collaborate

English edit

Etymology edit

Back-formation from collaborator, from French collaborateur, or else modeled on French collaborer or directly from Late Latin collabōrātus, past participle of collabōrāre.^[1] Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, /kəˈlæb.ɹeɪt/
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Hyphenation: col‧lab‧or‧ate

Verb edit

collaborate (third-person singular simple present collaborates, present participle collaborating, simple past and past participle collaborated)

To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
Let's collaborate on this project, and get it finished faster.

Wikipedia is a website where anyone can collaborate.
To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.

Related terms edit

Translations edit

to work together on a piece of work

Arabic: تَعَاوَنَ (taʕāwana)
Bulgarian: сътруднича (bg) (sǎtrudniča)
Catalan: col·laborar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作／协作 (zh) (xiézuò), 配合 (zh) (pèihé)
Czech: spolupracovat (cs)
Danish: samarbejde (da)
Dutch: samenwerken (nl)
Esperanto: kunlabori, kunagi
Estonian: koostööd tegema
Faroese: at samstarva
Finnish: tehdä yhteistyötä
French: collaborer (fr)
German: zusammenarbeiten (de)
Greek: συνεργάζομαι (el) (synergázomai)
Hebrew: שיתף פעולה (shitéf p'ula)
Hungarian: együttműködik (hu), közösen/együtt dolgozik
Icelandic: vinna saman
Ido: kunlaborar (io)
Indonesian: kerjasama
Italian: collaborare (it)
Japanese: 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru), 共同して働く (kyōdō shite hataraku)
Korean: 공동으로 일하다 (gongdong'euro ilhada)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: sadarboties; līdzdarboties
Lithuanian: drauge dirbti
Maori: mahitahi
Norwegian: samarbeide (no)
Occitan: collaborar (oc)
Old English: efnwyrċan
Polish: współpracować (pl)
Portuguese: colaborar (pt)
Quechua: haymay
Romanian: colabora (ro)
Russian: сотру́дничать (ru) (sotrúdničatʹ), коопери́ровать (ru) (kooperírovatʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: сарађивати, сурађивати
Slovak: spolupracovať
Slovene: sodelovati
Spanish: colaborar (es)
Swedish: samarbeta (sv), samverka (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: birlikte çalışmak
Ukrainian: співпрацюва́ти (spivpracjuváty)
Uyghur: ھەمكارلاشماق (hemkarlashmaq)
Yiddish: מיטאַרבעטן (mitarbetn), צוזאַמענאַרבעטן (tsuzamenarbetn)

to cooperate treasonably

Arabic: تَعاوَنُ مَعَ العَدُوّ (taʕāwanu maʕa l-ʕaduww)
Bulgarian: колаборирам (kolaboriram)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 勾結／勾结 (zh) (gōujié), 通敵／通敌 (zh) (tōngdí)
Czech: kolaborovat
Danish: kollaborere, samarbejde (da)
Dutch: collaboreren (nl)
Estonian: kollaboreerima
Finnish: olla yhteistoiminnassa, olla yhteistyössä
French: collaborer (fr)
German: kollaborieren (de), mit dem Feind zusammenarbeiten (de)
Greek: συνεργάζομαι (el) (synergázomai)
Hebrew: שיתף פעולה (shitéf p'ula)
Hungarian: kollaborál (hu), összejátszik (hu)
Icelandic: vinna með
Indonesian: berkhianat (id)
Italian: collaborare (it)
Japanese: (敵に) 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru)
Korean: (적국에) 협력하다 (hyeomnyeok-hada)
Latvian: sadarboties (ar ienaidnieku)
Lithuanian: bendradarbiauti, kolaboruoti
Norwegian: samarbeide (med fienden), kollaborere
Polish: kolaborować (pl)
Portuguese: colaborar (pt)
Romanian: colabora (ro)
Russian: сотру́дничать с враго́м (sotrúdničatʹ s vragóm)
Slovak: kolaborovať
Slovene: kolaborirati
Spanish: colaborar (es)
Swedish: samarbeta (sv), kollaborera (sv)
Turkish: işbirliği yapmak

References edit

“collaborate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
“collaborate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
"collaborate" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
"collaborate" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.