prose

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊz/
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• General-American: /ˈpɹoʊz/
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• rhymes with -əʊz
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• homophone: pros
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• CMU ARPABET: P R OW1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from German Pröse, from a short form of the personal name Ambrose.

From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”). further etymology and related terms The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“to turn”). Compare verse.

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: prozë — written language not intended as poetry
• Arabic: نَثْر (naṯr) — written language not intended as poetry
• Armenian: արձակ (arjak) — written language not intended as poetry
• Azerbaijani: nəsr — written language not intended as poetry
• Basque: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Belarusian: про́за (próza) — written language not intended as poetry
• Bengali: গদ্য (goddo) — written language not intended as poetry
• Bulgarian: про́за (próza) — written language not intended as poetry
• Burmese: စုဏ္ဏိယ (cunni.ya.) — written language not intended as poetry
• Catalan: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Chinese Mandarin: 散文 (sǎnwén) — written language not intended as poetry
• Czech: próza — written language not intended as poetry
• Danish: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Dutch: proza — written language not intended as poetry
• Dutch: ondicht — written language not intended as poetry
• Esperanto: prozo — written language not intended as poetry
• Estonian: proosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Faroese: óbundið mál — written language not intended as poetry
• Faroese: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Faroese: skaldskapur á óbundnum máli — written language not intended as poetry
• Finnish: proosa — written language not intended as poetry
• French: prose — written language not intended as poetry
• Galician: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Georgian: პროზა (ṗroza) — written language not intended as poetry
• German: Prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Greek: πεζογραφία (pezografía) — written language not intended as poetry
• Hebrew: פְּרוֹזָה (prozá) — written language not intended as poetry
• Hindi: गद्य (gadya) — written language not intended as poetry
• Hungarian: próza — written language not intended as poetry
• Icelandic: prósa — written language not intended as poetry
• Indonesian: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Italian: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Japanese: 散文 (sanbun) — written language not intended as poetry
• Javanese: gancaran — written language not intended as poetry
• Kannada: ಗದ್ಯ (gadya) — written language not intended as poetry
• Kazakh: проза (proza) — written language not intended as poetry
• Khmer: ពាក្យរាយ (piək riəy) — written language not intended as poetry
• Khmer: ពាក្យលាត (piək liət) — written language not intended as poetry
• Korean: 산문 (sanmun) — written language not intended as poetry
• Kyrgyz: проза (proza) — written language not intended as poetry
• Lao: ຮ້ອຽແກ້ວ (hǭi kǣu) — written language not intended as poetry
• Latin: prōsa — written language not intended as poetry
• Latvian: proza — written language not intended as poetry
• Lithuanian: proza — written language not intended as poetry
• Macedonian: проза (proza) — written language not intended as poetry
• Malay: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Malayalam: ഗദ്യം (gadyaṁ) — written language not intended as poetry
• Mongolian: үргэлжилсэн үгийн зохиол (ürgelžilsen ügiin zoxiol) — written language not intended as poetry
• Norwegian Bokmål: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Old English: spell — written language not intended as poetry
• Persian: نثر (nasr) — written language not intended as poetry
• Polish: proza — written language not intended as poetry
• Portuguese: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Romanian: proză — written language not intended as poetry
• Russian: про́за (próza) — written language not intended as poetry
• Serbo-Croatian: про́за — written language not intended as poetry
• Serbo-Croatian: próza — written language not intended as poetry
• Slovak: próza — written language not intended as poetry
• Slovene: proza — written language not intended as poetry
• Spanish: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Swahili: nathari — written language not intended as poetry
• Swedish: prosa — written language not intended as poetry
• Tajik: наср (nasr) — written language not intended as poetry
• Tamil: உரைநடை (urainaṭai) — written language not intended as poetry
• Telugu: గద్యము (gadyamu) — written language not intended as poetry
• Thai: ร้อยแก้ว (rɔ́ɔi-gɛ̂ɛo) — written language not intended as poetry
• Turkish: nesir — written language not intended as poetry
• Turkish: düzyazı — written language not intended as poetry
• Turkish: mensur — written language not intended as poetry
• Turkish: inşa — written language not intended as poetry
• Turkmen: proza — written language not intended as poetry
• Ukrainian: про́за (próza) — written language not intended as poetry
• Urdu: نثر (nasr) — written language not intended as poetry
• Uyghur: نەسر (nesr) — written language not intended as poetry
• Uyghur: پروزا (proza) — written language not intended as poetry
• Uzbek: nasr — written language not intended as poetry
• Uzbek: proza — written language not intended as poetry
• Vietnamese: văn xuôi — written language not intended as poetry
• Yiddish: פּראָזע (proze) — written language not intended as poetry