recommendation

English

Etymology

From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio. By surface analysis, recommend +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, /ˌɹɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

recommendation (countable and uncountable, plural recommendations)

An act of recommending.
That which is recommended.
- 2020 June 2, Aisha Salaudeen, “Nigeria reopens churches, mosques and hotels amid rising cases of Covid-19”, in CNN‎^[1]:
  Some of the recommendations made by the PTF to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as religious institutions and hotels open up include: managed access to markets and locations of economic activity to limit the risk of transmitting Covid-19, mandatory use of face masks and temperature checks in public places, and information campaigns on the dangers of the virus among others.
- 2025 April 16, Brenda Goodman, “CDC considers narrowing its Covid-19 vaccine recommendations”, in CNN‎^[2]:
  The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current blanket recommendation for everyone 6 months of age and older.
A commendation or endorsement.
Synonym: testimonial (usually in writing)

Your next employer may require a recommendation.
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.
(Internet, especially YouTube, usually plural) Content which is automatically recommended to a user by the suggestion algorithm of a website or app.
Synonyms: recommended, suggested, suggestion

Coordinate terms: algorithm, feed

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

Translations

act of recommending

Afrikaans: rekommandasie sg, annbeveling sg
Albanian: rekomandim (sq) m
Arabic: تَوْصِيَة f (tawṣiya)
Armenian: հանձնարարում (hy) (hanjnararum), առաջարկում (hy) (aṙaǰarkum), խորհրդատվություն (hy) (xorhrdatvutʻyun)
Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az)
Belarusian: рэкаменда́цыя f (rekamjendácyja), рэкамэнда́цыя f (rekamendácyja)
Bengali: সুপারিশ (bn) (śupariś)
Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f (preporắka), 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)
Crimean Tatar: tevsiye
Czech: doporučení (cs) n
Danish: anbefaling (da) c, rekommandation (da) c
Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f, recommandatie (nl) m
Estonian: soovitus
Finnish: suositteleminen (fi)
French: recommandation (fr) f
Georgian: რეკომენდაცია (reḳomendacia)
German: Empfehlung (de) f, Rekommandation m
Greek: σύσταση (el) f (sýstasi)
Hebrew: הַמְלָצָה f (hamlatsá)
Hindi: संस्तुति (hi) f (sanstuti), सिफ़ारिश f (sifāriś)
Hungarian: ajánlás (hu)
Indonesian: rekomendasi (id), saran (id)
Italian: suggerimento (it) m, consiglio (it) m, proposta (it) f, raccomandazione (it) m
Japanese: 勧告 (ja) (かんこく, kankoku), 推薦 (ja) (すいせん, suisen), 薦め (ja) (すすめ, susume), 薦挙 (ja) (せんきょ, senkyo)
Kazakh: ұсыныс (usınıs)
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)
Malay: sokongan (ms), pengesyoran
Malayalam: ശുപാർശ (śupāṟśa)
Māori: marohitanga
Middle English: recommendacioun
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зөвлөгөө (mn) (zövlögöö), зөвлөмж (mn) (zövlömž)
Norwegian: rekommandasjon m
Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f
Occitan: recomandacion (oc) m
Pashto: توصيه (ps) f (tawsiya)
Persian:
Dari: تَوْصِیَه (tawsiya), سِفَارِش (sifāriš)

Iranian Persian: تُوْصِیِه (towsiye), سِفارِش (sefâreš)
Polish: rekomendacja (pl) f
Portuguese: recomendação (pt) f
Romanian: recomandare (ro) f, recomandație (ro) m
Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) f (rekomendácija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пре̏порука f

Latin: 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)
Ottoman Turkish: توصیه (tavsiye)
Turkmen: rekomendasiýa
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)
Welsh: argymhelliad, recomendasiwn m

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 (preporắka)
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)
Indonesian: saran (id), rekomendasi (id)
Macedonian: препорака f (preporaka)
Malay: syor
Malayalam: ശുപാർശ (śupāṟśa)
Māori: kupu whakatau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f
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: thứ được giới thiệu

a commendation or endorsement

Armenian: երաշխավորագիր (hy) (erašxavoragir)
Azerbaijani: zəmanət (az)
French: recommandation (fr) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f
Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) f (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

Norwegian:
Nynorsk: ^{(please verify)} anbefaling f
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} recomandare (ro) f
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} recomendación (es) f