apostrophe

Etymology 1
From, or , from , a noun use of an adjective from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)   The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

Usage notes
In English, the apostrophe is used to mark the possessive (e.g., “my friend’s wife”), and to show the omission of letters (e.g., “my friend’s angry”) or of numbers (e.g., "during the 1960s and ’70s").

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فَاصِلَة عُلْيَا
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: apostrof
 * Belarusian: апо́страф
 * Bengali: ঊর্ধকমা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: apòstrof
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 隔音符號, 省字符, , 頓呼
 * Cornish: kollverk, kollverkys
 * Czech:
 * Danish: apostrof
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, (rare)
 * French:
 * Galician: apóstrofo
 * Georgian: აპოსტროფი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀπόστροφος
 * Hebrew: אַפּוֹסְטְרוֹף
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: úrfellingarmerki
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: tuldek
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: apostropho
 * Irish: uaschamóg, apastróf
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 省略符号
 * Kazakh: апостроф
 * Korean: 아포스트로피
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: apostrophus
 * Latvian: apostrofs
 * Lithuanian: apostrofas
 * Luxembourgish: Apostroph
 * Macedonian: апостроф
 * Malay: tanda penyingkat
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: apostrophee
 * Maori: pakini
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: апостроф
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: apostrof
 * Nynorsk: apostrof
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, آپاسْتْروف
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ascair, asgair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: а̀построф, изо̀ставник
 * Latin: ,
 * Sinhalese: උඩු කොමා
 * Slovak: apostrof
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: kotimarki
 * Swahili:, apostrofi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kudlit
 * Tajik: апостроф
 * Tatar: апостроф
 * Thai: อะพอสทรอฟี
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Uyghur: ئاجرىتىش بەلگىسى, ىسقارتىش بەلگىسى
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: dấu lược
 * Welsh: collnod, sillgoll
 * Yiddish: אַפּאָסטראָף

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)   A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: apóstrofe
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: apòstrofe
 * Czech: apostrofa
 * Danish: apostrofe
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: apóstrofe
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Interlingua: apostrophe
 * Irish: aitheasc, apastróf
 * Lithuanian: apostrofa
 * Macedonian: апостро́фа
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: апо̀строфа
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:

Etymology 1
From, from , a noun use of an adjective from.

Etymology 2
,, from , from , from +.