English [ edit ] minus sign plural minus signs
( arithmetic ) − , used to denote the operation of subtraction or to indicate that a number is negative .Usage notes [ edit ] Often in typography (and always in computer programming), the hyphen (-) is used instead of the minus sign (−); in many fonts, the symbols are barely distinguishable or not at all (although the difference is clear in Times Roman). Careful typographers use the minus sign instead of the hyphen. Translations [ edit ] symbol used to denote the operation of subtraction and to indicate that a number is negative
Arabic: نَاقَص m ( nāqaṣ )
Armenian: մինուս (hy) ( minus )
Belarusian: мі́нус m ( mínus )
Bulgarian: ми́нус m ( mínus )
Burmese: အနုတ်လက္ခဏာ (my) ( a.nutlakhka.na )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 負號 ／ 负号 (zh) ( fùhào ) , 減號 ／ 减号 (zh) ( jiǎnhào )
Czech: mínus (cs) n
Dutch: minteken (nl) n
Esperanto: minus-signo
Estonian: miinusmärk (et)
Finnish: miinusmerkki (fi)
French: signe moins (fr) m
Georgian: მინუსი ( minusi )
German: Minuszeichen (de) n
Greek: πλην (el) n ( plin )
Hungarian: mínuszjel (hu)
Icelandic: mínusmerki n mínus m
Italian: segno meno m
Japanese: マイナス (ja) ( mainasu ) , マイナス記号 ( mainasu kigō )
Korean: 마이너스 (ko) ( maineoseu ) , 미누스 ( minuseu ) ( North Korea )
Macedonian: минус m ( minus )
Norman: mains m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: minustegn n
Nynorsk: minusteikn n
Persian: علامت منها ( 'alâmat-e menhâ )
Polish: minus (pl) m
Portuguese: sinal de menos m menos (pt) m negativo (pt) m
Romanian: semn minus
Russian: ми́нус (ru) m ( mínus ) , знак ми́нус m ( znak mínus )
Spanish: signo menos m negativo (es) m
Swedish: minustecken (sv) n minus (sv) n
Tagalog: tandang bawas tanda ng palabawasan
Tajik: аломати тарҳ (tg) ( alomati tarh )
Telugu: ఋణసంజ్ఞ ( r̥ṇasañjña )
Thai: เครื่องหมายลบ ( krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-lóp )
Turkish: eksi (tr)
Ukrainian: мі́нус m ( mínus )
Vietnamese: dấu âm
See also [ edit ]