judgement day

English

Alternative forms

• judgment day (US)

Noun

judgement day (plural judgement days)

1. (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) The final trial of all humankind, both the living and the dead, by God expected to take place at the end of the world, when each is rewarded or punished according to their merits; the Final Judgment, the Last Judgment.

   Synonyms: apocalypse, Armageddon, day of judgment, doomsday, final reckoning

   • 1968, Zager and Evans (lyrics and music), “In the Year 2525”:

     If God's a-coming, he ought to make it by then / Maybe he'll look around himself and say / “Guess it's time for the judgement day!”

   • 1982, Prince (lyrics and music), “1999 [title]”, in 1999:

     But when I woke up this morning / I could have sworn it was judgement day

Coordinate terms

• Ragnarok

Translations

final trial of all humankind at the end of the world

• Arabic: يَوْم الْحِسَاب m (yawm al-ḥisāb), يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَة m (yawmu l-qiyāma), يَوْمُ الدِّين m (yawmu d-dīn)
• Belarusian: су́дны дзень m (súdny dzjenʹ), стра́шны суд m (strášny sud)
• Bulgarian: стра́шен съд m (strášen sǎd), съ́ден ден m (sǎ́den den)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 審判日／审判日 (shěnpànrì)

• Czech: poslední soud m, soudný den m
• Danish: dommedag c
• Dutch: dag des oordeels m
• Finnish: tuomiopäivä (fi)
• French: jour du jugement m, jugement dernier (fr) m
• Galician: día do Xuízo Final m
• Georgian: განკითხვის დღე (ganḳitxvis dɣe)
• German: Jüngster Tag m, Jüngstes Gericht (de) n, Tag des Jüngsten Gerichts m, Tag der Auferstehung m
• Greek: ημέρα της κρίσης (iméra tis krísis)
• Hungarian: végítélet (hu), utolsó ítélet
• Irish: Lá an Bhreithiúnais m
• Italian: giorno del giudizio universale m
• Japanese: 最後の審判 (さいごのしんぱん, saigo no shinpan)
• Korean: 최후의 심판 (choehu-ui simpan)
• Latvian: Pastardiena
• Macedonian: су́ден ден m (súden den), стра́шен суд m (strášen sud)
• Maltese: jum il-ġudizzju m, jum il-ħaqq m
• Ngazidja Comorian: ntsihu ya kiyama class 9, usiku wa kiyama class 11
• Nogai: кыямет (kıyamet)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dommedag m, dommens dag m

• Persian: رستاخیز (fa) (rastâxiz), روز حساب (ruz-e hesâb)
• Plautdietsch: Jerechtsdach m
• Polish: dzień sądu m, sąd ostateczny m
• Portuguese: dia do Juízo Final m
• Russian: су́дный день m (súdnyj denʹ), стра́шный суд m (strášnyj sud)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: суднји дан m, страшни суд m

  Roman: sudnji dan m, strašni sud m

• Slovak: posledný súd m, súdny deň m
• Slovene: sodni dan (sl) m
• Spanish: día del Juicio Final
• Swedish: domedag (sv) c
• Tagalog: Araw ng Paghuhukom
• Thai: วันแห่งการพิพากษา (wan-hɛ̀ng-gaan-pí-pâak-sǎa)
• Turkish: hesap günü, kıyamet (tr), kıyamet günü (tr), mahşer günü (tr)
• Ukrainian: су́дний день m (súdnyj denʹ), страшни́й суд m (strašnýj sud)
• Welsh: dydd y farn m

Further reading

• Last Judgment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia