supernatural

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌs(j)uː.pəˈnæ.tʃə.ɹəl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-tʃɹəl/
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• General-American: /ˌsu.pəɹˈnæ.tʃə.ɹəl/
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• General-American: /-tʃɹəl/
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• New-Zealand: /ˌs(j)ʉː.pəˈnɛ.tʃɹəl/
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• rhymes with -ætʃəɹəl
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• rhymes with -ætʃɹəl
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• CMU ARPABET: S UW2 P ER0 N AE1 CH ER0 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English supernatural, supernaturel, from Middle French supernaturel, from Latin supernātūrālis, from super (“above”) + nātūra (“nature; that which we are born with”), from nātus (“born”), perfect passive participle of nāscī (“to be born”) + adjective suffix -ālis. By surface analysis, super- + natural.

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: mbinatyrshëm — above nature
• Arabic: خَارِق (ḵāriq) — above nature
• Arabic: مِيتَافِيزِيقِيّ (mītāfīzīqiyy) — above nature
• Arabic: مَا فَوْقَ الطَّبِيعَة (mā fawqa ṭ-ṭabīʕa) — above nature
• Armenian: գերբնական (gerbnakan) — above nature
• Belarusian: звышнатура́льны (zvyšnaturálʹny) — above nature
• Bulgarian: свръхестествен (svrǎhestestven) — above nature
• Catalan: sobrenatural — above nature
• Chinese Mandarin: 超自然 (chāozìrán) — above nature
• Czech: nadpřirozený — above nature
• Danish: overnaturlig — above nature
• Dutch: bovennatuurlijk — above nature
• Esperanto: supernatura — above nature
• Estonian: üleloomulik — above nature
• Finnish: yliluonnollinen — above nature
• Finnish: jumalallinen — above nature
• French: surnaturel — above nature
• French: surnaturelle — above nature
• Galician: sobrenatural — above nature
• Georgian: ზებუნებრივი (zebunebrivi) — above nature
• German: übernatürlich — above nature
• Greek: υπερφυσικός (yperfysikós) — above nature
• Hindi: अलौकिक (alaukik) — above nature
• Hungarian: természetfeletti — above nature
• Icelandic: yfirnáttúrulegur — above nature
• Ido: supernatura — above nature
• Italian: soprannaturale — above nature
• Italian: sovrannaturale — above nature
• Japanese: 超自然の (chōshizen no) — above nature
• Kazakh: табиғаттан тыс (tabiğattan tys) — above nature
• Korean: 초자연적인 (chojayeonjeogin) — above nature
• Latin: divinus — above nature
• Latin: extranaturalis — above nature
• Norwegian Bokmål: overnaturlig — above nature
• Norwegian Nynorsk: overnaturleg — above nature
• Polish: nadnaturalny — above nature
• Polish: nadprzyrodzony — above nature
• Portuguese: sobrenatural — above nature
• Romanian: supranatural — above nature
• Russian: сверхъесте́ственный (sverxʺjestéstvennyj) — above nature
• Scottish Gaelic: os-nàdarrach — above nature
• Slovak: nadprirodzený — above nature
• Spanish: sobrenatural — above nature
• Swahili: -si- -a dunia hii — above nature
• Tagalog: higlikas — above nature
• Thai: เหนือธรรมชาติ (nʉ̌ʉa-tam-má-châat) — above nature
• Turkish: olağanüstü — above nature
• Ukrainian: надприро́дний (nadpryródnyj) — above nature
• Vietnamese: siêu nhiên — above nature
• Welsh: goruwchnaturiol — above nature
• Yiddish: איבערנאַטירלעך (ibernatirlekh) — above nature
• Albanian: mbinatyrshëm — not of the usual
• Arabic: اِسْتِثْنَائِيّ (istiṯnāʔiyy) — not of the usual
• Armenian: գերբնական (gerbnakan) — not of the usual
• Bulgarian: необикновен (neobiknoven) — not of the usual
• Danish: overnaturlig — not of the usual
• Estonian: üleloomulik — not of the usual
• Finnish: yliluonnollinen — not of the usual
• French: surnaturel — not of the usual
• Greek: υπερφυσικός (yperfysikós) — not of the usual
• Icelandic: yfirnáttúrulegur — not of the usual
• Icelandic: yfirskilvitlegur — not of the usual
• Italian: ultraterreno — not of the usual
• Latin: divinus — not of the usual
• Māori: mākutu — not of the usual
• Māori: whaiwhaiā — not of the usual
• Māori: tipua — not of the usual
• Māori: tupua — not of the usual
• Portuguese: sobrenatural — not of the usual
• Russian: сверхъесте́ственный (sverxʺjestéstvennyj) — not of the usual
• Turkish: olağanüstü — not of the usual
• Finnish: yliluonnollinen olento — being
• Finnish: yliluonnollinen — beings and events collectively