noun
Meaning 1
A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fjord
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfiːɔːd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /fiˈɔːd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /fjɔːd/
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General-American: /fiˈɔɹd/
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General-American: /fjɔɹd/
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d
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noun
Meaning 2
a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fiord
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inlet, recess
Narrower terms: Trondheim Fjord, Trondheim Fiord
History
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþu, *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to carry forth”) + *-tus (suffix forming action nouns from verb roots). Doublet of firth, ford, port, and fjard.
Across languages
Translations
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Albanian: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Arabic: خَلَل (ḵalal) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Arabic: وَادٍ خِلَالِيّ (wādin ḵilāliyy) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Arabic: فِيُورْد (fiyūrd) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Armenian: ֆյորդ (fyord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Armenian: ֆիորդ (fiord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Azerbaijani: fyord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Belarusian: фіёрд (fijórd) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Belarusian: ф'ёрд (fʺjord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Bulgarian: фио́рд (fiórd) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Bulgarian: фьорд (fjord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Catalan: fiord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Chinese Mandarin: 峽灣 /峡湾 (xiáwān) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Czech: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Danish: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Dutch: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Esperanto: fjordo — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Estonian: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Faroese: fjørður — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Finnish: vuono — long, narrow, deep inlet
- French: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- French: fiord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Galician: fiorde — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Georgian: ფიორდი (piordi) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- German: Fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Greek: φιόρδ (fiórd) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Greenlandic: kangerluk — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Hebrew: פְיוֹרְד (fyord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Hindi: फ़्योर्ड (fyorḍ) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Hungarian: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Icelandic: fjörður — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Ido: fyordo — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Indonesian: teluk kutub — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Indonesian: fyord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Irish: caolsáile — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Italian: fiordo — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Japanese: フィヨルド (fiyorudo) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Japanese: 峡湾 (kyōwan) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Kazakh: фьорд (ford) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Korean: 피오르 (pioreu) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Korean: 피오르드 (pioreudeu) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Korean: 협만 (hyeomman) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Kyrgyz: фьорд (ford) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Latin: fiordus — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Latvian: fjords — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Lithuanian: fjordas — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Macedonian: фјорд (fjord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Malay: fiord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Manx: keyllys sailley — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Māori: tai matapari — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Marathi: फ्यॉर्ड (phyŏrḍa) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Norwegian Bokmål: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Old Norse: fjǫrðr — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Old Norse: angr — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Persian: آبدره (âbdare) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Persian: فیورد (fiyôrd) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Polish: fiord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Portuguese: fiorde — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Romanian: fiord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Russian: фьорд (fʹord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Russian: фио́рд (fiórd) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Northern Sami: vuotna — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Serbo-Croatian: фјо̏рд — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Serbo-Croatian: fjȍrd — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Slovak: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Slovene: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Spanish: fiordo — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Swedish: fjord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Tagalog: piyordo — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Tajik: фиорд (fiord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Tatar: фьорд (fʹord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Thai: ฟยอร์ด (fà-yɔ́ɔt) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Turkish: fiyort — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Ukrainian: фіо́рд (fiórd) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Ukrainian: фйорд (fjord) — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Uzbek: fiord — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Vietnamese: vịnh hẹp băng hà — long, narrow, deep inlet
- Welsh: ffiord — long, narrow, deep inlet
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