quotation marks

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwəʊˈteɪʃən mɑːks/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwoʊˈteɪʃən mɑɹks/

Noun

quotation marks pl (plural only)

plural of quotation mark

Synonyms

(of the plural) quotes, speech marks, inverted commas

Translations

Note: These languages use “◌”-style marks or other styles as indicated. Some are singular and some plural.

Afrikaans: aanhalingstekens [„◌”]
Arabic: » (”), « (“), " ("), عَلَامَات إِقْتِبَاس‎ f pl (ʿalāmāt ʾiqtibās)
Aragonese: cometas f pl
Armenian: չակերտ (hy) (čʿakert)
Bashkir: тырнаҡ (tïrnaq) [«◌»], [„◌“] or [“◌”]
Belarusian: двукоссі (dvukóssi), лапкі (lapki) [«◌»], [„◌“]
Bulgarian: кавичка (bg) f (kavička), кавички (bg) pl (kavički) [«◌»] or [„◌“]
Catalan: cometa (ca) f [«◌»] or [“◌”]
Chinese:
Mandarin: 引號 (zh) [「◌」] or [“◌”], 引号 (zh) (yǐnhào) [“◌”]; see also: 「, 」, “, ”
Cornish: nosow devyn m pl
Czech: uvozovky (cs) f pl [„◌”]
Danish: anførelsestegn n [»◌«], citationstegn n
Dutch: aanhalingsteken (nl) n [„◌”]
Esperanto: citiloj (eo) pl
Estonian: jutumärgid [„◌“] or [«◌»]
Finnish: lainausmerkki (fi) [”◌”] or [»◌»] (mainly in literature)
French: guillemet (fr) m [« ◌ »], (or in Switzerland) [«◌»]
Georgian: ბრჭყალი (ka) (brč̣q̇ali) (singular), ბრჭყალები (ka) (brč̣q̇alebi) (plural) [„◌“], წინწკლები (ka) (c̣inc̣ḳlebi)
German: Anführungszeichen (de) n [„◌“] or [»◌«], Gänsefüßchen (de) n, Gänseaugen, Hasenöhrchen
Greek: εισαγωγικά (el) n pl (eisagogiká) [«◌»] or [“◌”]
Hebrew: מֵרְכָאוֹת‎ f pl (merkha'ot) [“◌”] or [“◌„]
Hungarian: idézőjel (hu) [„◌”], macskaköröm (hu)

Icelandic: gæsalappir [„◌“]
Ido: citohoketo (io)
Irish: comharthaí athfhriotail m pl
Italian: virgolette f pl [«◌»]
Japanese: 引用符 (いんようふ, in'yōfu) [「◌」] or [『◌』]; see also: 「 (ja), 」 (ja), 『 (ja), 』 (ja)
Korean: 따옴표 (ko) (ttaompyo) [“◌”] or [「◌」]; see also: 「, 」
Latin: signum citationis [„◌“]
Latvian: pēdiņas [«◌»] or [„◌”]
Lithuanian: kabutės [„◌“] or [«◌»]
Macedonian: наводници pl (navódnici) [„◌“]
Mongolian: хашилт (mn) (hašilt)
Norman: mèrques dé convèrsâtion f pl [“◌”]
Norwegian: anførselstegn (no), gåseauge [«◌»] or [„◌”]
Polish: cudzysłów (pl) m [„◌”]
Portuguese: aspa (pt) f [«◌»] or [“◌”] (Portugal), ["◌"] or [“◌”] (Brazil), aspas (pt) f pl
Romanian: ghilimele (ro) f pl [„…“] or [«◌»]
Russian: кавы́чки (ru) f pl (kavýčki) [«◌»] or [„◌“], « (“), » (”), „ („), “ (“)
Scottish Gaelic: cromagan turrach f pl (as in English)
Slovene: narekovaj m [„◌“]
Spanish: comillas (es) f pl [«◌»] (Spain), [“◌”] (Latin America), or ‘◌’
Swedish: anföringstecken, citationstecken (sv) pl [”◌”] or [»◌»]
Tagalog: mga panipi
Turkish: tırnak işareti (tr) [«◌»] or [“◌”]
Ukrainian: лапки f pl (lapký) [«◌»] or [„◌“]
Welsh: dyfynodau m pl
West Frisian: oanhelteken n [„◌”]