English[edit]
A multilingual direction sign at Hampton Court railway station.
Etymology[edit]
From multi- + lingual.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
multilingual (comparative more multilingual, superlative most multilingual)
- Of, relating to, or involving multiple languages.
- Synonyms: many-tongued, multilanguage, multilinguistic, plurilingual
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 9:In reality, the multidimensionality of language contact in multilingual environments ensures no such neat compartmentalisation.
- (of a person) Able to communicate in a number of languages.
- Synonym: polyglot
- Antonyms: monolingual, unilingual
- Hyponyms: bilingual, trilingual
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
pertaining to multiple languages
- Arabic: مُتَعَدِّد اللُّغَات (mutaʕaddid al-luḡāt), أَلْسُنِيّ (ʔalsuniyy), لُغَاتِيّ (luḡātiyy)
- Azerbaijani: çoxdilli
- Basque: eleanitz (eu)
- Belarusian: шматмо́ўны (šmatmóŭny), мнагамо́ўны (mnahamóŭny)
- Bulgarian: многоези́чен (mnogoezíčen)
- Catalan: multilingüe (ca), plurilingüe
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 多種語言／多种语言 (zh) (duōzhǒngyǔyán), 多語／多语 (duōyǔ)
- Czech: vícejazyčný, mnohojazyčný (cs)
- Danish: flersproget
- Dutch: meertalig (nl)
- Esperanto: plurlingva, multlingva
- Finnish: monikielinen (fi)
- French: plurilingue (fr), multilingue (fr)
- Galician: multilingüe m or f, plurilingüe m or f
- Georgian: მრავალენობრივი (mravalenobrivi), მულტილინგვური (mulṭilingvuri)
- German: vielsprachig (de), mehrsprachig (de); multilingual (de), polyglott (de), polyglottisch
- Greek: πολύγλωσσος (el) (polýglossos)
- Hungarian: többnyelvű (hu), soknyelvű (hu)
- Icelandic: fjöltyngdur (is)
- Indonesian: multibahasa (id)
- Interlingua: multilingue
- Italian: plurilingue, multilingue (it)
- Japanese: 多言語 (ja) (たげんご, tagengo)
- Korean: 다중언어(多重言語) (dajung'eoneo), 다국어(多國語) (ko) (dagugeo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: pirzimanî (ku)
- Latvian: daudzvalodīgs (lv)
- Macedonian: повеќеја́зичен (poveḱejázičen)
- Maori: reomaha (mi)
- Navajo: díkwííshį́į́ saad yidiitsʼaʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: flerspråklig (no)
- Nynorsk: fleirspråkleg
- Persian: چند زبانه (čand zabâne)
- Polish: wielojęzyczny (pl)
- Portuguese: multilíngue (pt) (chiefly, Brazil), multilingue (chiefly, Portugal), plurilíngue (pt) (chiefly, Brazil), plurilingue (chiefly, Portugal)
- Russian: многоязы́чный (ru) (mnogojazýčnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: ioma-chànaineach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вишејезичан
- Roman: višejezičan (sh)
- Slovak: mnohojazyčný
- Slovene: večjezičen (sl)
- Spanish: multilingüe (es), plurilingüe (es)
- Swedish: flerspråkig (sv), mångspråkig (sv)
- Telugu: బహుభాషా (bahubhāṣā)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: çokdilli (tr)
- Ukrainian: багатомо́вний (uk) (bahatomóvnyj)
- Urdu: کثیر اللسان (ur)
- Vietnamese: đa ngôn ngữ
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able to communicate fluently in multiple languages
- Albanian: shumëgjuhësh
- Arabic: أَلْسُنِيّ (ʔalsuniyy), لِسانجيّ
- Azerbaijani: çoxdilli
- Basque: eleanitz (eu)
- Catalan: multilingüe (ca), plurilingüe
- Finnish: monikielinen (fi)
- French: polyglotte (fr)
- Galician: multilingüe m or f, plurilingüe m or f, políglota m or f
- Georgian: მრავალენოვანი (mravalenovani)
- German: mehrsprachig (de), polyglott (de)
- Greek: πολύγλωσσος (el) (polýglossos)
- Ancient: πολύγλωσσος (polúglōssos)
- Hungarian: poliglott (hu)
- Macedonian: повеќеја́зичен m (poveḱejázičen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: flerspråklig (no)
- Nynorsk: fleirspråkleg
- Polish: wielojęzyczny (pl)
- Portuguese: poliglota (pt), multilíngue (pt) m or f, multilingue m or f, plurilíngue (pt) m or f, plurilingue m or f
- Russian: многоязы́чный (ru) (mnogojazýčnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: ioma-chànaineach
- Spanish: multilingüe (es), plurilingüe (es)
- Swedish: flerspråkig (sv)
- Turkish: çokdilli (tr)
- Urdu: کثیر اللسان (ur) m
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multilingual (plural multilinguals)
- A polyglot.
