English
Etymology
From Latin nomen, name
Pronunciation
Noun
noun (plural: nouns)
- a word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or idea; part of speech (Wikipedia article on parts of speech ). It can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example a table or a computer.
Synonyms
Translations
- Anglo-Saxon: nama m
- Arabic: اسم n
- Basque: izen
- Bulgarian: съществително име n
- Catalan: substantiu m
- Chinese: 名词 (míngcì)
- Czech: podstatné jméno n
- Danish: navneord n
- Dutch: zelfstandig naamwoord n
- Esperanto: substantivo
- Estonian: nimisõna
- Finnish: substantiivi
- French: nom m, substantif m
- Frisian: haadwurd n
- German: Substantiv n
- Greek, Ancient: ὄνομα (onoma) n
- Greek, Modern: ουσιαστικό (ousiastiko)
- Hebrew: שם עצם
- Hungarian:főnév
- Icelandic: nafnorð
- Ido: substantivo
- Italian: nome m, sostantivo m
- Indonesian: kata benda
- Interlingua: substantivo
- Japanese: 名詞 (めいし, meishi)
- Latin: nomen
- Norwegian: substantiv n
- Polish: rzeczownik m
- Portuguese: substantivo m
- Romanian: substantiv n
- Romanica: nomine m, substantivo m
- Russian: имя существительное n
- Slovak: podstatné meno n
- Spanish: sustantivo m (es ), substantivo m, nombre m (Venezuelan; literally: name)
- Swedish: substantiv , nomen
- Thai: นาม , คำนาม
- Turkish: isim
- Vietnamese: danh từ
Related terms
Further Reading
- Wikipedia article on nouns
