syllable

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• Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/
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• Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈsɪl.ə.bɫ̩]
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From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “to gather together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).

121 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: lettergreep — unit of speech
• Albanian: rrokje — unit of speech
• Amharic: ክፍለ ቃል (kəflä ḳal) — unit of speech
• Arabic: مَقْطَع لَفْظِيّ (maqṭaʕ lafẓiyy) — unit of speech
• Arabic: مَقْطَع (maqṭaʕ) — unit of speech
• Armenian: վանկ (vank) — unit of speech
• Azerbaijani: heca — unit of speech
• Bashkir: ижек (ijek) — unit of speech
• Belarusian: склад (sklad) — unit of speech
• Bengali: অক্ষর (okkhor) — unit of speech
• Bengali: পদাংশ (podaṅśo) — unit of speech
• Bengali: সিল্যাব্ল (śillablo) — unit of speech
• Breton: silabenn — unit of speech
• Bulgarian: сри́чка (sríčka) — unit of speech
• Burmese: ဝဏ္ဏ (wanna.) — unit of speech
• Catalan: síl·laba — unit of speech
• Chinese Mandarin: 音節 /音节 (yīnjié) — unit of speech
• Crimean Tatar: eca — unit of speech
• Czech: slabika — unit of speech
• Danish: stavelse — unit of speech
• Dutch: lettergreep — unit of speech
• Dutch: syllabe — unit of speech
• Esperanto: silabo — unit of speech
• Estonian: silp — unit of speech
• Faroese: stavilsi — unit of speech
• Finnish: tavu — unit of speech
• French: syllabe — unit of speech
• Galician: sílaba — unit of speech
• Georgian: მარცვალი (marcvali) — unit of speech
• German: Silbe — unit of speech
• Greek: συλλαβή (syllaví) — unit of speech
• Ancient Greek: συλλαβή (sullabḗ) — unit of speech
• Gujarati: અક્ષર (akṣar) — unit of speech
• Hebrew: הֲבָרָה (havará) — unit of speech
• Hindi: शब्दांश (śabdāñś) — unit of speech
• Hindi: अक्षर (akṣar) — unit of speech
• Hindi: हिजा (hijā) — unit of speech
• Hungarian: szótag — unit of speech
• Hunsrik: Silleb — unit of speech
• Icelandic: atkvæði — unit of speech
• Icelandic: samstafa — unit of speech
• Indonesian: suku kata — unit of speech
• Indonesian: silabel — unit of speech
• Indonesian: wanda — unit of speech
• Interlingua: syllaba — unit of speech
• Irish: siolla — unit of speech
• Italian: sillaba — unit of speech
• Japanese: 音節 (onsetsu) — unit of speech
• Kalmyk: ниилвр (niilvr) — unit of speech
• Kankanaey: gedwan di kali — unit of speech
• Kazakh: буын (buyn) — unit of speech
• Khmer: ព្យាង្គ (pyiəng) — unit of speech
• Korean: 음절 (eumjeol) — unit of speech
• Northern Kurdish: kîte — unit of speech
• Northern Kurdish: hece — unit of speech
• Kyrgyz: муун (muun) — unit of speech
• Lao: ພະຍາງ (pha nyāng) — unit of speech
• Latin: syllaba — unit of speech
• Latvian: zilbe — unit of speech
• Limburgish: lèttergreep — unit of speech
• Lithuanian: skiemuo — unit of speech
• Luxembourgish: Silb — unit of speech
• Macedonian: слог (slog) — unit of speech
• Malay: suku kata — unit of speech
• Maltese: sillaba — unit of speech
• Māori: kūoro — unit of speech
• Māori: haupū — unit of speech
• Mongolian: үе (üje) — unit of speech
• Nogai: бувын (buvın) — unit of speech
• Norman: syllabe — unit of speech
• Norwegian Bokmål: stavelse — unit of speech
• Norwegian Bokmål: staving — unit of speech
• Norwegian Nynorsk: staving — unit of speech
• Pali: vaṇṇa — unit of speech
• Pannonian Rusyn: склад (sklad) — unit of speech
• Pashto: هجا (hejā) — unit of speech
• Pashto: سيلاب (silāb) — unit of speech
• Iranian Persian: سیلاب (silâb) — unit of speech
• Iranian Persian: هِجا (hejâ) — unit of speech
• Plautdietsch: Silb — unit of speech
• Polish: sylaba — unit of speech
• Polish: zgłoska — unit of speech
• Portuguese: sílaba — unit of speech
• Romanian: silabă — unit of speech
• Romansh: silba — unit of speech
• Russian: слог (slog) — unit of speech
• Russian: склад (sklad) — unit of speech
• Sanskrit: अक्षर (akṣara) — unit of speech
• Sanskrit: वर्ण (varṇa) — unit of speech
• Scottish Gaelic: lide — unit of speech
• Serbo-Croatian: сло̏г — unit of speech
• Serbo-Croatian: slȍg — unit of speech
• Slovak: slabika — unit of speech
• Slovene: zlog — unit of speech
• Lower Sorbian: złožka — unit of speech
• Spanish: sílaba — unit of speech
• Swahili: silabi — unit of speech
• Swedish: stavelse (1,2) — unit of speech
• Tagalog: pantig — unit of speech
• Tajik: ҳиҷо (hijo) — unit of speech
• Tatar: иҗек (icek) — unit of speech
• Thai: พยางค์ (pá-yaang) — unit of speech
• Thai: คํา (kam) — unit of speech
• Turkish: hece — unit of speech
• Turkmen: bogun — unit of speech
• Ukrainian: склад (sklad) — unit of speech
• Urdu: ہِجا (hijā) — unit of speech
• Urdu: اَکْشَر (akśar) — unit of speech
• Urdu: شَبْد اَنْش (śabd anś) — unit of speech
• Uyghur: بوغۇم (boghum) — unit of speech
• Uzbek: boʻgʻin — unit of speech
• Uzbek: hijo — unit of speech
• Vietnamese: âm tiết — unit of speech
• Volapük: silab — unit of speech
• Welsh: sill — unit of speech
• Welsh: sillaf — unit of speech
• Yiddish: טראַף (traf) — unit of speech
• Zazaki: hece (diq) — unit of speech
• Zulu: uhlamvu class 11/10 — unit of speech
• Bulgarian: произнасям на срички (proiznasjam na srički) — to utter in syllables
• Greek: συλλαβίζω (syllavízo) — to utter in syllables