ventriloquism

English

Etymology

ventriloquy + -ism.

Noun

ventriloquism (countable and uncountable, plural ventriloquisms)

1. The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy.

Synonyms

• biloquism, ventrilocution

Translations

art of projecting one's voice so that it appears to come from another source

• Armenian: որովայնախոսություն (hy) (orovaynaxosutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 口技 (hau² gei⁶)

  Mandarin: 口技 (zh) (kǒujì), 腹語術 / 腹语术 (zh) (fùyǔshù)

• Czech: břichomluva f
• Danish: bugtalerkunst c, bugtaleri n
• Dutch: buikspreken (nl), ventriloquisme
• Finnish: vatsastapuhuminen (fi)
• French: ventriloquie (fr) f
• German: Bauchreden (de) n, Bauchredekunst (de) f, Bauchrednerei (de) f; Ventriloquismus m (not generally understood)
• Hungarian: hasbeszélés (hu)
• Icelandic: búktal n
• Ido: ventroparolado, ventroparoliveso
• Irish: bolgchaint f
• Italian: ventriloquio m
• Japanese: 腹話術 (ja) (ふくわじゅつ, fukuwajutsu)
• Korean: 복화술 (ko) (bokhwasul)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: buktaling f, buktale m, buktalerkunst m, buktaleri n

  Nynorsk: buktaling f, buktale m or f, buktalarkunst m or f, buktaleri n

• Polish: brzuchomówstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: ventriloquia (pt) f, ventriloquismo (pt) m
• Russian: чревовеща́ние (ru) n (črevoveščánije), вентроло́гия f (ventrológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: trbuhozborje n, trbuhozborstvo n
• Spanish: ventriloquía f
• Swedish: buktaleri (sv) n
• Tagalog: bentrilokiya
• Turkish: karından konuşma, vantrilokluk, vantrilokizm
• Welsh: tafleisiaeth f