be silent

English

Verb

be silent (third-person singular simple present is silent, present participle being silent, simple past was silent, past participle been silent)

1. To refrain from speaking; to say nothing. (This entry is a translation hub.)

Antonyms

• speak, talk

Translations

refrain from speaking

• Afrikaans: swyg (af)
• Albanian: shuj
• Arabic: صَمَتَ (ṣamata), سَكَتَ (sakata)
• Armenian: լռել (hy) (lṙel)
• Azerbaijani: susmaq (az)
• Belarusian: маўча́ць impf (maŭčácʹ)
• Bulgarian: мълча́ (bg) impf (mǎlčá)
• Burmese: ဆိတ် (my) (hcit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緘默／缄默 (zh) (jiānmò), 沉默 (zh) (chénmò)

• Czech: mlčet (cs) impf
• Danish: tie (da)
• Dutch: zwijgen (nl)
• Estonian: vaikima
• Faroese: tiga
• Finnish: vaieta (fi), olla hiljaa
• French: se taire (fr)
• Georgian: გაჩუმდება (gačumdeba)
• German: schweigen (de), still sein
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þahan)
• Greek: σωπαίνω (el) (sopaíno)

  Ancient: σιγάω (sigáō)

• Greenlandic: nipaappoq
• Hebrew: שָׁתַק (he) (shaták)
• Hindi: चुप्पी लगाना (cuppī lagānā), चुप रहना (cup rahnā), चुप लगाना (cup lagānā)
• Hungarian: hallgat (hu), csendben van, csendben marad
• Icelandic: þegja
• Irish: tost
• Italian: tacere (it)
• Japanese: 黙る (ja) (だまる, damaru), 沈黙する (ja) (ちんもくする, chinmoku suru)
• Kashubian: môłczec impf
• Kazakh: үндемеу (ündemeu), сөйлемеу (söilemeu), айтпау (aitpau)
• Korean: 조용히 하다 (joyonghi hada), 침묵하다 (chimmukhada), 말하지 않다 (malhaji anta)
• Kyrgyz: унчукпоо (uncukpoo), үндөбөө (ündöböö), сүйлөбөө (süylöböö)
• Lao: ນິ້ງ (ning), ງຽບ (ngīap)
• Latin: taceo (la)
• Latvian: klusēt
• Lithuanian: tylėti (lt)
• Macedonian: молчи impf (molči), ќути impf (ḱuti)
• Middle English: swīen
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: чимээгүй суух (čimeegüj suux), амаа үдэх (amaa üdex)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tie (no)

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: мльчати impf (mlĭčati)

• Old East Slavic: мълчати impf (mŭlčati)
• Old English: swīgian
• Pashto: چوپېدل (čupedǝ́l), خوله نيول (xwlǝ́niwǝ́l), غلي کېدل (ǧǝ́likedǝ́l), کمڼېدل (kamaṇedǝ́l)
• Persian: خاموش شدن (xâmuš šodan), ساکت شدن (fa) (sâket šodan)
• Polish: milczeć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: calar-se (pt)
• Romanian: a tăcea (ro)
• Russian: молча́ть (ru) impf (molčátʹ), безмо́лвствовать (ru) impf (bezmólvstvovatʹ) (literary)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: му́чати impf, ћу́тати impf, ћу́тјети impf

  Roman: múčati (sh) impf, ćútati impf, ćútjeti impf

• Slovak: mlčať impf
• Slovene: molčati (sl) impf
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mjelcaś impf

  Upper Sorbian: mjelčeć impf

• Spanish: callarse (es)
• Swedish: tiga (sv), vara tyst
• Tajik: хомӯш будан (xomüš budan), сукут кардан (sukut kardan), хомӯш шудан (xomüš šudan), сукут шудан (sukut šudan)
• Tatar: дәшмәскә (tt) (däşmäskä)
• Thai: นิ่ง (th) (nîng), เงียบ (th) (ngîiap), เงียบขรึม (ngîiap-krʉ̌m)
• Turkish: susmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: мовча́ти impf (movčáty)
• Uzbek: sukut qilmoq, jim turmoq
• Vietnamese: im lặng (vi), lặng thinh (vi)
• Welsh: tewi (cy)
• Yiddish: שווײַגן (shvaygn)

Anagrams

• stilbene, tensible