palindrome

See also: Palindrome

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palíndromos, “running back again”), from πάλιν (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪndɹəʊm/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪndɹoʊm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

palindrome (plural palindromes)

1. A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

   “Rise to vote sir” is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome.

   Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes.

2. (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
3. (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand

Derived terms

• (genetics): massive palindrome

Translations

a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards

• Abkhaz: апалиндром (apʼalindrom)
• Afrikaans: palindroom (af)
• Albanian: palindromi
• Arabic: قَلْب مُسْتَوٍ m (qalb mustawin)
• Armenian: պալինդրոմ (hy) (palindrom), դարձգիր (darjgir)
• Assamese: পেলিনড্ৰোম (pelinodrüm)
• Azerbaijani: palindrom
• Basque: palindromo
• Belarusian: паліндро́м m (palindróm)
• Bengali: প্যালিনড্রোম (pêlinḍrōm)
• Bikol Central: palindromo
• Bulgarian: палиндром m (palindrom)
• Catalan: palíndrom m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 回文 (wui⁴ man⁴)

  Mandarin: 回文 (zh) (huíwén)

• Czech: palindrom (cs) m
• Danish: palindrom n
• Dutch: palindroom (nl) n
• Esperanto: palindromo
• Faroese: palindrom
• Finnish: palindromi (fi)
• French: palindrome (fr) m
• Galician: palíndromo (gl) m
• Georgian: პალინდრომი (ṗalindromi)
• German: Palindrom (de) n
• Greek: καρκινική γραφή f (karkinikí grafí)
• Hebrew: פלינדרום (he) m (pálindrom)
• Hindi: चित्रकाव्य (hi) (citrakāvya)
• Hungarian: palindrom (hu)
• Icelandic: samhverfa (is) f
• Ido: palindromo (io)
• Indonesian: palindrom (id)
• Interlingua: palindromo
• Irish: palandróm m
• Italian: palindromo (it) m
• Japanese: 回文 (ja) (かいぶん, kaibun)
• Kannada: ಗತಪ್ರತ್ಯಾಗತ (kn) (gatapratyāgata)
• Korean: 회문(回文) (hoemun)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: palîndrom (ku)

• Kyrgyz: палиндром (ky) (palindrom)
• Latin: palindromus
• Latvian: palindroms m
• Limburgish: palindroom
• Lithuanian: palindromas m
• Luxembourgish: Palindrom n
• Malayalam: അനുലോമവിലോമപദം (ml) (anulōmavilōmapadaṁ)
• Maori: kupu tuataurite, kupu kōaro rite (word), tau kōaro rite (number)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: palindrom (no) n

  Nynorsk: palindrom n

• Occitan: palindròm m
• Persian: پالیندروم (pâlindrom)
• Polish: palindrom (pl) m
• Portuguese: palíndromo (pt) m, capicua (pt) f
• Romanian: palindrom (ro) m
• Russian: палиндро́м (ru) m (palindróm)
• Sanskrit: अनुलोमप्रतिलोमपदम् (anulomapratilomapadam)
• Scottish Gaelic: paileandrom m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: палѝндро̄м m

  Roman: palìndrōm (sh) m

• Slovak: palindróm m
• Slovene: palindrom (sl) m
• Spanish: palíndromo (es) m (word or phrase), capicúa (es) f (number)
• Swedish: palindrom (sv) c
• Tagalog: salitambaligtarin, baligtarinsalita
• Tajik: палиндром (palindrom)
• Tamil: மாலைமாற்று (ta) (mālaimāṟṟu)
• Telugu: పత్రికాపదకోశం (patrikāpadakōśaṁ), అనులోమవిలోమ శ్లోకము (anulōmavilōma ślōkamu)
• Thai: พาลินโดรม (paa lin-doh rom)
• Turkish: palindrom (tr)
• Ukrainian: паліндром m (palindrom)
• Võro: palindruum
• Welsh: palindrom m
• West Frisian: palindroom n
• Zazaki: palîndrom

Coordinate terms

• aibohphobia
• anagram
• semordnilap

Anagrams

• pramindole

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French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palíndromos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.lɛ̃.dʁɔm/

• Audio:

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Noun

palindrome m (plural palindromes)

1. palindrome

Further reading

• “palindrome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Adjective

palindrome f

1. feminine plural of palindromo

Anagrams

• imperlando