Q

Etymology
From the letter, from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Letter

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

Symbol

 * 1)  IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamine.
 * 2)  quadrium
 * 3)  Electric charge.
 * 4)  Dynamic pressure.
 * 5)  Robinson arithmetic.
 * 6) Quetzal (currency of Guatemala).
 * 7)  A wildcard for a uvular consonant.
 * (sometimes covers any guttural consonant)
 * 1)  Gemination as a phoneme.
 * 1)  Gemination as a phoneme.

Etymology 2
Shortening

Noun

 * 1) American Library Association
 * 1) American Library Association
 * 1) American Library Association
 * 1) American Library Association
 * 1) American Library Association
 * 1) American Library Association
 * 1) American Library Association
 * 1) American Library Association

Derived terms

 * DQ, DSQ, q
 * RIQ, RLQ, RQQ

Proper noun

 * 1)  The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from ); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels
 * 1)  The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from ); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels
 * 1)  The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from ); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels

Derived terms

 * GQP, Qaren, Qultist

Etymology 3
From James Bond films, the being  Q, from the novels by Ian Flemming, where he created Q-branch, which creates secret devices hidden in plain sight, named after, heavily armed merchantmen that look like normal merchantmen.

Noun

 * 1)  A  master, gadget creator.

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter in the Afar alphabet.

Noun

 * 1) Q

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Usage notes

 * Only used in the digraph qu for . The Dutch-based spelling uses instead.

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  cute

Etymology 2
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  soft and pliable; chewy (like mochi), exhibiting

Etymology 3
Euphemistic form of.

Infix

 * 1)  fucking; bloody; damn

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1)  (snooker) cue

Etymology 5
From.

Noun

 * 1)  quinella

Etymology 6
From, an adaptation of ICQ, another instant messaging program.

Verb

 * 1)  to use, the popular Chinese instant messaging program

Etymology 7
From clipping of. Orthography is from.

Noun

 * 1)  question

Etymology 8
From the letter Q of the English pattern playing cards. Various names exist for this symbol in the spoken language.
 * Mandarin
 * From, because the letter Q resembles a circle.


 * Cantonese
 * From.


 * Hokkien
 * From the letter.

Noun

 * 1)  queen

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).

Letter

 * 1) The seventeenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Usage notes

 * Used only in foreign words.

Usage notes

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

Letter

 * 1) The seventeenth letter of the German alphabet.

Alternative forms

 * $1$ in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwak'wala)

Letter

 * 1) The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

Pronunciation
Omonyms: ,

Letter

 * 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. Used in the same way in some surnames. In the neo-runic inscriptions from 17-19 centuries may be written as ᛩ.

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in loanwords.
 * The qu is pronounced, , or.

Usage notes

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

Letter

 * 1) the 18th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Usage notes

 * This letter is mostly used only in proper nouns, unadapted loanwords, or Spanish-based spellings.