preparation

See also préparation

English

Alternative forms

• præparation (archaic)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

preparation (countable and uncountable; plural preparations)

1. (uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
2. That which is prepared.
3. (countable) A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.

   The traditional remedy is a bitter preparation made from steamed herbs.

Translations

act of preparing or getting ready

• Arabic: تحضير (ar) (taḥḍīr) m, إعداد (ar) (ʾiʿdād) m, تجهيز (ar) (tajhīz) m
• Armenian: պատրաստում (hy) (patrastum) , պատրաստություն (hy) (patrastut’yun) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 準備 (cmn), 准备 (cmn) (zhǔnbèi)

• Czech: příprava (cs) f
• Danish: forberedelse (da) c, præparation (da) c, tilberedning (da) c
• Dutch: voorbereiding (nl) f
• Esperanto: pretigo (eo)
• Finnish: valmistelu (fi), valmistautuminen (fi)
• French: préparation (fr) f
• German: Vorbereitung (de) f
• Haitian Creole: preparasyon

• Interlingua: preparation (ia)
• Irish: réamhtheacht (ga) f
• Italian: preparazione (it)
• Japanese: 準備 (ja) (じゅんび, junbi), 支度 (ja) (したく, shitaku)
• Portuguese: preparação (pt) f
• Romanian: preparare (ro) f, pregătire (ro) f
• Russian: подготовка (ru) (podgotóvka) f , приготовление (ru) (prigotovlénije) n 
• Scottish Gaelic: deasachadh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: prȉprava (sh) f, prȉprema (sh) f
• Spanish: preparación (es) f
• Swahili: tayari (sw), mapema (sw), utayarishi (sw)
• Turkish: hazırlık (tr)

a substance that is prepared

• Danish: præparat (da) n

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• Catalan: preparació (ca) f
• Serbo-Croatian: priprema, prisprema

Anagrams

• paraprotein

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɾe.pa.ɾaˈtsjon/

Noun

preparation (plural preparationes)

1. preparation