anecdote

Etymology
Late 17th c., from, from , from + , from , from  +.

Virtually identical cognates in other European languages – 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, among others.

Noun

 * 1) A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
 * 2) An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
 * 3) A previously untold secret account of an incident.
 * 1) An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
 * 2) A previously untold secret account of an incident.
 * 1) A previously untold secret account of an incident.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَادِرَة, أُطْرُوفَة, أُفْكُوهَة, طُرْفَة, فُكَاهَة, لَطِيفَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: anekdot,
 * Belarusian: анекдо́т, анэкдо́т
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: anekdoto
 * Estonian: anekdoot
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ანეკდოტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: atvikssaga, anekdóta
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: анекдот, күлкілі әңгіме
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: анекдот
 * Latvian: anekdote
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Anekdot
 * Macedonian: анегдота
 * Malay: anekdot
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: anekdote
 * Nynorsk: anekdote
 * Ottoman Turkish: فقره
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , заба́вная исто́рия
 * Scottish Gaelic: naidheachd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: анегдо̀та
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: anekdota
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: เรื่องขำขัน,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: anekdot,
 * Vietnamese: (佳話)
 * Yiddish: אַנעקדאָט


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 秘聞
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese:

Verb

 * 1)  To tell anecdotes (about).