comment

English

Etymology

From Middle English coment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum, from comminisci (“to invent”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmɛnt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɛnt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

comment (plural comments)

1. A spoken remark.

   I have no comment on that.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.

2. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.

Translations

spoken remark

• Albanian: koment (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعْلِيق‎‎ m (taʿlīq), مَلْحُوظَة‎‎ f (malḥūẓa)
• Armenian: մեկնաբանություն (hy) (meknabanutʿyun)
• Azeri: izah (az), fikir (az), şərh (az)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: камента́р m (kamjentár)
• Bulgarian: коментар (bg) (komentar), бележка (bg) f (beležka)
• Catalan: comentari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評論 (zh), 评论 (zh) (pínglùn)

• Crimean Tatar: tefsir
• Czech: komentář (cs) m
• Danish: kommentar (da) c, bemærkning c
• Dutch: commentaar (nl)
• Esperanto: komento
• Estonian: kommentaar
• Finnish: kommentti (fi), huomautus (fi), välihuomautus
• French: commentaire (fr) m
• Georgian: კომენტარი (ḳomenṭari)
• German: Kommentar (de) m
• Greek: σχόλιο (el) n (schólio), παρατήρηση (el) f (paratírisi)
• Hindi: टिप्पणी (hi) f (ṭippaṇī)
• Hungarian: megjegyzés (hu), hozzászólás (hu), komment
• Icelandic: athugasemd (is) f
• Ido: komenturo
• Indonesian: komentar (id)
• Italian: commento (it) m
• Japanese: コメント (ja) (komento), 論評 (ろんぴょう, ronpyō)
• Kazakh: түсіндірме (tüsindirme), түсінік (tüsinik)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 논평 (nonpyeong), 코멘트 (komenteu)

• Kyrgyz: түшүндүрмө (ky) (tüşündürmö), чечмелөө (çeçmelöö), комментарий (kommentariy)
• Latvian: komentārs m
• Lithuanian: komentaras m
• Low German: Kommentar n
• Macedonian: коментар m (komentar)
• Maori: huatau
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kommentar (no) m, merknad m

  Nynorsk: kommentar m, merknad m

• Persian: نظر‎‎ (fa) (nazar), تفسیر‎‎ (fa) (tafsir)
• Polish: komentarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: comentário (pt) m
• Romanian: comentariu (ro) n
• Russian: коммента́рий (ru) m (kommentárij), замеча́ние (ru) n (zamečánije), ко́ммент (ru) m (kómment) (Internet neologism)
• Scottish Gaelic: abairt f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опаска, коментар m

  Roman: opaska (sh) f, komentar (sh) m

• Slovak: komentár m
• Slovene: komentar m
• Spanish: comentario (es) m
• Swedish: kommentar (sv) c
• Tajik: шарҳ (tg) (šarh), эзоҳ (ezoh), тафсир (tg) (tafsir)
• Telugu: వ్యాఖ్య (te) (vyākhya)
• Thai: คำติชม (kam-dtì-chom)
• Turkish: yorum (tr), tefsir (tr)
• Turkmen: düşündiriş
• Ukrainian: комента́р m (komentár)
• Uzbek: izoh (uz), mulohaza (uz), fikr (uz)
• Vietnamese: lời bình luận (vi)

programming: remark not affecting behavior

• Bulgarian: коментар (bg) (komentar)
• Catalan: comentari (ca) m
• Czech: komentář (cs) m
• Danish: kommentar (da) c
• Dutch: commentaar (nl)
• Finnish: kommentti (fi)
• German: Kommentar (de) m
• Greek: σχόλιο (el) n (schólio)
• Hungarian: megjegyzés (hu)
• Icelandic: athugasemd (is) f

• Italian: commento (it) m
• Persian: کامنت‎‎ (kâment)
• Polish: komentarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: comentário (pt) m
• Russian: коммента́рий (ru) m (kommentárij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коментар m

  Roman: komentar (sh) m

• Spanish: comentario (es) m
• Turkish: açıklama (tr)

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} تعليق‎‎
• French: ^{(please verify)} commentaire (fr) m
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} הערה‎‎ f (he'ara) (1)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} कहना (hi) m (kahnā) (kehna)

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} komento
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} comentariu n
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} kommentar (sv) c
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} کہنا‎‎ m (kehna)

See also

• pragma

Verb

comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

1. (transitive) To remark.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:

     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:

     "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."

   • 2003 July 5, Pierre Salinger, ABC News, “Analysis: Top film choices”, in NPR_Saturday:

     I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game

   • 2009 Winter, John M. Kang, “Manliness and the Constitution”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 32, number 1, page 261:

     As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."

2. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

4. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).

   I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.

5. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Derived terms

remark

• commentary
• commentate
• commentator

programming: insert comments

• comment out
• uncomment

Translations

to comment — see observe

to remark

• Arabic: عَلَّقَ‎‎ (ʿallaqa)
• Armenian: մեկնաբանել (hy) (meknabanel)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: каменці́раваць impf (kamjencíravacʹ)
• Bulgarian: коментирам (bg) (komentiram)
• Catalan: comentar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評論 (zh), 评论 (zh) (pínglùn)

• Czech: komentovat (cs)
• Danish: kommentere
• Dutch: becommentariëren (nl)
• Esperanto: komenti
• Finnish: kommentoida (fi), huomauttaa (fi)
• French: commenter (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: kommentieren (de)
• Greek: σχολιάζω (el) (scholiázo)

• Indonesian: mengomentari (id)
• Japanese: 論評する (ろんぴょうする, ronpyō-suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: коментира impf (komentira)
• Maori: huatau
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: kommentere (no)
• Polish: komentować (pl)
• Portuguese: comentar (pt), mencionar (pt)
• Russian: комменти́ровать (ru) impf (kommentírovatʹ), прокомменти́ровать (ru) pf (prokommentírovatʹ)
• Slovak: komentovať impf
• Spanish: comentar (es)
• Swedish: kommentera (sv)
• Telugu: వ్యాఖ్యానించు (vyākhyāniñcu)
• Thai: ติชม (th) (dtì-chom)
• Ukrainian: коментува́ти impf (komentuváty)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

programming: to insert comments

• Catalan: comentar (ca)
• Czech: komentovat (cs)
• Danish: kommentere
• Dutch: becommentariëren (nl)
• Finnish: kommentoida (fi)

• German: Kommentare einfügen
• Greek: σχολιάζω (el) (scholiázo)
• Polish: komentować (pl), zakomentować
• Portuguese: comentar (pt)
• Russian: комменти́ровать (ru) impf (kommentírovatʹ), закомменти́ровать (ru) pf (zakommentírovatʹ)

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} علّق ب‎‎
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} mainima
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} להעיר‎‎ (le'ha'yr) (1)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} comentar (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} kommentera

See also

• document

Further reading

• comment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• comment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “comment” at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Etymology

comme +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Adverb

comment

1. how

   Comment te sens-tu ? ― How do you feel?

Derived terms

• comment allez-vous, comment vas-tu, comment ça va (“how are you”)

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole French: konmen

Further reading

• “comment” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• cõment

Adverb

comment

1. how (in a given manner)
2. (interrogative) how (in what manner)

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Old French

Adverb

comment

1. Alternative form of comant

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English comment.

Noun

comment m (plural comments)

1. (Internet slang) comment, remark

Synonyms

• comentário