dialectal

English

Etymology

From dialect +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal (comparative more dialectal, superlative most dialectal)

1. Of or relating to a dialect.
2. Peculiar to a (nonstandard) variety or lect.
   • 1908, “lay v.¹”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 128:

     Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.

Derived terms

• adialectal
• bidialectal
• dialectality
• dialectally
• extradialectal
• interdialectal
• intradialectal
• monodialectal
• multidialectal
• non-dialectal
• nondialectal
• pandialectal
• semidialectal
• transdialectal

Translations

relating to a dialect

• Arabic: لَهْجِيّ (lahjiyy)
• Armenian: բարբառային (hy) (barbaṙayin)
• Asturian: dialeutal, dialectal
• Belarusian: дыяле́ктны (dyjaljéktny)
• Bulgarian: диале́ктен (dialékten)
• Catalan: dialectal
• Czech: nářeční (cs)
• Esperanto: dialekta
• Finnish: murteellinen (fi)
• French: dialectal (fr)
• Galician: dialectal m or f
• German: mundartlich (de), dialektal (de), dialektisch (de)
• Hungarian: nyelvjárási (hu)
• Irish: canúnach
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} dialettale (it)
• Kazakh: диалектілік (dialektılık)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} in dialecto/^{(please verify)} in Dialecto
• Polish: dialektyczny (pl), dialektalny (pl), dialektowy
• Portuguese: dialetal (pt)
• Romanian: dialectal (ro)
• Russian: диале́ктный (ru) (dialéktnyj), диалекта́льный (ru) (dialektálʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dualchainnteach
• Serbo-Croatian: nárječnī (sh), dijàlekatskī (sh), dijàlektnī (sh)
• Slovak: nárečový
• Spanish: dialectal
• Swedish: dialektal (sv)
• Ukrainian: діале́ктний (dialéktnyj)
• Volapük: dialegik

peculiar to a dialect

• Catalan: dialectal
• Czech: dialektální, nářeční (cs)
• Finnish: omaperäinen (fi)
• Galician: dialectal m or f
• Irish: canúnach
• Polish: gwarowy (pl), dialektalny (pl)
• Portuguese: dialetal (pt)
• Russian: диале́ктный (ru) (dialéktnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: nárječnī (sh), dijàlekatskī (sh), dijàlektnī (sh)
• Spanish: dialectal

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} dialectal (fr)
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} dialectal (oc), ^{(please verify)} dialectau (oc)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} dialectal (ro)
• Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} dialittali

See also

• dialectical
• lectal

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dialect”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “dialect”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “dialectal”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djalekˈtal/ [d̪ja.lekˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal (epicene, plural dialectales)

1. Alternative form of dialeutal.

Catalan

Etymology

From dialecte +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [di.ə.ləkˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.a.lekˈtal]
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dialectals)

1. dialectal

Further reading

• “dialectal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dialectal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “dialectal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dialectal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From dialecte +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja.lɛk.tal/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: dia‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal (feminine dialectale, masculine plural dialectaux, feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

   Le lituanien comporte deux grands groupes dialectaux.

   Lithuanian consists of two large dialectal groups.

Derived terms

• continuum dialectal

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• dialectau (Gascony, Limousin, Provençal)

Adjective

dialectal m (feminine singular dialectala, masculine plural dialectals, feminine plural dialectalas)

1. dialectal

Related terms

• dialècte

Portuguese

Adjective

dialectal m or f (plural dialectais)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of dialetal. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dialectal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dialekˈtal/

Adjective

dialectal m or n (feminine singular dialectală, masculine plural dialectali, feminine and neuter plural dialectale)

1. dialectal

Declension

Declension of dialectal

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	dialectal		dialectală		dialectali	dialectale
	definite	dialectalul		dialectala		dialectalii	dialectalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	dialectal		dialectale		dialectali	dialectale
	definite	dialectalului		dialectalei		dialectalilor	dialectalelor

Related terms

• dialectalism

Spanish

Etymology

From dialecto +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaleɡˈtal/ [d̪ja.leɣ̞ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

Derived terms

• dialectalmente

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10