noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˌpɜːspəˈɹeɪʃən/
General-American:/ˌpɝspəˈɹeɪʃən/
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rhymes with -eɪʃən
CMU ARPABET:P ER2 S P ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
The action or process of perspiring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Borrowed from late Middle French perspiration, from perspirer (“perspire”), from Latin perspirare (“to blow or breathe constantly”), from per (“through”) + spirare (“to breathe, blow”). Morphologically perspire + -ation.
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
عَرَق
(ʕaraq)
— process of perspiring
Armenian:
քրտնում
(kʻrtnum)
— process of perspiring
Armenian:
քրտնարտադրություն
(kʻrtnartadrutʻyun)
— process of perspiring
Bashkir:
тирләү
(tirləw)
— process of perspiring
Bulgarian:
потене
(potene)
— process of perspiring
Bulgarian:
изпотяване
(izpotjavane)
— process of perspiring
Chinese Mandarin:
流汗
(liúhàn)
— process of perspiring
Chinese Mandarin:
汗
(hàn)
— process of perspiring
Czech:
pocení
— process of perspiring
Czech:
perspirace
— process of perspiring
Dutch:
zweet
— process of perspiring
Esperanto:
ŝvitado
— process of perspiring
Finnish:
hikoilu
— process of perspiring
Finnish:
hikoileminen
— process of perspiring
French:
transpiration
— process of perspiring
Galician:
transpiración
— process of perspiring
German:
Schwitzen
— process of perspiring
Greek:
εφίδρωση
(efídrosi)
— process of perspiring
Hungarian:
izzadás
— process of perspiring
Hungarian:
verítékezés
— process of perspiring
Italian:
sudore
— process of perspiring
Japanese:
汗
(ase)
— process of perspiring
Khmer:
ញើស
(ñəəh)
— process of perspiring
Korean:
땀
(ttam)
— process of perspiring
Latin:
sudor
— process of perspiring
Mongolian:
хөлс
(xöls)
— process of perspiring
Norwegian Bokmål:
transpirasjon
— process of perspiring
Norwegian Nynorsk:
transpirasjon
— process of perspiring
Plautdietsch:
Schweet
— process of perspiring
Polish:
perspiracja
— process of perspiring
Polish:
pocenie się
— process of perspiring
Portuguese:
suor
— process of perspiring
Portuguese:
transpiração
— process of perspiring
Portuguese:
perspiração
— process of perspiring
Russian:
поте́ние
(poténije)
— process of perspiring
