recommendation

English

Etymology

From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, /ˌɹɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

recommendation (countable and uncountable, plural recommendations)

1. An act of recommending.
2. That which is recommended.
3. A commendation or endorsement.

   Your next employer may require a recommendation.

4. A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about" for the context and "to" for the course of action)

   He made a recommendation about what food to order.

   We followed the recommendation to order sushi.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

• letter of recommendation
• self-praise is no recommendation

 

Translations

act of recommending

• Albanian: rekomandim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَوْصِيَة‎ f (tawṣiya)
• Armenian: հանձնարարում (hy) (hanjnararum), առաջարկում (hy) (aṙaǰarkum), խորհրդատվություն (hy) (xorhrdatvutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az)
• Belarusian: рэкаменда́цыя f (rekamjendácyja), рэкамэнда́цыя f (rekamendácyja)
• Bengali: সুপারিশ (śupariś)
• Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f (preporǎ́ka), рекоменда́ция (bg) f (rekomendácija)
• Catalan: recomanació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 勸告／劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 推薦／推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn)

• Czech: doporučení (cs) n
• Danish: anbefaling (da) c
• Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f
• Estonian: soovitus
• Finnish: suositteleminen (fi)
• French: recommandation (fr) f
• Georgian: რეკომენდაცია (reḳomendacia)
• German: Empfehlung (de) f
• Greek: σύσταση (el) f (sýstasi)
• Hebrew: הַמְלָצָה‎ f (hamlatsá)
• Hindi: सिफ़ारिश f (sifāriś)
• Hungarian: ajánlás (hu)
• Indonesian: rekomendasi (id), saran (id)
• Italian: suggerimento (it) m, consiglio (it) m, proposta (it) f
• Japanese: 勧告 (ja) (かんこく, kankoku), 推薦 (ja) (すいせん, suisen), 薦め (すすめ, susume), 薦挙 (ja) (せんきょ, senkyo)
• Kazakh: ұсыныс (ūsynys)
• Korean: 권고(勸告) (ko) (gwon'go), 추천(推薦) (ko) (chucheon), 천거(薦擧) (ko) (cheon'geo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tewsiye (ku)

• Kyrgyz: рекомендация (rekomendatsiya), сунуш (ky) (sunuş)
• Latvian: ieteikums m
• Lithuanian: rekomendacija f, patarimas m
• Macedonian: препорака f (preporaka)
• Malayalam: ശുപാർശ (śupāṟśa)
• Middle English: recommendacioun
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зөвлөгөө (mn) (zövlögöö), зөвлөмж (mn) (zövlömž)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f

• Pashto: توصيه‎ (ps) f (tawsiya)
• Persian: توصیه‎ (fa) (towsiye), سفارش‎ (fa) (sefâreš)
• Polish: rekomendacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: recomendação (pt) f
• Romanian: recomandare (ro) f
• Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) f (rekomendácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре̏порука f

  Roman: prȅporuka (sh) f

• Slovak: odporúčanie n
• Slovene: priporočilo n
• Spanish: recomendación (es)
• Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c
• Tagalog: rekomendasyon
• Tajik: тавсия (tavsiya), сифориш (siforiš)
• Turkish: tavsiye (tr)
• Ukrainian: рекоменда́ція f (rekomendácija)
• Urdu: شَفاعَت‎ f (śafā'at), سِفارِش‎ f (sifāriś)
• Uyghur: تەۋسىيە‎ (tewsiye)
• Uzbek: rekomendatsiya (uz), tavsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự giới thiệu (vi), sự tiến cử (vi)

that which is recommended

• Armenian: հանձնարարական (hy) (hanjnararakan), դիտարկում (hy) (ditarkum), խորհուրդ (hy) (xorhurd), առաջարկ (hy) (aṙaǰark)
• Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az), məsləhət (az)
• Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f (preporǎ́ka)
• Catalan: recomanació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 勸告／劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 推薦／推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn)

• Czech: doporučení (cs) n
• Danish: anbefaling (da) c
• Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f, aanrader (nl) m
• Finnish: suositus (fi)
• French: recommandation (fr)
• German: Empfehlung (de) f
• Hungarian: ajánlat (hu)
• Macedonian: препорака f (preporaka)
• Malayalam: ശുപാർശ (śupāṟśa)
• Maori: kupu whakatau
• Polish: zalecenie (pl) n, polecenie (pl) n, rekomendacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: recomendação (pt)
• Spanish: recomendación (es)
• Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c
• Tagalog: rekomendasyon
• Turkish: tavsiye (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

a commendation or endorsement

• Armenian: երաշխավորագիր (hy) (erašxavoragir)
• Azerbaijani: zəmanət (az)
• Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) (rekomendácija)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} recommandation (fr) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} anbefaling (no) c

  Nynorsk: ^{(please verify)} anbefaling f

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} recomandare (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} prȅporuka (sh) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} recomendación (es) f

See also

• recommend