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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtɹɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈpɔɹtɹət/
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• General-American: /ˈpɔɹtɹeɪt/
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• /ˈpoʊɹtɹət/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• rare: /ˈpoʊɹtɹeɪt/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• /ˈpoətɹɪt/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• rare: /ˈpoətɹeɪt/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• CMU ARPABET: P AO1 R T R AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō (< prō- + trahō). Compare typologically English drawing.

133 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: portret — painting of a person
• Albanian: portret — painting of a person
• Arabic: صُورَة (ṣūra) — painting of a person
• Arabic: بُورْتْرِيَّة (burtriyya) — painting of a person
• Armenian: դիմանկար (dimankar) — painting of a person
• Armenian: պատկեր (patker) — painting of a person
• Asturian: retratu — painting of a person
• Azerbaijani: şəkil — painting of a person
• Azerbaijani: portret — painting of a person
• Basque: argazkia — painting of a person
• Belarusian: партрэ́т (partrét) — painting of a person
• Bengali: প্রতিকৃতি (protikriti) — painting of a person
• Breton: poltred — painting of a person
• Bulgarian: портре́т (portrét) — painting of a person
• Burmese: ပုံတူကား (pumtuka:) — painting of a person
• Catalan: retrat — painting of a person
• Chinese Mandarin: 肖像 (xiàoxiàng) — painting of a person
• Chinese Mandarin: 畫像 /画像 (huàxiàng) — painting of a person
• Czech: portrét — painting of a person
• Czech: podobizna — painting of a person
• Danish: portræt — painting of a person
• Danish: kontrafej — painting of a person
• Dutch: portret — painting of a person
• Erzya: чаманеявкс (čamanejavks) — painting of a person
• Esperanto: portreto — painting of a person
• Estonian: portree — painting of a person
• Finnish: muotokuva — painting of a person
• Finnish: potretti — painting of a person
• French: portrait — painting of a person
• Galician: retrato — painting of a person
• Georgian: სურათი (surati) — painting of a person
• Georgian: პორტრეტი (ṗorṭreṭi) — painting of a person
• German: Portrait — painting of a person
• German: Porträt — painting of a person
• Greek: προσωπογραφία (prosopografía) — painting of a person
• Greek: πορτραίτο (portraíto) — painting of a person
• Hebrew: דְּיוֹקָן (dyokán) — painting of a person
• Hindi: चित्र (citra) — painting of a person
• Hindi: तस्वीर (tasvīr) — painting of a person
• Hungarian: arckép — painting of a person
• Hungarian: portré — painting of a person
• Hungarian: képmás — painting of a person
• Indonesian: potret — painting of a person
• Irish: portráid — painting of a person
• Italian: ritratto — painting of a person
• Japanese: 画像 (gazō) — painting of a person
• Japanese: 肖像 (shōzō) — painting of a person
• Kazakh: портрет (portret) — painting of a person
• Korean: 초상 (chosang) — painting of a person
• Korean: 초상화 (chosanghwa) — painting of a person
• Kyrgyz: портрет (portret) — painting of a person
• Latvian: portrets — painting of a person
• Lithuanian: portretas — painting of a person
• Luxembourgish: Portrait — painting of a person
• Macedonian: портре́т (portrét) — painting of a person
• Malay: potret — painting of a person
• Mongolian: хөрөг (xörög) — painting of a person
• Norwegian Bokmål: portrett — painting of a person
• Norwegian Bokmål: portrettmaleri — painting of a person
• Norwegian Nynorsk: portrett — painting of a person
• Pashto: تصوير (taswir) — painting of a person
• Iranian Persian: تَصْویر (tasvir) — painting of a person
• Iranian Persian: پُرْتْرِه (portre) — painting of a person
• Plautdietsch: Petrett — painting of a person
• Polish: portret — painting of a person
• Portuguese: retrato — painting of a person
• Romanian: portret — painting of a person
• Russian: портре́т (portrét) — painting of a person
• Russian: парсу́на (parsúna) — painting of a person
• Sanskrit: चित्राकृति (citrākṛti) — painting of a person
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀ртре̄т — painting of a person
• Serbo-Croatian: pòrtrēt — painting of a person
• Slovak: portrét — painting of a person
• Slovene: portret — painting of a person
• Southern Altai: портрет (portret) — painting of a person
• Southern Altai: кижиниҥ сӱри (kižiniŋ süri) — painting of a person
• Spanish: retrato — painting of a person
• Swahili: picha — painting of a person
• Swedish: porträtt — painting of a person
• Swedish: avbildning — painting of a person
• Tagalog: ritrato — painting of a person
• Tahitian: hohoʻa — painting of a person
• Tajik: портрет (portret) — painting of a person
• Tajik: тасвир (tasvir) — painting of a person
• Thai: ภาพเหมือน (pâap-mʉ̌ʉan) — painting of a person
• Turkish: portre — painting of a person
• Ottoman Turkish: تصویر (tasvir) — painting of a person
• Turkmen: portret — painting of a person
• Ukrainian: портре́т (portrét) — painting of a person
• Urdu: تَصْوِیر (tasvīr) — painting of a person
• Urdu: چِتْر (citr) — painting of a person
• Uyghur: پورترېت (portrët) — painting of a person
• Uzbek: portret — painting of a person
• Vietnamese: chân dung — painting of a person
• Volapük: pöträt — painting of a person
• Yiddish: פּאָרטרעט (portret) — painting of a person
• Bulgarian: изображе́ние (izobražénie) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Catalan: retrat — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Chinese Mandarin: 寫照 /写照 (xiězhào) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Georgian: პორტრეტი (ṗorṭreṭi) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• German: Portrait — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• German: Porträt — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Greek: πορτραίτο (portraíto) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Italian: ritratto — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Macedonian: опис (opis) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Macedonian: приказ (prikaz) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Macedonian: слика (slika) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Polish: portret — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Romanian: portret — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Romanian: descriere — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Russian: изображе́ние (izobražénije) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Russian: описа́ние (opisánije) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Russian: портре́т (portrét) — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀ртре̄т — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: pòrtrēt — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Spanish: retrato — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Turkish: tasvir — an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
• Bulgarian: вертика́лна ориента́ция (vertikálna orientácija) — print mode
• Czech: na výšku — print mode
• Czech: portrét — print mode
• Dutch: staand — print mode
• French: portrait — print mode
• German: Hochformat — print mode
• Greek: κατακόρυφος προσανατολισμός (katakóryfos) — print mode
• Hungarian: álló — print mode
• Irish: portráid — print mode
• Italian: ritratto — print mode
• Māori: nohotū — print mode
• Portuguese: retrato — print mode
• Russian: портре́тная ориента́ция (portrétnaja orijentácija) — print mode
• Spanish: modo retrato — print mode
• Spanish: modo vertical — print mode
• Turkish: portre — print mode