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English
Etymology
From play + wright (“builder, craftsman”).
Pronunciation
Noun
playwright (plural playwrights)
- A writer and creator of theatrical plays.
- Synonyms: dramatist, stagewright
Derived terms
Translations
writer of plays for the theatre
- Arabic: كَاتِب مَسْرَحِيّ m (kātib masraḥiyy)
- Armenian: դրամատուրգ (hy) (dramaturg), թատերագիր (hy) (tʻateragir)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: dramaturq
- Belarusian: драмату́рг m (dramatúrh)
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: драмату́рг (bg) m (dramatúrg)
- Catalan: dramaturg (ca) m, dramaturga (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 劇作家 / 剧作家 (zh) (jùzuòjiā), 編劇 / 编剧 (zh) (biānjù)
- Czech: dramatik (cs) m
- Danish: dramatiker c
- Dutch: toneelschrijver (nl) m
- Estonian: näitekirjanik, dramaturg (et)
- Finnish: näytelmäkirjailija (fi), dramaturgi (fi)
- French: dramaturge (fr) m or f, auteur dramatique (fr) m
- Friulian: dramaturc m
- Galician: dramaturgo (gl) m, dramaturga f
- Georgian: დრამატურგი (dramaṭurgi)
- German: Bühnenautor (de) m, Bühnenautorin (de) f, Dramatiker (de) m, Dramatikerin (de) f, Schauspieldichter, Stückeschreiber,
- Greek: θεατρικός συγγραφέας m or f (theatrikós syngraféas), δραματουργός (el) m or f (dramatourgós)
- Ancient: δραματουργός m (dramatourgós)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: drámaíró (hu)
- Icelandic: leikritaskáld n
- Irish: drámadóir m
- Italian: drammaturgo (it) m, drammaturga f, commediografo (it) m, commediografa (it) f
- Japanese: 脚本家 (ja) (きゃくほんか, kyakuhonka), 劇作家 (げきさっか, gekisakka)
- Korean: 극작가 (ko) (geukjakga)
- Lao: ນັກແຕ່ງບົດລະຄອນ (nak tǣng bot la khǭn)
- Latvian: dramaturgs m
- Lithuanian: dramaturgas m
- Macedonian: драматург m (dramaturg)
- Maltese: drammaturgu m, drammaturga f, kittieb m, kittieba f
- Manx: dramadeyr m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dramatiker m
- Occitan: dramaturg m
- Odia: ନାଟକୀ (or) (nāṭaki)
- Polish: dramaturg (pl) m, dramaturżka f, dramatopisarz (pl) m, dramatopisarka (pl) f
- Portuguese: dramaturgo (pt) m, dramaturga f
- Romanian: dramaturg (ro) m, dramaturgă (ro) f
- Russian: драмату́рг (ru) m (dramatúrg)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: драматург m
- Roman: dramaturg (sh) m
- Slovak: dramatik m
- Slovene: dramatik m
- Spanish: dramaturgo (es) m, dramaturga (es) f
- Swedish: dramatiker (sv) c
- Tagalog: dalubdula, mandudula
- Thai: นักแต่งบทละคร (nák-dtɛ̀ɛng-bòt-lá-kɔɔn)
- Ukrainian: драмату́рг m (dramatúrh)
- Uzbek: dramaturg (uz)
- Vietnamese: nhà soạn kịch
- Volapük: (♂♀) dramatavan (vo), (♂) hidramatavan, (♀) jidramatavan
- Welsh: dramodydd m, dramodwr m
- Yiddish: דראַמאַטורג m (dramaturg)
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