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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɛkˈstɜː.nəl/
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• Canada, General-American: /ɛkˈstɜɹ.nəl/
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• Canada, General-American: /ɪkˈstɜɹ.nəl/
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• Australian: /ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/
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• Australian: /ekˈstɜː.nəl/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
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• CMU ARPABET: IH0 K S T ER1 N AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”).

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَارِجِيّ (ḵārijiyy) — outside of something
• Armenian: արտաքին (artakʻin) — outside of something
• Belarusian: зне́шні (znjéšni) — outside of something
• Belarusian: во́нкавы (vónkavy) — outside of something
• Bulgarian: въ́ншен (vǎ́nšen) — outside of something
• Catalan: extern — outside of something
• Catalan: externa — outside of something
• Chinese Mandarin: 外部的 (wàibù de) — outside of something
• Czech: externí — outside of something
• Czech: vnější — outside of something
• Danish: udvendig — outside of something
• Danish: ekstern — outside of something
• Danish: udvortes — outside of something
• Dutch: uiterlijk — outside of something
• Dutch: uitwendig — outside of something
• Esperanto: ekstera — outside of something
• Esperanto: malena — outside of something
• Faroese: ytri — outside of something
• Finnish: ulko- — outside of something
• Finnish: ulkoinen — outside of something
• Finnish: ulkonainen — outside of something
• Finnish: ulkopuolinen — outside of something
• French: externe — outside of something
• West-Frisian: útwindich — outside of something
• West-Frisian: ekstern — outside of something
• West-Frisian: uterlik — outside of something
• Galician: externo — outside of something
• Georgian: გარეგანი (garegani) — outside of something
• Georgian: გარეთა (gareta) — outside of something
• Georgian: გარე (gare) — outside of something
• German: außen- — outside of something
• German: extern — outside of something
• German: äußerlich — outside of something
• Greek: εξωτερικός (exoterikós) — outside of something
• Ancient Greek: ἐξώτερος (exṓteros) — outside of something
• Hungarian: külső — outside of something
• Icelandic: ytri — outside of something
• Ido: extera — outside of something
• Ingrian: ulkopooliin — outside of something
• Irish: imeachtrach — outside of something
• Italian: esterno — outside of something
• Japanese: 外側の (sotogawa no) — outside of something
• Japanese: 外部の (gaibu no) — outside of something
• Kazakh: тысқары (tysqary) — outside of something
• Korean: 외부의 (oebu-ui) — outside of something
• Latin: exter — outside of something
• Latin: externus — outside of something
• Manchu: ᡨᡠᠯᡝᡵᡤᡳ (tulergi) — outside of something
• Māori: a waho — outside of something
• Māori: o waho — outside of something
• Māori: mōwaho — outside of something
• Occitan: extèrne — outside of something
• Occitan: extèrna — outside of something
• Persian: بیرونی (birôni) — outside of something
• Persian: بیگانه (bigâne) — outside of something
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: ekstirnal — outside of something
• Polish: zewnętrzny — outside of something
• Portuguese: externo — outside of something
• Romanian: extern — outside of something
• Russian: вне́шний (vnéšnij) — outside of something
• Russian: нару́жный (narúžnyj) — outside of something
• Serbo-Croatian: èkstērnī — outside of something
• Serbo-Croatian: ìzvanjskī — outside of something
• Serbo-Croatian: vànjskī — outside of something
• Slovak: externý — outside of something
• Slovak: vonkajší — outside of something
• Spanish: externo — outside of something
• Swedish: extern — outside of something
• Swedish: utvändig — outside of something
• Swedish: yttre — outside of something
• Telugu: బహిర్గత (bahirgata) — outside of something
• Ottoman Turkish: ظاهر (zahir) — outside of something
• Ukrainian: зо́внішній (zóvnišnij) — outside of something
• Urdu: بیرونی (bairūnī) — outside of something