urbanize

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Etymology tree English urban Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English urbanize From urban + -ize.

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: урбанізава́ць (urbanizavácʹ) — to make something more urban in character
• Catalan: urbanitzar — to make something more urban in character
• Chinese Mandarin: 城市化 (chéngshìhuà) — to make something more urban in character
• Finnish: kaupunkimaistaa — to make something more urban in character
• Galician: urbanizar — to make something more urban in character
• German: urbanisieren — to make something more urban in character
• Greek: αστικοποιώ (astikopoió) — to make something more urban in character
• Hungarian: urbanizál — to make something more urban in character
• Hungarian: városiasít — to make something more urban in character
• Polish: urbanizować — to make something more urban in character
• Polish: zurbanizować — to make something more urban in character
• Portuguese: urbanizar — to make something more urban in character
• Romanian: urbaniza — to make something more urban in character
• Russian: урбанизи́ровать (urbanizírovatʹ) — to make something more urban in character
• Spanish: urbanizar — to make something more urban in character
• Ukrainian: урбанізува́ти (urbanizuváty) — to make something more urban in character
• Azerbaijani: şəhərləşmək — to take up an urban way of life
• Bulgarian: урбанизирам (urbaniziram) — to take up an urban way of life
• Finnish: kaupunkilaistua — to take up an urban way of life
• Hungarian: urbanizálódik — to take up an urban way of life
• Hungarian: városiasodik — to take up an urban way of life
• Polish: stawać się mieszczuchem — to take up an urban way of life
• Polish: stać się mieszczuchem — to take up an urban way of life
• Portuguese: urbanizar-se — to take up an urban way of life
• Spanish: urbanizarse — to take up an urban way of life