English

See also: english

English

Alternative forms

• Inglish (dated, rare)
• Englishe (archaic)
• (spin): english (US)
• (render into English): english (dated, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe +‎ -isċ; equivalent to Engle +‎ -ish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, (non-standard) /ˈɪŋɡəlɪʃ/

• Audio (UK):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, (also) /ˈɪŋlɪʃ/

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋɡləʃ/
• Hyphenation: Eng‧lish
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡlɪʃ

Adjective

English (comparative more English, superlative most English)

1. Of or pertaining to England.
   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

     During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.

2. English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.

   Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.

   • 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 187:

     Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.

3. Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen).
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

4. Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.

   an English ton

5. (Amish) Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
6. (film, television) Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors.

   Coordinate term: Chinese

Synonyms

• (related to England): southron (Scots)

Hyponyms

• Anglish

Translations

of or pertaining to England

• Albanian: anglez (sq)
• Arabic: إِنْجِلِيزِيّ (ar) (ʔingilīziyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: إنْقِليزي m (ingilīzi)

• Armenian: անգլիական (hy) (angliakan)
• Assamese: বিলাতী (bilati), ইংৰাজ (iṅraz), ইংৰাজী (iṅrazi)
• Asturian: inglés (ast)
• Azerbaijani: ingilis
• Bashkir: инглиз (ingliz)
• Belarusian: англі́йскі (anhlíjski), анге́льскі (anhjélʹski) (Taraškievica), анґе́льскі (angjélʹski) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: ইংরেজি (bn) (iṅreji)
• Bulgarian: англи́йски (bg) (anglíjski)
• Burmese: အင်္ဂလိပ် (my) (angga.lip)
• Buryat: англи (angli)
• Carpathian Rusyn: анґлі́цькый (anglícʹkŷj)
• Catalan: anglès (ca)

  Valencian: anglés (ca)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英格蘭的／英格兰的 (zh) (Yīnggélán de), 英 (zh) (Yīng)

• Czech: anglický (cs)
• Danish: engelsk (da)
• Dutch: Engels (nl)
• Esperanto: angla (eo)
• Estonian: inglise (et)
• Ewe: Eŋlisi
• Faroese: enskur m, eingilskur m
• Finnish: englantilainen (fi)
• French: anglais (fr) m, anglaise (fr) f
• Galician: inglés (gl), inglesa f
• Georgian: ინგლისური (ka) (inglisuri)
• German: englisch (de), engländisch
• Greek: αγγλικός (el) (anglikós), εγγλέζικος (el) (englézikos) (informally)
• Gujarati: અંગ્રેજી (gu) (aṅgrejī)
• Hawaiian: ʻEnelani, Pelekāne
• Hebrew: אַנְגְּלִי (ang'lí)
• Hiligaynon: Ingles
• Hindi: अंग्रेज़ी (hi) (aṅgrezī), अंग्रेज़ (aṅgrez), अंग्रेजी (hi) (aṅgrejī), अंग्रेज (hi) (aṅgrej), विलायती (hi) (vilāytī), बिलायती (hi) (bilāytī), इंगलिश (hi) (iṅgliś)
• Hungarian: angol (hu), angliai (hu)
• Icelandic: enskur (is)
• Ido: Angliana (io)
• Indonesian: Inggris (id), keinggrisan
• Interlingua: anglese (ia)
• Irish: Sasanach (ga)
• Italian: inglese (it)
• Jamaican Creole: Ingglish
• Japanese: イギリスの (ja) (Igirisu no), イングランドの (ja) (Ingurando no), 英 (ja) (えい, Ei)
• Jingpho: Inglik, Inggalik, Ing-galik
• Kashubian: anielsczi (csb)
• Kazakh: ағылшын (ağylşyn)
• Khmer: អង់គ្លេស (km) (ʼɑngkleih)
• Korean: 영국(英國)의 (yeonggug-ui), 영(英) (ko) (yeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیزی (inglîzî)

  Northern Kurdish: inglîzî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: англис (anglis), иңглиш (iŋgliş)
• Ladin: nglëisc m
• Lao: ອັງກິດ (ʼang kit)
• Latin: anglēnsis
• Latvian: angļu (lv), anglisks
• Lithuanian: anglų (lt), angliškas
• Low German:

  German Low German: engelsch

• Macedonian: англиски (angliski)
• Malay: Inggeris, Inggris (Indonesia)
• Maltese: Ingliż (mt) m, Ingliża f
• Manx: Sostynagh
• Maori: Ingarihi
• Marathi: इंग्रजी (mr) (iṅgrajī), इंग्रज m (iṅgraj)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: англи (mn) (angli)

• Neapolitan: ngrese
• Norman: angllais (Guernsey), Angliais (Jersey)
• Northwestern Ojibwa: zhaaganaashiimowin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: engelsk (no)

  Nynorsk: engelsk

• Occitan: anglés (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: англїискъ (angliiskŭ)

• Old Occitan: engles
• Pashto: انګرېزي (ps) (angrezí), انګليسي (ps) (englisí)
• Persian: اِنْگْلیسی (fa) (englisi)
• Polish: angielski (pl)
• Portuguese: inglês (pt)
• Romani: anglo m, anglojka f
• Romanian: englez (ro)
• Russian: англи́йский (ru) (anglíjskij)
• Sardinian: inglesu m, ingresu f
• Scots: Inglis
• Scottish Gaelic: Sasannach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: енглеск

  Roman: engleski m

• Sicilian: ngrisi (scn)
• Sindhi: اَنگريزِي (sd) (angrezi)
• Sinhalese: ඉංග්‍රීසි (si) (iṁgrīsi)
• Slovak: anglický (sk)
• Slovene: angléški (sl)
• Spanish: inglés (es)
• Swahili: -ingereza
• Swedish: engelsk (sv)
• Tagalog: Ingles (tl)
• Tajik: англисӣ (tg) (anglisī)
• Tamil: ஆங்கிலம் (āṅkilam)
• Tatar: инглиз (ingliz)
• Telugu: ఇంగ్లీషు (te) (iṅglīṣu), ఆంగ్ల (āṅgla), ఆంగ్లేయ (āṅglēya)
• Thai: อังกฤษ (th) (ang-grìt)
• Tibetan: དབྱིན་ཇི (dbyin ji)
• Turkish: İngiliz (tr)
• Turkmen: iňlis
• Tuvan: англи (angli)
• Ukrainian: англі́йський (uk) (anhlíjsʹkyj)
• Upper Sorbian: jendźelski (hsb)
• Urdu: اَن٘گْریزی (ur) (aṅgrezī), انگلستانی (iṅglistānī)
• Uyghur: ئىنگلىز (in'gliz)
• Uzbek: ingliz (uz)
• Vietnamese: Anh (vi) (英 (vi))
• Volapük: Linglänik (vo)
• Welsh: Seisnig (cy)
• West Frisian: Ingelsk (fy)
• Zhuang: Yinghgoz

of or pertaining to the English language

• Acehnese: Inggréh, bahsa Inggréh
• Afrikaans: Engels (af)
• Akan: Enyiresi
• Albanian: gjuha angleze
• Apache:

  Western Apache: indaa’ biyáti’

• Arabic: إِنْجِلِيزِيّ (ar) (ʔingilīziyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: إنْقِليزي m (ingilīzi)

• Aragonese: anglés (an)
• Armenian: անգլերեն (hy) (angleren)
• Assamese: ইংৰাজী (iṅrazi)
• Asturian: inglés (ast)
• Avar: ингилис (ingilis)
• Aymara: inlish
• Azerbaijani: ingilis
• Bambara: Angilɛkan, Ingliz
• Banjarese: Inggris
• Banyumasan: ꦲꦶꦁꦒꦿꦶꦱ꧀ (inggris)
• Basque: ingeles (eu)
• Belarusian: англі́йскі (anhlíjski), анге́льскі (anhjélʹski) (Taraškievica), анґе́льскі (angjélʹski) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: ইংরেজি (bn) (iṅreji)
• Breton: saozneg (br)
• Bulgarian: англи́йски (bg) (anglíjski)
• Burmese: အင်္ဂလိပ် (my) (angga.lip)
• Catalan: anglès (ca)

  Valencian: anglés (ca)

• Cebuano: Iningles
• Chechen: ингалсан (ingalsan)
• Chichewa: Chingerezi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英語的／英语的 (zh) (yīngyǔ de), 英文的 (zh) (yīngwén de)

• Chuvash: акӑлчан (ak̬ălč̬an)
• Cornish: Sowsnek
• Czech: anglický (cs)
• Danish: engelsk (da)
• Dhivehi: އިނގިރޭސި (iⁿgirēsi)
• Dutch: Engels (nl)
• Emilian: inglaiṡ m, ingléś m
• Erzya: Англань (Anglań)
• Esperanto: anglalingva
• Estonian: inglise (et)
• Ewe: Eŋlisi, Eŋlisigbe
• Extremaduran: ingresa
• Faroese: enskur m, eingilskur f
• Fijian: vaka-valagi (fj)
• Finnish: englannin (fi), englanninkielinen (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: anglès
• French: anglais (fr)
• Friulian: inglês
• Galician: inglés (gl)
• Georgian: ინგლისური (ka) (inglisuri), ინგლისურენოვანი (inglisurenovani)
• German: englisch (de), englischsprachig (de)

  Alemannic German: änglisch

• Greek: αγγλικός (el) (anglikós), εγγλέζικος (el) (englézikos) (informal)
• Guaraní: inglyesñe'ẽ (ingrājī), ingyaterrañe'ẽ (gn)
• Gujarati: અંગ્રેજી (gu) (aṅgrejī)
• Hawaiian: Pelekāne, haole
• Hebrew: אַנְגְּלִי (anglí)
• Hiligaynon: Ingles
• Hindi: अंग्रेज़ी (hi) (aṅgrezī), आँग्लभाषा (āṅglabhāṣā), अंग्रेजी (hi) (aṅgrejī), इंगलिश (hi) (iṅgliś)
• Hungarian: angol (hu)
• Icelandic: enskur (is)
• Ido: Angliana (io), Angla (io), Anglalingua
• Igbo: Inglish
• Indonesian: Inggris (id)
• Interlingua: anglese (ia)
• Irish: Béarlach
• Italian: inglese (it)
• Japanese: 英語の (ja) (えいごの, eigo no)
• Kabardian: Инджылыбзэ (Jindžələbzɛ)
• Kashubian: anielsczi (csb)
• Kazakh: Ағылшын (Ağylşyn)
• Khmer: ភាសាអង់គ្លេស (km) (phéasaʼងគ្លេស)
• Korean: 영어(英語)의 (yeong'eo-ui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیزی (inglîzî)

  Northern Kurdish: inglîzî (ku)

  Zazaki: inglîzkî

• Kyrgyz: англисче (ky) (anglisce), иңглишче (iŋglişce)
• Ladin: nglëisc m
• Lao: ພາສາອັງກິດ (lo) (phā sā ʼang kit)
• Latin: anglicus
• Latvian: angļu (lv), anglisks
• Lithuanian: anglų (lt), angliškas
• Macedonian: англиски (angliski)
• Malay: bahasa Inggeris, Inggeris
• Maltese: Ingliż (mt)
• Manx: Baarlagh
• Maori: Ingarihi
• Marathi: इंग्रजी (mr) (iṅgrajī), इंग्लिश f (iṅgliś)
• Mingrelian: ინგლისური ნინა (inglisuri nina)
• Motu: Nao Gado
• Nahuatl: Inglatlahtōlli
• Navajo: Bilagáana bizaad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: engelsk (no)

  Nynorsk: engelsk

• Occitan: anglés (oc)
• Odia: ଇଂରାଜୀ (iṁraji)
• Ojibwe: zhaaganaashiimowin, ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔒᒧᐎᓐ (zhaaganaashiimowin)
• Old English: Englisċ (ang), Ænglisċ
• Pashto: انګليسي (ps) (englisí), انګرېزي (ps) (angrezí)
• Pennsylvania German: Englisch
• Persian: اِنْگْلیسی (fa) (englisi)
• Polish: angielski (pl)
• Portuguese: inglês (pt), anglo (pt), ânglico (pt)
• Punjabi: ਅੰਗ੍ਰੇਜ਼ੀ (aṅgrezī)
• Romani: anglicko
• Romanian: englez (ro)
• Russian: англи́йский (ru) (anglíjskij)
• Samogitian: Onglu
• Scots: Inglis
• Scottish Gaelic: Beurla f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: енглески m

  Roman: engleski m

• Shona: Chirungu
• Sindhi: اَنگريزِي (sd) (angrezi)
• Slovak: anglický (sk)
• Slovene: angléški (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: engelšćina, jenźelšćina

• Southern Ohlone: inkiS
• Spanish: inglés (es)
• Swedish: engelsk (sv)
• Tagalog: Ingles (tl), english
• Tajik: англисӣ (tg) (anglisī)
• Tamil: ஆங்கிலம் (ta) (āṅkilam)
• Telugu: ఇంగ్లీషు (te) (iṅglīṣu), ఆంగ్లము (āṅglamu), ఆంగ్లభాస (āṅglabhāsa)
• Thai: อังกฤษ (th) (ang-grìt)
• Turkish: İngilizce (tr)
• Tuvan: англи (angli)
• Udmurt: Англи (Angľi)
• Ukrainian: англі́йський (uk) (anhlíjsʹkyj)
• Upper Sorbian: jendźelski (hsb)
• Urdu: اَن٘گْریزی (ur) (aṅgrezī)
• Uyghur: ئىنگلىز (in'gliz)
• Uzbek: ingliz (uz)
• Venetian: inglexe (vec)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Anh (vi)
• Volapük: Linglänapükik
• Voro: Inglüse
• Walloon: inglès (wa)
• Waray-Waray: Ininglis
• Welsh: Saesneg (cy)
• West Flemish: Iengels
• West Frisian: Ingelsk (fy)
• White Hmong: Askiv
• Wolof: angalteer
• Yoruba: Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
• Zealandic: Iengels
• Zhuang: Yinghyij

of or pertaining to an Englishman, Englishwoman, the English

• Bulgarian: англи́йски (bg) (anglíjski)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英国人的 (yīngguórén de)

• Esperanto: (♂♀) angla (eo), (♂) virangla, (♀) anglina
• Finnish: englantilainen (fi)
• Hungarian: angol (hu)
• Icelandic: enskur (is)
• Irish: Sasanach (ga)
• Korean: 영국인(英國人)의 (yeonggugin-ui), 영국(英國)사람의 (yeongguksaram-ui)
• Latvian: angļu (lv), anglisks
• Lithuanian: angliškas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: engelsk (no)

  Nynorsk: engelsk

• Romanian: englez (ro)
• Russian: ⦃⦃t+¦ru¦англи́йски馦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦⦄⦄
• Tamil: ஆங்கிலேயர் (āṅkilēyar)
• Volapük: (♂♀) Linglänanik, (♂) hi-Linglänanik, (♀) ji-Linglänanik

of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system

• Esperanto: brita (eo)
• Finnish: brittiläinen (fi)
• Hebrew: שייך למערכת המידות האנגלית
• Hindi: अंग्रेज़ी (hi) (aṅgrezī), अंग्रेजी (hi) (aṅgrejī)
• Icelandic: enskur (is)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیزی (inglîzî)

  Northern Kurdish: inglîzî (ku)

• Norwegian: engelsk (no)
• Persian: اِنْگْلیسی (fa) (englisi)
• Portuguese: inglês (pt)
• Sindhi: اَنگريزِي (sd) (angrezi)
• Spanish: inglés (es)
• Swedish: engelsk (sv)

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

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} saoz (br); related to the language: ^{(please verify)} saoznek (br)
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} -ingereza
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} ஆங்கிலேய (āṅkilēya) not the language

Noun

English (countable and uncountable, plural English or Englishes)

1. (in the plural) The people of England, Englishmen and Englishwomen.
   • 1979, Stormont Mancroft, Bees in Some Bonnets, p. 175:

     Cricket—a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

   The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.

2. (Amish, in the plural) The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
3. (uncountable) Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.

   Sorry, my English isn't very good.

4. (uncountable) A particular instance of the English language, including
   1. The English term or expression for some thing or idea.

      What's the English for 'à peu près'? It depends: how is it being used?

   2. The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.

      The specs are all correct, but the English in the instructions isn't as clear as it should be.

   3. A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.
      • 1994, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episodes 25-26, Brent Spiner and Gates McFadden (actors):

        Data: I have completed my analysis of the anomaly. It appears to be a multi-phasic temporal convergence in the space-time continuum.
        Dr. Crusher: In English, Data.

      Thank you, doctor. Now, please say that again in English.

   4. Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
      • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:

        This reflects that in English, students learn a range of text types, such as procedures, editorials, poetry, and not just academic essays.

      I loved reading until 7th grade English.

6. (printing, dated) A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
8. (uncountable, Canada, US) Alternative form of english.

   You are putting too much English on the ball.

Usage notes

The use of the plural form Englishes occurred in early modern English but is only seldomly and exceptionally encountered in contemporary English. As with other collective demonyms, English is preceded by the definite article or some other determiner when referring to the people of England collectively.

Synonyms

• (English people): southrons (Scots)
• (type size): (German contexts) Mittel, (French contexts) Augustin

Coordinate terms

• (sidespin): draw, follow

Translations

people from England

• Arabic: إِنْجِلِيز (ar) pl (ʔinjilīz)
• Armenian: անգլիացի (angliacʻi)
• Asturian: inglés (ast) m
• Basque: ingeles (eu)
• Belarusian: англіча́нін m (anhličánin), англіча́нка f (anhličánka), анге́лец (anhjéljec) (Taraškievica), анге́лька (anhjélʹka) (Taraškievica), анґе́лец (angjéljec) (Taraškievica), анґе́лька (angjélʹka) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: ইংরেজি (bn) (iṅreji)
• Breton: Saoz (br) m, Saozon (br) pl, Saozez (br) f, Saozezed (br) f pl
• Bulgarian: англича́нин m (angličánin), англича́нка f (angličánka)
• Catalan: anglès (ca) m, anglesa (ca) f

  Valencian: anglés (ca) m, anglesa (ca) f

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 英國人／英国人 (jing¹ gwok³ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 英國人／英国人 (zh) (yīngguórén)

• Czech: Angličan (cs) m, Angličanka (cs) f
• Danish: englænder (da)
• Dutch: Engelsman (nl) m, Engelse (nl) f, Engelsen (nl) pl
• Esperanto: anglo (eo), anglino, vira anglo, angla viro, angla virino
• Estonian: inglane (et) m or f, inglanna f
• Ewe: Eŋlisitɔ n
• Faroese: onglendingur
• Finnish: englantilainen (fi)
• French: anglais (fr) m or m pl, anglaise (fr) f, anglaises (fr) f pl
• Georgian: ინგლისელი (ingliseli), ინგლისელები (ingliselebi)
• German: Engländer (de) m pl
• Greek: Άγγλος (el) m (Ánglos), Αγγλίδα (el) f (Anglída), Εγγλέζος (el) m (Englézos), Εγγλέζα (el) f (Engléza)
• Hebrew: אַנְגְּלִי m (angli), אנגליה f (anglia)
• Hindi: अंग्रेज़ (aṅgrez), अंग्रेज़ी (hi) (aṅgrezī), अंग्रेज (hi) (aṅgrej), अंग्रेजी (hi) (aṅgrejī), इंगलिश (hi) (iṅgliś)
• Hungarian: angol (hu)
• Icelandic: Englendingar (is) m pl
• Indonesian: orang Inggris
• Interlingua: anglese (ia)
• Irish: Sasanach (ga) m
• Italian: inglese (it)
• Japanese: イギリス人 (ja) (Igirisu-jin), (archaic) 英国人 (ja) (えいこくじん, Eikokujin)
• Khmer: អង់គ្លេស (km) (ʼɑngkleih)
• Korean: 영국인(英國人) (ko) (yeonggugin), 영국(英國)사람 (yeongguksaram)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیز (inglîz)

  Northern Kurdish: inglîz (ku)

• Ladin: nglëisc m
• Latvian: anglis (lv) m, angliete f
• Macedonian: Англичанец m (Angličanec), Англичанка f (Angličanka), Англичани pl (Angličani)
• Malay: orang Inggeris, Inggeris
• Maori: Ingarihi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: англи хүн (angli xün)

• Occitan: anglés (oc) m, anglesa (oc) f
• Ojibwe: zhaaganaash, zhaaganaashi, zhaaganaashag pl, zhaaganaashiwag pl
• Ottawa: Zhaagnaash, Zhaagnaashag pl
• Persian: اِنْگْلیسی (fa) (englisi)
• Polish: Anglik (pl) m pers, Angielka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ingleses (pt) m pl
• Romanian: englez (ro) m, englezoiacă f, engleză (ro) f
• Russian: англича́нин (ru) m (angličánin), англича́нка (ru) f (angličánka), англича́не (ru) m pl (angličáne)
• Scottish Gaelic: na Sasannaich m pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ѐнгле̄з m, Енглескиња f

  Roman: Ènglēz m, Engleskinja f

• Sindhi: اَنگريزُ (sd) m (angrezu) اَنگريزياڻِي (sd) f (angreziyaannee)
• Slovak: Angličan (sk) m, Angličanka (sk) f
• Slovene: Angléž (sl) m, Angléžinja f
• Swedish: engelsman (sv) m, engelska (sv) f
• Tagalog: Inglatero, Ingles (tl)
• Tamil: ஆங்கிலேயர் (āṅkilēyar)
• Telugu: ఆంగ్లేయులు (āṅglēyulu)
• Thai: คนอังกฤษ
• Turkish: İngiliz (tr)
• Tuvan: англи (angli)
• Ukrainian: англі́єць (uk) m (anhlíjecʹ), англі́йка f (anhlíjka), англі́йці (uk) pl (anhlíjci)
• Urdu: اَن٘گْریز m or f (aṅgrez)
• Vietnamese: người Anh
• Written Oirat: ᠠᡊᡎᡅᠯᡅᡔᠠᠨ (anggilican), ᡌᡅᠯᡅᡊ (piling)

one's ability to employ the English language

• Armenian: անգլերեն (hy) (angleren)
• Asturian: inglés (ast) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 英文 (jing¹ man⁴, jing¹ man^4-2), 英語／英语 (jing¹ jyu⁵)

  Hakka: 英文 (Yîn-vùn), 英語／英语 (Yîn-ngî)

  Hokkien: 英語／英语 (zh-min-nan) (Eng-gí, Eng-gú), 英文 (zh-min-nan) (Eng-bûn)

  Mandarin: 英語／英语 (zh) (Yīngyǔ), 英文 (zh) (Yīngwén)

• Finnish: englannin taito
• French: anglais (fr) m
• Portuguese: inglês (pt) m
• Romanian: engleză (ro) f
• Swedish: engelska (sv) c

English-language term or expression

• Finnish: englanniksi (fi)
• Motu: Nao Gado

specific language or wording

• Armenian: անգլերեն (hy) (angleren)
• Finnish: englanti (fi), englannin kieli
• Swedish: engelska (sv) c

14-point type

• Dutch: grote Augustijn, dubbel kolonel
• French: gros-texte (fr)
• German: Mittel (de)
• Hungarian: mittel
• Italian: silvio
• Spanish: texto (es)
• Swedish: mittel (sv) c

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

• Alemannic German: ^{(please verify)} Englisch
• Aragonese: ^{(please verify)} anglés (an)
• Aramaic: ^{(please verify)} ܠܫܢܐ ܐܢܓܠܝܐ
• Buginese: ^{(please verify)} ᨅᨔ ᨕᨗᨋᨗᨔᨗ
• Emilian: ^{(please verify)} inglêś
• Inuktitut: ^{(please verify)} ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ (iu) (qallonaatitot)
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} Ingarihi
• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} ईंग्रजी (īṅgrajī)
• Somali: ^{(please verify)} ingiriisi
• Swahili: (noun 1/2) ^{(please verify)} Waingereza (sw) pl, ^{(please verify)} Mwingereza (sw) sg
• Walloon: ^{(please verify)} Inglès (wa)

Proper noun

English (countable and uncountable, plural Englishes)

2. The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:English language

   English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.

   How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English?

3. A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
   • 2003, Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”, in The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, page 278:

     I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure.

4. English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
5. An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
6. A male or female given name
7. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.
   2. An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Kentucky.
   3. An unincorporated community in Brazoria County, Texas.
   4. An unincorporated community in Red River County, Texas.
   5. An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.

Usage notes

(language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc.):

• As with the names of almost all languages, English, when it means "the English language", does not usually require an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!"

Hypernyms

(language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc.):

• language

Meronyms

See also Thesaurus:English language

(language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc.):

• Standard English

(diachronic)

• Middle English, Medieval English
  • Early Middle English, early Middle English
  • Late Middle English, late Middle English
• New English, Modern English
  • Early New English, Early Modern English
  • Late Modern English

Derived terms

Terms derived from English (adjective and noun)

• Aboriginal English
• African-American English
• African American Vernacular English
• Alaskan English
• American English
• Anglo-English
• Anglo-Indian English
• anti-English
• Appalachian English
• Attempto Controlled English
• Austral English
• Australian English
• babu English
• Bahamian English
• Bajan English
• Bangladeshi English
• Barbadian English
• Basic English
• BBC English
• Bearer English
• Belizean English
• Bermudian English
• Black English
• Black English Vernacular
• body English
• borough English
• British English
• Brunei English
• Butler English
• Cajun English
• Cameroonian English
• Cameroonian Pidgin English
• Canadian English
• carabao English
• Caribbean English
• Ceylonese English
• Channel Island English
• Chinese English
• Chinese pidgin English
• Chinglish
• Classical English
• Commonwealth English
• double English
• Early English
• Early Modern English
• Early New English
• Edited English
• Elizabethan English
• Englishable
• English as afternoon tea
• English as apple pie
• English basement
• English billiards
• English Bluebell
• English bond
• English breakfast
• English breakfast tea
• English bunt
• English cadence
• English Canada
• English-Canadian
• English Carrier
• English chamomile
• English Channel
• English cholera
• English cocker spaniel
• English covenants
• English-cut
• English daisy
• English disease
• English elm
• English English
• Englisher
• English fever
• English flute
• English garden
• English green
• English Harbour
• English holly
• English horn
• English hornist
• Englishification
• Englishified
• Englishify
• Englishish
• Englishism
• Englishization
• Englishize
• English knot
• English Lake
• English Latin
• English lavender
• English-lexifier
• Englishly
• Englishman
• English-medium
• English mercury
• English Midlands
• English mile
• English muffin
• Englishness
• English oak
• English Opening
• English oregano
• English pale
• English partridge
• English pea
• English pease
• Englishperson
• English plantain
• English pleasure
• English Plus
• English rhubarb
• English riding
• English rose
• Englishry
• English saddle
• English Shepherd
• English sonnet
• English sparrow
• English-speaking
• English strong ale
• English studies
• English toffee
• English vice
• English walnut
• English wheat
• English wheel
• Englishwoman
• English yew
• Engrish
• Estuary English
• European English
• Falkland Islands English
• Filipino English
• French and English
• Gibraltarian English
• Hiberno-English
• Hong Kong English
• I am English
• Indian English
• Irish English
• Jamaican English
• Janglish
• Japanese English
• Japlish
• Jewish English
• Kenyan English
• Kitchen English
• Korean English
• Late Modern English
• Liberian English
• Malawian English
• Malaysian English
• Maltese English
• Manx English
• Medieval English
• Middle English
• Modern English
• Multicultural London English
• Namibian English
• Nepalese English
• New English
• Newfoundland English
• New Zealand English
• Nigerian English
• Nihonglish
• North American English
• Northern England English
• Northern English
• Northern Irish English
• Olde English Bulldogge
• Old English
• old English Carrier
• Old English Sheepdog
• Pakistani English
• Pennsylvania Dutch English
• Philippine English
• pidgin English
• Pidgin Signed English
• Pinoy English
• pseudo-English
• Rock English
• Sandalwood English
• Scottish English
• Sherfield English (place name)
• simple English
• Singaporean English
• Singapore English
• Solombala English
• South African English
• Southern American English
• Sri Lankan English
• Standard American English
• Standard English
• Trinidadian and Tobagonian English
• two-line English
• Ugandan English
• Ulster English
• United States English
• Welsh English
• world English
• Yeshiva English

 

Terms derived from English (noun)

• does anyone here speak English
• do you have a menu in English
• do you speak English
• how do you say … in English
• I don't speak English
• King's English
• Queen's English

 

Terms derived from English (adjective)

• full English
• full English breakfast
• non-English
• un-English
• white English bulldog

 

Terms derived from English (verb)

• Englished

 

Translations

the English language

• Abkhaz: англыз бызшәа (angləz bəzŝʷa)
• Adyghe: инджылыбзэ (jindžələbzɛ)
• Afrikaans: Engels (af)
• Akan: English, Borɔfo
• Albanian: anglisht (sq), anglishte (sq), gjuha angleze f
• Amharic: እንግሊዝኛ (ʾəngəlizña)
• Antillean Creole: anglé m
• Arabic: إِنْكِلِيزِيّ (ar) m (ʔingilīziyy), إِنْجِلِيزِيّ (ar) m (ʔingilīziyy), إِنْكِلِيزِيَّة (ar) f (ʔingilīziyya), إِنْجِلِيزِيَّة (ar) f (ʔingilīziyya), اَللُّغَة اَلْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة (ar) f (al-luḡa l-ʔingilīziyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: انجليزي m (engelizi)

  Hijazi Arabic: إنْقِليزي m (ingilīzi), اللغة الإنقليزية m (alluḡa alʔingilīziyya)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܫܢܐ ܐܢܓܠܝܐ (lšnā ngliyā)

• Armenian: անգլերեն (hy) (angleren)
• Assamese: ইংৰাজী (iṅrazi)
• Asturian: inglés (ast) m
• Aymara: Inlis aru
• Azerbaijani: ingiliscə (az)

  Cyrillic: инҝилисҹә

• Bambara: Angilɛkan
• Banjarese: bahasa Inggris
• Banyumasan: basa Inggris
• Bashkir: инглиз теле (ingliz tele)
• Basque: ingelera (eu), ingeles (eu)
• Bavarian: Englisch n
• Belarusian: англі́йская (мо́ва) f (anhlíjskaja (móva)), анге́льская (мо́ва) f (anhjélʹskaja (móva)) (Taraškievica), анґе́льская (мо́ва) f (angjélʹskaja (móva)) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: ইংরেজি (bn) (iṅreji)
• Bikol Central: Ingles (bcl)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: ইংরেজি (inrēji)
• Breton: saoznek (br) m, saozneg (br) m
• Bulgarian: англи́йски (ези́к) m (anglíjski (ezík))
• Burmese: အင်္ဂလိပ် (my) (angga.lip)
• Catalan: anglès (ca) m

  Valencian: anglés (ca) m

• Cebuano: Iningles
• Chechen: ингалсан мотт (ingalsan mott)
• Cherokee: ᏲᏁᎦ (chr) (yonega), ᎩᎵᏏ (chr) (gilisi)
• Chichewa: Chingerezi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 英文 (jing¹ man⁴, jing¹ man^4-2), 英語／英语 (jing¹ jyu⁵)

  Dungan: йинйү (yinyü)

  Eastern Min: 英語／英语 (Ĭng-ngṳ̄)

  Hakka: 英文 (Yîn-vùn), 英語／英语 (Yîn-ngî)

  Hokkien: 英語／英语 (zh-min-nan) (Eng-gí, Eng-gú), 英文 (zh-min-nan) (Eng-bûn)

  Mandarin: 英語／英语 (zh) (yīngyǔ), 英文 (zh) (yīngwén)

• Choctaw: įkiliš imanimpa
• Chuvash: акӑлчан чӗлхи (ak̬ălč̬an č̬ĕlh̬i)
• Comanche: taibo tekwapu
• Cornish: sowsnek
• Corsican: inglese (co) m
• Cree: ᐊᑲᔭᓯᒧᐃᐧᐣ (akayasimoiyn)
• Creek: mekvlesv´lkē
• Crimean Tatar: ingliz tili
• Czech: angličtina (cs) f
• Danish: engelsk (da) n
• Dhivehi: އިނގިރޭސި (iⁿgirēsi)
• Dutch: Engels (nl) n
• Erzya: англань кель (anglań keľ)
• Esperanto: angla (eo), angla lingvo (with the definite article la (eo))
• Estonian: inglise keel (et)
• Ewe: Eŋlisigbe
• Extremaduran: ingrés m
• Faroese: enskt (fo), eingilskt
• Finnish: englanti (fi), englannin kieli
• Franco-Provençal: anglès
• French: anglais (fr) m
• Friulian: lenghe inglese f
• Gagauz: İngiliz dili
• Galician: inglés (gl) m
• Georgian: ინგლისური (ka) (inglisuri), ინგლისური ენა (inglisuri ena)
• German: Englisch (de) n

  Alemannic German: Änglisch

• Greek: αγγλικά (el) n pl (angliká), εγγλέζικα (el) n pl (englézika) (informally), αγγλική (el) f (anglikí) (formally)
• Greenlandic: tuluttut
• Guaraní: ingyaterrañe'ẽ (gn)
• Gujarati: અંગ્રેજી (gu) f (aṅgrejī)
• Haitian Creole: angle
• Hausa: Turanci (ha), Ingilishi
• Hawaiian: ʻōlelo Pelekāne, ʻōlelo Pelekānia, ʻōlelo haole
• Hebrew: אַנְגְּלִית (he) f (anglít)
• Hiligaynon: Ingles, Iningles
• Hindi: अंग्रेज़ी (hi) f (aṅgrezī), अँग्रेज़ी (hi) f (aṅgrezī), अंग्रेजी (hi) f (aṅgrejī), इंगलिश (hi) f (iṅgliś), अंग्रेज़ी भाषा f (aṅgrezī bhāṣā)
• Hungarian: angol (hu)
• Icelandic: enska (is) f
• Ido: Angliana linguo
• Igbo: asụsụ Bekee
• Ilocano: pagsasao nga Ingles
• Indonesian: bahasa Inggris
• Interlingua: anglese (ia)
• Inuktitut: ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ (iu) (qallonaatitot)
• Irish: Béarla (ga) m, Sacs-Bhéarla m
• Italian: inglese (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: Ingglish
• Japanese: 英語 (ja) (えいご, Eigo)
• Javanese: basa Inggris
• Kabyle: Taglizit
• Kannada: ಆಂಗ್ಲ (āṅgla)
• Karachay-Balkar: ингилиз (iñiliz)
• Kazakh: ағылшынша (ağylşynşa)
• Khmer: អង់គ្លេស (km) (ʼɑngkleih)
• Kikuyu: Gĩthũngũ
• Komi-Zyrian: Англия кыв (Angľija kyv)
• Korean: 영어(英語) (ko) (yeong'eo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئِنگلیزی (inglîzî)

  Northern Kurdish: inglîzî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: англис тили (anglis tili), англисча (anglisca)
• Ladin: nglëisc m
• Ladino: lingua Inglesa f
• Lao: ອັງກິດ (ʼang kit)
• Latin: lingua anglica f, Anglicus m
• Latvian: angļu valoda f
• Ligurian: lèngoa ingleise
• Limburgish: Ingelsj (li) n
• Lingala: Lingɛlɛ́sa
• Lithuanian: anglų kalba f, angliškai
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Engels (nds) n

  German Low German: Engelsch (nds) n

• Luganda: please add this translation if you can
• Lushootseed: pastəducid
• Luxembourgish: Englesch (lb) n
• Macedonian: англи́ски (ја́зик) m (anglíski (jázik))
• Malagasy: anglisy (mg)
• Malay: bahasa Inggeris
• Malayalam: ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് (ml) (iṅglīṣŭ)
• Maltese: Ingliż (mt)
• Manx: Baarle
• Maori: te reo Pākehā, reo Ingarihi
• Mapudungun: kringkudungun
• Marathi: इंग्लिश भाषा (iṅgliś bhāṣā), इंग्रजी (mr) (iṅgrajī)
• Mazanderani: اینگلیسی زبون
• Minangkabau: baso Inggirih
• Mohawk: Tiohrhēnsa
• Moksha: англань (anglań)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: англи хэл (angli xel)

• Motu: Nao Gado
• Nahuatl: inglatlahtōlli (nah)
• Nauruan: Anglise
• Navajo: Bilagáana bizaad
• Ndonga: English
• Neapolitan: lengua ngrese f
• Nepali: अँग्रेजी (ãgrejī)
• Nez Perce: so·yapo·tímtki
• Nisga'a: q̉amksi·wá·ma̱q
• Norman: angliais m (Jersey), angllais m (Guernsey), aungllèche f (continental Normandy)
• Northern Sami: engalaskiela, eaŋgalsgiella
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: engelsk (no) m

  Nynorsk: engelsk m

• O'odham: Milgan ñiok
• Occitan: anglés (oc) m
• Odia: ଇଂରାଜୀ (iṁraji)
• Ojibwe: zhaaganaashiimowin
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: англіискъ ѩꙁꙑкъ m (angliiskŭ językŭ)

• Old English: Englisċ (ang)
• Ossetian: англисаг ӕвзаг (anglisag ævzag)
• Ottawa: Zhaagnaashiimwin, Zhaagnaashiikwe f, Zhaagnaashiikweg f pl
• Pali: आंगलभाषा (āṃgalabhāṣā)
• Pashto: انګرېزي (ps) f (angrezí)
• Pennsylvania German: Englisch
• Persian: اِنْگْلیسی (fa) (englisi), زَبانِ اِنْگْلیسی (zabân-e englisi)
• Piedmontese: lenga anglèisa f
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Inglish
• Polish: (język) angielski (pl)
• Portuguese: inglês (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਅੰਗ੍ਰੇਜ਼ੀ (aṅgrezī)
• Quechua: Inlish simi
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: engleză (ro) f
• Romansch: lingua englaisa
• Russian: англи́йский язы́к m (anglíjskij jazýk), англи́йский (ru) m (anglíjskij) (язы́к)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Icyongereza (rw)
• Samoan: Fa'aperetania
• Samogitian: onglu kalba
• Sardinian: inglesu m, ingresu m
• Scots: Inglis, Inglish
• Scottish Gaelic: Beurla f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: енглески m, енглески језик m

  Roman: engleski m, engleski jezik m

• Shoshone: daibō'an daigwape
• Sicilian: ngrisi (scn) m
• Sindhi: انگريزي (sd) f (angrezi)
• Sinhalese: ඉංග්‍රීසි (si) (iṁgrīsi), ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාව (iṁgrīsi bhāṣāwa)
• Slovak: angličtina (sk) f
• Slovene: angléščina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: engelšćina f, jenźelšćina f

  Upper Sorbian: jendźelšćina (hsb) f

• Sotho: Senyesemane (st)
• Spanish: inglés (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: Ingristongo
• Sundanese: basa Inggris
• Swahili: Kiingereza class 7
• Swazi: síNgísi
• Swedish: engelska (sv) c
• Tagalog: Ingles (tl)
• Tahitian: Anglès
• Tajik: англисӣ (tg) (anglisī)
• Tamil: ஆங்கிலம் (ta) (āṅkilam)
• Tangsa: Ningxraxtsix
• Taos: phonsàytųʼúne
• Tatar: inglizçä (tt), инглиз теле (ingliz telye)
• Telugu: ఆంగ్లము (āṅglamu), ఇంగ్లీషు (te) (iṅglīṣu)
• Tetum: Inglés
• Thai: อังกฤษ (th) (ang-grìt)
• Tibetan: དབྱིན་ཇིའི་སྐད (dbyin ji'i skad)
• Tigrinya: እንግሊዝኛ (ʾəngəlizña)
• Tok Pisin: Tok Inglis, Inglis
• Tokelauan: gagana Peletānia
• Turkish: İngilizce (tr)
• Turkmen: iňlisçe (tk)

  Cyrillic: иңлисче

• Tuvan: англи дыл (angli dıl)
• Udmurt: англи кыл (angľi kyl)
• Ukrainian: англі́йська мо́ва f (anhlíjsʹka móva), англі́йська (uk) f (anhlíjsʹka)
• Urdu: اَن٘گْریزی (ur) f (aṅgrezī)
• Uyghur: ئىنگىلىز تىلى (in'giliz tili), ئىنگىلىزچە (in'gilizche)
• Uzbek: ingliz tili, inglizcha (uz)

  Cyrillic: инглис тили (inglis tili)

• Venetian: łéngua inglexe f
• Vietnamese: tiếng Anh
• Volapük: Linglänapük (vo)
• Võro: Inglüse kiil
• Votic: Angljitšinõ
• Welsh: Saesneg (cy)
• West Flemish: Iengels sg or n
• West Frisian: Ingelsk (fy) n
• Western Apache: Indaa’ biyáti’, Inndaa’ biyáti’, Innaa’ biyáti’, Innaa biyáti’, Inndaa’ biyáti’
• White Hmong: lus Askiv
• Wolof: Àngale, Angale
• Xhosa: isiNgesi
• Yakut: ааҥл тыла (aañl tıla)
• Yiddish: ענגליש (yi) n (english)
• Yoruba: Èdè Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) İngılızki (diq)
• Zhuang: yinghyiz, yinghvwnz
• Zulu: isiNgisi

English dialect

• Finnish: englanti (fi)
• Indonesian: inggristis
• West Frisian: please add this translation if you can

transliterations of the surname

• Armenian: Ինգլիշ (Ingliš)
• Marathi: इंग्लिश (iṅgliś)
• Russian: И́нглиш m or f (Íngliš)

Verb

English (third-person singular simple present Englishes, present participle Englishing, simple past and past participle Englished)

2. (transitive; archaic or rare) To translate, adapt or render into English.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , page 214 (2001 reprint):

     […] severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.

   • 1901, The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3, page 654:

     Mamma is an adaptation of a French farce by Mr. Sydney Grundy, made in the time when his chief claim to recognition as a playwright lay in his ingenious aptitude for Englishing the un-Englishable.

   • 2011, Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?':

     Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators

See also

• English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• English language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• English literature on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• English studies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• English people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wiktionary’s coverage of English terms

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:English.

Further reading

• “English”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• ISO 639-1 code en, ISO 639-3 code eng (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for English, eng ⁠

Anagrams

• Hingles, shingle