X-ray

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From X + ray, a calque of German X-Strahl, coined by Wilhelm Röntgen upon his discovery of the rays in 1895, where X signifies their unknown nature. The chess sense is metaphorical, referring to control passing through a seemingly solid barrier.

238 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Hungarian: röntgen — of or having to do with X-rays
• Icelandic: röntgen- — of or having to do with X-rays
• Irish: X-ghathach — of or having to do with X-rays
• Italian: radiografico — of or having to do with X-rays
• Polish: rentgenowski — of or having to do with X-rays
• Russian: рентге́новский (rentgénovskij) — of or having to do with X-rays
• Albanian: rreze X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Arabic: أَشِعَّة إِكْس (ʔašiʕʕat ʔeks) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Arabic: أَشِعَّة سِينِيَّة (ʔašiʕʕa siniyya) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Armenian: ռենտգենյան ճառագայթ (ṙentgenyan čaṙagaytʻ) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Azerbaijani: rentgen şüaları — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Belarusian: рэнтге́н (renthjén) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Belarusian: рэнтге́наўскі праме́нь (renthjénawski pramjénʹ) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Bulgarian: ре́нтген (réntgen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Bulgarian: ре́нтгенов лъч (réntgenov lǎč) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Burmese: အိတ်ဇ်ရေး (itjre:) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Burmese: ဓာတ်မှန် (dhathman) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Catalan: raig X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese Cantonese: X光 (iks1 gwong1, ik1 si4 gwong1) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese: рентген (riəntgiən) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese: гуонщян (guonxian) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese: X光線 /X光线 (X kng-soàn) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese Mandarin: 艾克斯射線 /艾克斯射线 (àikèsī shèxiàn) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese Mandarin: 愛克斯射線 /爱克斯射线 (àikèsī shèxiàn) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese Mandarin: X射線 /X射线 (X shèxiàn) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese Mandarin: X光 (X guāng) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Chinese Mandarin: 愛克斯光 /爱克斯光 (àikèsī guāng) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Cornish: dewyn X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Cornish: golowyn X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Czech: rentgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Czech: rentgenové záření — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Czech: rentgenový paprsek — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Danish: røntgenstråle — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Dutch: röntgenstraal — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Esperanto: ikso-radioj — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Esperanto: rentgena radiado — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Esperanto: x-radiado — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Estonian: röntgenikiir — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Estonian: röntgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Finnish: röntgensäteily — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• French: rayon X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• French: rayon Röntgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Galician: raios X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Georgian: რენტგენის სხივი (renṭgenis sxivi) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• German: Röntgenstrahl — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Greek: ακτίνα Χ (aktína Ch) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Greek: ακτινοβολία Χ (aktinovolía Ch) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Gujarati: ક્ષ-કિરણ (kṣa-kiraṇ) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Hebrew: קַרנֵי רֶנְטְגֶן (karné réntgen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Hindi: एक्स-रे (eks-re) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Hindi: क्ष-किरण (kṣ-kiraṇ) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Hungarian: röntgensugárzás — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Hungarian: röntgensugár — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Indonesian: ronsen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Indonesian: rontgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Indonesian: sinar-X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Indonesian: radiasi-X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Interlingua: rayos röntgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Irish: X-gha — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Italian: raggi X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Japanese: X線 (ekkusu sen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Japanese: エックス線 (ekkusu sen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Japanese: レントゲン (rentogen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Kazakh: рентген (rentgen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Kazakh: рентген сәулесі (rentgen säulesı) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Khmer: កាំរស្មី X (kamrĕəʼsməyX) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Khmer: កាំរស្មីអ៊ិច (kamrĕəʼsməy ʼɨc) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Korean: X선 (ekseuseon) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Korean: 엑스선 (ekseuseon) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Korean: X레이 (ekseurei) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Korean: 엑스레이 (ekseurei) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Korean: 뢴트겐 (roenteugen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Kyrgyz: рентген (rentgen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Kyrgyz: рентген нуру (rentgen nuru) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Kyrgyz: рентген нурлары (rentgen nurları) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Latvian: rentgens — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Latvian: rentgena stari — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Lithuanian: rentgenas — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Macedonian: рендгенски зрак (rendgenski zrak) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Macedonian: рендген (rendgen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Malay: sinar-X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Malay: X-ray — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Central Melanau: X-ray — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Norwegian Bokmål: røntgenstråle — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røntgenstråle — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Occitan: rai X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Iranian Persian: پَرْتُوْیِ ایکْس (partavi-ye iks) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Iranian Persian: شُعَاعِ ایکْس (šo'â'-e iks) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Polish: promieniowanie rentgenowskie — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Portuguese: raios X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Romanian: raze X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Romanian: raze Roentgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Russian: рентге́новский луч (rentgénovskij luč) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Russian: рентге́н (rentgén) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Serbo-Croatian: rentgensko zračenje — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Serbo-Croatian: rentgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Serbo-Croatian: rendgensko zračenje — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Serbo-Croatian: rendgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Slovak: röntgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Slovak: röntgenové žiarenie — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Slovak: röntgenový lúč — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Slovene: rentgenski žarek — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Slovene: rentgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Spanish: rayos X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Swahili: eksirei — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Swahili: uyoka — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Swedish: röntgenstråle — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Tagalog: rayos-ekis — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Tagalog: X-ray — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Tajik: рентген (rentgen) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Tajik: шуоъи рентгенӣ (šuo'-i rentgeni) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Thai: เอ็กซ์เรย์ (èk-ree) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Thai: รังสีเอกซ์ (rang-sǐi-èk) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Turkish: X ışını — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Turkmen: rentgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Turkmen: rentgen şöhlesi — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Ukrainian: рентге́н (renthén) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Ukrainian: рентге́нівський про́мінь (renthénivsʹkyj próminʹ) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Urdu: ایکْس شُعَاع (eks śu'ā') — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Urdu: ایکْس رے (eks re) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Uyghur: X نۇرى (X nuri) — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Uzbek: rentgen nurlari — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Uzbek: rentgen — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Vietnamese: tia X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Volapük: räyastrals — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Welsh: pelydr X — short wavelength electromagnetic radiation
• Arabic: صُورَة أَشِعَّة — photograph made with X-rays
• Armenian: ռենտգեն (ṙentgen) — photograph made with X-rays
• Belarusian: рэнтге́н (renthjén) — photograph made with X-rays
• Bulgarian: ре́нтген (réntgen) — photograph made with X-rays
• Catalan: radiografia — photograph made with X-rays
• Chinese Mandarin: X光片 (X-guāngpiàn) — photograph made with X-rays
• Chinese Mandarin: X光照片 (X-guāng zhàopiàn) — photograph made with X-rays
• Chinese Mandarin: X線照片 /X线照片 (X-xiàn zhàopiàn) — photograph made with X-rays
• Chinese Mandarin: 片子 (piānzi) — photograph made with X-rays
• Czech: RTG — photograph made with X-rays
• Czech: rentgen — photograph made with X-rays
• Danish: røntgenbillede — photograph made with X-rays
• Dutch: röntgenfoto — photograph made with X-rays
• Finnish: röntgenkuva — photograph made with X-rays
• French: radiographie — photograph made with X-rays
• Galician: radiografía — photograph made with X-rays
• Georgian: რენტგენოგრამა (renṭgenograma) — photograph made with X-rays
• German: Röntgenbild — photograph made with X-rays
• Greek: ακτινογραφία (aktinografía) — photograph made with X-rays
• Hebrew: צילום רנטגן (tsilúm réntgen) — photograph made with X-rays
• Hungarian: röntgen — photograph made with X-rays
• Indonesian: sinar-X — photograph made with X-rays
• Interlingua: röntgenogramma — photograph made with X-rays
• Irish: X-ghathú — photograph made with X-rays
• Italian: radiografia — photograph made with X-rays
• Japanese: X線写真 (ekkusu sen shashin) — photograph made with X-rays
• Japanese: エックス線写真 (ekkusu sen shashin) — photograph made with X-rays
• Japanese: レントゲン写真 (rentogen shashin) — photograph made with X-rays
• Korean: X레이 사진 (ekseurei sajin) — photograph made with X-rays
• Korean: 엑스레이 사진 (ekseurei sajin) — photograph made with X-rays
• Korean: 뢴트겐 사진 (roenteugen sajin) — photograph made with X-rays
• Macedonian: рендген (rendgen) — photograph made with X-rays
• Norwegian Bokmål: røntgenbilde — photograph made with X-rays
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røntgenbilde — photograph made with X-rays
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røntgenbilete — photograph made with X-rays
• Occitan: radiografia — photograph made with X-rays
• Polish: prześwietlenie — photograph made with X-rays
• Polish: zdjęcie rentgenowskie — photograph made with X-rays
• Portuguese: raio-X — photograph made with X-rays
• Portuguese: radiografia — photograph made with X-rays
• Romanian: radiografie — photograph made with X-rays
• Russian: рентге́н (rentgén) — photograph made with X-rays
• Russian: рентгеногра́мма (rentgenográmma) — photograph made with X-rays
• Sardinian: lastra — photograph made with X-rays
• Serbo-Croatian: radiogram — photograph made with X-rays
• Serbo-Croatian: rentgen — photograph made with X-rays
• Serbo-Croatian: rendgen — photograph made with X-rays
• Slovak: röntgen — photograph made with X-rays
• Spanish: radiografía — photograph made with X-rays
• Swahili: eksirei — photograph made with X-rays
• Swedish: röntgenbild — photograph made with X-rays
• Turkish: röntgen — photograph made with X-rays
• Ukrainian: рентге́н (renthén) — photograph made with X-rays
• Volapük: räyöf — photograph made with X-rays
• Armenian: ռենտգեն (ṙentgen) — X-ray machine
• Czech: rentgen — X-ray machine
• Dutch: röntgenapparaat — X-ray machine
• Finnish: röntgenlaite — X-ray machine
• German: Röntgenapparat — X-ray machine
• Greek: ακτινογράφος (aktinográfos) — X-ray machine
• Hebrew: מכונת רנטגן (mekhonát réntgen) — X-ray machine
• Hungarian: röntgenberendezés — X-ray machine
• Japanese: X線撮影装置 (ekkusu sensatsueisōchi) — X-ray machine
• Japanese: エックス線撮影装置 (ekkusu sensatsueisōchi) — X-ray machine
• Japanese: レントゲン撮影装置 (rentogen satsueisochi) — X-ray machine
• Korean: X선 촬영장치 (ekseuseon chwaryeongjangchi) — X-ray machine
• Korean: 엑스선 촬영장치 (ekseuseon chwaryeongjangchi) — X-ray machine
• Navajo: beeʼaghádaʼdildlaadí — X-ray machine
• Polish: aparat rentgenowski — X-ray machine
• Portuguese: máquina de raio X — X-ray machine
• Russian: рентге́н (rentgén) — X-ray machine
• Serbo-Croatian: rentgen — X-ray machine
• Serbo-Croatian: rendgen — X-ray machine
• Swedish: röntgenapparat — X-ray machine
• Turkish: röntgen cihazı — X-ray machine
• Turkish: X-ray cihazı — X-ray machine
• Volapük: räyöm — X-ray machine
• Chinese Mandarin: 拍X光 (pāi X-guāng) — to take a radiograph of
• Chinese Mandarin: 照X光 (zhào X-guāng) — to take a radiograph of
• Cornish: X-dewynya — to take a radiograph of
• Dutch: doorlichten — to take a radiograph of
• Dutch: bestralen — to take a radiograph of
• Dutch: röntgenen — to take a radiograph of
• Dutch: met röntgenstralen onderzoeken — to take a radiograph of
• Finnish: ottaa röntgenkuva — to take a radiograph of
• Finnish: röntgenkuvata — to take a radiograph of
• French: radiographier — to take a radiograph of
• German: röntgen — to take a radiograph of
• Greek: ακτινοσκοπώ (aktinoskopó) — to take a radiograph of
• Hebrew: צילם (tsilém) — to take a radiograph of
• Hungarian: röntgenez — to take a radiograph of
• Icelandic: gegnumlýsa — to take a radiograph of
• Irish: X-ghathaigh — to take a radiograph of
• Italian: radiografare — to take a radiograph of
• Italian: schermografare — to take a radiograph of
• Japanese: レントゲンを撮る (rentogen wo toru) — to take a radiograph of
• Korean: X레이를 찍다 (ekseurei-reul jjikda) — to take a radiograph of
• Korean: 엑스레이를 찍다 (ekseurei-reul jjikda) — to take a radiograph of
• Norman: x-rayer — to take a radiograph of
• Norwegian Bokmål: røntgenfotografere — to take a radiograph of
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røntgenfotografere — to take a radiograph of
• Polish: prześwietlać — to take a radiograph of
• Polish: prześwietlić — to take a radiograph of
• Portuguese: tirar raio X (de) — to take a radiograph of
• Portuguese: tirar uma chapa (de) — to take a radiograph of
• Russian: просве́чивать (prosvéčivatʹ) — to take a radiograph of
• Russian: просвети́ть (prosvetítʹ) — to take a radiograph of
• Slovak: röntgenovať — to take a radiograph of
• Spanish: radiografiar — to take a radiograph of
• Swedish: röntga — to take a radiograph of
• Tagalog: rayos-ekisin — to take a radiograph of
• Ukrainian: робити рентген (robyty renthen) — to take a radiograph of