tabula rasa

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• /ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹɑːzə/
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Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula rāsa (literally “erased tablet”), where the collocation comprised tabula (“wax-covered writing tablet”, noun) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased, cleaned (of text)”, participial adjective).

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صَفْحَة بَيْضَاء — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Danish: ubeskrevet blad — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Dutch: onbeschreven blad — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Finnish: tyhjä taulu — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Finnish: tabula rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• French: tabula rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Icelandic: óskrifuð tafla — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Icelandic: óskrifað blað — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Indonesian: tabula rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Italian: tabula rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Japanese: 白紙状態 (hakushi jōtai) — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Korean: 백지상태 (baekjisangtae) — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Norwegian Bokmål: ubeskrevet blad — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Norwegian Bokmål: tabula rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Polish: tabula rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Portuguese: tábula rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Russian: чистая доска (čistaja doska) — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Russian: та́була ра́са (tábula rása) — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Russian: та́була ра́за (tábula ráza) — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Spanish: tábula rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Spanish: tabla rasa — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
• Turkish: boş levha — the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state