English
Etymology
From semi- + colon.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsɛmiˈkəʊlən/, /-ˈkəʊlɒn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛmikoʊlən/
- Rhymes: -əʊlɒn
Noun
semicolon (plural semicolons or semicola)
- The punctuation mark ;.
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 28:The use of the semicolon has remained contentious and subject to fashion.
Derived terms
Translations
punctuation mark ';'
- Albanian: pikëpresje (sq) f
- Arabic: فَاصِلَة مَنْقُوطَة f (fāṣila manqūṭa), ؛ (ar) (symbol)
- Armenian: կետ-ստորակետ (hy) (ket-storaket)
- Asturian: puntu y coma (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: nöqtəli vergül
- Bashkir: нөктәле өтөр (nöktəle ötör)
- Belarusian: кро́пка з ко́скай f (krópka z kóskaj)
- Bulgarian: то́чка и запета́я f (tóčka i zapetája)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: punt i coma m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 分號 / 分号 (zh) (fēnhào), ； (zh) (symbol)
- Cornish: poynt ha komma m
- Czech: středník (cs) m
- Danish: semikolon (da) n
- Dutch: puntkomma (nl) f or n, kommapunt (nl) m
- Esperanto: punktokomo
- Estonian: semikoolon
- Faroese: semikolon n
- Finnish: puolipiste (fi)
- French: point-virgule (fr) m
- Galician: punto e coma (gl) m
- Georgian: წერტილმძიმე (c̣erṭilmʒime), წერტილ-მძიმე (c̣erṭil-mʒime)
- German: Strichpunkt (de) m, Semikolon (de) n
- Greek: άνω τελεία (el) f (áno teleía), (in relevance to the Greek language) ερωτηματικό (el) n (erotimatikó)
- Hebrew: נקודה ופסיק \ נְקֻדָּה וּפְסִיק (he) m (n'kudá uf'sík)
- Hindi: अर्धविराम m (ardhavirām), सेमीकोलन (hi) (semīkolan)
- Hungarian: pontosvessző (hu)
- Icelandic: semíkomma f, semikomma f
- Ido: puntokomo (io)
- Interlingua: puncto e virgula
- Irish: leathstad m, leathstadanna m pl
- Italian: punto e virgola (it) m
- Japanese: セミコロン (ja) (semikoron), ； (ja) (symbol)
- Kazakh: нүктелі үтір (nüktelı ütır)
- Korean: 쌍반점(雙半點) (ssangbanjeom), 세미콜론 (semikollon)
- Kyrgyz: үтүрдүү чекит (ütürdüü cekit)
- Latvian: semikols m
- Lithuanian: kabliataškis m
- Macedonian: точка-запирка f (točka-zapirka)
- Malayalam: അർദ്ധവിരാമം (aṟddhavirāmaṁ)
- Maori: kopipiko
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цэгтэй таслал (cegtej taslal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: semikolon n
- Pashto: ؛ (symbol)
- Persian: نقطهویرگول (fa) (noqte-virgul), ؛ (symbol)
- Polish: średnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: ponto e vírgula (pt)
- Punjabi: ਬਿੰਦੀ ਕਾਮਾ m (bindī kāmā)
- Romanian: punct și virgulă (ro)
- Russian: то́чка с запято́й (ru) f (tóčka s zapjatój)
- Scottish Gaelic: leth-chòilean m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: точка за зарезом f, тачка са зепетом f
- Roman: točka sa zarezom f, tačka sa zapetom f
- Slovak: bodkočiarka f
- Slovene: podpičje (sl) n
- Spanish: punto y coma (es) m
- Swahili: alama ya nuktamkato (sw), nukta mkato
- Swedish: semikolon (sv) c
- Tagalog: tuldok-kuwit
- Thai: อัฒภาค (th) (àt-tá-pâak)
- Turkish: noktalı virgül (tr)
- Ukrainian: кра́пка з ко́мою f (krápka z kómoju), сере́дник m (serédnyk)
- Urdu: ؛ (symbol)
- Uzbek: nuqtali vergul
- Vietnamese: dấu chấm phẩy (vi) (𧿫點𢵪)
- Welsh: hanner colon m, hanner colonau m pl
- Zulu: unzoqhwishi class 1a/2a
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Punctuation
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