genre

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• US: /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
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• UK: /ˈ(d)ʒɒnɹə/
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• nonstandard: /ˈd͡ʒɑnɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: ZH AA1 N R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: genre — kind; type; sort
• Albanian: zhanër — kind; type; sort
• Albanian: zhanri — kind; type; sort
• Arabic: نَوْع فَنِّيّ (nawʕ fanniyy) — kind; type; sort
• Arabic: نَوْع أَدَبِيّ (nawʕ ʔadabiyy) — kind; type; sort
• Arabic: نَوْع (nawʕ) — kind; type; sort
• Armenian: ժանր (žanr) — kind; type; sort
• Azerbaijani: janr — kind; type; sort
• Belarusian: жанр (žanr) — kind; type; sort
• Bulgarian: жанр (žanr) — kind; type; sort
• Bulgarian: вид (vid) — kind; type; sort
• Catalan: gènere — kind; type; sort
• Chinese Mandarin: 風格 /风格 (fēnggé) — kind; type; sort
• Chinese Mandarin: 類型 /类型 (lèixíng) — kind; type; sort
• Czech: žánr — kind; type; sort
• Danish: genre — kind; type; sort
• Dutch: genre — kind; type; sort
• Esperanto: ĝenro — kind; type; sort
• Estonian: žanr — kind; type; sort
• Faroese: slag — kind; type; sort
• Faroese: sjangra — kind; type; sort
• Finnish: lajityyppi — kind; type; sort
• Finnish: genre — kind; type; sort
• Finnish: tyylilaji — kind; type; sort
• Finnish: laji — kind; type; sort
• French: genre — kind; type; sort
• Galician: xénero — kind; type; sort
• Georgian: ჟანრი (žanri) — kind; type; sort
• German: Genre — kind; type; sort
• German: Gattung — kind; type; sort
• Greek: ύφος (ýfos) — kind; type; sort
• Hebrew: זָ׳נֶר \ ז׳אנר (zháner) — kind; type; sort
• Hindi: विधा (vidhā) — kind; type; sort
• Hungarian: műfaj — kind; type; sort
• Hungarian: zsáner — kind; type; sort
• Ido: genero — kind; type; sort
• Irish: seánra — kind; type; sort
• Italian: genere — kind; type; sort
• Japanese: ジャンル (janru) — kind; type; sort
• Kazakh: жанр (janr) — kind; type; sort
• Korean: 장르 (jangneu) — kind; type; sort
• Northern Kurdish: janr — kind; type; sort
• Northern Kurdish: şêwe — kind; type; sort
• Northern Kurdish: cûn — kind; type; sort
• Northern Kurdish: şêwaz — kind; type; sort
• Northern Kurdish: çeşît — kind; type; sort
• Northern Kurdish: tewr — kind; type; sort
• Kyrgyz: жанр (janr) — kind; type; sort
• Latin: genus — kind; type; sort
• Latvian: žanrs — kind; type; sort
• Lithuanian: žanras — kind; type; sort
• Macedonian: жанр (žanr) — kind; type; sort
• Malay: genre — kind; type; sort
• Māori: momotuhinga — kind; type; sort
• Māori: kātū — kind; type; sort
• Mongolian: жанр (žanr) — kind; type; sort
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjanger — kind; type; sort
• Norwegian Bokmål: genre — kind; type; sort
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjanger — kind; type; sort
• Norwegian Nynorsk: genre — kind; type; sort
• Persian: ژانر (žânr) — kind; type; sort
• Polish: gatunek — kind; type; sort
• Portuguese: gênero — kind; type; sort
• Portuguese: género — kind; type; sort
• Romanian: gen — kind; type; sort
• Russian: жанр (žanr) — kind; type; sort
• Serbo-Croatian: жанр — kind; type; sort
• Serbo-Croatian: žanr — kind; type; sort
• Slovak: žáner — kind; type; sort
• Slovene: žanr — kind; type; sort
• Spanish: género — kind; type; sort
• Swedish: genre — kind; type; sort
• Tajik: жанр (žanr) — kind; type; sort
• Thai: ประเภท (bprà-pêet) — kind; type; sort
• Thai: แนว (nɛɛo) — kind; type; sort
• Turkmen: žanr — kind; type; sort
• Ukrainian: жанр (žanr) — kind; type; sort
• Uzbek: janr — kind; type; sort
• Yiddish: זשאַנער (zhaner) — kind; type; sort