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| Language | Translations for "A TURN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | في وقته (in due season, opportune, to a turn), تحسن (advance, ameliorate, amelioration, become soundly established, betterment, change for the better, get better, get well, improve, improvement, mend, pick me up, progress, rally, recover, refinement, reform, speed up, take a turn for the better). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разхождам се (have a walk, perambulate, promenade, ramble, take a turn, take a walk, walk), променям се (reshape, take a turn), препичам (bake to a turn, overdo). (various references) | |
Chinese | 拐彎兒 (go on a new course, take a turn), 好轉 (improve, take a turn for the better). (various references) | |
Czech | přijít na řadu (take a turn). (various references) | |
Finnish | kääntyä parempaan päin (take a turn for the better). (various references) | |
French | s'améliorer (take a turn for the better). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כראוי (as should be, duly, to a turn, well, worthily). (various references) | |
Hungarian | veszi a kanyart (to take a corner), kedvezőbbre fordul (to take a turn for the better), kedvezőbb fordulatot vesz (to take a turn for the better), jobbra fordul (to ameliorate, to turn to the right), javul (to ameliorate, to progress), befordul (to get round, to turn in). (various references) | |
Indonesian | belot (apostate, be a turn coat, turn coat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 替わり (a replacement), 一転 (complete change), 一巡り (a lap, a revolution, a round, once around, one full year), 一回り (a round), 一周 (a lap, a revolution, a round, once around, one full year). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひとまわり (a round), ひとめぐり (a lap, a revolution, a round, once around, one full year), かわり (a replacement, alteration, alternate, an exchange transaction, change, compensation, deputy, difference, proxy, relief, second helping, strangeness, substitute), いっしゅう (a denomination, a kick, a lap, a rejection, a revolution, a round, a sect, a week, once around, one full year), いってん (complete change, dot, firmament, only a little, only one, particle, point, speck, the whole sky). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aay urntay.(various references) | |
Romanian | avea înclinaţie pentru ceva (have a turn for smth.), m-a speriat de-a binelea (it gave me quite a turn), face o plimbare prin grãdinã (take a turn in the garden). (various references) | |
Russian | пропекать (bake to a turn), принимать дурной оборот (take a turn to the worse), изменяться к лучшему (take a turn for the better), делать поворот (make a turn). (various references) | |
Scottish | tionndadh (turning), tùrn (feat, turn of work), seach (alteration : fa seach, aside, away, by, gone by, mu). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dobro ispeći (bake to a turn). (various references) | |
Spanish | en su punto (to a turn). (various references) | |
Swedish | precis (precise, precisely, accurate, punctual), perfekt (perfect, perfectly). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำอาหารอย่างดี (done to a turn). (various references) | |
Turkish | mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), kıvamında (to a turn), daha iyiye gitmek (take a turn for the better). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tow bermek (give a turn). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | точно (accurately, cold, dead, definitely, due, exactly, explicitly, fair, faithfully, flush, just, microscopically, minutely, precisely, prompt, punctually, sharp, to a turn, true, truly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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