journal

See also Journal

English

Alternative forms

• journall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French journal (“daily”), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”), from diēs (“day”). Cognate with diurnal.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jûrʹ-nəl, IPA: /ˈdʒɜrnəl/, X-SAMPA: /"dZ3rn@l/
  • (Australia, UK) IPA: [ˈdʒɜː.nəɫ], X-SAMPA: ["dZ3:.n@5]
  • (US) IPA: [ˈdʒɝ.nəɫ], [ˈdʒɝ.nɫ̩], X-SAMPA: ["dZ3`.n@5], ["dZ3`.n5=]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
• Hyphenation: jour‧nal

Adjective

journal (comparative more journal, superlative most journal)

1. (obsolete) Daily.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:

     his faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest [...].

Noun

journal (plural journals)

1. A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
2. A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
3. (engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
4. (computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.

Derived terms

e-journal journalism journalist academic journal item journal transaction journal

before image journal after image journal shadow server journal mirror server journal scientific journal scholarly journal

Translations

diary or daily record

• Armenian: մատյան (hy) (matyan)
• Catalan: diari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日誌 (cmn), 日志 (cmn) (rìzhì)

• Czech: deník (cs) m
• Esperanto: taglibro (eo)
• Finnish: päiväkirja (fi) (person), diaari (fi) (office correspondence), loki (fi), lokikirja (fi) (vessel), päivyri (fi)
• French: revue (fr) m
• German: Tagebuch (de) n, Logbuch (de) n (ship)
• Greek: ημερολόγιο (el) (imerológio) n, αρχείο (el) (archeío) n
• Indonesian: jurnal (id)
• Irish: dialann (ga) f

• Japanese: 日記 (ja) (にっき, nikki), 日誌 (ja) (にっし, nisshi)
• Latin: ephemeris (la)
• Manx: laa-lioar (gv) m
• Norwegian: dagbok (no) m and f
• Russian: дневник (ru) (dnevník) m (person), судовой журнал (ru) (sudovój žurnál) m (ship), (ва́хтенный OR судово́й) журнал (ru) (žurnál) m
• Scottish Gaelic: leabhar-latha (gd) m
• Slovak: denník (sk) m
• Spanish: bitácora (es) f
• Swedish: dagbok (sv) c
• Welsh: dyddlyfr (cy) m
• Yiddish: טאָג־בוך (yi) (tog-bukh) f

newspaper or magazine

• Armenian: ամսագիր (hy) (amsagir), հանդես (hy) (handes)
• Catalan: diari (ca) m, gaseta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 報刊 (cmn), 报刊 (cmn) (bàokān)

• Danish: tidsskrift (da) n
• Esperanto: ĵurnalo (eo), gazeto (eo)
• Finnish: erikoisaikakauslehti (fi)
• German: Zeitschrift (de) f, Journal (de) n
• Greek: εφημερίδα (el) (efimerída) f, περιοδικό (el) (periodikó) n

• Latin: ephemeris (la)
• Norwegian: tidsskrift (no) n
• Persian: ژورنال (fa) (žornâl)
• Romanian: ziar (ro)
• Russian: журнал (ru) (žurnál) m (magazine), газета (ru) (gazéta) f (newspaper)
• Slovak: denník (sk) m
• Swahili: jarida (sw)
• Swedish: tidskrift (sv) c
• Welsh: newyddiadur (cy) m

part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings

• Greek: έδρανο άξονα (el) (édrano áksona) n
• Italian: perno d'albero (it) m
• Latin: ephemeris (la)

• Russian: цапфа (ru) (cápfa) f, шпиндель (ru) (špíndelʹ) m
• Spanish: gorrón (es) m

computing: a chronological record of changes made to a database or other system

• Finnish: loki (fi)
• Irish: dialann (ga) f
• Japanese: ジャーナル (ja) (jānaru)

• Latin: ephemeris (la)
• Russian: журнал (ru) (žurnál) m

Verb

journal (third-person singular simple present journals, present participle journaling, simple past and past participle journaled)

1. To archive or record something.
2. To scrapbook.

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French

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Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ʒuʁ.nal/, X-SAMPA: /ZuR.nal/

Adjective

journal m (feminine journale, masculine plural journaux, feminine plural journales)

1. That is relative to each day; journal.

Noun

journal m (plural journaux)

1. diary, journal
2. newspaper
3. periodical
4. (computing) log

Derived terms

• journalisme
• journaliste

Descendants

• Russian: журнал (žurnal)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• jornal
• journel
• jurnel

Adjective

journal m

1. daily

Descendants

• English: journal (borrowed)
• French: journal