alfabet

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See also: Alfabet and alfabét

Albanian

Noun

alfabet m (definite alfabeti)

  1. alphabet

Catalan

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet m (plural alfabets)

  1. alphabet
    Synonyms: abecedari, abecé

Derived terms

Noun

alfabet m (plural alfabets, feminine alfabeta)

  1. literate person

Adjective

alfabet (feminine alfabeta, masculine plural alfabets, feminine plural alfabetes)

  1. literate

Further reading

Cimbrian

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos, alphabet). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

alfabet m

  1. (Sette Comuni) alphabet
    Dar alfabet ist de stiiga bon littarn.
    The alphabet is a ladder, and the rungs are letters.

References

  • “alfabet” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Danish

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Noun

alfabet n (singular definite alfabetet, plural indefinite alfabeter)

  1. alphabet

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Dutch

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch alphabeet, from Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑl.faːˌbɛt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: al‧fa‧bet

Noun

alfabet n (plural alfabetten or alfabets, diminutive alfabetje n)

  1. alphabet
    Synonym: abc

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Descendants

  • Afrikaans: alfabet
  • Papiamentu: álfabèt, alfabèt

Friulian

Noun

alfabet m (plural alfabets)

  1. alphabet

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch alfabet, from Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet (first-person possessive alfabetku, second-person possessive alfabetmu, third-person possessive alfabetnya)

  1. alphabet (an ordered set of letters used in a language)

Malay

Etymology

From English alphabet, from Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet (Jawi spelling الفابت, plural alfabet-alfabet, informal 1st possessive alfabetku, 2nd possessive alfabetmu, 3rd possessive alfabetnya)

  1. alphabet (an ordered set of letters used in a language)
    Synonym: abjad
    Alfabet Inggeris
    English alphabet

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, from Phoenician and Classical Hebrew aleph (ox) and beth (house), so called because their shape resembled or represented these objects.

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet n (definite singular alfabetet, indefinite plural alfabet or alfabeter, definite plural alfabeta or alfabetene)

  1. alphabet (an ordered set of letters used in a language)
    Skal man lese må man kunne alfabetet.
    If you want to read you have to know the alphabet.
    Det latinske og kyrilliske alfabetet.
    The Latin and Cyrillic alphabet.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, from Phoenician and Classical Hebrew aleph (ox) and beth (house), so called because their shape resembled or represented these objects.

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet n (definite singular alfabetet, indefinite plural alfabet, definite plural alfabeta)

  1. alphabet (an ordered set of letters used in a language)
    Skal ein lese må ein kunne alfabetet.
    If you want to read you have to know the alphabet.
    Det latinske og kyrilliske alfabetet.
    The Latin and Cyrillic alphabet.

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet m (plural alfabets)

  1. alphabet

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet m

  1. alphabet

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Alphabet or French alphabet, from Latin alphabētum, from Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton), from the accusative of Koine Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha, alpha) + βῆτα (bêta, beta). First attested in 1624–1639.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈfa.bɛt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -abɛt
  • Syllabification: al‧fa‧bet

Noun

alfabet m inan

  1. (linguistics) alphabet (collection of letters in a given order)
    Synonym: abecadło
  2. alphabet, ABC (rudimentary knowledge of a given field)
    Synonyms: abc, abecadło, elementarz, podstawy

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noun

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References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “alfabet”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (08.02.2018), “ALFABET”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  3. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “alfabet”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  4. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “alfabet”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French alphabet, from Latin alphabetum.

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet n (plural alfabete)

  1. alphabet

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alfǎbeːt/
  • Hyphenation: al‧fa‧bet

Noun

alfàbēt m (Cyrillic spelling алфа̀бе̄т)

  1. alphabet

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References

  • alfabet” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet n

  1. alphabet

Declension

Declension of alfabet 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative alfabet alfabetet alfabet alfabeten
Genitive alfabets alfabetets alfabets alfabetens

Further reading

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet n

  1. alphabet

Walloon

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabet m (plural alfabets)

  1. alphabet

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch alfabet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔlfabɛt/, /ˈalfabɛt/

Noun

alfabet n (plural alfabetten)

  1. alphabet

Further reading

  • alfabet”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011