portmanteau word

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First used by Lewis Carroll in 1871, based on the concept of two words packed together, like a portmanteau (“a travelling case having two halves joined by a hinge”).

98 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: لَفْظٌ مَنْحُوت (lafẓun manḥūt) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Arabic: مَزَاج (mazāj) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Basque: portmanteau — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Basque: portmanteau hitza — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Belarusian: кантаміна́цыя (kantaminácyja) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Bengali: পিন্ডারিশব্দ (pinḍariśobdo) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Bengali: পিন্ডারি (pinḍari) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Breton: ger-malizenn — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Catalan: mot creuat — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Cherokee: ᎠᏑᏰ⁠ᎲᎯ — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Chinese Mandarin: 混成詞 /混成词 (hùnchéngcí) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Czech: kontaminace — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Czech: křížení — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Czech: mísení — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Czech: splynulina — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Danish: portmanteau — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Danish: portmanteau-ord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Dutch: kofferwoord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Dutch: vlechtwoord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Dutch: porte-manteauwoord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Dutch: versmelting — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Dutch: contaminatie — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Esperanto: kofrovorto — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Estonian: sulandsõna — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Finnish: koostesana — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Finnish: sulautuma — word which combines the meaning of two words
• French: mot-valise — word which combines the meaning of two words
• French: amalgame — word which combines the meaning of two words
• German: Kofferwort — word which combines the meaning of two words
• German: Portmanteau — word which combines the meaning of two words
• German: Portmanteau-Wort — word which combines the meaning of two words
• German: Schachtelwort — word which combines the meaning of two words
• German: Kontamination — word which combines the meaning of two words
• German: Verschmelzung — word which combines the meaning of two words
• German: Wortkreuzung — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Greek: σύμμειγμα (sýmmeigma) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Hebrew: הֶלְחֵם בְּסִיסִים (helkhém bsisím) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Hungarian: vegyülékszó — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Hungarian: szóösszerántás — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Hungarian: szóösszevonás — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Hungarian: szóalakvegyülés — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Hungarian: szóvegyülés — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Hungarian: kontamináció — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Icelandic: samrunaorð — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Icelandic: frakkaorð — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Ido: vort-ifar — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Indonesian: lakuran — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Italian: parola macedonia — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Japanese: 鞄語 (kabango) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Japanese: 混成語 (konseigo) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Kazakh: біріккен сөздер (bırıkken sözder) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Korean: 혼성어 (honseong'eo) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Northern Kurdish: peyva hevedudanî — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Latvian: kontaminācija — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Luxembourgish: Portmanteau-Wuert — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Luxembourgish: Portemanteau-Wuert — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Malayalam: ചേർത്തുള്ള കൃത്രിമവാക്ക് (cēṟttuḷḷa kr̥trimavākk) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Norwegian Bokmål: sammentrukket ord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Norwegian Bokmål: teleskopord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Norwegian Bokmål: portmanteau-ord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Norwegian Bokmål: portemanteau — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Norwegian Nynorsk: samantrekt ord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Norwegian Nynorsk: portmanteau-ord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Norwegian Nynorsk: teleskopord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Persian: تکواژ مرکب (takvâž morakkab) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Persian: تکواژ چندوجهی (takvâž čandvojey) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Persian: آمیزهسازی (âmiz-hesâzi) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Polish: zbitka słowna — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Polish: zbitka wyrazowa — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Polish: skrzyżowanie wyrazów — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Portuguese: palavra-valise — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Portuguese: amálgama — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Portuguese: siglonimização — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Portuguese: cruzamento — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Romanian: cuvânt telescopat — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Romanian: cuvânt telescopizat — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Romanian: cuvânt-valiză — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Russian: словослия́ние (slovoslijánije) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Russian: словостяже́ние (slovostjažénije) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Russian: сло́во-бума́жник (slóvo-bumážnik) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Russian: контамина́ция (kontaminácija) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Serbo-Croatian: кова̀ница — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Serbo-Croatian: kovànica — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Spanish: compuesto acronímico — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Spanish: contracción — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Spanish: acrónimo — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Swedish: teleskopord — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Swedish: kontamination — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Thai: คําผสม (kam-pà-sǒm) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Thai: คําสนธิ (kam-sǒn-tí) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Thai: สมาส (of compounds of Pali and Sanskrit loanwords) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Turkish: birleşik kelime — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Turkish: birleşik sözcük — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Ukrainian: контаміна́ція (kontaminácija) — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Urdu: امیختہ — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Vietnamese: từ kết hợp — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Walloon: spotchî aplacaedje — word which combines the meaning of two words
• Welsh: cyfansoddair cywasgedig — word which combines the meaning of two words