paraphrase

See also: Paraphrase and paraphrasé

English

Etymology

From Middle French paraphrase.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹəfɹeɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

paraphrase (countable and uncountable, plural paraphrases)

1. A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.
2. (Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.

Derived terms

• paraphrastic
• paraphrastical
• paraphrastically

Translations

restatement of a text

• Bulgarian: преразказ m (prerazkaz)
• Dutch: parafrase (nl) f
• Esperanto: parafrazo
• Finnish: parafraasi
• French: paraphrase (fr) f
• Galician: paráfrase (gl) f
• German: Umschreibung (de) f, sinngemäße Wiedergabe f
• Greek: παράφρασις (el) f (paráfrasis)

  Ancient: παράφρασις f (paráphrasis)

• Hebrew: פָּרַפְרָזָה (he) f (parafráza)
• Hungarian: körülírás (hu), átfogalmazás (hu), parafrázis (hu)
• Ido: parafrazo (io)
• Italian: parafrasi (it) f
• Latin: paraphrasis f
• Malayalam: പരാവർത്തനം (ml) (parāvaṟttanaṁ)
• Polish: parafraza (pl) f
• Portuguese: paráfrase (pt) f
• Russian: переска́з (ru) m (pereskáz), парафраз (ru) m (parafraz), парафра́за (ru) f (parafráza)
• Spanish: paráfrasis (es)
• Turkish: açım (tr), açımlama (tr), açımlanım, şerh (tr) (archaic), teşrih (tr) (archaic)
• Ukrainian: парафра́з m (parafráz), парафра́за f (parafráza), пере́каз m (perékaz), перефразува́ння n (perefrazuvánnja)

See also

• Etymology of translation
• metaphrase

Verb

paraphrase (third-person singular simple present paraphrases, present participle paraphrasing, simple past and past participle paraphrased)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase. To repeat a written or spoken phrase/quote using different words, often in a simpler and shorter form, or sometimes in a humorous context.

Translations

to compose a paraphrase

• Arabic: سَرَدَ (sarada)
• Bulgarian: преразказвам (bg) (prerazkazvam), парафразирам (parafraziram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釋義／释义 (zh) (shìyì), 意譯／意译 (zh) (yìyì), (retell) 復述／复述 (fùshù)

• French: paraphraser (fr)
• Galician: parafrasear (gl)
• German: umschreiben (de), paraphrasieren (de), sinngemäß wiedergeben
• Greek:

  Ancient: παραφράζω (paraphrázō)

• Hungarian: elmagyaráz (hu), körülír (hu), parafrazál
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} parafrasare (it)
• Japanese: 言い換える (ja) (いいかえる, iikaeru), 引用 (いんようする, in'yō-surú)
• Portuguese: parafrasear (pt)
• Romanian: parafraza (ro), (rare) perifraza (ro)
• Russian: парафрази́ровать (ru) (parafrazírovatʹ), (retell) переска́зывать (ru) (pereskázyvatʹ)
• Spanish: parafrasear (es)
• Swahili: fasili
• Thai: ถอดความ (th) (tɔ̀ɔt-kwaam)
• Turkish: açımlamak (tr), şerh etmek (tr) (archaic), teşrih etmek (tr) (archaic)
• Ukrainian: парафразува́ти impf or pf (parafrazuváty), перефразо́вувати impf (perefrazóvuvaty), перефразува́ти pf (perefrazuváty)

See also

• Thesaurus:in other words
• or words to that effect

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: paraphrasent, paraphrases

Verb

paraphrase

1. inflection of paraphraser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative