parabola

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• /pəˈɹæb.ə.lə/
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Borrowed from New Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παραβάλλω (parabállō, “to set side by side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Doublet of parable, parole, and palaver.

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Amharic: ባላ (bala) — a conic section
• Arabic: قَطْعٌ مُكَافِئ (qaṭʕun mukāfiʔ) — a conic section
• Arabic: شَلْجَمِيّ (šaljamiyy) — a conic section
• Arabic: عَدَسِي (ʕadasī) — a conic section
• Armenian: պարաբոլ (parabol) — a conic section
• Asturian: parábola — a conic section
• Belarusian: пара́бала (parábala) — a conic section
• Bengali: পরাবৃত্ত (porabritto) — a conic section
• Bulgarian: пара́бола (parábola) — a conic section
• Catalan: paràbola — a conic section
• Cebuano: halitok — a conic section
• Chinese Mandarin: 拋物線 /抛物线 (pāowùxiàn) — a conic section
• Czech: parabola — a conic section
• Czech: stejnice — a conic section
• Czech: povrchnice — a conic section
• Danish: parabel — a conic section
• Dutch: parabool — a conic section
• Esperanto: parabolo — a conic section
• Faroese: parabil — a conic section
• Finnish: paraabeli — a conic section
• French: parabole — a conic section
• Galician: parábola — a conic section
• Georgian: პარაბოლა (ṗarabola) — a conic section
• German: Parabel — a conic section
• Greek: παραβολή (paravolí) — a conic section
• Ancient Greek: παραβολή (parabolḗ) — a conic section
• Gujarati: પરવલય (parvalya) — a conic section
• Hawaiian: palapola — a conic section
• Hebrew: פָּרָבּוֹלָה (parábola) — a conic section
• Hindi: परवलय (paravlay) — a conic section
• Hungarian: parabola — a conic section
• Icelandic: fleygbogi — a conic section
• Irish: parabóil — a conic section
• Italian: parabola — a conic section
• Japanese: 放物線 (hōbutsusen) — a conic section
• Khmer: ប៉ារ៉ាបូល (paaraaboul) — a conic section
• Korean: 포물선 (pomulseon) — a conic section
• Latvian: parabola — a conic section
• Lithuanian: parabolė — a conic section
• Macedonian: парабола (parabola) — a conic section
• Malayalam: പരവലയം (paravalayaṁ) — a conic section
• Marathi: परवलय (paravlay) — a conic section
• Norwegian Bokmål: parabel — a conic section
• Norwegian Nynorsk: parabel — a conic section
• Persian: سهمی (sahmi) — a conic section
• Polish: parabola — a conic section
• Portuguese: parábola — a conic section
• Russian: пара́бола (parábola) — a conic section
• Serbo-Croatian: пара̀бола — a conic section
• Serbo-Croatian: paràbola — a conic section
• Slovak: parabola — a conic section
• Slovene: parabola — a conic section
• Spanish: parábola — a conic section
• Swedish: parabel — a conic section
• Telugu: పరావలయం (parāvalayaṁ) — a conic section
• Thai: พาราโบลา (paa-raa-boo-lâa) — a conic section
• Turkish: parabol — a conic section
• Ukrainian: пара́бола (parábola) — a conic section
• Vietnamese: parabôn — a conic section