diary

English

Etymology

From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *diārius, from diēs (“a day”) (whence also journal). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/, /ˈdaɪ.ɹi/
- Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪ.əɹi

Noun

diary (plural diaries)

A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
- 2005 January 30, Jef Biederman, “Feng Shui Is Like So Passe”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 3, episode 19, Teletoon, Marathon Media, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Andrea Baker as Clover and Katie Griffin):
  No, I’m just going over the stuff Tara wrote in my diary.
  She’s writing your diary? Could you be any lazier?
(Britain, Canada) A personal organizer or appointment diary.
- 2004, Victoria Kidwell, Homework, page 29:
  It is recommended that teachers and pupils are issued with homework diaries to help implement and monitor the homework timetable.

Synonyms

daybook
journal

Coordinate terms

calendar
daybook
chronicle
log

Derived terms

dear diary
diarism
diarist
e-diary
visual diary

Related terms

diurnal
journal

Descendants

→ Hindi: डायरी (ḍāyrī)
→ Indonesian: diari

Translations

daily log of experiences

Afrikaans: dagboek (af)
Albanian: ditar (sq)
Arabic: دَفْتَرُ يَوْمِيّاتٍ‎ (daftaru yawmiyyātin); يَوْمِيَّات‎ f pl (yawmiyyāt); دَفْتَرُ مُذَكِّراتٍ‎ (daftaru muḏakkirātin); مُذَكِّرات‎ (muḏakkirāt)
Armenian: օրագիր (hy) (ōragir)
Asturian: diariu m
Azerbaijani: gündəlik (az)
Bashkir: көндәлек (köndälek)
Belarusian: дзённік m (dzjónnik)
Bengali: দিনলিপি (bn) (dinlipi), রোজনামচা (roznamca), রোজনামা (roznama)
Bulgarian: дне́вник (bg) m (dnévnik)
Burmese: ဒိုင်ယာရီ (my) (duing-yari), နေ့စဉ်မှတ်တမ်း (my) (ne.canyhmattam:)
Catalan: diari (ca) m
Central Dusun: diari
Chinese:
Cantonese: 日記, 日记 (jat⁶ gei³)
Mandarin: 日記／日记 (zh) (rìjì)
Czech: deník (cs) m
Danish: dagbog (da) c
Dutch: dagboek (nl)
Esperanto: taglibro
Estonian: päevik
Faroese: dagbók f
Finnish: päiväkirja (fi)
French: journal intime (fr) m
Galician: diario (gl) m
Georgian: დღიური (dɣiuri)
German: Tagebuch (de) n
Greek: ημερολόγιο (el) n (imerológio)
Ancient: ἐφημερίς f (ephēmerís)
Gujarati: ડાયરી m (ḍāyarī)
Hebrew: יוֹמָן‎ (he) m (yomán)
Hindi: दैनन्दिनी (hi) f (dainandinī), डायरी (hi) f (ḍāyrī)
Hungarian: napló (hu)
Icelandic: dagbók (is) f
Ido: diario (io)
Indonesian: buku harian (id), diari
Interlingua: diario
Irish: dialann f
Italian: diario (it)
Japanese: 日記 (ja) (にっき, nikki), 日記帳 (にっきちょう, nikkichō)
Kalmyk: өдрлг (ödrlg)
Kannada: ಡೈರಿ (kn) (ḍairi)
Kazakh: күнделік (kündelık)
Khmer: ជំនិតដៃ (cumnɨtday)
Korean: 일기 (ko) (ilgi), 일기장 (ko) (ilgijang)
Kyrgyz: күндөлүк (ky) (kündölük), дневник (dnevnik)
Lao: ສມຸດບັນທຶກ (sa mut ban thưk)
Latin: ephemeris, commentārius (la) m
Latvian: dienasgrāmata
Lithuanian: dienoraštis (lt)
Macedonian: дневник m (dnevnik)
Malay: diari
Maori: pukapuka rātaka, rātaka
Mongolian: өдрийн тэмдэглэл (ödriin temdeglel)
Norwegian: dagbok (no) m
Occitan: please add this translation if you can
Ottoman Turkish: روزنامه‎ (ruzname)
Persian: دفتر خاطرات روزانه‎ (daftar-e xâterât-e ruzâne), دفتر خاطرات‎ (daftar-e xâterât)
Polish: dziennik (pl) m, pamiętnik (pl) m, dzienniczek (pl) m
Portuguese: diário (pt) m
Romanian: jurnal intim
Russian: дневни́к (ru) m (dnevník)
Scottish Gaelic: leabhar-latha m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дне̑внӣк m, бѐлежница f
Roman: dnȇvnīk (sh) m, bèležnica (sh) f
Slovak: denník m
Slovene: dnevnik (sl) m
Spanish: diario (es) m
Swahili: tarihi, shajara (sw)
Swedish: dagbok (sv)
Tagalog: talaarawan
Tajik: дафтари хотира (daftari xotira)
Tamil: நாட்குறிப்பு (ta) (nāṭkuṟippu)
Tatar: көндәлек (tt) (köndälek)
Telugu: డైరీ (te) (ḍairī)
Thai: อนุทิน (th) (à-nú-tin), ไดอารี (dai-aa-rîi)
Turkish: günlük (tr)
Turkmen: gündelik
Ukrainian: щоде́нник (uk) m (ščodénnyk)
Urdu: ڈائری‎ f (ḍāyarī)
Uyghur: كۈندىلىك‎ (kündilik)
Uzbek: kundalik (uz)
Vietnamese: sổ nhật ký
Volapük: delabuk (vo)
Welsh: dyddiadur, dyddlyfr m
Yiddish: טאָג־בוך‎ n (tog-bukh)

Adjective

diary (not comparable)

(obsolete) Lasting for one day.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, a letter to the Lord Chancellor, touching the History of Britain:
  the offer of a usurpation, though it were but as a diary ague

Verb

diary (third-person singular simple present diaries, present participle diarying, simple past and past participle diaried)

(intransitive) To keep a diary or journal.
- 2015, Hugh O'Donovan, Mindful Walking:
  As part of her mindful movement practise, diarying is important to Sarah. "It gives me a chance to see what is going on, to reflect on my experience."

Anagrams

dairy, riyad, yaird