anagram

anagram

For anagrams in Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Anagrams

English

Alternative forms

• anagramme (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ana‧gram

Noun

Examples
silent is an anagram of listen

anagram (plural anagrams)

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

   Coordinate terms: alphagram, palindrome

Derived terms

• anagram dictionary
• anagrammatic
• anagrammatisation
• anagrammatise
• anagrammatism
• anagrammatist

 

Translations

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

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can Afrikaans: anagram Albanian: anagramë f Arabic: جِنَاس نَاقِص‎ m (jinās nāqiṣ), قَلْب‎ (ar) m (qalb) Armenian: անագրամա (hy) (anagrama) Belarusian: анагра́ма f (anahráma) Breton: tregejad (br) m Bulgarian: анагра́ма f (anagráma) Catalan: anagrama (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Cantonese: please add this translation if you can Czech: anagram (cs) m, přesmyčka (cs) f Danish: anagram (da) Dutch: anagram (nl), letterkeer (nl) Esperanto: anagramo Estonian: anagramm (et) Finnish: anagrammi (fi) French: anagramme (fr) f Galician: anagrama (gl) m Georgian: ანაგრამა (anagrama) German: Anagramm (de) n Greek: αναγραμματισμός (el) m (anagrammatismós) Hebrew: אָנַגְרָמָה‎ (he) f (anagráma) Hindi: वर्णविपर्यय (hi) m (varṇaviparyay), वर्णविपर्यास m (varṇaviparyās) 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 (ja) (anaguramu) Korean: 애너그램 (ko) (aeneogeuraem) Latvian: anagramma f Lithuanian: anagrama f Luxembourgish: Anagramm Macedonian: анаграм m (anagram) Maltese: anagramma Norwegian: anagram (no) Persian: واروواژه‎ (vâruvâže) Polish: anagram (pl) m Portuguese: anagrama (pt) m Romanian: anagramă (ro) f Russian: анагра́мма (ru) f (anagrámma) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ана̀грам m Roman: anàgram (sh) m Slovak: anagram m Slovene: anagram (sl) Spanish: anagrama (es) m Swedish: anagram (sv) Turkish: anagram (tr), evirmece (tr) Ukrainian: анагра́ма f (anahráma) Vietnamese: phép đảo chữ, thuật đảo chữ

Verb

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

1. To form anagrams.

Translations

Translations

Polish: anagramować impf

Further reading

• anagram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• argaman

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Czech

Etymology

From French anagramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈanaɡram]
• Hyphenation: ana‧gram

Noun

anagram m inan

1. anagram

Declension

Declension of anagram

	singular	plural
nominative	anagram	anagramy
genitive	anagramu	anagramů
dative	anagramu	anagramům
accusative	anagram	anagramy
vocative	anagrame	anagramy
locative	anagramu	anagramech
instrumental	anagramem	anagramy

Synonyms

• přesmyčka f (much less common)

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Danish

Noun

anagram n (singular definite anagrammet, plural indefinite anagrammer)

1. anagram

Declension

Declension of anagram

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

References

• “anagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French anagramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.naːˈɣrɑm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ana‧gram

Noun

anagram n (plural anagrammen, diminutive anagrammetje n)

1. anagram

   Synonym: letterkeer

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Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

anagram m (genitive singular anagraim, nominative plural anagraim)

1. anagram

Declension

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

Mutation

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 reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “anagram”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “anagram” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Polish

Alternative forms

• anagrama, anagramma, anagramat (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French anagramme.[1] By surface analysis, ana- +‎ -gram.[2] First attested in 1677–1694.[3]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnaɡ.ram/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡram
• Syllabification: a‧nag‧ram

Noun

anagram m inan

1. (linguistics) anagram [+genitive = of what] or [+ od (genitive)]

   anagram nazwiska ― anagram of a surname

   anagram imienia ― anagram of a first name

   anagram słowa ― anagram of a word

   anagram nazwy ― anagram of a name (not a person's)

Declension

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

Derived terms

adjective

• anagramowy

 

verbs

• anagramować impf

 

References

1. Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
2. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “anagram”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
3. Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (30.08.2022), “*ANAGRAMAT ANAGRAMA, *ANAGRAMAT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

• Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎, Wydawnictwo PWN

Further reading

• anagram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• anagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “anagramma”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “anagram, anagramat, anagrama”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 33
• anagram in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

anàgram m (Cyrillic spelling ана̀грам)

1. anagram

Declension

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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Swedish

Etymology

ana- +‎ -gram

Noun

anagram n

1. anagram

Declension

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

Anagrams

• gamarna, magarna