English Etymology From modern Latin biographia (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Ancient Greek βίος ( bíos , “ life ” ) + γράφω ( gráphō , “ write ” ) .
Pronunciation Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/ Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GenAm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /baɪˈɑːɡɹəfi/ Noun biography (countable and uncountable plural biographies
A person's life story , especially one published.
There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.
The art of writing this kind of story. Derived terms Related terms Translations personal life story
Albanian: biografi (sq)
Arabic: سِيرَة f ( sīra ) , تَرْجَمَةُ ٱلْحَيَاةِ f ( tarjamatu l-ḥayāti )
Armenian: կենսագրություն (hy) ( kensagrutʻyun )
Asturian: biografía f
Azerbaijani: bioqrafiya tərcümeyi-hal
Belarusian: біягра́фія f ( bijahráfija )
Bulgarian: биогра́фия (bg) f ( biográfija ) , животопи́с (bg) m ( životopís )
Catalan: biografia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傳記 ／ 传记 (zh) ( zhuànjì ) , 传记 (zh) ( zhuànjì )
Czech: životopis (cs) m
Danish: biografi (da) c
Dutch: biografie (nl) f
Esperanto: biografio
Estonian: elulugu biograafia
Faroese: ævisøga f
Finnish: elämäkerta (fi)
French: biographie (fr) f
Galician: biografía (gl) f
Georgian: ბიოგრაფია ( biograpia )
German: Biografie (de) f ( old spelling ) Biographie (de) f
Greek: βιογραφία (el) f ( viografía )
Haitian Creole: biyografi
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: जीवनी (hi) f ( jīvnī ) , जीवनकथा f ( jīvnakthā ) , ज़िंदगीनामा m ( zindgīnāmā )
Hungarian: életrajz (hu) , biográfia (hu)
Indonesian: biografi (id)
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Irish: beathaisnéis f
Italian: biografia (it) f
Japanese: 伝記 (ja) ( でんき , denki)
Kalmyk: намтр ( namtr )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Korean: 전기 (ko) ( jeon'gi ) (傳記 (ko) )
Lao: ຊີວະປະຫວັດ (lo) ( sī wa pa wat )
Latin: curriculum vitae n biographia f
Latvian: biogrāfija f
Lithuanian: biografija (lt) f
Macedonian: биографија f ( biografija ) , животопис m ( životopis )
Maori: kōrero haurongo kōrero koiora haurongo
Norwegian:
Bokmål: biografi (no) m
Nynorsk: biografi m
Occitan: biografia (oc) f
Persian: زندگینامه ( zendegi-nâme )
Polish: biografia (pl) f
Portuguese: biografia (pt) f
Romanian: biografie (ro) f
Russian: биогра́фия (ru) f ( biográfija ) , ( rare ) жизнеописа́ние (ru) n ( žizneopisánije )
Scottish Gaelic: beath-eachdraidh f eachdraidh-beatha f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: животопис m биографија f
Roman: životopis (sh) m biografija (sh) f
Slovak: životopis m
Slovene: življenjepis (sl) m biografija f
Spanish: biografía (es) f
Swedish: biografi (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ชีวประวัติ ( chii-wá-bprà-wàt )
Turkish: biyografi (tr) , yaşamöyküsü (tr)
Ukrainian: біогра́фія (uk) f ( biohráfija )
Uyghur: تەرجىمەھال ( terjimehal )
Vietnamese: tiểu sử (vi)
Yiddish: ביאָגראַפֿיע f ( byografye )
Verb biography (third-person singular simple present biographies present participle biographying simple past and past participle biographied
( transitive ) Anagrams