soutien
See also: Soutien
French
Etymology
Deverbal from soutenir.
(soutien-gorge): Compare typologically Russian подтя́жки (podtjážki) (distantly cognate vie Proto-Indo-European *ten-).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.tjɛ̃/
Audio: (file)
Noun
soutien m (plural soutiens)
- support (physical)
- support (psychological/emotional)
- (informal) ellipsis of soutien-gorge
- Synonym: soutif
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: sutjena
- → Bulgarian: сутие́н (sutién)
- → Egyptian Arabic: ستيان (sutyān)
- → Persian: سوتین (sutiyan)
- → Greek: σουτιέν (soutién)
- → Khmer: អាវស៊ូជាង (ʼaaw suuciəng)
- → Portuguese: sutiã
- → Romanian: sutien
- → Spanish: soutien
- → Turkish: sütyen, sutyen
- → Vietnamese: xu-chiêng
Further reading
- “soutien”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French soutien.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /su.t͡ʃiˈẽj̃/ [su.t͡ʃɪˈẽɪ̯̃], (faster pronunciation) /suˈt͡ʃjẽj̃/ [suˈt͡ʃjẽɪ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /suˈtjen/
Noun
soutien m (plural soutiens)
- alternative form of sutiã
Further reading
- “soutien”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “soutien”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suˈtjen/ [suˈt̪jẽn]
- Rhymes: -en
- Syllabification: sou‧tien
Noun
soutien m (plural soutiens)
- (Rioplatense) bra; brassiere
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sostén
Further reading
- “soutien”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010