Category:Figures of speech by language

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Categories with terms whose interpretation is not strictly literal, but are used in figurative ways or for special effect.

This is an umbrella category. It contains no dictionary entries, but only other, language-specific categories, which in turn contain relevant terms in a given language.

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This category has the following 200 subcategories, out of 247 total.

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Figures of speech subcategories by language (17 c, 0 e)

A

Abkhaz figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Acehnese figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Adyghe figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Afrikaans figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Äiwoo figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Akkadian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Albanian figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Alemannic German figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Amharic figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Ancient Greek figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Arabic figures of speech (8 c, 0 e)
Armenian figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Asi figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Asturian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Azerbaijani figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)

B

Bashkir figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Basque figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Bavarian figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Belarusian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Bengali figures of speech (2 c, 1 e)
Betawi figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Bikol Central figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Bourguignon figures of speech (1 c, 2 e)
Bouyei figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Brahui figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Breton figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Bulgarian figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Burmese figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)

C

Cantonese figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Catalan figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Cebuano figures of speech (6 c, 0 e)
Central Franconian figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Chichewa figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Chickasaw figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Chinese figures of speech (9 c, 0 e)
Cimbrian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Classical Nahuatl figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Classical Syriac figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Crimean Tatar figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Czech figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)

D

E

East Central German figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Eastern Min figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Ede Nago figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Egyptian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Egyptian Arabic figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Emilian figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
English figures of speech (12 c, 0 e)
Esperanto figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Estonian figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)

F

G

Galician figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Gan figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Ge'ez figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Georgian figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
German figures of speech (8 c, 0 e)
German Low German figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Greek figures of speech (7 c, 0 e)
Gujarati figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Gulf Arabic figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Gullah figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)

H

Haitian Creole figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Hakka figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Hausa figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Hawaiian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Hawaiian Creole figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Hebrew figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Hijazi Arabic figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Hiligaynon figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Hindi figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Hokkien figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Hungarian figures of speech (7 c, 0 e)
Hunsrik figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)

I

Icelandic figures of speech (6 c, 0 e)
Ido figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Ifè figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Igala figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Igbo figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Ilocano figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Indonesian figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Ingrian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Ingush figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Interlingua figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Irish figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Italian figures of speech (6 c, 0 e)

J

Jamaican Creole figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Japanese figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Jeju figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Jin figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Judeo-Italian figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)

K

Kalasha figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Kalmyk figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Kankanaey figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Kannada figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Kapampangan figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Karelian figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Kashmiri figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Kashubian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Khakas figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Khmer figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Kikuyu figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Kildin Sami figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Klingon figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Konkani figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Korean figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Kumyk figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)

L

Ladino figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Lao figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Latin figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Latvian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Laz figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Leizhou Min figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Ligurian figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Limburgish figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Lithuanian figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Livvi figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Louisiana Creole figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Lower Sorbian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Low German figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Luxembourgish figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)

M

Macanese figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Macedonian figures of speech (6 c, 0 e)
Magahi figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Maithili figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Malagasy figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Malay figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Malayalam figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Maltese figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Manchu figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Mandarin figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Manipuri figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Manx figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Maori figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Marathi figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Marshallese figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Middle Chinese figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Middle English figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Middle French figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Middle High German figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Mingrelian figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Mon figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Mongolian figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Moroccan Arabic figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)

N

Najdi Arabic figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Navajo figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Na'vi figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Neapolitan figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Nepali figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Nez Perce figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Norman figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Northern East Cree figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Northern Kurdish figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Northern Min figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
North Levantine Arabic figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Norwegian figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Norwegian Bokmål figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Norwegian Nynorsk figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)

O

Occitan figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Old Chinese figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Old Church Slavonic figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Old English figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Old French figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Old Galician-Portuguese figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Old Irish figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Old Japanese figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Old Norse figures of speech (3 c, 0 e)
Old Spanish figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Old Tupi figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Olukumi figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Ottoman Turkish figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)

P

Pannonian Rusyn figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Papiamentu figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Persian figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Polish figures of speech (8 c, 0 e)
Portuguese figures of speech (7 c, 0 e)
Proto-Germanic figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Proto-Indo-European figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Proto-Slavic figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Punjabi figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Puxian Min figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)

R

Romanian figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Russian figures of speech (6 c, 0 e)

S

Salar figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Samoan figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Sanskrit figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Sassarese figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Saterland Frisian figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Scots figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Scottish Gaelic figures of speech (4 c, 0 e)
Serbo-Croatian figures of speech (5 c, 0 e)
Shan figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Sichuanese figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)
Sicilian figures of speech (2 c, 0 e)
Silesian figures of speech (1 c, 0 e)

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