English
Etymology
write -ing
Pronunciation
Noun
writing (countable and uncountable plural writings
( uncountable ) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
2017 Climate Change and the Health of Nations , →ISBN 115 :Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer.
( countable ) written , such as a document , article or book .( uncountable ) representing a language with symbols or letters.( countable ) work of an author .( countable ) I can't read your writing . ( as a modifier ) Intended for or used in writing.
a writing table
Synonyms
( written letters or symbols that express some meaning ) : text ( something written ) : document , manuscript , text ( work of an author ) : work ( the style of writing of a person ) : hand , handwriting ( intended for or used in writing ) : alphabet , character , ideogram , logogram , pictogram , script , syllabary , writing system
Derived terms
Translations
written letters or symbols
Afrikaans: skryfwerk
Albanian: shkrim (sq) m
Amharic: መጻፍ ( mäṣaf )
Arabic: كِتَابَة f ( kitāba )
Egyptian Arabic: كتابة f ( ketaba )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: כתבא m ( ktābā, ktobo )
Syriac: ܟܬܒܐ m ( ܟܬܒܐ ) ( ktābā, ktobo )
Armenian: գիր (hy) ( gir ) , գրելը ( grelə ) , գրություն (hy) ( grutʻyun )
Aromanian: scriari f scriiturã f
Azerbaijani: yazı (az)
Bashkir: яҙма ( yaźma )
Basque: idazketa
Belarusian: пісьмо́ n ( pisʹmó ) , пі́сьменнасць f ( písʹmjennascʹ )
Bengali: লিখন ( likhon )
Breton: skritur f
Bulgarian: писане n ( pisane )
Burmese: အရေးအသား (my) ( a.re:a.sa: )
Catalan: escriptura (ca) f
Central Sierra Miwok: sykýˀ-ja-
Chinese:
Mandarin: 文字 (zh) ( wénzì )
Czech: písmo (cs) n
Danish: skrift (da) c
Dutch: schrift (nl) n schrijfsel n geschrift (nl) n
Esperanto: skribo
Estonian: kiri (et)
Finnish: kirjoitus (fi)
French: écriture (fr) f
Friulian: scriture f
Galician: escrita f
Georgian: წერა (ka) ( c̣era )
German: Schrift (de) f
Greek: γραφή (el) f ( grafí )
Ancient: γραφή f ( graphḗ )
Hebrew: כְּתִיבָה (he) f ( ktivá )
Hindi: लेखन (hi) ( lekhan )
Hungarian: írás (hu)
Icelandic: skrift (is) f
Ido: skribado (io)
Indonesian: tulisan (id) , penulisan (id)
Irish: scríbhneoireacht f
Italian: scrittura (it) f
Japanese: 筆記 (ja) ( ひっき, hikki ) , 文字 (ja) ( もんじ, monji, もじ, moji )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Kannada: ಬರವಣಿಗೆ (kn) ( baravaṇige )
Kazakh: жазу (kk) ( jazu )
Khmer: ការ សរសេរ ( kaa sɑsee )
Korean: 쓰기 ( sseugi ) , 문자 (ko) ( munja )
Kurdish:
Sorani: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 229 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Kyrgyz: жазуу (ky) ( jazuu )
Lao: ການຂຽນ ( kān khīan )
Latin: scriptum (la) n codex caudex
Latvian: rakstīšana f
Lithuanian: rašymas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Schrëft f
Macedonian: пишување n ( pišuvanje )
Malay: tulisan (ms) , penulisan
Malayalam: എഴുത്ത് (ml) ( eḻuttŭ )
Maltese: kitba f
Marathi: लेखन ( lekhan )
Mongolian: бичиг (mn) ( bičig )
Norman: êcrituthe f ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skrift (no) f
Nynorsk: skrift (nn) f
Persian: نوشته (fa) ( nevešte )
Polish: pismo (pl) n
Portuguese: escrita (pt) f
Punjabi: ਲਿਖਾਈ ( likhāī )
Quechua: qillqa (qu)
Romanian: scriere (ro) f
Russian: пи́сьменность (ru) f ( písʹmennostʹ ) , письмо́ (ru) n ( pisʹmó )
Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhadh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: писање n
Roman: pisanje (sh) n
Slovak: písmo n písanie f
Slovene: pisava (sl) f
Spanish: escritura (es) f
Swahili: andiko (sw) class ma
Swedish: skrivkonst c skrift (sv) c
Tamil: எழுத்து (ta) ( eḻuttu ) , எழுதுதல் (ta) ( eḻututal )
Telugu: రాత (te) ( rāta )
Thai: การเขียน (th) ( gaan-kǐian )
Turkish: yazı (tr)
Ukrainian: писе́мність f ( pysémnistʹ )
Urdu: لیکھن ( lekhan )
Uyghur: يېزىق ( yëziq )
Vietnamese: chữ viết (vi)
Welsh: ysgrifen (cy) f
Yiddish: שריפֿט f ( shrift )
something written
Acehnese: teunuléh
Arabic: كِتَابَة f ( kitāba )
Egyptian Arabic: كتابة f ( ketaaba )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: כתבא m ( ktābā, ktobo )
Syriac: ܟܬܒܐ m ( ktābā, ktobo )
Aromanian: scriari f scriiturã f
Bashkir: яҙма ( yaźma )
Czech: spis (cs) m
Dutch: schrijfsel n geschrift (nl) n
Esperanto: skribaĵo
Estonian: kirjutis
Finnish: kirjoitus (fi)
French: écrit (fr) m
Friulian: scriture f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}German: Schrift (de) f Schriftstück (de) n
Greek: γραπτό (el) f ( graptó ) , έγγραφο (el) n ( éngrafo )
Ancient: γραφή f ( graphḗ )
Hungarian: írás (hu)
Indonesian: tulisan (id)
Latin: scriptum (la) n
Malay: tulisan (ms)
Norman: êcrithie f ( Jersey )
Polish: napis (pl) m
Portuguese: escrita (pt) f
Romanian: scriere (ro) f scriitură (ro) f
Russian: писа́ние (ru) n ( pisánije ) , за́пись (ru) f ( zápisʹ ) , на́дпись (ru) f ( nádpisʹ )
Slovene: zapis m
Spanish: escrito (es) m escritura (es) f
Swahili: maandiko (sw) class ma
Turkish: yazı (tr)
Welsh: ysgrif (cy)
process of representing a language
work of an author
Bashkir: әҫәр ( əśər )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 寫作 ／ 写作 (zh) ( xiězuò ) , 写作 (zh) ( xiězuò ) , 著作 (zh) ( zhùzuò )
Czech: spis (cs) m
Dutch: schrijfsel n werk (nl) n oeuvre (nl) n
Estonian: kirjutis kirjatöö teos
Finnish: kirjoitus (fi) , teos (fi)
French: œuvre (fr) f
German: Schrift (de) f Arbeit (de) f Werk (de) n
Greek: έργο (el) n ( érgo )
Japanese: 著作 (ja) ( ちょさく, chosaku )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Korean: 저작 (ko) ( Jeojak ) (著作 (ko) )
Kurdish:
Sorani: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 229 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Portuguese: obra (pt) f
Russian: ( литерату́рное ) произведе́ние (ru) n ( proizvedénije )
Spanish: escrito (es) m escritura (es) f
Swahili: maandiko (sw) class ma
Telugu: రచన (te) ( racana ) ( usually plural ) , రచనలు ( racanalu )
Turkish: yazı (tr)
Ukrainian: твір (uk) m ( tvir )
made for or used in writing
Verb
writing
present participle of write 2016 , VOA Learning English (public domain)
What are you doing? ― Um, I’m writing . ― You are writing ! You are writing a lot!
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