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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɪə.ɹi.əd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɪə.ɹɪ.əd/
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• General-American: /ˈpɪɚ.i.əd/
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• General-American: /ˈpɪɹ.i.əd/
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• Hong-Kong: /ˈpi.ɹɪd/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sodós? Proto-Hellenic *hodós Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) Ancient Greek περῐ́οδος (perĭ́odos)lbor. Medieval Latin periodusbor. Middle French periodebor. Middle English periode English period From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, orbit, a recurring interval of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), as well as Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).

392 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Hungarian: korhű — Adjective
• Spanish: de época — Adjective
• Armenian: վերջ (verǰ) — Interjection
• Bulgarian: и точка (i točka) — Interjection
• Burmese: ကာလ (kala.) — Interjection
• Catalan: i punt — Interjection
• Czech: a tečka! — Interjection
• Danish: punktum — Interjection
• Danish: basta — Interjection
• Dutch: punt uit — Interjection
• Finnish: piste — Interjection
• French: point — Interjection
• French: point final — Interjection
• French: point barre — Interjection
• French: un point c'est tout — Interjection
• Galician: e punto — Interjection
• German: Schluss, aus, Ende — Interjection
• German: Punkt. Aus. Ende — Interjection
• German: basta — Interjection
• German: und damit basta — Interjection
• German: keine Widerrede — Interjection
• German: da ist nichts zu machen — Interjection
• German: Punktum — Interjection
• Greek: τελεία και παύλα (teleía kai pávla) — Interjection
• Hungarian: pont! — Interjection
• Malay: habis cerita! — Interjection
• Māori: ka mutu! — Interjection
• Macedonian: и точка (i točka) — Interjection
• Persian: والسلام (vassalâm) — Interjection
• Polish: i kropka! — Interjection
• Portuguese: ponto final — Interjection
• Portuguese: ponto — Interjection
• Romanian: și punct — Interjection
• Russian: и то́чка (i tóčka) — Interjection
• Slovene: in pika — Interjection
• Spanish: y punto — Interjection
• Swedish: punkt — Interjection
• Swedish: och därmed basta — Interjection
• Swedish: punkt och slut — Interjection
• Albanian: periudhë — interval of time
• Southern Altai: ӧйлик (öylik) — interval of time
• Arabic: فَتْرَة (fatra) — interval of time
• Arabic: مُدَّة (mudda) — interval of time
• Armenian: ժամանակահատված (žamanakahatvac) — interval of time
• Azerbaijani: müddət — interval of time
• Belarusian: пэры́яд (perýjad) — interval of time
• Belarusian: праме́жак (pramjéžak) — interval of time
• Bulgarian: перио́д (periód) — interval of time
• Catalan: període — interval of time
• Chinese Mandarin: 時期 /时期 (shíqī) — interval of time
• Czech: období — interval of time
• Danish: period — interval of time
• Dutch: periode — interval of time
• Esperanto: periodo — interval of time
• Estonian: periood — interval of time
• Finnish: jakso — interval of time
• Finnish: ajanjakso — interval of time
• Finnish: aika — interval of time
• French: période — interval of time
• Galician: período — interval of time
• German: Zeitraum — interval of time
• German: Periode — interval of time
• Greek: περίοδος (períodos) — interval of time
• Ancient Greek: περίοδος (períodos) — interval of time
• Haitian Creole: peryòd — interval of time
• Hebrew: תְּקוּפָה (tkufá) — interval of time
• Hindi: अवधि (avdhi) — interval of time
• Hungarian: időszak — interval of time
• Hungarian: időtartam — interval of time
• Hungarian: idő — interval of time
• Indonesian: masa — interval of time
• Italian: periodo — interval of time
• Japanese: 期間 (kikan) — interval of time
• Kazakh: кезең (kezeñ) — interval of time
• Korean: 기간 (gigan) — interval of time
• Latin: aetas — interval of time
• Latvian: laikmets — interval of time
• Lithuanian: laikotarpis — interval of time
• Macedonian: перио́д (periód) — interval of time
• Macedonian: раздобје (razdobje) — interval of time
• Māori: takiwā — interval of time
• Norwegian Bokmål: periode — interval of time
• Dari: دَورَه (dawra) — interval of time
• Dari: مُدَّت (muddat) — interval of time
• Iranian Persian: دُورِه (dowre) — interval of time
• Iranian Persian: مُدَّت (moddat) — interval of time
• Polish: okres — interval of time
• Polish: period — interval of time
• Portuguese: período — interval of time
• Romanian: perioadă — interval of time
• Russian: пери́од (períod) — interval of time
• Russian: промежу́ток (promežútok) — interval of time
• Serbo-Croatian: ра́здо̄бље — interval of time
• Serbo-Croatian: перѝод — interval of time
• Serbo-Croatian: rázdōblje — interval of time
• Serbo-Croatian: perìod — interval of time
• Slovak: obdobie — interval of time
• Slovene: obdobje — interval of time
• Spanish: período — interval of time
• Spanish: periodo — interval of time
• Swedish: period — interval of time
• Tagalog: takda — interval of time
• Tajik: давра (davra) — interval of time
• Tajik: муддат (muddat) — interval of time
• Tausug: jaman — interval of time
• Thai: ตอน (dtɔɔn) — interval of time
• Turkish: devir — interval of time
• Ottoman Turkish: دوره (devre) — interval of time
• Ukrainian: пері́од (períod) — interval of time
• Ukrainian: про́міжок (prómižok) — interval of time
• Urdu: مُدَّت (muddat) — interval of time
• Urdu: دَور (daur) — interval of time
• Uyghur: دەۋر (dewr) — interval of time
• Uzbek: davr — interval of time
• Uzbek: muddat — interval of time
• Finnish: kestoaika — length of time for a disease to run its course
• Hungarian: lezajlási idő — length of time for a disease to run its course
• Finnish: päätepiste — end or conclusion; final point of a process
• French: point final — end or conclusion; final point of a process
• Hungarian: vég — end or conclusion; final point of a process
• Hungarian: lezárás — end or conclusion; final point of a process
• Hungarian: lezárulás — end or conclusion; final point of a process
• Hungarian: befejezés — end or conclusion; final point of a process
• Hungarian: határ — end or conclusion; final point of a process
• Albanian: periudhë — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Arabic: مَرْحَلَة زَمْنِيَّة (marḥala zamniyya) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Arabic: مُدَّة (mudda) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Arabic: حِين (ḥīn) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Arabic: فَتْرَة (fatra) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Arabic: عَصْر (ʕaṣr) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Armenian: շրջան (šrǰan) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Armenian: ժամականաշրջան (žamakanašrǰan) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Armenian: փուլ (pʻul) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Belarusian: перы́яд (pjerýjad) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Bulgarian: епо́ха (epóha) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Catalan: període — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Chinese Mandarin: 時代 /时代 (shídài) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Czech: období — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Dutch: periode — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Finnish: aika — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Finnish: ajanjakso — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• French: période — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• German: Epoche — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• German: Zeitraum — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• German: Periode — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Greek: περίοδος (períodos) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Hebrew: תְּקוּפָה (tkufá) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Hindi: काल (kāl) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Hindi: युग (yug) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Hungarian: időszak — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Hungarian: korszak — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Hungarian: kor — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Indonesian: masa — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Italian: periodo — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Japanese: 時代 (jidai) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Kazakh: кезең (kezeñ) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Korean: 시대 (sidae) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Central Kurdish: دەم (dem) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Kyrgyz: мезгил (mezgil) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Kyrgyz: доор (door) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Macedonian: перио́д (periód) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Malayalam: കാലഘട്ടം (kālaghaṭṭaṁ) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Norwegian Bokmål: periode — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Norwegian Bokmål: æra — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Dari: دَورَه (dawra) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Dari: مُدَّت (muddat) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Iranian Persian: دُورِه (dowre) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Iranian Persian: مُدَّت (moddat) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Polish: okres — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Polish: period — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Portuguese: período — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Romanian: perioadă — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Russian: пери́од (períod) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Scottish Gaelic: àm — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Scottish Gaelic: ùine — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Serbo-Croatian: перѝод — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Serbo-Croatian: до̑ба — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Serbo-Croatian: ра́здо̄бље — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Serbo-Croatian: perìod — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Serbo-Croatian: dȏba — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Serbo-Croatian: rázdōblje — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Slovak: perióda — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Slovak: obdobie — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Slovene: doba — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Slovene: obdobje — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Spanish: período — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Spanish: periodo — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Swahili: zamani — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Swahili: muda — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Swedish: period — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Swedish: tidsperiod — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Tagalog: puktol — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Tagalog: panahon — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Tajik: давра (davra) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Tajik: муддат (muddat) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Turkish: dönem — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Ukrainian: пері́од (períod) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Urdu: کال (kāl) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Urdu: دَور (daur) — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Uzbek: davr — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Vietnamese: giai đoạn — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Vietnamese: thời kì — history: period of time seen as coherent entity
• Finnish: lause — rhetoric: complete sentence
• Hungarian: körmondat — rhetoric: complete sentence
• Polish: period — rhetoric: complete sentence
• Polish: okres — rhetoric: complete sentence
• Albanian: pikë — punctation mark “.”
• Arabic: نُقْطَة (nuqṭa) — punctation mark “.”
• Arabic: عَلَامَة فَصْلِيَّة (ʕalāma faṣliyya) — punctation mark “.”
• Armenian: վերջակետ (verǰaket) — punctation mark “.”
• Armenian: կետ (ket) — punctation mark “.”
• Azerbaijani: nöqtə — punctation mark “.”
• Belarusian: кро́пка (krópka) — punctation mark “.”
• Bulgarian: то́чка (tóčka) — punctation mark “.”
• Chinese Mandarin: 。 — punctation mark “.”
• Chinese Mandarin: 句號 /句号 (jùhào) — punctation mark “.”
• Chinese Mandarin: 句點 /句点 (jùdiǎn) — punctation mark “.”
• Czech: tečka — punctation mark “.”
• Danish: punktum — punctation mark “.”
• Dutch: punt — punctation mark “.”
• Esperanto: punkto — punctation mark “.”
• Estonian: punkt — punctation mark “.”
• Faroese: punktum — punctation mark “.”
• Finnish: piste — punctation mark “.”
• French: point — punctation mark “.”
• Georgian: წერტილი (c̣erṭili) — punctation mark “.”
• German: Punkt — punctation mark “.”
• Greek: τελεία (teleía) — punctation mark “.”
• Hausa: ɗigo — punctation mark “.”
• Hebrew: נקודה — punctation mark “.”
• Hebrew: נְקֻדָּה (n'kudá) — punctation mark “.”
• Hindi: । — punctation mark “.”
• Hindi: दंड (daṇḍ) — punctation mark “.”
• Hindi: पूर्ण विराम (pūrṇ virām) — punctation mark “.”
• Hindi: विराम (virām) — punctation mark “.”
• Hungarian: pont — punctation mark “.”
• Icelandic: punktur — punctation mark “.”
• Italian: punto — punctation mark “.”
• Japanese: 。 — punctation mark “.”
• Japanese: 句点 (kuten) — punctation mark “.”
• Japanese: 終止符 (shūshifu) — punctation mark “.”
• Japanese: ピリオド (piriodo) — punctation mark “.”
• Kazakh: нүкте (nükte) — punctation mark “.”
• Korean: 마침표 (machimpyo) — punctation mark “.”
• Korean: 종지부 (jongjibu) — punctation mark “.”
• Kyrgyz: чекит (cekit) — punctation mark “.”
• Latvian: punkts — punctation mark “.”
• Lithuanian: taškas — punctation mark “.”
• Macedonian: точка (točka) — punctation mark “.”
• Maranao: ayatan — punctation mark “.”
• Mongolian: цэг (ceg) — punctation mark “.”
• Norwegian Bokmål: punktum — punctation mark “.”
• Dari: نُقْطَه (nuqta) — punctation mark “.”
• Iranian Persian: نُقْطِه (noġte) — punctation mark “.”
• Plautdietsch: Punkt — punctation mark “.”
• Polish: kropka — punctation mark “.”
• Portuguese: ponto — punctation mark “.”
• Portuguese: ponto final — punctation mark “.”
• Romanian: punct — punctation mark “.”
• Russian: то́чка (tóčka) — punctation mark “.”
• Sanskrit: । — punctation mark “.”
• Sanskrit: दंड (daṃḍa) — punctation mark “.”
• Scottish Gaelic: stad-phuing — punctation mark “.”
• Serbo-Croatian: та̏чка — punctation mark “.”
• Serbo-Croatian: то̏чка — punctation mark “.”
• Serbo-Croatian: tȁčka — punctation mark “.”
• Serbo-Croatian: tȍčka — punctation mark “.”
• Slovak: bodka — punctation mark “.”
• Slovene: pika — punctation mark “.”
• Spanish: punto — punctation mark “.”
• Swahili: nukta — punctation mark “.”
• Swedish: punkt — punctation mark “.”
• Tagalog: tuldok — punctation mark “.”
• Tajik: нуқта (nuqta) — punctation mark “.”
• Tamil: முற்றுப்புள்ளி (muṟṟuppuḷḷi) — punctation mark “.”
• Thai: จุด (jùt) — punctation mark “.”
• Thai: มหัพภาค (má-hàp-pâak) — punctation mark “.”
• Turkish: nokta — punctation mark “.”
• Ukrainian: кра́пка (krápka) — punctation mark “.”
• Urdu: ۔ — punctation mark “.”
• Urdu: خَتْمَہ (xatmā) — punctation mark “.”
• Uyghur: چېكىت (chëkit) — punctation mark “.”
• Uzbek: nuqta — punctation mark “.”
• Yiddish: פּונקט (punkt) — punctation mark “.”
• Albanian: periodike — length of time during which something repeats
• Arabic: حَدَث مُتَكَرِّر (ḥadaṯ mutakarrir) — length of time during which something repeats
• Armenian: պարբերություն (parberutʻyun) — length of time during which something repeats
• Bulgarian: перио́д (periód) — length of time during which something repeats
• Chinese Mandarin: 週期 /周期 (zhōuqī, zhōuqí) — length of time during which something repeats
• Czech: perioda — length of time during which something repeats
• Dutch: periode — length of time during which something repeats
• Finnish: jakso — length of time during which something repeats
• Finnish: jaksonaika — length of time during which something repeats
• French: période — length of time during which something repeats
• French: cycle — length of time during which something repeats
• Greek: περίοδος (períodos) — length of time during which something repeats
• Hindi: अवधि (avdhi) — length of time during which something repeats
• Hungarian: periódus — length of time during which something repeats
• Hungarian: fázis — length of time during which something repeats
• Hungarian: ciklus — length of time during which something repeats
• Indonesian: masa — length of time during which something repeats
• Italian: periodo — length of time during which something repeats
• Japanese: 周期 (shūki) — length of time during which something repeats
• Korean: 주기 (jugi) — length of time during which something repeats
• Norwegian Bokmål: periode — length of time during which something repeats
• Polish: cykl — length of time during which something repeats
• Portuguese: período — length of time during which something repeats
• Russian: цикл (cikl) — length of time during which something repeats
• Russian: пери́од (períod) — length of time during which something repeats
• Scottish Gaelic: ùine — length of time during which something repeats
• Serbo-Croatian: перѝод — length of time during which something repeats
• Serbo-Croatian: perìod — length of time during which something repeats
• Slovak: perióda — length of time during which something repeats
• Slovene: perioda — length of time during which something repeats
• Spanish: período — length of time during which something repeats
• Spanish: periodo — length of time during which something repeats
• Swahili: muda — length of time during which something repeats
• Tagalog: takda — length of time during which something repeats
• Finnish: hetki — specific moment during a process
• Finnish: ajankohta — specific moment during a process
• Finnish: kausi — section of an artist's career
• Hungarian: korszak — section of an artist's career
• Slovene: obdobje — section of an artist's career
• Tagalog: puktol — section of an artist's career
• Arabic: حِصَّةٌ (ḥiṣṣatun) — division of school day
• Bulgarian: час (čas) — division of school day
• Danish: lektion — division of school day
• Danish: modul — division of school day
• Danish: time — division of school day
• Finnish: tunti — division of school day
• German: Stunde — division of school day
• Greek: ώρα (óra) — division of school day
• Hungarian: óra — division of school day
• Hungarian: tanóra — division of school day
• Japanese: 時限 (jigen) — division of school day
• Polish: lekcja — division of school day
• Portuguese: aula — division of school day
• Portuguese: período — division of school day
• Russian: уро́к (urók) — division of school day
• Serbo-Croatian: чȁс — division of school day
• Serbo-Croatian: čȁs — division of school day
• Slovene: ura — division of school day
• Spanish: hora — division of school day
• Vietnamese: tiết — division of school day
• Finnish: erä — division of sports match
• French: période — division of sports match
• Greek: περίοδος (períodos) — division of sports match
• Hungarian: játékrész — division of sports match
• Hungarian: félidő — division of sports match
• Portuguese: tempo — division of sports match
• Russian: пери́од (períod) — division of sports match
• Spanish: período — division of sports match
• Spanish: periodo — division of sports match
• Finnish: jakso — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• French: période — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Greek: περίοδος (períodos) — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Hungarian: periódus — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Hungarian: periódusos sor — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Irish: peiriad — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Japanese: 周期 (shūki) — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Polish: okres — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Portuguese: período — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Portuguese: série — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Russian: пери́од (períod) — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Serbo-Croatian: perioda — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Slovene: perioda — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Spanish: periodo — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Spanish: período — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Swedish: period — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Welsh: cyfnod — chemistry: row in the periodic table
• Arabic: عَصْر (ʕaṣr) — geochronologic unit
• Chinese Mandarin: 紀 /纪 (jì) — geochronologic unit
• Finnish: kausi — geochronologic unit
• French: système — geochronologic unit
• German: System — geochronologic unit
• Hebrew: תּוֹר (tor) — geochronologic unit
• Hungarian: korszak — geochronologic unit
• Hungarian: kor — geochronologic unit
• Japanese: 紀 (ki) — geochronologic unit
• Kazakh: кезең (kezeñ) — geochronologic unit
• Korean: 기 (gi) — geochronologic unit
• Polish: okres — geochronologic unit
• Portuguese: período — geochronologic unit
• Russian: пери́од (períod) — geochronologic unit
• Spanish: período — geochronologic unit
• Spanish: periodo — geochronologic unit
• Swedish: period — geochronologic unit
• Vietnamese: kỉ — geochronologic unit
• Finnish: period-geeni — genetics: type of gene
• Finnish: periodi — music: two phrases
• Hungarian: periódus — music: two phrases
• Polish: okres — music: two phrases