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• CMU ARPABET: SH AO1 R T AH0 N IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: SH AO1 R T N IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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No etymology was provided for this word.

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Esperanto: vegetaĵa graso — solid fat
• Esperanto: vegetalino — solid fat
• Finnish: leivontarasva — solid fat
• French: graisse alimentaire — solid fat
• German: Pflanzenfett — solid fat
• German: Backfett — solid fat
• Hungarian: margarin — solid fat
• Hungarian: főzőmargarin — solid fat
• Hungarian: növényi zsír/zsiradék — solid fat
• Indonesian: lemak reroti — solid fat
• Indonesian: mentega putih — solid fat
• Swedish: but see fast matfett — solid fat
• Yiddish: באַקפֿעטס (bakfets) — solid fat
• Yiddish: געשמילץ (geshmilts) — solid fat
• Bulgarian: скъсяване (skǎsjavane) — reduction in length
• Bulgarian: съкращаване (sǎkraštavane) — reduction in length
• Catalan: escurçada — reduction in length
• Catalan: escurçament — reduction in length
• Finnish: lyheneminen — reduction in length
• Finnish: lyhentäminen — reduction in length
• French: raccourcissement — reduction in length
• French: raccourcissements — reduction in length
• German: Verkürzung — reduction in length
• German: Schrumpfung — reduction in length
• German: Verkürzen — reduction in length
• German: Schrumpfen — reduction in length
• German: Stauchung — reduction in length
• German: Stauchen — reduction in length
• German: Kürzung — reduction in length
• German: Kürzen — reduction in length
• Greek: βράχυνση (vráchynsi) — reduction in length
• Greek: σύμπτυξη (sýmptyxi) — reduction in length
• Greek: κόντεμα (kóntema) — reduction in length
• Hungarian: rövidítés — reduction in length
• Hungarian: rövidülés — reduction in length
• Indonesian: pemendekan — reduction in length
• Italian: accorciatura — reduction in length
• Japanese: 短縮 (tanshuku) — reduction in length
• Marathi: मोहन (mohan) — reduction in length
• Norwegian Bokmål: forkortning — reduction in length
• Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviasjon — reduction in length
• Portuguese: encurtamento — reduction in length
• Russian: сокраще́ние (sokraščénije) — reduction in length
• Spanish: acortamiento — reduction in length
• Swedish: förkortning — reduction in length