hieroglyph

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ɹəˌɡlɪf/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ɹəʊˌɡlɪf/
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• General-American: /ˈhaɪɚ.əˌɡlɪf/
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• General-American: /ˈhaɪɚ.oʊˌɡlɪf/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AY2 R OW0 G L IH1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested around 1598, a back-formation from hieroglyphic (1580s), from Middle French hiéroglyphique, from Late Latin hieroglyphicus, from Ancient Greek ἱερογλυφικός (hierogluphikós) (Plutarch τά ἱερογλυφικά [γράμματα] "hieroglyphic [writing]), ἱερόγλυφος (hierógluphos, “carver of hieroglyphs”) (Ptolemy), a compound of ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy”) and γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carved work”), a calque of Egyptian mdw-nṯr (“the god’s word”), nTr-md. By surface analysis, hiero- + glyph.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hiëroglief — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Albanian: hieroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Arabic: هِيرُوغْلِيفِيَّة (hiroḡlifiyya) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Armenian: հիերոգլիֆ (hieroglif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Asturian: xeroglíficu — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Azerbaijani: heroqlif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Belarusian: іеро́гліф (ijeróhlif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Belarusian: геро́гліф (hjeróhlif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Bengali: হায়ারোগ্লিফ (haẏarōgliph) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Bulgarian: йерогли́ф (jeroglíf) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Burmese: အရုပ်စာ (a.rupca) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Catalan: jeroglífic — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Chinese Mandarin: 象形文字 (xiàngxíng wénzì) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Chinese Mandarin: 圖畫文字 /图画文字 (túhuà wénzì) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Chinese Mandarin: 聖書體 /圣书体 (shèngshūtǐ) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Czech: hieroglyf — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Danish: hieroglyf — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Dutch: hiëroglief — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Esperanto: hieroglifo — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Estonian: hieroglüüf — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Finnish: hieroglyfi — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• French: hiéroglyphe — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• West-Frisian: hiëroglyf — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Galician: xeróglifo — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Galician: xeroglífico — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Georgian: იეროგლიფი (ieroglipi) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• German: Hieroglyphe — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Greek: ιερογλυφικός (ieroglyfikós) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Hawaiian: lalinoka — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Hebrew: הִירוֹגְלִיף — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Hindi: हीयेरोग्लिफ़ (hīyeroglif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Hungarian: hieroglifa — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Indonesian: hieroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Irish: iairiglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Italian: geroglifico — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Japanese: 象形文字 (shōkei moji) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Japanese: ヒエログリフ (hierogurifu) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Japanese: 聖刻 (seikoku) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Kazakh: иероглиф (ieroglif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Khmer: វត្ថុលេខនា (vŏətthoʼ leikhaʼnaa) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Korean: 상형문자 (sanghyeongmunja) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Korean: 히에로글리프 (hierogeullipeu) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Kyrgyz: иероглиф (iyeroglif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Latvian: hieroglifs — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Lithuanian: hieroglifas — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Macedonian: хиероглиф (hieroglif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Malay: hieroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Norwegian Bokmål: hieroglyf — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Occitan: ieroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Persian: هیروگلیف (hiroglif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Polish: hieroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Portuguese: hieróglifo — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Romanian: hieroglifă — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Russian: иеро́глиф (ijeróglif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Serbo-Croatian: хијероглиф — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Serbo-Croatian: hijeroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Slovak: hieroglyf — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Slovene: hieroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Spanish: jeroglífico — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Swedish: hieroglyf — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Tagalog: heroglipiko — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Tajik: иероглиф (iyeroglif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Thai: ไฮโรกลิฟ (hai-roo-glìf) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Turkish: hiyeroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Turkmen: iýeroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Ukrainian: ієро́гліф (ijeróhlif) — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Uzbek: iyeroglif — element of hieroglyphic writing system
• Vietnamese: chữ tượng hình — element of hieroglyphic writing system