filigree

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• UK, US: /ˈfɪl.ɪ.ɡɹiː/
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From French filigrane, from Italian filigrana, from Latin fīlum (“thread”) + grānum (“grain”).

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Armenian: ֆիլիգրան (filigran) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Basque: filigrana — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Bengali: তারকষি (tarkośi) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Bulgarian: филигран (filigran) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Catalan: filigrana — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Chinese Mandarin: 纍絲 /累丝 (léisī) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Czech: filigrán — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Danish: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Dutch: filigraan — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Esperanto: filigrano — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Finnish: filigraani — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• French: filigrane — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• German: Filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• German: Filigranarbeit — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Hindi: तारकाम (tārkām) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Hindi: तारकशी (tārkaśī) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Hungarian: filigrán — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Ido: filigrano — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Indonesian: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Italian: filigrana — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Kyrgyz: филигрань (filigran) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Lithuanian: filigranas — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Macedonian: филигран (filigran) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Marathi: तारकाम (tārkām) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Norwegian Bokmål: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Norwegian Nynorsk: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Odia: ତାରକସି (tārakasi) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Persian: تَارْکَشِی (târ-kaši) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Polish: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Romanian: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Russian: филигра́нь (filigránʹ) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Serbo-Croatian: филѝгра̄н — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Serbo-Croatian: filìgrān — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Slovak: filigrán — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Slovene: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Spanish: filigrana — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Swedish: filigran — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Turkish: telkârî — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Ukrainian: філігрань (filihranʹ) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Urdu: تَارْکَشِی (tārkaśī) — delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Catalan: filigrana — anything resembling such intricate ornamentation
• Danish: filigran — anything resembling such intricate ornamentation
• Finnish: filigraani — anything resembling such intricate ornamentation
• French: filigrane — anything resembling such intricate ornamentation
• Italian: filigrana — anything resembling such intricate ornamentation
• Russian: филигра́нная рабо́та (filigránnaja rabóta) — anything resembling such intricate ornamentation
• Catalan: filigranar — to decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• French: filigraner — to decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire
• Spanish: afiligranar — to decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire