mutation

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• /mjuˈteɪʃən/
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Late 14th century as Middle English mutacioun, from Latin mūtātiō, both directly and via Old French mutacion.

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: изменение (izmenenie) — any alteration or change
• Dutch: mutatie — any alteration or change
• Finnish: muutos — any alteration or change
• Greek: μετάλλαξη (metállaxi) — any alteration or change
• Indonesian: mutasi — any alteration or change
• Italian: mutazione — any alteration or change
• Māori: irakētanga — any alteration or change
• Māori: iranoitanga — any alteration or change
• Polish: mutacja — any alteration or change
• Swahili: mabadiliko — any alteration or change
• Swedish: mutation — any alteration or change
• Welsh: newid — any alteration or change
• Arabic: طَفْرَة (ṭafra) — heritable change in genetic material
• Armenian: մուտացիա (mutacʻia) — heritable change in genetic material
• Asturian: mutación — heritable change in genetic material
• Basque: mutazio — heritable change in genetic material
• Belarusian: мута́цыя (mutácyja) — heritable change in genetic material
• Bulgarian: мутация (mutacija) — heritable change in genetic material
• Catalan: mutació — heritable change in genetic material
• Chinese Mandarin: 突變 /突变 (tūbiàn) — heritable change in genetic material
• Chinese Mandarin: 變種 /变种 (biànzhǒng) — heritable change in genetic material
• Czech: mutace — heritable change in genetic material
• Danish: mutation — heritable change in genetic material
• Dutch: mutatie — heritable change in genetic material
• Finnish: mutaatio — heritable change in genetic material
• Finnish: geenimuutos — heritable change in genetic material
• French: mutation — heritable change in genetic material
• Galician: mutación — heritable change in genetic material
• Georgian: მუტაცია (muṭacia) — heritable change in genetic material
• German: Mutation — heritable change in genetic material
• Greek: μετάλλαξη (metállaxi) — heritable change in genetic material
• Hebrew: מוּטַצְיָה (mutátsya) — heritable change in genetic material
• Hungarian: mutáció — heritable change in genetic material
• Icelandic: stökkbreyting — heritable change in genetic material
• Indonesian: mutasi — heritable change in genetic material
• Italian: mutazione — heritable change in genetic material
• Japanese: 変異 (hen'i) — heritable change in genetic material
• Japanese: 突然変異 (totsuzenhen'i) — heritable change in genetic material
• Khmer: កំលាយភេទ (kɑmliəypheit) — heritable change in genetic material
• Korean: 변형 (byeonhyeong) — heritable change in genetic material
• Korean: 변이 (byeoni) — heritable change in genetic material
• Latvian: mutācija — heritable change in genetic material
• Māori: irakētanga — heritable change in genetic material
• Norwegian Bokmål: mutasjon — heritable change in genetic material
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mutasjon — heritable change in genetic material
• Persian: جهش — heritable change in genetic material
• Polish: mutacja — heritable change in genetic material
• Portuguese: mutação — heritable change in genetic material
• Romanian: mutație — heritable change in genetic material
• Russian: мута́ция (mutácija) — heritable change in genetic material
• Scottish Gaelic: mùthadh — heritable change in genetic material
• Spanish: mutación — heritable change in genetic material
• Swahili: mabadiliko ya chembe za urithi — heritable change in genetic material
• Swedish: mutation — heritable change in genetic material
• Tagalog: pag-ibanyuhay — heritable change in genetic material
• Thai: การกลายพันธ์ (gaan-glaai-pan) — heritable change in genetic material
• Thai: การผ่าเหล่า (gaan-pàa-lào) — heritable change in genetic material
• Turkish: mutasyon — heritable change in genetic material
• Ukrainian: мута́ція (mutácija) — heritable change in genetic material
• Vietnamese: đột biến — heritable change in genetic material
• Welsh: mwtaniad — heritable change in genetic material
• Breton: kemmadur — alteration in the sound of a word
• Bulgarian: умлаут (umlaut) — alteration in the sound of a word
• Cornish: treylyans — alteration in the sound of a word
• Finnish: mutaatio — alteration in the sound of a word
• French: mutation — alteration in the sound of a word
• German: Mutation — alteration in the sound of a word
• Greek: μεταλλαγή (metallagí) — alteration in the sound of a word
• Irish: athrú — alteration in the sound of a word
• Italian: mutazione — alteration in the sound of a word
• Portuguese: mutação — alteration in the sound of a word
• Russian: мутация (mutacija) — alteration in the sound of a word
• Welsh: treiglad — alteration in the sound of a word
• Finnish: parvi — collective noun for thrushes