diary

English

Etymology

From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *diārius, from diēs (“a day”). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪəɹi/, /ˈdaɪɹi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪəri, -aɪɹi

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. (British, 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

Coordinate terms

• calendar
• daybook
• chronicle
• log

Derived terms

• diarism
• diarist

Related terms

• diurnal
• journal

Translations

daily log of experiences

• Afrikaans: dagboek (af)
• Albanian: ditar (sq)
• Arabic: دَفْتَرُ يَوْمِيّاتٍ (daftaru yawmiyyātin); يَوْمِيَّات f pl (yawmiyyāt); دَفْتَرُ مُذَكِّراتٍ (daftaru muḏakkirātin); مُذَكِّرات (muḏakkirāt)
• Armenian: օրագիր (hy) (ōragir)
• Asturian: diariu m
• Azerbaijani: gündəlik (az)
• Belarusian: дзённік m (dzjónnik)
• Bengali: দিনলিপি (dinlipi)
• Bulgarian: дневник (bg) m (dnevnik)
• Burmese: ဒိုင်ယာရီ (my) (duing-yari), နေ့စဉ်မှတ်တမ်း (my) (ne.canyhmattam:)
• Catalan: diari (ca) m
• Central Dusun: diari
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 日記／日记 (jat⁶ gei³), 日记 (jat⁶ gei³)

  Mandarin: 日記／日记 (zh) (rìjì), 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
• Galician: diario (gl) 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 (ḍāyrī)
• Hungarian: napló (hu)
• Icelandic: dagbók (is) f
• Ido: diario (io)
• Indonesian: buku harian (id), diari
• 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 (kündelık)
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• Khmer: ជំនិតដៃ (cumnɨt day)
• Korean: 일기 (ko) (ilgi)
• Kyrgyz: күндөлүк (ky) (kündölük), дневник (dnevnik)
• Lao: ສມຸດບັນທຶກ (sa mut ban thưk)
• Latin: ephemeris, commentārius (la) m
• Latvian: dienasgrāmata
• Lithuanian: dienoraštis (lt)
• Macedonian: дневник m (dnevnik)
• Malay: diari
• Maori: pukapuka rātaka, rātaka
• Mongolian: өдрийн тэмдэглэл (ödriin 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: อนุทิน (th) (à-nú-tin), ไดอารี (dai-aa-rîi)
• 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, dyddlyfr m
• Yiddish: טאָג־בוך n (tog-bukh)

Adjective

diary (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
   • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.'

Further reading

• “diary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “diary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “diary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• dairy, yaird