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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃə/
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• Canada, General-American: sĭg′nəchər
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• Canada, General-American: sĭg′nĭchər
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃɚ/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/
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• Australian: /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃə/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈsəɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/
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• CMU ARPABET: S IH1 G N AH0 CH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

176 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Russian: фи́рменный (fírmennyj) — Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity
• Afrikaans: handtekening — person’s autograph name
• Albanian: nënshkrim — person’s autograph name
• Southern Altai: кол салар (kol salar) — person’s autograph name
• Arabic: تَوْقِيع (tawqīʕ) — person’s autograph name
• Arabic: إِمْضَاء (ʔimḍāʔ) — person’s autograph name
• Aragonese: sinyadura — person’s autograph name
• Armenian: ստորագրություն (storagrutʻyun) — person’s autograph name
• Assamese: চহী (sohi) — person’s autograph name
• Azerbaijani: imza — person’s autograph name
• Bashkir: ҡултамға (qultamğa) — person’s autograph name
• Bashkir: имза (imza) — person’s autograph name
• Belarusian: по́дпіс (pódpis) — person’s autograph name
• Bengali: দস্তখত (dostokhot) — person’s autograph name
• Bengali: স্বাক্ষর (śakkhor) — person’s autograph name
• Bulgarian: по́дпис (pódpis) — person’s autograph name
• Burmese: ဆိုင်း (hcuing:) — person’s autograph name
• Burmese: လက်မှတ် (lakhmat) — person’s autograph name
• Carpathian Rusyn: підпис (pidpys) — person’s autograph name
• Catalan: signatura — person’s autograph name
• Chinese Mandarin: 簽字 /签字 (qiānzì) — person’s autograph name
• Chinese Mandarin: 簽名 /签名 (qiānmíng) — person’s autograph name
• Chinese Mandarin: 署名 (shǔmíng) — person’s autograph name
• Chinese Mandarin: 花押 (huāyā) — person’s autograph name
• Cornish: sinans — person’s autograph name
• Czech: podpis — person’s autograph name
• Danish: underskrift — person’s autograph name
• Dutch: handtekening — person’s autograph name
• Esperanto: subskribo — person’s autograph name
• Estonian: allkiri — person’s autograph name
• Faroese: undirskrift — person’s autograph name
• Finnish: allekirjoitus — person’s autograph name
• Finnish: nimikirjoitus — person’s autograph name
• French: signature — person’s autograph name
• Galician: sinatura — person’s autograph name
• Galician: firma — person’s autograph name
• Georgian: ხელმოწერა (xelmoc̣era) — person’s autograph name
• German: Unterschrift — person’s autograph name
• German: Signatur — person’s autograph name
• Greek: υπογραφή (ypografí) — person’s autograph name
• Hebrew: חֲתִימָה (khatimá) — person’s autograph name
• Hindi: हस्ताक्षर (hastākṣar) — person’s autograph name
• Hindi: दस्तख़त (dastxat) — person’s autograph name
• Hungarian: aláírás — person’s autograph name
• Icelandic: undirskrift — person’s autograph name
• Indonesian: paraf — person’s autograph name
• Indonesian: tanda tangan — person’s autograph name
• Ingrian: raspiska — person’s autograph name
• Irish: síniú — person’s autograph name
• Italian: firma — person’s autograph name
• Japanese: 署名 (shomei) — person’s autograph name
• Japanese: サイン (sain) — person’s autograph name
• Kannada: ಸಹಿ (sahi) — person’s autograph name
• Kapampangan: tandang gamat — person’s autograph name
• Kazakh: қол (qol) — person’s autograph name
• Kazakh: қолтаңба (qoltañba) — person’s autograph name
• Khmer: ហត្ថលេខា (hatthaʼleikhaa) — person’s autograph name
• Korean: 서명 (seomyeong) — person’s autograph name
• Korean: 사인 (sain) — person’s autograph name
• Northern Kurdish: îmza — person’s autograph name
• Kyrgyz: кол (kol) — person’s autograph name
• Ladino: sinyatura — person’s autograph name
• Lao: ລາຍເຊັນ (lāi sen) — person’s autograph name
• Latin: subscriptiō — person’s autograph name
• Latvian: paraksts — person’s autograph name
• Lithuanian: parašas — person’s autograph name
• Macedonian: по́тпис (pótpis) — person’s autograph name
• Malay: tandatangan — person’s autograph name
• Māori: hainatanga — person’s autograph name
• Māori: mokotā — person’s autograph name
• Marathi: सही (sahī) — person’s autograph name
• Marathi: स्वाक्षरी (svākṣarī) — person’s autograph name
• Mongolian: гарын үсэг (garyn üseg) — person’s autograph name
• Classical Nahuatl: fīrma — person’s autograph name
• Norman: sîngnatuthe — person’s autograph name
• Norman: sîngne — person’s autograph name
• Norwegian Bokmål: underskrift — person’s autograph name
• Norwegian Bokmål: signatur — person’s autograph name
• Old English: handseten — person’s autograph name
• Oromo: mallattoo — person’s autograph name
• Pashto: امضا (emzā) — person’s autograph name
• Pashto: دستخط (dəstxat) — person’s autograph name
• Pashto: توشيح (tawših) — person’s autograph name
• Iranian Persian: اِمْضا (emzâ) — person’s autograph name
• Iranian Persian: اِمْضاء (emzâ') — person’s autograph name
• Iranian Persian: تُوْشیح (towših) — person’s autograph name
• Iranian Persian: دَسْتینِه (dastine) — person’s autograph name
• Iranian Persian: تُوْقیع (towġi') — person’s autograph name
• Polish: podpis — person’s autograph name
• Portuguese: firma — person’s autograph name
• Portuguese: assinatura — person’s autograph name
• Romanian: semnătură — person’s autograph name
• Russian: по́дпись (pódpisʹ) — person’s autograph name
• Russian: ро́спись (róspisʹ) — person’s autograph name
• Russian: авто́граф (avtógraf) — person’s autograph name
• Scottish Gaelic: ainm-sgrìobhte — person’s autograph name
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀тпис — person’s autograph name
• Serbo-Croatian: pòtpis — person’s autograph name
• Sinhalese: අත්සන (atsana) — person’s autograph name
• Slovak: podpis — person’s autograph name
• Slovene: podpis — person’s autograph name
• Lower Sorbian: pódpis — person’s autograph name
• Upper Sorbian: podpis — person’s autograph name
• Spanish: firma — person’s autograph name
• Spanish: rúbrica — person’s autograph name
• Spanish: signatura — person’s autograph name
• Swahili: saini — person’s autograph name
• Swedish: underskrift — person’s autograph name
• Swedish: signatur — person’s autograph name
• Tagalog: lagda — person’s autograph name
• Tagalog: pirma — person’s autograph name
• Tajik: имзо (imzo) — person’s autograph name
• Tamil: கையெழுத்து (kaiyeḻuttu) — person’s autograph name
• Tamil: கையொப்பம் (kaiyoppam) — person’s autograph name
• Tatar: имза (imza) — person’s autograph name
• Telugu: సంతకము (santakamu) — person’s autograph name
• Thai: ลายเซ็น (laai-sen) — person’s autograph name
• Turkish: imza — person’s autograph name
• Ottoman Turkish: امضا (imza) — person’s autograph name
• Ottoman Turkish: پنچه (pençe) — person’s autograph name
• Turkmen: gol — person’s autograph name
• Ukrainian: пі́дпис (pídpys) — person’s autograph name
• Urdu: دَسْتْخَط (dastxat) — person’s autograph name
• Urdu: دَسْت خَط (dast xat) — person’s autograph name
• Urdu: اِمْضا (imzā) — person’s autograph name
• Uyghur: ئىمزا (imza) — person’s autograph name
• Uzbek: imzo — person’s autograph name
• Uzbek: qoʻl — person’s autograph name
• Vietnamese: chữ ký — person’s autograph name
• Võro: allkiri — person’s autograph name
• Welsh: llofnod — person’s autograph name
• Yiddish: חתימה (khsime) — person’s autograph name
• Afrikaans: handtekening — act of signing
• Arabic: تَوْقِيع (tawqīʕ) — act of signing
• Aragonese: sinyadura — act of signing
• Bashkir: ҡул ҡуйыу (qul quyıw) — act of signing
• Bengali: দস্তখত (dostokhot) — act of signing
• Bulgarian: подпи́сване (podpísvane) — act of signing
• Finnish: allekirjoittaminen — act of signing
• French: signature — act of signing
• Hungarian: aláírás — act of signing
• Polish: podpisywanie — act of signing
• Russian: по́дпись (pódpisʹ) — act of signing
• Russian: подпи́сывание (podpísyvanije) — act of signing
• Tagalog: paglagda — act of signing
• Tagalog: pagpirma — act of signing
• Ottoman Turkish: امضا (imza) — act of signing
• Ukrainian: підписа́ння (pidpysánnja) — act of signing
• Bengali: দস্তখত (dostokhot) — medicine: part of a doctor’s prescription
• Bulgarian: ключ (ključ) — music: signs indicating key and tempo
• Finnish: etumerkintä — music: signs indicating key and tempo
• Bulgarian: сигнату́ра (signatúra) — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• Catalan: quadern — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• Dutch: katern — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• French: cahier — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• German: Druckbogen — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• Indonesian: kuras — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• Norwegian Nynorsk: signatur — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• Portuguese: assinatura — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• Russian: тетра́дь (tetrádʹ) — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• Spanish: pliego — printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book
• Chinese Mandarin: 簽名 /签名 (qiānmíng) — computing: pattern used for matching identity
• Finnish: tunniste — computing: pattern used for matching identity
• Finnish: otsikko — computing: pattern used for matching identity
• French: signature — computing: pattern used for matching identity
• German: Signatur — computing: pattern used for matching identity
• Polish: sygnatura — computing: pattern used for matching identity
• Russian: сигнату́ра (signatúra) — computing: pattern used for matching identity
• Chinese Mandarin: 簽名 /签名 (qiānmíng) — cryptography: data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source
• Finnish: varmenne — cryptography: data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source
• French: signature — cryptography: data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source
• Polish: sygnatura — cryptography: data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source
• Russian: подпись (podpisʹ) — cryptography: data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source
• Finnish: merkki — figurative: mark or sign of implication
• Finnish: tunnusmerkki — figurative: mark or sign of implication
• French: signature — mathematics: type of tuple