"Rosetta Stone" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: the Rosetta Stone [canonical]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|def=1|head=Rosetta Stone}} the Rosetta Stone
  1. A large inscribed stone found near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799, later used as a basis for understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. Translations (large inscribed stone): Rosettasteen (Afrikaans), حَجَر رَشِيد (ḥajar rašīd) [masculine] (Arabic), Rosetta harri (Basque), Розетски камък (Rozetski kamǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Pedra de Rosetta [feminine] (Catalan), 羅塞塔石碑 (Chinese Cantonese), 罗塞塔石碑 (lo⁴ coi³ taap³ sek⁶ bei¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 羅塞塔石碑 (Chinese Mandarin), 罗塞塔石碑 (Luósètǎ shíbēi) (Chinese Mandarin), Rosettastenen (Danish), Steen van Rosette [masculine] (Dutch), Rozeta ŝtono (Esperanto), Rosettan kivi (Finnish), Pierre de Rosette [feminine] (French), როზეტის ქვა (rozeṭis kva) (Georgian), Stein von Rosette [masculine] (German), Στήλη της Ροζέττας (Stíli tis Rozéttas) [feminine] (Greek), אבן רוזטה [masculine] (Hebrew), rosette-i kő (Hungarian), Batu Rosetta (Indonesian), Stele di Rosetta (Italian), ロゼッタ・ストーン (Rozetta-sutōn) (Japanese), 로제타석 (Rojeta-seok) (Korean), Batu Rosetta (Malay), Pièrre dé Rosette [Jersey, feminine] (Norman), Rosettastenen (Norwegian Bokmål), Rosettasteinen (Norwegian Nynorsk), سنگ رشید (sang-e rašid) (Persian), Kamień z Rosetty [masculine] (Polish), Pedra de Roseta [feminine] (Portuguese), Piatra din Rosetta [feminine] (Romanian), розе́ттский ка́мень (rozéttskij kámenʹ) [masculine] (Russian), Kamen iz Rosette [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Rosettská doska [feminine] (Slovak), Kamen iz Rosette [masculine] (Slovene), Piedra de Rosetta [feminine] (Spanish), Rosettastenen [common-gender] (Swedish), ศิลาโรเซตตา (sì-laa rohsêtdtaa) (Thai), Rosetta Taşı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-Rosetta_Stone-en-name-GleDQcgj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Wikipedia with redundant first parameter Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of Wikipedia with redundant first parameter: 66 34 Disambiguation of 'large inscribed stone': 95 5
  2. (by extension) Any source of information crucial to interpreting. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-Rosetta_Stone-en-name-vh4pwTvc

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