semester

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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɪˈmɛstə/
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• General-American: sĭ-mĕstʹər
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• General-American: /sɪˈmɛstɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɛstə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S AH0 M EH1 S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From German Semester, from New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”).

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فَصْل دِرَاسِيّ (faṣl dirāsiyy) — half of school year
• Arabic: نِصْف سَنَة (niṣf sana) — half of school year
• Arabic: فَصْل أَكَادِيمِيّ (faṣl ʔakādīmiyy) — half of school year
• Arabic: كورس (kors) — half of school year
• Arabic: سِمِسْتَر (semestər) — half of school year
• Armenian: կիսամյակ (kisamyak) — half of school year
• Azerbaijani: semestr — half of school year
• Azerbaijani: yarımil — half of school year
• Belarusian: семе́стр (sjemjéstr) — half of school year
• Belarusian: сэмэ́стар (seméstar) — half of school year
• Bulgarian: семестър (semestǎr) — half of school year
• Catalan: semestre — half of school year
• Chinese Mandarin: 學期 /学期 (xuéqī) — half of school year
• Czech: semestr — half of school year
• Czech: pololetí — half of school year
• Czech: půlrok — half of school year
• Danish: semester — half of school year
• Dutch: semester — half of school year
• Esperanto: semestro — half of school year
• Finnish: lukukausi — half of school year
• French: semestre — half of school year
• French: trimestre — half of school year
• Georgian: სემესტრი (semesṭri) — half of school year
• German: Semester — half of school year
• German: Halbjahr — half of school year
• Greek: εξάμηνο (exámino) — half of school year
• Hungarian: félév — half of school year
• Hungarian: szemeszter — half of school year
• Icelandic: misseri — half of school year
• Indonesian: semester — half of school year
• Italian: semestre — half of school year
• Japanese: 学期 (gakki) — half of school year
• Kazakh: оқу маусымы (oqu mausymy) — half of school year
• Khmer: ឆមាស (chɑɑchɑmiəh) — half of school year
• Korean: 학기 (hakgi) — half of school year
• Korean: 반기 (ban'gi) — half of school year
• Lithuanian: semestras — half of school year
• Norwegian Bokmål: semester — half of school year
• Norwegian Bokmål: termin — half of school year
• Norwegian Nynorsk: semester — half of school year
• Norwegian Nynorsk: termin — half of school year
• Persian: نیمسال تحصیلی (nimsâl-e tahsili) — half of school year
• Persian: ترم (term) — half of school year
• Polish: semestr — half of school year
• Polish: półrocze — half of school year
• Portuguese: semestre — half of school year
• Romanian: semestru — half of school year
• Russian: семе́стр (seméstr) — half of school year
• Russian: полуго́дие (polugódije) — half of school year
• Serbo-Croatian: polugodište — half of school year
• Spanish: semestre — half of school year
• Spanish: ciclo — half of school year
• Swedish: termin — half of school year
• Tagalog: semestre — half of school year
• Tagalog: hatintaon — half of school year
• Turkish: sömestir — half of school year
• Turkish: yarıyıl — half of school year
• Ukrainian: семе́стр (seméstr) — half of school year
• Ukrainian: піврі́ччя (pivríččja) — half of school year
• Vietnamese: học kỳ — half of school year
• Vietnamese: sáu tháng — half of school year
• Yiddish: סעמעסטער (semester) — half of school year
• Yiddish: זמן (zman) — half of school year
• Bulgarian: полугодие (polugodie) — period or term of six months
• Icelandic: misseri — period or term of six months
• Indonesian: semester — period or term of six months