English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The uppercase and lowercase versions of the soft sign.
Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak),[1] from мя́гкий (mjáxkij, “palatal, palatized, soft”) + знак (znak, “mark, sign”).
Pronunciation[edit]
soft sign (plural soft signs)
- The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь (transliterated in English with an apostrophe (’) or prime (′)), which in modern languages using the Cyrillic alphabet serves to denote a soft (palatized) consonant.
- Synonyms: front jer, front yer
- Antonym: hard sign
Hypernyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Cyrillic letter Ь/ь
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: мя́ккі знак m (mjákki znak)
- Bulgarian: ер ма́лък m (er málǎk)
- Carpathian Rusyn: мня́гкый знак m (mnjáhkŷj znak), ірь m (irʹ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 軟音符號／软音符号 (ruǎn yīn fúhào)
- Chuvash: ҫемҫелӗх палли (śemś̬elĕh palli)
- Czech: měkký znak m
- Dutch: zacht teken n
- Esperanto: mola signo
- Estonian: pehmendusmärk (et)
- Finnish: pehmeä merkki, pehmennysmerkki
- French: signe mou (fr) m
- German: weiches Zeichen n, Weichheitszeichen n
- Greek: μαλακό σημείο n (malakó simeío), «μιάχκιι ζνακ» m («miáchkii znak»)
- Italian: segno tenue m
- Kazakh: жіңішкелік белгі (jıñışkelık belgı)
- Kyrgyz: ичкертүү белгиси (ickertüü belgisi), жумшартуу белгиси (jumşartuu belgisi)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: мек знак m (mek znak), мал ер m (mal er)
- Mongolian: зөөлний тэмдэг (zöölnii temdeg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bløtt tegn n
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: ѥрь m (jerĭ)
- Polish: miękki znak m
- Portuguese: sinal suave m
- Romanian: semn moale (ro) n
- Russian: мя́гкий знак (ru) m (mjáxkij znak), ерь (ru) m (jerʹ) (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian: meki znak m, jer (sh)
- Slovak: mäkký znak m
- Slovene: mehki znak m
- Southern Altai: јымжак темдек (ǰïmžak temdek)
- Spanish: signo suave m, signo blando m
- Swedish: mjuktecken n
- Tatar: нечкәлек билгесе (neçkälek bilgese)
- Turkish: inceltme işareti (tr)
- Tuvan: чымчак демдек (çımçak demdek)
- Udmurt: небыт пус (ńebyt pus)
- Ukrainian: м'яки́й знак m (mʺjakýj znak), є́рик m (jéryk) (archaic)
- Yakut: сымнатыы бэлиэтэ (sımnatıı beliete)
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References[edit]
- ^ “soft sign, n.” under “soft, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “soft sign, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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