# rectangle
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

rectangle (plural rectangles)
* (geometry) Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
    Hypernym: polygon
    Hyponym: square
    Coordinate terms: circle, ellipse, triangle, trapezoid, rhombus
* (nontechnical) Such a quadrilateral that is oblong (longer than it is wide): one that is not regular (equilateral), that is, any except a square.
    Hypernyms: shape, polygon
    Coordinate terms: square, circle, oval, ellipse, triangle, trapezoid, rhombus, lozenge, diamond
* (archaic) A right angle.
** 1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 12.— Of the Doctrine of our Priests, page 46:For why should you praise, for example, the integrity of a Square who faithfully defends the interests of his client, when you ought in reality rather to admire the exact precision of his Rectangles?
* (archaic) The product of two quantities.
** 1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Product”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 886, column 1:In Lines it [the product] is always (and ſometimes in Numbers) call'd the Rectangle between the two Lines, multiply'd by one another.

#### Hyponyms

* (quadrilateral): oblong (not in technical use)
* (quadrilateral): square

#### Derived terms

* golden rectangle
* love rectangle
* open rectangle

#### Related terms

* rect angle
* rectangular
* rectification
* rectify
* rectilinear

#### Translations

Albanian: drejtkëndësh (sq) m
Arabic: مُسْتَطِيل m (mustaṭīl)
Armenian: ուղղանկյուն (hy) (uġġankyun)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ m (tāwrīḵā)
Asturian: rectángulu m
Aymara: wiskhalla
Azerbaijani: düzbucaq
Basque: laukizuzen
Belarusian: прамавуго́льнік n or m (pramavuhólʹnik), прастаку́тнік n (prastakútnik) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: আয়তক্ষেত্র (bn) (aẏotokkhetro)
Breton: skouergorneg
Bulgarian: правоъгъ́лник m (pravoǎgǎ́lnik)
Burmese: လေးထောင့် (my) (le:htaung.), စတုဂံ (my) (ca.tu.gam)
Catalan: rectangle (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 長方形 / 长方形 (zh) (chángfāngxíng), 矩形 (zh) (jǔxíng)
Czech: obdélník (cs) m
Danish: rektangel (da) n
Dutch: rechthoek (nl) m
Egyptian: (jfd)
Esperanto: ortangulo, rektangulo
Estonian: ristkülik (et)
Faroese: rætthyrningur m
Finnish: suorakulmio (fi)
French: rectangle (fr) m
Galician: rectángulo (gl) m
Georgian: მართკუთხედი (martḳutxedi)
German: Rechteck (de) n, Karree (de) n, Orthogon
Greek: ορθογώνιο παραλληλόγραμμο (el) (orthogónio parallilógrammo)
Ancient: ὀρθογώνιον n (orthogṓnion)
Guaraní: takamby irundyjoja
Haitian Creole: rektang
Hebrew: מַלְבֵּן (he) m (malbén)
Hindi: आयत (hi) m (āyat)
Hungarian: téglalap (hu)
Icelandic: rétthyrningur m
Ido: rektangulo (io)
Indonesian: persegi panjang
Ingrian: oikianurkkain
Interlingua: rectangulo m
Irish: dronuilleog
Italian: rettangolo (it) m
Japanese: 長方形 (ja) (ちょうほうけい, chōhōkei), 矩形 (ja) (くけい, kukei)
Kankanaey: kaman-ruwangan
Kannada: ಆಯತ (kn) (āyata)
Kashubian: prostonórt m
Kazakh: тікбұрыш (tıkbūryş)
Khmer: ចតុកោណកែង (km) (caʼtokaon kaeng)
Korean: 직사각형(直四角形) (ko) (jiksagakhyeong), 구형(矩形) (ko) (guhyeong), 장방형(長方形) (jangbanghyeong)
Kumyk: тюз мююшлюк (tüz müyuşlük)
Kyrgyz: тик бурчтук (tik burctuk), тикбурч (tikburc)
Lao: ຮູບສີ່ແຈສາກ (lo) (hūp sī chǣ sāk)
Latin: rectangulum
Latvian: taisnstūris (lv) m
Limburgish: rechhook (li)
Lithuanian: stačiakampis m
Lombard: retàngol
Low German:
East Frisian: rechthauk (nds) m
Macedonian: правоа́голник m (pravoágolnik)
Malay: segi empat tepat (ms)
Maori: tapawhā, porowhā, tapawhā hāngai
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тэгш өнцөгт (tegš öncögt)
Navajo: nineezgo dikʼą́, dikʼą́ągo heeneez, dį́įʼgo yistłʼah
Northern Sami: rektáŋgel
North Frisian:
Sylt: Rochthuk (frr) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rektangel (no) n
Nynorsk: rektangel n
Occitan: rectangle (oc) m
Pashto: مستطيل m (mostatil)
Persian: مستطیل (fa) (mostatil), راست‌گوشه (râsat-guše)
Piedmontese: retàngol m
Polish: prostokąt (pl) m
Portuguese: rectângulo (pt) m (Portugal), retângulo (pt) (Brazil)
Punjabi: ਆਇਤ (pa) f (āita)
Quechua: wask'a
Romanian: dreptunghi (ro) n
Russian: прямоуго́льник (ru) (prjamougólʹnik)
Sardinian: retàngulu (sc) m
Scottish Gaelic: dronn-uileannag f, ceart-cheàrnach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: правоугаоник m, пра̏вокӯтнӣк m
Roman: pravougaonik m, prȁvokūtnīk (sh) m
Sicilian: rittànculu
Silesian: prostokůnt m
Slovak: obdĺžnik (sk) m
Slovene: pravokotnik m
Somali: laydi
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pšawokut m
Upper Sorbian: praworóžk m
Southern Altai: тӱс толукту булуҥ (tüs toluktu buluŋ)
Spanish: rectángulo (es) m
Sundanese: pasagi burung
Swahili: mstatili (sw)
Swedish: rektangel (sv) c
Tagalog: rektanggulo, parihaba (tl)
Tajik: росткунҷа (rostkunja), мустатил (mustatil) (literary), ростгуша (rostguša)
Tamil: செவ்வகம் (ta) (cevvakam)
Tatar: турыпочмак (turıpoçmaq)
Telugu: దీర్ఘ చతురస్రం (te) (dīrgha caturasraṁ)
Thai: สี่เหลี่ยมผืนผ้า (th) (sìi-lìiam-pʉ̌ʉn-pâa)
Turkish: dikdörtgen (tr), mustatil (tr) (obsolete)
Turkmen: gönüburçluk
Ukrainian: прямоку́тник m (prjamokútnyk)
Urdu: مُسْتَطِیل (mustatīl)
Uyghur: تىك تۆتبۇلۇڭ (tik tötbulung)
Uzbek: toʻgʻriburchak, mustatil (uz) (literary, dated)
Vietnamese: hình chữ nhật (vi)
Waray-Waray: rectanggulo
Welsh: cyfongl f
West Flemish: rechtoek
West Frisian: rjochthoek (fy) c
Yiddish: גראָדעק (grodek) :

### Adjective

rectangle (not comparable)
* (archaic) Right-angled.
    a rectangle triangle

### References

* “rectangle, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* “rectangle, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Further reading

* “rectangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rectangle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “rectangle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [rəkˈtaŋ.ɡlə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [rekˈtaŋ.ɡle]

### Noun

rectangle m (plural rectangles)
* rectangle

#### Related terms

* rectangular

### Further reading

* “rectangle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɛk.tɑ̃ɡl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rectangle m (plural rectangles)
* rectangle

#### Derived terms

* rectangulaire

### Adjective

rectangle (plural rectangles)
* (geometry) right-angled (of a geometric figure)
    Antonyms: obtusangle, acutangle
    un triangle rectangle ― a right-angled triangle
    un parallélépipède rectangle ― a rectangular cuboid

### Further reading

* “rectangle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* glacèrent