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Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *gaskap Old English ġesċeap Proto-Germanic *skapą Proto-West Germanic *skap Old English sċeap Middle English schap English shape From Middle English schap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun. The noun is cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”). The verb is cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship.

268 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: վիճակ (vičak) — status or condition
• Bulgarian: състоя́ние (sǎstojánie) — status or condition
• Bulgarian: положе́ние (položénie) — status or condition
• Chinese Mandarin: 樣子 /样子 (yàngzi) — status or condition
• Czech: stav — status or condition
• Czech: forma — status or condition
• Danish: form — status or condition
• Danish: tilstand — status or condition
• Dutch: staat — status or condition
• Dutch: status — status or condition
• Dutch: toestand — status or condition
• Finnish: kunto — status or condition
• French: forme — status or condition
• Georgian: მდგომარეობა (mdgomareoba) — status or condition
• Georgian: ფორმა (porma) — status or condition
• German: Zustand — status or condition
• German: Form — status or condition
• Hebrew: מַצָּב (matsáv) — status or condition
• Italian: condizione — status or condition
• Italian: stato — status or condition
• Japanese: 様子 (yōsu) — status or condition
• Japanese: ようす (yōsu) — status or condition
• Javanese: kaanan — status or condition
• Latin: fōrma — status or condition
• Latin: figūra — status or condition
• Polish: kształt — status or condition
• Portuguese: condição — status or condition
• Portuguese: estado — status or condition
• Romanian: stare — status or condition
• Romanian: formă — status or condition
• Russian: фо́рма (fórma) — status or condition
• Russian: состоя́ние (sostojánije) — status or condition
• Russian: положе́ние (položénije) — status or condition
• Scottish Gaelic: cor — status or condition
• Scottish Gaelic: staid — status or condition
• Spanish: forma — status or condition
• Spanish: estado — status or condition
• Swedish: form — status or condition
• Swedish: tillstånd — status or condition
• Telugu: స్థితి (sthiti) — status or condition
• Turkish: durum — status or condition
• Turkish: şekil — status or condition
• Turkish: vaziyet — status or condition
• Welsh: cyflwr — status or condition
• Armenian: վիճակ (vičak) — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Bulgarian: фо́рма (fórma) — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Czech: forma — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Danish: form — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Dutch: vorm — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Dutch: conditie — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Dutch: fysiek — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Finnish: kunto — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• French: forme — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Georgian: აგებულება (agebuleba) — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Georgian: აღნაგობა (aɣnagoba) — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Georgian: ფორმა (porma) — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• German: Form — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Italian: forma — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Latin: fōrma — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Polish: forma — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Polish: kondycja — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Portuguese: estado — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Romanian: formă — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Russian: фо́рма (fórma) — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Scottish Gaelic: cor — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Scottish Gaelic: staid — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Spanish: forma — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Spanish: figura — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Spanish: talle — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Turkish: form — condition of personal health, especially muscular health
• Albanian: formë — appearance or outline
• Amharic: ቅርጽ (ḳərṣ) — appearance or outline
• Arabic: شَكْل (šakl) — appearance or outline
• Arabic: أَشْكَال (ʔaškāl) — appearance or outline
• Arabic: صُورَة (ṣūra) — appearance or outline
• Armenian: ձեւ (jew) — appearance or outline
• Azerbaijani: şəkil — appearance or outline
• Azerbaijani: forma — appearance or outline
• Belarusian: фо́рма (fórma) — appearance or outline
• Bengali: আকৃতি (akriti) — appearance or outline
• Bengali: আকার (akar) — appearance or outline
• Bengali: রূপ (rup) — appearance or outline
• Bengali: সুরত (śurot) — appearance or outline
• Bulgarian: фо́рма (fórma) — appearance or outline
• Bulgarian: вид (vid) — appearance or outline
• Burmese: ပုံ (pum) — appearance or outline
• Catalan: forma — appearance or outline
• Chinese Cantonese: 形狀 /形状 (jing4 zong6) — appearance or outline
• Chinese Cantonese: 形式 (jing4 sik1) — appearance or outline
• Chinese Mandarin: 形狀 /形状 (xíngzhuàng) — appearance or outline
• Chinese Mandarin: 形式 (xíngshì) — appearance or outline
• Czech: tvar — appearance or outline
• Danish: form — appearance or outline
• Dutch: vorm — appearance or outline
• Estonian: kuju — appearance or outline
• Estonian: vorm — appearance or outline
• Faroese: skap — appearance or outline
• Finnish: muoto — appearance or outline
• Finnish: kuvio — appearance or outline
• French: forme — appearance or outline
• Galician: forma — appearance or outline
• Georgian: ფორმა (porma) — appearance or outline
• Georgian: მოხაზულობა (moxazuloba) — appearance or outline
• Georgian: მოყვანილობა (moq̇vaniloba) — appearance or outline
• German: Form — appearance or outline
• German: Gestalt — appearance or outline
• Greek: μορφή (morfí) — appearance or outline
• Ancient Greek: μορφή (morphḗ) — appearance or outline
• Ancient Greek: σχῆμα (skhêma) — appearance or outline
• Hebrew: צוּרָה (tsurá) — appearance or outline
• Hindi: आकार (ākār) — appearance or outline
• Hindi: शक्ल (śakla) — appearance or outline
• Hindi: डोल (ḍol) — appearance or outline
• Hindi: रूप (rūp) — appearance or outline
• Hungarian: alak — appearance or outline
• Hungarian: forma — appearance or outline
• Icelandic: form — appearance or outline
• Indonesian: bentuk — appearance or outline
• Ingrian: kaanu — appearance or outline
• Irish: cruth — appearance or outline
• Italian: forma — appearance or outline
• Italian: sagoma — appearance or outline
• Japanese: 形 (katachi) — appearance or outline
• Japanese: 型 (kata) — appearance or outline
• Japanese: 形式 (keishiki) — appearance or outline
• Javanese: wangun — appearance or outline
• Javanese: wujud — appearance or outline
• Javanese: rupa — appearance or outline
• Javanese: dhapur — appearance or outline
• Javanese: warna — appearance or outline
• Javanese: warni — appearance or outline
• Kalmyk: кев (kev) — appearance or outline
• Kazakh: нысан (nysan) — appearance or outline
• Kazakh: форма (forma) — appearance or outline
• Kazakh: пішім (pışım) — appearance or outline
• Kazakh: пішін (pışın) — appearance or outline
• Khmer: គ្រោង (kroong) — appearance or outline
• Khmer: ទម្រង់ (tɔɔtumrŭəng) — appearance or outline
• Korean: 모양 (moyang) — appearance or outline
• Korean: 형식 (hyeongsik) — appearance or outline
• Korean: 형 (hyeong) — appearance or outline
• Northern Kurdish: şikil — appearance or outline
• Kven: haamu — appearance or outline
• Kyrgyz: форма (forma) — appearance or outline
• Kyrgyz: кеп (kep) — appearance or outline
• Lao: ຮູບຮ່າງ (hūp hāng) — appearance or outline
• Lao: ຮ່າງ (hāng) — appearance or outline
• Lao: ຊົງ (song) — appearance or outline
• Lao: ຮູບ (hūp) — appearance or outline
• Latin: fōrma — appearance or outline
• Latin: figūra — appearance or outline
• Latvian: forma — appearance or outline
• Lithuanian: forma — appearance or outline
• Luhya: liumbo — appearance or outline
• Macedonian: облик (oblik) — appearance or outline
• Malay: bentuk — appearance or outline
• Māori: āhuahanga — appearance or outline
• Middle English: schap — appearance or outline
• Mongolian: хэлбэр (xelber) — appearance or outline
• Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠯᠪᠡᠷᠢ (kelberi) — appearance or outline
• Norwegian Bokmål: form — appearance or outline
• Pashto: شکل (šᶕkəl) — appearance or outline
• Dari: شَکْل (šakl) — appearance or outline
• Iranian Persian: شِکْل (šekl) — appearance or outline
• Iranian Persian: شَکْل (šakl) — appearance or outline
• Iranian Persian: فُرْم — appearance or outline
• Iranian Persian: صورَت (surat) — appearance or outline
• Polish: kształt — appearance or outline
• Polish: forma — appearance or outline
• Polish: postać — appearance or outline
• Portuguese: forma — appearance or outline
• Romanian: formă — appearance or outline
• Russian: фо́рма (fórma) — appearance or outline
• Sanskrit: रूप (rūpa) — appearance or outline
• Scottish Gaelic: cumadh — appearance or outline
• Scottish Gaelic: cruth — appearance or outline
• Serbo-Croatian: о̏блӣк — appearance or outline
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍblīk — appearance or outline
• Slovak: tvar — appearance or outline
• Slovene: oblika — appearance or outline
• Spanish: forma — appearance or outline
• Swahili: umbo — appearance or outline
• Swedish: form — appearance or outline
• Tagalog: hugis — appearance or outline
• Tajik: шакл (šakl) — appearance or outline
• Tajik: сурат (surat) — appearance or outline
• Telugu: ఆకారం (ākāraṁ) — appearance or outline
• Telugu: ఆకృతి (ākr̥ti) — appearance or outline
• Thai: รูปร่าง (rûup-râang) — appearance or outline
• Thai: รูป (rûup) — appearance or outline
• Tibetan: དབྱིབས (dbyibs) — appearance or outline
• Tigrinya: ቅርጺ (ḳərṣi) — appearance or outline
• Tigrinya: ቅርፂ (ḳərṣ́i) — appearance or outline
• Tocharian B: ersna — appearance or outline
• Turkish: görünüş — appearance or outline
• Turkish: şekil — appearance or outline
• Ottoman Turkish: شكل (şekl, şekil) — appearance or outline
• Turkmen: şekil — appearance or outline
• Turkmen: forma — appearance or outline
• Turkmen: görnüş — appearance or outline
• Ukrainian: фо́рма (fórma) — appearance or outline
• Ukrainian: ви́гляд (výhljad) — appearance or outline
• Ukrainian: кшталт (kštalt) — appearance or outline
• Urdu: شَکْل (śakl) — appearance or outline
• Urdu: ڈول (ḍol) — appearance or outline
• Urdu: آکار (ākār) — appearance or outline
• Urdu: رُوپ (rūp) — appearance or outline
• Uyghur: شەكىل (shekil) — appearance or outline
• Uzbek: shakl — appearance or outline
• Uzbek: forma — appearance or outline
• Vietnamese: hình dáng — appearance or outline
• Vietnamese: hình thức — appearance or outline
• Vietnamese: hình — appearance or outline
• Welsh: siâp — appearance or outline
• Yiddish: פֿאָרעם (forem) — appearance or outline
• Bulgarian: фо́рма (fórma) — form; formation
• Esperanto: formo — form; formation
• Finnish: muoto — form; formation
• Middle English: schap — form; formation
• Scottish Gaelic: cumadh — form; formation
• Welsh: ffurf — form; formation
• Finnish: aihio — iron manufacture: rolled or hammered piece having a cross section different from merchant bar
• Finnish: aihio — iron manufacture: piece which has been roughly forged nearly to its final form
• Bulgarian: офо́рмям (ofórmjam) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Catalan: formar — to give something a [[shape]]
• Chinese Mandarin: 使成形 (shǐ chéngxíng) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Czech: utvářet — to give something a [[shape]]
• Czech: formovat — to give something a [[shape]]
• Czech: tvarovat — to give something a [[shape]]
• Danish: forme — to give something a [[shape]]
• Esperanto: formi — to give something a [[shape]]
• Finnish: muotoilla — to give something a [[shape]]
• Finnish: muovata — to give something a [[shape]]
• French: donner une forme — to give something a [[shape]]
• French: former — to give something a [[shape]]
• Galician: modelar — to give something a [[shape]]
• Galician: dar forma — to give something a [[shape]]
• German: formen — to give something a [[shape]]
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (digan) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Ancient Greek: πλάσσω (plássō) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Ancient Greek: μορφόω (morphóō) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Hebrew: עיצב (itsév) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Ido: formacar — to give something a [[shape]]
• Irish: cum — to give something a [[shape]]
• Italian: modellare — to give something a [[shape]]
• Italian: dare forma — to give something a [[shape]]
• Italian: plasmare — to give something a [[shape]]
• Italian: sagomare — to give something a [[shape]]
• Italian: formare — to give something a [[shape]]
• Japanese: 形作る (katachizukuru) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Kazakh: қалыптастыру (qalyptastyru) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Latin: fingō — to give something a [[shape]]
• Latin: formō — to give something a [[shape]]
• Polish: kształtować — to give something a [[shape]]
• Polish: ukształtować — to give something a [[shape]]
• Portuguese: modelar — to give something a [[shape]]
• Romanian: modela — to give something a [[shape]]
• Slovene: oblikovati — to give something a [[shape]]
• Lower Sorbian: formowaś — to give something a [[shape]]
• Swedish: forma — to give something a [[shape]]
• Telugu: రూపుదిద్దు (rūpudiddu) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Tocharian B: tsik- — to give something a [[shape]]
• Turkish: biçimlendirmek — to give something a [[shape]]
• Turkish: şekillendirmek — to give something a [[shape]]
• Ukrainian: формува́ти (formuváty) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Ukrainian: сформува́ти (sformuváty) — to give something a [[shape]]
• Welsh: llunio — to give something a [[shape]]
• Welsh: siapio — to give something a [[shape]]