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reduplication en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɹi-/ (US)
  • /ɹɪ-/ (US)
  • /ɹəˌd(j)u.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /-plɪ-/ (US)
  • /-ʃɪn/ (US)
  • /ɹɪ.djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English duplication English reduplication From re- + duplication.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
    • Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.] 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
    • Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The folding or doubling of a part or organ.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
reduplications Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

reduplicational · contrastive focus reduplication · endoreduplication

Translations (31)

yo àpètúnpè (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · sv fördubbling (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · tr ikileme (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · ml പുനരാവർത്തനം (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · he הַכְפָּלָה (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · su rajékan (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · gd ath-dhùblachadh (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · pt reduplicação (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · pl reduplikacja (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · ru редупликация (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · mk редуплика́ција (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · vi láy âm (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · mk повтору́вање (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · cmn 重疊 /重叠 (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · eo duobligo (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · gv aachoipal (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · ko 첩어 (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · ar مضاعفة (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · bg повторение (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · de Reduplikation (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · id reduplikasi (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · bg редупликация (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · es reduplicación (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · it reduplicazione (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · hu ikerszó (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · ar مضاعفة (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · fr redoublement (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · grc διπλασιασμός (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · fi reduplikaatio (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · hu ikerítés (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication) · el αναδιπλασιασμός (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)

wikipedia: Contrastive focus reduplication · wikipedia: Shm-reduplication