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Translingual
Symbol
map
( international standards ) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Austronesian languages .
English
A map of the world.
Etymology
Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde , mapemounde ( “ world map ” ) , from Old French mapamonde , from Medieval Latin mappa mundī , compound of Latin mappa ( “ napkin, cloth ” ) and mundus ( “ world ” ) . See mop for more on the first component. Doublet of mop , nape , and nappe .
Pronunciation
Noun
map (plural maps )
A visual representation of an area , whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
Synonyms: plan , chart
a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput
2012 March–April, Brian Hayes , “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist , volume 100 , number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013 , page 106 :Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps , diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
2016 , “Learning English (public domain) ”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) , via VOA, archived from the original on 25 September 2017 :Anna, it is a map .
A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
Synonyms: plan , chart
a map of the Earth's magnetic field
2005 , Craig Steiner, The 8051/8052 Microcontroller , page 9:The 256 bytes of internal RAM are subdivided as shown in the memory map above.
2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski , “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist , volume 100 , number 2, archived from the original on 27 April 2017 , page 171 :Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
( mathematics ) A function , especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity , linearity , etc.; see Usage notes ).
Synonyms: mapping , function
Let
f
{\displaystyle f}
be a map from
R
{\displaystyle \mathbb {R} }
to
R
{\displaystyle \mathbb {R} }
( entomology ) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana ) and Cyrestis , having map-like markings on the wings.
( UK , dated ) The face .
1960 , P. G. Wodehouse , Jeeves in the Offing , chapter X:And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.
( board games , video games ) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
Synonyms: level , stage
I don't want to play this map again!
2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica :On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.
( computing ) Synonym of associative array .
Usage notes
For the most part, map and function are synonyms in mathematics, and are frequently used interchangeably; however, certain branches of mathematics sometimes use map in a specialised sense to mean a function that preserves some important property in that branch of mathematics, i.e. a morphism . For instance, in topology , map may specifically mean a continuous function , and in linear algebra it may specifically mean a linear transformation .
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
visual representation of an area
Acehnese: peuta
Afrikaans: kaart
Akan: asasemfoni
Albanian: hartë (sq) f
Amharic: ካርታ ( karta )
Arabic: خَرِيطَة (ar) f ( ḵarīṭa )
Egyptian Arabic: خريطة f ( ḵarīṭa )
Armenian: քարտեզ (hy) ( kʻartez )
Assamese: মানচিত্ৰ ( manositro ) , নক্সা ( noksa )
Asturian: mapa (ast) m
Azerbaijani: xəritə (az)
Bashkir: карта ( karta )
Basque: mapa (eu)
Belarusian: ка́рта f ( kárta ) , ма́па f ( mápa ) , план m ( plan )
Bengali: মানচিত্র (bn) ( mancitro ) , নকশা (bn) ( nokśa )
Breton: kartenn (br) f , kartoù (br) pl
Bulgarian: ка́рта (bg) f ( kárta )
Burmese: မြေပုံ (my) ( mrepum )
Carpathian Rusyn: ма́па f ( mápa )
Catalan: mapa (ca) m , plànol (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎡᎶᎯ ᏓᏟᎶᏍᏔᏅ ( elohi datlilostanv )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 地圖 / 地图 ( dei6 tou4 )
Dungan: дитў ( ditw )
Eastern Min: 地圖 / 地图 ( dê-dù )
Hakka: 地圖 / 地图 ( thi-thù )
Hokkien: 地圖 / 地图 (zh-min-nan) ( tē-tô͘ / toē-tô͘ )
Mandarin: 地圖 / 地图 (zh) ( dìtú )
Wu: 地圖 / 地图 ( 6 di-du)
Chukchi: нутэкэԓикэԓ ( nutėkėḷikėḷ )
Chuvash: карттӑ ( karttă )
Cornish: mappa m
Crimean Tatar: harita
Czech: mapa (cs) f
Danish: kort (da) n
Dhivehi: މެޕް ( mep )
Dutch: kaart (nl) f , landkaart (nl) f , plan (nl) n , plattegrond (nl) m
Erzya: модарт ( modart )
Esperanto: mapo (eo)
Estonian: kaart
Faroese: kort n
Fijian: mape
Finnish: kartta (fi)
French: carte (fr) f , plan (fr) m
Friulian: mape
Galician: mapa (gl) m
Georgian: რუკა ( ruḳa )
German: Landkarte (de) f , Karte (de) f , Plan (de) m
Greek: χάρτης (el) m ( chártis ) , άτλαντας (el) m ( átlantas ) , άτλας (el) m ( átlas )
Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
Greenlandic: nunap assinga
Guaraní: yvyra’anga
Gujarati: નકશા m ( nakśā )
Haitian Creole: kat
Hawaiian: palapalaʻāina
Hebrew: מַפָּה (he) f ( mapá )
Hindi: नक़्शा m ( naqśā ) /नक्शा (hi) m ( nakśā ) , मानचित्र (hi) m ( māncitra )
Hungarian: térkép (hu)
Icelandic: kort (is) n
Ido: mapo (io)
Ilocano: mápa
Indonesian: peta (id) , map (id) , atlas (id)
Ingrian: kartta
Interlingua: (please verify ) mappa , (please verify ) carta (geographic ), ( of a house, garden, town, etc. ) (please verify ) plano
Inuktitut: nunaŋŋuaq
Irish: léarscáil (ga) f , mapa m
Italian: carta (it) f , mappa (it) f , carta geografica f , cartina (it) f
Japanese: 地図 (ja) ( ちず, chizu ) , マップ (ja) ( mappu )
Kannada: ನಕ್ಷೆ (kn) ( nakṣe ) , ಭೂಪಟ (kn) ( bhūpaṭa )
Kashubian: kôrta f
Kazakh: карта ( karta )
Khmer: ផែនទី (km) ( phaen tii )
Korean: 지도(地圖) (ko) ( jido )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نەخشھ f ( nexşih )
Northern Kurdish: nexşe (ku) f , xerîte (ku)
Kyrgyz: карта (ky) ( karta )
Lao: ແຜນທີ່ (lo) ( phǣn thī )
Latin: charta f ( Medieval Latin ) , tabula f ( Classical Latin ) , itinerārium n ( road map )
Latvian: karte f
Limburgish: kaart (li) f
Lithuanian: žemėlapis (lt) m
Livonian: kōrtõz
Lü: ᦔᦳᧅᧈᦵᦙᦲᧂ ( ṗuk¹moeng )
Luxembourgish: Landkaart f
Macedonian: карта f ( karta ) , план (mk) m ( plan )
Malay: peta (ms)
Malayalam: ഭൂപടം (ml) ( bhūpaṭaṁ )
Maltese: mappa f
Manx: caslys m
Maori: mapi
Marathi: नकाशा m ( nakāśā )
Mon: ဗီုတိ ( pɜ̀m tɔeˀ )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: газрын зураг ( gazryn zurag )
Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠵᠠᠷᠤᠨ ᠵᠢᠷᠤᠭ ( ɣaǰarun ǰirug )
Montagnais: assiu-mashinaikan
Muong: please add this translation if you can
Nauruan: ekorob
Navajo: kéyah beʼelyaaígíí , atiin bikááʼ naashchʼąąʼígíí
Nepali: नक्शा ( nakśā )
Northern Sami: gárta , kárta
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kart (no) n
Nynorsk: kart n
Occitan: mapa (oc) f , carta (oc) f
Odia: ମାନଚିତ୍ର (or) ( mānacitra )
Ojibwe: akii-mazinaʼigan
Oromo: maappii
Ottoman Turkish: خریطه ( harita )
Pannonian Rusyn: карта f ( karta ) , мапа f ( mapa )
Papiamentu: mapa
Pashto: خريطه f ( xaritá ) , نخشه (ps) f ( naxšá ) , نخچه (ps) f ( naxčá ) , نقشه (ps) f ( naqšá )
Persian: راهنامه (fa) ( rāhnāme )
Dari: نَقْشَه ( naqša ) , خَرِیطَه ( xarīta )
Iranian Persian: نَقْشِه ( nağše ) , خَریطِه ( xarite )
Plautdietsch: Launtkoat f , Koat f
Polish: mapa (pl) f
Portuguese: mapa (pt) m , carta (pt) f , carta geográfica f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਨਕਸ਼ਾ m ( nakśā )
Romanian: hartă (ro) f
Romansch: carta f
Russian: ка́рта (ru) f ( kárta ) , план (ru) m ( plan )
Samoan: faʻafanua
Sanskrit: मानचित्र n ( mānacitra )
Scots: cairt
Scottish Gaelic: map m , mapa m , cairt-iùil m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̑рта f , ма̏па f , зе̏мљовӣд m ( Croatian )
Roman: kȃrta (sh) f , mȁpa (sh) f , zȅmljovīd (sh) m ( Croatian )
Shipibo-Conibo: mápa
Silesian: karta f
Sinhalese: සිතියම (si) ( sitiyama )
Slovak: mapa (sk) f , plán m
Slovene: zemljevid (sl) m , karta (sl) f
Somali: khariiddo f , khariidad f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kórta f
Sotho: mmapa class 9 /10
Spanish: mapa (es) m , plano (es) m , carta (es) f
Swahili: ramani (sw) class 9 /10
Swedish: karta (sv) c
Tagalog: mapa (tl)
Tahitian: hohoʻa fenua
Tajik: харита (tg) ( xarita ) , нақша ( naqša )
Tamil: நிலப்படம் (ta) ( nilappaṭam ) , வரைபடம் (ta) ( varaipaṭam )
Tatar: карта (tt) ( qarta ) , харита ( xarita )
Telugu: పటము (te) ( paṭamu )
Thai: แผนที่ (th) ( pɛ̌ɛn-tîi )
Tibetan: ས་བཀྲ ( sa bkra )
Tigrinya: ካርታ ( karta )
Tsonga: mepe
Turkish: harita (tr)
Turkmen: karta
Ukrainian: ка́рта (uk) f ( kárta ) , ма́па (uk) f ( mápa ) , план (uk) m ( plan )
Urdu: نَقْشَہ m ( naqśa ) , خَرِیطَہ m ( xarīta ) , (please verify ) ماںْچِتْر m ( mā̃citr )
Uyghur: خەرىتە ( xerite )
Uzbek: xarita (uz) , karta (uz)
Venetan: mapa
Vietnamese: bản đồ (vi) (版圖 ), địa đồ (vi) (地圖 )
Vilamovian: łaondmaop
Walloon: siiwal , mape (wa) f
Waray-Waray: mapa
Welsh: map (cy) m
Xhosa: imephu
Yakut: хаарта ( qaarta )
Yiddish: מאַפּע f ( mape ) , קאַרטע f ( karte ) , פּלאַן m ( plan )
Yoruba: máàpù
Zazaki: xerite f
Zhuang: deihdoz , diduz
Zulu: ibalazwe class 5 /6
diagram of components of an item
Chinese:
Mandarin: 映射 (zh) ( yìngshè )
Verb
map (third-person singular simple present maps , present participle mapping , simple past and past participle mapped )
( transitive ) To represent by means of a map.
This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.
Figure 3 maps the pressure distribution within the human circulatory system.
( transitive ) To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
The team is mapping the route of the new railway line.
The space probe is mapping the Earth's gravitational field.
This equipment is designed to map the neurons of the human brain in three dimensions.
( intransitive , followed by a "to " phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond .
This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.
2019 , Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development , →DOI , page 8:Significantly, the aural-oral data does not map closely to the visual linguistic landscape at NIE.
( transitive , followed by a "to " phrase) To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
Map "volume down" to the F2 key. ( computing )
( mathematics , transitive , followed by a "to " phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
f
{\displaystyle f}
maps
A
{\displaystyle A}
to
B
{\displaystyle B}
, mapping every
a
∈
A
{\displaystyle a\in A}
to
f
(
a
)
∈
B
{\displaystyle f(a)\in B}
.
Equivalently:
f
:
A
→
B
,
a
↦
f
(
a
)
{\displaystyle f:A\to B,a\mapsto f(a)}
( transitive , computing ) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder .
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
to create a visual representation of a territory
Translations to be checked
References
“map ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
Anagrams
Cornish
Etymology
Cognate with Breton mab , Old Irish macc .
Noun
map m (plural mebyow )
son
boy
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from German Mappe , from Latin mappa .
Pronunciation
Noun
map f (plural mappen , diminutive mapje n )
folder
( computing ) directory , folder
Descendants
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch map ( “ folder ” ) , from German Mappe , from Latin mappa .
Pronunciation
Noun
map
folder : An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet .
Synonym: folder
Further reading
Old Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *mab , from Proto-Celtic *makʷos .
Noun
map m (plural mepion )
son
Descendants
Further reading
Falileyev, Alexander (2000 ) Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18 ), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN , page 109
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈmap/
Rhymes: -ap
Syllabification: map
Noun
map f
genitive plural of mapa
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
map m (genitive singular map , plural mapaichean )
Alternative form of mapa
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English map .
Pronunciation
Noun
map m (plural mapiau )
map
Synonym: daearlun
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “map ”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies