postcard

See also: post card

English

Wikipedia

A postcard.

Alternative forms

• post card

Etymology

post +‎ card

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊstˌkɑɹd/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

postcard ‎(plural postcards)

1. A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended to be written on and mailed without an envelope. In the case of a picture postcard one side carries a picture or photograph.

Translations

rectangular piece of thick paper to be mailed without an envelope

• Afrikaans: briefkaart
• Albanian: kartolinë (sq) f, kartpostale f
• Arabic: كَرْت بَرِيدِيّ m ‎(kart barīdiyy)
• Armenian: բացիկն ‎(bacʿikn)
• Asturian: postal f
• Azeri: otkrıtka, poçt kartı
• Belarusian: пашто́ўка f ‎(paštóŭka)
• Bengali: পোস্টকার্ড ‎(posṭôkarḍ), পোষ্টকার্ড ‎(poshṭôkarḍ)
• Bulgarian: по́щенска (bg) f ‎(póštenska), по́щенска ка́ртичка f ‎(póštenska kártička)
• Burmese: ပို့စကတ် (my) ‎(pui.ca.kat)
• Catalan: targeta postal f, postal f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 明信片 ‎(ming⁴ seon³ pin³⁻²)

  Mandarin: 明信片 (zh) ‎(míngxìnpiàn)

  Min Nan: 明信片 ‎(bêng-sìn-phìⁿ), 光批 ‎(kng-phe, kuiⁿ-phoe)

• Czech: pohlednice f, pohled (cs) m
• Danish: brevkort n, postkort n
• Dutch: briefkaart (nl) f
• Esperanto: poŝtkarto
• Estonian: postkaart (et)
• Faroese: postkort
• Finnish: kirjekortti, postikortti (fi)
• French: carte postale (fr) f
• Galician: tarxeta postal f, postal f
• Georgian: საფოსტო ღია ბარათი ‎(saposṭo ɣia barati), ღია ბარათი ‎(ɣia barati)
• German: Postkarte (de) f
• Greek: κάρτα (el) f ‎(kárta)
• Hausa: fôskātì m
• Hebrew: גְּלוּיָה f ‎(g'luyá)
• Hindi: पोस्टकार्ड (hi) f ‎(posṭkārḍ)
• Hungarian: képeslap (hu)
• Icelandic: póstkort n, kort (is) n, (rare) bréfspjald n
• Indonesian: kartu pos (id)
• Irish: cárta poist m
• Italian: cartolina (it)
• Japanese: 葉書 ‎(はがき, hagaki)
• Javanese: kertu pos
• Kazakh: ашық хат (kk) ‎(aşıq xat)
• Korean: 그림엽서 (ko) ‎(geurimyeopseo), 엽서 (ko) ‎(yeopseo)
• Kyrgyz: почта открыткасы ‎(poçta otkrıtkası), открытка ‎(otkrıtka)

• Lao: ຮູບບັດ ‎(hūp bat), ບັດໄປສະນີ ‎(bat pai sa nī), ບັດ ‎(bat)
• Latvian: pastkarte f, atklātne f
• Lithuanian: atvirutė f
• Macedonian: разгле́дница f ‎(razglédnica)
• Malay: poskad (ms)
• Mongolian: ил захидал (mn) ‎(il zahidal)
• Norman: carte postale f
• Norwegian: brevkort

  Bokmål: postkort n

  Nynorsk: postkort n

• Papiamentu: pòstkart
• Persian: کارت پستال (fa) ‎(kârt postâl)
• Polish: karta pocztowa (pl) f, pocztówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cartão-postal m, postal (pt) m
• Romanian: carte poștală f
• Russian: почто́вая откры́тка f ‎(počtóvaja otkrýtka), откры́тка (ru) f ‎(otkrýtka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt-phuist f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дописница f, разгледница f

  Roman: dopisnica (sh) f, rázglednica (sh) f

• Slovak: pohľadnica f
• Slovene: razglednica (sl) f
• Spanish: tarjeta postal f, postal (es) f
• Swahili: postkadi
• Swedish: vykort (sv) n, brevkort n
• Tagalog: tarheta-postal
• Tajik: руқъа ‎(ruqʾa)
• Tatar: открытка ‎(otkrıtka)
• Thai: โปสการ์ด ‎(bpòht-gàat)
• Turkish: kartpostal (tr)
• Turkmen: otkrytka
• Ukrainian: листі́вка f ‎(lystívka), пошто́ва листі́вка f ‎(poštóva lystívka)
• Urdu: پوسٹ کارڈ f ‎(posṭ kārḍ)
• Uyghur: ئاتكىرىتكا ‎(atkiritka)
• Uzbek: pochta varaqasi, otkritka (uz), ochiq xat
• Vietnamese: bưu thiếp
• Vilamovian: pöstkiöt
• Welsh: cerdyn post
• West Frisian: brievekaart
• Yiddish: פּאָסטקאַרטל ‎(postkartl)
• Zulu: iliposikhadi

Verb

postcard ‎(third-person singular simple present postcards, present participle postcarding, simple past and past participle postcarded)

1. (transitive) To send a postcard to.

   to postcard one's friends

2. (transitive) To send by means of a postcard.

   to postcard one's news