technique

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Borrowed from French technique (“technicality; branch of knowledge”), noun use of technique (“technical”), from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art, handicraft”). Doublet of technic.

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: tegniek — practical aspects of a given art
• Albanian: teknikë — practical aspects of a given art
• Arabic: أُسْلُوب (ʔuslūb) — practical aspects of a given art
• Arabic: تِقْنِيَة (tiqniya) — practical aspects of a given art
• Arabic: طَرِيقَة (ṭarīqa) — practical aspects of a given art
• Arabic: أُسْلُوب (ʔuslūb) — practical aspects of a given art
• Armenian: տեխնիկա (texnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Azerbaijani: texnika — practical aspects of a given art
• Belarusian: тэ́хніка (téxnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Bulgarian: те́хника (téhnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Burmese: နည်းစနစ် (nany:ca.nac) — practical aspects of a given art
• Burmese: လုပ်နည်း (lupnany:) — practical aspects of a given art
• Catalan: tècnica — practical aspects of a given art
• Chinese Cantonese: 技術 /技术 (gei6 seot6) — practical aspects of a given art
• Chinese Mandarin: 技術 /技术 (jìshù) — practical aspects of a given art
• Chinese Mandarin: 技巧 (jìqiǎo) — practical aspects of a given art
• Chinese Mandarin: 手法 (shǒufǎ) — practical aspects of a given art
• Czech: technika — practical aspects of a given art
• Danish: teknik — practical aspects of a given art
• Dutch: techniek — practical aspects of a given art
• Estonian: tehnika — practical aspects of a given art
• Finnish: tekniikka — practical aspects of a given art
• French: technique — practical aspects of a given art
• Galician: técnica — practical aspects of a given art
• Georgian: ტექნიკა (ṭekniḳa) — practical aspects of a given art
• German: Technik — practical aspects of a given art
• Greek: τεχνική (technikí) — practical aspects of a given art
• Hebrew: טֶכְנִיקָה (tékhnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Hindi: तकनीक (taknīk) — practical aspects of a given art
• Hungarian: technika — practical aspects of a given art
• Icelandic: tækni — practical aspects of a given art
• Ido: tekniko — practical aspects of a given art
• Indonesian: teknik — practical aspects of a given art
• Irish: teicníc — practical aspects of a given art
• Irish: teicníocht — practical aspects of a given art
• Italian: tecnica — practical aspects of a given art
• Japanese: 技術 (gijutsu) — practical aspects of a given art
• Kazakh: техника (texnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Khmer: តិកនិក (təknɨk) — practical aspects of a given art
• Korean: 기술 (gisul) — practical aspects of a given art
• Kyrgyz: техника (tehnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Lao: ເທກນິກ (thēk nik) — practical aspects of a given art
• Latvian: tehnika — practical aspects of a given art
• Lithuanian: technika — practical aspects of a given art
• Macedonian: техника (tehnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Malay: teknik — practical aspects of a given art
• Maltese: teknika — practical aspects of a given art
• Marathi: तंत्र (tantra) — practical aspects of a given art
• Mongolian: техник (texnik) — practical aspects of a given art
• Norwegian Bokmål: teknikk — practical aspects of a given art
• Norwegian Nynorsk: teknikk — practical aspects of a given art
• Iranian Persian: تِکْنیک (teknik) — practical aspects of a given art
• Iranian Persian: اُسْلوب (oslub) — practical aspects of a given art
• Polish: technika — practical aspects of a given art
• Portuguese: técnica — practical aspects of a given art
• Romanian: tehnică — practical aspects of a given art
• Russian: те́хника (téxnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Serbo-Croatian: тѐхника — practical aspects of a given art
• Serbo-Croatian: tèhnika — practical aspects of a given art
• Slovak: technika — practical aspects of a given art
• Slovene: tehnika — practical aspects of a given art
• Spanish: técnica — practical aspects of a given art
• Swedish: teknik — practical aspects of a given art
• Tagalog: aghimo — practical aspects of a given art
• Tajik: техника (texnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Tajik: услуб (uslub) — practical aspects of a given art
• Thai: เทคนิค (ték-nìk) — practical aspects of a given art
• Thai: กลเม็ด (gon-lá-mét) — practical aspects of a given art
• Thai: กลวิธี (gon-lá-wí-tii) — practical aspects of a given art
• Turkish: teknik — practical aspects of a given art
• Turkmen: tehnika — practical aspects of a given art
• Ukrainian: те́хніка (téxnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Urdu: تَکْنِیک (taknīk) — practical aspects of a given art
• Uyghur: تېخنىكا (tëxnika) — practical aspects of a given art
• Uzbek: uslub — practical aspects of a given art
• Uzbek: texnika — practical aspects of a given art
• Vietnamese: kỹ thuật — practical aspects of a given art
• Vietnamese: kĩ thuật — practical aspects of a given art
• Yiddish: טעכניק (tekhnik) — practical aspects of a given art
• Afrikaans: tegniek — method of achieving something
• French: technique — method of achieving something
• Māori: tāera — method of achieving something
• Norwegian Bokmål: teknikk — method of achieving something
• Norwegian Nynorsk: teknikk — method of achieving something