exclamation

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• /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃn̩/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclāmātiō, from exclāmō (“to cry out”) + -tiō.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صِيَاح (ṣiyāḥ) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Arabic: صُرَاخ (ṣurāḵ) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Arabic: هَاتِف (hātif) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Arabic: هَتْفَة (hatfa) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Armenian: բացականչություն (bacʻakančʻutʻyun) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Azerbaijani: nida — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Belarusian: вы́гук (výhuk) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Belarusian: во́кліч (vóklič) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Bulgarian: възклица́ние (vǎzklicánie) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Chinese Mandarin: 叫喊 (jiàohǎn) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Chinese Mandarin: 感嘆 /感叹 (gǎntàn) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Czech: zvolání — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Czech: výkřik — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Danish: udråb — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Dutch: uitroep — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Estonian: hüüatus — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Finnish: huudahdus — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Finnish: parahdus — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• French: exclamation — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Galician: exclamación — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Georgian: წამოძახილი (c̣amoʒaxili) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Georgian: შეძახილი (šeʒaxili) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• German: Ausruf — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Greek: επιφώνημα (epifónima) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Greek: αναφώνηση (anafónisi) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Italian: esclamazione — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Japanese: 叫び (sakebi) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Kazakh: леп (lep) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Kazakh: лептеу (lepteu) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Kazakh: саңқылдау (sañqyldau) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Korean: 외침 (oechim) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Latin: exclāmātiō — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Latvian: iekliegšanās — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Lithuanian: sušukimas — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Macedonian: извик (izvik) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Malay: jeritan — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Norwegian Bokmål: utrop — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Polish: okrzyk — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Polish: wykrzyk — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Portuguese: exclamação — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Romanian: exclamare — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Romanian: exclamație — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Russian: восклица́ние (vosklicánije) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Russian: во́зглас (vózglas) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Russian: вы́крик (výkrik) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Russian: вскрик (vskrik) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏звӣк — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕzvīk — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Slovak: zvolanie — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Slovak: výkrik — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Slovene: vzklik — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Spanish: exclamación — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Swedish: utrop — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Tagalog: bulalas — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Tajik: нидо (nido) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Tajik: хитоб (xitob) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Turkish: ünlem — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Turkish: haykırış — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Ukrainian: ви́гук (výhuk) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Ukrainian: о́крик (ókryk) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Ukrainian: о́клик (óklyk) — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Uzbek: xitob — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Uzbek: nido — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Uzbek: undov — loud calling or crying out; outcry
• Bulgarian: възклица́ние (vǎzklicánie) — word expressing outcry
• Dutch: uitroep — word expressing outcry
• Finnish: huudahdus — word expressing outcry
• German: Exklamation — word expressing outcry
• Greek: επιφώνημα (epifónima) — word expressing outcry
• Italian: esclamazione — word expressing outcry
• Māori: tūhau — word expressing outcry
• Russian: восклица́ние (vosklicánije) — word expressing outcry
• Swedish: interjektion — word expressing outcry
• Welsh: ebychiad — word expressing outcry
• Polish: wykrzyknik — part of speech