"syllabary" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/, /sɪˈlæbəɹi/ Audio: en-us-syllabary.ogg [US] Forms: syllabaries [plural]
Etymology: From Neo-Latin syllabārium, from syllaba. Head templates: {{en-noun}} syllabary (plural syllabaries)
  1. (orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables. Categories (topical): Orthography Translations (table): tavumerkistö (Finnish), syllabaire (French), συλλαβάριο (syllavário) [neuter] (Greek), слого́вница (slogóvnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), sylabariusz [masculine] (Polish), silabário [masculine] (Portuguese), talapantigan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-syllabary-en-noun-wo29WwRa Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, writing Disambiguation of 'table': 100 0
  2. (orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable. Categories (topical): Orthography, Writing systems Hyponyms: alphasyllabary, abugida Translations (system): сричкова азбука (sričkova azbuka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), sil·labari [masculine] (Catalan), 音節文字 (Chinese Mandarin), 音节文字 (yīnjié wénzì) (Chinese Mandarin), slabičné písmo (Czech), tavukirjoitus (Finnish), syllabaari (Finnish), syllabaire [masculine] (French), Silbenschrift [feminine] (German), συλλαβογραφία (syllavografía) [feminine] (Greek), siollabra [masculine] (Irish), 音節文字 (onsetsu moji) (alt: おんせつもじ) (Japanese), 음절문자 (eumjeolmunja) (Korean), сло́говно пи́смо (slógovno písmo) [neuter] (Macedonian), stavelsesskrift [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), stavingsskrift [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), sylabariusz [masculine] (Polish), silabário [masculine] (Portuguese), слогова́я а́збука (slogovája ázbuka) [feminine] (Russian), слогово́е письмо́ (slogovóje pisʹmó) [neuter] (Russian), слогова́я пи́сьменность (slogovája písʹmennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), talapantigan (Tagalog), pantigan (Tagalog), sillwyddor [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-syllabary-en-noun-n2jO0-ji Disambiguation of Writing systems: 19 81 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 78 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 74 Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, writing Disambiguation of 'system': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: signary Meronyms: syllabogram Derived forms: alphasyllabary, semi-syllabary Related terms: syllable

Inflected forms

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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sylabariusz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "silabário"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slogovája ázbuka",
      "sense": "system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "слогова́я а́збука"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slogovóje pisʹmó",
      "sense": "system",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "слогово́е письмо́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slogovája písʹmennostʹ",
      "sense": "system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "слогова́я пи́сьменность"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "system",
      "word": "talapantigan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "system",
      "word": "pantigan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sillwyddor"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "syllabary"
  ],
  "word": "syllabary"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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