Armageddon

See also: armageddon

English

A nuclear holocaust is sometimes associated with modern visualizations of Armageddon

Etymology

From Hebrew הר מגידו / ‎הַר‎ מְגִדּוֹ (har megiddo), used in Revelation 16:16, referring to Mount Megiddo, the place of the last battle at the Last Judgment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑː(ɹ).məˈɡɛ.dn̩/, /-ˈɡɛ.dən/
• IPA^(key): /ˌɑɹ.məˈɡɛ.dn̩/, /-ˈɡɛ.dən/
• Rhymes: -ɛdən
• Hyphenation: Ar‧ma‧ged‧don

Proper noun

Armageddon

1. (Christianity, Islam) The site of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil.
2. (by extension) The battle itself.

Synonyms

• Apocalypse, Final Judgment

Coordinate terms

• Ragnarok (Norse mythology)
• day of reckoning, doomsday, judgement day, end times, end of the world

Translations

site

• Arabic: أَرْمَجِدُون m (ʔarmajidūn), أَرْمَجِدُون m (ʾarmagidūn)
• Catalan: Harmagedon m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈米吉多頓／哈米吉多顿 (zh) (Hāmǐjíduōdùn), 哈米吉多顿 (zh) (Hāmǐjíduōdùn)

• Danish: Armageddon
• Finnish: Harmageddon
• French: Armageddon (fr) m
• Friulian: Armageddon m
• German: Harmagedon n
• Greek: Αρμαγεδδώνας (el) m (Armageddónas)
• Icelandic: Harmagedón n
• Indonesian: Harmagedon
• Italian: Armaghedòn m
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• Japanese: ハルマゲドン (Harumagedon), アルマゲドン (Arumagedon)
• Korean: 하르마게돈 (Hareumagedon)
• Kurdish:
• Norwegian Bokmål: Harmageddon
• Persian: آرماگدون (fa) (ârmagedon)
• Polish: Har-Magedon m
• Portuguese: Armagedão (pt) m, Armagedom (pt) m
• Russian: Армагеддо́н (ru) m (Armageddón)
• Spanish: Armagedón m
• Swedish: Harmagedon, harmageddon (sv) n
• Ukrainian: Армагеддо́н m (Armaheddón), Армаґеддо́н m (Armageddón)
• Welsh: Armagedon

battle

• Finnish: Harmageddonin taistelu
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