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Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English douten, from Anglo-Norman douter, from Old French douter, from Latin dubitare. Replaced Middle English tweonien (“to doubt”) (from Old English twēonian, compare Old English twēo (“doubt, duplicity”)). The modern spelling is probably under the influence of Middle French doubter.
doubt (third-person singular simple present doubts, present participle doubting, simple past and past participle doubted)
- To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
- He doubted that was really what you meant.
- (archaic) To fear; to suspect.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.186:
- He fled, like Joseph, leaving it; but there, / I doubt, all likeness ends between the pair.
Translations [edit]
to lack confidence in something
- Arabic: شك (ar) (shakka)
- Armenian: կասկածել (kaskaçel)
- Bulgarian: съмнявам се (bg) (sǎmnjavam se)
- Catalan: dubtar
- Chinese: trad. 懷疑, simpl. 怀疑 (pinyin: huáiyí), trad. 疑慮, simpl. 疑虑 (pinyin: yílǜ), 疑 (cmn) (yí)
- Czech: pochybovat (cs)
- Dalmatian: dobitur
- Danish: tvivle (da)
- Dutch: twijfelen (nl), betwijfelen (nl)
- Esperanto: dubi (eo)
- Estonian: kõhklema (et)
- Finnish: epäillä (fi)
- French: douter (fr)
- German: bezweifeln (de), zweifeln (de)
- Hungarian: kétségbe von (hu), megkérdőjelez (hu), kételkedik (hu), kétell (hu)
- Ido: dubar
- Indonesian: ragu, bimbang, ragu akan, meragukan
- Italian: dubitare (it)
- Japanese: 疑う (ja) (うたがう, utagau), 訝しむ (ja) (ibukashimu), 疑問する (ja) (gimon-suru), 不審に思う (ふしんにおもう, fushin-ni omou)
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Etymology 2 [edit]
Middle English doute, from Anglo-Norman and Old French doute, from Latin dubita. The modern spelling is probably under the influence of Middle French doubte.
Wikipedia doubt (plural doubts)
- Uncertainty, disbelief.
- There was some doubt as to who the child's real father was.
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uncertainty
- American Sign Language: V@NearNose-PalmBack BentV@FromChin
- Arabic: شك (ar) (šakk) m
- Armenian: կասկած (hy) (kaskaç), տարակույս (hy) (tarakuys)
- Belarusian: сумнеў (be) (súmnjeŭ) m
- Bulgarian: съмнение (bg) (sǎmnénie) n
- Catalan: dubte (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 懷疑 (cmn), 怀疑 (cmn) (huáiyí), 疑惑 (cmn) (yíhuò), 疑問 (cmn), 疑问 (cmn) (yíwèn)
- Czech: pochybnost (cs) f, pochyba (cs) f
- Danish: tvivl (da) c
- Dutch: twijfel (nl) f
- Esperanto: dubo (eo)
- Estonian: kõhklus (et)
- Finnish: epäily (fi), epäilys (fi)
- French: doute (fr) m
- Old French: doutance f
- German: Zweifel (de) m
- Greek: αμφιβολία (amphibolía)
- Hebrew: ספק (he) (saféq) m
- Hungarian: kétség (hu)
- Icelandic: efasemd (is) f
- Indonesian: keraguan, kebimbangan
- Interlingua: dubita (ia)
- Italian: dubbio (it) m
- Japanese: 不審 (ja) (ふしん, fushin), 疑い (ja) (うたがい, utagai), 疑問 (ja) (ぎもん, gimon)
- Kazakh: күмән (kk) (kümän), шүбә (kk) (şübä)
- Korean: 의혹 (ko) (uihok) (疑惑 (ko))
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- Kurdish: guman (ku) f, şik (ku) f, şube (ku) f, gûş (ku) f, hulhul (ku) f, şûf (ku) f, گومان (ku)
- Latin: dubitas f; dubitatio f, dubium (la)
- Latvian: šaubas (lv) pl
- Lithuanian: abejonė (lt) f, dvejonė (lt) f (rare)
- Luxembourgish: Zweiwel (lb) m
- Macedonian: сомнеж (mk) (sómnež) m, сомневање (mk) (somnévanje) n
- Manx: dooyt (gv), ourys (gv) m
- Norwegian: tvil (no) m
- Persian: شک (fa) (šak)
- Polish: wątpliwość (pl) f
- Portuguese: dúvida (pt) f, incerteza (pt) f
- Romanian: dubiu (ro), îndoială (ro)
- Russian: сомнение (ru) (somnénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: teagamh (gd) m, amharas (gd) m, mì-chinnt (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сумња (sh) f
- Roman: sumnja (sh) f
- Slovak: pochybnosť (sk) f
- Slovene: dvom (sl) m
- Spanish: duda (es) f, incertidumbre (es) f
- Swedish: tvekan (sv) (uncountable), tvivel (sv) n
- Tagalog: duda (tl), alinlangan (tl)
- Telugu: సందేహము (sandehamu), శంక (SaMka)
- Thai: สิงสัย (th) (sǐng-sǎi)
- Turkish: şüphe (tr), kuşku (tr)
- Ukrainian: сумнів (uk) (súmniv) m
- Volapük: dot (vo)
- West Frisian: twivel (fy) c
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