semicolon

See also: semi-colon

English

Alternative forms

• semi-colon

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *sēmi

Latin sēmi-bor.

English semi-

English colon

English semicolon

From semi- + colon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛmiˈkəʊlən/, /-ˈkəʊlɒn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmikoʊlən/
• Rhymes: -əʊlɒn

Noun

semicolon (plural semicolons or semicola)

2. The punctuation mark ;.
   • 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 28:

     The use of the semicolon has remained contentious and subject to fashion.

Derived terms

• semicolon butterfly
• semicoloned

Translations

punctuation mark ';'

• Albanian: pikëpresje (sq) f
• Arabic: فَاصِلَة مَنْقُوطَة f (fāṣila manqūṭa), ؛ (ar) (symbol)
• Armenian: կետ-ստորակետ (hy) (ket-storaket)
• Asturian: puntu y coma (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: nöqtəli vergül
• Bashkir: нөктәле өтөр (nöktəle ötör)
• Belarusian: кро́пка з ко́скай f (krópka z kóskaj)
• Bulgarian: то́чка и запета́я f (tóčka i zapetája)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: punt i coma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分號 / 分号 (zh) (fēnhào), ； (zh) (symbol)

• Cornish: poynt ha komma m
• Czech: středník (cs) m
• Danish: semikolon (da) n
• Dutch: puntkomma (nl) f or n, kommapunt (nl) m
• Esperanto: punktokomo
• Estonian: semikoolon
• Faroese: semikolon n
• Finnish: puolipiste (fi)
• French: point-virgule (fr) m
• Galician: punto e coma (gl) m
• Georgian: წერტილმძიმე (c̣erṭilmʒime), წერტილ-მძიმე (c̣erṭil-mʒime)
• German: Strichpunkt (de) m, Semikolon (de) n
• Greek: άνω τελεία (el) f (áno teleía), (in relevance to the Greek language) ερωτηματικό (el) n (erotimatikó)
• Hebrew: נקודה ופסיק \ נְקֻדָּה וּפְסִיק (he) m (n'kudá uf'sík)
• Hindi: अर्धविराम m (ardhavirām), सेमीकोलन (hi) (semīkolan)
• Hungarian: pontosvessző (hu)
• Icelandic: semíkomma f, semikomma f
• Ido: puntokomo (io)
• Interlingua: puncto e virgula
• Irish: leathstad m, leathstadanna m pl
• Italian: punto e virgola (it) m
• Japanese: セミコロン (ja) (semikoron), ； (ja) (symbol)
• Kazakh: нүктелі үтір (nüktelı ütır)
• Korean: 쌍반점(雙半點) (ssangbanjeom), 세미콜론 (semikollon)
• Kyrgyz: үтүрдүү чекит (ütürdüü cekit)
• Latvian: semikols m
• Lithuanian: kabliataškis m
• Macedonian: точка-запирка f (točka-zapirka)
• Malayalam: അർദ്ധവിരാമം (aṟddhavirāmaṁ)
• Māori: kopipiko
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цэгтэй таслал (cegtej taslal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: semikolon n

• Pashto: ؛ (symbol)
• Persian: نقطه‌ویرگول (fa) (noqte-virgul), ؛ (symbol)
• Polish: średnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponto e vírgula (pt)
• Punjabi: ਬਿੰਦੀ ਕਾਮਾ m (bindī kāmā)
• Romanian: punct și virgulă (ro)
• Russian: то́чка с запято́й (ru) f (tóčka s zapjatój)
• Scottish Gaelic: leth-chòilean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: точка за зарезом f, тачка са зепетом f

  Latin: točka sa zarezom f, tačka sa zapetom f

• Slovak: bodkočiarka f
• Slovene: podpičje (sl) n
• Spanish: punto y coma (es) m
• Swahili: alama ya nuktamkato (sw), nukta mkato
• Swedish: semikolon (sv) c
• Tagalog: tuldok-kuwit
• Tamil: அரைப்புள்ளி (araippuḷḷi)
• Thai: อัฒภาค (th) (àt-tá-pâak)
• Turkish: noktalı virgül (tr)
• Ukrainian: кра́пка з ко́мою f (krápka z kómoju), сере́дник m (serédnyk)
• Urdu: ؛ (symbol)
• Uzbek: nuqtali vergul
• Vietnamese: dấu chấm phẩy (vi) (𧿫點𢵪)
• Welsh: gwahannod m, hanner colon m
• Zulu: unzoqhwishi class 1a/2a

See also

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )

See also

• ; Greek question mark

Anagrams

• cosmoline