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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin temporarius, from tempus (“time”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
temporary (comparative more temporary, superlative most temporary)
- Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
Sally was put in temporary charge of the department while they searched for a full-time replacement.
- Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.
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Translations
for a limited time, ephemeral, not constant
- Arabic: مُؤَقَّت (muʔaqqat)
- Armenian: ժամանակավոր (hy) (žamanakavor)
- Azerbaijani: müvəqqəti (az), ötücü, ötəri, sürəksiz
- Belarusian: тымчасо́вы (tymčasóvy), часо́вы (be) (časóvy)
- Bulgarian: вре́менен (bg) (vrémenen)
- Burmese: ယာယီ (my) (yayi)
- Catalan: temporal (ca), temporani
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 暫時／暂时 (zh) (zànshí, zhànshí, zǎnshí)
- Czech: dočasný (cs) m
- Danish: midlertidig (da)
- Dutch: tijdelijk (nl)
- Esperanto: efemera (eo), iama
- Finnish: väliaikainen (fi), ohimenevä (fi), hetkellinen (fi), määräaikainen (fi)
- French: temporaire (fr), provisoire (fr) m or f
- Galician: temporal (gl), transitorio
- German: zeitweilig (de), temporär (de), vorübergehend (de)
- Gothic: 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌱𐍃 (ƕeilaƕairbs)
- Greek: προσωρινός (el) (prosorinós)
- Ancient: πρόσκαιρος (próskairos)
- Hindi: अस्थायी (hi) (asthāyī)
- Hungarian: ideiglenes (hu), átmeneti (hu)
- Italian: temporaneo (it)
- Japanese: 暫くの (ja) (shibaraku no), 暫時の (ja) (zanji no), 一時的な (ja) (ichijiteki na)
- Kazakh: уақытша (uaqytşa)
- Korean: 일시적인 (ilsijeog-in)
- Kyrgyz: убактылуу (ky) (ubaktıluu), күнүмдүк (ky) (künümdük)
- Latin: temporālis, temporārius
- Macedonian: привремен (privremen)
- Manchu: ᠨᡝᡵᡤᡳᠨ (nergin)
- Maori: rangitahi, taupua
- Northern Sami: gaskaboddosaš
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: midlertidig (no)
- Nynorsk: mellombels (nn)
- Persian: موقت (fa) (movaqqat)
- Polish: tymczasowy (pl) krótkoczasowy, krótkotrwały (pl)
- Portuguese: temporário (pt)
- Romanian: temporar (ro)
- Russian: вре́менный (ru) (vrémennyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: sealach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: привремен
- Roman: privremen (sh)
- Slovak: dočasný
- Slovene: začasen
- Spanish: temporal (es) (polyseme), temporario (es) (not used often), temporáneo (es) (not often used)
- Swedish: tillfällig (sv), temporär (sv)
- Tagalog: pansamantala
- Telugu: తాత్కాలికం (te) (tātkālikaṁ)
- Turkish: geçici (tr)
- Ukrainian: тимчасо́вий (tymčasóvyj), пли́нний (plýnnyj)
- Uyghur: ۋاقىتلىق (waqitliq), مۇۋەققەت (muweqqet)
- Vietnamese: tạm thời (vi), lâm thời (vi)
- Welsh: dros dro (cy)
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Noun
temporary (plural temporaries)
- One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.
- Synonyms: floater, temp
- (programming) A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.
- Synonym: temp
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