basic form

English

Noun

basic form (plural basic forms)

1. The uninflected form of a word used as a dictionary entry.

Synonyms

• base form
• canonical form
• citation form
• dictionary form
• headword
• lemma

Translations

the basic form of a word used as a dictionary entry — see also dictionary form

• Arabic: لِيمَّا (ar) (līmmā)
• Danish: grundform c
• Finnish: perusmuoto (fi)
• Hungarian: szótári alak
• Japanese: 基本形きほんけい (きほんけい, kihonkei)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grunnform m or f

  Nynorsk: grunnform f

• Persian: بن‌واژه (fa) (bon-vâže)
• Russian: начальная форма слова (načalʹnaja forma slova), лемма (ru) f (lemma)
• Swedish: uppslagsord (sv) n, grundform (sv) c