Borrowed from Middle French paragraphe from Латински paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Антички Грчки παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
paragraph (plural paragraphs)
- A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.
- (originally) A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
passage in text
- Arabic: فِقْرَة f (fiqra)
- Armenian: պարբերություն (hy) (parberutʿyun)
- Assamese: দফা (dopha)
- Azerbaijani: abzas (az)
- Belarusian: пара́граф m (paráhraf), абза́ц m (abzác)
- Bulgarian: парагра́ф (bg) m (paragráf)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 段 (zh) (duàn), 段落 (zh) (duànluò)
- Czech: odstavec (cs) m
- Danish: paragraf c, afsnit (da) n
- Dutch: alinea (nl) f
- Esperanto: paragrafo
- Estonian: paragrahv (et), lõik (et)
- Finnish: kappale (fi), paragraafi
- French: paragraphe (fr) m, alinéa (fr) m
- Georgian: აბზაცი (ka) (abzaci)
- German: Absatz (de) m
- Greek: παράγραφος (el) f (parágrafos)
- Hebrew: פִּיסְקָה \ פִּסְקָה f (piská)
- Hindi: अनुच्छेद (hi) m (anucched)
- Hungarian: bekezdés (hu)
- Ido: paragrafo (io)
- Indonesian: paragraf (id)
- Interlingua: paragrapho
- Irish: paragraf m, alt m, mír f
- Italian: paragrafo (it) m
- Japanese: 段落 (ja) (だんらく, danraku)
- Kazakh: абзац (abzas), азат жол (azat jol)
- Korean: 단락 (ko) (dallak)
- Kyrgyz: абзац (ky) (abzats)
- Lao: ວັກ (wak), ປະຣິເສດ (pa ri sēt)
- Latvian: rindkopa f, paragrāfs m
- Macedonian: став m (stav), ставка f (stavka)
- Malay: perenggan, paragraf
- Maori: whiti
- Norwegian: avsnitt (no)
- Persian: بند (fa) (band)
- Polish: akapit (pl) m
- Portuguese: parágrafo (pt) m
- Romanian: paragraf (ro) n
- Russian: пара́граф (ru) m (parágraf), абза́ц (ru) m (abzác)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пасус m, параграф m
- Roman: pasus (sh) m, paragraf (sh) m
- Slovak: odsek m, odstavec m
- Slovene: odstavek m
- Spanish: párrafo (es) m
- Swedish: stycke (sv) n, avsnitt (sv) n (grammatical); paragraf (sv) c (law)
- Tagalog: talataan
- Tajik: банд (band)
- Thai: อนุเฉท
- Turkish: paragraf (tr)
- Turkmen: abzas (tk)
- Ukrainian: пара́граф m (paráhraf), абза́ц (uk) m (abzác)
- Uzbek: paragraf (uz), xatboshi (uz), abzats (uz)
- Vietnamese: đoạn (vi)
- Volapük: bagaf (vo)
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paragraph (third-person singular simple present paragraphs, present participle paragraphing, simple past and past participle paragraphed)
- To sort text into paragraphs.
sort text into paragraphs
