metre

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From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of meter, metron, and mether.

From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”).

126 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: meter — unit of length
• Albanian: metër — unit of length
• Amharic: ሜትር (metr) — unit of length
• Arabic: مِتْر (mitr) — unit of length
• Arabic: متر (metr) — unit of length
• Arabic: متر (mitir) — unit of length
• Armenian: մետր (metr) — unit of length
• Asturian: metru — unit of length
• Azerbaijani: metr — unit of length
• Bashkir: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Belarusian: метр (mjetr) — unit of length
• Belarusian: мэ́тар (métar) — unit of length
• Bengali: মিটার (miṭar) — unit of length
• Bulgarian: ме́тър (métǎr) — unit of length
• Burmese: မီတာ (mita) — unit of length
• Catalan: metre — unit of length
• Chinese Cantonese: 米 — unit of length
• Chinese Cantonese: 公尺 (gung1 cek3) — unit of length
• Chinese: ми (mi) — unit of length
• Chinese: метр (miətr) — unit of length
• Hakka Chinese: 米 (mí) — unit of length
• Hakka Chinese: 公尺 (kûng-chhak) — unit of length
• Hakka Chinese: 米打 (mé-tá) — unit of length
• Chinese: 米 (zh-min-nan) — unit of length
• Chinese: 公尺 (zh-min-nan) — unit of length
• Chinese: 米達 /米达 (bí-ta̍t) — unit of length
• Chinese Mandarin: 米 (mǐ) — unit of length
• Chinese Mandarin: 公尺 (gōngchǐ) — unit of length
• Chinese Mandarin: 米突 (mǐtū, mǐtú) — unit of length
• West Circassian: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Czech: metr — unit of length
• Danish: meter — unit of length
• Dutch: meter — unit of length
• Esperanto: metro — unit of length
• Estonian: meeter — unit of length
• Faroese: metur — unit of length
• Finnish: metri — unit of length
• French: mètre — unit of length
• Galician: metro — unit of length
• Georgian: მეტრი (meṭri) — unit of length
• German: Meter — unit of length
• Greek: μέτρο (métro) — unit of length
• Gujarati: મીટર (mīṭar) — unit of length
• Haitian Creole: mèt — unit of length
• Hawaiian: mīka — unit of length
• Hebrew: מֶטֶר (méter) — unit of length
• Hindi: मीटर (mīṭar) — unit of length
• Hungarian: méter — unit of length
• Icelandic: metri — unit of length
• Ido: metro — unit of length
• Indonesian: meter — unit of length
• Ingrian: metra — unit of length
• Interlingua: metro — unit of length
• Irish: méadar — unit of length
• Italian: metro — unit of length
• Japanese: メートル (mētoru) — unit of length
• Jarai: mĕt — unit of length
• Kannada: ಮೀಟರು (mīṭaru) — unit of length
• Kazakh: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Khmer: ម៉ែត្រ (maet) — unit of length
• Korean: 미터 (miteo) — unit of length
• Korean: 메터 (meteo) — unit of length
• Kyrgyz: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Lao: ແມັດ (mæt) — unit of length
• Latin: metrum — unit of length
• Latvian: metrs — unit of length
• Limburgish: maeter — unit of length
• Lingala: metele — unit of length
• Lithuanian: metras — unit of length
• Lü: ᦶᦙᧆ (maed) — unit of length
• Macedonian: метар (metar) — unit of length
• Malay: meter — unit of length
• Malayalam: മീറ്റർ (mīṟṟaṟ) — unit of length
• Māori: mita — unit of length
• Mòcheno: meter — unit of length
• Mongolian: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Norwegian Bokmål: meter — unit of length
• Norwegian Nynorsk: meter — unit of length
• Ossetian: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Pannonian Rusyn: метер (meter) — unit of length
• Persian: متر (metr) — unit of length
• Polish: metr — unit of length
• Portuguese: metro — unit of length
• Romanian: metru — unit of length
• Russian: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Serbo-Croatian: ме̏тар — unit of length
• Serbo-Croatian: mȅtar — unit of length
• Shan: မႅတ် (mět) — unit of length
• Sinhalese: මීටර් (mīṭar) — unit of length
• Slovak: meter — unit of length
• Slovene: meter — unit of length
• Spanish: metro — unit of length
• Swahili: mita — unit of length
• Swedish: meter — unit of length
• Tagalog: metro — unit of length
• Tagalog: panukat — unit of length
• Tajik: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Tamil: மீட்டர் (mīṭṭar) — unit of length
• Tatar: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Telugu: మీటరు (mīṭaru) — unit of length
• Thai: เมตร (méet) — unit of length
• Tigrinya: ሜትሮ (metro) — unit of length
• Turkish: metre — unit of length
• Turkmen: metr — unit of length
• Ukrainian: метр (metr) — unit of length
• Urdu: میٹر (mīṭar) — unit of length
• Uyghur: مېتىر (mëtir) — unit of length
• Uzbek: metr — unit of length
• Vietnamese: mét — unit of length
• Vietnamese: thước — unit of length
• Vietnamese: thước tây — unit of length
• Walloon: mete — unit of length
• Yakut: миэтэрэ (mietere) — unit of length
• Yiddish: מעטער (meter) — unit of length
• Yoruba: mítà — unit of length
• Catalan: metre — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• Catalan: mètrica — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• Esperanto: metro — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• German: Metrum — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• German: Versmaß — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• Hindi: छंद (chand) — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• Hungarian: versmérték — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• Hungarian: metrum — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• Hungarian: ütem — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• Malayalam: വൃത്തം (vr̥ttaṁ) — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• Polish: metrum — rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition