polysemy

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• UK: /ˈpɒ.lɪ.siː.mi/
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• UK: /pəˈlɪ.sɪ.mi/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh1- Proto-Indo-European *polh1ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma)lbor. English seme English polyseme English -y English polysemy From polyseme + -y.

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: polisemi — ability to have multiple meanings
• Arabic: تَعَدُّدُ مَعَانٍ (taʕaddudu maʕānin) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Armenian: բազմիմաստություն (bazmimastutʻyun) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Azerbaijani: полисемия — ability to have multiple meanings
• Azerbaijani: polisemiya — ability to have multiple meanings
• Basque: polisemia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Belarusian: полісемія (pólisjemija) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Breton: liessteriegezh — ability to have multiple meanings
• Bulgarian: полисемия (polisemija) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Catalan: polisèmia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Chinese Cantonese: 多義性 /多义性 — ability to have multiple meanings
• Chinese Mandarin: 一詞多義 /一词多义 (yīcí duōyì) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Chinese Mandarin: 多義性 /多义性 (duōyìxìng) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Crimean Tatar: çoqmanalılıq — ability to have multiple meanings
• Czech: polysémie — ability to have multiple meanings
• Danish: polysemi — ability to have multiple meanings
• Dutch: polysemie — ability to have multiple meanings
• Esperanto: polisemio — ability to have multiple meanings
• Finnish: polysemia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Finnish: monimerkityksisyys — ability to have multiple meanings
• French: polysémie — ability to have multiple meanings
• Galician: polisemia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Georgian: პოლისემია (ṗolisemia) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Georgian: მრავალმნიშვენლიანობა (mravalmnišvenlianoba) — ability to have multiple meanings
• German: Polysemie — ability to have multiple meanings
• German: Mehrdeutigkeit — ability to have multiple meanings
• Greek: πολυσημία (polysimía) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Hungarian: poliszémia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Ido: polisemio — ability to have multiple meanings
• Indonesian: polisemi — ability to have multiple meanings
• Irish: ilchiallachas — ability to have multiple meanings
• Italian: polisemia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Japanese: 多義性 (tagisei) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Kazakh: полисемия (polisemiä) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Korean: 다의성 (dauiseong) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Kyrgyz: полисемия (polisemiya) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Latvian: polisēmija — ability to have multiple meanings
• Lithuanian: polisemija — ability to have multiple meanings
• Macedonian: полисемија (polisemija) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Norwegian Bokmål: polysemi — ability to have multiple meanings
• Norwegian Nynorsk: polysemi — ability to have multiple meanings
• Persian: چندمعنایی — ability to have multiple meanings
• Polish: polisemia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Polish: wieloznaczność — ability to have multiple meanings
• Portuguese: polissemia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Romanian: polisemie — ability to have multiple meanings
• Russian: полисеми́я (polisemíja) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Russian: многозна́чность (mnogoznáčnostʹ) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Serbo-Croatian: полисѐмија — ability to have multiple meanings
• Serbo-Croatian: polisèmija — ability to have multiple meanings
• Slovak: polysémia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Slovak: mnohoznačnosť — ability to have multiple meanings
• Slovene: polisemija — ability to have multiple meanings
• Slovene: večpomenskost — ability to have multiple meanings
• Lower Sorbian: polysemija — ability to have multiple meanings
• Upper Sorbian: polysemija — ability to have multiple meanings
• Spanish: polisemia — ability to have multiple meanings
• Swedish: polysemi — ability to have multiple meanings
• Turkish: çokanlamlılık — ability to have multiple meanings
• Ukrainian: полісемія (polisemija) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Ukrainian: багатозначність (bahatoznačnistʹ) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Uzbek: полисемия (polisemiya) — ability to have multiple meanings
• Uzbek: polisemiya — ability to have multiple meanings
• Welsh: amlystyredd — ability to have multiple meanings