diary

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Etymology

From Latin diārium ‎(“a daily allowance for soldiers, Late Latin also a diary”), neuter of * diarius, from dies ‎(“a day”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪəri/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪəri

Noun

diary ‎(plural diaries)

1. A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.

   They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.

2. (Britain, Canada) A personal organizer or appointment diary.
   • 2004, Victoria Kidwell, Homework (page 29)

     It is recommended that teachers and pupils are issued with homework diaries to help implement and monitor the homework timetable.

Synonyms

• daybook
• journal

Derived terms

• diarist

Related terms

• diurnal
• journal

Coordinate terms

• calendar
• daybook
• chronicle
• log

Translations

daily log of experiences

• Afrikaans: dagboek (af)
• Albanian: ditar (sq)
• Arabic: يَوْمِيَّات f pl ‎(yawmiyyāt)
• Armenian: օրագիր (hy) ‎(ōragir)
• Asturian: diariu m
• Azeri: gündəlik (az)
• Belarusian: дзённік m ‎(dzjónnik)
• Bengali: দিনলিপি ‎(dinalipi)
• Bulgarian: дневни́к (bg) m ‎(dnevník)
• Burmese: ဒိုင်ယာရီ (my) ‎(duing-yari), နေ့စဉ်မှတ်တမ်း (my) ‎(ne.canyhmattam:)
• Catalan: diari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 日記, 日记 ‎(jat⁶ gei³)

  Mandarin: 日記 (zh), 日记 (zh) ‎(rìjì)

• Czech: deník (cs) m
• Danish: dagbog (da) c
• Dutch: dagboek (nl)
• Esperanto: taglibro
• Estonian: päevik
• Faroese: dagbók f
• Finnish: päivyri (fi), päiväkirja (fi)
• French: journal intime (fr) m
• Georgian: დღიური ‎(dɣiuri)
• German: Tagebuch (de) n
• Greek: ημερολόγιο (el) n ‎(imerológio)
• Gujarati: ડાયરી m ‎(ḍāyarī)
• Hebrew: יומן (he) m ‎(yoman)
• Hindi: दैनन्दिनी (hi) f ‎(dainandinī), डायरी (hi) f ‎(ḍāyarī)
• Hungarian: napló (hu)
• Icelandic: dagbók (is) f
• Ido: diario (io)
• Indonesian: buku harian (id)
• Interlingua: diario
• Irish: dialann f
• Italian: diario (it)
• Japanese: 日記 (ja) ‎(にっき, nikki)
• Kalmyk: өдрлг ‎(ödrlg)
• Kannada: ಡೈರಿ (kn) ‎(ḍairi)
• Kazakh: күнделік ‎(kündelik)
• Korean: 일기 (ko) ‎(ilgi)

• Kyrgyz: күндөлүк (ky) ‎(kündölük), дневник ‎(dnevnik)
• Lao: ສມຸດບັນທຶກ ‎(sa mut ban thưk)
• Latin: ephemeris
• Latvian: dienasgrāmata
• Lithuanian: dienoraštis (lt)
• Macedonian: дневник m ‎(dnevnik)
• Malay: diari
• Maori: pukapuka rātaka, rātaka
• Mongolian: өдрийн тэмдэглэл ‎(ödrijn temdeglel)
• Norwegian: dagbok (no) m
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: دفتر خاطرات روزانه ‎(daftar-e xâterât-e ruzâne), دفتر خاطرات ‎(daftar-e xâterât)
• Polish: dziennik (pl) m, pamiętnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: diário (pt) m
• Romanian: jurnal intim
• Russian: дневни́к (ru) m ‎(dnevník)
• Scottish Gaelic: leabhar-latha m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бележница f, дневник m

  Roman: beležnica (sh) f, dnevnik (sh) m

• Slovak: denník m
• Slovene: dnevnik (sl) m
• Spanish: diario (es) m
• Swahili: tarihi, shajara (sw)
• Swedish: dagbok (sv)
• Tagalog: talaarawan
• Tamil: நாட்குறிப்பு (ta) ‎(nāṭkuṟippu)
• Telugu: డైరీ (te) ‎(ḍairī)
• Thai: สมุดบันทึก ‎(sà-mòot ban-téuk)
• Turkish: günlük (tr)
• Turkmen: gündelik
• Ukrainian: щоде́нник (uk) m ‎(ščodénnyk)
• Urdu: ڈائری f ‎(ḍāyarī)
• Uzbek: kundalik (uz)
• Vietnamese: sổ nhật ký
• Volapük: delabuk (vo)
• Welsh: dyddiadur
• Yiddish: טאָג־בוך n ‎(tog–bukh)

Adjective

diary ‎(not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
   • Francis Bacon

     The offer of a usurpation, though it was but as a diary ague.

Verb

diary ‎(third-person singular simple present diaries, present participle diarying, simple past and past participle diaried)

1. (intransitive) To keep a diary or journal.
   • 2015, Hugh O'Donovan, Mindful Walking

     As part of her mindful movement practise, diarying is important to Sarah. 'It gives me a chance to see what is going on, to reflect on my experience.'

External links

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

Anagrams

• dairy