Word Origin Summary

Orientation is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• orientasi

  Indonesian · derived from

• orientation

  English · borrowed from

• oryantasyon

  Turkish · borrowed from

• orientație

  Romanian · borrowed from

• オリエンテーション

  Japanese · borrowed from

• O

  Mandarin Chinese · derived from

• orientáció

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• ориентация

  Bulgarian · derived from

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