paraphrase

See also: Paraphrase and paraphrasé

English

Etymology

From Middle French paraphrase

Noun

paraphrase (plural paraphrases)

1. A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.

Derived terms

• paraphrastic
• paraphrastical
• paraphrastically

Translations

restatement of a text

• Esperanto: parafrazo
• French: paraphrase (fr) f
• German: Umschreibung f
• Greek: παράφρασις (el) f (paráfrasis)
• Hungarian: körülírás (hu), átfogalmazás
• Ido: parafrazo (io)
• Latin: paraphrasis f

• Polish: parafraza f
• Portuguese: paráfrase (pt) f
• Russian: переска́з (ru) m (pereskáz), парафраз (ru) m (parafraz), парафра́за (ru) f (parafráza)
• Spanish: paráfrasis (es)
• Swahili: falisi (sw)
• Turkish: açım (tr), açımlama (tr), açımlanım, şerh (tr) (archaic), teşrih (tr) (archaic)

See also

• Etymology of translation
• metaphrase

Verb

paraphrase (third-person singular simple present paraphrases, present participle paraphrasing, simple past and past participle paraphrased)

1. To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.

Translations

to compose a paraphrase

• Arabic: سَرَدَ‏‎ (sarada)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釋義 (zh), 释义 (zh) (shìyì), 意譯 (zh), 意译 (zh) (yìyì), (retell) 復述 (zh), 复述 (zh) (fùshù)

• French: paraphraser (fr)
• German: umschreiben (de), paraphrasieren (de)
• Hungarian: elmagyaráz (hu)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} parafrasare

• Japanese: 言い換える (いいかえる, iikaeru), 引用 (いんようする, in'yō-surú)
• Portuguese: parafrasear (pt)
• Romanian: parafraza (ro), (rare) perifraza (ro)
• Russian: парафрази́ровать (ru) (parafrazírovatʹ), (retell) переска́зывать (ru) (pereskázyvatʹ)
• Spanish: parafrasear (es)
• Swahili: falisi (sw)
• Turkish: açımlamak (tr), şerh etmek (tr) (archaic), teşrih etmek (tr) (archaic)

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Pronunciation

• Homophones: paraphrasent, paraphrases

Verb

paraphrase

1. first-person singular present indicative of paraphraser
2. third-person singular present indicative of paraphraser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of paraphraser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of paraphraser
5. second-person singular imperative of paraphraser