pronoun

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊ.naʊn/
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• General-American: /ˈpɹoʊ.naʊn/
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• rhymes with -aʊn
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• CMU ARPABET: P R OW1 N AW0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From pro- + noun, modeled on Middle French pronom, from Latin pronomen, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντωνῠμῐ́ᾱ (ăntōnŭmĭ́ā).

166 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: voornaamwoord — part of speech
• Albanian: përemri — part of speech
• Southern Altai: солума (soluma) — part of speech
• Amharic: ተውላጠ ስም (täwlaṭä səm) — part of speech
• Arabic: ضَمِير (ḍamīr) — part of speech
• Arabic: ضَمَائِرُ (ḍamāʔiru) — part of speech
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܠܵܦܫܡܵܐ (ḥlāpšmā) — part of speech
• Armenian: դերանուն (deranun) — part of speech
• Asturian: pronome — part of speech
• Azerbaijani: əvəzlik — part of speech
• Bashkir: алмаш (almaş) — part of speech
• Basque: izenordain — part of speech
• Belarusian: займе́ннік (zajmjénnik) — part of speech
• Bengali: সর্বনাম (śorbonam) — part of speech
• Central Bikol: panangli — part of speech
• Breton: raganv — part of speech
• Bulgarian: местоиме́ние (mestoiménie) — part of speech
• Burmese: နာမ်စား (namca:) — part of speech
• Carpathian Rusyn: містоназывник (mistonazŷvnyk) — part of speech
• Catalan: pronom — part of speech
• Chamorro: klå'an — part of speech
• Chechen: цӏерметдош (cʼermetdoš) — part of speech
• Chinese Cantonese: 代詞 /代词 (doi6 ci4) — part of speech
• Chinese Cantonese: 代名詞 /代名词 (doi6 ming4 ci4) — part of speech
• Chinese: 代詞 /代词 (tāi-sû) — part of speech
• Chinese: 代名詞 /代名词 (zh-min-nan) — part of speech
• Chinese Mandarin: 代詞 /代词 (dàicí) — part of speech
• Chinese Mandarin: 代名詞 /代名词 (dàimíngcí) — part of speech
• Wu Chinese: 代詞 /代词 (6de-zy) — part of speech
• Chuvash: местоимени (mestoimeni) — part of speech
• Chuvash: ылмаш (ylmaš) — part of speech
• Crimean Tatar: zamir — part of speech
• Czech: zájmeno — part of speech
• Danish: pronomen — part of speech
• Danish: stedord — part of speech
• Dutch: voornaamwoord — part of speech
• Dutch: pronomen — part of speech
• Erzya: таркасвал (tarkasval) — part of speech
• Esperanto: pronomo — part of speech
• Estonian: asesõna — part of speech
• Estonian: pronoomen — part of speech
• Ewe: nuŋkɔteƒenɔnya — part of speech
• Faroese: fornavn — part of speech
• Finnish: pronomini — part of speech
• Finnish: asemo — part of speech
• French: pronom — part of speech
• West-Frisian: foarnamwurd — part of speech
• Galician: pronome — part of speech
• Georgian: ნაცვალსახელი (nacvalsaxeli) — part of speech
• German: Fürwort — part of speech
• German: Personwort — part of speech
• German: Personenwort — part of speech
• German: Pronomen — part of speech
• German: Pronom — part of speech
• Middle High German: vornam — part of speech
• Greek: αντωνυμία (antonymía) — part of speech
• Ancient Greek: ἀντωνυμία (antōnumía) — part of speech
• Ancient Greek: ἀντώνυμον (antṓnumon) — part of speech
• Hebrew: כִּנּוּי גּוּף (kinúy gúf) — part of speech
• Hebrew: מִלַּת גּוּף (milát gúf) — part of speech
• Hindi: सर्वनाम (sarvanām) — part of speech
• Hungarian: névmás — part of speech
• Icelandic: fornafn — part of speech
• Ido: pronomo — part of speech
• Ilocano: sandinagan — part of speech
• Indonesian: pronomina — part of speech
• Indonesian: kata ganti — part of speech
• Ingrian: pronomina — part of speech
• Ingrian: nimensihalliin — part of speech
• Interlingua: pronomine — part of speech
• Irish: forainm — part of speech
• Italian: pronome — part of speech
• Japanese: 代名詞 (daimeishi) — part of speech
• Kabyle: amqim — part of speech
• Kalmyk: орч нерн (orç nern) — part of speech
• Kapampangan: panalili — part of speech
• Kazakh: есімдік (esımdık) — part of speech
• Khmer: សព្វនាម (sɑppĕəʼniəm) — part of speech
• Korean: 대명사 (daemyeongsa) — part of speech
• Kumyk: орунча (orunça) — part of speech
• Northern Kurdish: cînav — part of speech
• Kyrgyz: жактама (jaktama) — part of speech
• Lao: ສັບພະນາມ (sap pha nām) — part of speech
• Latin: prōnōmen — part of speech
• Latin: prōvocābulum — part of speech
• Latvian: vietniekvārds — part of speech
• Limburgish: veurnaamwaord — part of speech
• Lingala: likitana — part of speech
• Lithuanian: įvardis — part of speech
• Macedonian: заменка (zamenka) — part of speech
• Malay: kata ganti diri — part of speech
• Malayalam: സർവ്വനാമം (saṟvvanāmaṁ) — part of speech
• Maltese: pronom — part of speech
• Māori: tūkapi — part of speech
• Māori: kupu tūkapi — part of speech
• Mongolian: төлөөний нэр (tölöönii ner) — part of speech
• Mongolian: төлөөний үг (tölöönii üg) — part of speech
• Nahuatl: tlācatōcāitl — part of speech
• Nepali: सर्वनाम (sarvanām) — part of speech
• Norman: pronom — part of speech
• Norwegian Bokmål: pronomen — part of speech
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pronomen — part of speech
• Occitan: pronom — part of speech
• Old English: bīnama — part of speech
• Old Norse: fornafn — part of speech
• Oromo: maqdhaala — part of speech
• Ossetian: номивӕг (nomivæg) — part of speech
• Pannonian Rusyn: заменовнїк (zamenovnjik) — part of speech
• Pashto: ضمير (zamir) — part of speech
• Pashto: نومځری (numjǝray) — part of speech
• Dari: ضَمِیر (zamīr) — part of speech
• Iranian Persian: ضَمیر (zamir) — part of speech
• Iranian Persian: فَرانام (farânâm) — part of speech
• Iranian Persian: پیشْنام (pišnâm) — part of speech
• Piedmontese: pronòm — part of speech
• Plautdietsch: Fawuat — part of speech
• Pohnpeian: pronaun — part of speech
• Polish: zaimek — part of speech
• Portuguese: pronome — part of speech
• Quechua: sutip rantin — part of speech
• Quechua: sutiranti — part of speech
• Romanian: pronume — part of speech
• Russian: местоиме́ние (mestoiménije) — part of speech
• Northern Sami: pronomen — part of speech
• Sanskrit: सर्वनामन् (sarvanāman) — part of speech
• Scots: pronoun — part of speech
• Scottish Gaelic: riochdair — part of speech
• Serbo-Croatian: за̑меница — part of speech
• Serbo-Croatian: zȃmenica — part of speech
• Sicilian: prunomu — part of speech
• Slovak: zámeno — part of speech
• Slovene: zaímek — part of speech
• Spanish: pronombre — part of speech
• Sundanese: kecap gaganti — part of speech
• Swahili: kiwakilishi — part of speech
• Swedish: pronomen — part of speech
• Tagalog: panghalip — part of speech
• Tajik: ҷонишин (jonišin) — part of speech
• Tajik: замир (zamir) — part of speech
• Tamil: பெயர்ச்சொல் (peyarccol) — part of speech
• Tamil: பெயர் (peyar) — part of speech
• Tatar: алмашлык (almaşlıq) — part of speech
• Telugu: సర్వనామము (sarvanāmamu) — part of speech
• Thai: สรรพนาม (sàp-pá-naam) — part of speech
• Tibetan: མིང་ཚབ (ming tshab) — part of speech
• Turkish: zamir — part of speech
• Turkish: ivazlık — part of speech
• Turkish: almaş — part of speech
• Ottoman Turkish: ضمیر (zamir) — part of speech
• Turkmen: çalyşma — part of speech
• Ukrainian: займе́нник (zajménnyk) — part of speech
• Urdu: ضَمِیر (zamīr) — part of speech
• Uyghur: ئالماش (almash) — part of speech
• Uzbek: olmosh — part of speech
• Vietnamese: đại từ — part of speech
• Volapük: pönop — part of speech
• Walloon: prono — part of speech
• Waray-Waray: imbesngaran — part of speech
• Waray-Waray: taligngaran — part of speech
• Waray-Waray: talingaran — part of speech
• Waray-Waray: talingáran — part of speech
• Welsh: rhagenw — part of speech
• Yiddish: פּראָנאָם (pronom) — part of speech
• Zazaki: zemir (diq) — part of speech
• Zazaki: pesname — part of speech
• Zulu: isabizwana — part of speech