stanza

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• /ˈstænzə/
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• CMU ARPABET: S T AE1 N Z AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth2éh1yeti, stative verb from *steh2- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَقْطَع (maqṭaʕ) — a unit of a poem
• Arabic: بَيْت (bayt) — a unit of a poem
• Arabic: أَبْيات (ʔabyāt) — a unit of a poem
• Armenian: տուն (tun) — a unit of a poem
• Bulgarian: строфа (strofa) — a unit of a poem
• Catalan: estrofa — a unit of a poem
• Chinese Mandarin: 詩節 /诗节 (shījié) — a unit of a poem
• Chuukese: wokisin — a unit of a poem
• Czech: sloka — a unit of a poem
• Danish: strofe — a unit of a poem
• Dutch: strofe — a unit of a poem
• Dutch: stanza — a unit of a poem
• Esperanto: strofo — a unit of a poem
• Estonian: stroof — a unit of a poem
• Finnish: säkeistö — a unit of a poem
• French: strophe — a unit of a poem
• French: stance — a unit of a poem
• German: Strophe — a unit of a poem
• Greek: στροφή (strofí) — a unit of a poem
• Hausa: baitī̀ — a unit of a poem
• Hebrew: בית (báit) — a unit of a poem
• Hungarian: strófa — a unit of a poem
• Hungarian: versszak — a unit of a poem
• Indonesian: bait — a unit of a poem
• Irish: véarsa — a unit of a poem
• Italian: strofa — a unit of a poem
• Malay: rangkap — a unit of a poem
• Malay: bait — a unit of a poem
• Māori: whiti — a unit of a poem
• Middle English: vers — a unit of a poem
• Norwegian Bokmål: strofe — a unit of a poem
• Norwegian Nynorsk: strofe — a unit of a poem
• Polish: zwrotka — a unit of a poem
• Polish: strofa — a unit of a poem
• Portuguese: estrofe — a unit of a poem
• Romanian: strofă — a unit of a poem
• Romanian: stanță — a unit of a poem
• Russian: строфа́ (strofá) — a unit of a poem
• Russian: станс (stans) — a unit of a poem
• Sanskrit: गाथा (gāthā) — a unit of a poem
• Serbo-Croatian: stih — a unit of a poem
• Slovak: sloha — a unit of a poem
• Spanish: estrofa — a unit of a poem
• Spanish: estanza — a unit of a poem
• Swedish: strof — a unit of a poem
• Tagalog: taludturan — a unit of a poem
• Tagalog: saknong — a unit of a poem
• Tamil: பா (pā) — a unit of a poem
• Turkish: kıta — a unit of a poem
• Welsh: pennill — a unit of a poem