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t+gu:નરક t+pa:ਨਰਕ t+ne:नरक t+orv:адъ t-balance t+bo:དམྱལ་བ (Assisted)
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* Arabic: {{t|ar|جَحِيم|m}}, {{t|ar|نار|f|alt=اَلنَّار}}, {{t|ar|جَهَنَّم|f}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|جَحِيم|m}}, {{t|ar|نار|f|alt=اَلنَّار}}, {{t|ar|جَهَنَّم|f}}
* Aramaic:
* Aramaic:
* Gujarati: {{t|gu|નરક}}
*: Hebrew: {{t|arc|גהנא|f|tr=gehanā’|sc=Hebr}}
*: Hebrew: {{t|arc|גהנא|f|tr=gehanā’|sc=Hebr}}
*: Syriac: {{t|arc|ܓܗܢܐ|f|tr=gehanā’|sc=Syrc}}
*: Syriac: {{t|arc|ܓܗܢܐ|f|tr=gehanā’|sc=Syrc}}
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* Latin: {{t|la|infernum|n}}, {{t+|la|Tartarus|m}}; {{t|la|gehenna}}
* Latin: {{t|la|infernum|n}}, {{t+|la|Tartarus|m}}; {{t|la|gehenna}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|elle|f}}, {{t|lv|pekle|f}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|elle|f}}, {{t|lv|pekle|f}}
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{{trans-mid}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|pragaras|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|pragaras|m}}
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* Low German: {{t|nds|Helle|f}}
* Low German: {{t|nds|Helle|f}}
* Luxembourgish: {{t|lb|Häll|f}}
* Luxembourgish: {{t|lb|Häll|f}}
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* Mwali Comorian: {{t|wlc|moro|c3}}
* Mwali Comorian: {{t|wlc|moro|c3}}
* Navajo: {{t|nv|chʼį́įdiitah}}
* Navajo: {{t|nv|chʼį́įdiitah}}
* Nepali: {{t|ne|नरक|tr=narak}}
* Newari: {{t|new|नर्क}}
* Newari: {{t|new|नर्क}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|enfé|m}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|enfé|m}}
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* Old Church Slavonic:
* Old Church Slavonic:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|cu|адъ|m}}
*: Cyrillic: {{t|cu|адъ|m}}
* Old East Slavic: {{t|orv|адъ|m}}
* Old Norse: {{t|non|helviti|n}}
* Old Norse: {{t|non|helviti|n}}
* Old Provençal: {{t|pro|Enfern}}
* Old Provençal: {{t|pro|Enfern}}
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* Polish: {{t+|pl|piekło|n}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|piekło|n}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|inferno|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|inferno|m}}
* Punjabi: {{t|pa|ਨਰਕ}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|iad|n}}, {{t+|ro|gheenă|f}}, {{t+|ro|infern}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|iad|n}}, {{t+|ro|gheenă|f}}, {{t+|ro|infern}}
* Romansch: {{t|rm|enfiern}}
* Romansch: {{t|rm|enfiern}}
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* Telugu: {{t+|te|నరకం}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|నరకం}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|นรก}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|นรก}}
* Tibetan: {{t|bo|དམྱལ་བ}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|cehennem}}, {{t+|tr|tamu}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|cehennem}}, {{t+|tr|tamu}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|dowzah}}, {{t+|tk|jähennem}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|dowzah}}, {{t+|tk|jähennem}}

Revision as of 01:32, 4 August 2017

See also: he'll and Hell

English

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Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English helle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hel, hell, helle (“nether world, abode of the dead, hell”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *haljō (“nether world, concealed place”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälle (“hell”), German Low German Hell (“hell”), Dutch hel (“hell”), German Hölle (“hell”), Swedish helvete (“hell”), Icelandic hel (“the abode of the dead, death”). Also related to the Hel of Germanic mythology. See also hele.

Proper noun

hell

  1. In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
    Some religious people believe that all the followers of the other religions go to hell.
  2. (Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death
    May you rot in hell!
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
      Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
    • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
      Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.
Synonyms
Antonyms
  • (in Abrahamic religions, uncountable): heaven
Translations

Noun

hell (countable and uncountable, plural hells)

  1. (countable, hyperbolic) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
    My new boss is making my job a hell.
    I went through hell to get home today.
    • 1879, General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
      There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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  2. (countable) A place for gambling.
    • W. Black
      a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
    • 1907, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
      […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; […]
  3. An extremely hot place.
    You don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
  4. Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun
    I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
    What the hell is wrong with you?!
    He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
  5. (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
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  6. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
Derived terms

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Translations

Interjection

hell

  1. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
    Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.
  2. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Used to emphasize.
    Hell, yeah!
  3. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
    [Do it, or, r]est assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!
See also
Translations

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German hellen (“to brighten, burnish”). Cognate with Dutch hel (“clear, bright”) and German hell (“clear, bright”).

Verb

hell (third-person singular simple present hells, present participle helling, simple past and past participle helled)

  1. (rare, metal-working) To add luster to, burnish (silver or gold).
    • G. Smith (1799)
      To hell gold or gilt workː take two ounces of tartar, two ounces of sulfur.. and it will give it a fine luster.
References

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hella (“to pour”). Cognate with Icelandic hella (“to pour”), Norwegian helle (“to pour”), Swedish hälla (“to pour”). See also hield.

Verb

hell (third-person singular simple present hells, present participle helling, simple past and past participle helled)

  1. (rare) To pour.
    • Harvest (1821)
      Gosh, the sickle went into me handː Down hell'd the blood.
References

Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *skōla, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)kol- ‘stake’ (compare Lithuanian kuõlas, Polish kóɫ, Ancient Greek skýlos).

Noun

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Cornish

Noun

hell

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Aspirate mutation of kell.

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finnic origin. Cognate to Finnish hellä and Votic ellä.

Adjective

hell (genitive hella, partitive hella, comparative hellam, superlative kõige hellam)

  1. tender, gentle

Declension

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German

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Pronunciation

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch hel.

Adjective

hell (comparative heller, superlative am hellsten)

  1. clear, bright, light
    • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 9:
      So dunkel und schauerlich die Gruft aussah, wenn man durch die blinden, bestaubten Scheibchen der kleinen Fenster hineinblickte, so hell und freundlich war oben die Kirche.
      Just as dark and eerie the crypt looked like, if one looked in it through the cloudy, dusted little panes of the small windows, as bright and friendly was the church above.

Declension

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Antonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “hell” in Duden online

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German hel. Cognate with German helle, Dutch hel.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hell (masculine hellen, neuter hellt, comparative méi hell, superlative am hellsten)

  1. clear, bright
  2. light, pale

Declension

declension of hell
number and gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative hien ass hell si ass hell et ass hell si si(nn) hell
nominative /
accusative 		attributive and/or after determiner hellen hell hellt hell
independent without determiner helles heller
dative after any declined word hellen heller hellen hellen
as first declined word hellem hellem

Norwegian

Noun

hell n

  1. luck

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hell

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) imperative of helle

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haljō, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”). Cognate with Old Frisian helle, hille, Old Saxon hel, hellia, Old Dutch hella, Old High German hella, hellia, Old Norse hel, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰 (halja).

Compare hell, German for "light".

Pronunciation

Noun

hell f

  1. hell

Derived terms

Descendants

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