English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English Englisch , English , Inglis , from Old English Englisċ ( “ of the Angles; English ” ) , from Engle ( “ the Angles ” ) , a Germanic tribe + -isċ ; equal to Angle + -ish . Compare West Frisian Ingelsk , Scots Inglis (older ynglis ), Dutch Engels , Danish engelsk , Old French Englesche (whence French anglais ), German englisch , Spanish inglés , all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- ( “ narrow ” ) (compare Sanskrit अंहु ( áṃhu , “ narrow ” ) , अंहस् ( áṃhas , “ anxiety, sin ” ) , Latin angustus ( “ narrow ” ) , Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ ( ǫzŭkŭ , “ narrow ” ) ).
Pronunciation
Adjective
English (comparative more English , superlative most English )
Of or pertaining to England .
English-language; of or pertaining to the language , descended from Anglo-Saxon , which developed in England.
2020 , Abi Daré , The Girl With The Louding Voice , Sceptre, page 187:Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.
Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English .
Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen ).
1897 December (indicated as 1898 ), Winston Churchill , chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode , New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company ; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. , OCLC 222716698 :Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
an English ton
( Amish ) Non-Amish , so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
( film , television ) Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors .
Coordinate term: Chinese
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Translations
of or pertaining to England
Albanian: anglez (sq)
Arabic: إِنْجِلِيزِيّ (ar) ( ʾingilīziyy )
Hijazi Arabic: إنْقِليزي m ( ingilīzi )
Armenian: անգլիական (hy) ( angliakan )
Assamese: বিলাতী ( bilati ) , ইংৰাজ ( iṅraz ) , ইংৰাজী ( iṅrazi )
Asturian: inglés (ast)
Azerbaijani: ingilis
Bashkir: инглиз ( ingliz )
Belarusian: англі́йскі ( anhlíjski )
Bengali: ইংরেজি (bn) ( iṁreji )
Bulgarian: англи́йски (bg) ( anglíjski )
Burmese: အင်္ဂလိပ် (my) ( angga.lip )
Buryat: англи ( angli )
Catalan: anglès (ca)
Valencian: anglés (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 英格蘭的 / 英格兰的 (zh) ( Yīnggélán de ) , 英 (zh) ( Yīng )
Czech: anglický (cs)
Danish: engelsk (da)
Dutch: Engels (nl)
Esperanto: angla (eo)
Estonian: inglise (et)
Ewe: Eŋlisi
Faroese: enskur m , eingilskur m
Finnish: englantilainen (fi)
French: anglais (fr) m , anglaise (fr) f
Galician: inglés (gl) , inglesa f
Georgian: ინგლისური (ka) ( inglisuri )
German: englisch (de) , engländisch
Greek: αγγλικός (el) ( anglikós ) , εγγλέζικος (el) ( englézikos ) ( informally )
Gujarati: અંગ્રેજી (gu) ( aṅgrejī )
Hawaiian: ʻEnelani , Pelekāne
Hebrew: אַנְגְּלִי ( ang'lí )
Hiligaynon: Ingles
Hindi: अंग्रेज़ी (hi) ( aṅgrezī ) , अंग्रेज़ ( aṅgrez ) , अंग्रेजी (hi) ( aṅgrejī ) , अंग्रेज (hi) ( aṅgrej ) , विलायती (hi) ( vilāytī ) , बिलायती (hi) ( bilāytī ) , इंगलिश (hi) ( iṅgliś )
Hungarian: angol (hu) , angliai
Icelandic: enskur (is)
Ido: Angliana (io)
Indonesian: Inggris (id) , keinggrisan
Interlingua: anglese (ia)
Irish: Sasanach (ga)
Italian: inglese (it)
Japanese: イギリスの (ja) ( Igirisu no ) , イングランドの (ja) ( Ingurando no ) , 英 (ja) ( えい, Ei )
Jingpho: Inglik , Inggalik , Ing-galik
Kashubian: anielsczi (csb)
Kazakh: ағылшын ( ağylşyn )
Khmer: អង់គ្លេស (km) ( ʼɑngkleih )
Korean: 영국(英國) 의 ( yeongguk-ui ) , 영(英) (ko) ( yeong )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیزی ( inglîzî )
Northern Kurdish: inglîzî (ku)
Kyrgyz: англис ( anglis ) , иңглиш ( iŋgliş )
Ladin: nglëisc m
Lao: ອັງກິດ ( ʼang kit )
Latin: anglēnsis
Latvian: angļu , anglisks
Lithuanian: anglų (lt) , angliškas
Macedonian: англиски ( angliski )
Malay: Inggeris , Inggris ( Indonesia )
Maltese: Ingliż (mt) m , Ingliża f
Manx: Sostynagh
Maori: Ingarihi
Marathi: इंग्रजी (mr) ( iṅgrajī )
Mongolian: англи (mn) ( angli )
Neapolitan: ngrese
Norman: angllais ( Guernsey ) , Angliais ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: engelsk (no)
Nynorsk: engelsk
Occitan: anglés (oc)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: англїискъ ( angliiskŭ )
Old Occitan: engles
Pashto: انګرېزي (ps) ( angrezí ) , انګليسي (ps) ( englisí )
Persian: انگلیسی (fa) ( engelisi )
Polish: angielski (pl)
Portuguese: inglês (pt)
Romani: anglo m , anglojka f
Romanian: englez (ro)
Russian: англи́йский (ru) ( anglíjskij )
Rusyn: анґлі́цькый ( anglícʹkŷj )
Scots: Inglis
Scottish Gaelic: Sasannach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: енглески m
Roman: engleski m
Sicilian: ngrisi (scn)
Sindhi: اَنگريزِي (sd) ( angrezi )
Sinhalese: ඉංග්රීසි (si) ( iṁgrīsi )
Slovak: anglický (sk)
Slovene: angléški (sl)
Spanish: inglés (es)
Swahili: -ingereza
Swedish: engelsk (sv)
Tagalog: Ingles (tl)
Tajik: англисӣ (tg) ( anglisī )
Tamil: ஆங்கில ( āṅkila )
Tatar: инглиз ( ingliz )
Telugu: ఇంగ్లీషు (te) ( iṅglīṣu ) , ఆంగ్ల ( āṅgla ) , ఆంగ్లేయ ( āṅglēya )
Thai: อังกฤษ (th) ( ang-grìt )
Tibetan: དབྱིན་ཇི ( dbyin ji )
Turkish: İngiliz (tr)
Turkmen: iňlis
Tuvan: англи ( angli )
Ukrainian: англі́йський (uk) ( anhlíjsʹkyj )
Upper Sorbian: jendźelski (hsb)
Urdu: انگریزی (ur) ( aṅgrezī )
Uyghur: ئىنگلىز ( in'gliz )
Uzbek: ingliz (uz)
Vietnamese: Anh (vi) (英 (vi) )
Volapük: Linglänik (vo)
Welsh: Seisnig (cy)
West Frisian: Ingelsk (fy)
Zhuang: Yinghgoz
of or pertaining to the English language
Acehnese: Inggréh , bahsa Inggréh
Afrikaans: Engels (af)
Akan: Enyiresi
Albanian: gjuha angleze
Apache:
Western Apache: indaa’ biyáti’
Arabic: إِنْجِلِيزِيّ (ar) ( ʾingilīziyy )
Hijazi Arabic: إنْقِليزي m ( ingilīzi )
Aragonese: anglés (an)
Armenian: անգլերեն (hy) ( angleren )
Assamese: ইংৰাজী ( iṅrazi )
Asturian: inglés (ast)
Avar: ингилис ( ingilis )
Aymara: inlish
Azerbaijani: ingilis
Bambara: Angilɛkan , Ingliz
Banjarese: Inggris
Banyumasan: ꦲꦶꦁꦒꦿꦶꦱ꧀ ( inggris )
Basque: ingeles (eu)
Belarusian: англі́йскі ( anhlíjski )
Bengali: ইংরেজি (bn) ( iṁreji )
Breton: saozneg (br)
Bulgarian: англи́йски (bg) m ( anglíjski )
Burmese: အင်္ဂလိပ် (my) ( angga.lip )
Catalan: anglès (ca)
Valencian: anglés (ca)
Cebuano: Iningles
Chechen: ингалсан ( ingalsan )
Chichewa: Chingerezi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 英語的 / 英语的 (zh) ( yīngyǔ de ) , 英文的 (zh) ( yīngwén de )
Chuvash: акӑлчан ( ak̬ălč̬an )
Cornish: Sowsnek
Czech: anglický (cs)
Danish: engelsk (da)
Dhivehi: އިނގިރޭސި ( iⁿgirēsi )
Dutch: Engels (nl)
Emilian: inglaiṡ m , ingléś m
Erzya: Англань ( Anglanʹ )
Esperanto: anglalingva
Estonian: inglise (et)
Ewe: Eŋlisi , Eŋlisigbe
Extremaduran: ingresa
Faroese: enskur m , eingilskur f
Fijian: vaka-valagi (fj)
Finnish: englannin (fi) , englanninkielinen (fi)
Franco-Provençal: anglès
French: anglais (fr)
Friulian: inglês
Galician: inglés (gl)
Georgian: ინგლისური (ka) ( inglisuri ) , ინგლისურენოვანი ( inglisurenovani )
German: englisch (de) , englischsprachig (de)
Alemannic German: änglisch
Greek: αγγλικός (el) ( anglikós ) , εγγλέζικος (el) ( englézikos ) ( informal )
Guaraní: inglyesñe'ẽ ( ingrājī ) , ingyaterrañe'ẽ (gn)
Gujarati: અંગ્રેજી (gu) ( aṅgrejī )
Hawaiian: Pelekāne , haole
Hebrew: אנגלי ( anglí ) , של השפה האנגלית
Hiligaynon: Ingles
Hindi: अंग्रेज़ी (hi) ( aṅgrezī ) , आँग्लभाषा ( āṅglabhāṣā ) , अंग्रेजी (hi) ( aṅgrejī ) , इंगलिश (hi) ( iṅgliś )
Hungarian: angol (hu)
Icelandic: enskur (is)
Ido: Angliana (io) , Angla (io) , Anglalingua
Igbo: Inglish
Indonesian: Inggris (id)
Interlingua: anglese (ia)
Irish: Béarlach
Italian: inglese (it)
Japanese: 英語の (ja) ( えいごの, eigo no )
Kabardian: Инджылыбзэ ( Jindžələbze )
Kashubian: anielsczi (csb)
Kazakh: Ағылшын ( Ağylşyn )
Khmer: ភាសាអង់គ្លេស (km) ( phéasaʼងគ្លេស )
Korean: 영어(英語) 의 ( yeong'eo-ui )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیزی ( inglîzî )
Northern Kurdish: inglîzî (ku)
Zazaki: inglîzkî
Kyrgyz: англисче (ky) ( anglisçe ) , иңглишче ( iŋglişçe )
Ladin: nglëisc m
Lao: ພາສາອັງກິດ (lo) ( phā sā ʼang kit )
Latin: anglicus
Latvian: angļu , anglisks
Lithuanian: anglų (lt) , angliškas
Macedonian: англиски ( angliski )
Malay: bahasa Inggeris , Inggeris
Maltese: Ingliż (mt)
Manx: Baarlagh
Maori: Ingarihi
Marathi: इंग्रजी (mr) ( iṅgrajī )
Motu: Nao Gado
Nahuatl: Inglatlahtōlli
Navajo: Bilagáana bizaad
Norwegian:
Bokmål: engelsk (no)
Nynorsk: engelsk
Occitan: anglés (oc)
Ojibwe: zhaaganaashiimowin , ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔒᒧᐎᓐ ( zhaaganaashiimowin )
Old English: Englisċ (ang) , Ænglisċ
Oriya: ଇଂରାଜୀ ( iṃraji )
Pashto: انګليسي (ps) ( englisí ) , انګرېزي (ps) ( angrezí )
Pennsylvania German: Englisch
Persian: انگلیسی (fa) ( engelisi )
Polish: angielski (pl)
Portuguese: inglês (pt) , anglo (pt) , ânglico
Punjabi: ਅੰਗ੍ਰੇਜ਼ੀ ( aṅgrezī )
Romani: anglicko
Romanian: englez (ro)
Russian: англи́йский (ru) ( anglíjskij )
Samogitian: Onglu
Scots: Inglis
Scottish Gaelic: Beurla f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: енглески m
Roman: engleski m
Shona: Chirungu
Sindhi: اَنگريزِي (sd) ( angrezi )
Slovak: anglický (sk)
Slovene: angléški (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: engelšćina , jenźelšćina
Southern Ohlone: inkiS
Spanish: inglés (es)
Swedish: engelsk (sv)
Tagalog: Ingles (tl) , english
Tajik: англисӣ (tg) ( anglisī )
Tamil: ஆங்கிலம் (ta) ( āṅkilam )
Telugu: ఇంగ్లీషు (te) ( iṅglīṣu ) , ఆంగ్లము ( āṅglamu ) , ఆంగ్లభాస ( āṅglabhāsa )
Thai: อังกฤษ (th) ( ang-grìt )
Turkish: İngilizce (tr)
Tuvan: англи ( angli )
Udmurt: Англи ( Angľi )
Ukrainian: англі́йський (uk) ( anhlíjsʹkyj )
Upper Sorbian: jendźelski (hsb)
Urdu: انگریزی (ur) ( aṅgrezī )
Uyghur: ئىنگلىز ( in'gliz )
Uzbek: ingliz (uz)
Venetian: inglexe (vec)
Vietnamese: tiếng Anh (vi)
Volapük: Linglänapükik
Voro: Inglüse
Walloon: inglès (wa)
Waray-Waray: Ininglis
Welsh: Saesneg (cy)
West Flemish: Iengels
West Frisian: Ingelsk (fy)
White Hmong: Askiv
Wolof: angalteer
Yoruba: Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
Zealandic: Iengels
Zhuang: Yinghyij
of or pertaining to an Englishman, Englishwoman, the English
of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system
Translations to be checked
Noun
English (countable and uncountable , plural English or Englishes )
( in the plural ) The people of England , Englishmen and Englishwomen .
1979 , Stormont Mancroft , Bees in Some Bonnets , p. 175:
Cricket —a game which the English , not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity .
The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea .
( Amish, in the plural ) The non- Amish , people outside the Amish faith and community .
( uncountable ) Facility with the English language , ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically .
Sorry, my English isn't very good.
( uncountable ) A particular instance of the English language , including
The English term or expression for some thing or idea .
The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication .
The specs are all correct, but the English in the instructions isn't as clear as it should be.
A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English .
1994 , Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation , season 7, episode 25-26:Data : I have completed my analysis of the anomaly. It appears to be a multi-phasic temporal convergence in the space-time continuum.Dr. Crusher: In English, Data.
Thank you, doctor. Now, please say that again in English .
Synonym of language arts , the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students ' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes .
2018 , Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes , volume 35, DOI :https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004 , page 109:This reflects that in English , students learn a range of text types, such as procedures, editorials, poetry, and not just academic essays.
I loved reading until 7th grade English .
( printing , dated ) A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point .
( uncountable , Canada , US ) Spin or sidespin given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards .
You are putting too much English on the ball.
Usage notes
The use of the plural form Englishes occurred in early modern English but is only seldomly and exceptionally encountered in contemporary English. As with other collective demonyms, English is preceded by the definite article or some other determiner when referring to the people of England collectively.
Synonyms
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Translations
people from England
Arabic: إِنْجِلِيز (ar) ( ʔinjilīz )
Armenian: անգլիացի ( angliacʿi )
Asturian: inglés (ast) m
Basque: ingeles (eu)
Belarusian: англіча́нін m ( anhličánin ) , англіча́нка f ( anhličánka )
Taraškievica: ангелец m ( anhjeljec )
Bengali: ইংরেজি (bn) ( iṁreji )
Breton: Saoz (br) m , Saozon (br) pl , Saozez (br) f , Saozezed (br) f pl
Bulgarian: англича́нин m ( angličánin ) , англича́нка f ( angličánka )
Catalan: anglès (ca) m , anglesa (ca) f
Valencian: anglés (ca) m , anglesa (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 英國人 / 英国人 ( jing1 gwok6 jan4 )
Mandarin: 英國人 / 英国人 (zh) ( yīngguórén )
Czech: Angličan (cs) m , Angličanka (cs) f
Danish: englænder (da)
Dutch: Engelsman (nl) m , Engelse (nl) f , Engelsen (nl) pl
Esperanto: anglo (eo) , anglino , vira anglo , angla viro , angla virino
Estonian: inglane (et) m or f , inglanna f
Ewe: Eŋlisitɔ n
Faroese: onglendingur
Finnish: englantilainen (fi)
Georgian: ინგლისელი ( ingliseli )
German: Engländer (de) m pl
Greek: Άγγλος (el) m ( Ánglos ) , Αγγλίδα (el) f ( Anglída ) , Εγγλέζος (el) m ( Englézos ) , Εγγλέζα (el) f ( Engléza )
Hebrew: אנגלי m ( angli ) , אנגליה f ( anglia )
Hindi: अंग्रेज़ ( aṅgrez ) , अंग्रेज़ी (hi) ( aṅgrezī ) , अंग्रेज (hi) ( aṅgrej ) , अंग्रेजी (hi) ( aṅgrejī ) , इंगलिश (hi) ( iṅgliś )
Hungarian: angol (hu)
Icelandic: Englendingar (is) m pl
Indonesian: orang Inggris
Interlingua: anglese (ia)
Irish: Sasanach (ga) m
Italian: inglese (it)
Japanese: イギリス人 (ja) ( Igirisu-jin ) , ( archaic ) 英国人 (ja) ( えいこくじん, Eikokujin )
Khmer: អង់គ្លេស (km) ( ʼɑngkleih )
Korean: 영국인(英國人) (ko) ( yeonggugin ) , 영국(英國) 사람 ( yeongguksaram )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیز ( inglîz )
Northern Kurdish: inglîz (ku)
Ladin: nglëisc m
Latvian: anglis m , angliete f
Macedonian: Англичанец m ( Angličanec ) , Англичанка f ( Angličanka ) , Англичани ( Angličani )
Malay: orang Inggeris , Inggeris
Maori: Ingarihi
Mongolian: англи хүн ( angli xün )
Occitan: anglés (oc) m , anglesa (oc) f
Ojibwe: zhaaganaash , zhaaganaashi , zhaaganaashag pl , zhaaganaashiwag pl
Ottawa: Zhaagnaash , Zhaagnaashag pl
Persian: انگلیسی (fa) ( engelisi )
Polish: Anglik (pl) m pers , Angielka (pl) f
Portuguese: ingleses (pt) m pl
Romanian: englez (ro) m , englezoiacă f , engleză (ro) f
Russian: англича́нин (ru) m ( angličánin ) , англича́нка (ru) f ( angličánka ) , англича́не (ru) m pl ( angličáne )
Scottish Gaelic: na Sasannaich m pl
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ѐнгле̄з m , Енглескиња f
Roman: Ènglēz m , Engleskinja f
Sindhi: اَنگريزُ (sd) m ( angrezu ) اَنگريزياڻِي (sd) f ( angreziyaannee )
Slovak: Angličan (sk) m , Angličanka (sk) f
Slovene: Angléž (sl) m , Angléžinja f
Swedish: engelsman (sv) m , engelska (sv) f
Tagalog: Inglatero , Ingles (tl)
Tamil: ஆங்கிலேயர் ( āṅkilēyar )
Telugu: ఆంగ్లేయులు ( āṅglēyulu )
Thai: คน อังกฤษ
Turkish: İngiliz (tr)
Tuvan: англи ( angli )
Ukrainian: англі́єць (uk) m ( anhlíjecʹ ) , англі́йка f ( anhlíjka ) , англі́йці (uk) pl ( anhlíjci )
Urdu: انگریز ( aṅgrez )
Vietnamese: người Anh
Written Oirat: ᠠᡊᡎᡅᠯᡅᡔᠠᠨ ( anggilican ) , ᡌᡅᠯᡅᡊ ( piling )
one's ability to employ the English language
English-language term or expression
specific language or wording
Translations to be checked
Proper noun
English (countable and uncountable , plural Englishes )
The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles , the Commonwealth of Nations , North America , and other parts of the world.
English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English ?
Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:English language
A variety , dialect , or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
2003 , Amy Tan , "Mother Tongue", in The Opposite of Fate : Memories of a Writing Life , page 278
I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure.
English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
A male or female given name
A town, the county seat of Crawford County , Indiana ; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English .
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( language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc. ) :
As with the names of almost all languages, English , when it means "the English language", does not usually require an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!"
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Translations
the English language
Abkhaz: англыз бызшәа ( angləz bəzŝʷa )
Adyghe: инджылыбзэ ( jindžələbze )
Afrikaans: Engels (af)
Akan: English
Albanian: anglisht (sq) , anglishte (sq) , gjuha angleze f
Amharic: እንግሊዝኛ ( ʾəngəlizña )
Arabic: إِنْكِلِيزِيّ (ar) m ( ʾingilīziyy ) , إِنْجِلِيزِيّ (ar) m ( ʾingilīziyy ) , إِنْكِلِيزِيَّة (ar) f ( ʾingilīziyya ) , إِنْجِلِيزِيَّة (ar) f ( ʾingilīziyya ) , اَللُّغَة اَلْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة (ar) f ( al-luḡa l-ʾingilīziyya )
Egyptian Arabic: انجليزي m ( engelizi )
Hijazi Arabic: إنْقِليزي m ( ingilīzi ) , اللغة الإنقليزية m ( alluḡa alʾingilīziyya )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܫܢܐ ܐܢܓܠܝܐ ( lšnā ngliyā )
Armenian: անգլերեն (hy) ( angleren )
Assamese: ইংৰাজী ( iṅrazi )
Asturian: inglés (ast) m
Aymara: Inlis aru
Azerbaijani: ingiliscə (az)
Cyrillic: инҝилисҹә
Bambara: Angilɛkan
Banjarese: bahasa Inggris
Banyumasan: basa Inggris
Bashkir: инглиз теле ( ingliz tele )
Basque: ingelera (eu) , ingeles (eu)
Bavarian: Englisch n
Belarusian: англі́йская (мо́ва ) f
Bengali: ইংরেজি (bn) ( iṁreji )
Bikol Central: Ingles (bcl)
Bishnupriya Manipuri: ইংরেজি ( inrēji )
Breton: saoznek (br) m , saozneg (br) m
Bulgarian: англи́йски (ези́к ) m ( anglíjski (ezík) )
Burmese: အင်္ဂလိပ် (my) ( angga.lip )
Catalan: anglès (ca) m
Valencian: anglés (ca) m
Cebuano: Iningles
Chechen: ингалсан мотт ( ingalsan mott )
Cherokee: ᏲᏁᎦ (chr) ( yonega ) , ᎩᎵᏏ (chr) ( gilisi )
Chichewa: Chingerezi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 英文 ( jing1 man4 , jing1 man4-2 ) , 英語 / 英语 ( jing1 jyu5 )
Dungan: йинйү ( yinyü )
Hakka: 英文 ( Yîn-vùn ) , 英語 / 英语 ( Yîn-ngî )
Mandarin: 英語 / 英语 (zh) ( yīngyǔ ) , 英文 (zh) ( yīngwén )
Min Dong: 英語 / 英语 ( Ĭng-ngṳ̄ )
Min Nan: 英語 / 英语 (zh-min-nan) ( Eng-gí, Eng-gú ) , 英文 (zh-min-nan) ( Eng-bûn )
Choctaw: įkiliš imanimpa
Chuvash: акӑлчан чӗлхи ( ak̬ălč̬an č̬ĕlh̬i )
Comanche: taibo tekwapu
Cornish: sowsnek
Corsican: inglese (co) m
Cree: ᐊᑲᔭᓯᒧᐃᐧᐣ ( akayasimoiyn )
Creek: mekvlesv´lkē
Crimean Tatar: ingliz tili
Czech: angličtina (cs) f
Danish: engelsk (da) n
Dhivehi: އިނގިރޭސި ( iⁿgirēsi )
Dutch: Engels (nl) n
Erzya: англань кель ( anglanʹ kelʹ )
Esperanto: angla (eo) , angla lingvo ( with the definite article la (eo) )
Estonian: inglise keel (et)
Ewe: Eŋlisigbe
Extremaduran: ingrés m
Faroese: enskt (fo) , eingilskt
Finnish: englanti (fi) , englannin kieli
Franco-Provençal: Anglès
French: anglais (fr) m , langue de Shakespeare (fr) f
Friulian: lenghe inglese f
Gagauz: İngiliz dili
Galician: inglés (gl) m
Georgian: ინგლისური (ka) ( inglisuri )
German: Englisch (de) n
Alemannic German: Änglisch
Greek: αγγλικά (el) n pl ( angliká ) , εγγλέζικα (el) n pl ( englézika ) ( informally ) , αγγλική (el) f ( anglikí ) ( formally )
Greenlandic: tuluttut
Guaraní: ingyaterrañe'ẽ (gn)
Gujarati: અંગ્રેજી (gu) f ( aṅgrejī )
Haitian Creole: Angle
Hausa: Turanci (ha) , Ingilishi
Hawaiian: ʻōlelo Pelekāne , ʻōlelo Pelekānia , ʻōlelo haole
Hebrew: אַנְגְּלִית (he) f ( anglít )
Hiligaynon: Ingles , Iningles
Hindi: अंग्रेज़ी (hi) f ( aṅgrezī ) , अँग्रेज़ी (hi) f ( aṅgrezī ) , अंग्रेजी (hi) f ( aṅgrejī ) , इंगलिश (hi) f ( iṅgliś ) , अंग्रेज़ी भाषा f ( aṅgrezī bhāṣā )
Hungarian: angol (hu)
Icelandic: enska (is) f
Ido: Angliana linguo
Igbo: asụsụ Bekee
Ilocano: pagsasao nga Ingles
Indonesian: bahasa Inggris
Interlingua: anglese (ia)
Inuktitut: ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ (iu) ( qallonaatitot )
Irish: Béarla (ga) m , Sacs-Bhéarla m
Italian: inglese (it) m
Japanese: 英語 (ja) ( えいご, Eigo )
Javanese: basa Inggris
Kabyle: Taglizit
Kannada: ಆಂಗ್ಲ ( āṅgla )
Karachay-Balkar: Ингилиз ( İñiliz )
Kazakh: ағылшынша ( ağylşynşa )
Khmer: អង់គ្លេស (km) ( ʼɑngkleih )
Kikuyu: Gĩthũngũ
Komi-Zyrian: Англия кыв ( Angľija kyv )
Korean: 영어(英語) (ko) ( yeong'eo )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیزی ( inglîzî )
Northern Kurdish: inglîzî (ku)
Kyrgyz: англис тил и ( anglis tili ) , англисча ( anglisça )
Ladin: nglëisc m
Ladino: lingua Inglesa f
Lao: ອັງກິດ ( ʼang kit )
Latin: lingua anglica f , Anglicus m
Latvian: angļu valoda f
Ligurian: lèngoa ingleise
Limburgish: Ingelsj (li) n
Lingala: Lingɛlɛ́sa
Lithuanian: anglų kalba f , angliškai
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: Engels (nds) n
German Low German: Engelsch (nds) n
Luganda: please add this translation if you can
Lushootseed: pastəducid
Luxembourgish: Englesch (lb) n
Macedonian: англи́ски (ја́зик ) m ( anglíski (jázik) )
Malagasy: anglisy (mg)
Malay: bahasa Inggeris
Malayalam: ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് (ml) ( iṅglīṣŭ )
Maltese: Ingliż (mt)
Manx: Baarle
Maori: te reo Pākehā , reo Ingarihi
Mapudungun: kringkudungun
Marathi: इंग्लिश भाषा ( iṅgliś bhāṣā ) , इंग्रजी (mr) ( iṅgrajī )
Mazanderani: اینگلیسی زبون
Minangkabau: baso Inggirih
Mohawk: Tiohrhēnsa
Moksha: англань ( anglanʹ )
Mongolian: англи хэл ( angli xel )
Motu: Nao Gado
Nahuatl: inglatlahtōlli (nah)
Nauruan: Anglise
Navajo: Bilagáana bizaad
Ndonga: English
Neapolitan: lengua ngrese f
Nepali: अँग्रेजी ( ãgrejī )
Nez Perce: so·yapo·tímtki
Nisga'a: q̉amksi·wá·ma̱q
Norman: Angliais m ( Jersey ) , Angllais m ( Guernsey ) , aungllèche f ( continental Normandy )
Northern Sami: engalaskiela , eaŋgalsgiella
Norwegian:
Bokmål: engelsk (no) m
Nynorsk: engelsk m
O'odham: Milgan ñiok
Occitan: anglés (oc) m
Ojibwe: zhaaganaashiimowin
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: англіискъ ѩꙁꙑкъ m ( angliiskŭ językŭ )
Old English: Englisċ (ang)
Oriya: ଇଂରାଜୀ ( iṃraji )
Ossetian: англисаг ӕвзаг ( anglisag ævzag )
Ottawa: Zhaagnaashiimwin , Zhaagnaashiikwe f , Zhaagnaashiikweg f pl
Pali: आंगलभाषा ( āṃgalabhāṣā )
Pashto: انګرېزي (ps) f ( angrezí )
Pennsylvania German: Englisch
Persian: انگلیسی (fa) ( engelisi ) , زبان انگلیسی ( zabân-e engelisi )
Piedmontese: lenga anglèisa f
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Inglish
Polish: ( język ) angielski (pl)
Portuguese: inglês (pt) m
Punjabi: ਅੰਗ੍ਰੇਜ਼ੀ ( aṅgrezī )
Quechua: Inlish simi
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: engleză (ro) f
Romansch: lingua englaisa
Russian: англи́йский язы́к m ( anglíjskij jazýk ) , англи́йский (ru) m ( anglíjskij ) ( язы́к )
Rwanda-Rundi: Icyongereza (rw)
Samoan: Fa'aperetania
Samogitian: onglu kalba
Sardinian: ingresu
Scots: Inglis , Inglish
Scottish Gaelic: Beurla f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: енглески m , енглески језик m
Roman: engleski m , engleski jezik m
Shoshone: daibō'an daigwape
Sicilian: ngrisi (scn) m
Silesian: angelsko godka
Sindhi: انگريزي (sd) f ( angrezi )
Sinhalese: ඉංග්රීසි (si) ( iṁgrīsi ) , ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාව ( iṁgrīsi bhāṣāwa )
Slovak: angličtina (sk) f
Slovene: angléščina (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: engelšćina f , jenźelšćina f
Upper Sorbian: jendźelšćina (hsb) f
Sotho: Senyesemane (st)
Spanish: inglés (es) m
Sranan Tongo: Ingristongo
Sundanese: basa Inggris
Swahili: Kiingereza class 7
Swazi: síNgísi
Swedish: engelska (sv) c
Tagalog: Ingles (tl)
Tahitian: Anglès
Tajik: англисӣ (tg) ( anglisī )
Tamil: ஆங்கிலம் (ta) ( āṅkilam ) , ஆங்கிலம ( āṅkilama )
Tangsa: Ningxraxtsix
Taos: phonsàytų’úne
Tatar: inglizçä (tt) , инглиз тел е ( ingliz tele )
Telugu: ఆంగ్లము ( āṅglamu ) , ఇంగ్లీషు (te) ( iṅglīṣu )
Tetum: Inglés
Thai: อังกฤษ (th) ( ang-grìt )
Tibetan: དབྱིན་ཇིའི་སྐད ( dbyin ji'i skad )
Tigrinya: እንግሊዝኛ ( ʾəngəlizña )
Tok Pisin: Tok Inglis , Inglis
Tokelauan: gagana Peletānia
Turkish: İngilizce (tr)
Turkmen: iňlisçe (tk)
Cyrillic: иңлисче
Tuvan: англи дыл ( angli dıl )
Udmurt: англи кыл ( angľi kyl )
Ukrainian: англі́йська мо́ва f ( anhlíjsʹka móva ) , англі́йська (uk) f ( anhlíjsʹka )
Urdu: انگریزی (ur) f ( aṅgrezī )
Uyghur: ئىنگىلىز تىلى ( in'giliz tili ) , ئىنگىلىزچە ( in'gilizche )
Uzbek: ingliz tili , inglizcha (uz)
Cyrillic: инглис тил и ( inglis tili )
Venetian: łéngua inglexe f
Vietnamese: tiếng Anh
Volapük: Linglänapük (vo)
Votic: Angljitšinõ
Võro: Inglüse kiil
Welsh: Saesneg (cy)
West Flemish: Iengels sg or n
West Frisian: Ingelsk (fy) n
Western Apache: Indaa’ biyáti’ , Inndaa’ biyáti’ , Innaa’ biyáti’ , Innaa biyáti’ , Inndaa’ biyáti’
White Hmong: lus Askiv
Wolof: Àngale , Angale
Xhosa: isiNgesi
Yakut: ааҥл тыла ( aañl tıla )
Yiddish: ענגליש (yi) n ( english )
Yoruba: Èdè Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
Zazaki: ( Southern Zazaki ) İngılızki (diq)
Zulu: isiNgisi
transliterations of the surname
Verb
English (third-person singular simple present Englishes , present participle Englishing , simple past and past participle Englished )
( transitive , archaic ) To translate, adapt or render into English.
, page 214 (2001 reprint):
[ …] severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
1901 , The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3 , page 654:Mamma is an adaptation of a French farce by Mr. Sydney Grundy, made in the time when his chief claim to recognition as a playwright lay in his ingenious aptitude for Englishing the un-Englishable.
2011 , Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?':
Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators
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