embroidery

English

Etymology

From Middle French embrouderie, from embrouder + -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəɹi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

embroidery (countable and uncountable, plural embroideries)

1. The ornamentation of fabric using needlework.
2. A piece of embroidered fabric.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

3. The elaboration of an account etc. with details, especially when fictitious.

Derived terms

• Assisi embroidery
• embroidery hoop
• gold embroidery
• reembroidery

 

Translations

ornamentation

• Arabic: تَطْرِيز m (taṭrīz)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: broderezh (br) m
• Bulgarian: бродерия (bg) f (broderija)
• Catalan: brodat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺繡／刺绣 (zh) (cìxiù)

• Cornish: brosweyth
• Corsican: frisgiuleghji
• Czech: výšivka f
• Danish: broderi (da) n
• Dutch: borduurwerk (nl) n
• Finnish: koruompelu (fi), kirjonta (fi)
• French: broderie (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Stickerei (de) f, Sticken n
• Greek: κέντημα (el) n (kéntima)
• Hindi: चिक काढना (cik kāḍhnā)
• Hungarian: hímzés (hu), kézimunka (hu)
• Ingrian: mišura
• Irish: bróidnéireacht f
• Italian: ricamo (it)
• Japanese: 刺繍 (ja) (ししゅう, shishū), エンブロイダリー (enburoidarī)
• Kazakh: кесте (keste)
• Korean: 자수(刺繡) (ko) (jasu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nexş (ku)

• Latin: acupictura f
• Macedonian: везење n (vezenje), вез m (vez)
• Mongolian: хэтрүүлэг (mn) (xetrüüleg)
• Norman: brod'die f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: broderi n

  Nynorsk: broderi n

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: blēocræft m
• Ottoman Turkish: نقش (nakş)
• Polish: haft (pl) m
• Portuguese: bordado (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕਢਾਈ f (kaḍhāī)
• Russian: вышива́ние (ru) n (vyšivánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: obair-ghréise f, gréis f
• Sicilian: raccamu
• Slovak: výšivka f
• Spanish: bordado (es)
• Swedish: broderi (sv)
• Tagalog: burdá
• Turkish: nakış (tr)
• Ukrainian: вишивка (vyšyvka), вишива́ння n (vyšyvánnja)
• Vietnamese: đồ thêu
• Welsh: brodwaith
• Wolof: dawume
• Yakan: buldaw
• Yiddish: אויסנייעכץ n (oysneyekhts)

fabric

• Bulgarian: бродерия (bg) f (broderija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺繡品／刺绣品 (zh) (cìxiù pǐn)

• Finnish: koruommel (fi), kirjontatyö
• French: broderie (fr) f
• German: Stickerei (de) f
• Greek: κέντημα (el) (kéntima)
• Hungarian: hímzés (hu), kézimunka (hu)
• Irish: bróidnéireacht f
• Macedonian: вез m (vez)
• Norman: brod'die f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: broderi n

  Nynorsk: broderi n

• Portuguese: bordado (pt) m
• Russian: вы́шивка (ru) f (výšivka), вышива́ние (ru) n (vyšivánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: obair-ghréise f, gréis f
• Ukrainian: вишивання (vyšyvannja), вишивка (vyšyvka)

elaboration of an account with details

• Danish: udsmykning c
• Finnish: värittäminen (fi)
• French: broderie (fr) f
• German: Ausschmückung f
• Hungarian: kiszínezés (hu)

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Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} útsaumur m (1, 2)