rectangular - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjʊlə/
- Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar
rectangular (not generally comparable, comparative more rectangular, superlative most rectangular)
- Having a shape like a rectangle.
rectangular bench
rectangular grid
rectangular object
rectangular table
- Having axes that meet each other with right angles.
having a shape like a rectangle
- Arabic: مُسْتَطِيل (mustaṭīl)
- Armenian: ուղղանկյուն (hy) (uġġankyun)
- Bengali: আয়তক্ষেত্রাকৃতি (aẏotokkhetrakriti)
- Bulgarian: правоъ́гълен (pravoǎ́gǎlen)
- Catalan: rectangular (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: obdélníkový (cs), rektangulární (cs)
- Danish: rektangulær
- Dutch: rechthoekig (nl), rechthoekige (nl)
- Esperanto: ortangula
- Finnish: suorakulmainen (fi), suorakaiteen muotoinen
- French: rectangulaire (fr)
- Georgian: მართკუთხა (martḳutxa)
- German: rechteckig (de), rechtwinklig (de), rechtwinkelig (de)
- Greek: ορθογώνιος (el) (orthogónios)
- Ancient Greek: ὀρθογώνιος (orthogṓnios)
- Hebrew: מלבני (he) m (malbení)
- Italian: rettangolare (it)
- Japanese: 直角の (ja) (ちょっかくの, chokkaku no)
- Latin: rectiangulus, rectangulus
- Macedonian: правоаголен (pravoagolen)
- Māori: porowhā
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rektangulær (no)
- Nynorsk: rektangulær
- Piedmontese: retangolar
- Polish: prostokątny (pl)
- Portuguese: retangular (pt)
- Russian: прямоуго́льный (ru) (prjamougólʹnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: u obliku pravougaonika, pravougaoni
- Spanish: rectangular (es)
- Swedish: rektangulär (sv)
- Tagalog: paritadlungin
- Telugu: చతురస్త్ర (caturastra), చదరం (cadaraṁ)
- Uzbek: to’rtburchak
- Welsh: cyfongl
having axes that meet each other with right angles
- IPA(key): (Central) [rək.təŋ.ɡuˈlar]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [rək.təŋ.ɡuˈla]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [rek.taŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
- Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar
rectangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural rectangulars)
- “rectangular”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Fron rectángulo + ar.
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar
rectangular m or f (plural rectangulares)
- “rectangular”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
rectangular m or f (plural rectangulares, not comparable)
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of retangular; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
- “rectangular”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “rectangular”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- ректангулар (rectangular) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Borrowed from French rectangulaire.
rectangular m or n (feminine singular rectangulară, masculine plural rectangulari, feminine/neuter plural rectangulare)
From rectángulo + -ar.
rectangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural rectangulares)
- “rectangular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025