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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɡlɒs/
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• General-American: /ɡlɔs/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ɡlɑs/
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• rhymes with -ɒs
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Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glow”), Middle Low German glȫsen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhel- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.

From Middle English glosse, glose, from Late Latin glōssa (“obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation”), from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “language”). Doublet of glossa.

From Middle English glossen, glosen, from Old French gloser and Medieval Latin glossāre.

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَرِيق (barīq) — surface shine
• Bulgarian: блясък (bljasǎk) — surface shine
• Bulgarian: лъскавина (lǎskavina) — surface shine
• Czech: lesk — surface shine
• Finnish: kiilto — surface shine
• French: brillant — surface shine
• German: Glanz — surface shine
• German: Schimmer — surface shine
• German: Glitzern — surface shine
• Hungarian: máz — surface shine
• Portuguese: lustre — surface shine
• Portuguese: lustro — surface shine
• Portuguese: brilho — surface shine
• Russian: блеск (blesk) — surface shine
• Russian: гля́нец (gljánec) — surface shine
• Scottish Gaelic: lìomh — surface shine
• Spanish: brillo — surface shine
• Spanish: lustre — surface shine
• Turkish: parlaklık — surface shine
• Bulgarian: външен блясък (vǎnšen bljasǎk) — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Czech: pozlátko — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Czech: lesk — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Finnish: pintakiilto — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• German: Fassade — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• German: Schönfärberei — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• German: Politur — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• German: Retusche — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• German: Blendfassade — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• German: Schaufassade — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Hungarian: máz — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Hungarian: látszat — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Hungarian: kirakat — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Hungarian: külszín — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Russian: блеск (blesk) — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Russian: лоск (losk) — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Turkish: gösteriş — superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
• Bulgarian: бележка в полето (beležka v poleto) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Catalan: glossa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Esperanto: gloso — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Finnish: selitys — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• French: glose — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Galician: glosa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Georgian: შენიშვნა (šenišvna) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Georgian: განმარტება (ganmarṭeba) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• German: Glosse — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• German: Glossem — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• German: Erläuterung — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• German: Randbemerkung — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• German: Randnotiz — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• German: Fußnote — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Hebrew: פירוש (perúsh) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Irish: gluais — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Italian: glossa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Italian: chiosa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Japanese: グロス (gurosu) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Japanese: 注解 (chūkai) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Norwegian: glose — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Polish: glosa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Portuguese: glosa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Russian: гло́сса (glóssa) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Serbo-Croatian: гло̏са — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Serbo-Croatian: glȍsa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Spanish: glosa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Swedish: glossa — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Swedish: randanmärkning — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Tibetan: མཆན་འགྲེལ (mchan 'grel) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Turkish: şerh — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Ukrainian: глоса (hlosa) — brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
• Finnish: selitys — extensive commentary on some text
• Galician: glosa — extensive commentary on some text
• German: Erläuterung — extensive commentary on some text
• Polish: glosa — extensive commentary on some text
• Bulgarian: лъскам (lǎskam) — give a gloss or sheen to
• Finnish: kiillottaa — give a gloss or sheen to
• German: polieren — give a gloss or sheen to
• German: glanzpolieren — give a gloss or sheen to
• Ido: glacar — give a gloss or sheen to
• Russian: наводи́ть гля́нец (navodítʹ gljánec) — give a gloss or sheen to
• Scottish Gaelic: lìomh — give a gloss or sheen to
• German: schönfärben — make (something) attractive by deception
• German: verbrämen — make (something) attractive by deception
• German: beschönigen — make (something) attractive by deception
• German: vertuschen — make (something) attractive by deception
• German: bemänteln — make (something) attractive by deception
• German: überspielen — make (something) attractive by deception
• German: retuschieren — make (something) attractive by deception
• German: unter den Teppich kehren — make (something) attractive by deception
• German: schönreden — make (something) attractive by deception
• Russian: наводи́ть лоск (navodítʹ losk) — make (something) attractive by deception
• Ottoman Turkish: یالدزلامق (yaldızlamak) — make (something) attractive by deception
• Portuguese: brilhar — become shiny
• Russian: лосни́ться (losnítʹsja) — become shiny
• Finnish: selittää — to add a gloss to (a text)
• German: kommentieren — to add a gloss to (a text)
• German: beschriften — to add a gloss to (a text)
• German: annotieren — to add a gloss to (a text)
• German: mit einer Randnotiz versehen — to add a gloss to (a text)
• German: mit Anmerkungen versehen — to add a gloss to (a text)
• Ido: glacar — to add a gloss to (a text)
• Portuguese: glosar — to add a gloss to (a text)
• Spanish: glosar — to add a gloss to (a text)