end

See also: END, End, -end, end-, and энд

English

Alternative forms

• ende (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”).

See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”). More at and and anti-.

The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕnd, IPA^(key): /ɛnd/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation); “to end”:

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• (dialectal, obsolete) enPR: ēnd, IPA^(key): /iːnd/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ɪnd/
• Homophone: Ind (pin–pen merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛnd, -ɪnd

Noun

end (plural ends)

1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

     they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

   At the end of the road, turn left.

   At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.

2. (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

   Is there no end to this madness?

3. (by extension) Death.

   He met a terrible end in the jungle.

   I hope the end comes quickly.

   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.

   • 1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey:

     A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.

4. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.

   Hold the string at both ends.

   My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 22:27:

     All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.

5. Result.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!

   • 1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154)

     The end was that he was thought an archfool.

7. A purpose, goal, or aim.

   For what end should I toil?

   The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.

   Synonym: purpose

   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act III:

     But, losing her, the End of Living lose.

   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146:

     When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:

     There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.

8. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

   The Pavillion End

9. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […] .

10. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
11. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
12. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.

    odds and ends

    • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

      I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

13. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
14. (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.

    Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!

Synonyms

• (final point in space or time): conclusion, limit, terminus, termination
• See also Thesaurus:goal

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “final point of something”): beginning, start

Hyponyms

• big end
• bitter end
• living end
• loose end
• rear end
• split end
• the end
• tight end
• weekend
• world's end

 

A component in place names

• Audley End
• Bourne End
• Bridge End, Bridgend
• Cliffsend, Cliffs End
• Crouch End
• East End
• Elmers End
• Four Lane Ends
• Hale End
• Hatch End
• Heath End
• Hedge End
• Hulme End
• Hundred End
• Knott End, Knott End-on-Sea
• Land's End
• Lane End
• Lane Ends
• Mile End
• Mill End
• North End
• Park End, Parkend
• Ponders End
• Princes End
• Rood End
• Shenley Church End
• Streetly End
• Town End, Townend
• Wallsend
• Well End
• West End
• Whitlock's End
• Wood End, Woodend
• World's End
• Wreaks End

 

Derived terms

• 3′ end
• 5′ end
• all ends up
• all good things come to an end
• all good things must come to an end
• arse end
• Arse-end Charlie
• arse end of nowhere
• at a loose end
• at loose ends
• at one's fingers' ends
• at the end of one's tether
• at the end of the day
• at the receiving end
• back end
• back-end
• baulk end
• beam-ends
• begin at the wrong end
• beginning of the end
• bell end
• bell-end
• big end of town
• blank end
• bottom-end
• bring an end to
• bring to an end
• burn one's candle at both ends
• burnt ends
• burn the candle at both ends
• business end
• butt end
• by-end
• candle-end
• closed-end fund
• cod end
• come to an end
• come to a sticky end
• dead end
• dead-end
• deep end
• dog-end
• double-end
• draw to an end
• end artery
• end board
• end button
• end-button
• end cap
• end-consumer
• end consumer
• end credits
• end-Cretaceous
• -ended
• end-effector
• end feel
• end-feel
• end-feet
• end-foot
• end for end
• end-game
• end game
• end goal
• end grain
• end in itself
• endism
• end item
• end lap
• end-leaf
• endless
• endlike
• end line
• end lockdown
• endly
• end mark
• end matter
• end-member
• endmember
• end member
• end moraine
• end of
• end of day
• End of Days
• end of discussion
• end of history
• end-of-history illusion
• end-of-life
• end of life
• end of quote
• end of story
• end of terrace
• end of the day
• end of the line
• end-of-the-pier
• end of the rainbow
• end of the road
• end of the world
• end-of-train
• end of watch
• end-on
• end on
• end-on-end
• end-organ
• end organ
• endpaper
• end piece
• endpiece
• end point, endpoint
• end product
• end quote
• end result
• end rhyme
• end run
• endsay
• end-scraper
• ends of the earth
• ends of the world
• endsome
• end state
• end table
• end times
• end titles
• end-to-end
• end-Triassic mass extinction
• end user
• end-user license agreement
• end user license agreement
• endward
• endways
• endwise
• end zone
• every stick has two ends
• extra ends
• face like the back end of a bus
• fag end
• fag-end
• follow someone to the ends of the earth
• follow someone to the ends of the world
• fore-end
• front end
• front-end
• front-end loader
• front end loader
• front-end processor
• fuzzy end of the lollipop
• gable end
• game-end
• genetic dead end
• get one's end away
• get one's end in
• get on the end of
• go to the ends of the earth
• go to the ends of the world
• hear the end of it
• high-end
• high end
• hold up one's end
• hot end
• idiot end
• in at the deep end
• in the end
• keep one's end up
• knob-end
• knob end
• know which end is up
• latter end
• light at the end of the tunnel
• like the back end of a bus
• live end dead end
• look beyond the end of one's nose
• look past the end of one's nose
• loose ends
• low-end
• make both ends meet
• make ends meet
• make someone's hair stand on end
• means to an end
• meet a sticky end
• meet one's end
• middle-end
• month's end
• most an end
• nob end
• nob-end
• no end
• not know which end is up
• not the end of the world
• odds and ends
• off the deep end
• on end
• on one's beam ends
• on the receiving end
• open-end fund
• other end
• other end of the ball
• paired-end tag
• play both ends against the middle
• pointier end
• pointiest end
• pointy end
• put an end to
• rear-end
• rear-end collision
• rope's-end
• rope's end
• rough end of the pineapple
• scrag-end
• scrag end
• see beyond the end of one's nose
• see past the end of one's nose
• shallow end
• sharp end
• sharp end of one's tongue
• shoemaker's end
• short end
• short end of the stick
• show end
• small end of the wedge
• snitches get stitches and end up in ditches
• standing end
• stand on end
• sticky end
• stub end
• tag end
• tail end
• tail-end
• the end justifies the means
• the end of one's rope
• the ends justify the means
• thin end of the wedge
• think no end of oneself
• this is the end
• thrombo-end-arterectomy
• through the wrong end of the telescope
• throw in at the deep end
• tie up loose ends
• tight end
• time of the end
• to no end
• top-end
• top end of town
• to that end
• to the end of the chapter
• to the end of time
• to this end
• to what end
• up-end
• warp end
• war to end all war
• war to end all wars
• waxed end
• wax end
• wax-end
• week-end, weekend
• well end
• wet end
• without end
• wits' end
• wit's end
• work both ends against the middle
• working end
• world without end
• wrong end of the stick
• year-end

 

Collocations

Adjectives often used with "end"

final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

Descendants

• → Japanese: エンド

Translations

extreme part

• Arabic: نِهَايَة (ar) f (nihāya), غَايَة f (ḡāya)

  Egyptian Arabic: نهاية f (nehāya)

  Moroccan Arabic: خر m (ḵar)

• Armenian: վերջ (hy) (verǰ), ծայր (hy) (cayr)
• Assamese: ওৰ (ür), শেষ (xex)
• Asturian: fin (ast) m or f
• Azerbaijani: son (az), axır (az), baş (az)
• Bashkir: аҙаҡ (aźaq)
• Basque: amai (eu)
• Belarusian: кане́ц m (kanjéc), край m (kraj) (edge)
• Breton: diwezh (br) m
• Bulgarian: край (bg) m (kraj)
• Burmese: အဆုံး (my) (a.hcum:)
• Catalan: fi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結束／结束 (zh) (jiéshù), 末尾 (zh) (mòwěi), 端 (zh) (duān) (edge)

• Chuvash: вӗҫ (vĕś)
• Czech: konec (cs) m
• Dalmatian: fain m
• Danish: ende (da), afslutning (da)
• Dutch: einde (nl) n, uiteinde (nl) n
• Egyptian: (grḥ m)
• Esperanto: fino (eo)
• Estonian: lõpp (et)
• Even: мудан (mudan)
• Evenki: мудан (mudan)
• Ewe: nuwuwu n
• Finnish: pää (fi), pääty (fi) (usually in space); loppu (fi) (usually in time or when there is a "beginning")
• French: fin (fr) f, bout (fr) m, extrémité (fr) f
• Friulian: fin
• Galician: fin (gl) m or f
• Georgian: დასასრული (dasasruli), ბოლო (ka) (bolo), მიწურული (mic̣uruli)
• German: Ende (de) n, Schluss (de) m

  Alemannic German: Endi

• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (andeis)
• Greek: τέλος (el) n (télos), πέρας (el) n (péras), τέρμα (el) n (térma), λήξη (el) f (líxi), άκρο (el) n (ákro) (edge), άκρη (el) f (ákri) (edge)

  Ancient: ἄκρον n (ákron), τέρμα n (térma), τέλος n (télos), τελευτή f (teleutḗ)

• Haitian Creole: fen
• Hebrew: סוֹף (he) m (sof), קצה (he) m (q'tzeh, literally “edge”)
• Hindi: अंत (hi) m (ant)
• Hungarian: vég (hu)
• Icelandic: endir (is)
• Ido: fino (io)
• Indonesian: akhir (id), ujung (id)
• Ingrian: loppu
• Irish: foirceann m
• Istriot: feîn m
• Italian: fine (it) f
• Japanese: 終了 (ja) (shūryō), 終わり (ja) (owari), 終い (shimai), 端 (ja) (hashi), 最後 (ja) (saigo), エンド (ja) (endo)
• Kapampangan: danggut, sepu
• Khmer: ចុង (km) (coŋ)
• Korean: 끝 (ko) (kkeut), 종료(終了) (ko) (jongnyo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dawî (ku) f, talî (ku) f, dûmahî (ku) f, xilasî (ku) f, kutahî (ku) f

• Ladino:

  Hebrew: פ׳ין, קאב׳ו

  Latin: fin f, kavo m

• Lao: ຈົບ (chop)
• Latgalian: beigys, gols m, pabeigys
• Latin: finis (la) m or f, terminus (la) m, termen n, exitus m, extremum n, extremus m, peractio f, finalitas
• Latvian: gals (lv) m, beigas f pl
• Lithuanian: pabaiga (lt) f, galas (lt) m
• Luganda: enkomelelo
• Luxembourgish: Enn n
• Macedonian: крај m (kraj)
• Malay: akhir (ms), hujung (ms), هوجوڠ
• Maltese: tmiem, għeluq
• Manchu: ᡩᡠᠪᡝ (dube), ᠸᠠᠵᡳᠮᠠ (wajima)
• Manx: arbyl m
• Maori: hikutau (of a season), mutunga (conclusion), paunga (completion)
• Mongolian: төгсгөл (mn) (tögsgöl)
• Nanai: дуэ (due), модан (modan)
• Neapolitan: scompetura f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ende (no) m, slutt m

• Occitan: fin (oc)
• Oromo: dhuma
• Persian: انتها (fa) (entehâ), پایان (fa) (pâyân), آخر (fa) (âxar)
• Polish: koniec (pl) m
• Portuguese: fim (pt), cabo (pt) m, término (pt) m
• Romanian: sfârșit (ro), terminație (ro), capăt (ro)
• Romansch: fin, fegn
• Russian: коне́ц (ru) m (konéc), край (ru) m (kraj)
• Sanskrit: अन्त (sa) m or n (anta), समाप्ति (sa) f (samāpti)
• Sardinian: fine, fini, finis
• Scottish Gaelic: eàrr m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крај m

  Roman: kraj (sh) m

• Sicilian: fini (scn)
• Slovak: koniec (sk) m
• Slovene: konec (sl) m
• Somali: dhammaad
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kóńc m

• Spanish: fin (es) m or f, lado (es) m, parte (es) m, extremo (es) m, punta (es) f, cabo (es) m, final (es)
• Swahili: mwisho (sw), ncha (sw) class 9/10, tamati (sw)
• Swedish: slut (sv), ände (sv)
• Tagalog: katapusan, dulo (tl)
• Tajik: охир (tg) (oxir)
• Thai: จบ (th) (jòp)
• Tibetan: མཇུག (mjug)
• Turkish: son (tr)
• Ukrainian: кіне́ць (uk) m (kinécʹ), край (uk) m (kraj) (edge)
• Urdu: انت m (ant)
• Venetan: fin f, tèrmine (vec) m
• Vietnamese: chóp (vi), mút (vi), kết (vi)
• Walloon: fén (wa) f, dibout (wa) m, coron (wa) m
• Welsh: diwedd (cy)
• West Frisian: ein (fy)
• Yagnobi: охир (oxir)
• Yiddish: סוף m (sof)

death

• Azerbaijani: son (az), axır (az), ölüm (az)
• Bulgarian: смърт (bg) f (smǎrt)
• Catalan: final (ca) m, fi (ca) f
• Czech: smrt (cs) f
• Dutch: einde (nl) n
• Finnish: loppu (fi)
• Galician: fin (gl) f
• Georgian: აღსასრული (aɣsasruli)
• German: Tod (de) m, Ende (de) n
• Greek: τέλος (el) n (télos)
• Japanese: ご臨終 (ja) (go-rinjū), 終わり (ja) (owari), 最期 (ja) (saigo)
• Korean: 죽음 (ko) (jugeum)
• Latgalian: kaiki
• Latin: finis (la)
• Latvian: gals (lv) m
• Macedonian: смрт (mk) f (smrt), крај m (kraj)
• Ngazidja Comorian: mzimiha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ende (no) m, død (no) m

• Polish: śmierć (pl) f, koniec (pl) m
• Portuguese: fim (pt) m
• Russian: смерть (ru) f (smertʹ), коне́ц (ru) m (konéc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: смрт f

  Roman: smrt (sh) f

• Spanish: muerte (es) f
• Swahili: mwisho (sw)
• Swedish: slut (sv), död (sv)
• Tagalog: katapusan, wakas, kamatayan
• Turkish: son (tr), ölüm (tr)

result

• Finnish: tulos (fi)
• Japanese: 結末 (ja) (ketsumatsu), 結果 (ja) (kekka)
• Korean: 결말 (ko) (gyeolmal), 결과 (ko) (gyeolgwa), 결론 (ko) (gyeollon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ende (no) m

purpose

• Arabic: غَايَة f (ḡāya)
• Finnish: päämäärä (fi), tarkoitus (fi)
• Greek: σκοπός (el) m (skopós)
• Hebrew: תַּכְלִית (he) f (tachlít)
• Japanese: 到達点 (tōtatsuten)
• Korean: 도달점 (dodaljeom), 목적 (ko) (mokjeok)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hensikt (no) m, mål (no) n, formål (no) n

  Nynorsk: hensikt f, føremål n

• Portuguese: fim (pt) m

period in curling

• Finnish: erä (fi)
• French: bout (fr)
• Macedonian: цел f (cel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: please add this translation if you can

• Polish: meta (pl) f
• Russian: энд (ru) m (end)
• Slovak: cieľ m
• Slovene: cilj (sl) m

ideal point of a complex

• Finnish: pää (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: please add this translation if you can

Verb

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

1. (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.

   Is this movie never going to end?

   The lesson will end when the bell rings.

2. (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.

   The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.

3. (transitive) To finish, terminate.

   The referee blew the whistle to end the game.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:2:

     And on the seventh day God ended his worke […]

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:

     But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.

   • 2013 November 9, “How to stop the fighting, sometimes”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8861:

     Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.

Derived terms

• all's well that ends well
• be-all and end-all
• be-all end-all
• end-all and be-all
• end-all be-all
• end in
• ending
• end in smoke
• end in tears
• end it all
• end off
• end one's days
• end one's life
• end out
• end up
• Father Charles goes down and ends battle
• my watch has ended
• never-ending
• September that never ended
• unending

 

Translations

intransitive: be finished, be terminated

• Albanian: mbaron
• Arabic: اِنْتَهَى (ar) (intahā)
• Armenian: վերջանալ (hy) (verǰanal)
• Basque: amaitu
• Bulgarian: завъ́ршвам (bg) impf (zavǎ́ršvam), завъ́рша pf (zavǎ́rša)
• Catalan: acabar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏍᏆᏗᎠ (alisquadia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 完 (zh) (wán), 結束／结束 (zh) (jiéshù), 終止／终止 (zh) (zhōngzhǐ)

• Chuvash: пӗт (pĕt)
• Czech: končit se (cs) pf
• Dutch: eindigen (nl), ophouden (nl), einden (nl)
• Estonian: lõppema (et)
• Finnish: päättyä (fi), loppua (fi)
• French: finir (fr), terminer (fr)
• Georgian: დამთავრება (damtavreba), მორჩენა (morčena)
• German: enden (de)
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (sweiban)
• Greek: τελειώνω (el) (teleióno), λήγω (el) (lígo)
• Hebrew: נגמר (he) (nigmár), הִסְתַּיֵּם (histayyém)
• Hindi: ख़त्म होना (xatm honā)
• Hungarian: befejeződik (hu)
• Ido: finar (io)
• Indonesian: berakhirkan (id), berakhir (id), tamat (id), selesai (id), habis (id)
• Italian: finire (it)
• Japanese: 終わる (ja) (おわる, owaru), 終了する (ja) (しゅうりょうする, shūryō suru)
• Kabuverdianu: kaba
• Korean: 끝나다 (ko) (kkeunnada), 마치다 (ko) (machida)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qedîn (ku), xilas (ku) (xilas bûn), temam (ku) (temam bûn), kuta (ku) (kuta bûn), man (ku) (neman), bi dawî hatin (ku)

• Kyrgyz: бүтүү (ky) (bütüü)
• Latin: finio (la), termino (la), finem habeo, finior, terminor
• Macedonian: заврши (završi)
• Meru: muthia
• Nahuatl: tlami
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ende (no), slutte (no)

• Old English: endian
• Persian: تمام شدن (fa) (tamâm šodan)
• Polish: kończyć (pl) się
• Portuguese: acabar (pt), terminar (pt), findar (pt), finalizar (pt), concluir (pt)
• Romanian: sfârși (ro), termina (ro)
• Russian: зака́нчиваться (ru) impf (zakánčivatʹsja), зако́нчиться (ru) pf (zakónčitʹsja), конча́ться (ru) impf (končátʹsja), око́нчиться (ru) pf (okónčitʹsja), ко́нчиться (ru) pf (kónčitʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свршити

  Latin: svršiti (sh)

• Slovene: končati (sl)
• Spanish: acabarse (es), terminarse (es), finir (es) (Colombia)
• Swahili: -isha
• Swedish: sluta (sv), ända (sv)
• Tagalog: matapos (tl), matapos (tl)
• Tamil: முடி (ta) (muṭi)
• Tibetan: མཇུག་སྒྲིལ (mjug sgril)
• Turkish: bitmek (tr), sonlanmak, tükenmek (tr)
• Urdu: ختم ہونا (xatm honā)
• Vietnamese: kết thúc (vi), hết (vi)
• Welsh: gorffen (cy)
• Yakut: бүт (büt)

transitive: finish, terminate (something)

• Arabic: أَنْهَى (ʔanhā)

  Moroccan Arabic: كمّل (kammal)

• Armenian: վերջացնել (hy) (verǰacʻnel)
• Basque: amaitu
• Belarusian: зака́нчваць impf (zakánčvacʹ), канча́ць impf (kančácʹ), ско́нчыць pf (skónčycʹ)
• Breton: echuiñ (br)
• Bulgarian: приклю́чвам (bg) impf (prikljúčvam), приклю́ча pf (prikljúča), завъ́ршвам (bg) impf (zavǎ́ršvam), завъ́рша pf (zavǎ́rša)
• Catalan: acabar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 完成 (zh) (wánchéng), 完 (zh) (wán), 結束／结束 (zh) (jiéshù), 終止／终止 (zh) (zhōngzhǐ)

• Czech: dokončovat impf, dokončit (cs) pf
• Dutch: beëindigen (nl)
• Esperanto: fini
• Estonian: lõpetama
• Finnish: päättää (fi), lopettaa (fi)
• French: finir (fr), terminer (fr)
• German: beenden (de)
• Greek: τελειώνω (el) (teleióno)
• Hindi: ख़त्म होना (xatm honā), अंत करना (ant karnā)
• Hungarian: befejez (hu), véget vet (hu)
• Ido: finar (io)
• Italian: finire (it)
• Japanese: 終了する (ja) (しゅうりょうする, shūryō suru), 終える (ja) (おえる, oeru), 終う (ja) (しまう, shimau)
• Kabuverdianu: kaba
• Khmer: បំផុត (km) (bɑmphot), ចប់ (km) (cɑp)
• Korean: 끝내다 (ko) (kkeunnaeda), 완성하다 (ko) (wanseonghada), 종료하다 (ko) (jongnyohada), 결론짓다 (gyeollonjitda)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qedandin (ku), xilas kirin, temam kirin, kuta kirin, nehêlan, bi dawî anîn (ku)

• Latin: finio (la), termino (la)
• Macedonian: завршува impf (završuva), заврши pf (završi), свршува impf (svršuva), сврши pf (svrši)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nahuatl: tlamia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ende (no), avslutte (no), terminere

• Oromo: fixuu
• Persian: تمام کردن (fa) (tamâm kardan)
• Polish: skończyć (pl) pf, zakończyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: acabar (pt), terminar (pt)
• Quechua: usay, qispichiy
• Romanian: sfârși (ro), termina (ro)
• Russian: зака́нчивать (ru) impf (zakánčivatʹ), око́нчить (ru) pf (okónčitʹ), зако́нчить (ru) pf (zakónčitʹ), заверша́ть (ru) impf (zaveršátʹ), заверши́ть (ru) pf (zaveršítʹ), прекраща́ть (ru) impf (prekraščátʹ), прекрати́ть (ru) pf (prekratítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: завршити

  Latin: završiti (sh)

• Slovak: skončiť, ukončiť
• Spanish: acabar (es), terminar (es), finalizar (es)
• Swahili: -maliza
• Swedish: sluta (sv), avsluta (sv)
• Tagalog: tapusin
• Tamil: முடி (ta) (muṭi)
• Thai: ยุติ (th) (yút-dtì)
• Turkish: bitirmek (tr), sonlandırmak (tr), tüketmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: закі́нчувати impf (zakínčuvaty), закі́нчити (uk) pf (zakínčyty), кінча́ти impf (kinčáty), скі́нчити pf (skínčyty)
• Urdu: ختم کرنا (xatm karnā)
• Vietnamese: làm xong, hoàn thành (vi), kết thúc (vi), kết liễu (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劇終／剧终 (zh) (jùzhōng), 告終／告终 (zh) (gàozhōng), 了結／了结 (zh) (liǎojié), 收場／收场 (zh) (shōuchǎng; shōucháng), 完畢／完毕 (zh) (wánbì), 完結／完结 (zh) (wánjié), 終了／终了 (zh) (zhōngliǎo)

Anagrams

• DEN, DNE, Den, Den., NDE, NED, Ned, den, edn., ned

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *antis/t, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥t-jes/t (“to plait, weave”).

Verb

end (aorist enda, participle endur)

1. (transitive) to weave

   Synonyms: vej, vegjoj

Derived terms

• endem

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂endʰ-. probably from Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos), or from Proto-Albanian *anda

Verb

end (aorist enda, participle endur)

1. (intransitive) to bloom, blossom
2. (transitive) to flyblow

Derived terms

• endëc

Related terms

• endë

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse en, earlier an, probably from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”), like English than, German denn (“than, for”). For the loss of þ-, compare Old Norse at (“that”) from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

Conjunction

end

1. than (in comparisons)

   Han er venligere end hende.

   He is friendlier than her.

   Han er venligere end hun er.

   He is friendlier than she is.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

Adverb

end

1. still (archaic)

   Thi end bestandig gælder de gamle, gyldne ord.

   For the old, golden words are still continually valid.

2. (with interrogatives) no matter, ever

   Hvor man end er, kan man føle sig alene.

   Wherever you are, you may feel alone.

3. even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even")

   End ikke statsministeren kan nå alt.

   Not even the primeminister can get everything done.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnˀ/

Verb

end

1. imperative of ende

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ende (“end”) with apocope of the final -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: end
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

end n (plural enden, diminutive endje n)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of eind

   De winkel is daar aan 't end van de weg. ― The shop is there at the end of the road.

   't Is nog een een end vanaf hier. ― There is still a considerable distance to travel from here.

Anagrams

• den

Estonian

Pronoun

end

1. partitive singular of ise

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ende.

Noun

end

1. Alternative form of ende

Etymology 2

From Old English endian.

Verb

end

1. Alternative form of enden

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnd/, /ɛn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd, -ɛn
• Hyphenation: end
• Homophone: enn

Verb

end

1. imperative of ende

Anagrams

• den, ned

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

end

1. imperative of enda

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /end/

Conjunction

end

1. Alternative form of and

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

end n

1. end

Antonyms

• ofaong