multilingual

English

A multilingual direction sign at Hampton Court railway station.

Etymology

From multi- +‎ lingual.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌmʌltiˈlɪŋɡwəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl

Adjective

multilingual (comparative more multilingual, superlative most multilingual)

Of, relating to, or involving multiple languages.
Synonyms: multilanguage, multilinguistic, plurilingual
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 9:
  In reality, the multidimensionality of language contact in multilingual environments ensures no such neat compartmentalisation.
(Of a person) able to communicate in a number of languages.
Synonym: polyglot
Antonyms: monolingual, unilingual
Hyponyms: bilingual, trilingual

Related terms

language
multilingualism

Translations

pertaining to multiple languages

Arabic: مُتَعَدِّد اَللُّغَات‎ (mutaʿaddid al-luḡāt)
Azerbaijani: çoxdilli
Basque: eleanitz (eu)
Belarusian: мнагамо́ўны (mnahamóŭny), шматмо́ўны (šmatmóŭny)
Bulgarian: многоези́чен (mnogoezíčen)
Catalan: multilingüe (ca), plurilingüe
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多種語言／多种语言 (zh) (duōzhǒngyǔyán), 多語／多语 (duōyǔ)
Czech: vícejazyčný m, mnohojazyčný (cs)
Danish: flersproget
Dutch: meertalig (nl)
Esperanto: multlingva
Finnish: monikielinen (fi)
French: plurilingue (fr), multilingue (fr)
Galician: multilingüe m or f, plurilingüe m or f
Georgian: მრავალენობრივი (mravalenobrivi), მულტილინგვური (mulṭilingvuri)
German: vielsprachig (de), mehrsprachig (de); multilingual (de), polyglott (de), polyglottisch
Greek: πολύγλωσσος (el) (polýglossos)
Hungarian: többnyelvű (hu), soknyelvű (hu)
Icelandic: fjöltyngdur (is)
Indonesian: multibahasa (id)
Interlingua: multilingue
Italian: multilingue (it)
Japanese: 多言語 (ja) (たげんご, tagengo)
Korean: 다중언어 (dajung'eoneo), 다국어 (ko) (dagugeo)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: pirzimanî (ku)
Latvian: daudzvalodīgs
Macedonian: повеќеја́зичен m (poveḱejázičen)
Maori: reomaha (mi)
Navajo: díkwííshį́į́ saad yidiitsʼaʼ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: flerspråklig (no)
Nynorsk: fleirspråkleg
Persian: چند زبانه‎
Polish: wielojęzyczny (pl)
Portuguese: multilíngue (pt) m or f, multilingue m or f, plurilíngue (pt) m or f, plurilingue m or f
Russian: многоязы́чный (ru) (mnogojazýčnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: ioma-chànaineach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вишејезичан
Roman: višejezičan (sh)
Slovak: mnohojazyčný
Slovene: večjezičen (sl)
Spanish: multilingüe (es), plurilingüe (es)
Swedish: flerspråkig (sv), mångspråkig (sv)
Telugu: బహుభాషా (bahubhāṣā)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: çokdilli (tr)
Ukrainian: багатомо́вний (uk) (bahatomóvnyj)
Urdu: کثیر اللسان‎ (ur)
Vietnamese: đa ngôn ngữ

able to communicate fluently in multiple languages

Albanian: shumëgjuhësh
Azerbaijani: çoxdilli
Basque: eleanitz (eu)
Catalan: multilingüe (ca), plurilingüe
Finnish: monikielinen (fi)
French: polyglotte (fr)
Galician: multilingüe m or f, plurilingüe m or f, políglota m or f
Georgian: მრავალენოვანი (mravalenovani)
German: mehrsprachig (de), polyglott (de)
Greek: πολύγλωσσος (el) (polýglossos)
Ancient: πολύγλωσσος (polúglōssos)
Hungarian: poliglott (hu)
Macedonian: повеќеја́зичен m (poveḱejázičen)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: flerspråklig (no)
Nynorsk: fleirspråkleg
Polish: wielojęzyczny (pl)
Portuguese: poliglota (pt), multilíngue (pt) m or f, multilingue m or f, plurilíngue (pt) m or f, plurilingue m or f
Russian: многоязы́чный (ru) (mnogojazýčnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: ioma-chànaineach
Spanish: multilingüe (es), plurilingüe (es)
Swedish: flerspråkig (sv)
Turkish: çokdilli (tr)
Urdu: کثیر اللسان‎ (ur) m

Noun

multilingual (plural multilinguals)

a polyglot