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q (upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
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- (Latin script): Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Sſs Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
- (Variations of letter Q): Ɋɋ ʠ Qq ȹ
- With hook: ʠ
Pronunciation edit
IPA (file)
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q
- Abbreviation of quecto-.
- (IPA) voiceless uvular plosive.
- (superscript ⟨𐞥⟩) – see ⟨𐞥⟩.
- (NAPA) as in IPA.
- (physics) electrical charge
- (physics) heat
- (fluid dynamics) dynamic pressure
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Uppercase and lowercase versions of , in normal and italic type
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Uppercase and lowercase Q in Fraktur
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Other representations of Q:
English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q, plural qs or q's)
- The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.
Usage notes edit
The name of this letter is spelled cue or formerly cu.
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- (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
q (plural q's)
- (athletics) Abbreviation of non-automatic qualification: indicates an athlete who qualifies to the next round either by time as a fastest loser (in track events) or by position without achieving the qualifying target (in field events).
- Coordinate term: Q (“automatic qualification”)
- Abbreviation of question.
- Alternative form: Q
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q
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q
- (stenoscript) the sound sequence /ŋk/, /kw/ or /kjuː/.
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Albanian edit
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q (upper case Q)
- The twenty-third letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Azerbaijani edit
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q lower case (upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Basque edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The eighteenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called ku and written in the Latin script.
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- Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.
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Blin edit
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q (uppercase Q)
Dutch edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Estonian edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called kuu and written in the Latin script.
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- Used only in foreign words.
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and q for information on the development of the glyph itself.
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kuu and written in the Latin script.
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- Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords qu is replaced with kv.
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ky/
Audio (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -y
- Homophones: cul, culs, cu, cus, ku, kus, qu, qus
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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q m (plural q)
- Abbreviation of quintal.
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Further reading edit
- “q”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gothic edit
Romanization edit
q
- Romanization of 𐌵
Greenlandic edit
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q
- The thirteenth letter of the Greenlandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Hungarian edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called kú and written in the Latin script.
Usage notes edit
It is a symbol of the (somewhat dated) unit of mázsa (100 kilos or a quintal, approx. two hundredweight).
It occurs in the following terms, along with their derivations and compounds: becquerel, (archaic spelling: boutique →) butik, cinquecento, conditio sine qua non, denique, donquijoték (plural), IQ, kvad or quad, quantum satis, quaestor, quaestura, quattrocento, quisling, quodlibet, QR-kód, squash, and tequila.
Also in some foreign proper names chiefly from Latin, French, and Spanish, including Aquincum, Aquinói Szent Tamás (Thomas Aquinas), Don Quijote, Dunkerque, García Márquez, Jacques Offenbach, Martinique, Montesquieu, Quartier Latin, Québec, Quintilianus, Quintus Pontius Pilatus, Quito, Torquato Tasso, and Velázquez.
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | q | q-k |
accusative | q-t | q-kat |
dative | q-nak | q-knak |
instrumental | q-val | q-kkal |
causal-final | q-ért | q-kért |
translative | q-vá | q-kká |
terminative | q-ig | q-kig |
essive-formal | q-ként | q-kként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | q-ban | q-kban |
superessive | q-n | q-kon |
adessive | q-nál | q-knál |
illative | q-ba | q-kba |
sublative | q-ra | q-kra |
allative | q-hoz | q-khoz |
elative | q-ból | q-kból |
delative | q-ról | q-król |
ablative | q-tól | q-któl |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
q-é | q-ké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
q-éi | q-kéi |
Possessive forms of q | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | q-m | q-im |
2nd person sing. | q-d | q-id |
3rd person sing. | q-ja | q-i |
1st person plural | q-nk | q-ink |
2nd person plural | q-tok | q-itok |
3rd person plural | q-juk | q-ik |
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- (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.
Further reading edit
- q in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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Pronunciation edit
- (context pronunciation, always found before the letter U) IPA(key): /kw/
- (letter name) IPA(key): /kwe/
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q (upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Indonesian edit
Etymology 1 edit
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q (upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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- (Latin-script letters) huruf; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z
Etymology 2 edit
From similarity pronunciation of q in English and -ku in Indonesian.
Pronoun edit
q
- (text messaging, slang) Abbreviation of aku.
Inupiaq edit
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q (upper case Q)
- A letter of the Inupiaq alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Italian edit
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q f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case Q)
- The fifteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called cu and written in the Latin script.
Kâte edit
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q
- The voiceless stop /k͡p/, vs. curly-tail ⟨ɋ⟩, which is voiced /ɡ͡b/.
Kwak'wala edit
Alternative forms edit
- ⟨ḵ⟩ in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwakʼwala)
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q (upper case Q)
- (Liqʼwala dialect) A letter of the Kwak'wala alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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q
- A letter of the Latin alphabet.
Lushootseed edit
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q
- The thirty-first letter of the Lushootseed alphabet.
Malay edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Maltese edit
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q (upper case Q)
- The twenty-first letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Mam edit
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q (uppercase Q)
Norwegian edit
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q
- The seventeenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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- Rare in written Norwegian, only used in a limited number of loanwords.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (BR) (file)
Etymology 1 edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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- (Latin-script letters) letra; A a (Á á, À à, Â â, Ã ã), B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e (É é, Ê ê), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ô ô, Õ õ), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z
Etymology 2 edit
Pronoun edit
q
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of que.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of quê (“what”).
Romani edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- (International Standard) Used to represent the dative and genitive cases.
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- (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, X x, I i, J j, K k, Kh kh, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Ph ph, R r, S s, T t, Th th, U u, V v, Z z International Standard: (À à, Ä ä, Ǎ ǎ), Ć ć, Ćh ćh, (È è, Ë ë, Ě ě), (Ì ì, Ï ï, Ǐ ǐ), (Ò ò, Ö ö, Ǒ ǒ), Rr rr, Ś ś, (Ù ù, Ü ü, Ǔ ǔ), Ź ź, Ʒ ʒ, Q q, Ç ç, ϴ θ. Pan-Vlax: Č č, Čh čh, Dž dž, (Dź dź), Ř ř, Š š, (Ś ś), Ž ž, (Ź ź).
References edit
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “-q-”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 15
Romanian edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The twentieth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called chiu and written in the Latin script.
Usage notes edit
- Used chiefly in loanwords.
- The digraph qu is pronounced /kw/, /kv/, or /kʲ/.
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Spanish edit
Etymology 1 edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The eighteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Etymology 2 edit
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Pronoun edit
q
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of que (“that”).
- Hay un policía en la ruta q más uso. ― There's a cop on the route that I use the most.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of qué (“what”).
- q pasó? ― what happened?
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish q. Each pronunciation has a different source:
- Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English q.
- Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish q.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: q
- (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ˈkju/, [ˈkju]
- (letter name, Abecedario): IPA(key): /ˈku/, [ˈku]
- (phoneme, usually together with u): IPA(key): /k/, [k]
- (phoneme, before u, English unadapted loanwords): IPA(key): /kw/, [kw]
- Rhymes: -u
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q (lower case, upper case Q, Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜌᜓ)
- The nineteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called kyu and written in the Latin script.
Usage notes edit
- This letter is mostly used only in proper nouns, unadapted loanwords, or Spanish-based spellings.
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- (Latin-script letters) titik; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ñ ñ, Ng ng, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z
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q (lower case, upper case Q, Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓ)
- (historical) The twentieth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called cu and written in the Latin script.
Further reading edit
- “q”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Zulu edit
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q (lower case, upper case Q)
- The seventeenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.