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English
A postcard.
Alternative forms
Etymology
post + card
Pronunciation
Noun
postcard (plural postcards )
A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended to be written on and mailed without an envelope . In the case of a picture postcard , one side displays a picture or photograph.
Enjoy your trip to Malaysia, and send me a postcard !
Derived terms
Translations
rectangular piece of thick paper to be mailed without an envelope
Afrikaans: briefkaart
Albanian: kartolinë (sq) f , kartpostale f
Arabic: كَرْت بَرِيدِيّ m ( kart barīdiyy )
Armenian: բացիկ (hy) ( bacʻik )
Asturian: postal f
Azerbaijani: poçt kartı , açıqca
Belarusian: пашто́ўка f ( paštóŭka )
Bengali: পোস্টকার্ড (bn) ( pōsṭokarḍo ) , পোষ্টকার্ড ( pōśṭokarḍo )
Breton: kartenn-bost (br) f
Bulgarian: по́щенска (bg) f ( póštenska ) , по́щенска ка́ртичка f ( póštenska kártička )
Burmese: ပို့စကတ် (my) ( pui.ca.kat )
Catalan: targeta postal f , postal f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 明信片 ( ming4 seon3 pin3-2 )
Hokkien: 明信片 ( bêng-sìn-phìⁿ ) , 光批 ( kng-phe, kuiⁿ-phoe )
Mandarin: 明信片 (zh) ( míngxìnpiàn )
Czech: pohlednice (cs) f , pohled (cs) m
Danish: brevkort n , postkort n
Dutch: ansichtkaart (nl) f , kaart (nl) f , postkaart (nl) f ( chiefly Belgium )
Esperanto: poŝtkarto (eo)
Estonian: postkaart (et)
Faroese: postkort n
Finnish: kirjekortti , postikortti (fi)
French: carte postale (fr) f
Galician: tarxeta postal f , postal f
Georgian: საფოსტო ღია ბარათი ( saposṭo ɣia barati ) , ღია ბარათი ( ɣia barati )
German: Postkarte (de) f
Greek: κάρτα (el) f ( kárta ) , καρτ-ποστάλ (el) n ( kart-postál )
Hausa: fôskātì m
Hebrew: גְּלוּיָה f ( g'luyá )
Hindi: पोस्टकार्ड (hi) f ( posṭkārḍ )
Hungarian: levelezőlap (hu) , ( picture postcard ) képeslap (hu)
Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: póstkort n , kort (is) n , ( rare ) bréfspjald n
Indonesian: kartu pos (id)
Ingrian: otkrьtka
Irish: cárta poist m
Italian: cartolina (it) f
Japanese: 葉書 (ja) ( はがき, hagaki ) , ポストカード (ja) ( posutokādo ) ( picture postcard )
Javanese: kertu pos
Kazakh: ашық хат ( aşyq xat ) , ашықхат ( aşyqxat )
Korean: 그림엽서 (ko) ( geurimyeopseo ) , 엽서(葉書) (ko) ( yeopseo )
Kyrgyz: почта открыткасы ( pocta otkrıtkası ) , открытка ( otkrıtka )
Lao: ຮູບບັດ ( hūp bat ) , ບັດໄປສະນີ ( bat pai sa nī ) , ບັດ ( bat ) , ໄປສະນີຍະບັດ ( pai sa nī bat )
Latvian: pastkarte f , atklātne f
Lithuanian: atvirutė f
Luxembourgish: Postkaart f
Macedonian: разгле́дница f ( razglédnica )
Malay: poskad (ms)
Mòcheno: postkòrt f
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ил захидал (mn) ( il zaxidal )
Norman: carte postale f
Norwegian: brevkort n
Bokmål: postkort n
Nynorsk: postkort n
Papiamentu: pòstkart
Persian: کارت پُستال (fa) ( kârt postâl ) , کارتپُستال ( kârt-postâl )
Plautdietsch: Postkoat f
Polish: karta pocztowa (pl) f , pocztówka (pl) f , widokówka (pl) f ( a picture postcard )
Portuguese: cartão-postal m , postal (pt) m
Romanian: carte poștală (ro) f
Russian: почто́вая откры́тка f ( počtóvaja otkrýtka ) , откры́тка (ru) f ( otkrýtka )
Scottish Gaelic: cairt-phuist f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: до̀писница f , ра́згледница f
Roman: dòpisnica (sh) f , rázglednica (sh) f
Slovak: pohľadnica f
Slovene: razglednica (sl) f
Spanish: tarjeta postal f , postal (es) f
Swahili: postkadi class 9/10 , kadi ya posta class 9/10
Swedish: vykort (sv) n , brevkort (sv) n
Tagalog: tarheta-postal
Tajik: руқъа ( ruqʾa )
Tatar: открытка ( otkrıtka )
Thai: โปสต์การ์ด (th) ( bpóot-gáat ) , ไปรษณียบัตร (th) ( bprai-sà-nii-yá-bàt )
Tibetan: སྦྲག་ཤོག ( sbrag shog )
Turkish: kartpostal (tr)
Turkmen: otkrytka
Ukrainian: листі́вка f ( lystívka ) , пошто́ва листі́вка f ( poštóva lystívka )
Urdu: پوسْٹ کارْڈ (ur) f ( posṭ kārḍ )
Uyghur: ئاتكىرىتكا ( atkiritka )
Uzbek: pochta varaqasi , otkritka (uz) , ochiq xat
Vietnamese: bưu thiếp (郵帖 )
Vilamovian: pöstkiöt ?
Welsh: cerdyn post m
West Frisian: brievekaart c
Yiddish: פּאָסטקאַרטל n ( postkartl )
Zulu: iliposikhadi (zu) ?
Verb
postcard (third-person singular simple present postcards , present participle postcarding , simple past and past participle postcarded )
( transitive ) To send a postcard to someone.
to postcard one's friends
( transitive ) To send by means of a postcard.
to postcard one's news
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