Catalan–English dictionary

joquei

One who rides racehorses competitively.

jòquer

A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.

Jordània

A small town, the county seat of Garfield County, Montana.

Jordi

A en given name; also used in the conjoined name George Ann(e).

Jordina

A en given name.

jornada

The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

jornada diària

(chiefly, US) Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek. The five workdays in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends).

jornal

(countable, metonym) The news organization that produces such a publication.

jornalisme

The aggregating, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles for widespread distribution, typically in electronic publications, broadcast news media, or printed newspapers or periodicals, for the purpose of informing the audience, relying on a style of writing characteristic for this purpose, consisting of direct presentation of facts or events and (depending on type) either with or without analysis or interpretation.

jornalístic

Related to journalism or journalists.

Josep d'Arimatea

(Christianity) Joseph of Arimathea; man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.

jota

The name of the Latin-script letter J/j.

jove

The wife of one's child.

jovenesa

The vitality characteristic of youth.

jovenívol

Young or seeming young.

jovent

(uncountable, used as plural or singular) Young persons, collectively.

joventut

(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

jovià

(Roman mythology) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.

jovial

(comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.

jubilació

The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.]

jubilar

(intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.

jubilat

Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. [from 16th c.] (of people)

judaic

Pertaining to the Jews, their culture or their religion.

judaisme

An Abrahamic religion tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle East, as documented in their religious writings, the Tanakh.

judaïtzar

(transitive) To impose Jewish beliefs or customs on someone; to convert to Judaism; to make Jewish.

judes

A traitor; a person not to be trusted.

judicatura

The collective body of judges, justices, etc.

judici

The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.

Judici Final

The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.

judicial

Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.

judiciari

Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.

judo

A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu.

jueria

(historical) The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews; historically, its main buildings were the synagogue, the ritual bath or mikve, the kosher-oriented butchery and bakery, etc. [from 17th c.]

jueu

A member or descendant of the Jewish people.

jueva

A member or descendant of the Jewish people.

jugada

(turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.

jugador

One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.

jugador de bitlles

(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.

jugal

Pertaining to the cheek.

juganer

liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.

jugar

(transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.

juguesca

A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

jugular

(anatomy, relational) Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.

Juli

A en given name.

Júlia

A en given name.

juliana

(cooking) A garnish of vegetables cut into long, thin strips.

Julieta

One of the title characters of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

juliol

The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.

jull

Any of genus Lolium of grasses, especially as a weed in wheat fields.

Juno

(Roman god) The queen of the gods, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Hera.

junt

(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.

junta

A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

junta militar

The ruling council of a military dictatorship.

juntament

At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.

juntura

(mechanics) Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.

juny

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.

júnyer

To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

junyir

(transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.

jurament

A solemn promise to do something.

jurar

(ambitransitive) To make a vow; to promise.

juràssic

(geology, paleontology) The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.

jurat

(law) A member of a jury.

jurídic

Relating to the law or to lawyers.

jurisdicció

(legal) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes.

jurisdiccional

Of or pertaining to jurisdiction.

jurisprudència

(legal) The theoretical study of law.

just

Just, equitable.

justa

A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.

justa la fusta

(idiomatic) To identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer.

justament

Honestly; properly.

justar

To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

justesa

Attention to small details; accuracy.

Justí

A en given name.

justícia

The state or characteristic of being just or fair.

justificable

That can be justified.

justificació

(countable) A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.

justificat

Having a justification.

jutge

A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee.

Jutges

(book of the bible) The seventh book of the Old Testament, and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.

jutjament

(legal) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.

jutjar

(transitive) To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.

jutjat

The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

Jutlàndia

A cultural region and peninsula in northwestern Europe, consisting of the mainland part of Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, which is part of Germany.

juvenil

Young or seeming young.

juxtaposar

(transitive) To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.

kabulí

Of, from or relating to the city of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. [from 1887]

kafkià

Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.

kàiser

An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.

kan

(historical) A ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.

kanarès

The Dravidian language that is the official language of the state of Karnataka, India.

kappa

The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

Karachi

The largest city in Pakistan situated along the Arabian Sea, as well as the provincial capital of Sindh Province.

karaoke

(uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.

karité

The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed.

karma

(Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism) The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.

Karnataka

A state in southern India. Capital: Bangalore.

Katmandú

The capital city of Nepal.

Kazakhstan

A country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan.

ked

(US, Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.

Kent

A maritime county in southeast England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.

kenyà

Of, from, or pertaining to Kenya or the Kenyan people.

kenyana

Of, from, or pertaining to Kenya or the Kenyan people.

Kevin

A en given name.

Khartum

The capital city of Sudan.

khi

The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.

khmer

A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.

Khruixtxov

English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв; usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev.

Khrusxov

English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв; usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev.

kilo-

(computing, deprecated) .

kilocaloria

A non-SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories (small calories), used (now rare) in chemistry or physics; equal to 1 calorie as used in nutrition. Symbol kcal.

kilòmetre

(metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 103 metres. Symbol: km

kiowa

A member of an indigenous people of North America, currently in Oklahoma.

kirsch

(often capitalized) A clear brandy made from black cherries: kirschwasser.

kitsch

(informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.

kiwi

A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand.

klingon

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin; a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia that serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation.

kriptonita

(figuratively) The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable.

ksi

The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.

kurd

A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.

Kurdistan

A cultural region in West Asia inhabited mostly by the Kurds, encompassing parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.

Kursk

A city in Kursk Oblast, the administrative centre of Kursky Raion and Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1032, scene in 1943 of the largest battle in human history.

Kyoto

A prefecture of Japan.

L'Havana

The capital city of Cuba.

l'un a l'altre

(reciprocal pronoun) To one another; one to the other; signifies that a verb applies to two or more entities both as subjects and as direct objects:

la

The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.

La Meca

A large city, the provincial capital of Mecca Province in the in the Hejaz region, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam, location of the sacred Ka'ba, and to which Muslims are required to make a hajj at least once in their lifetime, if possible.

la meva

That or those belonging to me.

la mort

The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

la seva

That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.

la teva

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

la torre

The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.

la vostra

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).

laberint

A type of mechanical seal that provides a tortuous path to help prevent leakage.

labial

(linguistics, phonetics) A consonant articulated by the lips.

làbil

(chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).

labor

Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.

laboriós

Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

laca

A glossy, resinous material used as a surface coating; either a natural exudation of certain trees, or a solution of nitrocellulose in alcohol, etc.

lacai

A footman, a liveried male servant.

lacar

To apply a lacquer to something or to give something a smooth, glossy finish.

laceració

An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.

Lacònia

A city, the county seat of Belknap County, New Hampshire; named for the Laconia Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer.

lacònic

Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.

lacrosse

(sports) A sport played on a field between two opposing teams using sticks (crosses) and a ball, whereby one team defeats the other by scoring more goals within the allotted time.

lactància

(countable) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.

lactis

(uncountable) (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.

lactosa

(carbohydrate) The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C12H22O11, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.

laic

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

lama

A master of Tibetan Buddhism.