"Bokmål" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian bokmål (literally “book language”). The equivalent Old Norse bókamál was used in this sense as a name for Latin, as it was the primary language used for writing of biblical work in much of the Middle Ages. The modern Icelandic name for Norwegian Bokmål is bókmál. When dialect research in western Norway was pioneered by Ivar Aasen in the 1850s, bogmaal took on the meaning of written standard language, as opposed to spoken dialects and Aasen's synthesized landsmaal. The two Norwegian languages, standardized in 1907, changed names in 1929 from landsmål to nynorsk, and from riksmål to bokmål. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|no|bokmål|lit=book language}} Norwegian bokmål (literally “book language”), {{cog|non|bókamál}} Old Norse bókamál, {{m|is|bókmál}} bókmál, {{m|no||bogmaal}} bogmaal, {{m|no||landsmaal}} landsmaal, {{m|no|landsmål}} landsmål, {{m|no||nynorsk}} nynorsk, {{,}} ,, {{m|no||riksmål}} riksmål, {{m|no||bokmål}} bokmål Head templates: {{en-prop}} Bokmål
  1. One of the two major written standards of Norwegian, literally meaning “book language”. Wikipedia link: Ivar Aasen Categories (topical): Languages Synonyms: Norwegian Bokmål Related terms: høgnorsk, Høgnorsk, landsmål, Landsmål, nynorsk, Nynorsk, riksmål, Riksmål, samnorsk, Samnorsk Translations (language): բուկմոլ (bukmol) (Armenian), bokmål [masculine] (Catalan), 巴克摩挪威語 (Chinese Mandarin), 巴克摩挪威语 (Bakèmó Nuówēiyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 書面挪威語 (Chinese Mandarin), 书面挪威语 (Shūmiàn Nuówēiyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), bokmål [neuter] (Danish), ބޯކިމާލު (bōkimālu) (Dhivehi), Bokmål [neuter] (Dutch), bókmál [neuter] (Faroese), kirjanorja (Finnish), bokmål [masculine] (French), bokmål [masculine] (Galician), ბუკმოლი (buḳmoli) (Georgian), Bokmål [neuter] (German), Buchsprache [feminine] (German), bókmál [neuter] (Icelandic), Bocmál [masculine] (Irish), ブークモール (Būkumōru) (Japanese), 보크몰 (Bokeumol) (Korean), 복말 (Bongmal) (Korean), būkmols [masculine] (Latvian), girjedárogiella (Northern Sami), bokmål [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), bokmål [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), bokmål [masculine] (Polish), bokmal [masculine] (Portuguese), бу́кмол (búkmol) [masculine] (Russian), bokmål [masculine] (Spanish), bokmål [neuter] (Swedish)

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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bokmal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "búkmol",
      "sense": "language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бу́кмол"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bokmål"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "language",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bokmål"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Bokmål"
}

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