forgery

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/
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• US: /ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ/
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• CMU ARPABET: F AO1 R JH ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Recorded since 1574; from forge + -ery, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricārī (“to frame, construct, fabricate”), itself from fabrica (“workshop; construction”), from faber (“workman, smith”). (fake): Compare typologically Russian кова́рный (kovárnyj), кова́рство (kovárstvo), ко́зни (kózni) (akin to кова́ть (kovátʹ), ку́зница (kúznica)).

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: smedery — the act of forging metal into shape
• Bulgarian: коване (kovane) — the act of forging metal into shape
• Catalan: forja — the act of forging metal into shape
• Dutch: smederij — the act of forging metal into shape
• Dutch: smeden — the act of forging metal into shape
• Finnish: taonta — the act of forging metal into shape
• French: forgeage — the act of forging metal into shape
• German: Schmieden — the act of forging metal into shape
• Polish: kucie — the act of forging metal into shape
• Portuguese: forjamento — the act of forging metal into shape
• Portuguese: forjadura — the act of forging metal into shape
• Russian: ко́вка (kóvka) — the act of forging metal into shape
• Serbo-Croatian: skovati — the act of forging metal into shape
• Spanish: forjadura — the act of forging metal into shape
• Afrikaans: vervalsing — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Bulgarian: фалшификация (falšifikacija) — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Catalan: falsificació — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Chinese Mandarin: 偽造 /伪造 (wěizhào) — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Czech: padělání — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Danish: falskneri — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Danish: forfalskning — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Dutch: bedrog — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Dutch: namaak — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Dutch: vervalsing — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Finnish: väärentäminen — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• German: Fälschen — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• German: Fälschung — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Greek: πλαστογραφία (plastografía) — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Hungarian: hamisítás — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Indonesian: pemalsuan — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Italian: falsificazione — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Korean: 위조 (wijo) — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Latin: falsificatio — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Malay: pemalsuan — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Norwegian Bokmål: falskneri — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Norwegian Bokmål: forfalskning — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Norwegian Bokmål: forfalsking — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Norwegian Nynorsk: falskneri — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Norwegian Nynorsk: forfalsking — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Polish: fałszowanie — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Polish: podrabianie — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Portuguese: forjamento — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Portuguese: forjadura — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Russian: подло́г (podlóg) — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Russian: подде́лка (poddélka) — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Russian: фальсифика́ция (falʹsifikácija) — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Serbo-Croatian: krivotvoriti — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Spanish: falsificación — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Turkish: sahtecilik — the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
• Afrikaans: vervalsing — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Bulgarian: фалшификат (falšifikat) — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Catalan: falsificació — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Chinese Mandarin: 贗品 /赝品 (yànpǐn) — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Czech: padělek — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Czech: podvrh — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Danish: falskneri — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Danish: forfalskning — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Dutch: namaak — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Dutch: vervalsing — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Finnish: väärennös — that which is forged or counterfeited
• German: Fälschung — that which is forged or counterfeited
• German: Falsifikat — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Greek: πλαστογράφηση (plastográfisi) — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Hungarian: hamisítvány — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Japanese: 偽物 (nisemono) — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Norwegian Bokmål: falskneri — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Norwegian Bokmål: forfalskning — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Norwegian Bokmål: forfalsking — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Norwegian Nynorsk: falskneri — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Norwegian Nynorsk: forfalsking — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Polish: falsyfikat — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Polish: podróbka — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Portuguese: falsificação — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Russian: подде́лка (poddélka) — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Russian: фальши́вка (falʹšívka) — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Russian: ли́па (lípa) — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Serbo-Croatian: krivotvorina — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Spanish: falsificación — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Swedish: förfalskning — that which is forged or counterfeited
• Swedish: falsifikat — that which is forged or counterfeited