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English

An amphora reflected in a mirror (noun sense 1)

Alternative forms

  • mirrour (obsolete), myrrhor (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy".

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA(key): /ˈmɪɹə/
    • Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmiɹɚ/, /ˈmɪɹ.ɚ/, /ˈmi.ɚ/, /ˈmɪɹ/
  • Audio (California):(file)
  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈmɪɹəɹ/, /ˈmɜɹ/
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈməɹə/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈmɪɾəɾ/
  • (Wales) IPA(key): /ˈmɪɾə/
  • Homophones: mere, myrrh, mur (all in some North American accents only)
  • Hyphenation: mir‧ror
  • Rhymes: -ɪɹə(ɹ), -ɪə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)

Noun

mirror (plural mirrors)

  1. A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
    Synonyms: glass, looking-glass
    I had a look in the mirror to see if the blood had come off my face.
    He broke the mirror with the pickaxe.
    We could see the lorry in the mirror, so decided to change lanes.
  2. (figuratively) An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
    His story is a mirror into the life of orphans growing up.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      O goddess, heavenly bright, / Mirror of grace and majesty divine.
  3. (computing, Internet) A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
    Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.
  4. A mirror carp.
  5. (historical) An ethical-didactic treatise that details exemplary conduct through models, advising kings, princes, clergy, etc. on how to behave.

Hyponyms

  • acoustic mirror
  • black mirror
  • Bragg mirror
  • burning mirror
  • cheval mirror
  • Chinese magic mirror
  • conjugate mirror
  • distorting mirror
  • dressing mirror
  • driving mirror
  • fold mirror
  • funhouse mirror
  • gossip mirror
  • half-silvered mirror
  • handmirror
  • ion mirror
  • liquid mirror
  • magic mirror
  • magnetic mirror
  • milk mirror
  • mirror pheasant
  • one-way mirror
  • parabolic mirror
  • plane mirror
  • rearview mirror
  • rear-view mirror
  • rear vision mirror
  • rear-vision mirror
  • reflex mirror
  • shaving mirror
  • side mirror
  • side-view mirror
  • skinny mirror
  • sound mirror
  • spherical mirror
  • street mirror
  • submirror
  • trumeau mirror
  • two-way mirror
  • wing mirror

Derived terms

Terms derived from mirror (noun)
  • antimirror
  • bemirror
  • clear as a mirror
  • Coney Island mirror
  • do with mirrors
  • finger mirror
  • fog a mirror
  • hold a mirror to
  • hold a mirror up to
  • hold up a mirror to
  • liquid mirror telescope
  • Littrow mirror
  • look at oneself in the mirror
  • man in the mirror
  • metamirror
  • micromirror
  • mirrorable
  • mirror armor, mirror armour
  • mirror bacterium
  • mirror ball
  • mirrorbelly
  • mirror canon
  • mirror dweller
  • mirror fugue
  • mirrorful
  • mirror image
  • mirror-image twin
  • mirror imaging
  • mirrorize
  • mirrorless
  • mirror life
  • mirror-like
  • mirrorlike
  • mirror literature
  • mirror match
  • mirror matter
  • mirror-nearer merger
  • mirror neuron
  • mirror pronouns
  • mirror punishment
  • mirrorscope
  • mirror server journal
  • mirrorshades
  • mirror site
  • mirror stage
  • mirror symmetry
  • mirror syndrome
  • mirror test
  • mirror theory
  • mirrortocracy
  • mirrortree
  • mirror twin
  • mirror universe
  • Mirrorverse
  • mirror will
  • mirrorwise
  • mirrorwork
  • mirrory
  • mismirror
  • mouth mirror
  • multimirror
  • nanomirror
  • pentamirror
  • remirror
  • supermirror
  • time reversal mirror
  • unmirrored

Translations

smooth reflecting surface
  • Abaza: гӏвыга (ʻʷəga)
  • Abenaki: (please verify) pipinaojakwôgan
  • Abkhaz: асаркьа (asarkʲʼa)
  • Afrikaans: spieël (af)
  • Aghwan: 𐕘𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ġun)
  • Akkadian: 𒃻𒋗𒌓𒅗𒁇 (mušālu)
  • Aklanon: saeaming
  • Alabama: aayanchahka istililhicha, aayanchahka
  • Albanian: pasqyrë (sq) f, shofkë (sq) f
  • Altai:
    Southern Altai: кӱскӱ (küskü), кӧрӱнгӱш (körüngüš), кӧрнӧш (körnöš)
  • Amharic: መስታዎት (mästawot)
  • Arabic: مِرْآة (ar) f (mirʔāh)
    Egyptian Arabic: مراية f (mirāya)
    Hijazi Arabic: مِرَايَة f (mirāya)
    Moroccan Arabic: مراية f (mrāya)
  • Aragonese: mirallo m
  • Aramaic:
    Classical Syriac: ܡܚܙܝܬܐ f (maḥzīṯā)
  • Armenian: հայելի (hy) (hayeli)
  • Assamese: দাপোণ n (dapün), আইনা n (aina)
  • Asturian: espeyu (ast) m
  • Atong (India): aina
  • Avar: матӏу (matʼu)
  • Aymara: lirpu
  • Azerbaijani: güzgü (az), ayna (az)
  • Baluchi: آدینک (adí̃k)
  • Bangi: talatala
  • Banjarese: caramin (bjn)
  • Bashkir: көҙгө (köðgö)
  • Basque: ispilu
  • Belarusian: люстэ́рка (be) n (ljustérka), лю́стра n (ljústra), зярца́ла n (zjarcála) (archaic or ecclesiastic)
  • Bengali: আয়না (bn) (aẏna), আরশি (bn) (arśi), দর্পণ (bn) (dorpon)
  • Bikol:
    Central Bikol: salming (bcl)
  • Bislama: mira
  • Breton: melezour (br) m, milouer m
  • Bulgarian: огледа́ло (bg) n (ogledálo)
  • Burmese: ကြေးမုံ (my) (kre:mum), မှန် (my) (hman)
  • Buryat: гэрэл (gerel)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: зеркало n (zerkalo)
  • Catalan: espill (ca) m, mirall (ca) m
  • Cebuano: samin
  • Chamorro: espehos
  • Chechen: куьзга (küzga)
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎨᏗ (adagedi), ᏓᏎᏘ (daseti)
  • Cheyenne: amôhóomâhtsestôtse
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 鏡 / 镜 (geng3)
    Dungan: җинзы (jinzɨ)
    Eastern Min: 鏡 / 镜 (giáng)
    Gan: 鏡子 / 镜子 (jiang4 zi)
    Hakka: 鏡仔 / 镜仔 (kiang-é)
    Hokkien: 鏡 / 镜 (kiàⁿ)
    Jin: 鏡子 / 镜子 (jing3 zeh)
    Mandarin: 鏡子 / 镜子 (zh) (jìngzi), 鑒 / 鉴 (zh) (jiàn) (bronze mirror)
    Northern Min: 鏡 / 镜 (gia̿ng)
    Wu: 鏡子 / 镜子 (5cin-tsy)
    Xiang: 鏡子 / 镜子 (jin4 zr)
  • Choctaw: apisa
  • Chukchi: виилгитэнэӈ (viilgitėnėṇ)
  • Chuvash: тӗкӗр (tĕk̬ĕr)
  • Circassian:
    West Circassian: гъунджэ (ğʷundžɛ), гъуджэ (ğʷudžɛ)
  • Cornish: mirour m
  • Corsican: spechju m, specchiu m
  • Cree: ᐘᐱᒧᐣ (wapimon), ᐚᐸᒧᐣ (waapamon)
  • Crimean Tatar: küzgü
  • Czech: zrcadlo (cs) n, zrcátko (cs) n
  • Danish: spejl (da) n
  • Daur: jinzi
  • Dhivehi: މޫނުބަލާ ލޯގަނޑު (mūnubalā lōgaⁿḍu), ލޯގަނޑު (lōgaⁿḍu)
  • Dutch: spiegel (nl)
  • East Yugur: tooli
  • Emilian: spèc' m (Bolognese)
  • Erzya: чавачамо (čavačamo), чамавачамо (čamavačamo), чамаванома (čamavanoma)
  • Esperanto: spegulo (eo)
  • Estonian: peegel (et)
  • Even: кёйэлчидивун (kjojəlciʒiwun)
  • Evenki: ханячӯвка̄ (haņaçūwkā)
  • Extremaduran: ehpehu m
  • Fala: espellu, ispellu
  • Faroese: spegil m
  • Finnish: peili (fi), kuvastin (fi) (dated)
  • French: glace (fr) f, miroir (fr) m
  • Frisian:
    North Frisian: späägel
    West Frisian: spegel
  • Friulian: spieli m
  • Fula:
    Adlam: 𞤲𞥋𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤪𞤮𞤪𞤺𞤢𞤤, 𞤼𞤭𞤲𞤼𞤮𞤪𞤺𞤢𞤤
    Latin: ndaarorgal, tintorgal
  • Gagauz: ayna
  • Galician: espello (gl) m
  • Georgian: სარკე (sarḳe)
  • German: Spiegel (de) m
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 m (skuggwa)
  • Greek: καθρέφτης (el) m (kathréftis)
    Ancient Greek: κάτοπτρον n (kátoptron), εἴσοπτρον n (eísoptron)
  • Greenlandic: tarrarsuut
  • Guarani:
    Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) itagecha
  • Guianese Creole: mirwè
  • Gujarati: દર્પણ n (darpaṇ), અરીસો m (arīso)
  • Haitian Creole: miwa, glas
  • Hausa: madubi (ha), boka, matsokaci
  • Hawaiian: aniani kilo, aniani
  • Hebrew: מַרְאָה (he) f (mar'á), רְאִי (he) m (re'í)
  • Hindi: दर्पण (hi) m (darpaṇ), शीशा (hi) m (śīśā), आईना (hi) m (āīnā), आरसी (hi) f (ārsī)
  • Hmong:
    White Hmong: tsom iav
  • Hungarian: tükör (hu)
  • Hupdë: mɔyə̌k
  • Iban: cheremin
  • Icelandic: spegill (is) m
  • Ido: spegulo (io)
  • Igbo: enyo (ig)
  • Ilocano: sarming
  • Indonesian: cermin (id)
  • Ingrian: speili
  • Ingush: кизга (kizga)
  • Interlingua: spéculo
  • Inuktitut: ᑕᖅᕋᑑᑎ (taqratooti)
  • Inupiaq: taġġaqtuun
  • Irish: scáthán (ga) m
  • Isoko: ughẹgbe
  • Italian: specchio (it) m
  • Japanese: 鏡 (ja) (かがみ, kagami), 姿見 (すがたみ, sugatami) (large and long one)
  • Javanese: ꦥꦼꦔꦶꦭꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (jv) (pengilon)
  • Jurchen: 𘺛𘽐 (*bunə-ku)
  • Kabyle: ⵜⴰⵎⵔⴰⵢⵜ (tamrayt)
  • Kaitag: дацӏма (dac̣ma), лягьимцӏал (ləhimc̣al)
  • Kalmyk: толь (tolʹ)
  • Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡಿ (kn) (kannaḍi)
  • Karachay-Balkar: кюзгю (küzgü)
  • Karelian: zirkalo
  • Kashubian: zdrzadło n, zwiercadło n, szpédżel m
  • Kazakh: айна (ayna)
    Arabic: اينا (ayna)
  • Khakas: кӧріндес (körìndes)
  • Khmer: កញ្ចក់ (km) (kɑñcɑk)
  • Komi:
    Komi-Zyrian: видзӧдчан (vidźödćan), рӧмпӧштан (römpöštan)
  • Kongo: talatala
  • Konkani: कान्नडि (kānnaḍi), हारसो (hārso)
  • Korean: 거울 (ko) (geoul)
    Middle Korean: 거우〮루 (kè(G)wúlwù)
  • Kumyk: гюзгю (güzgü)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: ئاوێنە (awêne)
    Northern Kurdish: neynik (ku), awêne (ku), eyne (ku)
  • Kyrgyz: күзгү (ky) (küzgü)
  • Ladin: spidl
  • Lao: ແວ່ນ (lo) (wǣn), ກະຈົກ (lo) (ka chok) (rare)
  • Latin: speculum (la) n
  • Latvian: spogulis (lv) m
  • Laz: ჲალი (yali)
  • Lezgi: гуьзгуь (güzgü)
  • Ligurian: spêgio m
  • Limburgish: spegel (li) m, sjpegel m
  • Lingala: talatála
  • Lithuanian: veidrodis (lt) m
  • Lombard: spècc m, spèc m
  • Louisiana Creole: mirwar
  • Low German: Spegel m
  • Lü: ᦶᦞᧃᧈ (vaen¹), ᦶᦞᧃᧈᦶᦍᧂ (vaen¹yaeng)
  • Luxembourgish: Spigel m
  • Macedonian: огледало (mk) n (ogledalo), ѕрцало n (dzrcalo) (archaic or dialectal)
  • Maguindanao: sermin
  • Malagasy: fitaratra (mg)
  • Malay: cermin (ms)
    Brunei Malay: caramin
  • Malayalam: കണ്ണാടി (ml) (kaṇṇāṭi)
  • Maltese: mera f
  • Manchu: ᠪᡠᠯᡝᡴᡠ (buleku)
  • Manx: scaane
  • Māori: karaehe (mi), karaihe
  • Mapudungun: komütuwe
  • Marathi: आरसा (ārsā)
  • Mari:
    Eastern Mari: воштончыш (voštončyš), тӹгыр (tÿgyr)
  • Mauritian Creole: mirwar
  • Middle English: mirour, schewere
  • Mirandese: speilho m
  • Mixtec:
    Chayuco Mixtec: ino
  • Moksha: ва́нома (vánoma)
  • Mongghul: xal
  • Mongolian:
    Cyrillic: толь (mn) (tolʹ)
    Mongolian script: ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli)
  • Muna: paeasa
  • Nahuatl: tezcatl (nah)
  • Neapolitan: specchio m
  • Nenets:
    Tundra Nenets: сядобэрць’ (syadobercʹ’), сядобэрць’н (syadobercʹ’n°)
  • Nepali: ऐना (ne) (ainā)
  • Nganasan: хорә ӈәтәубса (horĕ ngĕtĕubsa)
  • Nogai: бияла (biyala)
  • Norman: mitheux m
  • Northern Sotho: seipônê
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: speil (no) n
    Nynorsk: spegel m, skuggsjå n
  • Occitan: miralh (oc) m, espelh m
  • Odia: ଆଇନା (āinā)
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    Cyrillic: зрьцало n (zrĭcalo)
  • Old English: sċēawere m
  • Old Ruthenian: зеркало n (zerkalo)
  • Old Tupi: gûarugûá, arugûá, aruá, ûaruá
  • Ossetian:
    Digor Ossetian: айдӕнӕ (ajdænæ)
    Iron Ossetian: айдӕн (ajdæn), кӕсӕн (kæsæn)
  • Ottawa: waawaabmowin
  • Pannonian Rusyn: жвератко n (žveratko)
  • Papiamentu: spil
  • Pashto: اينداره (eindara), هنداره (hendara), آينه (ps) f (āyna), کيښه f (kix̌a)
  • Persian:
    Dari: آیِینَه (āyīna), آبْگِینَه (ābgīna), مِرْآت (mir'āt)
    Iranian Persian: آیینِه (âyine), آبْگینِه (âbgine), مِرْآت (mer'ât)
  • Piedmontese: miraj, specc
  • Plautdietsch: Spieejel m
  • Polabian: zarḱódlü n
  • Polish: lustro (pl) n, zwierciadło (pl) n
  • Pomo:
    Southern Pomo: huʔ:uy ča:duč̓i:ya:liwi
  • Portuguese: espelho (pt) m
  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi: ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ਾ (pa) m (śīśā), ਦਰਪਣ m (darpaṇ), ਆਈਨਾ (pa) m (āīnā)
  • Quechua: rirpu
  • Rohingya: aina, ana
  • Romanian: oglindă (ro) f
  • Romansh: spievel m, spieghel m, spejel m
  • Russian: зе́ркало (ru) n (zérkalo), зерца́ло (ru) n (zercálo) (archaic or ecclesiastic)
  • Rwanda-Rundi: indorerwamo class 9/10 (Rwanda); ikiyo, icirori (Rundi)
  • Sami:
    Kildin Sami: зе̄ркал (zierkal), кыффкэмкāррь (kyffkemkārr’)
    Northern Sami: speadjal, speajal
    Southern Sami: guelmiedahke
  • Samoan: (please verify) aisa, (please verify) fāʻata
  • Samogitian: zelkorios
  • Sango: tatala
  • Sanskrit: दर्पण (sa) m (darpaṇa)
  • Santali: ᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ (sat)
  • Sardinian: ipíciu m
    Campidanese: sprigu m
    Logudorese: ispregu m, isprigu m
    Nuorese: isprecu m, ispricu m
  • Scots: seein-gless, mirrour
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgàthan m
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: оглѐдало n, зр̀цало n
    Latin: oglèdalo (sh) n, zr̀calo (sh) n
  • Shan: ၸမ်ႈ (shn) (tsām)
  • Sherpa: गेलुङ (gelung)
  • Shona: chiringiro
  • Shor: кӱзеген (küzegen)
  • Shuswap: ts̓exmín
  • Sicilian: specchiu (scn) m
  • Silesian: zdřaduo n, špigel m
  • Sinhalese: ආදාසය (ādāsaya)
  • Slovak: zrkadlo n, zrkadielko n
  • Slovene: ogledalo (sl) n, zrcálo n
  • Somali: muraayad f
  • Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: glědałko n, glědałcycko n
    Upper Sorbian: špihel m
  • Sotho: seipone (st)
  • Spanish: espejo (es) m
  • Sranan Tongo: spikri
  • Swahili: kioo (sw) class 7
  • Swedish: spegel (sv)
  • Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
  • Tabaru: kasinaa
  • Tabasaran: гюзги (gjuzgi)
  • Tagalog: salamin espeho, panganinuhan, salamin
  • Tahitian: hiʻo
  • Tajik: оина (tg) (oyina), обгина (obgina), миръот (mir'ot)
  • Tamil: கண்ணாடி (ta) (kaṇṇāṭi), ஆடி (ta) (āṭi)
  • Tarifit: tisit f
  • Tat: гузги
  • Tatar: көзге (tt) (közge)
  • Telugu: అద్దము (te) (addamu), అద్దం (te) (addaṁ)
  • Ternate: kasna
  • Thai: กระจก (th) (grà-jòk), กระจกเงา (th) (grà-jòk-ngao)
  • Tibetan: ཤེས་སྒོ (shes sgo), མེ་ལོང (me long), མཐོང་ཤེལ (mthong shel), གདོང་ཤེལ (gdong shel), ཤེལ་ཀོ (shel ko)
  • Tidore: kasna
  • Tigrinya: መስትያት (mästəyat)
  • Tocharian B: tapākye
  • Turkish: ayna (tr), gözgü (tr)(archaic), mirat (tr) (obsolete)
    Ottoman Turkish: گوزگی (gözgü), آینه (ayna), مرآت (mirʾat)
  • Turkmen: aýna (tk), gözgi
  • Tuvan: көрүнчүк (körünçük)
  • Udmurt: синучкон (śinućkon), зеркал (źerkal)
  • Ukrainian: дзе́ркало (uk) n (dzérkalo), зерца́ло n (zercálo) (ecclesiastic)
  • Unami: chichànkw
  • Urdu: آئِینَہ (ur) m (āīna), شِیشَہ m (śīśa), دَرْپَن m (darpan), مِرآت m (mir'āt), آبْگِینَہ (ur) m (ābgīna)
  • Urhobo: ughegbe
  • Uyghur: كۆزگۈ (közgü), ئەينەك (ug) (eynek)
  • Uzbek: koʻzgu (uz), oyna (uz)
  • Venetan: spècio m
  • Veps: zerkol
  • Vietnamese: gương (vi), kiếng (vi), kính (vi)
  • Vilamovian: śpigel m
  • Volapük: lok (vo), (diminutive) lokil
  • Võro: piigli, var'okaehtus
  • Votic: špeili
  • Walloon: muroe (wa) m, glaece (wa) f
  • Waray-Waray: espeho
  • Welsh: drych (cy) m
  • Woiwurrung: wurrandalmin
  • Wolof: seetu (wo)
  • Xhosa: isipili
  • Yaghnobi: оҳина (ohina)
  • Yakut: сиэркилэ (sierkile)
  • Yiddish: שפּיגל m (shpigl)
  • Yoruba: díngí
  • Yucatec Maya: néen
  • Yurok: chpeesher'erhl
  • Zhuang: gingq
  • Zulu: isibuko class 7/8
computing: replica of another site
  • Catalan: còpia (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 鏡像 / 镜像 (zh) (jìngxiàng)
  • Esperanto: spegulo (eo)
  • Finnish: peili (fi), peilikopio, kopio (fi)
  • French: copie (fr) f
  • German: Kopie (de) f
  • Greek: αναπαράσταση (el) f (anaparástasi), αντίγραφο (el) n (antígrafo)
  • Hungarian: tükrözés (hu)
  • Italian: copia speculare f
  • Luxembourgish: Kopie f
  • Macedonian: дуплика́т m (duplikát)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: speil (no) n
    Nynorsk: spegel m
  • Portuguese: cópia (pt) f
  • Russian: дублика́т (ru) m (dublikát), ко́пия (ru) f (kópija)
  • Thai: กระจก (th) (grà-jòk)

Verb

mirror (third-person singular simple present mirrors, present participle mirroring, simple past and past participle mirrored)

  1. (transitive) To reflect, as in a mirror.
  2. (transitive) To act as a reflection of, either by being identical to, or by being identical but reversed.
    The placement of the paintings mirrored the positions of the windows on the opposite wall.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of; to imitate closely.
    Synonym: mimic
    He tried to mirror Elvis's life by copying his fashion and mannerisms.
    • 2023, Naomi Klein, “Autism and the Anti-Vax Prequel”, in Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
      “Does he mirror?” one therapist, who came to our home, asked.
      “What is mirroring?” I asked back.
      “Does he mimic what you do, like Simon Says?”
  4. (transitive, computing, Internet) To create something identical to (a website, etc.).

Translations

to reflect as in a mirror
  • Bulgarian: отразявам се (otrazjavam se)
  • French: refléter (fr)
  • Hindi: प्रतिबिंबित करना (pratibimbit karnā)
  • Hungarian: tükröz (hu)
  • Portuguese: espelhar (pt)
  • Russian: отражать (ru) impf (otražatʹ)
  • Spanish: especular (es), reflejar especularmente, reflejar espejadamente, espejar (es), espejarse (intransitive), espejear (es) (intransitive)
  • Telugu: దర్పణంపట్టు (darpaṇampaṭṭu)
  • Ukrainian: віддзерка́лювати impf (viddzerkáljuvaty), віддзерка́лити pf (viddzerkályty)
of an event, activity, behaviour; to be identical to, be a copy of, to reflect
  • Bulgarian: отразявам (bg) (otrazjavam)
  • Catalan: duplicar (ca), copiar (ca)
  • Finnish: kuvastaa (fi)
  • Hungarian: utánoz (hu)
  • Icelandic: spegla
  • Macedonian: одразува (odrazuva), отсликува (otslikuva)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: speile (no)
  • Portuguese: espelhar (pt)
  • Russian: повторять (ru) impf (povtorjatʹ), напоминать (ru) impf (napominatʹ)
  • Turkish: taklit etmek (tr), kopyalamak (tr), yansıtmak (tr) (figurative)
computing: to create a replica of another site
  • Hungarian: tükröz (hu)

See also

  • cheval glass
  • looking glass

Portuguese

Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English mirror.

    Pronunciation

     
    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ɾoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɾoh], /ˈmi.ɹoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɹoh]
    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ɾoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɾoh], /ˈmi.ɹoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɹoh]
      • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ɾoɾ/, /ˈmi.ɹoɾ/
      • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ɾoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɾoχ], /ˈmi.ɹoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɹoχ]
      • (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ɾoɻ/, /ˈmi.ɹoɻ/

    Noun

    mirror m (plural mirrors)

    1. (computing, Internet) mirror (replica of other websites)
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