cultural

English

Etymology

From culture +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/, /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɹ(ə)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/

  • Audio:

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈkalt͡ʃ(u)ɾal/
• Hyphenation: cul‧tur‧al

Adjective

cultural (comparative more cultural, superlative most cultural)

1. Pertaining to culture.
   • 2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

     Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

2. (technical) Due to human activity.

   cultural lighting

Derived terms

• acculturalization
• acultural
• anticultural
• bicultural
• biocultural
• chronocultural
• cocultural
• contracultural
• countercultural
• cross-cultural
• cross-cultural communication
• cultural anthropologist
• cultural anthropology
• cultural appropriation
• cultural appropriator
• cultural arbitrary
• cultural barbiturate
• cultural Bolshevism
• cultural capital
• cultural center
• cultural centre
• cultural Christian
• cultural cringe
• cultural diffusion
• cultural ecology
• cultural evolutionism
• cultural genocide
• cultural identity
• cultural imperialism
• culturalism
• culturalist
• culturality
• culturalization
• culturalize
• cultural learning
• cultural literacy
• culturally
• cultural marxism
• cultural Marxism
• cultural Marxist
• cultural mosaic
• culturalness
• cultural patrimony
• cultural pessimism
• cultural phylogenetics
• cultural practitioner
• cultural script
• cultural shock
• cultural studies
• cultural wealth
• cybercultural
• deculturalization
• ecocultural
• econocultural
• ethnocultural
• extracultural
• geocultural
• herpetocultural
• historico-cultural
• intangible cultural heritage
• intercultural
• intracultural
• linguacultural
• linguocultural
• medicocultural
• metacultural
• monocultural
• morphocultural
• multicultural
• neurocultural
• noncultural
• occultural
• omnicultural
• pancultural
• phytocultural
• pluricultural
• polycultural
• pop-cultural
• precultural
• pseudocultural
• psychocultural
• pyrocultural
• religiocultural
• sociocultural
• socio-cultural anthropology
• spacio-cultural
• spatiocultural
• subcultural
• supercultural
• supracultural
• technocultural
• transcultural
• tricultural
• uncultural

Translations

pertaining to culture

• Afrikaans: kultureel (af)
• Albanian: kulturor (sq)
• American Sign Language: C@NearFinger-PalmForwardHandUp-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerUp RoundHoriz C@NearFinger-PalmBackHandUp-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerUp
• Arabic: ثَقَافِيّ (ṯaqāfiyy), مَدَنِيّ (madaniyy)
• Armenian: մշակութային (hy) (mšakutʻayin)
• Asturian: cultural
• Azerbaijani: mədəni
• Belarusian: культу́рны (kulʹtúrny)
• Bengali: সাংস্কৃতিক (bn) (śaṅskritik), তামাদ্দুনিক (bn) (tamaddunik), রসমী (bn) (rośomi)
• Bulgarian: култу́рен (bg) (kultúren)
• Catalan: cultural (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 文化 (man⁴ faa³)

  Hokkien: 文化 (zh-min-nan) (bûn-hòa)

  Mandarin: 文化 (zh) (wénhuà)

• Czech: kulturní (cs)
• Danish: kulturel
• Dutch: cultureel (nl)
• Esperanto: kultura
• Finnish: kulttuurinen (fi)
• French: culturel (fr)
• Galician: cultural (gl)
• Georgian: კულტურული (ḳulṭuruli), კულტურის (ḳulṭuris)
• German: kulturell (de), Kultur- (de)
• Haitian Creole: kiltirèl
• Hebrew: תַּרְבּוּתִי (tarbutí)
• Hindi: सांस्कृतिक (hi) (sānskŕtik)
• Hungarian: kulturális (hu)
• Indonesian: kultural (id)
• Interlingua: cultural
• Italian: culturale (it)
• Japanese: 文化的な (ja) (ぶんかてきな, bunkateki na), 文化の (ja) (ぶんかの, bunka no)
• Kazakh: мәдени (mädeni)
• Korean: 문화적인 (munhwajeog-in)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çandeyî (ku), kultûrî (ku), ferhengî (ku), medenî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: маданий (ky) (madaniy), маданияттуу (ky) (madaniyattuu)
• Lao: ວັດທະນະທຳ (lo) (wat tha na tham)
• Macedonian: култу́рен (kultúren)
• Malayalam: സാംസ്കാരിക (sāṁskārika)
• Mongolian: соёлын (mn) (sojolyn)
• Norman: tchultuthel
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kulturell (no)

  Nynorsk: kulturell

• Occitan: cultural (oc)
• Pashto: ثقافتي (saqāfatí), فرهنګي (farhangí), کلتوري (kolturí), کلچري (kalčarí)
• Persian: فرهنگی (fa) (farhangi), مدنی (fa) (madani)
• Polish: kulturalny (pl), kulturowy (pl)
• Portuguese: cultural (pt)
• Romanian: cultural (ro)
• Russian: культу́рный (ru) (kulʹtúrnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: cultarail
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку̀лтӯран

  Roman: kùltūran (sh)

• Slovak: kultúrny (sk)
• Slovene: kulturen
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kulturny

• Spanish: cultural (es)
• Swedish: kulturell (sv)
• Tajik: фарҳангӣ (tg) (farhangi), маданӣ (tg) (madani)
• Thai: วัฒนธรรม (th) (wát-tá-ná-tam)
• Turkish: kültürel (tr)
• Turkmen: medeni
• Ukrainian: культу́рний (kulʹtúrnyj)
• Urdu: ثقافتی (saqāfatī)
• Uyghur: مەدەنىي (medeniy)
• Uzbek: madaniy (uz)
• Vietnamese: văn hoá (vi)
• Welsh: diwylliannol (cy)

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kultuˈɾal/ [kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ral

Adjective

cultural (epicene, plural culturales)

1. cultural

Related terms

• cultura

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [kul.tuˈɾal]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

cultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural culturals)

1. cultural

Derived terms

• culturalment
• intercultural
• multicultural
• sociocultural

Related terms

• cultura

Further reading

• “cultural”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “cultural”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “cultural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cultural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From cultura +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kultuˈɾal/ [kul̪.t̪uˈɾɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ral

Adjective

cultural m or f (plural culturais)

1. cultural (relative or belonging to culture, civilization and its manifestations)

Derived terms

• culturalmente
• sociocultural

Related terms

• cultura

Further reading

• “cultural”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Occitan

Alternative forms

• culturau (Gascony)

Pronunciation

• Audio (Languedoc):

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Adjective

cultural m (feminine singular culturala, masculine plural culturals, feminine plural culturalas)

1. cultural

Derived terms

• pluricultural

Related terms

• cultura

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuw.tuˈɾaw/ [kuʊ̯.tuˈɾaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kul.tuˈɾal/ [kuɫ.tuˈɾaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kul.tuˈɾal/ [kuɫ.tuˈɾaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kul.tuˈɾa.li/ [kuɫ.tuˈɾa.li]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ral

Adjective

cultural m or f (plural culturais, comparable, comparative mais cultural, superlative o mais cultural or culturalíssimo)

1. cultural (pertaining to culture)

Derived terms

• apropriação cultural
• culturalmente
• intercultural
• sociocultural

Further reading

• “cultural”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French culturel. By surface analysis, cultură +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

cultural m or n (feminine singular culturală, masculine plural culturali, feminine and neuter plural culturale)

1. cultural

Declension

Declension of cultural

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	cultural		culturală		culturali	culturale
	definite	culturalul		culturala		culturalii	culturalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	cultural		culturale		culturali	culturale
	definite	culturalului		culturalei		culturalilor	culturalelor

Derived terms

• anticultural
• culturaliza

Spanish

Etymology

From cultura +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kultuˈɾal/ [kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ral

Adjective

cultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural culturales)

1. (relational) culture; cultural (of or relating to culture)

Derived terms

• anticultural
• apropiación cultural
• batalla cultural
• culturalismo
• culturalista
• culturalmente
• Gran Revolución Cultural Proletaria
• guerra cultural
• intercultural
• marxismo cultural
• multicultural
• pluricultural
• Revolución Cultural
• riqueza cultural
• sociocultural

Related terms

• cultura
• culturar

Further reading

• “cultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10