English [edit]
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Alternative forms [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹɒ.pə(ɹ).ti/
- (US) enPR: prŏpʹərtēˌ, IPA: [ˈpɹɑpɚtiː]
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- Hyphenation: prop‧erty
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English /Anglo-Norman proprete, from Middle French propreté, from Old French propriete (modern propriété), itself, from Latin proprietas, from proprius 'own'.
property (countable and uncountable; plural properties)
- Something that is owned.
- Leave those books alone! They are my property.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
- There is a large house on the property.
- Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).
- real estate; the business of selling houses.
- He works in property as a housing consultant.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
- Charm is his most endearing property
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
- Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
- (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
- You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
- (usually in the plural, theater) An object used in a dramatic production
- Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from "property"
Related terms [edit]
Terms etymologically related to "property"
Translations [edit]
something owned
- Arabic: ملك (ar) (mulk) m
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: սեփականություն (hy) (sep’akanut’yun), ունեցվածք (hy) (unec’vaçk’), գույք (hy) (guyk’)
- Asturian: propiedá (ast) f
- Catalan: propietat (ca) f, possessió (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᏧᎬᏩᎶᏗ ᏂᎬᎿᏅ (chr) (tsugvwalodi nigvhnanv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 財產 (cmn), 财产 (cmn) (cáichǎn), 資產 (cmn), 资产 (cmn) (zīchǎn), 所有物 (cmn) (suǒyǒuwù)
- Czech: majetek (cs) m, vlastnictví (cs) n
- Danish: ejendom (da) c, besiddelse (da) c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: eigendom (nl) n, bezitting (nl), goed (nl) n, bezit (nl) n
- Esperanto: havo (eo), propraĵo (eo), posedaĵo (eo), proprietaĵo (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: ogn (fo) f
- Finnish: omaisuus (fi)
- French: propriété (fr) f
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: propiedade (gl) f
- Georgian: საკუთრება (ka) (sakut'reba)
- German: Eigentum (de) n, Besitz (de) m
- Greek: ιδιοκτησία (el) (idioktisía) f (idioktisía)
- Hebrew: רכוש (he) (rekhúsh) m
- Hiligaynon: abír
- Hungarian: tulajdon (hu)
- Icelandic: eign (is) f
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: maoin (ga) f, sealúchas (ga) m
- Italian: proprietà (it) f, beni (it) m pl
- Japanese: 財産 (ja) (ざいさん, zaisan), 資産 (ja) (shisan), 所有物 (ja) (shoyū-butsu)
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- Jèrriais: propriêté f
- Khmer: ទ្រព្យ (km) (troap)
- Korean: 재산 (ko) (jaesan), 소유물 (ko) (soyumul)
- Latgalian: sovums, monta
- Latin: bona (la) n pl, res (la) f, possessio (la) f
- Latvian: īpašums (lv)
- Lithuanian: nuosavybė (lt) f, turtas (lt) m
- Macedonian: сопственост (mk) (sópstvenost) f, своина (mk) (svóina) f, поседок (mk) (pósedok) m
- Malagasy: tondro (mg)
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: eiendom (nb) m, løsøre (nb) n, lausøyre (nn) m
- Polish: własność (pl) f
- Portuguese: propriedade (pt) f
- Romanian: proprietate (ro) f
- Russian: имущество (ru) (imúščestvo) n, собственность (ru) (sóbstvennost’) f
- Scots: please add this translation if you can
- Scottish Gaelic: sealbh (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian: власништво (sh) n, посед (sh) m, својина (sh) f
- Roman: vlȃsnīštvo (sh) n, posed (sh) m, svojìna (sh) f
- Slovak: majetok (sk) m
- Slovene: lastnina (sl) f, last (sl) f
- Spanish: propiedad (es) f, posesión (es) f
- Swedish: egendom (sv) c
- Telugu: ఆస్తి (te) (āsti)
- Turkish: mal (tr)
- Ukrainian: власність (uk) (vlásnist') f, майно (uk) (majnó) n
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
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piece of real estate
- Arabic: ملكية (ar)
- Armenian: անշարժ գույք (hy) (anšarž guyk’)
- Catalan: propietat (ca) f
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 產業 (cmn), 产业 (cmn) (chǎnyè)
- Czech: nemovitost (cs) f
- Danish: ejendom (da) c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: (land)eigendom, land-, onroerend bezit, landgoed, domein, goed n
- Esperanto: bieno (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: ogn (fo) c
- Finnish: kiinteistö (fi), tontti (fi), määräala (fi), tila (fi)
- French: possession (fr) f, domaine (fr) m, propriété (fr) f
- German: Anwesen (de) n, Grundbesitz (de) m, Grundstück (de) n
- Greek: κτήμα (el) (ktíma) n
- Hebrew: נכס (he) (nékhes) m
- Hiligaynon: abír
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- Hungarian: ingatlan (hu), birtok (hu)
- Icelandic: landeign (is) f, fasteign (is) f
- Irish: réadmhaoin (ga) f
- Italian: proprietà (it) f, possesso (it) m, beni immobili (it) m pl
- Japanese: 資産 (ja) (shisan), 所有地 (ja) (shoyū-chi)
- Jèrriais: propriêté f
- Khmer: អចលវត្ថុ (km) (a’cha’la’ voattʰo’)
- Korean: 재산 (ko) (jaesan), 소유지 (ko) (soyuji)
- Macedonian: имот (mk) (ímot) m
- Malagasy: fananana (mg)
- Norwegian: tomt (no) f, eiendom (nb) m, eigedom (nn) m
- Polish: posesja (pl) f, posiadłość (pl) f
- Russian: недвижимость (ru) (nedvížimost’) f, собственность (ru) (sóbstvennost’) f
- Serbo-Croatian: imánje (sh) n, gospodárstvo (sh) n, pósjed (sh) m
- Spanish: propiedad (es) f, finca (es) f, bienes (es) m pl, posesión (es) f
- Swedish: egendom (sv) c
- Telugu: ఆస్తి (aasti)
- Turkish: mülk (tr), emlak (tr)
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exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing
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- Japanese: 資産 (ja) (shisan), 所有権 (ja) (shoyū-ken)
- Jèrriais: propriêté f
- Korean: 소유관 (ko) (soyugwan)
- Latin: proprietās (la) f, possessio (la) f, dominium (la) n
- Macedonian: сопственост (mk) (sópstvenost) f, своина (mk) (svóina) f
- Norwegian: eiendomsrett (nb) m, eigedomsrett (nn) m
- Polish: posiadanie (pl) n, własność (pl) f, prawo własności (pl) n
- Romanian: posesie (ro) f, drept de proprietate (ro) n, posesiune (ro) f
- Russian: собственность (sóbstvennost’) f, право собственности (právo sóbstvennosti) n
- Slovene: lastništvo n
- Spanish: pertenecia (es) f
- Swedish: egendom (sv) c
- Turkish: mülkiyet (tr)
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attribute or abstract quality associated with an object, individual or concept
an attribute characteristic of a class of objects
an object used in a dramatic production
computing: an editable parameter associated with an application, or its value
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
property (third-person singular simple present properties, present participle propertying, simple past and past participle propertied)
- (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
- Shakespeare
- They have here propertied me.
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