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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin punctuātiō (“a marking with points, a writing, agreement”), from punctuō (“to mark with points, settle”). Morphologically, punctuate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
punctuation (countable and uncountable, plural punctuations)
- A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods).
Different languages have different rules for punctuation.
- An act of punctuating.
Meronyms
Derived terms
Punctuation
Translations
set of symbols
- Afrikaans: punktuasie
- Albanian: pikësim (sq) m
- Arabic: عَلَامَة تَرْقِيم f (ʕalāmat tarqīm), تَرْقِيم m (tarqīm)
- Egyptian Arabic: علامة ترقيم f (ʔalamet tarqim), ترقيم m (tarqim)
- Armenian: կետադրություն (hy) (ketadrutʻyun)
- Asturian: puntuación f
- Azerbaijani: punktuasiya, durğu işarələri
- Basque: puntuazio anim
- Belarusian: пунктуа́цыя f (punktuácyja)
- Bulgarian: пунктуа́ция (bg) f (punktuácija)
- Burmese: အဖြတ်အတောက် (my) (a.hprat-a.tauk)
- Catalan: puntuació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 標點 / 标点 (zh) (biāodiǎn), 句讀 / 句读 (zh) (jùdòu)
- Czech: interpunkce f
- Danish: tegnsætning (da) c
- Dutch: interpunctie (nl)
- Esperanto: interpunkcio
- Estonian: kirjavahemärgid, vahemärgid
- Finnish: välimerkit (fi) pl
- French: ponctuation (fr) f
- Galician: puntuación (gl) f
- Georgian: პუნქტუაცია (ka) (ṗunkṭuacia)
- German: Satzzeichen (de) f, Interpunktion (de) f, Zeichensetzung (de) f
- Greek: στίξη (el) f (stíxi)
- Ancient: στίξις f (stíxis) (Byzantine)
- Gujarati: વિરામચિહ્નો (virāmcihno)
- Hindi: विराम चिह्न m (virām cihna)
- Hungarian: központozás (hu)
- Icelandic: greinarmerki (is)
- Ido: puntizado (io)
- Indonesian: tanda baca (id)
- Irish: poncaíocht (ga)
- Italian: punteggiatura (it) f, interpunzione (it) f
- Japanese: 句読点 (ja) (くとうてん, kutōten), (generic, includes diacritics) 約物 (ja) (やくもの, yakumono)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: пунктуация (punktuasiä)
- Khmer: វណ្ណយុត្ត (km) (vŏənnaʼyut)
- Korean: 문장 부호(文章符號) (munjang buho), 구두점(句讀點) (ko) (gudujeom)
- Kyrgyz: пунктуация (punktuatsiya)
- Lao: ເຄື່ອງໝາຍວັກ (khư̄ang māi wak)
- Latvian: interpunkcija f
- Lithuanian: skyryba (lt) f
- Macedonian: интерпункција f (interpunkcija)
- Malay: tanda baca (ms)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Maltese: punteġġjatura f
- Maori: tohutuhi
- Marathi: विरामचिन्हे (virāmcinhe)
- Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
- Bokmål: tegnsetting
- Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: نِشانِهگُذاری (nešâne-gozâri), نِشانِههایِ سَجاوَنْدی (fa) pl (nešâne-hâ-ye sajâvandi), عَلائِمِ نِگارِشی pl (alâ'em-e negâreši), نِشانِههایِ نِگارِشی pl (nešâne-hâ-ye negâreši)
- Polish: interpunkcja (pl) f, przestankowanie n
- Portuguese: pontuação (pt) f
- Romanian: punctuație (ro) f
- Russian: пунктуа́ция (ru) f (punktuácija), зна́ки препина́ния m pl (znáki prepinánija), препина́ние (ru) n (prepinánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: pungadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: интерпункција f, пунктуација f, разгодак m
- Roman: interpunkcija (sh) f, punktuacija (sh) f, razgodak (sh) m
- Slovak: interpunkcia f
- Slovene: ločílo (sl) n, interpunkcija f
- Spanish: puntuación (es) f
- Swedish: skiljetecken (sv)
- Tagalog: palabantasan
- Tajik: гузоштани аломатҳои китобатӣ (guzoštan-i alomatho-yi kitobati), пунктуатсия (punktuatsiya)
- Tamil: நிறுத்தக்குறிகள் (niṟuttakkuṟikaḷ)
- Telugu: విరామ చిహ్నములు (virāma cihnamulu)
- Thai: เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-wák-dtɔɔn), วรรคตอน (spacing, used in Thai)
- Turkish: noktalama (tr)
- Ukrainian: пунктуа́ція f (punktuácija)
- Urdu: رُمُوزِ اَوقاف m pl (rumūz-i auqāf)
- Uzbek: punktuatsiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: chấm câu (vi)
- Welsh: atalnodi (cy)
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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Further reading
- “punctuation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “punctuation”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
