Rosetta Stone

English

The Rosetta Stone.

Proper noun

the Rosetta Stone

1. A large inscribed stone found near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799, later used as a basis for understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing.
2. (by extension) Any source of information crucial to interpreting.

   My friend’s carefully-compiled notebook was the Rosetta Stone that opened up understanding of the physics lectures.

Translations

large inscribed stone

• Afrikaans: Rosettasteen
• Arabic: حَجَر رَشِيد m (ḥajar rašīd)
• Basque: Rosetta harri
• Bulgarian: Розетски камък m (Rozetski kamǎk)
• Catalan: Pedra de Rosetta f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羅塞塔石碑／罗塞塔石碑 (lo⁴ coi³ taap³ sek⁶ bei¹)

  Mandarin: 羅塞塔石碑／罗塞塔石碑 (zh) (Luósètǎ shíbēi)

• Danish: Rosettastenen
• Dutch: Steen van Rosette m
• Esperanto: Rozeta ŝtono
• Finnish: Rosettan kivi (fi)
• French: Pierre de Rosette f
• Georgian: როზეტის ქვა (rozeṭis kva)
• German: Stein von Rosette m
• Greek: Στήλη της Ροζέττας f (Stíli tis Rozéttas)
• Hebrew: אבן רוזטה m
• Hungarian: rosette-i kő
• Indonesian: Batu Rosetta
• Italian: Stele di Rosetta
• Japanese: ロゼッタ・ストーン (Rozetta-sutōn)
• Korean: 로제타석 (Rojeta-seok)
• Malay: Batu Rosetta
• Norman: Pièrre dé Rosette f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Rosettastenen

  Nynorsk: Rosettasteinen

• Persian: سنگ رشید (sang-e rašid)
• Polish: Kamień z Rosetty m
• Portuguese: Pedra de Roseta f
• Romanian: Piatra din Rosetta f
• Russian: розе́ттский ка́мень m (rozéttskij kámenʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: Kamen iz Rosette m

• Slovak: Rosettská doska f
• Slovene: Kamen iz Rosette m
• Spanish: Piedra de Rosetta f
• Swedish: Rosettastenen c
• Thai: ศิลาโรเซตตา (sì-laa rohsêtdtaa)
• Turkish: Rosetta Taşı