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Q

See also: q, -q, Ⴍ, q̃, q̇, Q., and Variations of "q"

Q - Translingual

Letter

Q (lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
    • Queen, Qualen, Qatarien

Symbol

Q

  1. Abbreviation of quetta-.
  2. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamine.
  3. (physics) Electric charge.
  4. (physics) Dynamic pressure.
  5. (logic, mathematics) Robinson arithmetic.
  6. Quetzal (currency of Guatemala).
  7. (linguistics) A wildcard for a uvular consonant.
    • Synonym: H (sometimes covers any guttural consonant)
  8. (linguistics, Japanese) Gemination as a phoneme.

Descendants

  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of Q, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase Q in Fraktur

Q - English

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q, plural Qs or Q's)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

Number

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

  • (New Zealand) IPA: /kjʉː/
  • Homophones: cue, queue, Kew

Noun

Q

  1. Abbreviation of question or questions.
  2. Abbreviation of quarter.
  3. (electronics) Short for Q factor (“quality factor”).
  4. (astronomy) Abbreviation of quasar.
  5. (sports) Abbreviation of qualified.
  6. American Library Association abbreviation of quarto (“book size”).
  7. (card games, chess) Abbreviation of queen.
  8. (medicine) Alternative letter-case form of q (“every”).

Derived terms

Translations

  • Danish: D (dame)
  • Dutch: V (nl) (vrouw)
  • Estonian: E (et) (emand)
  • French: D (fr) (dame)
  • German: D (de) (Dame)
  • Icelandic: D (drottning)
  • Polish: D (pl) (dama)
  • Portuguese: D (pt) (dama)
  • Russian: Д (ru) (D) (дама)
  • Swedish: D (sv) (dam)

Proper noun

Q

  1. (literature, pseudonym) Arthur Quiller-Couch.
  2. (Islam, followed by an ayah (verse) number) Abbreviation of Quran.
  3. (theology, Christianity) The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from German Quelle (“source”)); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels (not always considered a single document)
  4. (US politics) Abbreviation of QAnon (“anonymous poster on anonymous online message boards”).

Derived terms

Noun

Q (plural Qs)

  1. (slang) A gadget master, gadget creator.

Q - Afar

Letter

Q

  1. The eleventh letter in the Afar alphabet.

Q - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ki/

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

Q (plural Q's, diminutive Q'tjie)

  1. Q

Q - Azerbaijani

Letter

Q upper case (lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Q - Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ku/, [ku]

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called ku and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Q - Central Franconian

Letter

Q

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

  • Only used in the digraph qu for /kʋ/. The Dutch-based spelling uses kw instead.

Q - Chinese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): kiu1

Adjective

Q

  1. (informal) cute

Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): kiu1

Adjective

Q

  1. (Taiwan, informal, of food) soft and pliable; chewy (like mochi), exhibiting Q texture

Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): kiu1

Infix

Q

  1. (Cantonese, vulgar, euphemistic) fucking; bloody; damn
      • 多Q餘 [Cantonese, trad.] 多Q余 [Cantonese, simp.]
      • do1 kiu1 jyu4 [Jyutping]
      • freaking unnecessary
      • 多Q事 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
      • do1 kiu1 si6 [Jyutping]
      • freaking nosy

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): kiu1

Noun

Q

  1. (informal) (snooker) cue

Derived terms

Classifier

Q

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, figuratively) Classifier for number of sexual intercourses. (as a measure of pricing in prostitution)

Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): kiu1

Noun

Q

  1. (informal) quinella

Derived terms

Pronunciation

Verb

Q

  1. (informal) to use QQ, the popular Chinese instant messaging program

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): kwet1

Noun

Q

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) question (in assignments, tests, exams, etc.) (Classifier: 條／条 c)

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): neoi5-1
  • Min Nan (POJ): khu

Noun

Q

  1. (card games) queen (Classifier: 隻／只; 張／张)

Pronunciation 1

  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): kiu1
  • Min Nan
    • (Hokkien, POJ): khiu
    • (Teochew, Peng'im): kiu5
  • Wu (Wiktionary): 1kheu-ieu

Letter

Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

Letter

Q

  1. The seventeenth letter used in Pinyin.

Usage notes

  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciations above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Compounds

  • BBQ汁
  • BBQ醬／BBQ酱
  • 實Q／实Q (sat6 kiu1)
  • 食Q

Q - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ky/

Letter

Q (capital, lowercase q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Q - Estonian

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called kuu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in foreign words.

Q - Finnish

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kuu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords qu is replaced with kv.

Q - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kuː/
  • Homophone: Kuh

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the German alphabet.

Q - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: [ˈk]
  • (letter name): IPA: [ˈkuː]

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called kú and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
Possessive forms of Q

Q - Ido

Pronunciation

  • (always found before the letter U) IPA: /kw/

Letter

Q (lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Q - Italian

Pronunciation

  • (phonemic realization; almost always found before u, where it forms the pronunciation /kw/) IPA: /k/

Letter

Q f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case q)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called cu and written in the Latin script.

Q - Latin

Letter

Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

Q - Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA: [kiu], [kju]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA: [q], [k]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA: [k̚]

Letter

Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Q - Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kʉː/

Omonyms: ku (Nynorsk), ku (Bokmål)

Letter

Q (upper case Q, lower case q)

  1. the 17th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Usage notes

Only in loan words and foreign names. Also used in old inscriptions and texts, e.g. kv > qu. In the neo-runic inscriptions from 17-19 centuries may be written as ᛩ.

Q - Portuguese

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈke/

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Q - Romani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: (after n) /ɡ/, (after any other letter) /k/

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. (International Standard) Used to represent the dative and genitive cases.

Q - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /k/

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called chiu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used chiefly in loanwords.
  • The digraph qu is pronounced /kw/, /kv/, or /kʲ/.

Q - Saanich

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kʷʼ/

Letter

Q

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Q - Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /ɢ/
  • (letter name): IPA: /ɢɑːf/

Letter

Q upper case (lower case q)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, called qaaf and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by F and followed by K.

Q - Spanish

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. the 18th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Q - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA: [ku˧˧], [kwi˧˧], [kwəː˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA: [kʊw˧˧], [kwɪj˧˧], [kwəː˦˩]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA: [kʊw˧˧], [wɪj˧˧], [wəː˨˩]
  • Phonetic: cu, quy, quờ

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called cu, quy, or quờ and written in the Latin script.

Q - Zulu

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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