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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes  5 sounds | Message 1 of 14 25 June 2009 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
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I decided to compile a dictionary based on formiko's Alphabet Game. There are approximately 10 * 26 = 260 words in the dictionary (pages 1-35 of the thread). Below is a language by language break-up.
Major languages in tha game: French (53), Romanian (33), German (25), Japanese (22), Spanish (17), Esperanto (14), Kazakh (13) Less than a dozen of words: Latin (9), Polish (9), Italian (6), Dutch (5), Indonesian (5), Persian (5), Bulgarian (4), Chinese (Mandarin) (4), Portuguese (4), Turkish (4), Swahili (4), Thai (4), Finnish (3), Russian (3), Farsi (2), Icelandic (2), Swedish (2), Yoruba (2), Only one word: Arabic (1), Azeri (1), Bemba (1), Burmese (1), Czech (1), Cherokee (1), Estonian (1), Greek (1), Hausa (1), Lao (1), Maori (1), Tagalog (1), Twi (1), Uzbek (1), Vietnamese (1), Yucatec Maya (1) I was not able to transfer the words that use complex scripts (probably about ~50 words ) so these are presented only as phonetic transcriptions. Cyrillic, Latin (with all diacritics) and Greek scripts are intact. If somebody is enthusiastic enough, the written form for languages such as Japanese can be recovered. Just give the proper translation for some of the words in the language that interests you. I can't bother to go through the Alphabet Game again but if I have them here it will be easy to update the dictionary. - Thanks turaisiawase, for giving all the Kanji for the Japanese words; - Mandarin, Persian, etc. are still missing; The Multilingual Dictionary A --- ангел /angel/ - angel, Bulgarian le ananas - pineapple, French améliorer - to improve, French apporter - to bring, fetch, French 愛 /ai/ - love, Japanese арыстан /arıstan/ - lion, Kazakh apa - water, Romanian alimentara - grocery store, Romanian a avea - to have, Romanian asubuhi - morning, Swahili alabora olmak - to capsize, Turkish B --- бонбон /bonbon/ - a candy/sweet, Bulgarian la baguette - rod, French le beurre - butter, French le bonbon - a candy/sweet, French le bruit - noise, French bantal - pillow, Indonesian бал /bal/ - honey, Kazakh басталу /bastaluw/ - to begin; the beginning, Kazakh bobas - a baby, Polish bagatela - bargain, Portuguese la bicicleta - bicycle, Spanish bastu - sauna, Swedish C --- compte - (financial / electronic) account, French la connerie - idiocy or bullshit, French cru - past participle of "croire" (believe), French carré - square, French le cheval - horse, French a cara - face, Portuguese care - which, Romanian chiar - just / even, Romanian cu - with, Romanian comer - eat, Spanish comenzar - to begin, Spanish D --- de dolfijn - dolphin, Dutch le dauphin - dolphin, French le dessert - a sweet, French le désert - desert, French donner - to give, French деу /dew/ - to speak, say, Kazakh денсаулык /densawlyq/ - health, Kazakh dulce et decorum - sweet and fitting, Latin drapte - right, Romanian дурак /durak/ - fool, Russian dokuz - nine (9), Turkish desafortunadamente - unfortunately, Spanish diaradart - (literary) plenty, scattered, Thai E --- emocio - emotion, Esperanto ensemble - together, French le élève - student, French espérer - to hope, French die Erbse - pea, German erleuchtung – enlightenment, German esteghlal - independence, Persian etajul - floor (as in 3rd floor, 4th floor), Romanian daca - if, Romanian esperar To hope Spanish eek - again; once more, Thai F --- familio - family, Esperanto fanana - to resemble, Esperanto faruno - flour, Esperanto femme fatale - fatal woman, French φάκελος /fakelos/ - envelope(??), Greek formica - an ant (don't confuse with fornica), Latin farhang - dictionary, Persian firishta - angel, Persian fericire - happiness, Romanian fieros - fierce, Romanian fówósí - to sign (a letter, document), Yoruba G --- galimatyáš - gibberish, Czech gonfler - to inflate, French il giorno - a day, Italian girare - turn over, Italian garaj - garage, Romanian gul - flower, Persian gura - mouth, Romanian gaura - hole, Romanian голобой /galaboj/ - blue, Russian H --- hayawān - animal, Arabic hayulaa - monster, Farsi die Haare - hair, German 花 /hana/ - flower, Japanese 花火 /hanabi/ - flower + fire; fireworks, Japanese はい /hai/ - yes, Japanese 火花 /hibana/ - fire + flower, Japanese 姫 /hime/ - princess, Japanese hasło - password, Polish haiduc - outlaw, Romanian helado - ice cream, Spanish hewa - air, Swahili I --- ici - here, French ignoble - despicable, disgusting, repulsive, French l'ile - the island, French le immeuble - building, French iskà - wind, Hausa inter - between, Latin iskiereczka - a small spark, Polish iarna - winter, Romanian a incuia - to lock, Romanian inchiriat - rented, Romanian J --- жар-птица / jar-ptitsa / - (poetic) phoenix, Bulgarian jam - already, Esperanto jaro - year, Esperanto ĵeleo - jelly, Esperanto jaune - yellow, French jongler - juggle, French jarðarber - strawberry, Icelandic 邪魔 /jama/ - intrusion (often used in お邪魔します excuse me for disturbing/interrupting you ), Japanese jama - a pit, Polish jazgot - clatter (noun), Polish jejeje - "hahaha", Spanish jambo - hello, Swahili K --- knabino - girl, Esperanto knabo - boy, Esperanto kaksi - two (2), Finnish komea - handsome, Finnish der Kanal - channel (ie. Radio, TV, Channel as in Channel Tunnel etc.), German der Kater - a hangover, German der Kreis - circle, German 奏でる /kanaderu/ - to play music, Japanese 今日 /kyou/ - today, Japanese un kilómetro - a kilometer, Spanish L --- lago - lake, Esperanto le livre - book, French lourd - heavy, French latino - "Latin", Italian lessico - vocabulary, Italian lambat - slow, Indonesian ljós - light, Icelandic лас /las/ - dirty, filthy, Kazakh limbă - tongue, Romanian el lápiz - pencil, Spanish levone, - moon - Yiddish M --- matenmanĝo - breakfast, Esperanto meez - table, Farsi la malédiction - curse, ill fate, French le marteau - hammer, French moche - ugly, French le morceau - piece, French des moules - muscles (edible) (?), French макал /maqal/ proverb, saying, Kazakh macuilamamachiotl - pentagram, Nahuatl mard - man, Persian mâine - tommorow, Romanian N --- nuna - potato, Cherokee le nain - dwarf, French narcissique - narcissistic, French nascere - to be born, Italian неге /nege/ - why, Kazakh niger - black, Latin Nouasprezece - ninetheen (19), Romanian nyani - monkey, Suahili náwó - to spend money, Yoruba O --- oca - to bake, Bemba ouvert - open, French oft - frequently, often, German oh-gard - opportunity, Lao ostium - door, Latin ochii - eyes, Romanian om - man, Romanian opt - eight (8), Romanian お願い /onegai/ - please (a short form of お願いします (御願いします), a form of 願う negau), Japanese 終 /owari/ - the end, Japanese P --- der Priester - a priest, German pahit - bitter, Indonesian parlare - to speak, Italian піл /pil/ - elephant, Kazakh puer - boy, Latin pentru - for, Romanian perro - dog, Spanish phimp - type (as in typing on the computer), Thai paa saa - language, Thai Q --- qin1 qi5, relative (i.e. family member), Chinese (Mandarin) qiutian - autumn, Chinese (Mandarin) quasiment - really / frankly, French quatorze - fourteen (14), French quinze - fifteen (15), French die Quelle - a natural spring, German quaken - croak, German кызык /qyzyq/ - strange, interesting, Kazakh querer - to want, Spanish R --- rohutirts - grasshopper, Estonian le rôdeur - sneaky person / thief, French le roman - novel, French reden - to chat, German rumput - grass, Indonesian 林檎 りんご /ringo/ - apple ( nowadays written only in kana ), Japanese риза /riyza/ - satisfied, Kazakh robot - robot, Polish rade - rub out, Romanian romani - "Romanians", Romanian S --- le savon - washing soap, French sombre - dark/shady, French schweigen - to be/keep quiet, keep a secret, German Sonne - sun, German сатып алу /satyp alu/ - to buy, Kazakh ŚWIETLISTOŚĆ - luminosity, Polish sepultura - sepulchre, Portuuese sâmbătă Saturday, Romanian saptamana - week, Romanian simplu - simple, Romanian Safi! - fresh / clean / cool!, Swahili T --- thaw - key, Burmese het tegenovergesteld - contrary / opposite, Dutch trajno - train, Esperanto télécharger - to download, French taistelu - battle, Finnish 宝 /takara/ - treasure, Japanese trei - three (3), Romanian todo el tiempo - all the time, Spanish tinh - 1. star, 2. bright/clear, 3. to gather, 4. banner, 5. raw meat, 6. putrid smell, 7. fresh, 8. wild flower, 9. well-trained, 10. a type of powder substance, 11. sperm, 12. intelligent, 13. early morning, 14. creature, 15. skillful, 16. morale, 17. understanding, 18. asteroid, 19. thoughtful, 20. deductive. Vietnamese tu'ux - where?, Yucatec Maya U --- урод /urod/ - freak, Bulgarian urbo - city, Esperanto utile - useful, French überall - everywhere, German die Uhr - clock, German die Umfrage - survey, German urat - muscle, Indonesain uvula - uvula, Latin uyuşturucu - drug, narcotic, Turkish ucuz - cheap, Turkish V --- voorbeeld - example, Dutch vert - green, French vivre - to live, French der Vati - daddy, German der Vogel - bird, German verberare - to flog, Latin vorbesc - (I) speak, Romanian vannakkam - welcome / hello, Tamil W --- der Walhai - a whale shark, German Was? - What?, German der Wilde - a savage / wild man, German wanita - woman, Indonesian 吾輩 /wagahai/ - one of the I's in Japanese 吾輩は猫である /wagahai wa neko de aru/ - the title of a famous novel by Natume Souseki (夏目漱石), Japanese 分かる /wakaru/ - to understand, Japanese 破目 /wareme/ - chasm, Japanese whānau - family, Maori wiosna - spring (season), Polish wrzeszcz! - scream!, Polish wala - none, Tagalog X --- xosunlaşmaq - to whisper, Azeri Xi1 sheng1 - sacrifice, Chinese (Mandarin) xin1 - (as in xin1 nian2 kuai4 le4) new (as in Happy New Year), Chinese (Mandarin) le/la xénophobe - xenophobe, French la xenophobie - xenophobia, French das Xylofon - German, xylophone xeque-mate - checkmate, Portuguese xote - a traditional Brazilian dance, Portuguese xilòfono - xylophone, Spanish xylofon - xylophone, Swedish xabar - news, Uzbek Y --- y - there (on y va, il y a, etc.), French le yaourt - yogurt, French les yeux - eyes, French 休む /yasumu/ - rest, Japanese 藪の中 /yabu no naka/ - "In a Grove" a story by Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (芥川龍之介), Japanese 軈て /yagate/ - before long, Japanese 円 /en/ - Japanese currency, Japanese язык /yazik/ - language, Russian yuxtaposición - juxtaposition, Spanish yamyefo - kind person, Twi Z --- zorgi - to care about, Esperanto zijn - to be, Dutch de zon - sun, Dutch zerreißen - to rip up/apart, German zerstören - to destroy, German зор /zor/ - enormous, great, Kazakh zilele - "the days", Romanian el zapato - shoe, Spanish la zarpa - claw, Spanish zapatos - shoes, Spanish --- Edited by Sennin on 26 June 2009 at 2:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5725 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 2 of 14 26 June 2009 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
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The Kazakh ones are mine. :)
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 3 of 14 26 June 2009 at 3:46am | IP Logged |
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Yea, I know ;p
I take partial responsibility for bloating French so much :) By the way, I'm sorry some of the words are stripped of their original scripts. Because the post is so long I prepared it in Ms Word and upon pasting it in Firefox the encoding was screwed up completely. It will be really nice if people learning Japanese and Chinese can give the proper characters again. Then I can copy/paste directly in Firefox. If not it will stay like this ^_^ Edited by Sennin on 26 June 2009 at 3:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 5 of 14 26 June 2009 at 1:52pm | IP Logged |
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Ok, thanks a lot. I've updated the dictionary and added a line to acknowledge your contributions ;).
Now we need a brave volunteer for the 4 Mandarin words, 5 Persian words and an astonishing 1 Arabic word (I'm assuming it's in MSA) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5706 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian | Message 6 of 14 27 June 2009 at 11:10pm | IP Logged |
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Well, you know that Romanian is me, most of it anyway...and a bit of the French.
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 7 of 14 30 June 2009 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
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Yea.. I can't understand why so many people want to learn Romanian. In my opinion it sounds horrible. No offence intended, it's just my personal sentiment. The way I see it, it is a difficult language with limited practical value and no aesthetic appeal.
For those of you under the spell of Vlad Dracula, you're better off learning Hungarian ;p. That's what they speak in Transylvania. ( I hope there are no Romanians on this forum, otherwise I'm in deep trouble ^_^ ) Edited by Sennin on 30 June 2009 at 7:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cristiana Diglot Newbie Romania Joined 6000 days ago 31 posts - 38 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 14 30 June 2009 at 9:00pm | IP Logged |
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Sennin, today is your lucky day! I have to tell you that you're horribly wrong on all acounts and I hope that you wake up one day and realize just how deeply mistaken you were :P
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