvə(ˌ)ləʊp/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒnvləʊp/ chiefly a wrapping
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɑ̃və(ˌ)ləʊp/
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• General-American: ĕn′vəlōp'
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• General-American: än′vəlōp'
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• General-American: /ˈɛnvə(ˌ)loʊp/
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• General-American: /ˈɑn-/
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• ĕn-vĕl'əp
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• /ɛnˈvɛləp/
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• CMU ARPABET: EH1 N V AH0 L OW2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *h1én From French enveloppe. The engineering sense is derived from flight envelope. The verb is from the noun.

See envelop.

196 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: zarf — wrapper for mailing
• Amharic: አምቦልክ (ʾämbolk) — wrapper for mailing
• Arabic: مُغَلَّف (muḡallaf) — wrapper for mailing
• Arabic: لِفَافَة (lifāfa) — wrapper for mailing
• Arabic: ظرف (ẓarf) — wrapper for mailing
• Arabic: ظرف (ẓarf) — wrapper for mailing
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܦܵܦܵܐ (lpāpā) — wrapper for mailing
• Armenian: ծրար (crar) — wrapper for mailing
• Assamese: খাম (kham) — wrapper for mailing
• Asturian: sobre — wrapper for mailing
• Azerbaijani: zərf — wrapper for mailing
• Azerbaijani: konvert — wrapper for mailing
• Basque: sobre — wrapper for mailing
• Belarusian: канве́рт (kanvjért) — wrapper for mailing
• Bengali: খাম (kham) — wrapper for mailing
• Bengali: লেফাফা (lephapha) — wrapper for mailing
• Bulgarian: плик (plik) — wrapper for mailing
• Burmese: စာအိတ် (cait) — wrapper for mailing
• Catalan: sobre — wrapper for mailing
• Catalan: sobre de carta — wrapper for mailing
• Chinese Cantonese: 信封 (seon3 fung1) — wrapper for mailing
• Chinese: 批囊 (zh-min-nan) — wrapper for mailing
• Chinese Mandarin: 信封 (xìnfēng) — wrapper for mailing
• Ngazidja Comorian: ɓahasha — wrapper for mailing
• Czech: obálka — wrapper for mailing
• Danish: kuvert — wrapper for mailing
• Danish: konvolut — wrapper for mailing
• Dutch: envelop — wrapper for mailing
• Dutch: briefomslag — wrapper for mailing
• Esperanto: koverto — wrapper for mailing
• Estonian: ümbrik — wrapper for mailing
• Ewe: akpa — wrapper for mailing
• Finnish: kirjekuori — wrapper for mailing
• French: enveloppe — wrapper for mailing
• Galician: sobre — wrapper for mailing
• Georgian: კონვერტი (ḳonverṭi) — wrapper for mailing
• German: Briefumschlag — wrapper for mailing
• German: Umschlag — wrapper for mailing
• Greek: φάκελος (fákelos) — wrapper for mailing
• Gujarati: પરબીડિયું (parbīḍiyũ) — wrapper for mailing
• Hebrew: מַעֲטָפָה (ma'atafá) — wrapper for mailing
• Hindi: लिफ़ाफ़ा (lifāfā) — wrapper for mailing
• Hindi: लिफाफा (liphāphā) — wrapper for mailing
• Hungarian: boríték — wrapper for mailing
• Hungarian: levélboríték — wrapper for mailing
• Icelandic: umslag — wrapper for mailing
• Ido: kuverto — wrapper for mailing
• Indonesian: amplop — wrapper for mailing
• Ingrian: konvertti — wrapper for mailing
• Interlingua: inveloppe — wrapper for mailing
• Irish: clúdach litreach — wrapper for mailing
• Irish: clúdach — wrapper for mailing
• Italian: busta — wrapper for mailing
• Japanese: 封筒 (fūtō) — wrapper for mailing
• Kannada: ಲಕೋಟೆ (lakōṭe) — wrapper for mailing
• Kazakh: конверт (konvert) — wrapper for mailing
• Khmer: ស្រោមសំបុត្រ (sraom sɑmbot) — wrapper for mailing
• Korean: 봉투 (bongtu) — wrapper for mailing
• Northern Kurdish: zerf — wrapper for mailing
• Kyrgyz: конверт (konvert) — wrapper for mailing
• Lao: ຊອງຫນັງສື (sǭng nang sư̄) — wrapper for mailing
• Lao: ຊອງຈົດຫມາຍ (sǭng chot māi) — wrapper for mailing
• Latin: thēca — wrapper for mailing
• Latvian: aploksne — wrapper for mailing
• Lithuanian: vokas — wrapper for mailing
• Lü: ᦏᦳᧂᦟᦻ (ṫhunglaay) — wrapper for mailing
• Luxembourgish: Enveloppe — wrapper for mailing
• Macedonian: плик (plik) — wrapper for mailing
• Macedonian: коверт (kovert) — wrapper for mailing
• Malay: sampul surat — wrapper for mailing
• Malay: sampul — wrapper for mailing
• Malayalam: ലക്കോട്ട് (lakkōṭṭŭ) — wrapper for mailing
• Māori: kōpaki — wrapper for mailing
• Marathi: लिफाफा (liphāphā) — wrapper for mailing
• Mongolian: ороолт (oroolt) — wrapper for mailing
• Mongolian: дугтуй (dugtuj) — wrapper for mailing
• Norman: env'loppe — wrapper for mailing
• Norwegian Bokmål: konvolutt — wrapper for mailing
• Occitan: envolopa — wrapper for mailing
• Odia: ଲିଭୋପା (libhopā) — wrapper for mailing
• Palauan: huto — wrapper for mailing
• Pashto: پاکټ (pākaṭ) — wrapper for mailing
• Iranian Persian: پاکَت (pâkat) — wrapper for mailing
• Iranian Persian: لِفاف (lefâf) — wrapper for mailing
• Iranian Persian: پاکَتِ نامِه (pâkat-e nâme) — wrapper for mailing
• Plautdietsch: Kwarkj — wrapper for mailing
• Polish: koperta — wrapper for mailing
• Portuguese: envelope — wrapper for mailing
• Punjabi: ਲਿਫ਼ਾਫ਼ਾ (lifāfā) — wrapper for mailing
• Romanian: plic — wrapper for mailing
• Russian: конве́рт (konvért) — wrapper for mailing
• Scottish Gaelic: cèis — wrapper for mailing
• Scottish Gaelic: cèis-litreach — wrapper for mailing
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀мотница — wrapper for mailing
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀ве̄рта — wrapper for mailing
• Serbo-Croatian: коверат — wrapper for mailing
• Serbo-Croatian: òmotnica — wrapper for mailing
• Serbo-Croatian: kòvērta — wrapper for mailing
• Serbo-Croatian: koverat — wrapper for mailing
• Slovak: obálka — wrapper for mailing
• Slovene: ovojnica — wrapper for mailing
• Spanish: sobre — wrapper for mailing
• Spanish: envelop — wrapper for mailing
• Spanish: sobrescrito — wrapper for mailing
• Spanish: sobrescripto (disused) — wrapper for mailing
• Swahili: bahasha — wrapper for mailing
• Swedish: kuvert — wrapper for mailing
• Swedish: konvolut — wrapper for mailing
• Tagalog: sobre — wrapper for mailing
• Tajik: лифофа (lifofa) — wrapper for mailing
• Tajik: пакет (paket) — wrapper for mailing
• Tamil: உறை (uṟai) — wrapper for mailing
• Tamil: கடித உறை (kaṭita uṟai) — wrapper for mailing
• Tatar: конверт (qönwert) — wrapper for mailing
• Telugu: కవరు (kavaru) — wrapper for mailing
• Thai: ซองจดหมาย (sɔɔng-jòt-mǎai) — wrapper for mailing
• Thai: ซอง (sɔɔng) — wrapper for mailing
• Tibetan: ཡིག་སྐོག (yig skog) — wrapper for mailing
• Tigrinya: ሰታሪት (sätarit) — wrapper for mailing
• Turkish: zarf — wrapper for mailing
• Turkmen: bukja — wrapper for mailing
• Ukrainian: конве́рт (konvért) — wrapper for mailing
• Urdu: لِفافَہ (lifāfa) — wrapper for mailing
• Uyghur: كونۋېرت (konwërt) — wrapper for mailing
• Uzbek: konvert — wrapper for mailing
• Vietnamese: phong bì — wrapper for mailing
• Vietnamese: bao thư — wrapper for mailing
• Welsh: amlen — wrapper for mailing
• Yiddish: קאָנווערט (konvert) — wrapper for mailing
• Arabic: غِلَاف (ḡilāf) — something that envelops
• Belarusian: абго́ртка (abhórtka) — something that envelops
• Bulgarian: обви́вка (obvívka) — something that envelops
• Dutch: omslag — something that envelops
• Finnish: kääre — something that envelops
• Finnish: päällys — something that envelops
• Finnish: kuori — something that envelops
• German: Umschlag — something that envelops
• Greek: περίβλημα (perívlima) — something that envelops
• Latin: involūcrum — something that envelops
• Macedonian: обвивка (obvivka) — something that envelops
• Malay: pembungkus — something that envelops
• Malay: sampul — something that envelops
• Malay: sarung — something that envelops
• Māori: kōpaki — something that envelops
• Polish: otoczka — something that envelops
• Polish: powłoka — something that envelops
• Portuguese: invólucro — something that envelops
• Romanian: învelitură — something that envelops
• Romanian: înveliș — something that envelops
• Russian: обёртка (objórtka) — something that envelops
• Sanskrit: उल्ब (ulba) — something that envelops
• Serbo-Croatian: омо̀та̄ч — something that envelops
• Serbo-Croatian: omòtāč — something that envelops
• Swedish: konvolut — something that envelops
• Swedish: omslag — something that envelops
• Ottoman Turkish: زار (zar) — something that envelops
• Ukrainian: обго́ртка (obhórtka) — something that envelops
• Ukrainian: заго́ртка (zahórtka) — something that envelops
• Belarusian: абало́нка (abalónka) — bag containing the lifting gas
• Finnish: kuori — bag containing the lifting gas
• German: Hülle — bag containing the lifting gas
• Portuguese: envelope — bag containing the lifting gas
• Romanian: sac — bag containing the lifting gas
• Romanian: pungă — bag containing the lifting gas
• Russian: оболо́чка (obolóčka) — bag containing the lifting gas
• Swedish: hölje — bag containing the lifting gas
• Ukrainian: оболо́нка (obolónka) — bag containing the lifting gas
• Finnish: vaippa — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• French: enveloppe — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• German: Hüllkurve — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• Greek: περιβάλλουσα (perivállousa) — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• Polish: obwiednia — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• Romanian: anvelopă — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• Romanian: înfășurătoare — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• Russian: огиба́ющая (ogibájuščaja) — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• Tagalog: bilot — geometry: object that is the tangent to a family of objects
• Catalan: envolupant — electronics: curve that bounds a set of curves
• Estonian: mähisjoon — electronics: curve that bounds a set of curves
• Finnish: verhokäyrä — electronics: curve that bounds a set of curves
• Polish: obwiednia — electronics: curve that bounds a set of curves
• Russian: огиба́ющая (ogibájuščaja) — electronics: curve that bounds a set of curves
• Catalan: envolupant — music: shape of a sound
• Finnish: verhokäyrä — music: shape of a sound
• Japanese: エンベロープ (enberōpu) — music: shape of a sound
• Polish: obwiednia — music: shape of a sound
• Russian: огиба́ющая (ogibájuščaja) — music: shape of a sound
• Finnish: kirjekuori — computing: routing information of an email
• Belarusian: абало́нка (abalónka) — biology: enclosing structure or cover
• Finnish: kuori — biology: enclosing structure or cover
• Greek: περιχιτώνιο (perichitónio) — biology: enclosing structure or cover
• Greek: περίβλημα (perívlima) — biology: enclosing structure or cover
• Romanian: înveliș — biology: enclosing structure or cover
• Russian: оболо́чка (obolóčka) — biology: enclosing structure or cover
• Ukrainian: оболо́нка (obolónka) — biology: enclosing structure or cover
• Finnish: rajakäyrä — engineering: limits within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively
• Greek: κέλυφος (kélyfos) — engineering: limits within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively