sin/translations

This page contains translations for sin. See the main entry for more information.

English

Noun

Translations

violation of religious law

• Acehnese: please add this translation if you can
• Afar: caráamu m
• Afrikaans: sonde (af)
• Aklanon: saea'
• Albanian: mëkat (sq) m
• Altai:

  Northern Altai: кыял (kïyal)

  Southern Altai: кӱне (küne)

• Amharic: ኀጢአት (ḫäṭiʾät)
• Arabic: خَطِيئَة f (ḵaṭīʔa), إِثْم (ar) m (ʔiṯm), ذَنْب m (ḏanb), مَعْصِيَة f (maʕṣiya), خِطْء m (ḵiṭʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: ذنب m (zanb)

  Hijazi Arabic: ذَنْب m (zanb, ḏanb), مَعْصِية f (maʕṣiya)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: մեղք (hy) (meġkʻ)
• Aromanian: picat n, amãrtii f
• Assamese: পাপ (pap)
• Asturian: pecáu m
• Azerbaijani: günah (az)
• Bashkir: гонаһ (gonah)
• Basque: bekatu
• Belarusian: грэх m (hrex)
• Bengali: পাতক (bn) (patok), পাপ (bn) (pap)
• Breton: pehed m
• Bulgarian: грях (bg) m (grjah)
• Burmese: မှားယွင်းခြင်း (hma:ywang:hkrang:), အပြစ် (my) (a.prac)
• Buryat: нүгэл (nügel)
• Carpathian Rusyn: грѣх m (hrîx), грїх m (hrjix)
• Catalan: pecat (ca) m
• Cebuano: sala
• Chakma: please add this translation if you can
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎦᏂ (asgani)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 罪 (zeoi⁶)

  Dungan: зуй (zuy)

  Eastern Min: 罪 (cô̤i)

  Hakka: 罪 (chhui)

  Hokkien: 罪 (zh-min-nan) (chōe)

  Mandarin: 罪 (zh) (zuì), 孽 (zh) (niè)

  Northern Min: 罪 (cò)

  Wu: 罪 (⁶zoe; ⁶ze)

• Cornish: pehas m, pegh m
• Czech: hřích (cs) m
• Dalmatian: pecat m, blasmuat m
• Danish: synd (da) c
• Dutch: zonde (nl) f
• English:

  Old English: synn f, sċyld f

• Esperanto: peko
• Estonian: patt (et)
• Faroese: synd f
• Finnish: synti (fi)
• French: péché (fr) m
• Friulian: pecjât m, pečhât m
• Galician: pecado (gl) m
• Georgian: ცოდვა (codva)
• German: Sünde (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (frawaurhts)
• Greek: αμάρτημα (el) n (amártima), αμαρτία (el) f (amartía)

  Ancient: ἁμάρτημα n (hamártēma), ἁμαρτία f (hamartía)

• Greenlandic: ajortuliaq
• Gujarati: પાપ (pāp)
• Haitian Creole: peche
• Hausa: zùnubī̀ (ha) m
• Hawaiian: lawehala
• Hebrew: חֵטְא (he) m (khet)
• Higaonon: sala
• Hindi: पाप (hi) m (pāp), अधर्म (hi) m (adharm)
• Hungarian: bűn (hu), vétek (hu)
• Hunsrik: Sind f
• Icelandic: synd (is) f
• Ido: peko (io)
• Indonesian: dosa (id)
• Interlingua: peccato
• Iranun: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: peaca m
• Istro-Romanian: pecåt
• Italian: peccato (it) m, colpa (it) f (mainly used in the Christian phrase "per mia colpa, per mia colpa, per mia grandissima colpa" - "for my sin, for my sin, for my very great sin)
• Japanese: 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi)
• Javanese: dosa (jv)
• Kalmyk: килнц (kilnts)
• Kannada: ಪಾಪ (kn) (pāpa)
• Kashubian: grzéch m
• Kazakh: күнә (künä), обал (obal)
• Khmer: បាប (km) (baap), អំពើបាប (ʼɑmpəəbaap), ទោស (km) (tooh)
• Kituba: disumu
• Korean: 죄(罪) (ko) (joe)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: guneh (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: күнөө (ky) (künöö)
• Laboya: jala
• Ladin: picià m
• Lao: ບາບ (lo) (bāp)
• Latin: peccatum n, scelus (la) n
• Latvian: grēks m
• Lingala: sumuki
• Lisu: ꓝꓴꓲꓸ (tsúj), ꓚꓱꓸ (tʃǿ), ꓝꓱꓸ (tsǿ)
• Lithuanian: nuodėmė
• Lombard: peccaa m
• Luhya: ethambi, obusuku
• Luxembourgish: Sënn, Sënd f
• Macedonian: грев m (grev)
• Maguindanao: please add this translation if you can
• Malagasy: fahotana (mg)
• Malay: dosa
• Malayalam: പാപം (ml) (pāpaṁ)
• Maltese: dnub m
• Manx: peccah
• Maranao: dosa, sala'
• Marathi: पाप (pāp)
• Meru: iiya
• Middle English: synne
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нүгэл (mn) (nügel)

• Navajo: bąąhági átʼéii
• Neapolitan: peccato m
• Nepali: पाप (pāp)
• Norman: péché m
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: synd (no) m or f

  Norwegian Nynorsk: synd f

• Occitan: pecat (oc) m
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: грѣхъ m (grěxŭ)

  Glagolitic: ⰳⱃⱑⱈⱏ m (grěxŭ)

• Old East Slavic: грѣхъ m (grěxŭ)
• Oromo: cubbuu
• Ottoman Turkish: صوچ (suç), گناه (günah), ذنب (zenb)
• Pannonian Rusyn: грих m (hrix)
• Pashto: ګناه f (gwənā), ګناه ګاري f (gwənāhgārí)
• Persian:

  Dari: گُنَاه (gunāh)

  Iranian Persian: گُناه (gonâh)

• Plautdietsch: Sind f, Äwaträdunk f
• Polish: grzech (pl) m, przewina (pl) f, występek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pecado (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਪਾਪ (pāp)

• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: păcat (ro) n
• Romansch: putgà, puchà, puccau
• Russian: грех (ru) m (grex)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: suddu

  Southern Sami: [Term?]

• Sanskrit: पाप (sa) m (pāpá), आगस् (sa) n (āgas), एनस् (sa) n (enas)
• Sardinian: pecadu, pecau
• Scottish Gaelic: peacadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) гре̑х m, (Ijekavian) грије̑х m

  Roman: (Ekavian) grȇh (sh) m, (Ijekavian) grijȇh (sh) m

• Shor: қыйал (qıyal)
• Sicilian: piccatu (scn) m
• Silesian: grzych m
• Sinhalese: පාපය (pāpaya)
• Slovak: hriech m
• Slovene: greh (sl) m]
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: grěch m

  Upper Sorbian: hrěch m

• Spanish: pecado (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: pikadu
• Swahili: dhambi (sw)
• Swedish: synd (sv) c
• Tagalog: kasalanan
• Tajik: гуноҳ (tg) (gunoh)
• Tamil: பாவம் (ta) (pāvam), பாவம் (ta) (pāvam)
• Tatar: гөнаһ (tt) (gönah)
• Tausug: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: పాపము (te) (pāpamu)
• Thai: บาป (th) (bàap)
• Tocharian B: tranko
• Turkish: günah (tr), vebal (tr)
• Turkmen: günä, günää
• Tuvan: бачыт (baçıt)
• Ukrainian: гріх (uk) m (hrix)
• Urdu: گُناہ m (gunāh), پاپ m (pāp), خَطا m (xatā), اَپْرادھ m (aprādh)
• Uyghur: گۇناھ (gunah)
• Uzbek: gunoh (uz)
• Vietnamese: tội (vi) (罪), tội lỗi (vi) (罪纇)
• Volapük: sinod (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: pechod (cy) m
• West Frisian: sûnde c
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: sala'
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yakan: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: זינד f (zind)
• Zazaki: guna, heyf n
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

misdeed

• Afrikaans: sonde (af)
• Armenian: մեղք (hy) (meġkʻ)
• Bulgarian: прегреше́ние (bg) n (pregrešénie)
• Catalan: pecat (ca) m
• Czech: hřích (cs) m
• Danish: synder
• Dutch: zonde (nl) f
• Esperanto:^{(please verify)} malvirto (eo)
• Finnish: synti (fi)
• French: péché (fr) m
• German: Sünde (de) f
• Greek: παράπτωμα (el) n (paráptoma)

  Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can

• Haitian Creole: peche
• Hawaiian: hewa, lawehala
• Hindi: अपराध (hi) m (aprādh)
• Hungarian: bűn (hu), vétség (hu)
• Icelandic: synd (is) f, misgjörð, misgerð, yfirsjón
• Italian: peccato (it) m, vizio (it) m
• Japanese: 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi)
• Macedonian: грев m (grev)
• Malayalam: പാപം (ml) (pāpaṁ)
• Middle English: synne
• Nahuatl: tlahtlacolli
• Navajo: bąąhági átʼéii
• Norman: péché m
• Old English: synn f
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: خَطا (xatâ), گُناه (gonâh), بِزِه (beze)

• Polish: grzech (pl) m
• Portuguese: transgressão (pt) f
• Russian: грех (ru) m (grex), просту́пок (ru) m (prostúpok), прегреше́ние (ru) n (pregrešénije)
• Sanskrit: एनस् (sa) n (enas)
• Scottish Gaelic: peacadh m, coire f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) гре̑х m, (Ijekavian) грије̑х m

  Roman: (Ekavian) grȇh (sh) m, (Ijekavian) grijȇh (sh) m

• Slovak: hriech m
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} greh (sl) m
• Swahili: dhambi (sw)
• Swedish: missdåd (sv) n, synd (sv) c
• Telugu: పాపం (te) (pāpaṁ)
• Turkish: kabahat (tr), suç (tr)
• Urdu: اَپْرادھ m (aprādh)
• Volapük: midun (vo)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} gjynah (sq) m
• Cebuano: ^{(please verify)} salä
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} zonde (nl) f
• Gujarati: ^{(please verify)} ગુનો m (guno)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} गुनाह (hi) m (gunāh), ^{(please verify)} पाप (hi) m (pāp), ^{(please verify)} अपराध (hi) m (aprādh), ^{(please verify)} ख़ता (xatā)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} dosa (id)
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} [script needed] (pãpam)
• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} पाप (pāp), ^{(please verify)} दुष्कृत्य (duṣkŕtya)
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} pecat (oc) m
• Sanskrit: ^{(please verify)} पाप (sa) (pāpa)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pecado (es) m
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} گُناہ m (gunāh), ^{(please verify)} پاپ m (pāp), ^{(please verify)} اَپْرادھ m (aprādh), ^{(please verify)} خَطا m (xatā)

Verb

Translations

to commit a sin

• Afrikaans: sondig (af)
• Arabic: أَثِمَ (ʔaṯima), أَذْنَبَ (ʔaḏnaba), خَطِئَ (ḵaṭiʔa)
• Aromanian: amãrtipsescu
• Asturian: pecar
• Azerbaijani: günah işlətmək, günah etmək
• Belarusian: грашы́ць impf (hrašýcʹ)
• Bulgarian: греша́ (bg) impf (grešá)
• Catalan: pecar (ca)
• Cebuano: paghimo ug salä
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎦᏅᎦ (asganvga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 作孽 (zh) (zuòniè), 造孽 (zh) (zàoniè), 犯罪 (zh) (fànzuì)

• Czech: hřešit impf, zhřešit pf
• Dalmatian: desser
• Danish: synde (da)
• Dutch: zondigen (nl)
• Estonian: pattu tegema
• Faroese: synda (fo)
• Finnish: tehdä syntiä
• French: pécher (fr)
• Friulian: pecjâ, pečhâ
• Galician: pecar (gl)
• German: sündigen (de)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (frawaurkjan)
• Greek: αμαρτάνω (el) (amartáno)

  Ancient: ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō)

• Hebrew: חטא (he) (khatá)
• Hindi: पाप (hi) m (pāp), अपराध (hi) m (aprādh)
• Hungarian: vétkezik (hu), bűnt követ el
• Icelandic: syndga
• Ido: pekar (io)
• Interlingua: peccar
• Irish: peacaigh
• Italian: peccare (it)
• Japanese: 罪を犯す (つみをおかす, tsumi o okasu)
• Korean: 죄를 짓다 (joereul jitda)
• Latin: peccō
• Latvian: grēkot
• Lithuanian: nusidėti
• Lombard: peccà, pecà
• Luxembourgish: sëndegen
• Macedonian: греши impf (greši)
• Maore Comorian: ukosa
• Middle English: synnen
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: synde

• Occitan: pecar (oc)

  Old Occitan: peccar

• Old English: syngian, sċyldigian
• Persian: گناه ورزیدن (gonâh varzidan)
• Plautdietsch: sikj vesindjen
• Polish: grzeszyć (pl) impf, zgrzeszyć pf
• Portuguese: pecar (pt)
• Romanian: păcătui (ro)
• Russian: греши́ть (ru) impf (grešítʹ), согреши́ть (ru) pf (sogrešítʹ)
• Sanskrit: दुष्यति (sa) (duṣyati)
• Sardinian: pecai, pecare
• Scottish Gaelic: peacaich
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гре́шити impf, (Ijekavian) грије́шити impf

  Roman: (Ekavian) gréšiti (sh) impf, grijéšiti (sh) impf

• Sicilian: piccari
• Slovak: hrešiť impf
• Slovene: grešíti (sl) impf
• Spanish: pecar (es)
• Swedish: synda (sv)
• Tagalog: gumawa ng kasamaan
• Telugu: పాపం చేయు (pāpaṁ cēyu)
• Turkish: günah işlemek (tr)
• Ukrainian: гріши́ти impf (hrišýty)
• Venetan: pecar
• Vietnamese: phạm tội (vi)
• Volapük: sinön (vo)
• Welsh: pechu (cy)