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Alternative forms
en Inglish dated rare
en Englishe archaic
spin en english US spin
render into English en english dated rare render into English
Etymology
en :inh enm:Englisch 1
From en enm Englisch, enm English, enm Inglis, from en ang Englisċ of the Angles; English, from ang Engle the Angles, a Germanic tribe ang isċ 1; equivalent to en Engle -ish. en Anglish. Compare fy Ingelsk, sco Inglis (older sco ynglis), nl Engels, da engelsk, fro Englesche (whence fr anglais), de englisch, es inglés, all ultimately derived from en ine-pro *h₂enǵʰ- narrow (compare sa अंहु áṃhu narrow, sa अंहस् áṃhas anxiety, sin, la angustus narrow, cu ѫзъкъ narrow). More at Angles (tribe) Etymology
Pronunciation
en /ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/ RP /ˈɪŋ.ɡə.lɪʃ/ non-standard
en En-uk-English.oga RP
en /ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/ GA
en En-us-English.ogg GA
en /ˈiŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/ Upper Midwestern US,Western US,CA,pre-/ŋ/ tensing
en /ˈɪŋ.ɡləʃ/ AU
en /ˈɪŋɡ.lɪʃ/ /ɪŋɡˈliːʃ/ India
en ɪŋɡlɪʃ 2
en En glish
Adjective
en of or pertaining to England Of or pertaining to England.
en 1941 w:George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Lion and the Unicorn Pt. I During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.
en of or pertaining to the English language English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
en Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
en 2020 w:Abi Daré The Girl With The Louding Voice Sceptre 187 Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.
en of or pertaining to the people of England Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
en 1765 John Zephaniah Holwell Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan: With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the [...] https://books.google.co.in/books?id=s_0RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA150&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt 1 150 The Uſuwrper [...] within a few miles Tanna's Fort, near the Engliſh ſettlement of Fort William.
2 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.
en Peter C. Mancall Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/health/pilgrim-survival-disease-conversation-wellness 2019-11-25 These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter. https://web.archive.org/web/20210621022524/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/health/pilgrim-survival-disease-conversation-wellness
en of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
en an English ton
en non-Amish, adjectivally en Amish Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
en camera barn door orientation en film television Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.
en Chinese
Synonyms
related to England en southron Scots
Hyponyms
Anglish
Derived terms
en Terms derived from English (adjective) English River English Bicknor English round hand English bean English chant English runner bean English violet Old English Game full English English Foxhound English sweat English Gypsy full English breakfast English Springer Spaniel English bluebell English toy spaniel un-English English foxhound English ivy Old English sheepdog white English bulldog English Bazar English acre English bulldog English cream English Saxon English sole Northern English English
Translations
of or pertaining to England Albanian: sq anglez
Arabic: ar إِنْجِلِيزِيّ or ar إِنْكِلِيزِيّ
Hijazi Arabic: acw إنْقِليزي ingilīzi
Armenian: hy անգլիական
Assamese: as বিলাতী, as ইংৰাজ, as ইংৰাজী
Asturian: ast inglés
Azerbaijani: az ingilis
Bashkir: ba инглиз
Belarusian: be англі́йскі, be анге́льскі Taraškievica, be анґе́льскі Taraškievica
Bengali: bn ইংরেজি
Bulgarian: bg англи́йски
Burmese: my အင်္ဂလိပ်
Buryat: bua англи
Carpathian Rusyn: rue анґлі́цькый
Catalan: ca anglès
Valencian: ca anglés
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 英格蘭 英格蘭的 Yīnggélán de, cmn 英 Yīng
Chuvash: cv акӑлчан
Czech: cs anglický
Danish: da engelsk
Dutch: nl Engels
Esperanto: eo angla
Estonian: et inglise
Ewe: ee Eŋlisi
Faroese: fo enskur m, fo eingilskur m
Finnish: fi englantilainen
French: fr anglais
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Ingelsk
Galician: gl inglés
Georgian: ka ინგლისური
German: de englisch, de engländisch
Greek: el αγγλικός, el εγγλέζικος informally
Gujarati: gu અંગ્રેજી
Hawaiian: haw ʻEnelani, haw Pelekāne
Hebrew: he אַנְגְּלִי ang'lí
Hiligaynon: hil Ingles
Hindi: hi अंग्रेज़ी, hi अंग्रेज़, hi अंग्रेजी, hi अंग्रेज, hi विलायती, hi बिलायती, hi इंगलिश
Hungarian: hu angol, hu angliai
Icelandic: is enskur
Ido: io Angliana
Indonesian: id Inggris, id keinggrisan
Interlingua: ia anglese
Irish: ga Sasanach
Italian: it inglese
Jamaican Creole: jam Ingglish
Japanese: ja イギリス イギリスの Igirisu no, ja イングランド イングランドの Ingurando no, ja 英 えい, Ei
Jingpho: kac Inglik, kac Inggalik, kac Ing-galik
Kashubian: csb anielsczi
Kazakh: kk ағылшын
Khmer: km អង់គ្លេស
Korean: ko 영국 ^영국(英國)-의, ko ^영(英)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb ئنگلیزی ئِنگلیزی
Northern Kurdish: kmr inglîzî
Kyrgyz: ky англис, ky иңглиш
Ladin: lld nglëisc m
Lao: lo ອັງກິດ
Latin: la anglēnsis
Latvian: lv angļu, lv anglisks
Lithuanian: lt anglų, lt angliškas
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de engelsch
Macedonian: mk англиски
Malay: ms Inggeris, ms Inggris Indonesia
Maltese: mt Ingliż m, mt Ingliża f
Manx: gv Sostynagh
Māori: mi Ingarihi
Marathi: mr इंग्रजी, mr इंग्रज m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn англи
Neapolitan: nap ngrese
Norman: nrf angllais Guernsey, nrf Angliais Jersey
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb engelsk
Nynorsk: nn engelsk
Occitan: oc anglés
Old Occitan: pro engles
Ojibwa:
Northwestern Ojibwa: ojb zhaaganaashiimowin
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu англїискъ
Pashto: ps انګرېزي angrezí, ps انګليسي englisí
Persian:
Dari: prs اِنْگْلِیسِی
Iranian Persian: fa-ira اِنْگْلیسی
Polish: pl angielski
Portuguese: pt inglês
Romani: rom anglo m, rom anglojka f
Romanian: ro englez
Russian: ru англи́йский
Sardinian: sc inglesu m, sc ingresu f
Scots: sco Inglis
Scottish Gaelic: gd Sasannach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh енглеск
Latin: sh engleski m
Sicilian: scn ngrisi
Sindhi: sd اَنگريزِي angrezi
Sinhalese: si ඉංග්රීසි
Slovak: sk anglický
Slovene: sl angléški
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: hsb jendźelski
Spanish: es inglés
Swahili: sw -ingereza
Swedish: sv engelsk
Tagalog: tl Ingles
Tajik: tg англисӣ
Tamil: ta ஆங்கில
Tatar: tt инглиз
Telugu: te ఇంగ్లీషు, te ఆంగ్ల, te ఆంగ్లేయ
Thai: th อังกฤษ
Tibetan: bo དབྱིན་ཇི
Turkish: tr İngiliz
Turkmen: tk iňlis
Tuvan: tyv англи
Ukrainian: uk англі́йський
Unami: unm Inklìshi
Urdu: ur اَن٘گْریزی, ur انگلستانی iṅglistānī
Uyghur: ug ئىنگلىز
Uzbek: uz ingliz
Vietnamese: vi Anh (vi 英)
Volapük: vo Linglänik
Welsh: cy Seisnig
Zhuang: za Yinghgoz
of or pertaining to the English language Acehnese: ace Inggréh, ace bahsa Inggréh
Afrikaans: af Engels
Akan: ak Enyiresi
Albanian: sq gjuha angleze
Apache:
Western Apache: apw indaa’ biyáti’
Arabic: ar إِنْجِلِيزِيّ ʔingilīziyy, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيّ m, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيَّة f, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيُّون m-p, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيِّين f-p, ar إِنْجِلِيز p, ar إِنْجِلِيز n-p, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيَّان m-d, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيَّيْن m-d, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيَّتَان f-d, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيَّتَيْن f-d
Hijazi Arabic: acw إنْقِليزي m ingilīzi
Aragonese: an anglés
Armenian: hy անգլերեն
Assamese: as ইংৰাজী
Asturian: ast inglés
Avar: av ингилис
Aymara: ay inlish
Azerbaijani: az ingilis
Bambara: bm Angilɛkan, bm Ingliz
Banjarese: bjn Inggris
Banyumasan: map-bms ꦲꦶꦁꦒꦿꦶꦱ꧀ inggris
Basque: eu ingeles
Belarusian: be англі́йскі, be анге́льскі Taraškievica, be анґе́льскі Taraškievica
Bengali: bn ইংরেজি
Breton: br saozneg
Bulgarian: bg англи́йски
Burmese: my အင်္ဂလိပ်
Catalan: ca anglès
Valencian: ca anglés
Cebuano: ceb Iningles
Chechen: ce ингалсан
Chichewa: ny Chingerezi
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 英語 英語的 yīngyǔ de, cmn 英文 yīngwén de 英文的
Chuvash: cv акӑлчан
Circassian:
East Circassian: kbd Инджылыбзэ
Cornish: kw Sowsnek
Czech: cs anglický
Danish: da engelsk
Dhivehi: dv އިނގިރޭސި
Dutch: nl Engels
Emilian: egl inglaiṡ m, egl ingléś m
Erzya: myv Англань
Esperanto: eo anglalingva
Estonian: et inglise
Ewe: ee Eŋlisi, ee Eŋlisigbe
Extremaduran: ext ingresa
Faroese: fo enskur m, fo eingilskur f
Fijian: fj vaka-valagi
Finnish: fi englanti englannin, fi englanninkielinen
Franco-Provençal: frp anglès
French: fr anglais
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Ingelsk
Friulian: fur inglês
Galician: gl inglés
Georgian: ka ინგლისური, ka ინგლისურენოვანი
German: de englisch, de englischsprachig
Alemannic German: gsw änglisch
Greek: el αγγλικός, el εγγλέζικος informal
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug inglyesñe'ẽ ingrājī, gug ingyaterrañe'ẽ
Gujarati: gu અંગ્રેજી
Hawaiian: haw Pelekāne, haw haole
Hebrew: he אַנְגְּלִי anglí
Hiligaynon: hil Ingles
Hindi: hi अंग्रेज़ी, hi आँग्लभाषा, hi अंग्रेजी, hi इंगलिश
Hmong:
White Hmong: mww Askiv
Hungarian: hu angol
Icelandic: is enskur
Ido: io Angliana, io Angla, io Anglalingua
Igbo: ig Inglish
Indonesian: id Inggris
Interlingua: ia anglese
Irish: ga Béarlach
Italian: it inglese
Japanese: ja 英語 英語の えいごの, eigo no
Kashubian: csb anielsczi
Kazakh: kk Ағылшын
Khmer: km ភាសាអង់គ្លេស
Korean: ko 영어 영어(英語)-의
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb ئنگلیزی ئِنگلیزی
Northern Kurdish: kmr inglîzî
Kyrgyz: ky англисче, ky иңглишче
Ladin: lld nglëisc m
Lao: lo ພາສາອັງກິດ
Latin: la anglicus
Latvian: lv angļu, lv anglisks
Lithuanian: lt anglų, lt angliškas
Macedonian: mk англиски
Malay: ms bahasa Inggeris, ms Inggeris
Maltese: mt Ingliż
Manx: gv Baarlagh
Māori: mi Ingarihi
Marathi: mr इंग्रजी, mr इंग्लिश f
Mingrelian: xmf ინგლისური ნინა
Motu: meu Nao Gado
Nahuatl: nah Inglatlahtōlli
Navajo: nv Bilagáana bizaad
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb engelsk
Nynorsk: nn engelsk
Occitan: oc anglés
Odia: or ଇଂରାଜୀ
Ohlone:
Southern Ohlone: css inkiS
Ojibwe: oj zhaaganaashiimowin, oj ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔒᒧᐎᓐ zhaaganaashiimowin
Old English: ang Englisċ, ang Ænglisċ
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk анґлийски, rsk енґлейски colloquial
Pashto: ps انګليسي englisí, ps انګرېزي angrezí
Pennsylvania German: pdc Englisch
Persian: fa اِنْگْلیسی englisi
Polish: pl angielski
Portuguese: pt inglês, pt anglo, pt ânglico
Punjabi: pa ਅੰਗ੍ਰੇਜ਼ੀ
Romani: rom anglicko
Romanian: ro englez
Russian: ru англи́йский
Samogitian: sgs Onglu
Scots: sco Inglis
Scottish Gaelic: gd Beurla f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh енглески m
Latin: sh engleski m
Shona: sn Chirungu
Sindhi: sd اَنگريزِي angrezi
Slovak: sk anglický
Slovene: sl angléški
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb engelšćina, dsb jenźelšćina
Upper Sorbian: hsb jendźelski
Spanish: es inglés
Swedish: sv engelsk
Tagalog: tl Ingles, tl english
Tajik: tg англисӣ
Tamil: ta ஆங்கில
Telugu: te ఇంగ్లీషు, te ఆంగ్లము, te ఆంగ్లభాస
Thai: th อังกฤษ
Turkish: tr İngilizce
Tuvan: tyv англи
Udmurt: udm Англи
Ukrainian: uk англі́йський
Unami: unm Inklìshi
Urdu: ur اَن٘گْریزی
Uyghur: ug ئىنگلىز
Uzbek: uz ingliz
Venetan: vec inglexe
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Anh
Volapük: vo Linglänapükik
Võro: vro Inglüse
Walloon: wa inglès
Waray-Waray: war Ininglis
Welsh: cy Saesneg
West Flemish: vls Iengels
Wolof: wo angalteer
Yoruba: yo Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
Zazaki: zza inglîzkî
Zealandic: zea Iengels
Zhuang: za Yinghyij
of or pertaining to an Englishman, Englishwoman, the English
Asturian: ast inglés
Bulgarian: bg англи́йски
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 英国人 英国人的 yīngguórén de
Chuvash: cv акӑлчан
Esperanto: ♂♀ eo angla, ♂ eo virangla, ♀ eo anglina
Finnish: fi englantilainen
Hungarian: hu angol
Icelandic: is enskur
Irish: ga Sasanach
Korean: ko 영국인 영국인(英國人)-의, ko 영국 영국(英國) 사람-의
Latvian: lv angļu, lv anglisks
Lithuanian: lt angliškas m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb engelsk
Nynorsk: nn engelsk
Romanian: ro englez
Russian: ru англи́йский, ru англи́йский
Tamil: ta ஆங்கிலேய
Unami: unm Inklìshi
Volapük: ♂♀ vo Linglänanik, ♂ vo hi-Linglänanik, ♀ vo ji-Linglänanik
of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system
Esperanto: eo brita
Finnish: fi brittiläinen
Hebrew: he שייך למערכת המידות האנגלית
Hindi: hi अंग्रेज़ी, hi अंग्रेजी
Icelandic: is enskur
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb ئنگلیزی ئِنگلیزی
Northern Kurdish: kmr inglîzî
Norwegian: no engelsk
Persian: fa اِنْگْلیسی englisi
Portuguese: pt inglês
Sindhi: sd اَنگريزِي angrezi
Spanish: es inglés
Swedish: sv engelsk
Tamil: ta ஆங்கில
Breton: br saoz; related to the language: br saoznek
Swahili: sw -ingereza
Noun
~ * +
en people of England en in the plural The people of England, e.g., Englishmen and Englishwomen.
1979, Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft 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.
en The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.
en people who are not Amish en Amish in the plural The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
en degree of facility with the English language en uncountable Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.
en Sorry, my English isn't very good. I wish I had better English.
en uncountable A particular instance of the English language, including:
The English term or expression for some thing or idea.
en What's the English for 'fr à peu près'? It depends: how is it being used?
The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.
en 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.
en Thank you, doctor. Now, please say that again in English.
en 1994 Brent Spiner; Gates McFadden All Good Things... Star Trek: The Next Generation Brannon Braga; Ronald D. Moore 7 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.
en language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
en I loved reading until 7th grade English.
en 2018 Clarence Green; James Lambert Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects Journal of English for Academic Purposes 35 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004 109 This reflects that in English, students learn a range of text types, such as procedures, editorials, poetry, and not just academic essays.
en printing en printing dated A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
en spin en uncountable North American en english spin.
en 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 seldom 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
English people en southrons Scots
type size German contexts Mittel, French contexts Augustin
Coordinate terms
sidespin draw, follow
Translations
people from England
Arabic: ar إِنْجِلِيز p
Armenian: hy անգլիացի
Asturian: ast inglés m
Basque: eu ingeles
Belarusian: be англіча́нін m, be англіча́нка f, be анге́лец Taraškievica, be анге́лька Taraškievica, be анґе́лец Taraškievica, be анґе́лька Taraškievica
Bengali: bn ইংরেজি
Breton: br Saoz m, br Saozon p, br Saozez f, br Saozezed f-p
Bulgarian: bg англича́нин m, bg англича́нка f, bg англича́нче n, bg англича́ни p
Catalan: ca anglès m, ca anglesa f
Valencian: ca anglés m, ca anglesa f
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 英國人
Mandarin: cmn 英國人
Chuvash: cv акӑлчан m f, cv акӑлчансем p
Czech: cs Angličan m, cs Angličanka f
Danish: da englænder
Dutch: nl Engelsman m, nl Engelse f, nl Engelsen p
Esperanto: eo anglo, eo anglino, eo vira anglo, eo angla viro, eo angla virino
Estonian: et inglane m f, et inglanna f
Ewe: ee Eŋlisitɔ n
Faroese: fo onglendingur
Finnish: fi englantilainen
French: fr anglais m m-p, fr anglaise f, fr anglaises f-p
Georgian: ka ინგლისელი, ka ინგლისელები
German: de Engländer m-p
Greek: el Άγγλος m, el Αγγλίδα f, el Εγγλέζος m, el Εγγλέζα f
Hebrew: he אַנְגְּלִי m angli, he אנגליה f anglia
Hindi: hi अंग्रेज़, hi अंग्रेज़ी, hi अंग्रेज, hi अंग्रेजी, hi इंगलिश
Hungarian: hu angol
Icelandic: is Englendingur m-p Englendingar
Indonesian: id orang Inggris
Interlingua: ia anglese
Irish: ga Sasanach m
Italian: it inglese
Japanese: ja イギリス人 Igirisu-jin, archaic ja 英国人 えいこくじん, Eikokujin
Khmer: km អង់គ្លេស
Korean: ko 영국인(英國人), ko 영국(英國) 사람
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb ئنگلیز ئِنگلیز
Northern Kurdish: kmr inglîz
Ladin: lld nglëisc m
Latvian: lv anglis m, lv angliete f
Macedonian: mk Англичанец m, mk Англичанка f, mk Англичани p
Malay: ms orang Inggeris, ms Inggeris
Māori: mi Ingarihi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn англи хүн
Occitan: oc anglés m, oc anglesa f
Ojibwe: oj zhaaganaash, oj zhaaganaashi, oj zhaaganaashag p, oj zhaaganaashiwag p
Ottawa: otw Zhaagnaash, otw Zhaagnaashag p
Persian: fa اِنْگْلیسی englisi
Polish: pl Anglik m-pr, pl Angielka f
Portuguese: pt ingleses m-p
Romanian: ro englez m, ro englezoiacă f, ro engleză f
Russian: ru англича́нин m, ru англича́нка f, ru англича́не m-p
Scottish Gaelic: gd Sasannaich na Sasannaich m-p
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ѐнгле̄з m, sh Енглескиња f
Latin: sh Ènglēz m, sh Engleskinja f
Sindhi: sd اَنگريزُ angrezu m sd اَنگريزياڻِي angreziyaannee f
Slovak: sk Angličan m, sk Angličanka f
Slovene: sl Angléž m, sl Angléžinja f
Swedish: sv engelsman m, sv engelska f
Tagalog: tl Inglatero, tl Ingles
Tamil: ta ஆங்கிலேயர்
Telugu: te ఆంగ్లేయులు
Thai: th คนอังกฤษ
Turkish: tr İngiliz
Tuvan: tyv англи
Ukrainian: uk англі́єць m, uk англі́йка f, uk англі́йці p
Urdu: ur اَن٘گْریز m f
Vietnamese: vi người Anh
Written Oirat: xwo ᠠᡊᡎᡅᠯᡅᡔᠠᠨ, xwo ᡌᡅᠯᡅᡊ
one's ability to employ the English language
Armenian: hy անգլերեն
Asturian: ast inglés m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 英文 jing1 man4, jing1 man4-2, yue 英語 jing1 jyu5
Hakka: hak 英文 Yîn-vùn, hak 英語 Yîn-ngî
Hokkien: nan-hbl 英語 Eng-gí, Eng-gú, nan-hbl 英文 Eng-bûn
Mandarin: cmn 英語 Yīngyǔ, cmn 英文 Yīngwén
Finnish: fi englannin taito
French: fr anglais m
Portuguese: pt inglês m
Romanian: ro engleză f
Swedish: sv engelska c
Tamil: ta ஆங்கிலம்
English-language term or expression
Arabic: ar الْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة, ar اللُّغَة الْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة
Finnish: fi englanniksi
Motu: meu Nao Gado
specific language or wording
Armenian: hy անգլերեն
Finnish: fi englanti, fi englannin kieli
Swedish: sv engelska c
14-point type
Dutch: nl grote Augustijn, nl dubbel kolonel
French: fr gros-texte
German: de Mittel
Hungarian: hu mittel
Italian: it silvio
Spanish: es texto
Swedish: sv mittel c
Aragonese: an anglés
Aramaic: arc ܠܫܢܐ ܐܢܓܠܝܐ
Buginese: bug ᨅᨔ ᨕᨗᨋᨗᨔᨗ
Emilian: egl inglêś
German:
Alemannic German: gsw Englisch
Inuktitut: iu ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ
Māori: mi Ingarihi
Marathi: mr ईंग्रजी
Somali: so ingiriisi
Swahili: noun 1/2 sw Waingereza p, sw Mwingereza s
Walloon: wa Inglès
Proper noun
~
+ (surname)
+ (places)
en Q1860 The language that developed in England and is now spoken in the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and many other parts of the world.
en Thesaurus:English language
en English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
en How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English?
en She speaks English, French, and German. English is her first language.
en English is a world language: it is widely used in dozens of countries and is studied in at least a hundred more.
en May 6 1998 Douglas Watkinson; et al Death in Disguise Midsomer Murders Gracias. Adios. Yes, thank you very much. I am most grateful. Thank you. [Hangs up phone.] It used to be, if foreigners didn't understand, you'd shout at 'em until they did. Now they speak better English than we.
en Ligaya Mishan The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu w:The New York Times Style Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/t-magazine/fugu-blowfish-deadly-food.html 2020-12-04 Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae. https://web.archive.org/web/20210101090419/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/t-magazine/fugu-blowfish-deadly-food.html
en John Malathronas Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn? w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/learn-a-foreign-language-wellness 2021-04-25 Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian. https://web.archive.org/web/20220322023413/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/learn-a-foreign-language-wellness
A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
en 2003 w:Amy Tan Mother Tongue The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life 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.
An English language, literature, or composition as a subject of study.
en surname en English originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
en male,female.
en number of places c/USA:
en town/county seat co/Crawford County s/Indiana ; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.en eponyms
en ucomm co/Carroll County s/Kentucky.
en ucomm co/Brazoria County s/Texas.
en ucomm co/Red River County s/Texas.
en ucomm co/McDowell County s/West Virginia.
Usage notes
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!"
Hypernyms
language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc.
en language
Meronyms
See also Thesaurus:English language
language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc.
en Standard English
diachronic
en Middle English, en Medieval English
en Early Middle English, en early Middle English
en Late Middle English, en late Middle English
en New English, en Modern English
en Early New English, en Early Modern English
en Late Modern English
Derived terms
en Terms derived from English (noun) does anyone here speak English Northern English English do you speak English Antigua and Barbuda Creole English Leeward Caribbean Creole English Leeward Caribbean English Creole do you have a menu in English Aviation English New York English Englishtown how do you say … in English I don't speak English King's English rally English Tarzan English Queen's English Maoist Standard English
Descendants
my အင်္ဂလိပ် 1
chr ᎩᎵᏏ 1
mi Ingarihi 1
ml ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് 1
qu Inlish simi 1
shn ဢိင်းၵလဵတ်ႈ 1
ta இங்கிலீஷ் 1
te ఇంగ్లీషు 1
uk і́нгліш 1 referring to the English language as a school subject
uli Ingrees 1
Translations
the English language Abkhaz: ab англыз бызшәа
Afrikaans: af Engels
Akan: ak English, ak Borɔfo
Albanian: sq anglisht, sq anglishte, sq gjuha angleze f
Amharic: am እንግሊዝኛ
Antillean Creole: gcf anglé m
Apache:
Western Apache: apw Indaa’ biyáti’, apw Inndaa’ biyáti’, apw Innaa’ biyáti’, apw Innaa biyáti’, apw Inndaa’ biyáti’
Arabic: ar إِنْكِلِيزِيّ m ʔingilīziyy, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيّ m ʔingilīziyy, ar إِنْكِلِيزِيَّة f ʔingilīziyya, ar إِنْجِلِيزِيَّة f ʔingilīziyya, ar اَللُّغَة اَلْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة f al-luḡa l-ʔingilīziyya
Egyptian Arabic: arz انجليزي m engelizi
Hijazi Arabic: acw إنْقِليزي m ingilīzi, acw اللغة الإنقليزية m alluḡa alʔingilīziyya
Aragonese: an
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܠܫܢܐ ܐܢܓܠܝܐ
Armenian: hy անգլերեն
Assamese: as ইংৰাজী
Asturian: ast inglés m
Aymara: ay Inlis aru
Azerbaijani: az ingiliscə
Cyrillic: az инҝилисҹә
Bambara: bm Angilɛkan
Banjarese: bjn bahasa Inggris
Banyumasan: map-bms basa Inggris
Bashkir: ba инглиз теле
Basque: eu ingelera, eu ingeles
Belarusian: be англі́йская (мо́ва) f, be анге́льская (мо́ва) f Taraškievica, be анґе́льская (мо́ва) f Taraškievica
Bengali: bn ইংরেজি
Bikol:
Central Bikol: bcl Ingles
Breton: br saoznek m, br saozneg m
Bulgarian: bg англи́йски (ези́к) m
Burmese: my အင်္ဂလိပ်
Catalan: ca anglès m
Valencian: ca anglés m
Cebuano: ceb Iningles
Chechen: ce ингалсан мотт
Cherokee: chr ᏲᏁᎦ, chr ᎩᎵᏏ
Chichewa: ny Chingerezi 7
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 英文 jing1 man4, jing1 man4-2, yue 英語 jing1 jyu5
Dungan: dng йинйү
Eastern Min: cdo 英語 Ĭng-ngṳ̄
Hakka: hak 英文 Yîn-vùn, hak 英語 Yîn-ngî
Hokkien: nan-hbl 英語 Eng-gí, Eng-gú, nan-hbl 英文 Eng-bûn
Mandarin: cmn 英語 yīngyǔ, cmn 英文 yīngwén
Chinook Jargon: chn bastən-wawa
Choctaw: cho įkiliš imanimpa
Chuvash: cv акӑлчан чӗлхи, cv акӑлчанла
Circassian:
West Circassian: ady инджылыбзэ
Comanche: com taibo tekwapu
Cornish: kw sowsnek
Corsican: co inglese m
Cree: cr ᐊᑲᔭᓯᒧᐃᐧᐣ
Creek: mus mekvlesv´lkē
Crimean Tatar: crh ingliz tili
Czech: cs angličtina f
Danish: da engelsk n
Dhivehi: dv އިނގިރޭސި
Digo: dig Chizungu 7
Dutch: nl Engels n
Erzya: myv англань кель
Esperanto: eo angla, eo angla lingvo with the definite article eo la
Estonian: et inglise keel
Ewe: ee Eŋlisigbe
Extremaduran: ext ingrés m
Faroese: fo enskt, fo eingilskt
Finnish: fi englanti, fi englannin kieli
Franco-Provençal: frp anglès
French: fr anglais m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Ingelsk n
Friulian: fur lenghe inglese f
Gagauz: gag İngiliz dili
Galician: gl inglés m
Georgian: ka ინგლისური, ka ინგლისური ენა
German: de Englisch n
Alemannic German: gsw Änglisch
Bavarian: bar Englisch n
Greek: el αγγλικά n-p, el εγγλέζικα n-p informally, el αγγλική f formally
Greenlandic: kl tuluttut
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug ingyaterrañe'ẽ
Gujarati: gu અંગ્રેજી f
Haitian Creole: ht angle
Hausa: ha Turanci, ha Ingilishi
Hawaiian: haw ʻōlelo haw Pelekāne, haw ʻōlelo haw Pelekānia, haw ʻōlelo haw haole
Hebrew: he אַנְגְּלִית f anglít
Hiligaynon: hil Ingles, hil Iningles
Hindi: hi अंग्रेज़ी f, hi अँग्रेज़ी f, hi अंग्रेजी f, hi इंगलिश f, hi अंग्रेज़ी भाषा f
Hmong:
White Hmong: mww lus Askiv
Hungarian: hu angol
Icelandic: is enska f
Ido: io Angliana linguo
Igbo: ig asụsụ Bekee
Ilocano: ilo pagsasao nga Ingles
Indonesian: id bahasa Inggris
Interlingua: ia anglese
Inuktitut: iu ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ
Irish: ga Béarla m, ga Sacs-Bhéarla m
Italian: it inglese m
Jamaican Creole: jam Ingglish
Japanese: ja 英語 えいご, Eigo
Javanese: jv basa Inggris
Kabyle: kab Taglizit
Kannada: kn ಆಂಗ್ಲ
Karachay-Balkar: krc ингилиз
Kazakh: kk ағылшынша
Khmer: km ភាសាអង់គ្លេស phiəsaa ʼɑngkleih
Kikuyu: ki Gĩthũngũ
Komi:
Komi-Zyrian: kpv Англия кыв
Korean: ko 영어(英語)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb ئنگلیزی ئِنگلیزی
Northern Kurdish: kmr inglîzî
Kyrgyz: ky англис тили, ky англисча
Ladin: lld nglëisc m
Ladino: lad lingua Inglesa f
Lao: lo ພາສາອັງກິດ phā sā ʼang kit
Latin: la lingua anglica f, la Anglicus m
Latvian: lv angļu valoda f
Ligurian: lij lèngoa ingleise
Limburgish: li Ingelsj n
Lingala: ln Lingɛlɛ́sa
Lithuanian: lt anglų kalba f, lt angliškai
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl Engels n
German Low German: nds-de Engelsch n
Luganda: lg
Lushootseed: lut pastəducid
Luxembourgish: lb Englesch n
Macedonian: mk англи́ски (ја́зик) m
Malagasy: mg anglisy
Malay: ms bahasa Inggeris
Malayalam: ml ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്
Maltese: mt Ingliż
Manipuri:
Bishnupriya Manipuri: bpy ইংরেজি inrēji
Manx: gv Baarle
Māori: mi te reo Pākehā, mi reo Ingarihi
Mapudungun: arn kringkudungun
Marathi: mr इंग्लिश भाषा, mr इंग्रजी
Mazanderani: mzn اینگلیسی زبون
Miami: mia aakalaahšimaataweenki
Minangkabau: min baso Inggirih
Mohawk: moh Tiohrhēnsa
Moksha: mdf англань
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn англи хэл
Motu: meu Nao Gado
Nahuatl: nah inglatlahtōlli
Nauruan: na Anglise
Navajo: nv Bilagáana bizaad
Ndonga: ng English
Neapolitan: nap lengua ngrese f
Nepali: ne अँग्रेजी
Nez Perce: nez so·yapo·tímtki
Nisga'a: ncg q̉amksi·wá·ma̱q
Niuean: niu te gagana Peletānia
Norman: nrf angliais m Jersey, nrf angllais m Guernsey, nrf aungllèche f continental Normandy
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb engelsk m
Nynorsk: nn engelsk m
Nuosu: ii ꑱꒃ
Occitan: oc anglés m
Odia: or ଇଂରାଜୀ
Ojibwe: oj zhaaganaashiimowin
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu англіискъ ѩꙁꙑкъ m
Old English: ang Englisċ
O'odham: ood Milgan ñiok
Ossetian: os англисаг ӕвзаг
Ottawa: otw Zhaagnaashiimwin, otw Zhaagnaashiikwe f, otw Zhaagnaashiikweg f-p
Pali: pi आंगलभाषा
Pashto: ps انګرېزي f angrezí
Pennsylvania German: pdc Englisch
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira زَبانِ اِنْگْلیسی, fa-ira اِنْگْلیسی
Piedmontese: pms lenga anglèisa f
Pitcairn-Norfolk: pih Inglish
Pohnpeian: pon lokaiahn waii
Polish: język pl angielski
Portuguese: pt inglês m
Punjabi: pa ਅੰਗ੍ਰੇਜ਼ੀ f
Quechua: qu Inlish simi
Romanian: ro engleză f
Romansh: rm lingua englaisa
Russian: ru англи́йский язы́к m, ru англи́йский m язы́к
Rwanda-Rundi: rw Icyongereza
Sami:
Northern Sami: se engalaskiela, se eaŋgalsgiella
Samoan: sm Fa'aperetania
Samogitian: sgs onglu kalba
Sardinian: sc inglesu m, sc ingresu m
Scots: sco Inglis, sco Inglish
Scottish Gaelic: gd Beurla f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh енглески m, sh енглески језик m
Latin: sh engleski m, sh engleski jezik m
Shoshone: shh daibō'an daigwape
Sicilian: scn ngrisi m
Sindhi: sd انگريزي f angrezi
Sinhalese: si ඉංග්රීසි, si ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාව
Slovak: sk angličtina f
Slovene: sl angléščina f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb engelšćina f, dsb jenźelšćina f
Upper Sorbian: hsb jendźelšćina f
Sotho: st Senyesemane
Spanish: es inglés m
Sranan Tongo: srn Ingristongo
Subanen:
Lapuyan Subanun: laa milihan
Sundanese: su basa Inggris
Swahili: sw Kiingereza 7
Swazi: ss síNgísi
Swedish: sv engelska c
Tagalog: tl Ingles
Tahitian: ty reo Paratāne
Tajik: tg забони англисӣ, tg англисӣ
Tamil: ta ஆங்கிலம், ta இங்கிலீஷ்
Tangsa: nst Ningxraxtsix
Taos: twf phonsàytųʼúne
Tatar: tt inglizçä, tt инглиз теле
Telugu: te ఆంగ్లము, te ఇంగ్లీషు
Tetum: tet Inglés
Thai: th ภาษาอังกฤษ paa-sǎa ang-grìt
Tibetan: bo དབྱིན་ཇིའི་སྐད
Tigrinya: ti እንግሊዝኛ
Tokelauan: tkl gagana Peletānia
Tok Pisin: tpi Tok Inglis, tpi Inglis
Tumbuka: tum Cingelezi 7
Turkish: tr İngilizce
Turkmen: tk iňlisçe
Cyrillic: tk иңлисче
Tuvan: tyv англи дыл
Udmurt: udm англи кыл
Ukrainian: uk англі́йська мо́ва f, uk англі́йська f
Urdu: ur اَن٘گْریزی زَبان f, ur اَن٘گْریزی f
Uyghur: ug ئىنگىلىز تىلى, ug ئىنگىلىزچە
Uzbek: uz ingliz tili, uz inglizcha
Cyrillic: uz инглиз тили, uz инглизча
Venetan: vec łéngua inglexe f
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Anh
Volapük: vo Linglänapük
Võro: vro Inglüse kiil
Welsh: cy Saesneg
West Flemish: vls Iengels s n
Wolaytta: wal Inggilizettuwa s m n
Wolof: wo Àngale, wo Angale
Xhosa: xh isiNgesi
Xibe: sjo ᡞᡢ ᡤᡠᠷᡠᠨ ᡤᡞᠰᡠᠨ ing gurun gisun
Yakut: sah ааҥл тыла
Yao (Africa): yao Cisungu 7, yao Cingelesi 7
Yiddish: yi ענגליש n
Yoruba: yo èdè Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
Zazaki: Southern Zazaki zza İngılızki
Zhuang: za yinghyiz, za yinghvwnz
Zulu: zu isiNgisi
English dialect
Finnish: fi englanti
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy
Indonesian: id inggristis
transliterations of the surname
Armenian: hy Ինգլիշ
Marathi: mr इंग्लिश
Russian: ru И́нглиш m f
Verb
en render into English en transitive ; archaic or rare To translate, adapt or render into English.
en fr 1735 William Wylde The Reports of Sir Henry Yelverton, Knight and Baronet Chanel v. Robotham (1605) https://wythepedia.wm.edu/library/ReportsOfSirHenryYelverton1735.pdf 68:
when a man expresses in Latin a Thing to be taken by Wrong, and englishes it; but if he declares on a Latin Word, which has no perfect Signification, nor so elegant as it might be; yet upon his Englishing of it whereby the Plaintiff's Meaning appears to the Court, the Plaintiff shall recover, and the Jury shall be intended to give Damages according to the Declaration in Latin, not having Respect to the Englishing; but when there is a proper Latin Word to express the Thing taken, there if the Plaintiff declares by another Word, it is not good.
2001 214 severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
en 1901 The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3 654 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
en to make English en transitive ; archaic or rare To make English; to claim for England.
en 1880 7–8 Dramatic Idylls: Second Series Clive 12 Robert Browning While the man Clive—he fought Plassy, spoiled the clever foreign game,Conquered and annexed and Englished! https://archive.org/details/dramaticidyls02browgoog https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Clive Robert Browning
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