pentagon

See also: Pentagon and pentàgon

English

A regular pentagon

Etymology

From Middle French pentagone, from Late Latin pentagonum, from Ancient Greek πεντάγωνον (pentágōnon), noun use of the neuter of the adjective πεντάγωνος (pentágōnos, “five-angled”), from πέντε (pénte, “five”) + -γωνος (-gōnos, “angled”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĕn'təgŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛn.tə.ɡɑn/
• enPR: pĕn'təgən, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛn.tə.ɡən/
• Hyphenation: pen‧ta‧gon

• Audio (CA):

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Noun

pentagon (plural pentagons)

1. (geometry) A polygon with five sides and five angles.
2. A fort with five bastions.

Derived terms

• pentagonal

Translations

a polygon with five sides and five angles

• Afrikaans: pentagoon, vyfhoek
• Asturian: pentágonu m
• Belarusian: пяціку́тнік m (pjacikútnik)
• Bengali: পঞ্চভুজ (pôñcbhuj)
• Bulgarian: петоъгъ́лник m (petoǎgǎ́lnik)
• Burmese: ပဉ္စဂံ (my) (panyca.gam)
• Catalan: pentàgon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五角形 (zh) (wǔjiǎoxíng), 五边形 (zh) (wǔbiānxíng)

• Czech: pětiúhelník (cs) m
• Danish: pentagon (da) c, femkant (da) c
• Dutch: vijfhoek (nl) m
• Esperanto: kvinlatero, kvinangulo
• Finnish: viisikulmio (fi), pentagoni (fi)
• French: pentagone (fr) m
• Galician: pentágono (gl) m
• German: Fünfeck (de) n, Pentagon (de) n
• Greek: πεντάγωνο (el) n (pentágono)
• Hebrew: מחומש \ מְחֻמָּשׁ m (mekhumásh)
• Hindi: पंचकोण (hi) m (pañckoṇ)
• Hungarian: ötszög (hu)
• Icelandic: fimmhyrningur m
• Ido: pentagono (io)
• Irish: peinteagán
• Italian: pentagono (it) m
• Japanese: 五角形 (ごかくけい, gokakukei, ごかっけい, romaji gokakkei)
• Kazakh: бесбұрыш (besbūryş)
• Korean: 오각형 (ko) (ogakhyeong)
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• Latvian: piecstūris v.
• Luxembourgish: Fënnefeck m
• Macedonian: петаголник m (petagolnik)
• Malay: pancakona, segi lima
• Maori: taparima
• Navajo: ashdlaʼgo bízniikʼą́, ashdlaʼgóó adeezʼá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: femkant (no) m, pentagon (no) m

  Nynorsk: femkant m, pentagon m

• Polish: pięciokąt (pl) m
• Portuguese: pentágono (pt) m
• Russian: пятиуго́льник (ru) m (pjatiugólʹnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: петерокут m, петоугаоник m

  Roman: peterokut (sh) m, petougaonik m

• Slovak: päťuholník m
• Slovene: peterokotnik (sl) m
• Spanish: pentágono (es) m
• Swedish: pentagon (sv) c
• Tagalog: limsiha
• Tamil: ஐங்கோணம் (ta) (aiṅkōṇam)
• Thai: ห้าเหลี่ยม (th) (hâa-lìiam)
• Tibetan: གཞོགས་ལྡ (gzhogs lda)
• Turkish: beşgen (tr)
• Ukrainian: п'ятику́тник m (pʺjatykútnyk)
• Welsh: pumongl m
• Zulu: unxanhlanu class 1a/2a

See also

• Wikipedia article on pentagons
• pentagram
• quinquangle

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Danish

Noun

pentagon c (singular definite pentagonen, plural indefinite pentagoner)

1. pentagon

Declension

Declension of pentagon

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pentagon	pentagonen	pentagoner	pentagonerne
genitive	pentagons	pentagonens	pentagoners	pentagonernes

Synonyms

• femkant

Related terms

• pentagonal

References

• “pentagon” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From penta- +‎ -gon

Noun

pentagon m (definite singular pentagonen, indefinite plural pentagoner, definite plural pentagonene)

1. (geometry) a pentagon

Synonyms

• femkant

References

• “pentagon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pentagon” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From penta- +‎ -gon

Noun

pentagon m (definite singular pentagonen, indefinite plural pentagonar, definite plural pentagonane)

1. (geometry) a pentagon

Synonyms

• femkant

References

• “pentagon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.