English
Etymology
From multi- + lingual.
Pronunciation
Adjective
multilingual (comparative more multilingual, superlative most multilingual)
- Of, relating to, or involving multiple languages.
- Synonyms: 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
Translations
pertaining to multiple languages
- Arabic: مُتَعَدِّد اَللُّغَات (mutaʕaddid al-luḡāt)
- Basque: eleanitz (eu)
- Belarusian: мнагамо́ўны (mnahamóŭny), шматмо́ўны (šmatmóŭny)
- Bulgarian: многоези́чен (mnogoezíčen)
- Catalan: multilingüe (ca), plurilingüe
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 多種語言/多种语言 (zh) (duōzhǒngyǔyán), 多种语言 (zh) (duōzhǒngyǔyán), 多語/多语 (duōyǔ), 多语 (duōyǔ)
- Czech: vícejazyčný m, mnohojazyčný (cs)
- Danish: flersproget
- Dutch: meertalig (nl)
- Esperanto: 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)
- Icelandic: fjöltyngdur (is)
- Indonesian: multibahasa (id)
- Italian: multilingue (it)
- Japanese: 多言語 (ja) (たげんご, tagengo)
- Korean: 다중언어 (dajung'eoneo), 다국어 (ko) (dagugeo)
- Latvian: daudzvalodīgs
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- Macedonian: повеќеја́зичен m (poveḱejázičen)
- Maori: reomaha (mi)
- Navajo: díkwííshį́į́ saad yidiitsʼaʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: flerspråklig
- Nynorsk: fleirspråkleg
- Persian: چند زبانه
- Polish: wielojęzyczny (pl) m
- Portuguese: 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
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вишејезичан
- Roman: višejezičan (sh)
- Slovak: mnohojazyčný
- Slovene: večjezičen (sl)
- Spanish: multilingüe (es) m or f, plurilingüe (es) m or f
- Swedish: flerspråkig (sv), mångspråkig (sv)
- Telugu: బహుభాషా (bahubhāṣā)
- Turkish: çokdilli (tr)
- Ukrainian: багатомо́вний (uk) (bahatomóvnyj)
- Urdu: کثیر اللسان (ur)
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able to communicate fluently in multiple languages
Noun
multilingual (plural multilinguals)
- a polyglot