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TO SPEAK

Modern Translation: TO SPEAK

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 

  

(persuade, to say), 講話 (a speech, to address, to talk), (speech, to explain, to talk, to tell), (to chat, to converse, to discuss, to talk), (a measure word, direction, method, path, principle, reason, road, skill, Tao, to say, to talk, truth, way), (talk, to say, word), (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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