fracture

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃhəː/
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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈfɹwæk.t͡ʃhəː]
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃɚ/
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• Canada, General-American: [ˈfɹwæk.t͡ʃhɚ] ~ [ˈfɹwæk.t͡ʃhɹ̩]
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• obsolete: /ˈfɹæk.tjəɹ/
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• obsolete: [ˈfɹwæk.thjəɹ]
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• rhymes with -ækt͡ʃə(ɹ)
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhreg- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Latin frangō Latin frāctūrus Latin frāctūrader. Old French fracturebor. Middle English fracture English fracture From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

180 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: breuk — act of breaking, or something broken
• Afrikaans: fraksie — act of breaking, or something broken
• Arabic: كَسْر (kasr) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Arabic: اِنْكِسَار (inkisār) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Belarusian: перало́м (pjeralóm) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Bulgarian: счу́пване (sčúpvane) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Bulgarian: фракту́ра (fraktúra) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Catalan: fractura — act of breaking, or something broken
• Czech: zlomenina — act of breaking, or something broken
• Danish: brud — act of breaking, or something broken
• Danish: fraktur — act of breaking, or something broken
• Dutch: breuk — act of breaking, or something broken
• Dutch: fractuur — act of breaking, or something broken
• Esperanto: rompo — act of breaking, or something broken
• Esperanto: frakturo — act of breaking, or something broken
• Finnish: murtuma — act of breaking, or something broken
• Finnish: särö — act of breaking, or something broken
• Finnish: murtuminen — act of breaking, or something broken
• French: fracture — act of breaking, or something broken
• West-Frisian: brek — act of breaking, or something broken
• Galician: fractura — act of breaking, or something broken
• German: Knochenbruch — act of breaking, or something broken
• German: Bruch — act of breaking, or something broken
• German: Fraktur — act of breaking, or something broken
• Greek: κάταγμα (kátagma) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Greek: θλάση (thlási) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Italian: frattura — act of breaking, or something broken
• Khmer: ការបាក់ឆ្អឹង (kaa bak chʼəng) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Latin: frāctūra — act of breaking, or something broken
• Manx: brishey — act of breaking, or something broken
• Norwegian Bokmål: fraktur — act of breaking, or something broken
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fraktur — act of breaking, or something broken
• Papiamentu: breuk — act of breaking, or something broken
• Polish: złamanie — act of breaking, or something broken
• Polish: pęknięcie — act of breaking, or something broken
• Portuguese: fratura — act of breaking, or something broken
• Romanian: fractură — act of breaking, or something broken
• Romanian: fracturare — act of breaking, or something broken
• Romanian: rupere — act of breaking, or something broken
• Russian: перело́м (perelóm) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Slovak: zlomenina — act of breaking, or something broken
• Slovene: zlom — act of breaking, or something broken
• Spanish: fractura — act of breaking, or something broken
• Swedish: brott — act of breaking, or something broken
• Tamil: முறிவு (muṟivu) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Turkish: kırık — act of breaking, or something broken
• Ukrainian: перело́м (perelóm) — act of breaking, or something broken
• Volapük: bomabrek — act of breaking, or something broken
• Welsh: toriad — act of breaking, or something broken
• Zazaki: şıkıte — act of breaking, or something broken
• Albanian: thyerje — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Arabic: كَسْر (kasr) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Armenian: կոտրվածք (kotrvackʻ) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Azerbaijani: sınıq — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Belarusian: перало́м (pjeralóm) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Bengali: ভঙ্গ (bhoṅgo) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Bengali: অস্থিভঙ্গ (osthibhoṅgo) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Bulgarian: счу́пване (sčúpvane) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Bulgarian: фракту́ра (fraktúra) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Chinese Cantonese: 骨折 (gwat1 zit3) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Chinese Mandarin: 骨折 (gǔzhé) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Czech: zlomenina — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Danish: fraktur — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Danish: knoglebrud — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Dutch: botbreuk — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Egyptian: p:S-n:Z9 (pšn) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Estonian: murd — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Estonian: luumurd — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Finnish: murtuma — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• French: fracture — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Georgian: მოტეხილობა (moṭexiloba) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• German: Knochenbruch — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• German: Fraktur — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Greek: κάταγμα (kátagma) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Ancient Greek: ῥῆγμα (rhêgma) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Hebrew: שֶׁבֶר (shéver) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Hindi: अस्थिभंग (asthibhaṅg) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Hindi: शिकस्त (śikast) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Hungarian: törés — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Hungarian: csonttörés — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Icelandic: brot — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Icelandic: beinbrot — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Indonesian: fraktur — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Irish: briseadh — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Italian: frattura — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Japanese: 骨折 (kossetsu) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Kazakh: сынық (synyq) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Khmer: ការបាក់ឆ្អឹង (kaa bak chʼəng) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Korean: 골절 (goljeol) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Kyrgyz: сынык (sınık) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Latin: frāctūra — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Latvian: lūzums — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Lithuanian: lūžis — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Macedonian: скршеница (skršenica) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Malay: fraktur — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Malay: patah tulang — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Norwegian Bokmål: beinbrudd — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Iranian Persian: شِکَسْت (šekast) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Polish: złamanie — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Portuguese: fratura — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Romanian: fractură — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Russian: перело́м (perelóm) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Sanskrit: अस्थिभङ्ग (asthibhaṅga) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Serbo-Croatian: пре́лом — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Serbo-Croatian: прије́лом — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Serbo-Croatian: prélom — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Serbo-Croatian: prijélom — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Slovak: zlomenina — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Slovene: zlom — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Spanish: fractura — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Swedish: benbrott — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Swedish: fraktur — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Tajik: шикаст (šikast) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Tamil: முறிவு (muṟivu) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Thai: กระดูกหัก (grà-dùuk-hàk) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Turkish: kırık — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Turkish: çıkık — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Turkish: sınık — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Ukrainian: перело́м (perelóm) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Urdu: شِکَسْت (śikast) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Uyghur: سۇنۇش (sunush) — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Uzbek: sinish — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Vietnamese: gãy xương — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Welsh: toriad — (medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
• Bulgarian: цепнатина́ (cepnatiná) — (geology) fault
• Bulgarian: лом (lom) — (geology) fault
• Dutch: breuk — (geology) fault
• Esperanto: faŭlto — (geology) fault
• Finnish: murros — (geology) fault
• Galician: falla — (geology) fault
• German: Verwerfung — (geology) fault
• Greek: θραύση (thráfsi) — (geology) fault
• Greek: σπάσιμο (spásimo) — (geology) fault
• Portuguese: falha — (geology) fault
• Russian: разло́м (razlóm) — (geology) fault
• Tamil: பிளவு (piḷavu) — (geology) fault
• Tamil: பிளப்பு (piḷappu) — (geology) fault
• Welsh: toriad — (geology) fault
• Welsh: gorthoriant — (geology) fault
• Arabic: يكسر — break
• Arabic: ينكسر — break
• Belarusian: лама́ць (lamácʹ) — break
• Belarusian: злама́ць (zlamácʹ) — break
• Belarusian: лама́цца (lamácca) — break
• Belarusian: злама́цца (zlamácca) — break
• Bulgarian: чупя (čupja) — break
• Bulgarian: троша (troša) — break
• Catalan: fracturar — break
• Danish: brække — break
• Danish: sprænge — break
• Danish: sprænges — break
• Esperanto: rompi — break
• Esperanto: rompiĝi — break
• Finnish: haljeta — break
• Finnish: murtua — break
• Finnish: rikkoa — break
• Finnish: murtaa — break
• Finnish: hajottaa — break
• Finnish: särkeä — break
• French: fracturer — break
• Galician: fracturar — break
• German: brechen — break
• Greek: θραύω (thrávo) — break
• Greek: σπάω (spáo) — break
• Khmer: បាក់ (bak) — break
• Korean: 부러지다 (bureojida) — break
• Portuguese: fraturar — break
• Romanian: fractura — break
• Russian: лома́ть (lomátʹ) — break
• Russian: слома́ть (slomátʹ) — break
• Russian: лома́ться (lomátʹsja) — break
• Russian: слома́ться (slomátʹsja) — break
• Spanish: fracturar — break
• Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق (kırmak) — break
• Ukrainian: лама́ти (lamáty) — break
• Ukrainian: злама́ти (zlamáty) — break
• Ukrainian: лама́тися (lamátysja) — break
• Ukrainian: злама́тися (zlamátysja) — break
• Welsh: torri — break
• Zazaki: şıkınen — break