nickname

Etymology
From, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier , from +. Compare 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also, , , ,.

Noun

 * 1) A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
 * 2) A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.
 * 1) A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.
 * 1) A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.

Usage notes
Nicknames are often given in quotation marks between the first and last names. For example: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano.

Hyponyms

 * , ; see

Translations

 * Afrikaans: bynaam, volksnaam
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, كُنْيَة, اِسْم الدَّلَع
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ləqəb
 * Bashkir: ҡушамат
 * Belarusian: мяну́шка, клі́чка, на́звішча, на́зьвішча
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 花名
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: øgenavn, kælenavn
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kromnomo, alnomo
 * Estonian: hüüdnimi
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, alcuño
 * Georgian: მეტსახელი, ზედმეტსახელი, შერქმეული სახელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐπωνυμία
 * Hebrew: כִּינּוּי חִיבָּה, שֵׁם לווַאי
 * Hindi:, लक़ब
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: leasainm,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , , 綽名, 綽号
 * Kazakh: лақап,, лақап ат
 * Khmer: សម្មតិនាម
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ылакап ат,
 * Lao: ຊື່ນ້ອຍ
 * Latin: agnomen, agnomentum
 * Latvian: iesauka, palama
 * Lithuanian: pravardė
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Ökelnaam, Ökelnoom
 * Luxembourgish: Spëtznumm
 * Macedonian: прекар
 * Maltese: laqam
 * Maori: ingoa kārangaranga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, økenavn, kjælenavn
 * Nynorsk: kallenamn, aukenamn, kjælenamn
 * Ottoman Turkish: لقب
 * Pashto: لقب
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , پاژْنام
 * Plautdietsch: Ieekjenomen
 * Polish:, , ksywka, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ath-ainm, far-ainm, frith-ainm, leas-ainm, leth-ainm
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: на́димак
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: nciuria,
 * Slovak: prezývka
 * Slovene:, nadimek
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: gódło
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:, jina la utani
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: palayaw
 * Tajik: лақаб, куния, тахаллус
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: མིང་འདོགས, གཅེས་མིང
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: прі́звисько, кли́чка
 * Urdu: اُپ نام, لَقَب
 * Uyghur: لەقەم
 * Uzbek:
 * Walloon:, , ,
 * Welsh: llysenw, glasenw


 * Afrikaans: bynaam, noemnaam
 * Bashkir: ҡушамат
 * Bulgarian: умали́телно и́ме
 * Danish: tilnavn, øgenavn
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: uppnefni,, auknefni
 * Middle English: surname, surnoun
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tilnavn
 * Nynorsk: tilnamn
 * Polish:
 * Sicilian: nciuria,
 * Swahili:, jina la utani
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Coast Bajau:
 * Wolof:
 * Yámana:
 * Yiddish:
 * Yucatec Maya:
 * Yup'ik:
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu:


 * Esperanto: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To give a nickname to (a person or thing).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: bynaam gee
 * Bikol Central: magbansag, bansagan
 * Bulgarian: давам прякор
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: antaa lempinimi,, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: სახელს არქმევს, სახელს შეარქმევს
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐπικαλέω
 * Icelandic: uppnefna
 * Ido: surnomizar
 * Italian: soprannominare
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian: прозива́ти, прозва́ти
 * Walloon:, , ,