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verb transitive

P. and V. γράφειν.

write books, etc.: see compose.

give an account of in writing: P. συγγράφειν (acc.).

write poetry: Ar. and P. ποιεῖν.

inscribe: Ar. and P. ἐπιγράφειν, P. ἀναγράφειν.

write down: Ar. and P. συγγράφειν, P. and V. γράφειν.

they wrote him down enemy of theirs and their allies: P. ἐχθρὸν αὑτῶν ἀνέγραψαν καὶ τῶν συμμάχων αὐτόν (Dem. 122).

write in addition: Ar. and P. παραγράφειν, P. προσγράφειν, προσπαραγράφειν.

write in answer: see answer.

Write in or on: P. and V. ἐγγράφειν.

which (wanderings) you must write on the recording tablets of your mind: V. ἣν (πλάνη) ἐγγράφου σὺ μνήμοσιν δέλτοις φρενῶν (Aesch., Prometheus Vinctus 789; cp. Sophocles, Philoctetes 1325).

a tablet with signs written upon it: V. δέλτος ἐγγεγραμμένη συνθήματα (Sophocles, Trachiniae 157).

write underneath: P. ὑπογράφειν (τί τινι).

Translations

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Abkhaz: аҩра; Acehnese: tuléh; Afrikaans: skryf; Akan: kyerɛw; Aklanon: sueat; Albanian: shkruaj; Amharic: ጻፈ, ደረሰ; Andi: хъвару; Arabic: كَتَبَ; Egyptian Arabic: كتب; Gulf Arabic: كِتَب; Aragonese: escribir; Aramaic: ܟܬܒܬܐ; Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܬܒ; Hebrew: כתב; Armenian: գրել; Aromanian: scriu; Assamese: লিখ, লেখ; Asturian: escribir; Aukan: sikiifi; Avar: хъвазе; Azerbaijani: yazmaq; Bashkir: яҙыу; Basque: idatzi; Belarusian: пісаць напісаць; Bengali: লেখা; Bhojpuri: लिखल; Bikol Central: surat; Breton: skrivañ; Bulgarian: пиша; Burmese: ရေး, စာရေး; Catalan: escriure; Cebuano: sulat; Chechen: йаз дан; Chichewa: -lemba; Chickasaw: holissochi; Chinese Cantonese: 寫, 写; Dungan: ще; Eastern Min: 寫, 写; Gan: 寫, 写; Hakka: 寫, 写; Hokkien: 寫, 写; Jin: 寫, 写; Mandarin: 寫, 写, 撰寫; Northern Min: 寫, 写; Wu: 寫, 写; Xiang: 寫, 写; Chukchi: кэԓичитык; Chuvash: ҫыр; Classical Syriac: ܟܬܒ; Coptic: ⲥϧⲁⲓ; Cornish: scryfa; Crimean Tatar: yazmaq; Czech: psát, napsat; Danish: skrive; Dhivehi: ލިޔަނީ; Dutch: schrijven; Dzongkha: ཡི་གུ་བྲི; Esperanto: skribi; Estonian: kirjutama; Evenki: дуку-; Ewe: ŋlɔ; Extremaduran: escrebil; Farefare: gʋlsɛ; Faroese: rita, skriva; Fataluku: kerekere; Finnish: kirjoittaa; French: écrire; Old French: escrivre, escrire; Friulian: scrivi; Galician: escribir; Ge'ez: ጸሐፈ, ከተበ; Georgian: დაწერა, მიწერა; German: schreiben; Alemannic German: schriibe; Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽; Greek: γράφω; Ancient Greek: γράφω, ξυγγράφω, συγγράφω; Greenlandic: allappoq; Guaraní: hai; Gujarati: લખવું; Haitian Creole: ekri; Hawaiian: kākau; Hebrew: כָּתַב; Higaonon: tagsulat; Hindi: लिखना; Hungarian: ír; Icelandic: skrifa; Ido: skribar; Indonesian: menulis; Ingrian: kirjuttaa; Ingush: язде; Inuktitut: ᑎᑎᕋᖅᑐᖅ; Irish: scríobh; Istriot: screîvi; Italian: scrivere; Japanese: 書く; Javanese: nulis; Jingpho: ka; Kabuverdianu: skrebi; Kaingang: rán; Kannada: ಬರೆ; Kashmiri: لیکھُن; Kashubian: napisz; Kazakh: жазу; Khmer: សរសេរ; Korean: 쓰다, 적다; Kurdish Central Kurdish: نوسین; Northern Kurdish: nivîsîn, nivîsîn, nivîsandin; Kyrgyz: жазуу; Laboya: tolha; Ladin: scriver; Ladino: eskrivir; Lao: ຂຽນ; Latgalian: raksteit; Latin: scribo; Latvian: rakstīt; Lingala: koma; Lithuanian: rašyti; Lombard: scriv; Low German: schrieven; Luganda: -wandiika; Macedonian: пишува; Makasae: kereke; Malay: tulis; Maltese: kiteb; Manchu: ᠠᡵᠠᠮᠪᡳ; Mansaka: solat; Maori: tuhi; Marathi: लिहिणे; Mariupol Greek: графту; Mauritian Creole: ekrir; Mbyá Guaraní: mbopara; Middle English: writen; Middle Low German: wrīten, schrīven; Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭯𐭩𐭱𐭲𐭭; Mirandese: screbir; Mongolian Cyrillic: бичих; Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠬᠦ; Moore: gʋlse; Nahuatl Classical: ihcuiloa; Highland Puebla: quijcui̱lo̱a; Mecayapan: quijcuilohua; Northern Puebla: quiihcuilohua; Tetelcingo: qui̱jcui̱loa; Nanai: ниру-; Navajo: akʼeʼełchí; Nepali: लेख्नु; Ngazidja Comorian: hwandziha, ≈ for hwandzishia; Norman: écrire, êcrithe; North Frisian Föhr-Amrum: skriiw; Mooring: schriwe; Northern Sami: čállit; Norwegian Bokmål: skrive; Nynorsk: skriva; Occitan: escriure; Odia: ଲେଖ; Ojibwe: ozhibii'ige; Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic: пьсати; Old East Slavic: писати; Old English: wrītan; Old Frisian: skrīva; Old Norse: ríta; Old Saxon: wrītan, skrīƀan; Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃; Oromo: barreessuu; Ossetian: фыссын; Pangasinan: mansulat; Pannonian Rusyn: писац, написац; Papiamentu: skirbi; Pashto: کاږل, کويښل, کوښل; Pennsylvania German: schreiwe; Persian Dari: نَوِشْتَن; Iranian Persian: نِوِشْتَن; Piedmontese: scrive; Polish: pisać, napisać, pisywać; Portuguese: escrever, redigir; Punjabi: ਲਿਖਣਾ; Purepecha: karáni; Romanian: scrie; Romansch: scriver, screiver; Russian: писать, написать; Samoan: tusi; Sanskrit: लिखति; Sardinian: iscri, iscribere, iscriere, iscriri, iscrivere, scriri; Scots: scrieve; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: писати; Roman: písati; Shan: တႅမ်ႈ; Sherpa: བྲིག; Sicilian: scrìviri; Sindhi: لکڻ; Sinhalese: ලියනවා; Slovak: písať, napísať; Slovene: pisati; Somali: qorid; Sorbian Lower Sorbian: pisaś, napisaś; Upper Sorbian: pisać, napisać; Sotho: ngola; Southern Ohlone: enne; Spanish: escribir; Sranan Tongo: skrifi; Swahili: kuandika; Swedish: skriva; Sylheti: ꠟꠦꠈꠣ; Tagalog: sumulat, isulat; Tahitian: papai; Tajik: навиштан; Talysh: nıvışte; Tamil: எழுது; Tatar: язарга; Tausug: sulat, tulis; Tetum: hakerek; Thai: เขียน, ขีด; Tibetan: འབྲི; Tocharian B: pik-; Tok Pisin: rait, raitim; Tongan: tohi; Tumbuka: lemba; Turkish: yazmak; Turkmen: ýazmak; Udmurt: гожъяны; Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎚𐎁; Ukrainian: писати, написати; Urdu: لِکْھنا; Uyghur: يازماق; Uzbek: yozmoq; Venetan: scrivar, scriver; Vietnamese: viết, ghi; Walloon: scrire; Welsh: ysgrifennu; West Frisian: skriuwe; Western Bukidnon Manobo: surat; Yagnobi: нипишак; Yakut: суруй; Yiddish: שרײַבן; Yoruba: kọ; Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib, tsʼíibt; Zazaki: nusayîş, nuştiş; Zhuang: sij, raiz