hieroglyph

Etymology
First attested around 1598, a back-formation from (1580s), from, from , from  (Plutarch τά ἱερογλυφικά [γράμματα] "hieroglyphic [writing]),   (Ptolemy), a compound of  and , a calque of ,  ..

Noun

 * 1) An element of a hieroglyphic writing system, an individual sign or glyph.
 * 2)  Any obscure or baffling symbol.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hiëroglief
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: هِيرُوغْلِيفِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: xeroglíficu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: іеро́гліф, геро́гліф
 * Bengali: হায়ারোগ্লিফ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 圖畫文字,
 * Coptic:
 * Sahidic: ⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲛ̅ⲥⲁϩ ⲡⲣⲁⲛ̅ϣ̅
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hieroglyf
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: hieroglifo
 * Estonian: hieroglüüf
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: იეროგლიფი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Hawaiian: lalinoka
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: हीयेरोग्लिफ़
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: iairiglif
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ヒエログリフ, 聖刻
 * Kazakh: иероглиф
 * Khmer: វត្ថុលេខនា
 * Korean:, 히에로글리프
 * Kyrgyz: иероглиф
 * Latvian: hieroglifs
 * Lithuanian: hieroglifas
 * Macedonian: хиероглиф
 * Malay: hieroglif
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хијероглиф
 * Roman: hijeroglif
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: jeroglífico
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: heroglipiko
 * Tajik: иероглиф
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: iýeroglif
 * Ukrainian: ієро́гліф
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: chữ tượng hình

Verb

 * 1) To represent by hieroglyphs.