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• skrōl
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• Received-Pronunciation: /skɹəʊl/
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• General-American: /skɹoʊl/
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• rhymes with -əʊl
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• CMU ARPABET: S K R OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

172 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: طُومَار (ṭūmār) — roll of paper or parchment
• Armenian: գալար (galar) — roll of paper or parchment
• Armenian: գալարակ (galarak) — roll of paper or parchment
• Belarusian: суво́й (suvój) — roll of paper or parchment
• Bulgarian: сви́тък (svítǎk) — roll of paper or parchment
• Catalan: rotlle — roll of paper or parchment
• Chinese Mandarin: 條幅 /条幅 (tiáofú) — roll of paper or parchment
• Chinese Mandarin: 卷軸 /卷轴 (juànzhóu) — roll of paper or parchment
• Czech: svitek — roll of paper or parchment
• Danish: skriftrulle — roll of paper or parchment
• Danish: bogrulle — roll of paper or parchment
• Dutch: boekrol — roll of paper or parchment
• Dutch: schriftrol — roll of paper or parchment
• Egyptian: S:f:d-w-V12 (šfdw) — roll of paper or parchment
• Esperanto: rulpapero — roll of paper or parchment
• Estonian: rullraamat — roll of paper or parchment
• Finnish: käärö — roll of paper or parchment
• Finnish: kirjakäärö — roll of paper or parchment
• French: rouleau (de papyrus ou de parchemin) — roll of paper or parchment
• French: papyrus — roll of paper or parchment
• French: volumen — roll of paper or parchment
• French: rotulus — roll of paper or parchment
• Georgian: გრაგნილი (gragnili) — roll of paper or parchment
• German: Schriftrolle — roll of paper or parchment
• German: Rolle — roll of paper or parchment
• German: Buchrolle — roll of paper or parchment
• Greek: κύλινδρος (kýlindros) — roll of paper or parchment
• Greek: πάπυρος (pápyros) — roll of paper or parchment
• Greek: περγαμηνή (pergaminí) — roll of paper or parchment
• Ancient Greek: κεφαλίς (kephalís) — roll of paper or parchment
• Hebrew: מגילה — roll of paper or parchment
• Hebrew: מְגִלָּה (m'gilá) — roll of paper or parchment
• Hindi: पुस्तक (pustak) — roll of paper or parchment
• Hungarian: tekercs — roll of paper or parchment
• Hungarian: papírtekercs — roll of paper or parchment
• Hungarian: kézirattekercs — roll of paper or parchment
• Icelandic: bókrolla — roll of paper or parchment
• Indonesian: gulungan — roll of paper or parchment
• Japanese: 巻物 (makimono) — roll of paper or parchment
• Japanese: スクロール (sukurōru) — roll of paper or parchment
• Kazakh: шиыршық (şiyrşyq) — roll of paper or parchment
• Korean: 두루마리 (durumari) — roll of paper or parchment
• Korean: 스크롤 (seukeurol) — roll of paper or parchment
• Northern Kurdish: tomer — roll of paper or parchment
• Latin: volūmen — roll of paper or parchment
• Latvian: tīstoklis — roll of paper or parchment
• Latvian: vīstoklis — roll of paper or parchment
• Lithuanian: ritinys — roll of paper or parchment
• Luxembourgish: Schrëftrulle — roll of paper or parchment
• Macedonian: свиток (svitok) — roll of paper or parchment
• Māori: takai — roll of paper or parchment
• Marathi: पट्टी (paṭṭī) — roll of paper or parchment
• Marathi: गुंडाळी (guṇḍāḷī) — roll of paper or parchment
• Marathi: सुरळी (surḷī) — roll of paper or parchment
• Marathi: लेखपट (lekhpaṭ) — roll of paper or parchment
• Norwegian Bokmål: skriftrull — roll of paper or parchment
• Norwegian Bokmål: bokrull — roll of paper or parchment
• Persian: طومار (tumâr) — roll of paper or parchment
• Persian: کَراسِه (karâse) — roll of paper or parchment
• Persian: فَروَردِه (farvarde) — roll of paper or parchment
• Plautdietsch: Schreftroll — roll of paper or parchment
• Polish: zwitek — roll of paper or parchment
• Polish: zwój — roll of paper or parchment
• Polish: rola — roll of paper or parchment
• Polish: rolka — roll of paper or parchment
• Portuguese: pergaminho — roll of paper or parchment
• Portuguese: rolo — roll of paper or parchment
• Russian: сви́ток (svítok) — roll of paper or parchment
• Serbo-Croatian: сви́так — roll of paper or parchment
• Serbo-Croatian: svítak — roll of paper or parchment
• Slovak: zvitok — roll of paper or parchment
• Slovene: zvitek — roll of paper or parchment
• Spanish: rollo — roll of paper or parchment
• Spanish: pergamino — roll of paper or parchment
• Swedish: skriftrulle — roll of paper or parchment
• Swedish: bokrulle — roll of paper or parchment
• Tagalog: balumbon — roll of paper or parchment
• Thai: ม้วนกระดาษ (múuan grà-dàat) — roll of paper or parchment
• Tibetan: ཤོག་ཧྲིལ (shog hril) — roll of paper or parchment
• Turkish: tomar — roll of paper or parchment
• Ukrainian: суві́й (suvíj) — roll of paper or parchment
• Urdu: طُومار (tūmār) — roll of paper or parchment
• Urdu: پُسْتَک (pustak) — roll of paper or parchment
• Vietnamese: cuộn — roll of paper or parchment
• Vietnamese: cuốn — roll of paper or parchment
• Welsh: sgrôl — roll of paper or parchment
• Welsh: rholyn — roll of paper or parchment
• Welsh: rhôl — roll of paper or parchment
• Zazaki: kerase — roll of paper or parchment
• Bulgarian: волу́та (volúta) — ornament
• Chinese Mandarin: 條幅 /条幅 (tiáofú) — ornament
• Chinese Mandarin: 幛子 (zhàngzi) — ornament
• Chinese Mandarin: 橫幅 /横幅 (héngfú) — ornament
• Finnish: kierukka — ornament
• French: volute — ornament
• German: Volute — ornament
• German: Schnörkel — ornament
• German: Spirale — ornament
• Hungarian: kacskaringó — ornament
• Japanese: 掛け軸 (kakejiku) — ornament
• Japanese: 掛物 (kakemono) — ornament
• Polish: woluta — ornament
• Romanian: volută — ornament
• Russian: сви́ток (svítok) — ornament
• Russian: волю́та (voljúta) — ornament
• Russian: завито́к (zavitók) — ornament
• Russian: спира́ль (spirálʹ) — ornament
• Spanish: voluta — ornament
• Ukrainian: за́виток (závytok) — ornament
• Ukrainian: за́круток (zákrutok) — ornament
• Ukrainian: за́крутка (zákrutka) — ornament
• Welsh: troell — ornament
• Bulgarian: завърту́лка (zavǎrtúlka) — mark or flourish
• Finnish: kiemura — mark or flourish
• German: Schnörkel — mark or flourish
• German: Kringel — mark or flourish
• German: Schwung — mark or flourish
• Hungarian: kacskaringó — mark or flourish
• Polish: zakrętas — mark or flourish
• Polish: zawijas — mark or flourish
• Russian: завито́к (zavitók) — mark or flourish
• Russian: завиту́шка (zavitúška) — mark or flourish
• Dutch: krul — end of a musical instrument
• Finnish: kierukka — end of a musical instrument
• French: volute — end of a musical instrument
• French: coquille — end of a musical instrument
• German: Schnecke — end of a musical instrument
• Hungarian: csiga — end of a musical instrument
• Polish: ślimak — end of a musical instrument
• Finnish: viivoitinpinta — skew surface
• Polish: powierzchnia rozwijalna — skew surface
• Catalan: fer scroll — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Catalan: lliscar — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Chinese Mandarin: 滾動 /滚动 (gǔndòng) — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Chinese Mandarin: 滾屏 /滚屏 (gǔnpíng) — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Czech: skrolovat — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Danish: scrolle — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Dutch: scrollen — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Esperanto: rulumi — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Faroese: skrulla — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Finnish: vierittää — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• French: faire défiler — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• French: scroller — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• German: scrollen — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Hawaiian: lolelole — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Hungarian: görget — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Icelandic: skrolla — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Icelandic: skruna — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Malay: selak — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Māori: panuku — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Norman: rouôler — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Norwegian Bokmål: skrolle — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skrolla — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Polish: przewijać — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Polish: przewinąć — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Polish: scrollować — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Polish: przescrollować — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Portuguese: rolar — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Portuguese: deslocar — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Romanian: derula — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Romanian: scrolla — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Russian: скро́ллить (skróllitʹ) — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Russian: скролли́ровать (skrollírovatʹ) — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Spanish: desplazarse — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Spanish: desplazar — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Spanish: scrolear — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Swedish: rulla — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Swedish: skrolla — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Ukrainian: прокру́чувати (prokrúčuvaty) — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Ukrainian: прокрути́ти (prokrutýty) — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Ukrainian: скро́лити (skrólyty) — to change one's view of data on a computer's display
• Welsh: rholio — to change one's view of data on a computer's display