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• UK: /ˈmɪdl̩/
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• UK: [ˈmɪ.dəɫ]
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• UK: [ˈmɪ.dʊ]
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• General-South-African: [ˈmɨdl̩]
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• US: /ˈmɪdl̩/
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• US: [ˈmɪ.ɾɫ̩]
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• Australian: /ˈmɪdəl/
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• Australian: [ˈmɪ̝.dəɫ]
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• Australian: [ˈmɪ̝.dʊ]
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• Australian: [ˈmɪ̝.ɾ-]
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• New-Zealand: /ˈmɘdɘl/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈmə.dɯ(ɫ)]
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• New-Zealand: [ˈmə.ɾ-]
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 D AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English myddel, middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médhyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Middel (“middle”), West Frisian mul (“middle”), Dutch middel (“means; medicine, cure”), German mittel (“middle”, adjective), Mittel (“means; medicament, remedy”, noun), Luxembourgish Mëttel (“means, method; medicament”), Vilamovian mytuł (“middle”), Yiddish מיטל (mitl, “middle”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk middel (“means”), Icelandic meðal (“average; means, medicine”), Swedish medel (“average, mean, middle”). See also mid.

317 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: وَسَط (wasaṭ) — located in the middle; in between
• Arabic: مُتَوَسْط (mutawasṭ) — located in the middle; in between
• Arabic: أَوْسَط (ʔawsaṭ) — located in the middle; in between
• Armenian: միջին (miǰin) — located in the middle; in between
• Azerbaijani: orta — located in the middle; in between
• Belarusian: сярэ́дні (sjarédni) — located in the middle; in between
• Bulgarian: сре́ден (sréden) — located in the middle; in between
• Burmese: လတ် (lat) — located in the middle; in between
• Catalan: mitjà — located in the middle; in between
• Chinese Mandarin: 中間 /中间 (zhōngjiàn) — located in the middle; in between
• Czech: prostřední — located in the middle; in between
• Dutch: midden — located in the middle; in between
• Esperanto: meza — located in the middle; in between
• Estonian: kesk- — located in the middle; in between
• Extremaduran: meyu — located in the middle; in between
• Finnish: keski- — located in the middle; in between
• French: moyen — located in the middle; in between
• Friulian: mezan — located in the middle; in between
• German: Mittel- — located in the middle; in between
• German: mittlere — located in the middle; in between
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌹𐍃 (midjis) — located in the middle; in between
• Greek: μέσος (mésos) — located in the middle; in between
• Greek: μεσαίος (mesaíos) — located in the middle; in between
• Ancient Greek: μέσος (mésos) — located in the middle; in between
• Hindi: माध्यमिक (mādhyamik) — located in the middle; in between
• Hindi: बीच (bīc) — located in the middle; in between
• Hungarian: középső — located in the middle; in between
• Hungarian: közép- — located in the middle; in between
• Indonesian: pertengahan — located in the middle; in between
• Italian: medio — located in the middle; in between
• Italian: mezzano — located in the middle; in between
• Korean: 중앙의 (jung'ang'ui) — located in the middle; in between
• Latin: medius — located in the middle; in between
• Latvian: vidus — located in the middle; in between
• Latvian: vidējs — located in the middle; in between
• Macedonian: среден (sreden) — located in the middle; in between
• Macedonian: средишен (središen) — located in the middle; in between
• Malay: tengah — located in the middle; in between
• Norwegian: midterst — located in the middle; in between
• Pashto: منځنی (manźanay) — located in the middle; in between
• Persian: میانه (miyâna, miyâne) — located in the middle; in between
• Polish: środkowy — located in the middle; in between
• Portuguese: médio — located in the middle; in between
• Romanian: mediu — located in the middle; in between
• Russian: сре́дний (srédnij) — located in the middle; in between
• Sanskrit: मध्य (madhya) — located in the middle; in between
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhanach — located in the middle; in between
• Slovak: stredný — located in the middle; in between
• Slovak: prostredný — located in the middle; in between
• Spanish: medio — located in the middle; in between
• Swedish: mellersta — located in the middle; in between
• Telugu: మధ్య (madhya) — located in the middle; in between
• Ukrainian: сере́дній (serédnij) — located in the middle; in between
• Venetan: mesàn — located in the middle; in between
• Võro: kesk- — located in the middle; in between
• Walloon: mîtrin — located in the middle; in between
• Yakut: орто (orto) — located in the middle; in between
• Bulgarian: централен (centralen) — central
• Burmese: လတ် (lat) — central
• Finnish: keskeinen — central
• French: central — central
• German: mittig — central
• Greek: κεντρικός (kentrikós) — central
• Hindi: केंद्र (kendra) — central
• Hindi: माध्यमिक (mādhyamik) — central
• Italian: centrale — central
• Latvian: vidējs — central
• Latvian: centrāls — central
• Macedonian: средишен (središen) — central
• Malay: pusat — central
• Malay: tengah — central
• Pashto: منځنی (manźanay) — central
• Persian: میانی (miyâni) — central
• Persian: مرکزی (markazi) — central
• Portuguese: central — central
• Romanian: central — central
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhanach — central
• Spanish: central — central
• Swedish: central — central
• Ancient Greek: μέσος (mésos) — pertaining to the middle voice
• Afrikaans: midde — centre, midpoint
• Aklanon: tunga' — centre, midpoint
• Albanian: mes — centre, midpoint
• Albanian: midis — centre, midpoint
• Northern Altai: орта (orta) — centre, midpoint
• Northern Altai: орто (orto) — centre, midpoint
• Southern Altai: орто (orto) — centre, midpoint
• Arabic: مُنْتَصَف (muntaṣaf) — centre, midpoint
• Arabic: وَسَط (wasaṭ) — centre, midpoint
• Armenian: մեջտեղ (meǰteġ) — centre, midpoint
• Armenian: կենտրոն (kentron) — centre, midpoint
• Aromanian: njadzã — centre, midpoint
• Aromanian: nolgic — centre, midpoint
• Aromanian: nolgiuc — centre, midpoint
• Aromanian: njilgioc — centre, midpoint
• Aromanian: mesi — centre, midpoint
• Aromanian: mese (roa-rup) — centre, midpoint
• Assamese: মাজ (maz) — centre, midpoint
• Asturian: mediu — centre, midpoint
• Avar: цӏцӏороб (ccʼorob) — centre, midpoint
• Azerbaijani: orta — centre, midpoint
• Bangi: ntéi — centre, midpoint
• Bashkir: урта (urta) — centre, midpoint
• Basque: erdi — centre, midpoint
• Belarusian: сярэдзі́на (sjaredzína) — centre, midpoint
• Belarusian: сяро́дак (sjaródak) — centre, midpoint
• Bengali: মধ্য (moddho) — centre, midpoint
• Central Bikol: tahaw — centre, midpoint
• Bulgarian: среда (sreda) — centre, midpoint
• Bulgarian: център (centǎr) — centre, midpoint
• Burmese: အလယ် (a.lai) — centre, midpoint
• Catalan: mig — centre, midpoint
• Cebuano: tunga — centre, midpoint
• Cherokee: ᎠᏰᏟ (ayetli) — centre, midpoint
• Cheyenne: sétóve — centre, midpoint
• Eastern Min Chinese: 中央 (düng yueng) — centre, midpoint
• Eastern Min Chinese: 中间 — centre, midpoint
• Chinese: 中央 (zh-min-nan) — centre, midpoint
• Chinese: 中間 /中间 (zh-min-nan) — centre, midpoint
• Chinese Mandarin: 中央 (zhōngyāng) — centre, midpoint
• Chinese Mandarin: 中間 /中间 (zhōngjiān) — centre, midpoint
• Chinese Mandarin: 中心 (zhōngxīn) — centre, midpoint
• Choctaw: iklʋnna — centre, midpoint
• Crimean Tatar: orta — centre, midpoint
• Czech: střed — centre, midpoint
• Dalmatian: mesu — centre, midpoint
• Danish: midte — centre, midpoint
• Drung: vdung — centre, midpoint
• Dutch: midden — centre, midpoint
• Dutch: centrum — centre, midpoint
• Egyptian: q-A-b-F46:Y1 (qꜣb) — centre, midpoint
• Esperanto: mezo — centre, midpoint
• Estonian: keskkoht — centre, midpoint
• Evenki: дулин (dulin) — centre, midpoint
• Evenki: уңурэ — centre, midpoint
• Finnish: keskipiste — centre, midpoint
• Finnish: keskusta — centre, midpoint
• French: milieu — centre, midpoint
• West-Frisian: middel — centre, midpoint
• Friulian: mieç — centre, midpoint
• Fula: hakkunde — centre, midpoint
• Georgian: შუა (šua) — centre, midpoint
• Georgian: შუაგული (šuaguli) — centre, midpoint
• German: Mittelpunkt — centre, midpoint
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌿𐌼𐌰 (miduma) — centre, midpoint
• Greek: μέση (mési) — centre, midpoint
• Greek: μέσο (méso) — centre, midpoint
• Ancient Greek: μέσον (méson) — centre, midpoint
• Gujarati: મધ્ય (madhya) — centre, midpoint
• Gujarati: વચલું (vaclũ) — centre, midpoint
• Gujarati: વચ્ચેનું (vaccenũ) — centre, midpoint
• Haitian Creole: mitan — centre, midpoint
• Hebrew: אֶמְצַע — centre, midpoint
• Hindi: मध्य (madhya) — centre, midpoint
• Hungarian: középpont — centre, midpoint
• Indonesian: tengah — centre, midpoint
• Irish: lár — centre, midpoint
• Old Irish: medón — centre, midpoint
• Italian: mezzo — centre, midpoint
• Jamaican Creole: miggle — centre, midpoint
• Japanese: 中央 (chūō) — centre, midpoint
• Japanese: 中間 (chūkan) — centre, midpoint
• Japanese: 中心 (chūshin) — centre, midpoint
• Javanese: tengah — centre, midpoint
• Old Javanese: tĕngah — centre, midpoint
• Kazakh: орта (orta) — centre, midpoint
• Khmer: កណ្ដាល (kɑndaal) — centre, midpoint
• Komi-Permyak: шöр (šör) — centre, midpoint
• Kongo: kati — centre, midpoint
• Korean: 중앙 (jung'ang) — centre, midpoint
• Korean: 중간 (junggan) — centre, midpoint
• Korean: 가운데 (gaunde) — centre, midpoint
• Korean: 중심 (jungsim) — centre, midpoint
• Central Kurdish: ناوەند (nawend) — centre, midpoint
• Central Kurdish: ناوەڕاست (nawerrast) — centre, midpoint
• Northern Kurdish: nav — centre, midpoint
• Kyrgyz: орто (orto) — centre, midpoint
• Ladin: mesan — centre, midpoint
• Lao: ກາງ (kāng) — centre, midpoint
• Latgalian: vyds — centre, midpoint
• Latgalian: vyducs — centre, midpoint
• Latin: medium — centre, midpoint
• Latvian: vidus — centre, midpoint
• Lingala: kati — centre, midpoint
• Lingala: ntéi — centre, midpoint
• Lithuanian: vidurys — centre, midpoint
• Lombard: mezz — centre, midpoint
• Lombard: mès — centre, midpoint
• Macedonian: средина (sredina) — centre, midpoint
• Macedonian: средиште (središte) — centre, midpoint
• Malay: pusat — centre, midpoint
• Malay: tengah — centre, midpoint
• Malayalam: നടുക് (naṭukŭ) — centre, midpoint
• Malayalam: മധ്യം (madhyaṁ) — centre, midpoint
• Manchu: ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠ (dulimba) — centre, midpoint
• Māori: pokapū — centre, midpoint
• Mongolian: дунд (dund) — centre, midpoint
• Mwani: kati — centre, midpoint
• Nepali: बीच (bīc) — centre, midpoint
• Nepali: मध्य (madhya) — centre, midpoint
• Norwegian Bokmål: midt — centre, midpoint
• Norwegian Nynorsk: midt — centre, midpoint
• Occitan: mièg — centre, midpoint
• Odia: ମଝି (majhi) — centre, midpoint
• Odia: ମଧ୍ୟ (madhya) — centre, midpoint
• Old English: middel — centre, midpoint
• Old English: midlen — centre, midpoint
• Old Turkic: 𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆 (ortu) — centre, midpoint
• Papiamentu: mei — centre, midpoint
• Pashto: منځ (manź) — centre, midpoint
• Persian: میان (miyân) — centre, midpoint
• Persian: وسط (vasat) — centre, midpoint
• Polish: środek — centre, midpoint
• Polish: serce — centre, midpoint
• Portuguese: meio — centre, midpoint
• Portuguese: centro — centre, midpoint
• Punjabi: ਮੱਧ (maddha) — centre, midpoint
• Romanian: mijloc — centre, midpoint
• Romanian: miez — centre, midpoint
• Romanian: centru — centre, midpoint
• Russian: середи́на (seredína) — centre, midpoint
• Russian: среди́на (sredína) — centre, midpoint
• Sanskrit: मध्य (madhya) — centre, midpoint
• Santali: ᱜᱚᱵᱷᱚ (gôbhô) — centre, midpoint
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan — centre, midpoint
• Serbo-Croatian: средина — centre, midpoint
• Serbo-Croatian: sredina — centre, midpoint
• Slovak: stred — centre, midpoint
• Slovene: sredina — centre, midpoint
• Spanish: medio — centre, midpoint
• Spanish: centro — centre, midpoint
• Sranan Tongo: mindri — centre, midpoint
• Swedish: mitt — centre, midpoint
• Tagalog: gitna — centre, midpoint
• Tajik: миёна (miyona) — centre, midpoint
• Tamil: நடு (naṭu) — centre, midpoint
• Tatar: урта (urta) — centre, midpoint
• Tausug: tungaan — centre, midpoint
• Thai: กลาง (glaang) — centre, midpoint
• Tok Pisin: namel — centre, midpoint
• Turkish: orta — centre, midpoint
• Turkish: merkez — centre, midpoint
• Ottoman Turkish: اورتا (orta) — centre, midpoint
• Turkmen: orta — centre, midpoint
• Udmurt: шор (šor) — centre, midpoint
• Ukrainian: середи́на (seredýna) — centre, midpoint
• Urdu: وسط (vasat) — centre, midpoint
• Uzbek: oʻrta — centre, midpoint
• Uzbek: oʻrtacha — centre, midpoint
• Venetan: mèzo — centre, midpoint
• Vietnamese: giữa — centre, midpoint
• Vietnamese: trung tâm — centre, midpoint
• Walloon: mitan — centre, midpoint
• Welsh: canol — centre, midpoint
• Yakut: орто (orto) — centre, midpoint
• Yiddish: מיטל (mitl) — centre, midpoint
• Zhuang: cunghyangh — centre, midpoint
• Armenian: մեջտեղ (meǰteġ) — part between beginning and end
• Bashkir: урта (urta) — part between beginning and end
• Bulgarian: среда (sreda) — part between beginning and end
• Catalan: mig — part between beginning and end
• Dutch: midden — part between beginning and end
• Finnish: keskialue — part between beginning and end
• Finnish: keskikohta — part between beginning and end
• Finnish: puoliväli — part between beginning and end
• West-Frisian: midden — part between beginning and end
• German: Mitte — part between beginning and end
• Greek: μέση (mési) — part between beginning and end
• Hindi: मध्य (madhya) — part between beginning and end
• Hungarian: közép — part between beginning and end
• Irish: lár — part between beginning and end
• Irish: meán — part between beginning and end
• Old Irish: medón — part between beginning and end
• Italian: centro — part between beginning and end
• Central Kurdish: ناوەند (nawend) — part between beginning and end
• Central Kurdish: ناوەڕاست (nawerrast) — part between beginning and end
• Latin: medium — part between beginning and end
• Latvian: vidus — part between beginning and end
• Lithuanian: vidurys — part between beginning and end
• Macedonian: средина (sredina) — part between beginning and end
• Malay: tengah — part between beginning and end
• Malayalam: നടുക് (naṭukŭ) — part between beginning and end
• Malayalam: മധ്യം (madhyaṁ) — part between beginning and end
• Old English: middel — part between beginning and end
• Pashto: منځ (manź) — part between beginning and end
• Persian: میان (miyân) — part between beginning and end
• Polish: środek — part between beginning and end
• Portuguese: meio — part between beginning and end
• Portuguese: metade — part between beginning and end
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan — part between beginning and end
• Spanish: centro — part between beginning and end
• Spanish: medio — part between beginning and end
• Swedish: mitt — part between beginning and end
• Tok Pisin: namel — part between beginning and end
• Turkish: orta — part between beginning and end
• Welsh: canol — part between beginning and end
• Bulgarian: талия (talija) — central part of human body
• Catalan: cintura — central part of human body
• Finnish: keskikeho — central part of human body
• Finnish: keskivartalo — central part of human body
• Greek: μέση (mési) — central part of human body
• Hindi: धड़ (dhaṛ) — central part of human body
• Hungarian: derék — central part of human body
• Irish: lár — central part of human body
• Italian: cintura — central part of human body
• Latvian: vidus — central part of human body
• Latvian: viduklis — central part of human body
• Macedonian: половина (polovina) — central part of human body
• Malay: tengah — central part of human body
• Malayalam: അര (ara) — central part of human body
• Pashto: منځ (manź) — central part of human body
• Persian: میان (miyân) — central part of human body
• Persian: کمر (kamar) — central part of human body
• Portuguese: cintura — central part of human body
• Spanish: cintura — central part of human body
• Telugu: నడుము (naḍumu) — central part of human body
• Turkish: bel — central part of human body