palindrome

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpælɪndɹəʊm/
  Play
• US: /ˈpælɪndɹoʊm/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play

From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palíndromos, “running back again”), from πάλιν (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”). By surface analysis, palin- + -drome (compare also velodrome and syndrome).

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: апалиндром (apʼalindrom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Afrikaans: palindroom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Albanian: palindromi — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Arabic: قَلْب مُسْتَوٍ (qalb mustawin) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Armenian: պալինդրոմ (palindrom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Armenian: դարձգիր (darjgir) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Assamese: পেলিনড্ৰোম (pelinodrüm) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Azerbaijani: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Basque: palindromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Belarusian: паліндро́м (palindróm) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Bengali: প্যালিনড্রোম (pêlinḍrōm) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Central Bikol: palindromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Bulgarian: палиндром (palindrom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Catalan: palíndrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Chinese Cantonese: 回文 (wui4 man4) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Chinese Mandarin: 回文 (huíwén) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Czech: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Danish: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Dutch: palindroom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Esperanto: palindromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Faroese: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Finnish: palindromi — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• French: palindrome — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• West-Frisian: palindroom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Galician: palíndromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Georgian: პალინდრომი (ṗalindromi) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• German: Palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Greek: καρκινική γραφή (karkinikí grafí) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Hebrew: פלינדרום (pálindrom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Hindi: चित्रकाव्य (citrakāvya) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Hungarian: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Icelandic: samhverfa — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Ido: palindromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Indonesian: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Interlingua: palindromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Irish: palandróm — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Italian: palindromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Japanese: 回文 (kaibun) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Kannada: ಗತಪ್ರತ್ಯಾಗತ (gatapratyāgata) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Korean: 회문 (hoemun) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Northern Kurdish: palîndrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Kyrgyz: палиндром (palindrom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Latin: palindromus — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Latvian: palindroms — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Limburgish: palindroom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Lithuanian: palindromas — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Luxembourgish: Palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Malayalam: അനുലോമവിലോമപദം (anulōmavilōmapadaṁ) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Māori: kupu tuataurite — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Māori: kupu kōaro rite — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Māori: tau kōaro rite — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Norwegian Bokmål: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Norwegian Nynorsk: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Occitan: palindròm — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Persian: پالیندروم (pâlindrom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Polish: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Portuguese: palíndromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Portuguese: capicua — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Romanian: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Russian: палиндро́м (palindróm) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Sanskrit: अनुलोमप्रतिलोमपदम् (anulomapratilomapadam) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Scottish Gaelic: paileandrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Serbo-Croatian: палѝндро̄м — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Serbo-Croatian: palìndrōm — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Slovak: palindróm — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Slovene: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Spanish: palíndromo — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Spanish: capicúa — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Swedish: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Tagalog: salitambaligtarin — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Tagalog: baligtarinsalita — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Tajik: палиндром (palindrom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Tamil: மாலைமாற்று (mālaimāṟṟu) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Telugu: పత్రికాపదకోశం (patrikāpadakōśaṁ) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Telugu: అనులోమవిలోమ శ్లోకము (anulōmavilōma ślōkamu) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Thai: พาลินโดรม (paa lin-doh rom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Turkish: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Ukrainian: паліндром (palindrom) — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Võro: palindruum — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Welsh: palindrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
• Zazaki: palîndrom — a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards