Inscription above the north entrance of the Grand Palais in Paris (meaning 2)
Etymology
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From Latin īnscrīptiō .
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ɪnˈskɹɪpʃən/
Rhymes: -ɪpʃən
Hyphenation: in‧scrip‧tion
inscription (countable and uncountable , plural inscriptions )
The act of inscribing .
2008 June 18, Joint Communiqué , Council of Ministers of Cambodia, page 3:The inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage list shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on the demarcation works of the Joint Commission for Land Boundary (JBC) of the two countries;
Text carved on a wall or plaque , such as a memorial or gravestone .
The text on a coin .
Synonym: legend
The coin bears an inscription in Latin.
Words written in the front of a book as a dedication .
Translations
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carved text
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: نَقْش (ar) ( naqš )
Armenian: մակագրություն (hy) ( makagrutʻyun ) , արձանագրություն (hy) ( arjanagrutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: kitabə
Bulgarian: на́дпис (bg) m ( nádpis )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: inscripció (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 題字 / 题字 (zh) ( tízì ) , 碑文 (zh) ( bēiwén ) , 題詞 / 题词 (zh) ( tící )
Czech: nápis (cs) m
Dutch: inscriptie (nl) f
Esperanto: surskribo
Finnish: kaiverrus (fi)
French: inscription (fr) f
Galician: inscrición (gl) f
Georgian: წარწერა ( c̣arc̣era )
German: Inschrift (de) f
Greek: επιγραφή (el) f ( epigrafí ) , χάραξη (el) f ( cháraxi )
Ancient: ἐπιγραφή f ( epigraphḗ )
Hebrew: כְּתֹבֶת (he) f ( któvet )
Hindi: शिलालेख (hi) ( śilālekh ) , किताबत (hi) ( kitābat ) , अभिलेख (hi) ( abhilekh ) , कत्बा ( katbā ) , उत्कीर्णन ( utkīrṇan ) , नक़्श ( naqś )
Hungarian: felirat (hu)
Italian: inscrizione f , motto (it) m
Japanese: 碑文 (ja) ( ひぶん, hibun )
Khmer: ចារឹក (km) ( caarɨk ) , អក្សរចារឹក ( ʼaksɑɑ-caarɨk )
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: inskripsjon m
Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰏 ( bitig )
Persian: کتیبه (fa) ( katibe )
Polish: inskrypcja (pl) f
Portuguese: inscrição (pt) f
Russian: на́дпись (ru) f ( nádpisʹ )
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: napis m
Spanish: inscripción (es) f
Swedish: inskription (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: kitâbe , yazıt (tr)
Vietnamese: chữ khắc
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