hyperbole

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• Received-Pronunciation: /haɪˈpɜːbəli/
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• General-American: /haɪˈpɝbəli/
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• homophone: hyperbolae
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AY0 P ER1 B AH0 L IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gwelH-). Doublet of hyperbola.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hiperbool — rhetorical device
• Arabic: مُبَالَغَةٌ (mubālaḡatun) — rhetorical device
• Catalan: hipèrbole — rhetorical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 誇張法 /夸张法 (kuāzhāngfǎ) — rhetorical device
• Czech: nadsázka — rhetorical device
• Danish: hyperbel — rhetorical device
• Dutch: hyperbool — rhetorical device
• Esperanto: hiperbolo — rhetorical device
• Finnish: hyperbola — rhetorical device
• French: hyperbole — rhetorical device
• Galician: hipérbole — rhetorical device
• Georgian: ჰიპერბოლა (hiṗerbola) — rhetorical device
• Georgian: გაზვიადება (gazviadeba) — rhetorical device
• Georgian: გადამეტება (gadameṭeba) — rhetorical device
• Georgian: გადიდება (gadideba) — rhetorical device
• German: Hyperbel — rhetorical device
• German: Übertreibung — rhetorical device
• Greek: υπερβολή (ypervolí) — rhetorical device
• Ancient Greek: ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ) — rhetorical device
• Gujarati: અતિશયોક્તિ (atiśyokti) — rhetorical device
• Hindi: अत्युक्ति (atyukti) — rhetorical device
• Hindi: अतिशयोक्ति (atiśyokti) — rhetorical device
• Hungarian: túlzás — rhetorical device
• Hungarian: nagyítás — rhetorical device
• Hungarian: hiperbola — rhetorical device
• Irish: urtheilgean — rhetorical device
• Irish: hipearbóil — rhetorical device
• Italian: iperbole — rhetorical device
• Japanese: 誇張 (kochō) — rhetorical device
• Korean: 과장 (gwajang) — rhetorical device
• Latin: hyperbole — rhetorical device
• Latin: nimietas — rhetorical device
• Latin: superlatio — rhetorical device
• Māori: kupu whakapehapeha — rhetorical device
• Norwegian Bokmål: hyperbol — rhetorical device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hyperbol — rhetorical device
• Polish: hiperbola — rhetorical device
• Portuguese: hipérbole — rhetorical device
• Romanian: hiperbolă — rhetorical device
• Russian: гипе́рбола (gipérbola) — rhetorical device
• Russian: преувеличе́ние (preuveličénije) — rhetorical device
• Spanish: hipérbole — rhetorical device
• Swedish: hyperbol — rhetorical device
• Tagalog: sawig — rhetorical device
• Telugu: అతిశయోక్తి (atiśayōkti) — rhetorical device
• Thai: อติพจน์ — rhetorical device
• Thai: อธิพจน์ — rhetorical device
• Turkish: abartıcılık — rhetorical device
• Ukrainian: гіпе́рбола (hipérbola) — rhetorical device
• Welsh: gormodiaith — rhetorical device