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• Philippines, colloquial: /ˈzeɪː/
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From Shanghainese 徐 (6zhi).

Clipping of Zelenskyy.

Likely an alteration of zed (which see for more), by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee. Fell out of usage in England by the 17th century, and made standard in the U.S. in American Dictionary of English Language by Noah Webster in 1828, though usage varied for decades afterwards.

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: زِيد (zīd) — name of the letter Z, z
• Arabic: دْزِيتَا (dzītā) — name of the letter Z, z
• Asturian: zeta — name of the letter Z, z
• Asturian: zeda — name of the letter Z, z
• Bengali: জেড (jeḍ) — name of the letter Z, z
• Bulgarian: зет (zet) — name of the letter Z, z
• Catalan: zeta — name of the letter Z, z
• Czech: zet — name of the letter Z, z
• Dutch: zet — name of the letter Z, z
• Esperanto: zo — name of the letter Z, z
• Faroese: sett — name of the letter Z, z
• Faroese: setta — name of the letter Z, z
• Finnish: tseta — name of the letter Z, z
• Finnish: tset — name of the letter Z, z
• Finnish: zeta — name of the letter Z, z
• Finnish: zet — name of the letter Z, z
• French: zède — name of the letter Z, z
• Galician: zeta — name of the letter Z, z
• German: Zet — name of the letter Z, z
• German: Zett — name of the letter Z, z
• Greek: ζεντ (zent) — name of the letter Z, z
• Greek: ζι (zi) — name of the letter Z, z
• Hawaiian: zeta — name of the letter Z, z
• Hebrew: זֵד (zed) — name of the letter Z, z
• Hindi: ज़ी (zī) — name of the letter Z, z
• Hindi: ज़ेड (zeḍ) — name of the letter Z, z
• Hungarian: zé — name of the letter Z, z
• Icelandic: zeta — name of the letter Z, z
• Ido: ze — name of the letter Z, z
• Indonesian: zet — name of the letter Z, z
• Irish: zae — name of the letter Z, z
• Italian: zeta — name of the letter Z, z
• Japanese: ゼット (zetto) — name of the letter Z, z
• Japanese: ゼッド (zeddo) — name of the letter Z, z
• Japanese: ズィー (zī) — name of the letter Z, z
• Korean: 제트 (jeteu) — name of the letter Z, z
• Korean: 지 (ji) — name of the letter Z, z
• Latin: zēta — name of the letter Z, z
• Malay: zed — name of the letter Z, z
• Marathi: झेड (jheḍ) — name of the letter Z, z
• Occitan: izèda — name of the letter Z, z
• Persian: زد (zed) — name of the letter Z, z
• Persian: زی (zi) — name of the letter Z, z
• Polish: zet — name of the letter Z, z
• Portuguese: zê — name of the letter Z, z
• Russian: зэд (zɛd) — name of the letter Z, z
• Russian: зэт (zɛt) — name of the letter Z, z
• Russian: цэт (cɛt) — name of the letter Z, z
• Spanish: zeta — name of the letter Z, z
• Spanish: zeda — name of the letter Z, z
• Swedish: zäta — name of the letter Z, z
• Tagalog: zi — name of the letter Z, z
• Thai: ซี (sii) — name of the letter Z, z
• Thai: แซด (sɛ̂t) — name of the letter Z, z
• Turkish: ze — name of the letter Z, z
• Turkmen: ze — name of the letter Z, z
• Welsh: sèd — name of the letter Z, z