anagram

For anagrams in Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Anagrams

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• anagramme (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

Late 16th century, from French anagramme, formed on Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: ăʹnəgrăm, IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ana‧gram

NounEdit

anagram (plural anagrams)

1. (of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

   The word "silent" is an anagram of "listen".

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• anagrammatic
• anagrammatise

• anagrammatism
• anagrammatist

TranslationsEdit

word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase

• Afrikaans: anagram
• Arabic: جِنَاس نَاقِص‎ m (jinās nāqiṣ), قَلْب‎ (ar) m (qalb)
• Bulgarian: анаграма (anagrama)
• Catalan: anagrama (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變形詞, 变形词 (biànxíngcí)

• Czech: anagram m, přesmyčka f
• Danish: anagram (da)
• Dutch: anagram (nl), letterkeer (nl)
• Esperanto: anagramo
• Finnish: anagrammi (fi)
• French: anagramme (fr) f
• German: Anagramm (de) n
• Greek: αναγραμματισμός (el) m (anagrammatismós)
• Hebrew: אנגרמה‎ (he)
• Hungarian: anagramma (hu)
• Icelandic: raðhverfa f, orðarugl n, stafabrengl n, stafarugl n
• Ido: anagramo (io)
• Interlingua: anagramma

• Italian: anagramma (it) m
• Japanese: アナグラム (anaguramu)
• Korean: 아나그램 (ko) (anageuraem)
• Latvian: anagramma f
• Lithuanian: anagrama f
• Luxembourgish: Anagramm
• Maltese: anagramma
• Norwegian: anagram (no)
• Persian: واروواژه‎ (vâruvâže)
• Polish: anagram (pl) m
• Portuguese: anagrama (pt) m
• Russian: анагра́мма (ru) f (anagrámma)
• Serbo-Croatian: anagram (sh) m
• Slovene: anagram (sl)
• Spanish: anagrama (es) m
• Swedish: anagram (sv)
• Turkish: anagram (tr), evirmece (tr)
• Ukrainian: анаграма f (anahrama)

See alsoEdit

• alphagram
• palindrome

VerbEdit

anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)

1. To form anagrams.

AnagramsEdit

• argaman

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CzechEdit

NounEdit

anagram m

1. anagram

SynonymsEdit

• přesmyčka f (much less common)

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

anagram n (singular definite anagrammet, plural indefinite anagrammer)

1. anagram

DeclensionEdit

Declension of anagram

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	anagram	anagrammet	anagrammer	anagrammerne
genitive	anagrams	anagrammets	anagrammers	anagrammernes

ReferencesEdit

• “anagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

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DutchEdit

NounEdit

anagram n (plural anagrammen, diminutive anagrammetje n)

1. anagram

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French anagramme, from Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).

NounEdit

anagram m (genitive singular anagraim, nominative plural anagraim)

1. anagram

DeclensionEdit

Declension of anagram

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative anagram anagraim Vocative a anagraim a anagrama Genitive anagraim anagram Dative anagram anagraim

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-anagram na hanagraim Genitive an anagraim na n-anagram Dative leis an anagram don anagram leis na hanagraim

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anagram	n-anagram	hanagram	t-anagram
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

• "anagram" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “anagram” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /aˈn̪aɡram/

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

anagram m inan

1. anagram

DeclensionEdit

declension of anagram

	singular	plural
nominative	anagram	anagramy
genitive	anagramu	anagramów
dative	anagramowi	anagramom
accusative	anagram	anagramy
instrumental	anagramem	anagramami
locative	anagramie	anagramach
vocative	anagramie	anagramy

Further readingEdit

• anagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /anǎɡram/
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧gram

NounEdit

anàgram m (Cyrillic spelling ана̀грам)

1. anagram

DeclensionEdit

Declension of anagram

	singular	plural
nominative	anagram	anagrami
genitive	anagrama	anagrama
dative	anagramu	anagramima
accusative	anagram	anagrame
vocative	anagrame	anagrami
locative	anagramu	anagramima
instrumental	anagramom	anagramima

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

ana- +‎ -gram

NounEdit

anagram n

1. anagram

DeclensionEdit

Declension of anagram
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	anagram	anagrammet	anagram	anagrammen
Genitive	anagrams	anagrammets	anagrams	anagrammens

AnagramsEdit

• magarna
• gamarna