Catalan–English dictionary

al lluny

At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

al mateix temps

(sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.

al més aviat possible

As soon as is possible; at one's earliest convenience; at the earliest possible time.

al meu entendre

according to me

al revés

Done, given, felt, or owed in return.

al sud

To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).

al voltant de

Forming a circle or closed curve containing (something).

Al·là

(Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

al·legar

(transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.

al·legat

Asserted but not proved.

al·legoritzar

To create an allegory from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).

al·ligàtor

Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.

al·lil

(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical, CH2=CH-CH2-, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

al·literació

The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.

al·lògraf

A variant form of a letter (or other grapheme).

al·losexual

(LGBTQ, of a, person) Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.

al·lot

A male child. [from 15th c.]

al·lota

A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.

al·lucinar

(ambitransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.

al·lucinogen

Any substance tending to induce hallucination.

al·ludir

(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

al·lusió

An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.

al·luvió

soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

alà

(historical) A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.

ala dreta

(sports) The right-hand side of a sports field.

alabança

Commendation; favourable representation in words.

alabastre

A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

alabastrí

Made of alabaster.

alacaigut

Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.

alamara

An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.

alambí

An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation.

alana

(historical) A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.

alar

(transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

alarmant

Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

alat

Having wings.

alatzà

Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)

Albà

A en given name.

albada

(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

albanell

Falco subbuteo, a small raptor of the falcon family.

albanès

Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language. [from 1593]

albanesa

A native or inhabitant of Albania; a person of Albanian citizenship or nationality and their descendants. [from 1569?]

Albània

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Albania. Capital and largest city: Tirana. [from ca. 1503]

Albany

The capital city of the state of New York in the United States, and the county seat of Albany County, New York.

albarà

A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.

albat

Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.

àlber

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.

albercoc

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

albercoquer

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

alberg

A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

albergínia

(North America, AU, NZ, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

alberginiera

(North America, AU, NZ, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

Albert

A en given name.

Alberta

A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary.

albespí

Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches

Albí

A en given name.

albir

The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. [from 10th c.]

albor

(statistics, of a stochastic process) The quality of being white noise.

albors

(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.

àlbum

A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

albumen

The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

alburn

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

alcà

(organic compound) Any acyclic saturated hydrocarbon (methane, ethane, etc.).

alçada

The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.

alcalde

(Ireland, rare, obsolete) A member of a city council.

alcaldessa

(Ireland, rare, obsolete) A member of a city council.

àlcali

(chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.

alcalinitat

(chemistry) The state of being, or the degree to which a thing is, alkaline.

alçaprem

A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

alçar

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

alcàsser

Any Moorish fortress in Spain.

alçat

(architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.

alcavot

An intermediary or middleman.

alcavota

Someone who finds suitable dates or marriage partners for other people.

alcofoll

A dark powder, usually powdered stibnite (an antimony ore), used as eye makeup, especially in Eastern countries.

alcoholímetre

A specialized form of hydrometer used to measure the amount of alcohol in a liquid (such as beer).

alcoholitzat

Stupefied by alcohol, drunk.

alcova

(architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

aldarull

A stir; a fuss or uproar.

alè

(countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.

aleatòriament

In a random manner.

alegre

Pleased; happy; gratified.

alegrement

In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.

alegria

A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.

Aleix

A en given name.

Alemània

A country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany. Capital and largest city: Berlin.

alemany

Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent; to their cultures.

alemanya

Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent; to their cultures.

alena

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

alenar

(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.

Alep

The capital city of Aleppo Governorate, Syria.

aler

(basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.

alerta

An alarm.

alertar

To give warning to.

aleshores

(temporal location) At that time.

aleví

Newly hatched fish, especially salmon.

Alexandre

A en given name, most famously held by Alexander the Great.

alfa

The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.

alfabet

Able to read and write; having literacy.

alfabètic

According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.

alfabetisme

The ability to read and write.

alfabetitzar

(US, Canada, transitive) To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.

alfals

(uncountable) A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop.

alfange

(nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.

alfanumèric

Consisting of, or limited to, letters and/or numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9.

alfil

(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.

Alfons

A en given name.

alforja

A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.

Alfred

A en given name.

algaravia

Empty verbiage or nonsense. [from early 19th c.]

algebrista

A mathematician who specializes in algebra.

Alger

The capital and largest city of Algeria.

Algèria

A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers. [from 1575]

àlgid

(medicine) Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature, especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.

algorítmic

(mathematics, computing) Of, relating to, or being an algorithm.

algú

Any person; anybody.

algues

Any of numerous marine algae, such as a kelp.

algun

(negative polarity item, or, interrogative, chiefly with plural or uncountable nouns) One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of.

alguna

A certain number, at least two.

alguna cosa

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.

algunes

A nonzero, unspecified quantity or number of (an unbounded set of countable things).

alguns

A nonzero, unspecified quantity or number of (an unbounded set of countable things).

algutzir

(historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.

alhora

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see All at the same time; all together.

aliada

A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBTQ) , a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.

aliar

To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.

aliat

A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBTQ) , a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.

aliatge

A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.

àlibi

(legal) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.

alicates

A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things.

alicates d'ungles

A small pincerlike instrument, usually made of metal, used for handling or picking up small objects (such as postage stamps), plucking out (plucking) hairs, pulling out slivers, etc.

Alícia

A en given name popular in England since the Middle Ages.

aliè

Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

aliena

Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.

alienígena

Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.

àlies

Another name; especially, an assumed name.

alifàtic

(organic chemistry) Of a class of organic compounds in which the carbon atoms are arranged in an open chain.

àliga

Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.

aligot

A dish traditionally made in the south of Auvergne from melted Tomme cheese blended into mashed potatoes, often with garlic.

alimara

A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

alimària

A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

aliment

(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

alimentació

(countable) An instance or session of giving food.

alimentador

(of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.

alimentar

(transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).

alimentari

Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.

alimentós

(of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.

alineació

An arrangement of items in a line.

alineament

An arrangement of items in a line.

alinear

(transitive) To adjust to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.

alinear-se

(transitive) To adjust to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.