collaborate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from collaborator, from French collaborateur, or else modeled on French collaborer or directly from Late Latin collabōrātus, past participle of collabōrāre. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, /kəˈlæb.ɹeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: col‧lab‧or‧ate

Verb

collaborate (third-person singular simple present collaborates, present participle collaborating, simple past and past participle collaborated)

1. To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

   Let's collaborate on this project, and get it finished faster.

   Wikipedia is a website where anyone can collaborate.

2. To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

   If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.

Related terms

• collaborator
• collaboration
• collaborative

Translations

to work together on a piece of work

• Arabic: تَعَاوَنَ (taʕāwana)
• Bulgarian: сътруднича (bg) (sǎtrudniča)
• Catalan: col·laborar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作／协作 (zh) (xiézuò), 配合 (zh) (pèihé)

• Czech: spolupracovat (cs)
• Danish: samarbejde (da)
• Dutch: samenwerken (nl)
• Esperanto: kunlabori, kunagi
• Estonian: koostööd tegema
• Faroese: at samstarva
• Finnish: tehdä yhteistyötä
• French: collaborer (fr)
• German: zusammenarbeiten (de)
• Greek: συνεργάζομαι (el) (synergázomai)
• Hebrew: שיתף פעולה (shitéf p'ula)
• Hungarian: együttműködik (hu), közösen/együtt dolgozik
• Icelandic: vinna saman
• Ido: kunlaborar (io)
• Indonesian: kerjasama
• Italian: collaborare (it)
• Japanese: 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru), 共同して働く (kyōdō shite hataraku)
• Korean: 공동으로 일하다 (gongdong'euro ilhada)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: sadarboties; līdzdarboties
• Lithuanian: drauge dirbti
• Maori: mahitahi
• Norwegian: samarbeide (no)
• Occitan: collaborar (oc)
• Old English: efnwyrċan
• Polish: współpracować (pl)
• Portuguese: colaborar (pt)
• Quechua: haymay
• Romanian: colabora (ro)
• Russian: сотру́дничать (ru) (sotrúdničatʹ), коопери́ровать (ru) (kooperírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: сарађивати, сурађивати
• Slovak: spolupracovať
• Slovene: sodelovati
• Spanish: colaborar (es)
• Swedish: samarbeta (sv), samverka (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: birlikte çalışmak
• Ukrainian: співпрацюва́ти (spivpracjuváty)
• Uyghur: ھەمكارلاشماق (hemkarlashmaq)
• Yiddish: מיטאַרבעטן (mitarbetn), צוזאַמענאַרבעטן (tsuzamenarbetn)

to cooperate treasonably

• Arabic: تَعاوَنُ مَعَ العَدُوّ (taʕāwanu maʕa l-ʕaduww)
• Bulgarian: колаборирам (kolaboriram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勾結／勾结 (zh) (gōujié), 通敵／通敌 (zh) (tōngdí)

• Czech: kolaborovat
• Danish: kollaborere, samarbejde (da)
• Dutch: collaboreren (nl)
• Estonian: kollaboreerima
• Finnish: olla yhteistoiminnassa, olla yhteistyössä
• French: collaborer (fr)
• German: kollaborieren (de), mit dem Feind zusammenarbeiten (de)
• Greek: συνεργάζομαι (el) (synergázomai)
• Hebrew: שיתף פעולה (shitéf p'ula)
• Hungarian: kollaborál (hu), összejátszik (hu)
• Icelandic: vinna með
• Indonesian: berkhianat (id)
• Italian: collaborare (it)
• Japanese: (敵に) 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru)
• Korean: (적국에) 협력하다 (hyeomnyeok-hada)
• Latvian: sadarboties (ar ienaidnieku)
• Lithuanian: bendradarbiauti, kolaboruoti
• Norwegian: samarbeide (med fienden), kollaborere
• Polish: kolaborować (pl)
• Portuguese: colaborar (pt)
• Romanian: colabora (ro)
• Russian: сотру́дничать с враго́м (sotrúdničatʹ s vragóm)
• Slovak: kolaborovať
• Slovene: kolaborirati
• Spanish: colaborar (es)
• Swedish: samarbeta (sv), kollaborera (sv)
• Turkish: işbirliği yapmak

References

• “collaborate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “collaborate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "collaborate" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
• "collaborate" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

collaborate

1. inflection of collaborare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

collaborate f pl

1. feminine plural of collaborato

Latin

Verb

collabōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collabōrō