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From French polythéisme, from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) and θεός (theós, “god”), corresponding to poly- + theism.
polytheism (countable and uncountable, plural polytheisms)
- The belief in the existence of multiple gods.
1734, George Sale, transl., Alcoran of Mohammed:And remember when Lokmân said unto his son, as he admonished him, Oh my son, give not a partner unto GOD; for polytheism is a great impiety.
belief in the existence of multiple gods
- Arabic: شِرْك (širk), تَعَدُّد الْآلِهَة (taʕaddud al-ʔāliha)
- Armenian: բազմաստվածություն (hy) (bazmastvacutʻyun), պոլիթեիզմ (hy) (politʻeizm)
- Asturian: politeísmu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: politeizm, çoxallahlılıq, çoxtanrıçılıq
- Belarusian: шматбо́жжа n (šmatbóžža), мнагабо́жжа n (mnahabóžža), палітэі́зм m (paliteízm)
- Bengali: বহুঈশ্বরবাদ (bohuiśśorbad)
- Breton: liesdoueegezh (br) f
- Bulgarian: политеи́зъм m (politeízǎm), многобожие n (mnogobožie)
- Catalan: politeisme (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 多神教 (do1 san4 gaau3)
- Mandarin: 多神教 (zh) (duōshénjiào)
- Czech: polyteismus m, mnohobožství (cs) n
- Danish: polyteisme
- Dutch: polytheïsme (nl) n
- Esperanto: politeismo
- Estonian: polüteism
- Finnish: monijumalisuus (fi), polyteismi (fi)
- French: polythéisme (fr) m
- Galician: politeísmo (gl) m
- Georgian: პოლითეიზმი (ṗoliteizmi), მრავალღმერთიანობა (mravalɣmertianoba)
- German: Polytheismus (de) m
- Greek: πολυθεϊσμός (el) m (polytheïsmós)
- Hebrew: פוליתאיזם
- Hindi: बहुदेववाद (hi) (bahudevvād)
- Hungarian: politeizmus (hu)
- Icelandic: fjölgyðistrú f
- Ido: politeismo (io)
- Indonesian: politeisme (id)
- Irish: ildiachas m
- Italian: politeismo (it)
- Japanese: 多神教 (ja) (たしんきょう, tashinkyō)
- Kazakh: көпқұдайлық (köpqūdailyq), көптәңірлік (köptäñırlık)
- Khmer: ពហុទេពនិយម (pea’hu’ teep ni’yum)
- Korean: 다신교 (ko) (dasin'gyo), 다신론 (ko) (dasillon)
- Latvian: politeisms
- Lithuanian: politeizmas
- Macedonian: многубо́штво n (mnogubóštvo), политеи́зам m (politeízam)
- Maltese: politeiżmu m
- Manx: yl-jeeaghys
- Occitan: politeïsme (oc) m
- Persian: چندخدایی (čand-xodâyi), شرک (fa) (šerk)
- Polish: politeizm (pl) m inan, wielobóstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: politeísmo (pt) m
- Romanian: politeism (ro) n
- Russian: политеи́зм (ru) m (politɛízm), многобо́жие (ru) n (mnogobóžije)
- Scottish Gaelic: ioma-dhiadhachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: политеизам m, многобоштво n
- Roman: politeizam (sh) m, mnogoboštvo (sh) n
- Slovak: mnohobožstvo n, polyteizmus m
- Slovene: politeizem (sl) m
- Spanish: politeísmo (es) m
- Swahili: upolitheisti, ushirikina
- Swedish: polyteism (sv) c
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- Thai: พหุเทวนิยม (th) (pá-hù tay-wá-ní-yom)
- Turkish: politeizm (tr), çoktanrıcılık (tr)
- Ukrainian: політеї́зм m (politejízm), багатобо́жжя (uk) n (bahatobóžžja)
- Urdu: شرک (širk), کثرت پرستی (kasrat parastī), بت پرستی (but parastī, literally “'Idol Worship'”)
- Uyghur: كۆپ خۇدالىق دىن (köp xudaliq din)
- Vietnamese: thuyết đa thần (說多神)
- Volapük: mödagod
- Welsh: amldduwiaeth f
- Yiddish: פּאַליטייזאַם (paliteyzam)
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