sonnet

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• /ˈsɒnɪt/
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• obsolete: /ˈsʌnɪt/
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Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sonnet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Arabic: سونيت — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Armenian: սոնետ (sonet) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Asturian: sonetu — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Bashkir: сонет (sonet) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Breton: sonerez — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Bulgarian: соне́т (sonét) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Catalan: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Chinese Mandarin: 十四行詩 /十四行诗 (shísìhángshī) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Chinese Mandarin: 商籟體 /商籁体 (shānglàitǐ) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Corsican: sunettu — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Corsican: sonettu — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Czech: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Danish: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Dutch: sonnet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Dutch: klinkdicht — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Esperanto: soneto — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Estonian: sonett — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Finnish: sonetti — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• French: sonnet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Galician: soneto — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Georgian: სონეტი (soneṭi) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• German: Sonett — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Greek: σονέτο (sonéto) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Hebrew: סוֹנָטָה (sonáta) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Hebrew: שִׁיר זָהָב (shir zaháv) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Hungarian: szonett — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Icelandic: sonnetta — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Ido: soneto — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Irish: soinéad — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Italian: sonetto — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Japanese: ソネット (sonetto) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Kazakh: сонет (sonet) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Korean: 소네트 (soneteu) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Kyrgyz: сонет (sonet) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Latvian: sonets — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Ligurian: sonétto — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Lithuanian: sonètas — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Lombard: sonètt — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Macedonian: соне́т (sonét) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Malayalam: ഗീതകം (gītakaṁ) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Norman: sonnet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Norwegian: sonett — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sonett — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Occitan: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Persian: متن ادبی (matn-e adabi) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Polish: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Portuguese: soneto — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Romagnol: sunèt — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Romanian: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Russian: соне́т (sonét) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Serbo-Croatian: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Sicilian: sunettu — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Slovene: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Spanish: soneto — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Swedish: sonett — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Tagalog: soneto — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Tagalog: dalitlit — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Thai: ซอนเน็ต — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Turkish: sone — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Ukrainian: соне́т (sonét) — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Uzbek: sonet — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Volapük: poedot degfolliänik — verse form consisting of fourteen lines
• Welsh: soned — verse form consisting of fourteen lines