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• rīt
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• /ɹaɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ɹaɪt]
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• US: /ɹəɪt/
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• US: [ɹəɪʔ]
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• British, Southern, Standard: [ɹɑjt]
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• Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English: [ɹæ̙ːt]
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• Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English: [ɹæ̙ːʔ]
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• Canada: [ɹʌɪt]
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• Australian: [ɹɑɪt]
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• Scotland: [ɾʌɪt] ~ [ɾəɪt]
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• Wales: [ɾaɪt]
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• rhymes with -aɪt
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• homophone: right
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• homophone: rite
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• homophone: wright
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• CMU ARPABET: R AY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”). Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.

460 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аҩра (ajwra) — to form letters, etc.
• Acehnese: tuléh — to form letters, etc.
• Afrikaans: skryf — to form letters, etc.
• Akan: kyerɛw — to form letters, etc.
• Aklanon: sueat — to form letters, etc.
• Albanian: shkruaj — to form letters, etc.
• Amharic: ጻፈ (ṣafä) — to form letters, etc.
• Amharic: ደረሰ (däräsä) — to form letters, etc.
• Andi: хъвару (qxwaru) — to form letters, etc.
• Chungli Ao: zülu — to form letters, etc.
• Arabic: كَتَبَ (kataba) — to form letters, etc.
• Chadian Arabic: كتب (katab) — to form letters, etc.
• Arabic: كتب (katab) — to form letters, etc.
• Arabic: كِتَب (kɪtəb) — to form letters, etc.
• Juba Arabic: katibu — to form letters, etc.
• Aragonese: escribir — to form letters, etc.
• Aramaic: ܟܬܒܬܐ — to form letters, etc.
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܬܒ (kateb) — to form letters, etc.
• Aramaic: ܟܬܒ (kātēb) — to form letters, etc.
• Aramaic: כתב (kātēb) — to form letters, etc.
• Armenian: գրել (grel) — to form letters, etc.
• Aromanian: scriu — to form letters, etc.
• Assamese: লিখ (likh) — to form letters, etc.
• Assamese: লেখ (lekh) — to form letters, etc.
• Asturian: escribir — to form letters, etc.
• Aukan: sikiifi — to form letters, etc.
• Avar: хъвазе (qxwaze) — to form letters, etc.
• Azerbaijani: yazmaq — to form letters, etc.
• Bashkir: яҙыу (yaźıw) — to form letters, etc.
• Basque: idatzi — to form letters, etc.
• Belarusian: піса́ць impf напіса́ць (pisácʹ) — to form letters, etc.
• Bengali: লেখা (lekha) — to form letters, etc.
• Bhojpuri: लिखल (likhal) — to form letters, etc.
• Central Bikol: surat — to form letters, etc.
• Breton: skrivañ — to form letters, etc.
• Bulgarian: пи́ша (píša) — to form letters, etc.
• Burmese: ရေး (re:) — to form letters, etc.
• Burmese: စာရေး (care:) — to form letters, etc.
• Catalan: escriure — to form letters, etc.
• Cebuano: sulat — to form letters, etc.
• Chechen: йаз дан (jaz dan) — to form letters, etc.
• Chichewa: -lemba — to form letters, etc.
• Chickasaw: holissochi — to form letters, etc.
• Chinese Cantonese: 寫 /写 — to form letters, etc.
• Chinese: ще (xiə) — to form letters, etc.
• Eastern Min Chinese: 寫 /写 (siā) — to form letters, etc.
• Gan Chinese: 寫 /写 (xia3) — to form letters, etc.
• Hakka Chinese: 寫 /写 (siá) — to form letters, etc.
• Chinese: 寫 /写 (siá) — to form letters, etc.
• Jin Chinese: 寫 /写 (xie2) — to form letters, etc.
• Chinese Mandarin: 寫 /写 (xiě) — to form letters, etc.
• Chinese Mandarin: 撰寫 (zhuànxiě) — to form letters, etc.
• Northern Min Chinese: 寫 /写 (siǎ) — to form letters, etc.
• Wu Chinese: 寫 /写 — to form letters, etc.
• Xiang Chinese: 寫 /写 (sia3) — to form letters, etc.
• Chukchi: кэԓичитык (kėḷičityk) — to form letters, etc.
• Chuvash: ҫыр (śyr) — to form letters, etc.
• Ngazidja Comorian: hwandziha — to form letters, etc.
• Ngazidja Comorian: ≈ for hwandzishia (s.o.) — to form letters, etc.
• Coptic: ⲥϧⲁⲓ (sxai) — to form letters, etc.
• Cornish: scryfa — to form letters, etc.
• Crimean Tatar: yazmaq — to form letters, etc.
• Czech: psát — to form letters, etc.
• Czech: napsat — to form letters, etc.
• Danish: skrive — to form letters, etc.
• Dhivehi: ލިޔަނީ (liyanī) — to form letters, etc.
• Dutch: schrijven — to form letters, etc.
• Dzongkha: ཡི་གུ་བྲི (yi gu bri) — to form letters, etc.
• Egyptian: Y3-Y1V (zẖꜣ) — to form letters, etc.
• Esperanto: skribi — to form letters, etc.
• Estonian: kirjutama — to form letters, etc.
• Evenki: дуку- (duku-) — to form letters, etc.
• Ewe: ŋlɔ — to form letters, etc.
• Extremaduran: escrebil — to form letters, etc.
• Farefare: gʋlsɛ — to form letters, etc.
• Faroese: rita — to form letters, etc.
• Faroese: skriva — to form letters, etc.
• Fataluku: kerekere — to form letters, etc.
• Finnish: kirjoittaa — to form letters, etc.
• French: écrire — to form letters, etc.
• Old French: escrivre — to form letters, etc.
• Old French: escrire — to form letters, etc.
• North Frisian: skriiw — to form letters, etc.
• North Frisian: schriwe — to form letters, etc.
• Old Frisian: skrīva — to form letters, etc.
• West-Frisian: skriuwe — to form letters, etc.
• Friulian: scrivi — to form letters, etc.
• Galician: escribir — to form letters, etc.
• Ge'ez: ጸሐፈ (ṣäḥäfä) — to form letters, etc.
• Ge'ez: ከተበ (kätäbä) — to form letters, etc.
• Georgian: დაწერა (dac̣era) — to form letters, etc.
• Georgian: მიწერა (mic̣era) — to form letters, etc.
• German: schreiben — to form letters, etc.
• German: schriibe — to form letters, etc.
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (mēljan) — to form letters, etc.
• Greek: γράφω (gráfo) — to form letters, etc.
• Ancient Greek: γράφω (gráphō) — to form letters, etc.
• Mariupol Greek: гра́фту (hráftu) — to form letters, etc.
• Greenlandic: allappoq — to form letters, etc.
• Mbya Guarani: mbopara — to form letters, etc.
• Paraguayan Guarani: hai — to form letters, etc.
• Gujarati: લખવું (lakhvũ) — to form letters, etc.
• Haitian Creole: ekri — to form letters, etc.
• Hausa: r̃ubū̀tā — to form letters, etc.
• Hawaiian: kākau — to form letters, etc.
• Hebrew: כָּתַב (katáv) — to form letters, etc.
• Higaonon: tagsulat — to form letters, etc.
• Hindi: लिखना (likhnā) — to form letters, etc.
• Hungarian: ír — to form letters, etc.
• Icelandic: skrifa — to form letters, etc.
• Ido: skribar — to form letters, etc.
• Indonesian: menulis — to form letters, etc.
• Ingrian: kirjuttaa — to form letters, etc.
• Ingush: язде (jazde) — to form letters, etc.
• Inuktitut: ᑎᑎᕋᖅᑐᖅ (titiraqtoq) — to form letters, etc.
• Irish: scríobh — to form letters, etc.
• Isoko: kere — to form letters, etc.
• Istriot: screîvi — to form letters, etc.
• Italian: scrivere — to form letters, etc.
• Japanese: 書く (kaku) — to form letters, etc.
• Javanese: nulis — to form letters, etc.
• Jingpho: ka — to form letters, etc.
• Kabuverdianu: skrebi — to form letters, etc.
• Kaingang: rán — to form letters, etc.
• Kaitag: лукӏа́на (luḳána) — to form letters, etc.
• Kannada: ಬರೆ (bare) — to form letters, etc.
• Kashmiri: لیکھُن (lēkhun) — to form letters, etc.
• Kashubian: napisz — to form letters, etc.
• Kazakh: жазу (jazu) — to form letters, etc.
• Khmer: សរសេរ (sɑɑsɑsee) — to form letters, etc.
• Konkani: बरेउंचे (bareũce) — to form letters, etc.
• Korean: 쓰다 (sseuda) — to form letters, etc.
• Korean: 적다 (jeokda) — to form letters, etc.
• Central Kurdish: نوسین (nusîn) — to form letters, etc.
• Northern Kurdish: nivîsîn — to form letters, etc.
• Northern Kurdish: nivîsandin — to form letters, etc.
• Kyrgyz: жазуу (jazuu) — to form letters, etc.
• Laboya: tolha — to form letters, etc.
• Ladin: scriver — to form letters, etc.
• Ladino: eskrivir — to form letters, etc.
• Lao: ຂຽນ (khīan) — to form letters, etc.
• Latgalian: raksteit — to form letters, etc.
• Latin: scrībō — to form letters, etc.
• Latvian: rakstīt — to form letters, etc.
• Laz: ჭარუმს (ç̌arums) — to form letters, etc.
• Lingala: koma — to form letters, etc.
• Lithuanian: rašyti — to form letters, etc.
• Lombard: scriv — to form letters, etc.
• Low German: schrieven — to form letters, etc.
• Middle Low German: wrīten — to form letters, etc.
• Middle Low German: schrīven — to form letters, etc.
• Luganda: -wandiika — to form letters, etc.
• Lutuv: cape — to form letters, etc.
• Macedonian: пишува (pišuva) — to form letters, etc.
• Makasae: kereke — to form letters, etc.
• Malay: tulis — to form letters, etc.
• Maltese: kiteb — to form letters, etc.
• Manchu: ᠠᡵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (arambi) — to form letters, etc.
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: surat — to form letters, etc.
• Mansaka: solat — to form letters, etc.
• Māori: tuhi — to form letters, etc.
• Marathi: लिहिणे (lihiṇe) — to form letters, etc.
• Mauritian Creole: ekrir — to form letters, etc.
• Middle English: writen — to form letters, etc.
• Mirandese: screbir — to form letters, etc.
• Mongolian: бичих (bičix) — to form letters, etc.
• Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠬᠦ (bičikü) — to form letters, etc.
• Moore: gʋlse — to form letters, etc.
• Classical Nahuatl: ihcuiloa — to form letters, etc.
• Highland Puebla Nahuatl: quijcui̱lo̱a — to form letters, etc.
• Mecayapan Nahuatl: quijcuilohua — to form letters, etc.
• Northern Puebla Nahuatl: quiihcuilohua — to form letters, etc.
• Tetelcingo-Nahuatl: qui̱jcui̱loa — to form letters, etc.
• Nanai: ниру- (niru-) — to form letters, etc.
• Navajo: akʼeʼełchí — to form letters, etc.
• Nepali: लेख्नु (lekhnu) — to form letters, etc.
• Norman: écrire — to form letters, etc.
• Norman: êcrithe — to form letters, etc.
• Norwegian Bokmål: skrive — to form letters, etc.
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skriva — to form letters, etc.
• Occitan: escriure — to form letters, etc.
• Odia: ଲେଖ (lekha) — to form letters, etc.
• Southern Ohlone: enne — to form letters, etc.
• Ojibwe: ozhibii'ige — to form letters, etc.
• Church Slavic: пьсати (pĭsati) — to form letters, etc.
• Old East Slavic: писати (pisati) — to form letters, etc.
• Old English: wrītan — to form letters, etc.
• Old Norse: ríta — to form letters, etc.
• Old Saxon: wrītan — to form letters, etc.
• Old Saxon: skrīƀan — to form letters, etc.
• Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃 (biti-) — to form letters, etc.
• Oromo: barreessuu — to form letters, etc.
• Ossetian: фыссын (fyssyn) — to form letters, etc.
• Pangasinan: mansulat — to form letters, etc.
• Pannonian Rusyn: писац (pisac) — to form letters, etc.
• Pannonian Rusyn: написац (napisac) — to form letters, etc.
• Papiamentu: skirbi — to form letters, etc.
• Pashto: کاږل (kāẓǝl) — to form letters, etc.
• Pashto: کويښل (kwex̌ǝl) — to form letters, etc.
• Pashto: کوښل (kox̌ǝl) — to form letters, etc.
• Pennsylvania German: schreiwe — to form letters, etc.
• Dari: نَوِشْتَن (nawištan) — to form letters, etc.
• Iranian Persian: نِوِشْتَن (neveštan) — to form letters, etc.
• Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭯𐭩𐭱𐭲𐭭 (npyštn) — to form letters, etc.
• Piedmontese: scrive — to form letters, etc.
• Polish: pisać — to form letters, etc.
• Polish: napisać — to form letters, etc.
• Polish: pisywać — to form letters, etc.
• Portuguese: escrever — to form letters, etc.
• Portuguese: redigir — to form letters, etc.
• Punjabi: ਲਿਖਣਾ (likhṇā) — to form letters, etc.
• Purepecha: karáni — to form letters, etc.
• Romanian: scrie — to form letters, etc.
• Romansh: scriver — to form letters, etc.
• Romansh: screiver — to form letters, etc.
• Russian: писа́ть (pisátʹ) — to form letters, etc.
• Russian: написа́ть (napisátʹ) — to form letters, etc.
• Northern Sami: čállit — to form letters, etc.
• Samoan: tusi — to form letters, etc.
• Sanskrit: लिखति (likhati) — to form letters, etc.
• Sardinian: iscri — to form letters, etc.
• Sardinian: iscribere — to form letters, etc.
• Sardinian: iscriere — to form letters, etc.
• Sardinian: iscriri — to form letters, etc.
• Sardinian: iscrivere — to form letters, etc.
• Sardinian: scriri — to form letters, etc.
• Scots: scrieve — to form letters, etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: пи́сати — to form letters, etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: písati — to form letters, etc.
• Shan: တႅမ်ႈ (tēm) — to form letters, etc.
• Sherpa: བྲིག (brig) — to form letters, etc.
• Sicilian: scrìviri — to form letters, etc.
• Sindhi: لکڻ (lkhṇ) — to form letters, etc.
• Sinhalese: ලියනවා (liyanawā) — to form letters, etc.
• Slovak: písať — to form letters, etc.
• Slovak: napísať — to form letters, etc.
• Slovene: pisati — to form letters, etc.
• Somali: qorid — to form letters, etc.
• Lower Sorbian: pisaś — to form letters, etc.
• Lower Sorbian: napisaś — to form letters, etc.
• Upper Sorbian: pisać — to form letters, etc.
• Upper Sorbian: napisać — to form letters, etc.
• Sotho: ngola — to form letters, etc.
• Spanish: escribir — to form letters, etc.
• Sranan Tongo: skrifi — to form letters, etc.
• Swahili: kuandika — to form letters, etc.
• Swedish: skriva — to form letters, etc.
• Sylheti: ꠟꠦꠈꠣ (lexá) — to form letters, etc.
• Tagalog: sumulat — to form letters, etc.
• Tagalog: isulat — to form letters, etc.
• Tahitian: papai — to form letters, etc.
• Tajik: навиштан (navištan) — to form letters, etc.
• Talysh: nıvışte — to form letters, etc.
• Tamil: எழுது (eḻutu) — to form letters, etc.
• Tatar: язарга (yazarğa) — to form letters, etc.
• Tausug: sulat — to form letters, etc.
• Tausug: tulis — to form letters, etc.
• Tetum: hakerek — to form letters, etc.
• Thai: เขียน (kǐian) — to form letters, etc.
• Thai: ขีด (kìit) — to form letters, etc.
• Tibetan: འབྲི ('bri) — to form letters, etc.
• Tocharian B: pik- — to form letters, etc.
• Tok Pisin: rait — to form letters, etc.
• Tok Pisin: raitim — to form letters, etc.
• Tongan: tohi — to form letters, etc.
• Tumbuka: lemba — to form letters, etc.
• Turkish: yazmak — to form letters, etc.
• Ottoman Turkish: یازمق (yazmak) — to form letters, etc.
• Turkmen: ýazmak — to form letters, etc.
• Udmurt: гожъяны (gožjany) — to form letters, etc.
• Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎚𐎁 (ktb) — to form letters, etc.
• Ukrainian: писа́ти (pysáty) — to form letters, etc.
• Ukrainian: написа́ти (napysáty) — to form letters, etc.
• Urdu: لِکْھنا (likhnā) — to form letters, etc.
• Uyghur: يازماق (yazmaq) — to form letters, etc.
• Uzbek: yozmoq — to form letters, etc.
• Venetan: scrivar — to form letters, etc.
• Venetan: scriver — to form letters, etc.
• Vietnamese: viết — to form letters, etc.
• Vietnamese: ghi — to form letters, etc.
• Volapük: penön — to form letters, etc.
• Walloon: scrire — to form letters, etc.
• Welsh: ysgrifennu — to form letters, etc.
• Yaghnobi: нипишак (nipišak) — to form letters, etc.
• Yakut: суруй (suruy) — to form letters, etc.
• Yiddish: שרײַבן (shraybn) — to form letters, etc.
• Yoruba: kọ — to form letters, etc.
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib — to form letters, etc.
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼíibt — to form letters, etc.
• Zazaki: nusayîş — to form letters, etc.
• Zazaki: nuştiş — to form letters, etc.
• Zhuang: sij — to form letters, etc.
• Zhuang: raiz — to form letters, etc.
• Afrikaans: skryf aan — to send a letter to
• Arabic: كَاتَبَ (kātaba) — to send a letter to
• Armenian: գրել (grel) — to send a letter to
• Bashkir: яҙыу (yaźıw) — to send a letter to
• Central Bikol: surat — to send a letter to
• Bulgarian: пиша (piša) — to send a letter to
• Czech: napsat — to send a letter to
• Danish: skrive — to send a letter to
• Dutch: schrijven (naar) — to send a letter to
• Esperanto: skribi al — to send a letter to
• Estonian: kirjutama — to send a letter to
• Finnish: kirjoittaa — to send a letter to
• French: écrire à — to send a letter to
• West-Frisian: skriuwe (oan immen) — to send a letter to
• German: schreiben — to send a letter to
• Greek: γράφω (gráfo) — to send a letter to
• Ancient Greek: ἐπιστέλλω (epistéllō) — to send a letter to
• Hebrew: כָּתַב (katáv) — to send a letter to
• Hungarian: ír — to send a letter to
• Icelandic: skrifa utan á bréf — to send a letter to
• Indonesian: tulis — to send a letter to
• Irish: scríobh chuig — to send a letter to
• Italian: scrivere a — to send a letter to
• Japanese: 書く (kaku) — to send a letter to
• Kashmiri: لیکھُن (lēkhun) — to send a letter to
• Kazakh: жазу (jazu) — to send a letter to
• Latin: scribo — to send a letter to
• Macedonian: пишува (pišuva) — to send a letter to
• Norwegian Bokmål: skrive — to send a letter to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skriva — to send a letter to
• Portuguese: escrever — to send a letter to
• Russian: писать (pisatʹ) — to send a letter to
• Russian: написа́ть (napisátʹ) — to send a letter to
• Northern Sami: čállit — to send a letter to
• Serbo-Croatian: пи́сати — to send a letter to
• Serbo-Croatian: písati — to send a letter to
• Spanish: escribir a — to send a letter to
• Swedish: skriva — to send a letter to
• Walloon: scrire — to send a letter to
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼíibt — to send a letter to
• Afrikaans: skryf — to be the author of
• Arabic: َأَلَّف (aʔallaf) — to be the author of
• Armenian: գրել (grel) — to be the author of
• Bulgarian: съчинявам (sǎčinjavam) — to be the author of
• Ngazidja Comorian: hwandziha — to be the author of
• Czech: psát — to be the author of
• Danish: skrive — to be the author of
• Danish: digte — to be the author of
• Danish: forfatte — to be the author of
• Dutch: schrijven — to be the author of
• Esperanto: verki — to be the author of
• Estonian: kirjutama — to be the author of
• Ewe: ŋlɔ — to be the author of
• Finnish: kirjoittaa — to be the author of
• French: écrire — to be the author of
• French: rédiger — to be the author of
• West-Frisian: skriuwer — to be the author of
• German: schreiben — to be the author of
• German: verfassen — to be the author of
• German: texten — to be the author of
• German: dichten — to be the author of
• Ancient Greek: γράφω (gráphō) — to be the author of
• Hebrew: כָּתַב (katáv) — to be the author of
• Hungarian: ír — to be the author of
• Hungarian: megír — to be the author of
• Icelandic: rithöfundur — to be the author of
• Ingrian: kirjuttaa — to be the author of
• Irish: scríobh — to be the author of
• Japanese: 書く (kaku) — to be the author of
• Kashmiri: لیکھُن (lēkhun) — to be the author of
• Latin: scribo — to be the author of
• Macedonian: пишува (pišuva) — to be the author of
• Norman: écrire — to be the author of
• Norman: êcrithe — to be the author of
• Norwegian Bokmål: skrive — to be the author of
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skriva — to be the author of
• Portuguese: escrever — to be the author of
• Romanian: scrie — to be the author of
• Russian: писать (pisatʹ) — to be the author of
• Russian: написа́ть (napisátʹ) — to be the author of
• Northern Sami: čállit — to be the author of
• Serbo-Croatian: пи́сати — to be the author of
• Serbo-Croatian: písati — to be the author of
• Sotho: ngola — to be the author of
• Spanish: escribir — to be the author of
• Swedish: skriva — to be the author of
• Ottoman Turkish: یازمق (yazmak) — to be the author of
• Vietnamese: viết — to be the author of
• Walloon: scrire — to be the author of
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼíibt — to be the author of
• Finnish: kirjoittaa — to show (information)
• Hungarian: kiír — to show (information)
• Japanese: 書く (kaku) — to show (information)
• Japanese: 示す (shimesu) — to show (information)
• Macedonian: запишува (zapišuva) — to show (information)
• Serbo-Croatian: напи́сати — to show (information)
• Serbo-Croatian: napísati — to show (information)
• Spanish: escribir — to show (information)
• Walloon: scrire — to show (information)
• Afrikaans: skryf — to be an author
• Armenian: գրել (grel) — to be an author
• Czech: psát — to be an author
• Danish: skrive — to be an author
• Dutch: schrijven — to be an author
• Esperanto: verki — to be an author
• Estonian: kirjanik olema (belles-lettres) — to be an author
• Estonian: literaat olema — to be an author
• Ewe: ŋlɔ — to be an author
• Finnish: kirjoittaa — to be an author
• French: écrire — to be an author
• West-Frisian: skriuwer — to be an author
• German: schreiben — to be an author
• German: texten — to be an author
• German: dichten — to be an author
• Hebrew: כָּתַב (katáv) — to be an author
• Hungarian: ír — to be an author
• Icelandic: rithöfundur — to be an author
• Japanese: 書く (kaku) — to be an author
• Latin: scribo — to be an author
• Macedonian: пишува (pišuva) — to be an author
• Macedonian: напишува (napišuva) — to be an author
• Norman: écrire — to be an author
• Norman: êcrithe — to be an author
• Norwegian Bokmål: skrive — to be an author
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skriva — to be an author
• Portuguese: escrever — to be an author
• Russian: писать (pisatʹ) — to be an author
• Russian: написа́ть (napisátʹ) — to be an author
• Spanish: escribir — to be an author
• Swedish: skriva — to be an author
• Swedish: författa — to be an author
• Walloon: scrire — to be an author
• Welsh: llocio — to be an author
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib — to be an author
• Afrikaans: neerskryf — record (data)
• Armenian: գրել (grel) — record (data)
• Azerbaijani: qeydə almaq — record (data)
• Bulgarian: записвам (zapisvam) — record (data)
• Czech: zapisovat — record (data)
• Danish: skrive — record (data)
• Dutch: schrijven — record (data)
• Finnish: kirjoittaa — record (data)
• French: enregistrer — record (data)
• West-Frisian: opskriuwen — record (data)
• German: brennen — record (data)
• German: schreiben — record (data)
• German: beschreiben — record (data)
• Hungarian: ír — record (data)
• Hungarian: megír — record (data)
• Hungarian: kiír — record (data)
• Icelandic: skrifa ~ hér sér — record (data)
• Indonesian: catat — record (data)
• Japanese: 書込む (kakikomu) — record (data)
• Latin: scribo — record (data)
• Macedonian: запишува (zapišuva) — record (data)
• Macedonian: заведува (zaveduva) — record (data)
• Portuguese: escrever — record (data)
• Portuguese: registrar — record (data)
• Portuguese: gravar — record (data)
• Russian: запи́сывать (zapísyvatʹ) — record (data)
• Russian: записа́ть (zapisátʹ) — record (data)
• Serbo-Croatian: пи́сати — record (data)
• Serbo-Croatian: písati — record (data)
• Spanish: escribir — record (data)
• Swedish: skriva — record (data)
• Vietnamese: ghi — record (data)
• Walloon: scrire — record (data)