semester

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1) Half of a school year  or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.
 * 2) A period or term of six months.
 * 1) A period or term of six months.

Translations

 * Arabic: فَصْل دِرَاسِيّ, نِصْف سَنَة, فَصْل أَكَادِيمِيّ
 * Gulf Arabic: كورس, سِمِسْتَر
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: семе́стр, сэмэ́стар
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: semestre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , půlrok
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: სემესტრი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: оқу маусымы
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: semester,
 * Nynorsk: semester, termin
 * Persian: نیمسال تحصیلی,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: semestre, hatintaon
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: семе́стр, піврі́ччя
 * Vietnamese: (學期), sáu tháng
 * Yiddish: סעמעסטער, זמן


 * Bulgarian: полугодие
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  half of school year

Etymology
From, from , from ("lasting six months"), from  +.

Noun

 * 1) a period or term of six months.
 * 2)  half of a school year or academic year.
 * 1)  half of a school year or academic year.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From ; +. See also 🇨🇬.

The semantic shift might have been influenced by the French (six months military leave).

Noun

 * 1) a holiday/vacation, especially from work
 * 2)  an activity related to vacationing
 * 3)  a relief from a taxing situation
 * 1)  a relief from a taxing situation
 * 1)  a relief from a taxing situation