English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Ecclesiastical Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritēs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrinomai, “I answer, act, feign”).
Pronunciation [edit]
hypocrite (plural hypocrites)
- Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]
Translations [edit]
person practising hypocrisy
- Arabic: مداجٍ (ar) (mudaajin) m, مراءٍ (ar) (muraa'in) m, منافق (ar) (munaafiq) m
- Catalan: hipòcrita
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 偽善者 (cmn), 伪善者 (cmn) (wěishànzhě), 偽君子 (cmn), 伪君子 (cmn) (wěijūnzǐ), 鄉愿 (cmn), 乡愿 (cmn) (xiāngyuàn)
- Czech: pokrytec (cs) m
- Danish: hykler (da) c
- Esperanto: hipokritulo (eo)
- Ewe: alakpatɔ
- Finnish: tekopyhä (fi), ulkokultainen (fi)
- French: hypocrite (fr) m and f
- German: Heuchler (de)
- Greek: υποκριτής (el) (ypokritís) m
- Hindi: पाखंडी (hi) (pākhaṇḍī)
- Hungarian: képmutató (hu), álszent (hu)
- Italian: ipocrita (it) m and f
- Japanese: 偽善者 (ja) (ぎぜんしゃ, gizensha), 偽君子 (ja) (ぎくんし, gigenshi)
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- Korean: 위선자 (ko) (wiseonja) (僞善者 (ko))
- Macedonian: лицемер (mk) (licemér) m, лицемерка (mk) (licemérka) f, дволичник (mk) (dvóličnik) m
- Norwegian: hykler (no) m
- Persian: منافق (fa)
- Portuguese: hipócrita (pt)
- Romanian: ipocrit (ro) m, ipocrită (ro) f
- Russian: ханжа (ru) (xanžá) m , лицемер (ru) (licemér) m
- Scots: gar-me-trou
- Serbian: licemer m, licemerka f, dvoličnik m, dvoličnjak m, dvoličnjakinja f, himbenik m
- Spanish: hipócrita (es)
- Swahili: kabwela (sw)
- Swedish: hycklare (sv) c,skrymtare (sv) c
- Telugu: కపటి (te)
- Thai: ผู้หลอกลวง (th) (pôo-lòk-luang)
- Urdu: منافق (ur)
- Vietnamese: kẻ đạo đức giả (vi), kẻ giả nhân giả nghĩa (vi)
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Adjective [edit]
hypocrite (masculine and feminine, plural hypocrites)
- hypocritical
Derived terms [edit]
hypocrite m and f (plural hypocrites)
- hypocrite.
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