phenomenon

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• Received-Pronunciation: /fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /fɪ-/
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• Canada, General-American: /fəˈnɑ.məˌnɑn/
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• Canada, General-American: /-nən/
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• Australian: /fəˈnɔm.ə.nɔn/
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• Australian: /-nən/
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• New-Zealand: [fəˈnɔ̟m.ə.nɔ̟n]
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• New-Zealand: [-nən]
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• rhymes with -ɒmənɒn
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• CMU ARPABET: F AH0 N AA1 M AH0 N AA2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheh2-der. Proto-Hellenic *pháňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. Late Latin phaenomenonder. English phenomenon From Late Latin phaenomenon (“appearance”), from Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon, “thing appearing to view”), neuter present middle participle of φαίνω (phaínō, “I show”).

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dukuri — observable fact or occurrence
• Arabic: ظَاهِرَة (ẓāhira) — observable fact or occurrence
• Armenian: երեւույթ (erewuytʻ) — observable fact or occurrence
• Asturian: fenómenu — observable fact or occurrence
• Bashkir: күренеш (küreneş) — observable fact or occurrence
• Belarusian: з'я́ва (zʺjáva) — observable fact or occurrence
• Belarusian: з'яўле́нне (zʺjawljénnje) — observable fact or occurrence
• Belarusian: фено́мен (fjenómjen) — observable fact or occurrence
• Central Bikol: ngangalasan — observable fact or occurrence
• Bulgarian: явление (javlenie) — observable fact or occurrence
• Catalan: fenomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Chinese Mandarin: 現象 /现象 (xiànxiàng) — observable fact or occurrence
• Czech: úkaz — observable fact or occurrence
• Czech: jev — observable fact or occurrence
• Czech: fenomén — observable fact or occurrence
• Danish: fænomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Danish: foreteelse — observable fact or occurrence
• Dutch: fenomeen — observable fact or occurrence
• Dutch: verschijnsel — observable fact or occurrence
• Esperanto: fenomeno — observable fact or occurrence
• Faroese: fyribrigdi — observable fact or occurrence
• Finnish: ilmiö — observable fact or occurrence
• French: phénomène — observable fact or occurrence
• Galician: fenómeno — observable fact or occurrence
• Georgian: ფენომენი (penomeni) — observable fact or occurrence
• Georgian: მოვლენა (movlena) — observable fact or occurrence
• Georgian: შემთხვევა (šemtxveva) — observable fact or occurrence
• German: Phänomen — observable fact or occurrence
• German: Erscheinung — observable fact or occurrence
• Greek: φαινόμενο (fainómeno) — observable fact or occurrence
• Haitian Creole: fenomèn — observable fact or occurrence
• Hebrew: תופעה (tofaá) — observable fact or occurrence
• Hindi: परिघटना (parighaṭnā) — observable fact or occurrence
• Hindi: दृग्विषय (dŕgviṣay) — observable fact or occurrence
• Hungarian: jelenség — observable fact or occurrence
• Hungarian: tünemény — observable fact or occurrence
• Hungarian: tünet — observable fact or occurrence
• Indonesian: fenomena — observable fact or occurrence
• Ingrian: javlenja — observable fact or occurrence
• Italian: fenomeno — observable fact or occurrence
• Japanese: 現象 (genshō) — observable fact or occurrence
• Kazakh: құбылыс (qūbylys) — observable fact or occurrence
• Khmer: បាតុភូត (paatophuut) — observable fact or occurrence
• Korean: 현상 (hyeonsang) — observable fact or occurrence
• Latvian: parādība — observable fact or occurrence
• Macedonian: појава (pojava) — observable fact or occurrence
• Macedonian: феномен (fenomen) — observable fact or occurrence
• Malay: fenomena — observable fact or occurrence
• Māori: tītohunga — observable fact or occurrence
• Norwegian Bokmål: fenomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fenomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Occitan: fenomèn — observable fact or occurrence
• Occitan: fenomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Persian: پدیده (padide) — observable fact or occurrence
• Persian: فنومن (fenomen) — observable fact or occurrence
• Polish: fenomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Polish: zjawisko — observable fact or occurrence
• Portuguese: fenômeno — observable fact or occurrence
• Portuguese: fenómeno — observable fact or occurrence
• Romanian: fenomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Russian: явле́ние (javlénije) — observable fact or occurrence
• Russian: собы́тие (sobýtije) — observable fact or occurrence
• Russian: фено́мен (fenómen) — observable fact or occurrence
• Russian: феноме́н (fenomén) — observable fact or occurrence
• Russian: эффе́кт (effékt) — observable fact or occurrence
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏јава — observable fact or occurrence
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍjava — observable fact or occurrence
• Spanish: fenómeno — observable fact or occurrence
• Swedish: fenomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Swedish: företeelse — observable fact or occurrence
• Tagalog: kababalaghan — observable fact or occurrence
• Tagalog: penomeno — observable fact or occurrence
• Thai: ปรากฏการณ์ (bpraa-gòt-dtà-gaan) — observable fact or occurrence
• Turkish: fenomen — observable fact or occurrence
• Ukrainian: з'я́влення (zʺjávlennja) — observable fact or occurrence
• Ukrainian: я́влення (jávlennja) — observable fact or occurrence
• Ukrainian: фено́мен (fenómen) — observable fact or occurrence
• Vietnamese: hiện tượng — observable fact or occurrence
• Albanian: ngjarje — knowable thing or event
• Bashkir: күренеш (küreneş) — knowable thing or event
• Finnish: ilmiö — knowable thing or event
• Māori: tītohunga — knowable thing or event
• Polish: fenomen — knowable thing or event
• Thai: ปรากฏการณ์ (bpraa-gòt-dtà-gaan) — knowable thing or event
• Bashkir: күренеш (küreneş) — kind or type of phenomenon
• Finnish: ilmiö — kind or type of phenomenon
• Thai: ปรากฏการณ์ (bpraa-gòt-dtà-gaan) — kind or type of phenomenon
• Bashkir: күренеш (küreneş) — perceptible aspect of something that is mutable
• Finnish: ilmiasu — perceptible aspect of something that is mutable
• Armenian: ֆենոմեն (fenomen) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Bashkir: ғәжәп хәл/күренеш (xəl) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Belarusian: фено́мен (fjenómjen) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Bulgarian: феномен (fenomen) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Catalan: fenomen — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Czech: úkaz — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Dutch: fenomeen — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Finnish: ilmiö — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• French: phénomène — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Galician: fenómeno — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Georgian: ფენომენი (penomeni) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• German: Phänomen — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Greek: φαινόμενο (fainómeno) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Hindi: परिघटना (parighaṭnā) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Hungarian: fenomén — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Japanese: 現象 (genshō) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Khmer: បាតុភូត (paatophuut) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Khmer: ឧប្បាទធម៌ (ʼupbaatĕəʼthɔə) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Latvian: fenomens — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Macedonian: појава (pojava) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Macedonian: феномен (fenomen) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Manx: ard-yindys — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Norwegian Bokmål: fenomen — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fenomen — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Polish: fenomen — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Polish: zjawisko — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Portuguese: fenômeno — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Portuguese: fenómeno — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Romanian: fenomen — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Russian: необыкнове́нное явле́ние (neobyknovénnoje javlénije) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Russian: фено́мен (fenómen) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Russian: феноме́н (fenomén) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏јава — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍjava — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Spanish: fenómeno — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Swedish: fenomen — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Ukrainian: фено́мен (fenómen) — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Vietnamese: hiện tượng — unusual, curious, or astonishing fact or event
• Finnish: ilmiö — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Galician: fenómeno — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Macedonian: феномен (fenomen) — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Polish: fenomen — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Portuguese: fenômeno — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Portuguese: fenómeno — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Vietnamese: người phi thường — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Vietnamese: người kỳ lạ — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Vietnamese: vật phi thường — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Vietnamese: vật kỳ lạ — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Vietnamese: sự việc phi thường — wonderful or very remarkable person or thing
• Catalan: fenomen — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Czech: fenomén — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Finnish: ilmiö — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Galician: fenómeno — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Greek: φαινόμενο (fainómeno) — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Hungarian: jelenség — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Japanese: 現象 (genshō) — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Macedonian: појава (pojava) — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Macedonian: феномен (fenomen) — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Portuguese: fenômeno — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Portuguese: fenómeno — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Romanian: fenomen — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏јава — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍjava — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Spanish: fenómeno — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind
• Vietnamese: hiện tượng — philosophy: experienced object structured by the mind