calligraphy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French calligraphie, from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía, literally “pretty writing”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”).
Inflected forms:
form: calligraphies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art or practice of writing letters and words in a decorative style; the letters and words so written.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This paper will explore the role of calligraphy on three royal mosques built during the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658):[…].
There is, however, a temporal separation between the earthly crystallization of Quranic calligraphy and the advent of the Quranic revelation.
Calligraphy, however, can seem like a live concert recording with a shallow, raw sound and awkward "accidentals." But calligraphy has grown on me, and a distinction must be made between the calligraphy of high school diplomas and that of experts whose work is often breathtakingly beautiful.
gloss: Any such style of decorative writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Around the corner, at Goedhuis, among more contemporary calligraphies, the fat and fuzzy brushwork of Zeng Yizeng (born 1973) stands out.
gloss: A document written in decorative style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 2004, Diana J, Mukpo, Carolyn Rose Gimian (editors), Chogyam Trungpa, The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, Volume 7, page 169,
Only a small number of Trungpa Rinpoche's calligraphies have been reproduced heretofore, some in very limited editions.
Synonyms: chirography
penmanship
Related words: calligrapher
calligraphic
Derived words: calligraffiti
fauxligraphy
microcalligraphy
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: bukurshkrim
lang: Arabic
word: خَطّ
roman: ḵaṭṭ
lang: Armenian
word: գեղագրություն
roman: geġagrutʻyun
lang: Armenian
word: վայելչագրություն
roman: vayelčʻagrutʻyun
lang: Asturian
word: caligrafía
lang: Belarusian
word: калігра́фія
roman: kalihráfija
lang: Bulgarian
word: калиграфия
roman: kaligrafija
lang: Bulgarian
word: краснопис
roman: krasnopis
lang: Bulgarian
word: пи́сане на ръка́
roman: písane na rǎká
lang: Catalan
word: cal·ligrafia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 書法 /书法
roman: shūfǎ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 筆法 /笔法
roman: bǐfǎ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 書道 /书道
roman: shūdào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 筆跡 /笔迹
roman: bǐjì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 寫法 /写法
roman: xiěfǎ
lang: Corsican
word: calligrafia
lang: Corsican
word: calligraffia
lang: Czech
word: kaligrafie
lang: Czech
word: krasopis
lang: Danish
word: kalligrafi
lang: Dutch
word: kalligrafie
lang: Dutch
word: schoonschrijven
lang: Dutch
word: schoonschrift
lang: Dzongkha
word: ཡིག་བཟོའི་རིག་རྩལ
roman: yig bzo'i rig rtsal
lang: Esperanto
word: kaligrafio
lang: Faroese
word: fagurskrift
lang: Faroese
word: skreytskrift
lang: Finnish
word: kalligrafia
lang: Finnish
word: kaunokirjoitus
lang: French
word: calligraphie
lang: French
word: chirographie
lang: Friulian
word: caligrafie
lang: Galician
word: caligrafía
lang: Georgian
word: კალიგრაფია
roman: ḳaligrapia
lang: Georgian
word: სუფთა წერა
roman: supta c̣era
lang: German
word: Kalligraphie
lang: German
word: Schönschreibkunst
lang: German
word: Schönschreiben
lang: German
word: Schönschrift
lang: German
word: gute Handschrift
lang: Greek
word: καλλιγραφία
roman: kalligrafía
lang: Hebrew
word: כתיבה תמה
roman: ktiva tama
lang: Hebrew
word: קליגרפיה
roman: kaligráfya
lang: Hindi
word: सुलेख
roman: sulekh
lang: Hungarian
word: kalligráfia
lang: Icelandic
word: skrautskrift
lang: Icelandic
word: skrautritun
lang: Indonesian
word: kaligrafi
lang: Irish
word: callagrafaíocht
lang: Italian
word: calligrafia
lang: Italian
word: chirografia
lang: Japanese
word: 書道
roman: shodō
lang: Japanese
word: 書法
roman: shohō
lang: Japanese
word: カリグラフィー
roman: karigurafī
lang: Japanese
word: 習字
roman: shūji
lang: Kazakh
word: құсни жазу
roman: qūsni jazu
lang: Khmer
word: ការសរសេរអក្សរផ្ចង់
roman: kaa sɑɑsee ʼɑksɑɑ phcɑng
lang: Khmer
word: អក្សរផ្ចង់
roman: aksɑɑ pcɑŋ
lang: Korean
word: 달필
roman: dalpil
lang: Korean
word: 서법
roman: seobeop
lang: Korean
word: 서예
roman: seoye
lang: Latvian
word: kaligrāfija
lang: Lithuanian
word: kaligrafija
lang: Malay
word: kaligrafi
lang: Malay
word: khat
lang: Malay
word: kirografi
lang: Māori
word: tuhi rerehua
lang: Māori
word: tuhiwhakairo
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kalligrafi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skrivekunst
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kalligrafi
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: skrivekunst
lang: Persian
word: خوشنویسی
roman: xošnevisi
lang: Persian
word: خطاطی
roman: xattâti
lang: Polish
word: kaligrafia
lang: Portuguese
word: caligrafia
lang: Portuguese
word: quirografia
lang: Romanian
word: caligrafie
lang: Romanian
word: chirografie
lang: Russian
word: чистописа́ние
roman: čistopisánije
lang: Russian
word: каллигра́фия
roman: kalligráfija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: калиграфија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: краснопис
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: красопис
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kaligrafija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: krasnopis
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: krasopis
lang: Spanish
word: caligrafía
lang: Spanish
word: calografía
lang: Swedish
word: kalligrafi
lang: Tagalog
word: sulat-kamay
lang: Tamil
word: வனப்பெழுத்து
roman: vaṉappeḻuttu
lang: Thai
word: อักษรวิจิตร
roman: àk-sɔ̌ɔ-rá-wí-jìt
lang: Turkish
word: kaligrafi
lang: Ukrainian
word: калігра́фія
roman: kalihráfija
lang: Uyghur
word: خەتتاتلىق
roman: xettatliq
lang: Vietnamese
word: bút pháp
lang: Vietnamese
word: thư pháp
lang: Volapük
word: kaligraf
lang: Volapük
word: kaligrafam