self-control

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• General-American: /ˌsɛlf kənˈtɹoʊl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsɛlf kənˈtɹəʊl/
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• CMU ARPABET: S EH2 L F K AH0 N T R OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbh-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English control English self-control From self- + control.

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: selfbeheersing — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Azerbaijani: özünüidarəetmə — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Bulgarian: самооблада́ние (samoobladánie) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Catalan: autocontrol — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Chinese Mandarin: 自我控制 (zìwǒ kòngzhì) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Chinese Mandarin: 自制力 (zìzhìlì) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Chinese Mandarin: 自我克制 (zìwǒ kèzhì) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Chinese Mandarin: 自制 (zìzhì) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Chinese Mandarin: 自控力 (zìkònglì) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Czech: sebeovládání — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Danish: selvkontrol — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Dutch: zelfcontrole — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Esperanto: memregado — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Finnish: itsehillintä — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• French: contrôle de soi — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• French: maîtrise de soi — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Georgian: თავშეკავება (tavšeḳaveba) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Georgian: თვითკონტროლი (tvitḳonṭroli) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• German: Selbstbeherrschung — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• German: Selbstkontrolle — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Greek: αυτοέλεγχος (aftoélenchos) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Ancient Greek: ἐγκράτεια (enkráteia) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Ancient Greek: σωφροσύνη (sōphrosúnē) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Hindi: आत्मनियंत्रण (ātmaniyantraṇ) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Hindi: आत्मसंयम (ātmasãyam) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Hungarian: önfegyelem — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Hungarian: önuralom — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Interlingua: autocontrolo — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Japanese: 自制 (jisei) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Japanese: 自粛 (jishuku) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Japanese: セルフコントロール (serufukontorōru) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Kazakh: өзін-өзі бақылау (özın-özı baqylau) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Korean: 자제 (jaje) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Latin: temperantia — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Lithuanian: savitvarda — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Marathi: संयम (saiyam) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Marathi: आत्मनियंत्रण (ātmaniyantraṇ) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Marathi: दम (dam) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Norwegian: selvkontroll — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Polish: samokontrola — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Polish: autokontrola — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Portuguese: autocontrole — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Romanian: autocontrol — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Romanian: stăpânire de sine — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Russian: самооблада́ние (samoobladánije) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Russian: самоконтро́ль (samokontrólʹ) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Serbo-Croatian: самоконтрола — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Serbo-Croatian: самоконрола — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Serbo-Croatian: самосавлађивање — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Serbo-Croatian: samokontrola — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Serbo-Croatian: samokonrola — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Serbo-Croatian: samosavlađivanje — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Sotho: boitshwaro — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Spanish: autocontrol — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Swedish: självbehärskning — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Swedish: självkontroll — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Thai: การควบคุมตนเอง — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Ukrainian: самовлада́ння (samovladánnja) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Ukrainian: самоконтро́ль (samokontrólʹ) — ability to control one's desires and impulses
• Vietnamese: sự tự chủ — ability to control one's desires and impulses