memoir

Etymology
From, from. .

Noun

 * 1) An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
 * 2) A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.
 * 3) Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.
 * 1) Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.
 * 1) Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.

Usage notes
A memoir may differ from a simple biography or autobiography by not focusing on the author as the primary subject matter, but on people and events in the subject's life. Emphasis is placed on personal observations about external events.

The plural is often used to refer to a single work.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مذكرة, مذكرة
 * Armenian:, հուշեր
 * Azerbaijani:, xatirat, memuar
 * Belarusian: мемуа́ры, мэмуа́ры, успамін
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 回憶錄
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: memoirer, erindring
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: mälestusteraamat, elulugu, memuaarid
 * Finnish:, muistelmateos
 * French:
 * Georgian: მემუარი
 * German:, Lebenserinnerungen
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑπμνήματα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: endurminningabók
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 回顧録
 * Kazakh: естелікнама
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: мемуарлар
 * Lao: ບັນທຶກຄວາມຊົງຈຳ
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: memuarai, atsiminimai
 * Macedonian: мемоа́р
 * Malay: memoir
 * Maori: kupu whakamahara
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: memoarer
 * Nynorsk: memoarar
 * Ottoman Turkish: تذكره
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Denkjschreft
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: memorii
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мемо̀а̄р
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: memoáre, pamäti
 * Slovene: memoari, spomini
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: talang-gunita, talanggunita, talang-alaala
 * Tajik: ёддошт, ёддоштҳо, хотирот
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: мемуа́ри, спомин, спогад, па́м'ятник, записка
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (回記),  (論文)
 * Yiddish: מעמואַרן


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: muistelma
 * Kazakh: ғұмырнама,
 * Maori: kupu whakamahara
 * Ottoman Turkish: تذكره
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: (傳記)