English
Etymology
From post + card.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊstˌkɑɹd/
Noun
postcard (plural postcards)
- (postal) A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically used for sending messages by mail without the need for an envelope.
Derived terms
Translations
rectangular piece of thick paper to be mailed without an envelope
- Afrikaans: briefkaart
- Albanian: kartolinë (sq) f, kartpostale f
- Arabic: كَرْت بَرِيدِيّ m (kart barīdiyy)
- Armenian: բացիկ (hy) (bacʻik)
- Asturian: postal f
- Azerbaijani: poçt kartı, açıqca, açıqça
- Belarusian: пашто́ўка f (paštówka)
- Bengali: পোস্টকার্ড (bn) (pōsṭokarḍo), পোষ্টকার্ড (pōśṭokarḍo)
- Breton: kartenn-bost (br) f
- Bulgarian: по́щенска (bg) f (póštenska), по́щенска ка́ртичка f (póštenska kártička)
- Burmese: ပို့စကတ် (my) (pui.ca.kat)
- Catalan: targeta postal f, postal f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 明信片 (ming4 seon3 pin3-2)
- Hokkien: 明信片 (bêng-sìn-phìⁿ), 光批 (kng-phe, kuiⁿ-phoe)
- Mandarin: 明信片 (zh) (míngxìnpiàn)
- Czech: pohlednice (cs) f, pohled (cs) m
- Danish: brevkort n, postkort n
- Dutch: ansichtkaart (nl) f, kaart (nl) f, postkaart (nl) f (chiefly Belgium)
- Esperanto: poŝtkarto (eo)
- Estonian: postkaart (et)
- Faroese: postkort n
- Finnish: postikortti (fi), kirjekortti
- French: carte postale (fr) f
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: brievekaart c
- Galician: tarxeta postal f, postal (gl) f
- Georgian: საფოსტო ღია ბარათი (saposṭo ɣia barati), ღია ბარათი (ɣia barati)
- German: Postkarte (de) f
- Greek: κάρτα (el) f (kárta), καρτ-ποστάλ (el) n (kart-postál)
- Hausa: fôskātì m
- Hebrew: גְּלוּיָה f (g'luyá)
- Hindi: पोस्टकार्ड (hi) f (posṭkārḍ)
- Hungarian: levelezőlap (hu), (picture postcard) képeslap (hu)
- Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic: póstkort (is) n, kort (is) n, (rare) bréfspjald n
- Indonesian: kartu pos (id)
- Ingrian: otkrьtka
- Irish: cárta poist m
- Italian: cartolina (it) f
- Japanese: 葉書 (ja) (はがき, hagaki), ポストカード (ja) (posutokādo) (picture postcard)
- Javanese: kertu pos
- Kazakh: ашық хат (aşyq xat), ашықхат (aşyqxat)
- Korean: 그림엽서 (ko) (geurimyeopseo), 엽서(葉書) (ko) (yeopseo)
- Kyrgyz: почта открыткасы (pocta otkrıtkası), открытка (otkrıtka)
- Lao: ຮູບບັດ (hūp bat), ບັດໄປສະນີ (bat pai sa nī), ບັດ (bat), ໄປສະນີຍະບັດ (pai sa nī bat)
- Latvian: pastkarte f, atklātne f
- Lithuanian: atvirutė f
- Luxembourgish: Postkaart f
- Macedonian: разгле́дница f (razglédnica)
- Malay: poskad (ms)
- Mòcheno: postkòrt f
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: ил захидал (mn) (il zaxidal)
- Norman: carte postale f
- Norwegian: brevkort n
- Bokmål: postkort n
- Nynorsk: postkort n
- Pannonian Rusyn: погляднїца f (pohljadnjica)
- Papiamentu: pòstkart
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: کارْت پُسْتال (kârt postâl), کارْتپُسْتال (kârt-postâl)
- Plautdietsch: Postkoat f
- Polish: karta pocztowa (pl) f, pocztówka (pl) f, widokówka (pl) f (a picture postcard)
- Portuguese: cartão-postal m, postal (pt) m
- Romanian: carte poștală (ro) f
- Russian: почто́вая откры́тка f (počtóvaja otkrýtka), откры́тка (ru) f (otkrýtka)
- Scottish Gaelic: cairt-phuist f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: до̀писница f, ра́згледница f
- Latin: dòpisnica (sh) f, rázglednica (sh) f
- Slovak: pohľadnica f
- Slovene: razglednica (sl) f
- Spanish: tarjeta postal f, postal (es) f
- Swahili: postkadi class 9/10, kadi ya posta class 9/10
- Swedish: vykort (sv) n, brevkort (sv) n
- Tagalog: tarheta-postal
- Tajik: руқъа (ruq'a)
- Tatar: открытка (otkrıtqa)
- Thai: โปสต์การ์ด (th) (bpóot-gáat), ไปรษณียบัตร (th) (bprai-sà-nii-yá-bàt)
- Tibetan: སྦྲག་ཤོག (sbrag shog)
- Turkish: kartpostal (tr)
- Turkmen: otkrytka
- Ukrainian: листі́вка f (lystívka), пошто́ва листі́вка f (poštóva lystívka)
- Urdu: پوسْٹ کارْڈ (ur) f (posṭ kārḍ)
- Uyghur: ئاتكىرىتكا (atkiritka)
- Uzbek: pochta varaqasi, otkritka (uz), ochiq xat
- Vietnamese: bưu thiếp (vi) (郵帖)
- Vilamovian: pöstkiöt ?
- Welsh: cerdyn post m
- Yiddish: פּאָסטקאַרטל n (postkartl)
- Zulu: iliposikhadi (zu) ?
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Verb
postcard (third-person singular simple present postcards, present participle postcarding, simple past and past participle postcarded)
- (transitive) To send a postcard to someone.
to postcard one's friends
- (transitive) To send by means of a postcard.
to postcard one's news
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