order

See also: Order

English

Alternative forms

• ordre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.

Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹdɚ/, [ˈɔɹɾɚ]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdə(r)/
• Hyphenation: or‧der
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)

Illustrations of the Classical orders (from left to right): Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite, made in 1728 (sense 14)

1. (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

   put the children in age order

   It's arranged in order of frequency

2. (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
   • 1843, New York (State). Natural History Survey, Geology of New-York: Comprising the survey of the fourth geological ...‎^[1]:

     In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in its order disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward.

   • 1856, George Nicholls, A History of the Irish Poor Law: In Connexion with the Condition of the People‎^[2]:

     In the latter portion of this period, the country was assailed by famine and pestilence - — a fearful visitation which will be noticed hereafter in its order of date, and of which it would be out of place to say more at present.

   • 1897, T. L. Heath (translator), Eutocius of Ascalon, Extract from a commentary by Eutocius, quoted in 1897 [CUP], T. L. Heath (editor), The Works of Archimedes, 2002, Dover, unnumbered page,

     His attempt I shall also give in its order.

   • 1915, Edwin Abbott Abbott, the fourfold gospel the proclamation of the new kingdom‎^[3], page 298:

     This narrative must be discussed later on, in its order.

   • 1996, John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell, John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837‎^[4], page xxxi:

     The latter comes into play only as we examine each word in its order in the line.

   • 2013, Leah Sarat, Fire in the Canyon: Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream‎^[5]:

     Hasn't it been shown that the Hebrew letter “w” is equivalent to the number 6, due to its order in the alphabet, he asked?

   • 2014, Julia Navarro, Tell Me Who I Am‎^[6]:

     Because Professor Soler told me that you had to investigate things step by step, that you had to find a thread to follow and follow it, and find everything out in its order.

3. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

   The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.

4. (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

   to preserve order in a community or an assembly

   Order in the court!

6. (countable) A command.

   give an order

   his inability to follow orders

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.

   • 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:

     John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle.

7. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

   make an order

   receive an online order for the new range of sunglasses

   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎^[7], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.

8. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.

   St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.

9. (countable) An association of knights.

   the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.

10. Any group of people with common interests.
11. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
    • 2022 August 3, Matthew Mazzetta, “President Tsai awards state honor to visiting U.S. House speaker”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[8], archived from the original on 03 August 2022:

      The Order of Propitious Clouds is a civilian order that can be awarded to Taiwan citizens or foreign nationals. It is divided into a total of nine "classes" or grades, of which the Special Grand Cordon is the highest.
      Pelosi said she was particularly honored to receive the award from Tsai -- "a woman president in one of the freest societies in the world."

12. (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
    • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:

      Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

    The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales.

13. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.

    the higher or lower orders of society

    talent of a high order

    • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

      They are in equal order to their several ends.

    • 1726, George Granville, The British Enchanters:

      Various orders various ensigns bear.

    • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

      […] which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.

14. (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.

    There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.

    to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest

15. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.

    Hyponyms: Corinthian order, Doric order, Ionic order

16. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
17. (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

    a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter

18. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
19. (set theory, of a set or algebraic structure) The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
    • 1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222,

      In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x − l)m.

    • 2000, Michael Aschbacher, Finite Group Theory, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 260:

      For various reasons it turns out to be better to enlarge this set of invariants to include suitable normalizers of subgroups of odd prime order.

21. (group theory, of an element g of a group G) The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
    • 1997, Frank Celler, C. R. Leedham-Green, “Calculating the Order of an Invertible Matrix”, in Larry Finkelstein, William M. Kantor, editors, Groups and Computation II, American Mathematical Society, page 55:

      The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element $A$ of $G={\mathit {GL}}(d,q)$ on average using $O(d^{3}{\mathsf {log}}\ q)$ field operations, assuming that $q^{i}-1$ has been factorised for $i\leq d$.

    • 1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15,

      If $\Delta$ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of $\Delta$. The order of an element $a\in \Delta$ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer $n$ such that $a^{n}=1_{\Delta }$. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem.

      Theorem 1.10 Let $\Delta$ be a finite group.

      (i) The order of an element $a\in \Delta$ divides the order $|\Delta |$ of the group.

      (ii) If a prime number $p$ divides $|\Delta |$, then there exists an element $a\in \Delta$ of order $p$.

    • 2010, A. R. Vasishta, A. K. Vasishta, Modern Algebra, Krishna Prakashan Media, 60th Edition, page 180,

      Since in a finite group the order of an element must be a divisor of the order of the group, therefore o (a) cannot be 3 and so we must have o (a)=4=the order of the group G.

22. (graph theory, of a graph) The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
23. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
24. (order theory) The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
25. (algebra, of a monomial) The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.

    The monomial $x^{2}y^{3}z$ is of order $2+3+1=6$.

26. (algebra, of a polynomial in one variable) The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.

    Synonym: degree

    The quadratic polynomial $ax^{2}+bx+c,$ is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when $a$ is nonzero.

27. (finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
    • 1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 233:

      I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.

Quotations

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:i:

  Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us […] .

• 1973, Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, chapter 8:

  Since only two of our tape drives were in working order, I was ordered to order more tape units in short order, in order to order the data several orders of magnitude faster.

Synonyms

• (taxonomy): ordo
• (group): association, brotherhood, league, sisterhood, society

Antonyms

• chaos, disorder

Hypernyms

• denomination

Hyponyms

• alphabetical order
• antisocial behaviour order
• Anton Pillar order
• Anton Piller order
• apple-pie order
• back order
• back-to-work order
• banker's order
• boil order
• bond order
• bottom order
• change order
• chronological order
• closed order
• close order
• compulsory purchase order
• control order
• correct order
• court order
• data order
• day order
• Dehornoy order
• doctor's orders
• Egli-Milner order
• enclosed order
• execute order
• executive order
• fraternal birth order
• gagging order
• gag order
• global order
• go order
• Groceries Order
• heavy marching order
• hospital order
• insertion order
• interim order
• Jew World Order
• job order
• last orders
• lexicographic order
• limit order
• linear order
• lower order
• mail order
• market order
• Mary Bell order
• matched order
• mendicant order
• middle order
• military order
• minor order
• miscellaneous charge order
• moral order
• movement control order
• new world order
• New World Order
• Norwich Pharmacal order
• numerical order
• open order
• Order of Australia
• order of battle
• order of business
• Order of Canada
• order of council
• order of knighthood
• order of magnitude
• order of operations
• order of precedence
• order of service
• Order of St Michael and St George
• order of succession
• order of symmetry
• Order of the Bath
• order of the boot
• order of the day
• Order of the Garter
• Order of the Thistle
• p-adic order
• partial order
• payment order
• peace order
• pecking order
• Plotkin order
• postal money-order
• postal money order
• post office order
• post-office order
• program order
• protective order
• purchase order
• regular order
• religious order
• restraining order
• reverse order
• rules-based order
• running order
• sell order
• short order
• side order
• social order
• speed order
• standing order
• stay-at-home order
• stiffening order
• stop loss order
• stop-loss order
• stop order
• stroke order
• superorder
• suppression order
• tab order
• tall order
• temporary restraining order
• top order
• total order
• train order
• word order
• working order
• work order
• world order
• z-order

 

Derived terms

• bankruptcy order
• bit order
• blanket order
• bring to order
• byte order
• call to order
• cancelled to order
• close order drill
• close-order drill
• come to order
• delivery order
• engine order telegraph
• established order
• extended-order drill
• extended order drill
• extreme risk protection order
• final order cutoff
• first-order
• first order of the day
• first order stream
• foreorder
• fraternal birth-order effect
• gavel to order
• get one's affairs in order
• get one's house in order
• higher-order
• high order bit
• hold-departure order
• hyper-order
• infra-order
• in order
• in-order
• in order for
• in order that
• in order to
• in rag order
• in short order
• international order
• keep order
• law-and-order
• law and order
• made-to-order story
• mail-order bride
• monadic second-order logic
• multi-order
• oblique order
• one's house in order
• on order
• on the order of
• order arms
• order book
• order form
• order in
• order-in-council
• order in council
• order-mark
• order mark
• order of worship
• order paper
• order statistic tree
• order stream
• order to show cause
• order tree
• order type
• order up
• Orderville
• out of order
• out-of-order
• place an order
• point of order
• postorder
• pre-order
• production order
• put one's affairs in order
• put one's household in order
• put one's house in order
• Robert's Rules of Order
• Robert's Rules of Order
• sales order
• second-order
• second order stream
• set one's affairs in order
• set one's house in order
• short-order chef
• special order sale
• superorder
• tall order
• third-order
• third order
• third order stream
• time order
• to order
• well-order
• whole life order
• zero-order design
• zero-order hold
• zero-order logic
• z-order
• ℝ-order tree

 

Related terms

• ordain
• order
• ordinal
• ordinance, ordnance
• ordinary
• ordinate
• ordination
• ordo

 

With prefixes

• coordinate, coordination
• foreordination
• insubordination
• postordination
• preordination
• reordination
• subordinate, subordination
• subordination
• superordination

 

Descendants

• → Swahili: oda

Translations

arrangement, disposition

• Afrikaans: volgorde
• Arabic: تَرْتِيب m (tartīb), نِظَام (ar) m (niẓām)
• Armenian: կարգ (hy) (karg)
• Avar: низам (nizam)
• Azerbaijani: nizam
• Bashkir: тәртип (tərtip)
• Belarusian: пара́дак m (parádak)
• Bulgarian: ред (bg) m (red), поря́дък (bg) m (porjádǎk)
• Burmese: အစဉ် (my) (a.cany), အစီအလျဉ် (my) (a.cia.lyany), အစီအစဉ် (my) (a.cia.cany)
• Catalan: ordre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 順序／顺序 (seon⁶ zeoi⁶)

  Mandarin: 順序／顺序 (zh) (shùnxù)

• Czech: pořadí (cs) n, uspořádání (cs) n
• Danish: ordning c, rækkefølge (da) c
• Dutch: volgorde (nl) f, orde (nl) f
• Esperanto: ordo (eo)
• Finnish: järjestys (fi)
• French: ordre (fr) m
• Galician: orde (gl) f
• Georgian: წესრიგი (c̣esrigi)
• German: Ordnung (de) f, Reihenfolge (de) f

  Alemannic German: Ornig

• Greek:

  Ancient: τάξις f (táxis)

• Hebrew: סֵדֶר (he) m (séder)
• Hindi: तरतीब (hi) f (tartīb), नियम (hi) m (niyam), क्रम (hi) m (kram), व्यवस्था (hi) f (vyavasthā), निजाम (hi) m (nijām), निज़ाम (hi) m (nizām), विधान (hi) m (vidhān), तंज़ीम f (tanzīm), तनजीम (hi) f (tanjīm), तरतीब (hi) f (tartīb)
• Hungarian: rendezés (hu), rend (hu), elrendezés (hu), sorrend (hu)
• Icelandic: röð (is) f
• Indonesian: aturan (id), susunan (id)
• Interlingua: ordine
• Irish: bail f
• Italian: ordine (it) m, comando (it) m, direttiva (it) f, disposizione (it) f, sequenza (it) f
• Japanese: 順序 (ja) (じゅんじょ, junjo)
• Kazakh: тәртіп (tärtıp)
• Khmer: ការរៀបចំ (kaariəpcɑm), របៀប (km) (rɔbiəp)
• Korean: 순서(順序) (ko) (sunseo), 질서(秩序) (ko) (jilseo)
• Kyrgyz: тартип (ky) (tartip), ирет (ky) (iret)
• Lao: ລະບຽບ (la bīap), ລຳດັບ (lo) (lam dap)
• Latin: ōrdō (la) m
• Latvian: kārtība f, secība f
• Lithuanian: tvarka f
• Luxembourgish: Reiefolleg f
• Macedonian: ред m (red), поредок m (poredok)
• Maori: raupapa
• Mizo: indawtdàn
• Northern Sami: ortnet
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordning m, orden (no) m, rekkefølge (no) m

• Old English: leodgeþincþu f
• Persian:

  Dari: تَرْتِیب (fa) (tartīb), نِظَام (fa) (nizām)

  Iranian Persian: تَرْتیب (fa) (tartib), نِظام (fa) (nezâm)

• Polish: porządek (pl) m
• Portuguese: ordem (pt) f
• Romagnol: régula f
• Romanian: ordine (ro) f, rânduială (ro) f
• Romansch: urden
• Russian: поря́док (ru) m (porjádok)
• Sanskrit: विधान (sa) n (vidhāna)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdugh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀редак m

  Latin: pòredak (sh) m

• Slovak: poriadok m
• Slovene: red (sl) m, ureditev f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rěd m

• Spanish: orden (es) m
• Swahili: oda (sw)
• Swedish: ordning (sv) c, följd (sv) c
• Tagalog: katiwasayan, kasunran
• Tajik: тартиб (tartib), низом (nizom)
• Telugu: అమరిక (te) (amarika)
• Thai: ระเบียบ (th) (rá-bìiap), ลำดับ (th) (lam-dàp), อันดับ (th) (an-dàp), ขนบ (th) (kà-nòp)
• Turkish: düzen (tr), tertip (tr)
• Turkmen: tertip
• Ukrainian: поря́док (uk) m (porjádok)
• Urdu: تَرْتِیب (ur) f (tartīb), نِظام m (nizām)
• Uzbek: tartib (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ tự (vi)

good arrangement

• Afrikaans: orde (af)
• Arabic: تَرْتِيب m (tartīb)
• Armenian: կարգ (hy) (karg)
• Azerbaijani: nizam
• Bashkir: тәртип (tərtip)
• Belarusian: пара́дак m (parádak)
• Bulgarian: поря́дък (bg) m (porjádǎk)
• Catalan: ordre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 次序 (ci³ zeoi⁶), 秩序 (dit⁶ zeoi⁶)

  Mandarin: 次序 (zh) (cìxù), 秩序 (zh) (zhìxù)

• Czech: řád (cs) m, pořádek (cs) m
• Danish: orden (da) c
• Dutch: orde (nl) f
• Finnish: järjestys (fi)
• French: ordre (fr) m
• Galician: orde (gl) f
• German: Ordnung (de) f
• Greek: σειρά (el) f (seirá), τάξη (el) f (táxi)
• Hebrew: סֵדֶר (he) (séder)
• Hindi: सुव्यवस्था (hi) f (suvyavasthā), क्रम पद्धति f (kram paddhati), तरतीब (hi) f (tartīb), तंज़ीम f (tanzīm), तनजीम (hi) f (tanjīm)
• Hungarian: rend (hu), rendezettség (hu)
• Ido: ordino (io)
• Indonesian: aturan (id), susunan (id)
• Interlingua: ordine
• Irish: bail f
• Italian: ordine (it) m
• Japanese: 秩序 (ja) (ちつじょ, chitsujo)
• Khmer: របប (km) (rɔbɑɑp)
• Korean: 질서(秩序) (ko) (jilseo)
• Latvian: kārtība f
• Luxembourgish: Uerdnung f
• Macedonian: поредок m (poredok)
• Maori: raupapa
• Mizo: indawtdàn, inremfel
• Nanai: гиан (gian)
• Northern Sami: ortnet
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orden (no) m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تَرْتیب (fa) (tartib)

• Polish: porządek (pl) m, ład (pl) m
• Portuguese: ordem (pt) f
• Romanian: ordine (ro) f, rânduială (ro) f
• Russian: поря́док (ru) m (porjádok)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdugh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ре̑д m

  Latin: rȇd (sh) m

• Slovak: poriadok m
• Slovene: red (sl) m, ureditev f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rěd m

• Spanish: orden (es) m
• Swedish: ordning (sv) c
• Tagalog: katiwasayan
• Telugu: క్రమ పద్ధతి (krama paddhati)
• Thai: ลำดับ (th) (lam-dàp)
• Ukrainian: поря́док (uk) m (porjádok)
• Urdu: تَرْتِیب (ur) f (tartīb)
• Welsh: trefn (cy) f

command

• Albanian: urdhër (sq) m
• Arabic: أَمْر (ar) m (ʔamr), حُكْم (ar) m (ḥukm)
• Armenian: հրաման (hy) (hraman)
• Aromanian: urdin (roa-rup), dimãndari f, dimãndare f
• Assamese: আজ্ঞা (agga)
• Avar: амру (amru)
• Azerbaijani: buyruq, əmr
• Bashkir: бойороҡ (boyoroq)
• Basque: men
• Belarusian: зага́д m (zahád), раска́з m (raskáz), кама́нда f (kamánda), прыка́з m (prykáz)
• Bengali: আদেশ (bn) (adeś), আজ্ঞা (bn) (ajna)
• Bulgarian: за́повед (bg) f (zápoved), повеле́ние (bg) n (povelénie), наре́ждане (bg) n (naréždane)
• Burmese: အမိန့် (my) (a.min.), အမှာ (my) (a.hma)
• Catalan: ordre (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 命令 (ming⁶ ling⁶)

  Mandarin: 命令 (zh) (mìnglìng)

• Czech: rozkaz (cs) m, povel (cs) m
• Danish: ordre (da) c
• Dutch: order (nl) m, bevel (nl) n
• Egyptian: (wḏ)
• Esperanto: ordono
• Estonian: korraldus, käsk
• Finnish: käsky (fi), komento (fi)
• French: ordre (fr) m

  Old French: comandement m

• Galician: orde (gl) f, mandado m
• Georgian: ბრძანება (brʒaneba)
• German: Order (de) f, Befehl (de) m, Geheiß (de) n
• Greek: διαταγή (el) f (diatagí)

  Ancient: ἐντολή f (entolḗ), κέλευσμα n (kéleusma)

• Hebrew: פְּקֻדּה (he) f (pkuda)
• Hindi: आदेश (hi) m (ādeś), आज्ञा (hi) f (ājñā), हुक्म (hi) m (hukma), दस्तूर (hi) m (dastūr), फ़रमान m (farmān), फरमान (hi) m (pharmān), अम्र (hi) m (amra)
• Hungarian: parancs (hu), rendelet (hu), utasítás (hu), végzés (hu)
• Indonesian: perintah (id), aba-aba (id)
• Interlingua: ordine
• Italian: ordine (it) m, comando (it) m
• Japanese: 命令 (ja) (めいれい, meirei)
• Kazakh: әмір (kk) (ämır), бұйрық (būiryq)
• Khmer: បង្គាប់ (km) (bɑngkŏəp), បញ្ជា (km) (bɑñciə), អាណា (km) (ʼaanaa)
• Korean: 명령(命令) (ko) (myeongnyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: firman (ku)

• Kyrgyz: приказ (prikaz), буйрук (ky) (buyruk)
• Lao: ຄຳສັ່ງ (kham sang)
• Latin: ēdictum n, imperium (la) n, mandātum n
• Latvian: pavēle f
• Lithuanian: įsakymas m
• Luxembourgish: Uerder m
• Macedonian: заповед f (zapoved)
• Malay: perintah (ms)
• Malayalam: കൽപന (ml) n (kalpana), ഉത്തരവ് (ml) n (uttaravŭ), ആജ്ഞ (ml) n (ājña)
• Manchu: ᡥᡝᠰᡝ (hese)
• Maori: whakahau
• Mizo: thupêk, thupêk
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тушаал (mn) (tušaal)

• Northern Sami: gohččun
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordre (no) m

• Occitan: òrdre (oc) m
• Odia: ନିର୍ଦ୍ଦେଶ (or) (nirddeśa), ଆଜ୍ଞା (ājñā)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: заповѣдь f (zapovědĭ)

• Old French: comandement m
• Ottoman Turkish: امر (emr, emir), فرمان (ferman)
• Pashto: امر (ps) m (am(ᶕ)r), حکم (ps) m (hukm)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دَسْتور (fa) (dastur), فَرْمان (fa) (farmân), اَمْر (fa) (amr), حُکْم (fa) (hokm), ^{(please verify)} اُرْد (fa) (ord)

• Plautdietsch: Befäl m, Jeheet n
• Polish: rozkaz (pl) m
• Portuguese: ordem (pt) f
• Romanian: ordin (ro) n, comandă (ro) f, poruncă (ro) f
• Russian: прика́з (ru) m (prikáz), повеле́ние (ru) n (povelénije), приказа́ние (ru) n (prikazánije), кома́нда (ru) f (kománda), распоряже́ние (ru) n (rasporjažénije)
• Sanskrit: आज्ञा (sa) f (ājñā)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdugh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̏пове̄д f, на́редба f

  Latin: zȁpovēd f, náredba (sh) f

• Slovak: rozkaz m, príkaz m
• Slovene: ukȁz (sl) m
• Spanish: orden (es) f, mandato (es) m
• Swahili: oda (sw)
• Swedish: befallning (sv) c, order (sv) c
• Tajik: амр (tg) (amr), фармон (tg) (farmon), дастур (dastur), ҳукм (hukm)
• Tamil: ஆணை (ta) (āṇai), கட்டளை (ta) (kaṭṭaḷai), உத்தரவு (ta) (uttaravu)
• Tatar: боерык (tt) (boyerıq)
• Telugu: ఆదేశము (te) (ādēśamu)
• Thai: คำสั่ง (th) (kam-sàng), อาเทศ (aa-têet), บัญชา (ban-chaa), อาณา (th) (aa-naa)
• Tocharian B: reki
• Turkish: emir (tr), buyruk (tr)
• Turkmen: buýruk (tk)
• Ukrainian: нака́з m (nakáz), ро́зказ m (rózkaz), зака́з m (zakáz), за́гад (uk) m (záhad), кома́нда f (kománda), прика́з m (prykáz), розпоря́дження (rozporjádžennja)
• Urdu: حُکْم (ur) m (hukm), فَرْمان (ur) m (farmān), اَمْر m (amr), دَسْتُور (ur) m (dastūr)
• Uyghur: بۇيرۇق (buyruq)
• Uzbek: buyruq (uz)
• Vietnamese: lệnh (vi), mệnh lệnh (vi), khiển (vi)
• Welsh: gorchymyn (cy) m

request for some product or service

• Afrikaans: bestelling
• Albanian: porosi (sq) f
• Arabic: طَلَب (ar) m (ṭalab)
• Armenian: պատվեր (hy) (patver)
• Azerbaijani: sifariş (az)
• Belarusian: зака́з m (zakáz), замо́ва f (zamóva), замаўле́нне n (zamaŭljénnje)
• Bulgarian: поръ́чка (bg) f (porǎ́čka)
• Burmese: အမှာ (my) (a.hma), အော်ဒါ (my) (auda), မှာ (my) (hma)
• Catalan: ordre (ca) f, comanda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 定購／定购 (ding⁶ kau³)

  Mandarin: 定購／定购 (zh) (dìnggòu)

• Czech: objednávka (cs) f
• Danish: ordre (da) c
• Dutch: bestelling (nl) f, order (nl) m
• Esperanto: mendo
• Estonian: tellimus
• Finnish: tilaus (fi)
• French: commande (fr) f
• Galician: pedido (gl) m
• Georgian: შეკვეთა (šeḳveta), გამოძახება (gamoʒaxeba)
• German: Bestellung (de) f, Order (de) f
• Greek: παραγγελία (el) f (parangelía)
• Hawaiian: kauoha
• Hindi: ऑर्डर m (ŏrḍar), सिफ़ारिश f (sifāriś), तलब (hi) f (talab), मँगवाना (hi) (maṅgvānā)
• Hungarian: rendelés (hu), megrendelés (hu)
• Icelandic: pöntun (is) f
• Indonesian: pesanan (id)
• Italian: ordinazione (it) f, commessa (it) f
• Japanese: 注文 (ja) (ちゅうもん, chūmon)
• Kazakh: тапсырым (tapsyrym), тапсырыс (tapsyrys)
• Khmer: បញ្ជាទិញ (bɑñciə tɨñ)
• Korean: 주문(注文) (ko) (jumun)
• Kyrgyz: заказ (ky) (zakaz), буйрутма (ky) (buyrutma)
• Macedonian: порачка f (poračka)
• Malay: pesanan (ms)
• Maori: ōta
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: захиалга (mn) (zaxialga)

• Northern Sami: diŋgon
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordre (no) m

• Persian:

  Dari: فَرْمَایِش (fa) (farmāyiš)

  Iranian Persian: سِفارِش (fa) (sefâreš), اُرْدِر (order)

• Polish: zamówienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: encomenda (pt) f, pedido (pt) m
• Romanian: comandă (ro) f
• Russian: зака́з (ru) m (zakáz), о́рдер (ru) m (órder)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdugh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на́руџба f

  Latin: nárudžba (sh) f

• Slovak: objednávka f
• Slovene: naročilo n
• Spanish: orden (es) f, mandato (es) m, pedido (es) m, comanda (es) f
• Swahili: oda (sw)
• Swedish: order (sv) c, beställning (sv) c
• Tajik: супориш (suporiš), фармоиш (farmoyiš)
• Thai: คำสั่ง (th) (kam-sàng)
• Turkish: sipariş (tr)
• Ukrainian: замо́влення n (zamóvlennja)
• Urdu: فَرْمائِش f (farmāiś), طَلَب f (talab)
• Uyghur: زاكاز (zakaz)
• Uzbek: zakaz (uz), buyurtma (uz)
• Vietnamese: đặt hàng
• Welsh: archeb f

religious group

• Afrikaans: orde (af)
• Arabic: جَمَاعَة (ar) f (jamāʕa)
• Armenian: միաբանություն (hy) (miabanutʻyun)
• Belarusian: о́рдэн m (órden)
• Bulgarian: о́рден (bg) m (órden)
• Catalan: orde (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 團／团 (zh) (tuán)

• Czech: řád (cs) m
• Danish: orden (da) c
• Dutch: orde (nl) f
• Esperanto: ordeno (eo)
• Estonian: ordu (et)
• Finnish: veljeskunta (fi), lahko (fi)
• French: ordre (fr) m
• Galician: orde (gl) f
• German: Orden (de) m
• Greek: τάγμα (el) n (tágma)
• Hindi: वर्ग (hi) m (varg), श्रेणी (hi) f (śreṇī), जमात (hi) f (jamāt)
• Hungarian: rend (hu), szerzetesrend (hu)
• Indonesian: ordo (id)
• Interlingua: ordine
• Italian: ordine (it) m
• Japanese: 修道会 (ja) (しゅうどうかい, shūdōkai)
• Khmer: លំដាប់ (km) (lumdap)
• Latin: ōrdō (la) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orden (no) m

• Polish: zakon (pl) m
• Portuguese: ordem (pt) f
• Romanian: ordin (ro) n
• Russian: о́рден (ru) m (órden)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdugh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ре̑д m

  Latin: rȇd (sh) m

• Slovak: rád m
• Slovene: red (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rěd m

• Spanish: orden (es) f, mandato (es) m
• Swedish: orden (sv) c
• Ukrainian: о́рден (uk) (órden)
• Welsh: urdd f

society of knights

• Afrikaans: orde (af)
• Armenian: միաբանություն (hy) (miabanutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: о́рден (bg) f (órden)
• Catalan: orde (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 騎士團／骑士团 (qíshì tuán)

• Czech: řád (cs) m
• Dutch: orde (nl) f
• Esperanto: ordeno (eo)
• Finnish: ritarikunta (fi)
• French: ordre (fr) m
• Galician: orde (gl) f
• German: Orden (de) m
• Hungarian: rend (hu), lovagrend (hu)
• Italian: ordine (it) m
• Japanese: 騎士団 (きしだん, kishidan)
• Korean: 기사단(騎士團) (gisadan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orden (no) m

• Polish: zakon (pl)
• Portuguese: ordem (pt) f
• Romanian: ordin (ro) n
• Russian: о́рден (ru) m (órden)
• Slovak: rád m
• Spanish: orden (es) f
• Swedish: orden (sv) c
• Welsh: urdd f

awarded decoration

• Afrikaans: orde (af)
• Albanian: urdhër (sq) m
• Arabic: وِسَام m (wisām)
• Armenian: շքանշան (hy) (škʻanšan)
• Azerbaijani: orden (az), nişan (az)
• Belarusian: о́рдэн m (órden)
• Bulgarian: о́рден (bg) m (órden)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 勛章／勋章 (fan¹ zoeng¹)

  Dungan: щүнҗон (xünžon)

  Mandarin: 勛章／勋章 (zh) (xūnzhāng)

• Czech: řád (cs) m
• Danish: orden (da) c
• Dutch: orde (nl) f
• Erzya: ловмотешкс (lovmoťešks)
• Esperanto: ordeno (eo)
• Estonian: orden (et)
• Finnish: kunniamerkki (fi), ritarimerkki
• French: ordre (fr) m
• Galician: orde (gl) f
• Georgian: ორდენი (ordeni)
• German: Orden (de) m
• Greek: τάγμα (el) n (tágma)
• Hindi: निशान (hi) m (niśān)
• Hungarian: rend (hu), érdemrend (hu), rendjel (hu)
• Indonesian: orde (id)
• Japanese: 勲章 (ja) (くんしょう, kunshō)
• Kazakh: орден (orden)
• Korean: 훈장(勳章) (ko) (hunjang)
• Kyrgyz: орден (orden)
• Latvian: ordenis m
• Lithuanian: ordinas m
• Macedonian: орден m (orden)
• Mongolian:

  Mongolian: одон (mn) (odon)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orden (no) m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: نِشان (fa) (nešân)

• Polish: order (pl) m
• Portuguese: ordem (pt) f
• Romanian: ordin (ro) n
• Russian: о́рден (ru) m (órden)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀рде̄н m

  Latin: òrdēn (sh) m

• Slovak: rád m
• Slovene: medalja (sl) f, odlikovanje n, orden m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rěd m

• Spanish: orden (es) f
• Swedish: orden (sv) c
• Tajik: нишон (tg) (nišon), орден (orden)
• Tatar: орден (orden)
• Thai: อิสริยาภรณ์ (ìt-sà-rí-yaa-pɔɔn)
• Turkish: nişan (tr)
• Turkmen: orden
• Ukrainian: о́рден (uk) m (órden)
• Urdu: نِشان m (niśān)
• Uyghur: ئوردېن (ordën)
• Uzbek: orden (uz), nishon (uz)
• Vietnamese: huân chương (vi)
• Welsh: urdd f

biology: taxonomical classification

• Afrikaans: orde (af)
• Arabic: رُتْبَة (ar) f (rutba)
• Armenian: կարգ (hy) (karg)
• Bulgarian: порядък (bg) (porjadǎk)
• Bulgarian: порядък (bg) (porjadǎk)
• Burmese: မျိုးစဉ် (my) (myui:cany)
• Catalan: ordre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 目 (yue) (muk⁶)

  Hokkien: 目 (bo̍k)

  Mandarin: 目 (zh) (mù)

• Czech: řád (cs) m
• Danish: orden (da) c
• Dutch: orde (nl) f
• Esperanto: ordo (eo)
• Finnish: lahko (fi)
• French: ordre (fr) m
• Galician: orde (gl) f
• Georgian: რიგი (rigi)
• German: Ordnung (de) f, Ordo (de) f
• Hebrew: סִדְרָה (he) f (sidrá)
• Hindi: क्रम (hi) m (kram)
• Hungarian: rend (hu)
• Icelandic: ættbálkur (is) m
• Indonesian: ordo (id)
• Interlingua: ordine
• Italian: ordine (it) m
• Japanese: 目 (ja) (もく, moku)
• Khmer: លំដាប់ (km) (lumdap)
• Korean: 목(目) (ko) (mok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kom (ku) f

• Latin: ordō (la) m
• Latvian: kārta (lv) f
• Lithuanian: eilė (lt) f
• Maori: pūtoi
• Northwestern Ojibwa: onin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orden (no) m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: راسْتِه (fa) (râste)

• Polish: rząd (pl) m
• Portuguese: ordem (pt) f
• Romanian: ordin (ro) n
• Russian: отря́д (ru) m (otrjád)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdugh m
• Slovak: rád m
• Slovene: red (sl) m
• Swahili: oda (sw)
• Swedish: ordning (sv) c
• Tagalog: sunudhay
• Telugu: క్రమము (te) (kramamu)
• Thai: อันดับ (th) (an-dàp)
• Turkish: takım (tr)
• Welsh: urdd f
• West Frisian: skift (fy)
• Yiddish: סדר m (seyder)

a rank; a row; a grade; esp. a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort

• Afrikaans: orde (af)
• Bulgarian: ранг (bg) m (rang)
• Finnish: taso (fi)
• Hawaiian: papa
• Hungarian: rend (hu), fajta (hu), természet (hu), osztály (hu)
• Old English: leodgeþincþu
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: رَدیف (fa) (radif)

• Romanian: rând (ro) n, rang (ro) n
• Russian: ранг (ru) m (rang)

cricket: sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat

• Afrikaans: volgorde
• Finnish: lyöntijärjestys
• Japanese: 打順 (だじゅん, dajun)
• Telugu: వరుస (te) (varusa)

electronics: power of polynomial function in a circuit’s block

• Czech: řád (cs) m
• Finnish: aste (fi)
• French: ordre (fr) m
• Japanese: 次 (ja) (じ, ji)
• Romanian: ordin (ro) n
• Russian: поря́док (ru) m (porjádok)
• Turkish: derece (tr)

chemistry: a number of a chemical reaction

• Bulgarian: поря́дък (bg) m (porjádǎk)
• Czech: řád (cs) m
• Finnish: kertaluku (fi)
• German: Ordnungszahl (de) f
• Japanese: 次 (ja) (じ, ji)
• Polish: liczba atomowa (pl)
• Romanian: ordin (ro) n
• Swahili: oda (sw)

graph theory: number of vertices in a graph

• Czech: řád (cs) m
• Finnish: aste (fi)
• Japanese: 位数 (ja) (isū)
• Romanian: ordin (ro) n
• Swahili: oda (sw)

partially ordered set

• Czech: uspořádaná množina f
• Finnish: osittain järjestetty joukko
• French: ordre (fr) m
• Swahili: oda (sw)

relation on a partially ordered set

• Czech: uspořádání (cs) n
• Finnish: järjestysrelaatio, järjestys (fi)
• French: relation d’ordre (fr) f

highest exponent in a polynomial

• Bulgarian: поря́дък (bg) m (porjádǎk)
• Catalan: ordre (ca) m
• Czech: řád (cs) m
• Danish: orden (da) c
• Dutch: orde (nl)
• Finnish: aste (fi)
• French: ordre (fr) m, degré (fr) m
• German: Ordnung (de) f, Grad (de) m
• Hungarian: fok (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orden (no) m

• Romanian: ordin (ro) n
• Russian: сте́пень (ru) f (stépenʹ)
• Tagalog: kasunran

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

• Pashto: ^{(please verify)} امر (ps)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} منظم, ^{(please verify)} تنظیم, ^{(please verify)} ترتیب (ur), ^{(please verify)} حکم (ur)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of order theory

Further reading

• order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Order (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cauchy's theorem (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lagrange's theorem (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (taxonomy): Taxonomic rank on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• order on Wikiquote.Wikiquote

Verb

order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)

1. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.

   We need to order them alphabetically.

2. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.

   The books in the shelf need ordering.

3. (transitive) To issue a command to.

   to order troops to advance

   He ordered me to leave.

   I hate being ordered around by my co-workers.

4. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

   You can now order most products to be delivered to your home.

   to order groceries

   to order food from a restaurant

5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
   • 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC:

     persons presented to be ordered deacons

Conjugation

Conjugation of order

infinitive	(to) order
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	order	ordered
2nd-person singular	order, orderest†	ordered, orderedst†
3rd-person singular	orders, ordereth†	ordered
plural	order
subjunctive	order	ordered
imperative	order	—
participles	ordering	ordered

^†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms

• (arrange into some sort of order): sort, rank
• (issue a command): command

Derived terms

• foreorder
• made-to-order
• mail-order
• make to order
• order about
• order around
• order of magnitude
• order out
• order to cash
• preorder
• well-order
• what the doctor ordered, just what the doctor ordered

 

Related terms

• ordain
• orderly
• ordinal
• ordinary

Translations

to set in (any) order

• Arabic: رَتَّبَ (rattaba)
• Bulgarian: привеждам в ред (priveždam v red)
• Catalan: ordenar (ca), disposar (ca)
• Czech: uspořádat (cs) pf
• Danish: ordne
• Dutch: ordenen (nl)
• Egyptian: (grg)
• Esperanto: aranĝi (eo), ordigi
• Estonian: korrastama, järjestama
• Finnish: järjestää (fi)
• French: ranger (fr)
• Friulian: ordenâ
• German: ordnen (de), anordnen (de)
• Greek: κανονίζω (el) (kanonízo), καθορίζω (el) (kathorízo)
• Hebrew: סִדֵּר (he) (siddér)
• Hungarian: rendez (hu), sorba rak/rendez
• Indonesian: mengatur (id)
• Interlingua: ordinar
• Italian: ordinare (it)
• Khmer: ផ្ទាប់ (km) (phtŏəp), រៀង (km) (riəng), រៀបរៀង (km) (riəpriəng)
• Latin: ōrdinō, dispōnō
• Maori: whakaraupapa
• Norman: ordonner
• Northern Sami: ordnet
• Norwegian: ordne (no)
• Polish: ustawić (pl) pf, ustawiać (pl) impf, organizować (pl) impf, zorganizować (pl) pf, porządkować (pl) impf, uporządkować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: ordenar (pt)
• Russian: упоря́дочивать (ru) impf (uporjádočivatʹ), упоря́дочить (ru) pf (uporjádočitʹ), выстра́ивать (ru) impf (vystráivatʹ), вы́строить (ru) pf (výstroitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdaich
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посло̀жити pf, посла́гати impf

  Latin: poslòžiti (sh) pf, poslágati (sh) impf

• Spanish: ordenar (es), arreglar (es)
• Swahili: oda (sw)
• Swedish: ordna (sv)
• Telugu: అమర్చు (te) (amarcu)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: xếp (vi), đặt (vi)
• Welsh: trefnu (cy)

to set in (a good) order

• Arabic: رَتَّبَ (rattaba)
• Azerbaijani: əl gəzdirmək, nizama salmaq
• Bulgarian: подреждам (bg) (podreždam)
• Catalan: ordenar (ca), endreçar (ca), arranjar (ca), endegar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 整頓／整顿 (zh) (zhěngdùn), 整理 (zh) (zhěnglǐ)

• Czech: uspořádat (cs) pf
• Dutch: ordenen (nl) m
• Esperanto: ordigi
• Estonian: korrastama, järjestama
• Finnish: järjestää (fi)
• French: ranger (fr)
• German: ordnen (de)
• Greek: κανονίζω (el) (kanonízo)
• Hungarian: rendez (hu), elrendez (hu), rendbe rak (hu)
• Indonesian: mengatur (id)
• Interlingua: ordinar
• Italian: ordinare (it)
• Japanese: 片付ける (ja) (かたづける, katazukeru), 整理する (ja) (せいりする, seiri suru)
• Khmer: ប្រដាប់ (km) (prɑdap), តំរៀប (tɑmriəp)
• Korean: 정리하다 (ko) (jeongnihada)
• Latin: repōnō
• Maori: whakaraupapa
• Norman: ordonner
• Northern Sami: ordnet
• Norwegian: ordne (no)
• Portuguese: ordenar (pt)
• Russian: приводи́ть в поря́док impf (privodítʹ v porjádok), привести́ в поря́док pf (privestí v porjádok)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdaich
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уре́дити pf, уређи́вати impf

  Latin: uréditi (sh) pf, uređívati (sh) impf

• Spanish: ordenar (es), arreglar (es)
• Swahili: oda (sw)
• Swedish: ordna (sv)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: באַשטעלן (bashteln)

to issue a command

• Afrikaans: opdrag, bevel
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: أَمَرَ (ar) (ʔamara)
• Armenian: հրամայել (hy) (hramayel)
• Azerbaijani: buyurmaq (az)
• Bashkir: бойороу (boyorow)
• Belarusian: раска́зваць impf (raskázvacʹ), расказа́ць pf (raskazácʹ)
• Bulgarian: заповя́двам (bg) impf (zapovjádvam), заповя́дам (bg) pf (zapovjádam), наре́ждам (bg) impf (naréždam), наредя́ pf (naredjá)
• Burmese: ခိုင်း (my) (hkuing:), စေ (my) (ce), ဆင့် (my) (hcang.)
• Catalan: ordenar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏅᏍᏗ (adanvsdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 命令 (ming⁶ ling⁶)

  Mandarin: 命令 (zh) (mìnglìng)

• Czech: rozkazovat (cs) impf, rozkázat pf
• Dutch: bevelen (nl), verordonneren (nl)
• Esperanto: ordoni
• Estonian: käskima
• Finnish: käskeä (fi), määrätä (fi)
• French: commander (fr), ordonner (fr), enjoindre (fr)
• Friulian: ordenâ, comandâ
• German: befehlen (de), anordnen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (anabiudan)
• Greek: διατάζω (el) (diatázo), διατάσσω (el) (diatásso)

  Ancient: ἐντέλλομαι (entéllomai), κελεύω (keleúō), ἐπιτέλλω (epitéllō), (Epic) ἄνωγα (ánōga)

• Hebrew: צִוָּה (he) (tzivvá), פָּקַד (he) (paqád), הוֹרָה (he) (horá)
• Hindi: आज्ञा देना (ājñā denā), आदेश देना (ādeś denā), हुक्म देना (hukma denā), फ़रमान (farmān), फरमान (hi) (pharmān), हुक्म (hi) (hukma), हुकम (hi) (hukam), आदेश (hi) (ādeś), निर्देश (hi) (nirdeś), निर्देश (hi) (nirdeś)
• Hungarian: elrendel (hu), megparancsol (hu), parancsol (hu), utasít (hu)
• Icelandic: skipa (is)
• Indonesian: memerintah (id)
• Ingrian: käskiä, paijata
• Interlingua: ordinar
• Irish: ordaigh
• Italian: ordinare (it), comandare (it), disporre (it)
• Japanese: 命令する (ja) (めいれいする, meirei suru), 命じる (ja) (めいじる, meijiru)
• Khmer: បញ្ជា (km) (bɑñciə)
• Kituba: tuma
• Korean: 명령하다 (ko) (myeongnyeonghada), 명하다 (myeonghada)
• Lao: ບັນຊາ (ban sā)
• Latin: iubeō (la), imperō (la), praecipiō
• Latvian: pavēlēt
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: заповедува impf (zapoveduva), наредува impf (nareduva)
• Maori: whakahau, meamea
• Mizo: thü pè
• Norman: ordonner
• Northern Sami: gohččut
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: befale (no), beordre

  Nynorsk: befale, beordre

• Occitan: ordenar (oc)
• Old English: ġebannan, hātan
• Persian: فرمودن (fa) (farmudan)

  Iranian Persian: اُرْد (fa) (ord), دَسْتور (fa) (dastur), فَرْمان (fa) (farmân), اَمْر (fa) (amr), حُکْم (fa) (hokm)

• Polish: rozkazać (pl) pf, kazać (pl) impf, rozkazywać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: ordenar (pt)
• Quechua: kamachiy
• Romanian: comanda (ro), ordona (ro), porunci (ro)
• Russian: прика́зывать (ru) impf (prikázyvatʹ), приказа́ть (ru) pf (prikazátʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdaich
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: запо̀ведити pf, запове́дати impf, наре́дити pf, наређи́вати impf

  Latin: zapòvediti (sh) pf, zapovédati (sh) impf, naréditi (sh) pf, naređívati (sh) impf

• Slovak: rozkazovať impf, rozkázať pf
• Slovene: ukazovati impf, ukazati pf
• Spanish: ordenar (es), mandar (es)
• Swahili: oda (sw)
• Swedish: ge order, beordra (sv)
• Tagalog: utos (tl)
• Tajik: фармудан (farmudan)
• Telugu: ఆదేశించు (te) (ādēśiñcu)
• Thai: บัญชา (ban-chaa)
• Turkish: emretmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: нака́зувати impf (nakázuvaty), наказа́ти pf (nakazáty), прика́зувати impf (prykázuvaty), приказа́ти pf (prykazáty)
• Urdu: حکم دینا (hukum denā), حُکْم (ur) m (hukm), فَرْمان (ur) m (farmān), اَمْر m (amr), دَسْتُور (ur) m (dastūr)
• Uzbek: buyurmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: ra lệnh (vi), hạ lệnh (vi), truyền lệnh (vi)
• Welsh: gorchymyn (cy)
• Zulu: -khuza

to request some product or service

• Arabic: طَلَبَ (ar) (ṭalaba), حَجَزَ (ar) (ḥajaza)

  South Levantine Arabic: طلب (ṭálab)

• Armenian: պատվիրել (hy) (patvirel)
• Belarusian: зака́зваць impf (zakázvacʹ), заказа́ць pf (zakazácʹ), замаўля́ць impf (zamaŭljácʹ), замо́віць pf (zamóvicʹ)
• Bulgarian: поръ́чвам (bg) impf (porǎ́čvam), поръ́чам pf (porǎ́čam)
• Burmese: မှာ (my) (hma)
• Catalan: demanar (ca), encomanar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏅᏍᎦ (adanvsga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定購／定购 (zh) (dìnggòu), (order food) 點菜／点菜 (zh) (diǎncài)

• Czech: objednávat impf, objednat (cs) pf
• Danish: bestille
• Dutch: bestellen (nl)
• Esperanto: mendi
• Estonian: tellima
• Finnish: tilata (fi)
• French: commander (fr)
• Georgian: უკვეთავს (uḳvetavs), გამოიძახებს (gamoiʒaxebs)
• German: bestellen (de), ordern (de)
• Greek: παραγγέλνω (el) (parangélno)
• Hindi: मँगाना (hi) (maṅgānā), ऑर्डर करना (ŏrḍar karnā), मँगवाना (hi) (maṅgvānā)
• Hungarian: rendel (hu), megrendel (hu)
• Icelandic: panta (is)
• Ido: komendar (io)
• Indonesian: memesan (id)
• Interlingua: ordinar
• Italian: ordinare (it)
• Japanese: 注文する (ja) (ちゅうもんする, chūmon suru)
• Khmer: ហៅ (km) (haw), កុម្ម៉ង់ (kommɑng), រ៉ឺកុម្មងដេ (rəɨkommɑngdee)
• Korean: 주문하다 (ko) (jumunhada), 시키다 (ko) (sikida)
• Lao: ສັ່ງ (sang)
• Latin: mandō
• Lithuanian: užsakyti
• Luxembourgish: bestellen
• Macedonian: порачува impf (poračuva), порача pf (porača)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: ōta, tono
• Mizo: chah, ko, ko
• Mongolian: захиалах (mn) (zaxialax)
• Nepali: मगाउनु (magāunu)
• Northern Sami: diŋgot
• Norwegian: bestille (no)
• Persian: سفارش دادن (fa) (sefâreš dâdan)
• Polish: zamawiać (pl) impf, zamówić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: encomendar (pt), pedir (pt)
• Romanian: comanda (ro)
• Russian: зака́зывать (ru) impf (zakázyvatʹ), заказа́ть (ru) pf (zakazátʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdaich
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нару́чити pf, наручи́вати impf

  Latin: narúčiti (sh) pf, naručívati (sh) impf

• Slovak: objednávať impf, objednať pf
• Slovene: naročati impf, naročiti pf
• Spanish: ordenar (es), pedir (es)
• Swahili: oda (sw)
• Swedish: beställa (sv), lägga en order
• Tajik: фармудан (farmudan), супориш додан (suporiš dodan)
• Thai: สั่ง (th) (sàng), สั่งซื้อ
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: söylemek (tr) (transitive), sipariş etmek (tr) (transitive), sipariş vermek (tr) (intransitive), sipariş söylemek (intransitive)
• Ukrainian: замовля́ти impf (zamovljáty), замо́вити pf (zamóvyty)
• Urdu: منگانا (mangānā), منگوانا (mangvānā), طلب کرنا (talab karnā), فرمائش کرنا (farmāish karnā)
• Uzbek: buyurmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: gọi (vi), đặt (vi)
• Welsh: archebu (cy)
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: -biza, -oda

References

• “order”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Doerr, Roder, derro, ordre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ordre, from Old French ordre, from Latin ordo. Doublet of orde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.dər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: or‧der

Noun

order m or f or n (plural orders)

1. order (command)
2. order (request for product or service)

Derived terms

• dagorder
• legerorder
• orderbrief
• postorder
• tot nader order

 

Descendants

• Negerhollands: order
• → Papiamentu: òrdu, order

Further reading

• “order” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

German

Verb

order

1. inflection of ordern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch order, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”). Doublet of orde and ordo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.dər]
• Hyphenation: or‧dêr

Noun

ordêr (first-person possessive orderku, second-person possessive ordermu, third-person possessive ordernya)

1. order,
   1. a command.
   2. a request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

      Synonym: pesanan

Derived terms

• mengorder

 

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English order.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.dɛr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrdɛr
• Syllabification: or‧der

Noun

order m inan (diminutive orderek, augmentative orderzysko, related adjective orderowy)

1. order (decoration awarded by government or other authority)

   Hypernym: odznaczenie

Declension

Declension of order

	singular	plural
nominative	order	ordery
genitive	orderu	orderów
dative	orderowi	orderom
accusative	order	ordery
instrumental	orderem	orderami
locative	orderze	orderach
vocative	orderze	ordery

Derived terms

nouns

• orderomania
• orderowiec

 

verbs

• orderować impf

 

Related terms

nouns

• ordereczek

 

Further reading

• order in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• order in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• order in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Order or Russian ордер (order).

Noun

order n (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) order

Declension

declension of order (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) order	orderul
genitive/dative	(unui) order	orderului
vocative	orderule

References

• order in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ordre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrdɛr/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

order c

1. an order (command)
2. an order (request for some product or service – often of a larger or more involved order)

   Företaget hade fått en order på femton bussar

   The company had received an order for fifteen busses

Usage notes

An order at a restaurant or from an online store (on a smaller scale) or the like is a beställning.

Declension

Declension of order

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	order	orders
	definite	ordern	orderns
plural	indefinite	order	orders
	definite	orderna	ordernas

Declension of order

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	order	orders
	definite	ordern	orderns
plural	indefinite	ordrar	ordrars
	definite	ordrarna	ordrarnas

Hyponyms

• arresteringsorder
• dagorder
• förhållningsorder
• häktningsorder
• kabinettsorder
• kontraorder
• kundorder
• köporder
• postorder
• skyddsorder
• stallorder
• stororder
• säljorder

 

Derived terms

• orderbok
• ordergivning
• ordervägran
• ordna
• ordning

 

See also

• orden

References

• order in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• order in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• order in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• roder