qualification

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French qualification in the 1540s, which in turn derives from Medieval Latin quālificātiō. By surface analysis, qual(ify) +‎ -ification.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

qualification (countable and uncountable, plural qualifications)

1. The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc. [from 16th c.]

   Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.

2. An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training. [from 17th c.]

   What are your qualifications for this job?

3. (UK) A certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam.
4. A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation. [from 16th c.]

   I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.

5. (obsolete) A quality or attribute. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:

     To shew, that these Qualfications, which we all pretend to be asham'd of, are the great support of a flourishing Society has been the subject of the foregoing Poem.

Derived terms

• disqualification
• paper qualification syndrome
• qualification problem
• self-qualification

Related terms

• qualify
• certification

Translations

act or process of qualifying

• Catalan: qualificació (ca) f
• Czech: kvalifikace (cs) f
• Danish: kvalificering c
• Finnish: kvalifiointi (fi), hyväksyntä (fi), hyväksymisprosessi, pätevöityminen
• Galician: cualificación (gl) f
• Hungarian: képesítés megszerzése, feltételek teljesítése
• Indonesian: kualifikasi (id)
• Italian: certificazione (it) f
• Polish: kwalifikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: qualificação (pt) f
• Romanian: calificare (ro) f

an ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something

• Albanian: kualifikim (sq) m
• Arabic: مُؤَهِّل m (muʔahhil)
• Armenian: որակավորում (hy) (orakavorum)
• Azerbaijani: ixtisas
• Belarusian: кваліфіка́цыя f (kvalifikácyja)
• Bengali: আহলিয়াত (bn) (ahliẏat)
• Bulgarian: квалифика́ция (bg) f (kvalifikácija), ценз (bg) m (cenz)
• Catalan: qualificació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資格／资格 (zh) (zīgé)

• Czech: kvalifikace (cs) f
• Danish: kvalifikation
• Estonian: kvalifikatsioon
• Finnish: aika-ajo (fi)
• French: qualification (fr) f
• Galician: cualificación (gl) f
• Georgian: კვალიფიკაცია (ḳvalipiḳacia)
• German: Qualifizierung f, Qualifikation (de) f
• Greek: προσόν (el) n (prosón)
• Hebrew: כִּשּׁוּרִים (he) m pl (kishurím)
• Hindi: योग्यता (hi) f (yogyatā)
• Hungarian: képesítés (hu), képzettség (hu), szakképzettség (hu), végzettség (hu), minősítés (hu)
• Indonesian: kualifikasi (id)
• Italian: qualificazione (it) f
• Japanese: 資格 (ja) (しかく, shikaku)
• Kazakh: біліктілік (bılıktılık)
• Korean: 자격(資格) (ko) (jagyeok)
• Kyrgyz: билимдүүлүк (ky) (bilimdüülük), квалификация (ky) (kvalifikatsiya)
• Latvian: kvalifikācija f
• Lithuanian: kvalifikacija f
• Macedonian: квалификација f (kvalifikacija)
• Malayalam: യോഗ്യത (ml) (yōgyata)
• Maori: māraurautanga
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: صَلاحِیَّت (fa) (salâhiyyat), قابِلیَّت (fa) (ğâbelyyat)

• Polish: kwalifikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: qualificação (pt) f
• Romanian: calificare (ro) f
• Russian: квалифика́ция (ru) f (kvalifikácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: квалифика́ција f

  Roman: kvalifikácija (sh) f

• Slovak: kvalifikácia f
• Slovene: kvalifikacija f
• Swedish: merit (sv) c
• Tajik: ихтисос (ixtisos)
• Ukrainian: кваліфіка́ція f (kvalifikácija)
• Uzbek: kvalifikatsiya (uz), malaka (uz), ixtisos (uz)

certificate, diploma, degree

• Bengali: আহলিয়াত (bn) (ahliẏat)
• Bulgarian: сертифика́т m (sertifikát)
• Danish: diplom n, certifikat (da) n
• Finnish: tutkinto (fi)
• Galician: titulación (gl) f
• German: Zertifikat (de) n, Diplom (de) n, Eignungszeugnis n
• Indonesian: kualifikasi (id)
• Italian: certificato (it) m, diploma (it) f, idoneità (it) f
• Malay: kelayakan (ms)
• Malayalam: യോഗ്യത (ml) (yōgyata)
• Russian: сертифика́т (ru) m (sertifikát), дипло́м (ru) m (diplóm)
• Spanish: titulación f
• Welsh: cymhwyster (cy) m

added clause or condition; a limitation

• Bulgarian: угово́рка (bg) f (ugovórka)
• Finnish: täsmennys, ehto (fi), lisäehto
• Hungarian: feltétel (hu), kikötés (hu), megkötés (hu), fenntartás (hu), korlátozás (hu)
• Irish: agús m
• Italian: riserva (it) f
• Russian: огово́рка (ru) f (ogovórka)
• Spanish: salvedad f, puntualización f

See also

• clarification

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

qualification f (plural qualifications)

1. qualification (all senses)

Related terms

• qualifier

Further reading

• “qualification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.