regional

See also:régional

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Frenchrégional,fromLatinregiōnālis.

Pronunciation

• enPR:rē′jənəl,rēj′nəl,IPA^(key):/ˈɹiːd͡ʒənəl/,/ˈɹiːd͡ʒnəl/

• Audio(US):

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• Audio(General Australian):

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Adjective

regional(notcomparable)

1. Of, or pertaining to, a specificregionordistrict.

   Coordinate terms:local,localized;municipal;interregional,transregional;national,nationwide,countrywide,federal

   Near-synonyms:intraregional,locoregional

   regionalplayoffs

2. Of, or pertaining to, a largegeographicregion.

   regionalrainfall patterns

3. Of, or pertaining to, one part of thebody.

   Antonyms:systemic,bodywide

   Coordinate terms:local,localized

   Near-synonym:locoregional

   regionalnerve block

4. (Australia)Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are notmetropolitan,but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significanttowns.
   • 1988,Australian Bureau of Statistics,Year Book Australia‎^[1],volume Issue 71, page94:

     The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, InnerRegionalAustralia, OuterRegionalAustralia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.

   • 2005,Joy McCann, “Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia′s Wheatlands”, in Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie, editors,Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia‎^[2],page03-1:

     The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural andregionalAustralia.

   • 2011,Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson,Frommer′s Australia 2011‎^[3],unnumbered page:

     HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and manyregionalfour-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia′s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.

Derived terms

• complex regional pain syndrome
• interregional,inter-regional
• regional economics
• regional insourcing
• regional jet
• regional lockout
• regionally
• regional metamorphism
• regional Mexican
• regional municipality
• regional power
• subacute regional lymphadenitis

Translations

pertaining to a specific region

• Arabic:إِقْلِيمِيّ(ʔiqlīmiyy),جِهَوِيّ(jihawiyy)
• Armenian:տարածաշրջանային(hy)(taracašrǰanayin)
• Asturian:rexonal(ast)
• Belarusian:рэгіяна́льны(rehijanálʹny)
• Bengali:আঞ্চলিক(bn)(ancolik)
• Bulgarian:региона́лен(bg)(regionálen),местен(bg)(mesten)
• Catalan:regional(ca)
• Czech:regionální(cs),oblastní(cs)
• Dutch:regionaal(nl),gewestelijk(nl)
• Estonian:piirkondlik
• Extremaduran:rehional
• Finnish:alueellinen(fi)
• French:régional(fr)
• Galician:rexional
• Georgian:რეგიონული(regionuli)
• German:regional(de)
• Greek:τοπικός(el)(topikós)
• Hindi:आंचलिक(hi)(āñclik),क्षेत्रीय(kṣetrīya),प्रादेशिक(hi)(prādeśik)
• Hungarian:regionális(hu),területi(hu),térségi(hu),(transit)helyközi(hu)
• Indonesian:regional(id)
• Italian:regionale(it)
• Japanese:Địa vực đích(ちいきてき, chiikiteki)
• Kashmiri:مَقامی(maqāmī),मक़ामी(maqāmī)
• Kazakh:аймақтық(aimaqtyq)
• Malay:serantau
• Malayalam:പ്രാദേശിക(ml)(prādēśika)
• Manx:ardjynagh
• Marathi:प्रादेशिक(mr)(prādeśik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:regional

  Nynorsk:regional

• Occitan:regional(oc)
• Polish:regionalny(pl)
• Portuguese:regional(pt)
• Russian:региона́льный(ru)(regionálʹnyj)
• Slovak:regionálny(sk)
• Spanish:regional(es)
• Swedish:regional(sv)
• Tagalog:panrehiyon,rehiyonal,danayin(neologism)
• Ukrainian:регіона́льний(rehionálʹnyj)

Noun

regional(pluralregionals)

1. An entity or event withscopelimited to a single region.
   • 1985 March 11,James Connolly, “CPE big item onregionals′ omnivorous market menu”, inComputerworld‎^[4],page125:

     In the CPE^{[Customer Premises Equipment]}market, all sevenregionalsare selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.

   • 2001,Harold L. Vogel,Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis‎^[5],page44:

     Regionalsare among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.

   • 2006,Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel,The Magazine Writer′s Handbook‎^[6],page12:

     Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their ownregionals:New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami[…]

Anagrams

• Loegrian,geraniol

Catalan

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatinregiōnālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(Central)[rə.ʒi.uˈnal]
• IPA^(key):(Balearic)[rə.ʒi.oˈnal]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[re.d͡ʒi.oˈnal]

Adjective

regionalmorf(masculine and feminine pluralregionals)

1. regional

Derived terms

• regionalisme
• regionalista

Related terms

• regió

Further reading

• “regional”inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “regional”,inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2024
• “regional”inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “regional”inDiccionari català-valencià-balear,Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

regional

1. regional

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002)Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk[Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[7],Simferopol: Dolya,→ISBN

German

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatinregiōnālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ʁeɡi̯oˈnaːl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-aːl

Adjective

regional(strong nominative masculine singularregionaler,not comparable)

1. regional

Declension

Positive forms ofregional(uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		eristregional	sieistregional	esistregional	siesindregional
strong declension (without article)	nominative	regionaler	regionale	regionales	regionale
	genitive	regionalen	regionaler	regionalen	regionaler
	dative	regionalem	regionaler	regionalem	regionalen
	accusative	regionalen	regionale	regionales	regionale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	derregionale	dieregionale	dasregionale	dieregionalen
	genitive	desregionalen	derregionalen	desregionalen	derregionalen
	dative	demregionalen	derregionalen	demregionalen	denregionalen
	accusative	denregionalen	dieregionale	dasregionale	dieregionalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	einregionaler	eineregionale	einregionales	(keine)regionalen
	genitive	einesregionalen	einerregionalen	einesregionalen	(keiner)regionalen
	dative	einemregionalen	einerregionalen	einemregionalen	(keinen)regionalen
	accusative	einenregionalen	eineregionale	einregionales	(keine)regionalen

Related terms

• Region

Further reading

• “regional”inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “regional”in Uni Leipzig:Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “regional”inDudenonline

Indonesian

Etymology

FromDutchregionaal,fromFrenchrégional,fromLatinregiōnālis.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key):/reɡiˈonal/[re.ɡiˈo.nal]
• Rhymes:-onal
• Syllabification:re‧gi‧o‧nal

Adjective

regional

1. regional(pertaining to a specific region)
2. regional(pertaining to a large geographic region)

Related terms

• regio
• region
• regionalisme

Further reading

• “regional”inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia,Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation–Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia,2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

FromFrenchrégionalandEnglishregional,fromLatinregionalis.

Adjective

regional(masculine and feminineregional,neuterregionalt,definite singular and pluralregionale)

1. regional

References

• “regional”inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “regional”inDet Norske Akademis ordbok(NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

FromFrenchrégionalandEnglishregional,fromLatinregionalis.

Adjective

regional(neuterregionalt,definite singular and pluralregionale)

1. regional

References

• “regional”inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• regionau(Gascony,Provençal)

Etymology

Borrowed fromLatinregiōnālis.

Pronunciation

• Audio(Languedoc):

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Adjective

regionalm(feminine singularregionala,masculine pluralregionals,feminine pluralregionalas)

1. regional

Related terms

• region

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowingfromLatinregiōnālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/ʁe.ʒi.oˈnaw/[he.ʒɪ.oˈnaʊ̯],(faster pronunciation)/ʁe.ʒjoˈnaw/[he.ʒjoˈnaʊ̯]

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/ʁe.ʒi.oˈnaw/[he.ʒɪ.oˈnaʊ̯],(faster pronunciation)/ʁe.ʒjoˈnaw/[he.ʒjoˈnaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro)IPA^(key):/ʁe.ʒi.oˈnaw/[χe.ʒɪ.oˈnaʊ̯],(faster pronunciation)/ʁe.ʒjoˈnaw/[χe.ʒjoˈnaʊ̯]

• (Portugal)IPA^(key):/ʁɨ.ʒjuˈnal/[ʁɨ.ʒjuˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal)IPA^(key):/ʁɨ.ʒjuˈnal/[ʁɨ.ʒjuˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal)IPA^(key):/ʁɨ.ʒjuˈna.li/

• Rhymes:-aw,-al
• Hyphenation:re‧gi‧o‧nal

Adjective

regionalmorf(pluralregionais)

1. regional(relating to a region, place)
2. regional(typical or characteristic of a certain region)
3. regional(relating to the administration of a given region)

Derived terms

adverbs

• regionalmente

nouns

• regionalismom

Related terms

nouns

• regiãof

Further reading

• “regional”,inDicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa(in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora,2003–2024
• “regional”,inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa(in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchrégional.Bysurface analysis,regiune+‎-al.

Adjective

regionalmorn(feminine singularregională,masculine pluralregionali,feminine and neuter pluralregionale)

1. regional

Declension

Declension ofregional

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	regional		regională	regionali	regionale
	definite	regionalul		regionala	regionalii	regionalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	regional		regionale	regionali	regionale
	definite	regionalului		regionalei	regionalilor	regionalelor

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatinregiōnālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/rexjoˈnal/[re.xjoˈnal]
• Rhymes:-al
• Syllabification:re‧gio‧nal

Adjective

regionalmorf(masculine and feminine pluralregionales)

1. regional

Derived terms

• regionalismo
• regionalizar
• regionalmente

Related terms

• región

Further reading

• “regional”,inDiccionario de la lengua española,Vigésima tercera edición,Real Academia Española,2014

Swedish

Etymology

region+‎-al

Adjective

regional(notcomparable)

1. regional;pertaining to a region or regions

Declension

Inflection ofregional
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	regional	—	—
Neuter singular	regionalt	—	—
Plural	regionala	—	—
Masculine plural3	regionale	—	—
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	regionale	—	—
All	regionala	—	—
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Related terms

• regionalpolitik

References

• regionalinSvensk ordbok(SO)
• regionalinSvenska Akademiens ordbok(SAOB)

Anagrams

• logierna