postcard

English

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A postcard.

Alternative forms

• post card

Etymology

post +‎ card

Pronunciation

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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, kartpostale
• Arabic: كرت البريدي m (kart al-bariidiy)
• Armenian: բացիկն (bacʿikn)
• Asturian: postal f
• Azeri: otkrıtka
• Belarusian: паштоўка f (paštóŭka)
• Bulgarian: пощенска (bg) f (poštenska)
• Catalan: targeta postal f, postal f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 明信片 (zh) (míngxìnpiàn)

• Czech: pohlednice f, pohled (cs) m
• Danish: brevkort, postkort
• Dutch: briefkaart (nl)
• 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 (sap’osto ḡia barat’i)
• German: Postkarte (de) f
• Greek: κάρτα (el) (kárta)
• Hausa: fôskātì m
• Hebrew: גְּלוּיָה f (g'luyá)
• Hindi: पोस्टकार्ड 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
• Jèrriais: carte postale f
• Korean: 그림엽서 (ko) (geurim-yeopseo)

• Latvian: pastkarte, atklātne
• Lithuanian: atvirutė
• Macedonian: разгледница f (razglédnica)
• Malay: poskad
• Mongolian: ил захидал (il zahidal)
• 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
• Romanian: carte poștală f
• Russian: почтовая открытка f (počtóvaja otkrýtka), открытка (ru) f (otkrýtka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt-phuist f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дописница f, разгледница f

  Roman: dopisnica (sh) f, rázglednica f

• Slovak: pohľadnica f
• Slovene: razglednica (sl) f
• Spanish: tarjeta postal f, postal (es) f
• Swahili: postkadi
• Swedish: vykort (sv) n, brevkort n
• Thai: โปสการ์ด (bpòte-gàat)
• Turkish: kartpostal (tr)
• Ukrainian: листівка f (lystívka)
• Urdu: پوسٹ کارڈ f (posṭ kārḍ)
• Vietnamese: bưu thiếp
• Vilamovian: pöstkiöt
• Welsh: cerdyn post
• West Frisian: brievekaart
• Zulu: iliposikhadi

See also

• letter