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• mīʹkrə-skōp'
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• UK: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp/
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• US: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/
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• CMU ARPABET: M AY1 K R AH0 S K OW2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós) Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō) Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin mīcroscopiumlbor. Italian microscopiobor. English microscope From New Latin microscopium and Italian microscopio, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”), equivalent to micro- + -scope.

147 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: амикроскоп (amikʼroskʼopʼ) — an optical instrument
• Afrikaans: mikroskoop — an optical instrument
• Albanian: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Arabic: مِجْهَر (mijhar) — an optical instrument
• Armenian: մանրադիտակ (manraditak) — an optical instrument
• Aromanian: microscopu — an optical instrument
• Asturian: microscopiu — an optical instrument
• Avar: микроско́п (mikroskóp) — an optical instrument
• Azerbaijani: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Azerbaijani: xürdəbin — an optical instrument
• Bashkir: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Basque: mikroskopio — an optical instrument
• Belarusian: мікраско́п (mikraskóp) — an optical instrument
• Bengali: অণুবীক্ষণযন্ত্র (onubikkhonojontro) — an optical instrument
• Bihari: खुर्दबीन — an optical instrument
• Bihari: सूक्ष्मदर्शी — an optical instrument
• Breton: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Bulgarian: микроско́п (mikroskóp) — an optical instrument
• Burmese: မိုက္ကရိုစကုပ် (muikka.ruica.kup) — an optical instrument
• Carpathian Rusyn: микроско́п (mykroskóp) — an optical instrument
• Catalan: microscopi — an optical instrument
• Chechen: микроско́п (mikroskóp) — an optical instrument
• Cherokee: ᎾᎥᏂᎨ ᎠᎪᎵᎡᏙᏗ (navnige agoliedodi) — an optical instrument
• Chinese Cantonese: 顯微鏡 /显微镜 (hin2 mei4 geng3) — an optical instrument
• Eastern Min Chinese: 顯微鏡 /显微镜 (hiēng-mì-giáng) — an optical instrument
• Hakka Chinese: 顯微鏡 /显微镜 (hién-mì-kiang) — an optical instrument
• Chinese: 顯微鏡 /显微镜 (zh-min-nan) — an optical instrument
• Chinese Mandarin: 顯微鏡 /显微镜 (xiǎnwēijìng) — an optical instrument
• Chuvash: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Crimean Tatar: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Crimean Tatar: hurdebin — an optical instrument
• Czech: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Danish: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Dargwa: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Dutch: microscoop — an optical instrument
• Erzya: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Esperanto: mikroskopo — an optical instrument
• Estonian: mikroskoop — an optical instrument
• Finnish: mikroskooppi — an optical instrument
• French: microscope — an optical instrument
• Saterland Frisian: Mikroskop — an optical instrument
• West-Frisian: mikroskoop — an optical instrument
• Friulian: microscop — an optical instrument
• Galician: microscopio — an optical instrument
• Georgian: მიკროსკოპი (miḳrosḳoṗi) — an optical instrument
• German: Mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Greek: μικροσκόπιο (mikroskópio) — an optical instrument
• Haitian Creole: mikwoskòp — an optical instrument
• Hebrew: מִיקְרוֹסְקוֹפִּ (mikroskóp) — an optical instrument
• Hindi: ख़ुर्दबीन (xurdabīn) — an optical instrument
• Hindi: सूक्ष्मदर्शी (sūkṣmadarśī) — an optical instrument
• Hungarian: mikroszkóp — an optical instrument
• Icelandic: smásjá — an optical instrument
• Ido: mikroskopo — an optical instrument
• Indonesian: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Irish: micreascóp — an optical instrument
• Italian: microscopio — an optical instrument
• Jamaican Creole: maikroskuop — an optical instrument
• Japanese: 顕微鏡 (kenbikyō) — an optical instrument
• Japanese: マイクロスコープ (maikurosukōpu) — an optical instrument
• Javanese: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Kannada: ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮದರ್ಶಕ (sūkṣmadarśaka) — an optical instrument
• Kannada: ಸೀರುತೋರ್ಪುಕ (sīrutōrapuka) — an optical instrument
• Kannada: ಮೈಕ್ರೋಸ್ಕೋಪು (maikrōskōpu) — an optical instrument
• Kashubian: mikroskòp — an optical instrument
• Kazakh: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Khmer: អតិសុខុមទស្សន៍ (ʼaʼtesokhomĕəʼtŭəh) — an optical instrument
• Khmer: មីក្រូទស្សន៍ (miikrootʊəh) — an optical instrument
• Korean: 현미경 (hyeonmigyeong) — an optical instrument
• Kumyk: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Central Kurdish: وردبین (wirdbîn) — an optical instrument
• Northern Kurdish: mîkroskop — an optical instrument
• Northern Kurdish: hûrbîn — an optical instrument
• Kyrgyz: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Latin: mīcroscopium — an optical instrument
• Latvian: mikroskops — an optical instrument
• Lezgi: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Limburgish: microscoap — an optical instrument
• Lithuanian: mikroskopas — an optical instrument
• Macedonian: ми́кроскоп (míkroskop) — an optical instrument
• Malay: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Malay: teropong halus — an optical instrument
• Malay: teropong tuma — an optical instrument
• Malay: teropong kuman — an optical instrument
• Malay: teropong hama — an optical instrument
• Malayalam: സൂക്ഷ്മദർശിനി (sūkṣmadaṟśini) — an optical instrument
• Manx: mynreayrtane — an optical instrument
• Māori: karaihe whakanui — an optical instrument
• Māori: karuwhakarahi — an optical instrument
• Marathi: सूक्ष्मदर्शक (sūkṣmadarśak) — an optical instrument
• Eastern Mari: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Mongolian: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Navajo: chʼosh doo yitʼíinii bee nílʼíní — an optical instrument
• Neapolitan: micruscopio — an optical instrument
• Northern Sotho: maekrosekôpo — an optical instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Occitan: microscòpi — an optical instrument
• Ossetian: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Persian: ریزبین (riz-bin) — an optical instrument
• Persian: میکروسکوپ (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Piedmontese: microscòpi — an optical instrument
• Polish: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Portuguese: microscópio — an optical instrument
• Punjabi: مائکروسکوپ (mā'ikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Romanian: microscop — an optical instrument
• Russian: микроско́п (mikroskóp) — an optical instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: ми̏кроскоп — an optical instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: mȉkroskop — an optical instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: sitnòzor — an optical instrument
• Shona: dongoradatu — an optical instrument
• Sinhalese: අන්වීක්ෂය (anwīkṣaya) — an optical instrument
• Slovak: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Slovene: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Somali: sheybaar — an optical instrument
• Spanish: microscopio — an optical instrument
• Sundanese: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Swahili: hadubini — an optical instrument
• Swahili: darubini ya vidudu — an optical instrument
• Swedish: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Tagalog: mikroskopyo — an optical instrument
• Tagalog: miksipat — an optical instrument
• Tajik: резбин (rezbin) — an optical instrument
• Tamil: நுண்நோக்கி (nuṇnōkki) — an optical instrument
• Tatar: микроскоп (mikrosqop) — an optical instrument
• Telugu: సూక్ష్మదర్శిని (sūkṣmadarśini) — an optical instrument
• Thai: กล้องจุลทรรศน์ (glong jun la taad) — an optical instrument
• Tibetan: ཆེ་ཤེལ (che shel) — an optical instrument
• Turkish: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Ottoman Turkish: خردهبین (hurdebîn) — an optical instrument
• Ukrainian: мікроско́п (mikroskóp) — an optical instrument
• Urdu: خردبین (xurd-bīn) — an optical instrument
• Urdu: خرد بین (xurd-bīn) — an optical instrument
• Uyghur: مىكروسكوپ (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Uzbek: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Vietnamese: kính hiển vi — an optical instrument
• Volapük: daluskop — an optical instrument
• Võro: mikroskuup — an optical instrument
• Võro: fähküsilm — an optical instrument
• Waray-Waray: mikroskopyo — an optical instrument
• Welsh: microsgop — an optical instrument
• Yakut: микроскоп (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Yiddish: מיקראָסקאָפּ (mikroskop) — an optical instrument
• Zazaki: mikroskop — an optical instrument
• Bulgarian: микроскопирам (mikroskopiram) — Translations
• German: mikroskopieren — Translations
• Ido: mikroskopar — Translations