repeat

English

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology

From Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from Latin prefix re- ("again") + peto ("attack, beseech").

Verb

repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)

1. (transitive) or (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).

   The scientists repeat the experiment in order to confirm the result.

Related terms

• repeatedly
• repetition
• repetitive
• repeat oneself

Translations

do or say again

• Afrikaans: herhaal (af)
• Arabic: كرر (ar) (kárrara), أعاد (ar) (ʾaʿāda)
• Armenian: կրկնել (hy) (krknel)
• Belarusian: паўтараць (be) (paŭtarác')
• Bulgarian: повтарям (bg) (povtárjam)
• Burmese: ထပ် (my) (htat)
• Catalan: repetir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重複 (cmn), 重复 (cmn) (chóngfù)

• Czech: opakovat (cs)
• Danish: gentage (da), repetere (da)
• Dutch: herhalen (nl), wederhalen (nl), herdoen (nl), herzeggen (nl)
• Esperanto: ripeti (eo)
• Finnish: toistaa (fi)
• French: répéter (fr)
• German: wiederholen (de)
• Guernésiais: répetar
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: दोहराना (hi) (dōhrānā), फिर से कहना (hi) (phir sē kahnā)
• Hungarian: megismétel (hu)
• Icelandic: endurtaka (is)
• Indonesian: mengulang
• Interlingua: repeter (ia)
• Italian: ripetere (it)

• Japanese: 繰り返す (ja) (くりかえす, kurikaesu)
• Jèrriais: èrpéter
• Korean: 되풀이하다 (ko) (doepuri-hada), 반복하다 (ko) (banbok-hada)
• Latin: repeto (la), itero (la)
• Malay: ulang (ms)
• Persian: تکرار شدن (fa) (takrâr šodan)
• Polish: powtarzać (pl)
• Portuguese: repetir (pt)
• Russian: повторять (ru) (povtorjátʹ) impf., повторить (ru) (povtorítʹ) pf.
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поно̀вити (sh)

  Roman: ponòviti (sh)

• Slovak: opakovať (sk)
• Slovene: ponoviti (sl)
• Spanish: repetir (es)
• Swedish: repetera, upprepa
• Thai: ทำซ้ำ (th) (tam sám)
• Turkish: tekrarlamak (tr), yinelemek (tr), tekrar etmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: повторювати (uk) (povtórjuvaty)
• Urdu: دوہرانا (ur) (dōhrānā)
• Vietnamese: nhắc lại (vi)
• Welsh: ailadrodd (cy)

Noun

repeat (plural repeats)

1. An iteration; a repetition.

   We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.

2. A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.

See also

• redundant

Anagrams

• retape