# resemble
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English resemblen, from Anglo-Norman resembler, ressembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- +‎ semble.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/, [ɹɪˈzɛmbl̩]
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ɹɪˈzembəl/, [ɹɪˈzembl̩]
* Hyphenation: re‧sem‧ble

### Verb

resemble (third-person singular simple present resembles, present participle resembling, simple past and past participle resembled)
* (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
    The twins resemble each other.
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:We will resemble you in that.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
** 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230b:But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
* (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
* (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
** 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:They can so well resemble mans speech.
* (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire, And with the ſame proportion of Elements, Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]
** 1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion:they resemble themselves to the swans

#### Synonyms

* mirror
* duplicate
* look like

#### Related terms

* I resemble that remark

#### Translations

Albanian: shëmbëllej (sq), ngjaj (sq)
Arabic: شَبِهَ (ar) (šabiha), مَاثَلَ (māṯala)
Azerbaijani: oxşamaq, bənzəmək
Belarusian: быць падо́бным impf (bycʹ padóbnym)
Bulgarian: приличам (bg) (priličam)
Catalan: semblar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 相似 (zh) (xiāngsì)
Czech: připomínat (cs) impf, podobat se impf
Danish: ligne (da), minde om
Dutch: gelijken op (nl), lijken op (nl)
Egyptian: (nḥr), (twt)
Esperanto: simili
Finnish: muistuttaa (fi)
French: ressembler à (fr)
Friulian: someâ
Galician: semellar (gl), asemellar (gl)
German: ähneln (de), gleichen (de)
Greek: μοιάζω (el) (moiázo)
Hungarian: hasonlít (hu)
Icelandic: líkjast (is)
Ingrian: voittiissa
Irish: is cosúil le
Italian: rassomigliare (it), somigliare (it), assomigliare (it), arieggiare (it)
Japanese: 似ている (ja) (にている, nite iru)
Korean: 비슷하다 (ko) (biseuthada), 닮다 (ko) (damda), 같다 (ko) (gatda)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: lê çûn (ku), mînîn, şibîn (ku)
Latin: similō
Lombard: someià
Luxembourgish: gläichen
Maori: āhuahua, kāhukahuka, āhukahuka
Norman: r'semblier
Norwegian: likne, minne om
Occitan: semblar (oc)
Persian: مانستن (fa) (mânestan), شباهت داشتن (fa) (šabâhat dâštan)
Polish: być podobnym impf, przypominać (pl) impf, przypomnieć (pl) pf
Portuguese: assemelhar-se a (pt), semelhar
Quechua: rikch'akuy
Romanian: semăna (ro)
Romansch: sumegliar, semegliar, samagliear, sumiglier, sumagliar, sumaglier
Russian: походи́ть (ru) impf (poxodítʹ) (+ на), напомина́ть (ru) impf (napominátʹ), быть похо́жим impf (bytʹ poxóžim) (+ на), име́ть схо́дство impf (imétʹ sxódstvo) (+ с)
Sardinian: assimizare, simizare, assimbillai, simbilai, assimbigiai, assemizare, atipizare, aerai, agghentinare
Serbo-Croatian: sličiti (sh)
Sicilian: assimigghiari (scn)
Slovak: podobať sa impf
Spanish: asemejarse a (es), semejarse a (es), parecerse a (es)
Swedish: likna (sv)
Turkish: benzemek (tr)
Ukrainian: бу́ти поді́бним impf (búty podíbnym), бу́ти схо́жим impf (búty sxóžym)
Venetan: somejar, somegiar, somiar :

## Spanish
### Verb

resemble
* inflection of resemblar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative