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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf/
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• US: /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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• /ˈpɛɹəɡɹæf/ US, Mary–marry–merry merger
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• Northern-England: /ˈpaɹəɡɹaf/
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• Scotland: /ˈpaɾəɡɾaf/
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• Wales: /ˈpaɾəɡɾaf/
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• Wales: /-ɡɾaːf/
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• CMU ARPABET: P AE1 R AH0 G R AE2 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: P EH1 R AH0 G R AE2 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “to write”). Doublet of paragraphos.

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Oromo: keeyyata — passage in text
• Afrikaans: paragraaf — passage in text
• Afrikaans: alinea — passage in text
• Albanian: paragraf — passage in text
• Arabic: فِقْرَة (fiqra) — passage in text
• Arabic: بَنْد (band) — passage in text
• Armenian: պարբերություն (parberutʻyun) — passage in text
• Assamese: দফা (dopha) — passage in text
• Asturian: párrafu — passage in text
• Azerbaijani: abzas — passage in text
• Azerbaijani: paraqraf — passage in text
• Belarusian: пара́граф (paráhraf) — passage in text
• Belarusian: абза́ц (abzác) — passage in text
• Bengali: অনুচ্ছেদ (onucched) — passage in text
• Bulgarian: парагра́ф (paragráf) — passage in text
• Burmese: အပိုဒ် (a.puid) — passage in text
• Burmese: ပိုဒ် (puid) — passage in text
• Catalan: paràgraf — passage in text
• Chinese Cantonese: 段落 (dyun6 lok6) — passage in text
• Chinese Mandarin: 段 (duàn) — passage in text
• Chinese Mandarin: 段落 (duànluò) — passage in text
• Chinese Mandarin: 自然段 (zìránduàn) — passage in text
• Czech: odstavec — passage in text
• Danish: paragraf — passage in text
• Danish: afsnit — passage in text
• Dutch: alinea — passage in text
• Dutch: paragraaf — passage in text
• Esperanto: alineo — passage in text
• Esperanto: paragrafo — passage in text
• Estonian: paragrahv — passage in text
• Estonian: lõik — passage in text
• Finnish: kappale — passage in text
• Finnish: paragraafi — passage in text
• French: paragraphe — passage in text
• French: alinéa — passage in text
• West-Frisian: alinea — passage in text
• Galician: parágrafo — passage in text
• Georgian: აბზაცი (abzaci) — passage in text
• Georgian: პარაგრაფი (ṗaragrapi) — passage in text
• German: Absatz — passage in text
• German: Paragraph — passage in text
• Greek: παράγραφος (parágrafos) — passage in text
• Gujarati: ફકરો (phakro) — passage in text
• Hebrew: פִּיסְקָה \ פִּסְקָה (piská) — passage in text
• Hindi: अनुच्छेद (anucched) — passage in text
• Hindi: पैराग्राफ़ (pairāgrāf) — passage in text
• Hungarian: bekezdés — passage in text
• Icelandic: málsgrein — passage in text
• Ido: paragrafo — passage in text
• Indonesian: paragraf — passage in text
• Indonesian: alinea — passage in text
• Interlingua: paragrapho — passage in text
• Irish: paragraf — passage in text
• Irish: alt — passage in text
• Irish: mír — passage in text
• Italian: paragrafo — passage in text
• Japanese: 段落 (danraku) — passage in text
• Kazakh: абзац (abzas) — passage in text
• Kazakh: азат жол (azat jol) — passage in text
• Kazakh: параграф (paragraf) — passage in text
• Khmer: វគ្គ (vĕək) — passage in text
• Khmer: វោត (voot) — passage in text
• Korean: 단락 (dallak) — passage in text
• Kyrgyz: абзац (abzats) — passage in text
• Kyrgyz: параграф (paragraf) — passage in text
• Lao: ວັກ (wak) — passage in text
• Lao: ປະລິເສດ (pa li sēt) — passage in text
• Lao: ປະຣິເສດ (pa ri sēt) — passage in text
• Latin: paragraphus — passage in text
• Latvian: rindkopa — passage in text
• Latvian: paragrāfs — passage in text
• Lithuanian: paragrafas — passage in text
• Macedonian: став (stav) — passage in text
• Macedonian: ставка (stavka) — passage in text
• Malay: perenggan — passage in text
• Malay: paragraf — passage in text
• Malayalam: ഖണ്ഡിക (khaṇḍika) — passage in text
• Māori: whiti — passage in text
• Eastern Mari: абзац (abzac) — passage in text
• Middle English: paraf — passage in text
• Mongolian: догол мөр (dogol mör) — passage in text
• Mongolian: ᠳᠣᠭᠤᠯ ᠮᠥᠷ (doɣul mör) — passage in text
• Norwegian Bokmål: avsnitt — passage in text
• Norwegian Nynorsk: avsnitt — passage in text
• Iranian Persian: پاراگْراف (pârâgrâf) — passage in text
• Iranian Persian: بَنْد (band) — passage in text
• Polish: akapit — passage in text
• Polish: paragraf — passage in text
• Portuguese: parágrafo — passage in text
• Romanian: paragraf — passage in text
• Russian: абза́ц (abzác) — passage in text
• Russian: пара́граф (parágraf) — passage in text
• Sanskrit: अनुच्छेद (anuccheda) — passage in text
• Serbo-Croatian: па̏сус — passage in text
• Serbo-Croatian: пара̀граф — passage in text
• Serbo-Croatian: pȁsus — passage in text
• Serbo-Croatian: paràgraf — passage in text
• Slovak: odsek — passage in text
• Slovak: odstavec — passage in text
• Slovene: odstavek — passage in text
• Spanish: párrafo — passage in text
• Spanish: parágrafo — passage in text
• Spanish: acápite — passage in text
• Swedish: stycke — passage in text
• Swedish: avsnitt — passage in text
• Swedish: paragraf — passage in text
• Tagalog: talataan — passage in text
• Tajik: параграф (paragraf) — passage in text
• Tajik: абзас (abzas) — passage in text
• Tajik: банд (band) — passage in text
• Thai: อนุเฉท (à-nú-chèet) — passage in text
• Thai: ย่อหน้า (yɔ̂ɔ-nâa) — passage in text
• Turkish: paragraf — passage in text
• Turkish: fıkra — passage in text
• Ottoman Turkish: فقره (fıkra) — passage in text
• Turkmen: abzas — passage in text
• Turkmen: paragraf — passage in text
• Ukrainian: пара́граф (paráhraf) — passage in text
• Ukrainian: абза́ц (abzác) — passage in text
• Urdu: پَیراگْراف (pairāgrāf) — passage in text
• Urdu: پَیراگِراف (pairāgirāf) — passage in text
• Uyghur: پاراگراف (paragraf) — passage in text
• Uyghur: ئابزاس (abzas) — passage in text
• Uzbek: paragraf — passage in text
• Uzbek: xatboshi — passage in text
• Uzbek: abzats — passage in text
• Vietnamese: đoạn — passage in text
• Volapük: bagaf — passage in text
• Galician: paragrafar — sort text into paragraphs
• Greek: παραγραφοποιώ (paragrafopoió) — sort text into paragraphs
• Italian: paragrafare — sort text into paragraphs
• Swedish: styckindela — sort text into paragraphs