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English
Etymology
From Middle English recommendacioun , from Anglo-Norman recomendacion , from Medieval Latin recommendatio .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/ , /ˌɹɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən/
Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
recommendation (countable and uncountable , plural recommendations )
An act of recommending .
That which is recommended.
A commendation or endorsement .
Your next employer may require a recommendation .
A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about " for the context and "to " for the course of action)
He made a recommendation about what food to order.
We followed the recommendation to order sushi .
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
act of recommending
Albanian: rekomandim (sq) m
Arabic: تَوْصِيَة f ( tawṣiya )
Armenian: հանձնարարում (hy) ( hanjnararum ) , առաջարկում (hy) ( aṙaǰarkum ) , խորհրդատվություն (hy) ( xorhrdatvutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az)
Belarusian: рэкаменда́цыя f ( rekamjendácyja ) , рэкамэнда́цыя f ( rekamendácyja )
Bengali: সুপারিশ (bn) ( śupariś )
Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f ( preporǎ́ka ) , рекоменда́ция (bg) f ( rekomendácija )
Catalan: recomanació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 建議 / 建议 (zh) ( jiànyì ) , 勸告 / 劝告 (zh) ( quàngào ) , 推薦 / 推荐 (zh) ( tuījiàn )
Czech: doporučení (cs) n
Danish: anbefaling (da) c
Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f
Estonian: soovitus
Finnish: suositteleminen (fi)
French: recommandation (fr) f
Georgian: რეკომენდაცია ( reḳomendacia )
German: Empfehlung (de) f
Greek: σύσταση (el) f ( sýstasi )
Hebrew: הַמְלָצָה f ( hamlatsá )
Hindi: सिफ़ारिश f ( sifāriś )
Hungarian: ajánlás (hu)
Indonesian: rekomendasi (id) , saran (id)
Italian: suggerimento (it) m , consiglio (it) m , proposta (it) f
Japanese: 勧告 (ja) ( かんこく, kankoku ) , 推薦 (ja) ( すいせん, suisen ) , 薦め ( すすめ, susume ) , 薦挙 (ja) ( せんきょ, senkyo )
Kazakh: ұсыныс ( ūsynys )
Korean: 권고(勸告) (ko) ( gwon'go ) , 추천(推薦) (ko) ( chucheon ) , 천거(薦擧) (ko) ( cheon'geo )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: tewsiye (ku)
Kyrgyz: рекомендация ( rekomendatsiya ) , сунуш (ky) ( sunuş )
Latvian: ieteikums m
Lithuanian: rekomendacija f , patarimas m
Macedonian: препорака f ( preporaka )
Malay: sokongan (ms) , pengesyoran
Malayalam: ശുപാർശ ( śupāṟśa )
Maori: marohitanga
Middle English: recommendacioun
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зөвлөгөө (mn) ( zövlögöö ) , зөвлөмж (mn) ( zövlömž )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f
Pashto: توصيه (ps) f ( tawsiya )
Persian: توصیه (fa) ( towsiye ) , سفارش (fa) ( sefâreš )
Polish: rekomendacja (pl) f
Portuguese: recomendação (pt) f
Romanian: recomandare (ro) f
Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) f ( rekomendácija )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пре̏порука f
Roman: prȅporuka (sh) f
Slovak: odporúčanie n
Slovene: priporočilo n
Spanish: recomendación (es)
Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c
Tagalog: rekomendasyon
Tajik: тавсия ( tavsiya ) , сифориш ( siforiš )
Turkish: tavsiye (tr)
Ukrainian: рекоменда́ція f ( rekomendácija )
Urdu: شَفاعَت f ( śafā'at ) , سِفارِش f ( sifāriś )
Uyghur: تەۋسىيە ( tewsiye )
Uzbek: rekomendatsiya (uz) , tavsiya (uz)
Vietnamese: sự giới thiệu (vi) , sự tiến cử (vi)
that which is recommended
Armenian: հանձնարարական (hy) ( hanjnararakan ) , դիտարկում (hy) ( ditarkum ) , խորհուրդ (hy) ( xorhurd ) , առաջարկ (hy) ( aṙaǰark )
Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az) , məsləhət (az)
Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f ( preporǎ́ka )
Catalan: recomanació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 建議 / 建议 (zh) ( jiànyì ) , 勸告 / 劝告 (zh) ( quàngào ) , 推薦 / 推荐 (zh) ( tuījiàn )
Czech: doporučení (cs) n
Danish: anbefaling (da) c
Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f , aanrader (nl) m
Finnish: suositus (fi)
French: recommandation (fr)
German: Empfehlung (de) f
Hungarian: ajánlat (hu)
Indonesian: saran (id) , rekomendasi (id)
Macedonian: препорака f ( preporaka )
Malay: syor
Malayalam: ശുപാർശ ( śupāṟśa )
Maori: kupu whakatau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f
Polish: zalecenie (pl) n , polecenie (pl) n , rekomendacja (pl) f
Portuguese: recomendação (pt)
Spanish: recomendación (es)
Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c
Tagalog: rekomendasyon
Turkish: tavsiye (tr)
Vietnamese: thứ được giới thiệu
a commendation or endorsement
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