supermarket

See also: süpermarket

English

the interior of a supermarket (a large store)

Etymology

American English, super- +‎ market, 1933.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsuːpəˈmɑːkɪt/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

supermarket (plural supermarkets)

1. A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing.

   Coordinate terms: hypermarket, superstore

   I went to the supermarket to buy some food.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     There is a big supermarket on our street.

     Audio (US)

     (file)

2. A chain of such stores.
3. (figuratively) A one-stop shop; a place offering a range of products or services.
   • 2011, Faith Glasgow, Personal Finance and Investing All-in-One For Dummies:

     If you know what you want by filtering down the 1,600 or so trusts to a short list and then studying the information on each via online sources, then you can buy your trust and get all or nearly all of the commission back into your bank account via an Internet investment supermarket. Here, you select your fund, decide whether you want it as an Individual Savings Account (ISA), and pay for it with a credit card.

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: супермаркет (supermarket)
• → Czech: supermarket
• → Estonian: supermarket
• → Finnish: supermarket, supermarketti
• → Italian: supermarket
• → Japanese: スーパーマーケット (sūpāmāketto)
• → Korean: 슈퍼마켓 (syupeomaket)
• → Macedonian: супермаркет (supermarket)
• → Mongolian: супермаркет (supyörmarkyöt)
• → Polish: supermarket
• → Romanian: supermarket
• → Russian: супермаркет (supermarket)
  • → Kazakh: супермаркет (supermarket)
• → Turkish: süpermarket

Translations

store

• Afrikaans: supermark
• Albanian: supermarket
• Arabic: سُوبَرْمَارْكِت‎ m (subarmārkit), سُوبَر مَارْكِت‎ m (subar mārkit)
• Armenian: սուպերմարկետ (hy) (supermarket)
• Asturian: supermercáu m
• Azerbaijani: supermarket
• Basque: supermerkatu
• Belarusian: суперма́ркет m (supjermárkjet)
• Bengali: সুপারমার্কেট (suparmarkeṭ)
• Bulgarian: суперма́ркет (bg) m (supermárket)
• Burmese: စူပါမားကတ် (cupama:kat), ကုန်စုံဆိုင်ကြီး (kuncumhcuingkri:)
• Catalan: supermercat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 超級市場, 超级市场 (ciu¹ kap¹ si⁵ coeng⁴), 超市 (ciu¹ si⁵)

  Mandarin: 超級市場 (zh), 超级市场 (zh) (chāojí shìchǎng), 超市 (zh) (chāoshì)

  Min Nan: 超級市場, 超级市场 (chhiau-ki̍p-chhī-tiûⁿ / chhiau-kip-chhī-tiûⁿ), 超市 (chhiau-chhī)

• Cornish: gorvarhas f
• Czech: supermarket (cs) m
• Danish: supermarked (da) n
• Dutch: supermarkt (nl) f
• Esperanto: superbazaro
• Estonian: supermarket (et)
• Finnish: supermarketti (fi)
• French: supermarché (fr) m
• Fula:

• Adlam: 𞤣𞤵𞤺𞥆𞤫𞤪𞤫‎
• Latin: duggere

• Galician: supermercado m
• Georgian: სუპერმარკეტი (suṗermarḳeṭi)
• German: Supermarkt (de) m
• Greek: σουπερμάρκετ (el) n (soupermárket)
• Hebrew: סוּפֶּרמַרקֶט‎ (he) m (supermarqet), מַרכּוֹל‎ (he)
• Hindi: सुपरमार्केट (suparmārkeṭ)
• Hungarian: szupermarket (hu)
• Icelandic: kjörbúð (is) f, stórmarkaður f
• Ido: supermerkato
• Indonesian: supermarket (id)
• Irish: ollmhargadh m
• Italian: supermercato (it) m
• Japanese: スーパーマーケット (ja) (sūpāmāketto), (shorten) スーパー (ja) (sūpā)
• Kazakh: супермаркет (supermarket)
• Khmer: ផ្សារទំនើប (phsaa tumnəəp)
• Korean: 슈퍼마켓 (ko) (syupeomaket), 슈퍼 (ko) (syupeo)
• Kyrgyz: супермаркет (supermarket)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: praegrandium emporium n
• Latvian: lielveikals m, supermārkets m
• Lithuanian: prekybos centras m, supermarketas m
• Macedonian: суперма́ркет m (supermárket)
• Malay: pasar raya (ms)
• Manx: ard-vargey m
• Maori: toa hokomaha, whare hokomaha
• Mongolian: хүнсний дэлгүүр (hünsniy delgüür), супермаркет (supyörmarkyöt), их дэлгүүр (ih delgüür)
• Norman: supèrmarchi m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: supermarked n

  Nynorsk: supermarknad m

• Occitan: supermercat (oc) m
• Persian: سوپرمارکت‎ (supermârket)
• Polish: supermarket (pl) m
• Portuguese: supermercado (pt) m
• Romanian: supermagazin (ro), magazin universal n
• Russian: суперма́ркет (ru) m (supermárket), универса́м (ru) m (universám), универма́г (ru) m (univermág), магази́н (ru) m (magazín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самопослуга f

  Roman: samoposluga (sh) f

• Sicilian: supirmircatu m
• Slovak: supermarket m
• Slovene: supermarket (sl) m
• Spanish: supermercado (es)
• Swahili: supamaketi (sw)
• Swedish: stormarknad (sv) c
• Tajik: супермаркет (supermarket)
• Thai: ซูเปอร์มาร์เก็ต (suu-bpə̂ə-maa-gêt)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: süpermarket (tr)
• Turkmen: supermarket
• Ukrainian: суперма́ркет (uk) m (supermárket)
• Urdu: سپرمارکیٹ‎ (suparmārkeṭ)
• Uzbek: supermarket (uz), universam (uz)
• Vietnamese: siêu thị (超市)
• Volapük: susmaket, lemaket
• Welsh: archfarchnad f
• West Frisian: supermerk c
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: cauhsi

chain of stores

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連鎖超市, 连锁超市 (liánsuǒ chāoshì)

• Czech: obchodní řetězec m
• Danish: supermarkedskæde c
• Dutch: supermarktketen (nl)

• Finnish: supermarket-ketju
• French: supermarché (fr) m
• Macedonian: суперма́ркет m (supermárket)
• Norman: supèrmarchi m (Jersey)
• Russian: суперма́ркет (ru) m (supermárket)

Further reading

• supermarket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Czech

Etymology

From English supermarket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsupɛrmarkɛt]

Noun

supermarket m

1. supermarket

See also

• samoobsluha

Further reading

• supermarket in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• supermarket in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Estonian

Etymology

From English supermarket.

Noun

supermarket (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. supermarket

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English supermarket.

Noun

supermarket

1. Alternative form of supermarketti.

Declension

Inflection of supermarket (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		supermarket	supermarketit
genitive		supermarketin	supermarketien
partitive		supermarketia	supermarketeja
illative		supermarketiin	supermarketeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		supermarket	supermarketit
accusative	nom.	supermarket	supermarketit
	gen.	supermarketin
genitive		supermarketin	supermarketien
partitive		supermarketia	supermarketeja
inessive		supermarketissa	supermarketeissa
elative		supermarketista	supermarketeista
illative		supermarketiin	supermarketeihin
adessive		supermarketilla	supermarketeilla
ablative		supermarketilta	supermarketeilta
allative		supermarketille	supermarketeille
essive		supermarketina	supermarketeina
translative		supermarketiksi	supermarketeiksi
instructive		—	supermarketein
abessive		supermarketitta	supermarketeitta
comitative		—	supermarketeineen

Possessive forms of supermarket (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	supermarketini	supermarketimme
2nd person	supermarketisi	supermarketinne
3rd person	supermarketinsa

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English supermarket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.perˈmar.ket/
• Rhymes: -arket
• Hyphenation: su‧per‧màr‧ket

Noun

supermarket m (invariable)

1. supermarket

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English supermarket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.pɛrˈmar.kɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arkɛt
• Syllabification: su‧per‧mar‧ket

Noun

supermarket m inan

1. supermarket

Declension

Declension of supermarket

	singular	plural
nominative	supermarket	supermarkety
genitive	supermarketu	supermarketów
dative	supermarketowi	supermarketom
accusative	supermarket	supermarkety
instrumental	supermarketem	supermarketami
locative	supermarkecie	supermarketach
vocative	supermarkecie	supermarkety

Derived terms

adjective

• supermarketowy

 

Further reading

• supermarket in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• supermarket in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From English supermarket.

Noun

supermarket n (plural supermarketuri)

1. supermarket

Declension

Declension of supermarket

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) supermarket	supermarketul	(niște) supermarketuri	supermarketurile
genitive/dative	(unui) supermarket	supermarketului	(unor) supermarketuri	supermarketurilor
vocative	supermarketule		supermarketurilor