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English
Etymology
Late 16th century, either from Middle French anagramme or Latin anagramma ,[ 1] formed on Ancient Greek ἀνά ( aná , “ up, back ” ) + γράμμα ( grámma , “ letter ” ) . Analyzable as ana- ( “ up, back ” ) + -gram ( “ letter ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/ , enPR : ăʹnəgrăm
Hyphenation: ana‧gram
Noun
anagram (plural anagrams )
( of words ) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
Hyponyms: antigram , synanagram
Coordinate terms: alphagram , palindrome
2004 , Simon Pegg , Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead , spoken by Shaun (Simon Pegg ):As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in "team", but there is an "I" in "pie". And there's an "I" in "meat pie". Anagram of "meat" is "team"… I don't know what he's talking about.
Derived terms
Translations
word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase
Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: anagram
Albanian: anagramë f
Arabic: جِنَاس نَاقِص m ( jinās nāqiṣ ) , قَلْب (ar) m ( qalb )
Armenian: անագրամա (hy) ( anagrama )
Belarusian: анагра́ма f ( anahráma )
Breton: tregejad (br) m
Bulgarian: анагра́ма f ( anagráma )
Catalan: anagrama (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: please add this translation if you can
Mandarin: 異序詞 / 异序词 , 變位詞 / 变位词 , 易位詞 / 易位词
Czech: anagram (cs) m , přesmyčka (cs) f
Danish: anagram (da)
Dutch: anagram (nl) , letterkeer (nl)
Esperanto: anagramo
Estonian: anagramm (et)
Finnish: anagrammi (fi)
French: anagramme (fr) f
Galician: anagrama (gl) m
Georgian: ანაგრამა ( anagrama )
German: Anagramm (de) n
Greek: αναγραμματισμός (el) m ( anagrammatismós )
Hebrew: אָנַגְרָמָה (he) f ( anagráma )
Hindi: वर्णविपर्यय (hi) m ( varṇaviparyay ) , वर्णविपर्यास m ( varṇaviparyās )
Hungarian: anagramma (hu)
Icelandic: raðhverfa f , orðarugl n , stafabrengl n , stafarugl n
Ido: anagramo (io)
Interlingua: anagramma
Italian: anagramma (it) m
Japanese: アナグラム (ja) ( anaguramu )
Korean: 애너그램 (ko) ( aeneogeuraem )
Latvian: anagramma f
Lithuanian: anagrama f
Luxembourgish: Anagramm
Macedonian: анаграм m ( anagram )
Maltese: anagramma
Norwegian: anagram (no)
Persian: واروواژه ( vâruvâže )
Polish: anagram (pl) m
Portuguese: anagrama (pt) m
Romanian: anagramă (ro) f
Russian: анагра́мма (ru) f ( anagrámma )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ана̀грам m
Roman: anàgram (sh) m
Slovak: anagram m
Slovene: anagram (sl)
Spanish: anagrama (es) m
Swedish: anagram (sv)
Turkish: anagram (tr) , evirmece (tr)
Ukrainian: анагра́ма f ( anahráma )
Vietnamese: phép đảo chữ , thuật đảo chữ
Verb
anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams , present participle anagramming , simple past and past participle anagrammed )
To form anagrams.
Translations
References
Further reading
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from French anagramme .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) :
Hyphenation: ana‧gram
Noun
anagram m inan
anagram
Synonym: ( much less common ) přesmyčka f
Declension
Declension of anagram (hard masculine inanimate )
Danish
Noun
anagram n (singular definite anagrammet , plural indefinite anagrammer )
anagram
Declension
References
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French anagramme .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˌaː.naːˈɣrɑm/
Hyphenation: ana‧gram
Noun
anagram n (plural anagrammen , diminutive anagrammetje n )
anagram
Synonym: letterkeer
Irish
Etymology
From French anagramme , from Ancient Greek ἀνά ( aná , “ up, back ” ) + γράμμα ( grámma , “ letter ” ) .
Noun
anagram m (genitive singular anagraim , nominative plural anagraim )
anagram
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical
Eclipsis
with h -prothesis
with t -prothesis
anagram
n-anagram
hanagram
t-anagram
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
Further reading
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French anagramme .[ 1] By surface analysis , ana- + -gram .[ 2] First attested in 1677–1694.[ 3]
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /aˈna.ɡram/
Rhymes: -aɡram
Syllabification: a‧na‧gram
Noun
anagram m inan
( linguistics ) anagram
anagram nazwiska ― anagram of a surname
anagram imienia ― anagram of a first name
anagram słowa ― anagram of a word
anagram nazwy ― anagram of a name (not a person's)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
anagram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
anagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861 ) “anagramma ”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
J. Karłowicz , A. Kryński , W. Niedźwiedzki , editors (1900 ), “anagram, anagramat, anagrama ”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 33
anagram in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /anǎɡram/
Hyphenation: a‧na‧gram
Noun
anàgram m (Cyrillic spelling ана̀грам )
anagram
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
ana- + -gram
Noun
anagram n
anagram
Declension
References
Anagrams