recommendation

English

Etymology

From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, /ˌɹɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

recommendation (countable and uncountable, plural recommendations)

An act of recommending.
That which is recommended.
A commendation or endorsement.
Your next employer may require a recommendation.
A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about" for the context and "to" for the course of action)
He made a recommendation about what food to order.
We followed the recommendation to order sushi.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:advice

Translations

act of recommending

Albanian: rekomandim (sq) m
Arabic: تَوْصِيَة‎ f (tawṣiya)
Armenian: հանձնարարում (hy) (hanjnararum), առաջարկում (hy) (aṙaǰarkum), խորհրդատվություն (hy) (xorhrdatvutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az)
Belarusian: рэкаменда́цыя f (rekamjendácyja), рэкамэнда́цыя f (rekamendácyja)
Bengali: সুপারিশ (supariś)
Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f (preporǎ́ka), рекоменда́ция (bg) f (rekomendácija)
Catalan: recomanació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 勸告／劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 推薦／推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn)
Czech: doporučení (cs) n
Danish: anbefaling (da) c
Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f
Estonian: soovitus
Finnish: suositteleminen (fi)
French: recommandation (fr) f
Georgian: რეკომენდაცია (reḳomendacia)
German: Empfehlung (de) f
Greek: σύσταση (el) f (sýstasi)
Hebrew: הַמְלָצָה‎ f (hamlatsá)
Hindi: सिफ़ारिश f (sifāriś)
Hungarian: ajánlás (hu)
Indonesian: rekomendasi (id), saran (id)
Italian: suggerimento (it) m, consiglio (it) m, proposta (it) f
Japanese: 勧告 (ja) (かんこく, kankoku), 推薦 (ja) (すいせん, suisen), 薦め (すすめ, susume), 薦挙 (せんきょ, senkyo)
Kazakh: ұсыныс (kk) (ūsynys)
Korean: 권고(勸告) (ko) (gwon'go), 추천(推薦) (ko) (chucheon), 천거(薦擧) (ko) (cheon'geo)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: tewsiye (ku)
Kyrgyz: рекомендация (rekomendatsiya), сунуш (ky) (sunuş)
Latvian: ieteikums m
Lithuanian: rekomendacija f, patarimas m
Macedonian: препорака f (preporaka)
Malayalam: ശുപാർശ (śupāṟśa)
Middle English: recommendacioun
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зөвлөгөө (mn) (zövlögöö), зөвлөмж (mn) (zövlömž)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f
Pashto: توصيه‎ (ps) f (tawsiya)
Persian: توصیه‎ (fa) (towsiye), سفارش‎ (fa) (sefâreš)
Polish: rekomendacja (pl) f
Portuguese: recomendação (pt) f
Romanian: recomandare (ro) f
Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) f (rekomendácija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пре̏порука f
Roman: prȅporuka (sh) f
Slovak: odporúčanie n
Slovene: priporočilo n
Spanish: recomendación (es)
Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c
Tagalog: rekomendasyon
Tajik: тавсия (tavsiya), сифориш (siforiš)
Turkish: tavsiye (tr)
Ukrainian: рекоменда́ція f (rekomendácija)
Urdu: شَفاعَت‎ f (śafā'at), سِفارِش‎ f (sifāriś)
Uyghur: تەۋسىيە‎ (tewsiye)
Uzbek: rekomendatsiya (uz), tavsiya (uz)
Vietnamese: sự giới thiệu (vi), sự tiến cử (vi)

that which is recommended

Armenian: հանձնարարական (hy) (hanjnararakan), դիտարկում (hy) (ditarkum), խորհուրդ (hy) (xorhurd), առաջարկ (hy) (aṙaǰark)
Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az), məsləhət (az)
Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f (preporǎ́ka)
Catalan: recomanació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 勸告／劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 推薦／推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn)
Czech: doporučení (cs) n
Danish: anbefaling (da) c
Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f, aanrader (nl) m
Finnish: suositus (fi)
French: recommandation (fr)
German: Empfehlung (de) f
Hungarian: ajánlat (hu)
Macedonian: препорака f (preporaka)
Malayalam: ശുപാർശ (śupāṟśa)
Maori: kupu whakatau
Polish: zalecenie (pl) n, polecenie (pl) n, rekomendacja (pl) f
Portuguese: recomendação (pt)
Spanish: recomendación (es)
Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c
Tagalog: rekomendasyon
Turkish: tavsiye (tr)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

a commendation or endorsement

Armenian: երաշխավորագիր (hy) (erašxavoragir)
Azerbaijani: zəmanət (az)
Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) (rekomendácija)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} recommandation (fr) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: anbefaling c
Nynorsk: anbefaling f
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} recomandare (ro) f
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} prȅporuka (sh) f
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} recomendación (es) f