semicolon

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• UK: /ˌsɛmiˈkəʊlən/
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• UK: /-ˈkəʊlɒn/
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• US: /ˈsɛmikoʊlən/
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• rhymes with -əʊlɒn
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English colon English semicolon From semi- + colon.

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: pikëpresje — punctuation mark ';'
• Arabic: فَاصِلَة مَنْقُوطَة (fāṣila manqūṭa) — punctuation mark ';'
• Arabic: ؛ — punctuation mark ';'
• Armenian: կետ-ստորակետ (ket-storaket) — punctuation mark ';'
• Asturian: puntu y coma — punctuation mark ';'
• Azerbaijani: nöqtəli vergül — punctuation mark ';'
• Bashkir: нөктәле өтөр (nöktəle ötör) — punctuation mark ';'
• Belarusian: кро́пка з ко́скай (krópka z kóskaj) — punctuation mark ';'
• Bulgarian: то́чка и запета́я (tóčka i zapetája) — punctuation mark ';'
• Catalan: punt i coma — punctuation mark ';'
• Chinese Mandarin: 分號 /分号 (fēnhào) — punctuation mark ';'
• Chinese Mandarin: ; — punctuation mark ';'
• Cornish: poynt ha komma — punctuation mark ';'
• Czech: středník — punctuation mark ';'
• Danish: semikolon — punctuation mark ';'
• Dutch: puntkomma — punctuation mark ';'
• Dutch: kommapunt — punctuation mark ';'
• Esperanto: punktokomo — punctuation mark ';'
• Estonian: semikoolon — punctuation mark ';'
• Faroese: semikolon — punctuation mark ';'
• Finnish: puolipiste — punctuation mark ';'
• French: point-virgule — punctuation mark ';'
• Galician: punto e coma — punctuation mark ';'
• Georgian: წერტილმძიმე (c̣erṭilmʒime) — punctuation mark ';'
• Georgian: წერტილ-მძიმე (c̣erṭil-mʒime) — punctuation mark ';'
• German: Strichpunkt — punctuation mark ';'
• German: Semikolon — punctuation mark ';'
• Greek: άνω τελεία (áno teleía) — punctuation mark ';'
• Greek: ερωτηματικό (erotimatikó) — punctuation mark ';'
• Hebrew: נקודה ופסיק \ נְקֻדָּה וּפְסִיק (n'kudá uf'sík) — punctuation mark ';'
• Hindi: अर्धविराम (ardhavirām) — punctuation mark ';'
• Hindi: सेमीकोलन (semīkolan) — punctuation mark ';'
• Hungarian: pontosvessző — punctuation mark ';'
• Icelandic: semíkomma — punctuation mark ';'
• Icelandic: semikomma — punctuation mark ';'
• Ido: puntokomo — punctuation mark ';'
• Interlingua: puncto e virgula — punctuation mark ';'
• Irish: leathstad — punctuation mark ';'
• Irish: leathstadanna — punctuation mark ';'
• Italian: punto e virgola — punctuation mark ';'
• Japanese: セミコロン (semikoron) — punctuation mark ';'
• Japanese: ; — punctuation mark ';'
• Kazakh: нүктелі үтір (nüktelı ütır) — punctuation mark ';'
• Korean: 쌍반점 (ssangbanjeom) — punctuation mark ';'
• Korean: 세미콜론 (semikollon) — punctuation mark ';'
• Kyrgyz: үтүрдүү чекит (ütürdüü cekit) — punctuation mark ';'
• Latvian: semikols — punctuation mark ';'
• Lithuanian: kabliataškis — punctuation mark ';'
• Macedonian: точка-запирка (točka-zapirka) — punctuation mark ';'
• Malayalam: അർദ്ധവിരാമം (aṟddhavirāmaṁ) — punctuation mark ';'
• Māori: kopipiko — punctuation mark ';'
• Mongolian: цэгтэй таслал (cegtej taslal) — punctuation mark ';'
• Norwegian Bokmål: semikolon — punctuation mark ';'
• Pashto: ؛ — punctuation mark ';'
• Persian: نقطهویرگول (noqte-virgul) — punctuation mark ';'
• Persian: ؛ — punctuation mark ';'
• Polish: średnik — punctuation mark ';'
• Portuguese: ponto e vírgula — punctuation mark ';'
• Punjabi: ਬਿੰਦੀ ਕਾਮਾ (bindī kāmā) — punctuation mark ';'
• Romanian: punct și virgulă — punctuation mark ';'
• Russian: то́чка с запято́й (tóčka s zapjatój) — punctuation mark ';'
• Scottish Gaelic: leth-chòilean — punctuation mark ';'
• Serbo-Croatian: точка за зарезом — punctuation mark ';'
• Serbo-Croatian: тачка са зепетом — punctuation mark ';'
• Serbo-Croatian: točka sa zarezom — punctuation mark ';'
• Serbo-Croatian: tačka sa zapetom — punctuation mark ';'
• Slovak: bodkočiarka — punctuation mark ';'
• Slovene: podpičje — punctuation mark ';'
• Spanish: punto y coma — punctuation mark ';'
• Swahili: alama ya nuktamkato — punctuation mark ';'
• Swahili: nukta mkato — punctuation mark ';'
• Swedish: semikolon — punctuation mark ';'
• Tagalog: tuldok-kuwit — punctuation mark ';'
• Tamil: அரைப்புள்ளி (araippuḷḷi) — punctuation mark ';'
• Thai: อัฒภาค (àt-tá-pâak) — punctuation mark ';'
• Turkish: noktalı virgül — punctuation mark ';'
• Ukrainian: кра́пка з ко́мою (krápka z kómoju) — punctuation mark ';'
• Ukrainian: сере́дник (serédnyk) — punctuation mark ';'
• Urdu: ؛ — punctuation mark ';'
• Uzbek: nuqtali vergul — punctuation mark ';'
• Vietnamese: dấu chấm phẩy — punctuation mark ';'
• Welsh: gwahannod — punctuation mark ';'
• Welsh: hanner colon — punctuation mark ';'
• Zulu: unzoqhwishi class 1a/2a — punctuation mark ';'