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| Language | Translations for "TO SPEAK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | guxoj të flasë (dare to speak). (various references) | |
Arabic | قال (say), تحدث (talk), أَكْلَمَ (talk). (various references) | |
Aymara | arsuña. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | yáápíí'poyi (to speak English), iitsi'poyi (to speak Blackfoot). (various references) | |
Catalan | parlar (speak, talk). (various references) | |
Chinese | 說 (persuade, to say), 講話 (a speech, to address, to talk), 講 (speech, to explain, to talk, to tell), 談 (to chat, to converse, to discuss, to talk), 道 (a measure word, direction, method, path, principle, reason, road, skill, Tao, to say, to talk, truth, way), 言 (talk, to say, word), 曰 (to say), 出口 (to exit, to export, to go out). (various references) | |
Czech | mluvit (speak). (various references) | |
Danish | så at sige (so to speak). (various references) | |
Dutch | zogezegd (so to speak), om zo te zeggen (so to speak), niemand mag meer het woord voeren (no-one shall be allowed to speak), het woord bij voorrang verlenen (to have a prior right to speak), blijven doorspreken nadat de toegestane speektijd is verstreken (to continue to speak beyond the time allotted), bij voorrang het woord verlenen aan... (to give priority to speak to...), bý wýze van spreken (so to speak). (various references) | |
Esperanto | por tiel diri (so to speak). (various references) | |
Finnish | puhua (speak, talk). (various references) | |
French | parler (tongue). (various references) | |
German | sprechen (speak, talk). (various references) | |
Greek | κανείς δεν μπορεί να παρέμβει (no-one shall be allowed to speak), τίποτα αξίου λίγου (nothing to speak of). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | pale (speak, speaks). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לדובב (cause to speak, draw someone out, elicit, induce to speak), כפי שאומרים (so to speak), כביכול (alleged, as it were, as though, so called, so to speak). (various references) | |
Hungarian | beszélni, beszél (speak, talk). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berdiaman (refuse to speak to). (various references) | |
Irish | labhairt (speaking). (various references) | |
Italian | per cosÌ dire (so to speak), non è ammesso alcun intervento (no-one shall be allowed to speak), ispezionare una nave (to hail a vessel, to speak a vessel, to stop and examine a ship), continuare a parlare oltre il tempo concesso (to continue to speak beyond the time allotted), concedere la facoltà di parlare con precedenza a... (to have a prior right to speak), concedere la facolta di parlare con precedenza a... (to give priority to speak to...). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 話す. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おっしゃる (to say, to talk, to tell), くちばしる (to blurt out, to tell), べんじる (to answer the purpose, to argue, to carry through, to discriminate, to dispose of, to distinguish, to make convenient, to manage, to talk, will do), つかう (to circulate, to consume, to dispatch, to donate, to employ, to handle, to manipulate, to need, to practise, to send, to spend, to take, to use, to want), いいだす (to break the ice, to propose, to start talking, to suggest, to tell), ものもうす (to object), はなす (divide, separate, to part, to separate, to set free). (various references) | |
Maori | kii-a. (various references) | |
Mohawk | -tatis. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | speak. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otay eakspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falar (talk, speak). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | falar. (various references) | |
Quechua | parlay. (various references) | |
Romanian | nici nu meritã sã vorbim despre (it is nothing to speak of), cã sã zicem aşa (so to say, so to speak). (various references) | |
Romany | horatìnav. (various references) | |
Russian | так сказать (as it were, so to speak), говорить наперебой (try to speak first). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokušati da prvi kažeš nešto (try to speak first). (various references) | |
Shona | -taura. (various references) | |
Spanish | hablar (speak, talk). (various references) | |
Swazi | kú-khulúma. (various references) | |
Swedish | slang (hose, slang, tube), att tala. (various references) | |
Turkish | tabiri caizse (so to speak), sanki (as if, as though, like, quasi, quasi-, so to say, so to speak), konuşturmak (draw out, draw smb. into talk, get talking, induce to speak), adeta (almost). (various references) | |
Xhosa | ukuthetha (To speak/talk). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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