foreword

Etymology
Morphologically. , itself a calque of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬,.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: forward
 * Homophones: forward
 * Homophones: forward
 * Homophones: forward

Noun

 * 1) An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , ; see also Thesaurus:foreword

Antonyms

 * ,, , , , ; see also Thesaurus:afterword

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: pròleg
 * Cebuano: pasiuna
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: předmluva
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: antaŭparolo
 * Estonian: eessõna
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, prefacio
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: प्राक्‍कथन,, पेश-लफ़्ज़, , दो शब्द, हर्फ़-ए-आग़ाज़, , , , प्रकाशकीय
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: formáli
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: esisana, alkujutto, toimitussana
 * Irish: réamhrá
 * Italian:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: алғы сөз, кіріспе, алғысөз
 * Latvian: priekšvārds
 * Livonian: eḑḑisõnā
 * Macedonian: предговор
 * Maori: kupu whakataki
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ro-ràdh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: predslov, predhovor
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: paunang salita, bungadsabi
 * Uyghur: مۇقەددىمە
 * Vietnamese: lời tựa (𠳒序), lời nói đầu (𠳒呐頭)