essay

Etymology 1
Since late 16th century, borrowed from, , meaning coined by Montaigne in the same time, from the same words in earlier meanings 'experiment; assay; attempt', from , , , , from , from +.

Pronunciation

 * (1), (2-4)

Noun

 * 1)  A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
 * 2)  A test, experiment; an assay.
 * 3)  An attempt.
 * 4)  A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.
 * 1)  A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.
 * 1)  A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.
 * 1)  A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَقَالَة,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: ৰচনা
 * Azerbaijani:, inşa, oçerk,
 * Bashkir: инша
 * Belarusian: твор, эсэ́, на́рыс
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 作文
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , essai
 * Esperanto: eseo
 * Estonian: essee
 * Finnish:, ; ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: ensaio
 * Georgian: ესე, თხზულება
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, , , σύγγραμα
 * Ancient Greek: μελετήματα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, मज़मून
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: aiste
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: эссе,, очерк,
 * Khmer: អត្ថបទ
 * Korean:, 에세이
 * Kyrgyz: эссе, дилбаян, очерк
 * Latin: meditatio, meletemata
 * Latvian: eseja
 * Lithuanian: esė
 * Macedonian: есеј
 * Malagasy: lahateny,, famelabelaran-kevitra
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tuhingaroa
 * Marathi:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: essay
 * Pashto: مقاله
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, , rozprawka
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ѐсе̄ј
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: esej
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: sanaysay
 * Tajik:, навиштор, иншо
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: есе́, есе́й,, на́рис
 * Urdu: مَقالَہ, اِنشائِیَہ,
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: עסיי
 * Yoruba: àròkọ

Etymology 2
From, , from , , , , , , from , , , as above.

Verb

 * 1)  To attempt or try.
 * 2)  To move forth, as into battle.
 * 1)  To move forth, as into battle.
 * 1)  To move forth, as into battle.
 * 1)  To move forth, as into battle.

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from (whence the neuter gender).

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) an, a written composition of moderate length exploring a particular subject

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) an, a written composition of moderate length exploring a particular subject