jargon
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/Category:English 2-syllable words#JARGONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#JARGON
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/Category:English 2-syllable words#JARGONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#JARGON
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#JARGONAudio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡənCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)ɡən#JARGONCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)ɡən/2 syllables#JARGON
- Hyphenation: jar‧gon
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#JARGONCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#JARGON jargoun, jargon, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#JARGON jargonCategory:English undefined derivations#JARGON, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
Noun
jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)Category:English lemmas#JARGONCategory:English nouns#JARGONCategory:English uncountable nouns#JARGONCategory:English countable nouns#JARGONCategory:English countable nouns#JARGONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#JARGON) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- 2018 June 13, Michael Schein, “Author Simon Sinek Is Full Of Hot Air (And Other Reasons You Should Follow His Lead)”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 13 July 2020:
- Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.Category:English terms with quotations#JARGON
- 2022 May 17, Rob Andrews, “Synology SRM 1.3 Software Review Part 4 – The Safe Access Application”, in NAS Compares, archived from the original on 21 May 2022:
- That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.Category:English terms with quotations#JARGON
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#JARGON) A language characteristic of a particular group.
- 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 11:
- They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.Category:English terms with quotations#JARGON
- 2014, Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today:
- In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.Category:English terms with quotations#JARGON
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#JARGON) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
- Cut the jargon and get to your point.Category:English terms with usage examples#JARGON
Synonyms
- (language characteristic of a group): argot, cant, intalk, lingo
- vernacular
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle jargoned)Category:English lemmas#JARGONCategory:English verbs#JARGONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
- To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes):
- Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […] .Category:English terms with quotations#JARGON
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Fatherland in Danger”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 184:
- Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.Category:English terms with quotations#JARGON
- 1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poet’s Tale. The Birds of Killingworth.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 195:
- [T]he noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; […]Category:English terms with quotations#JARGON
Etymology 2
Noun
jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)Category:English lemmas#JARGONCategory:English nouns#JARGONCategory:English uncountable nouns#JARGONCategory:English countable nouns#JARGONCategory:English countable nouns#JARGONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
Further reading
Jargon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Jargon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)- Raymond Williams (1983), “Jargon”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 174.
Dutch
Etymology
From Old FrenchCategory:Dutch terms derived from Old French#JARGON jargon (“chatter, talk, language”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɑrˈɣɔn/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#JARGON
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#JARGONAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: jar‧gon
Noun
jargon n (plural jargons, diminutive jargonnetje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#JARGONCategory:Dutch nouns#JARGONCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#JARGONCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Dutch neuter nouns#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
- jargon, specialised language
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Finnish terms borrowed from French#JARGONCategory:Finnish terms derived from French#JARGON jargon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjɑrɡon/, [ˈjɑ̝rɡo̞n]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#JARGONCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#JARGON
- Rhymes: -ɑrɡonCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrɡon#JARGONCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrɡon/2 syllables#JARGON
- Syllabification(key): jar‧gon
- Hyphenation(key): jar‧gon
Noun
jargonCategory:Finnish lemmas#JARGONCategory:Finnish nouns#JARGONCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
Declension
| Inflection of jargon (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | jargon | jargonit | |
| genitive | jargonin | jargonien | |
| partitive | jargonia | jargoneja | |
| illative | jargoniin | jargoneihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | jargon | jargonit | |
| accusative | nom. | jargon | jargonit |
| gen. | jargonin | ||
| genitive | jargonin | jargonien | |
| partitive | jargonia | jargoneja | |
| inessive | jargonissa | jargoneissa | |
| elative | jargonista | jargoneista | |
| illative | jargoniin | jargoneihin | |
| adessive | jargonilla | jargoneilla | |
| ablative | jargonilta | jargoneilta | |
| allative | jargonille | jargoneille | |
| essive | jargonina | jargoneina | |
| translative | jargoniksi | jargoneiksi | |
| abessive | jargonitta | jargoneitta | |
| instructive | — | jargonein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
- “jargon”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒaʁ.ɡɔ̃/Category:French 2-syllable words#JARGONCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#JARGON
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#JARGONAudio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#JARGONAudio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#JARGONAudio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#JARGONCategory:French terms derived from Old French#JARGON jargon, gargun ("cheeping of birds"), from a root *garg expressing the sound of the throat or referring to it. See gargouille, gargariser, gargoter.
The initial /ʒ/ sound comes from a softening of /g/, as in jambe.
Noun
jargon m (plural jargons)Category:French lemmas#JARGONCategory:French nouns#JARGONCategory:French countable nouns#JARGONCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:French masculine nouns#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
- jargon, specialised or unintelligible language
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Asturian: xerga, xíriga
- → Belarusian: жарго́н m (žarhón)
- → Czech: žargon
- → Dutch: jargon
- → English: jargon
- → Esperanto: ĵargono
- → German: Jargon
- → Hungarian: zsargon
- → Macedonian: жаргон (žargon)
- → Polish: żargon
- → Portuguese: jargão
- → Romanian: jargon n
- → Russian: жарго́н m (žargón)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: jerga
- → Serbo-Croatian: жаргон
- → Swedish: jargong
- → Turkish: jargon
- → Ukrainian: жарго́н m (žarhón)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from ItalianCategory:French terms borrowed from Italian#JARGONCategory:French terms derived from Italian#JARGON giargone. Doublet of zirconCategory:French doublets#JARGON.
Noun
jargon m (plural jargons)Category:French lemmas#JARGONCategory:French nouns#JARGONCategory:French countable nouns#JARGONCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:French masculine nouns#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
- jargoon, a zircon type
Descendants
Further reading
- “jargon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Indonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:Indonesian terms derived from Middle English#JARGONCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Old French#JARGONBorrowed from EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from English#JARGONCategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#JARGON jargon.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒarɡon/ [ˈd͡ʒar.ɡɔn]Category:Indonesian 2-syllable words#JARGONCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#JARGON
- Rhymes: -arɡonCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/arɡon#JARGONCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/arɡon/2 syllables#JARGON
- Syllabification: jar‧gon
Noun
jargon (plural jargon-jargon)Category:Indonesian lemmas#JARGONCategory:Indonesian nouns#JARGONCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jargon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Malay terms borrowed from English#JARGONCategory:Malay terms derived from English#JARGON jargon.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Literary) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒarɡon/ [ˈd͡ʒar.ɡon]Category:Malay 2-syllable words#JARGONCategory:Malay terms with IPA pronunciation#JARGON
Noun
jargon (plural jargon-jargon or jargon2)Category:Malay lemmas#JARGONCategory:Malay nouns#JARGONCategory:Malay entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
Derived terms
Further reading
- "jargon" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
Middle English
Noun
jargonCategory:Middle English alternative forms#JARGONCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
- alternative form of jargoun
Old French
Etymology
Probably of imitativeCategory:Old French onomatopoeias#JARGON origin, similar to Latin garrio (“to chatter”).
Noun
jargon oblique singular, m (oblique plural jargons, nominative singular jargons, nominative plural jargon)Category:Old French lemmas#JARGONCategory:Old French nouns#JARGONCategory:Old French masculine nouns#JARGONCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Old French masculine nouns#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
Descendants
- French: jargon
- → Asturian: xerga, xíriga
- → Belarusian: жарго́н m (žarhón)
- → Czech: žargon
- → Dutch: jargon
- → English: jargon
- → Esperanto: ĵargono
- → German: Jargon
- → Hungarian: zsargon
- → Macedonian: жаргон (žargon)
- → Polish: żargon
- → Portuguese: jargão
- → Romanian: jargon n
- → Russian: жарго́н m (žargón)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: jerga
- → Serbo-Croatian: жаргон
- → Swedish: jargong
- → Turkish: jargon
- → Ukrainian: жарго́н m (žarhón)
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “jargon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#JARGONCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#JARGON jargon.
Noun
jargon n (plural jargoane)Category:Romanian lemmas#JARGONCategory:Romanian nouns#JARGONCategory:Romanian countable nouns#JARGONCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | jargon | jargonul | jargoane | jargoanele |
| genitive-dative | jargon | jargonului | jargoane | jargoanelor |
| vocative | jargonule | jargoanelor | ||
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Turkish terms borrowed from French#JARGONCategory:Turkish terms derived from French#JARGON jargon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒɑɾˈɡon/, [ʒɑɾ̞ˈɡo̞n̪]Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#JARGON
Noun
jargon (definite accusative jargonu, plural jargonlar)Category:Turkish lemmas#JARGONCategory:Turkish nouns#JARGONCategory:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON
Synonyms
Volapük
Noun
jargonCategory:Volapük lemmas#JARGONCategory:Volapük nouns#JARGONCategory:Volapük entries with incorrect language header#JARGONCategory:Pages with entries#JARGONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#JARGON