pamphlet

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: /ˈpæmflɪt/
  Play
• Received-Pronunciation: /-flət/
  Play
• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpænflɪt/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• General-American: /ˈpæmflɪt/
  Play
• General-American: /-flət/
  Play
• General-American: /ˈpænflɪt/
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: P AE1 M F L AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

The noun is derived from Late Middle English pamflet, pamphilet (“short written text; small book; tract”) [and other forms], from Middle French Pamphilet (compare Late Latin (Anglo-Latin) pamfletus, panfletus, paunflettus (“short written text”), Old French Panfilès), a popular shorthand for the 12th-century Latin love poem Pamphilus, seu de amore (Pamphilus, or On Love): the widely circulated pamphlets then gave this name to the whole phenomenon. Pamphilet is derived from Latin Pamphilus, the name of a protagonist of the poem + Middle French -et (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns); while Pamphilus is from Ancient Greek Πάμφιλος (Pámphilos, literally “beloved by all”), from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all; every’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh2- (“to protect; to shepherd”)) + φῐ́λος (phĭ́los, “beloved, dear”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhil- (“decent; friendly; good; harmonious”)). For the Middle French and Old French use of the suffix -et to form shorthands for the titles of works, compare Middle French Avionet (“the fables of Avianus”) from Avianus; Middle French Catonet, Old French Chatonnet, Chatonez (“the Distichs of Cato”) from Caton (they were formerly believed to be by Cato); and Old French Esopet, Isopet (“Aesop’s Fables”) from Ésope (Aesop). The verb is derived from the noun.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: pamflet — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Arabic: مَنْشُور (manšūr) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Arabic: كُرَّاسَة (kurrāsa) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Armenian: բրոշյուր (brošyur) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Belarusian: памфле́т (pamfljét) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Belarusian: брашу́ра (brašúra) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Bulgarian: памфле́т (pamflét) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Bulgarian: брошу́ра (brošúra) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Chinese Mandarin: 小冊子 /小册子 (xiǎocèzi) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Danish: pamflet — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Esperanto: broŝureto — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Esperanto: faldfolio — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Estonian: pamflett — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Finnish: pamfletiksi — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Finnish: kirjanen — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• French: pamphlet — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• French: tract — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Galician: panfleto — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Galician: folleto — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Georgian: პამფლეტი (ṗampleṭi) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Georgian: ბროშურა (brošura) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• German: Flugschrift — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Greek: φυλλάδιο (fylládio) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Hebrew: פַּמְפְלֵט (pamflét) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Hindi: पर्चा (parcā) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Hungarian: röpirat — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Indonesian: pamflet — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Japanese: パンフレット (panfuretto) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Japanese: 小冊子 (shōsasshi) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Japanese: 小冊 (shōsatsu) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Korean: 팸플릿 (paempeullit) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Korean: 소책자 (sochaekja) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Kyrgyz: памфлет (pamflet) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Latin: libellus — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Macedonian: памфлет (pamflet) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Malay: risalah — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Nepali: पर्चा (parcā) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Norwegian Bokmål: pamflett — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pamflett — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Persian: جزوه (jozve) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Portuguese: panfleto — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Portuguese: brochura — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Portuguese: folheto — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Romanian: broșură — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Russian: памфле́т (pamflét) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Russian: брошю́ра (brošúra) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Spanish: panfleto — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Swedish: pamflett — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Thai: จุลสาร (jun-lá-sǎan) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Turkish: kitapçık — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Turkish: risale — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Ukrainian: памфле́т (pamflét) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Ukrainian: брошу́ра (brošúra) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Urdu: پَرْچَہ (parcā) — small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover — see also booklet, flyer, leaflet, brochure, prospectus
• Esperanto: paskvilo — such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy
• Esperanto: pamfleto — such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy
• Galician: panfleto — such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy
• Spanish: panfleto — such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy