Hades

See also: hades and Hadès

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɪdiːz/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪdiːz/, /ˈhadiːz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdiːz

Proper noun

(sense 1) Statute of Hades with Cerberus

Hades

2. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
3. (Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
   • 1971 March 7, Marcus Brooke, “To Hades and Back (Hic) With Homer’s Help”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     I have just returned from a visit to Hades, and I had a devilishly good time. […] To the ancients, Hades was the great underworld on the River Styx described so graphically by Homer in the “Odyssey.” Even today, visitors follow the same directions to get to Hades as those recited for Ulysses by the blind poet 3,000 years ago.

4. In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.
5. Hell.
   1. (specifically, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.

Derived terms

• Hadean

Translations

from Greek mythology

• Albanian: Hadi
• Arabic: هَادِيس (hādīs)

  Egyptian Arabic: هيدز

• Armenian: Հադես (Hades)
• Asturian: Hades m
• Azerbaijani: Aid
• Belarusian: Аід m (Aid), Га́дэс m (Hádes)
• Bengali: হেডিস (heḍiś), হাদেস (hades)
• Breton: Haides
• Bulgarian: Хадес (Hades)
• Burmese: ဟေးဒီးစ် (he:dic:)
• Catalan: Hades m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 哈帝斯

  Mandarin: 哈得斯 (Hādésī), 哈迪斯 (Hādísī)

• Coptic: Ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (Amenti)
• Czech: Hádes (cs) m
• Dutch: Hades (nl) m
• Esperanto: Hadeso, Aido
• Etruscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌕𐌀 (aita)
• Finnish: Haades (fi)
• French: Hadès (fr) m
• Galician: Hades (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰადესი (ka) (hadesi)
• German: Hades (de) m
• Greek: Άδης (el) m (Ádis), Τάρταρα (el) n pl (Tártara)

  Ancient Greek: ᾍδης m (Hāídēs)

• Hebrew: האדס
• Hindi: हेडीस (heḍīs)
• Hungarian: Hádész
• Irish: Háidéas m
• Italian: Ade (it) m
• Japanese: ハーデース (Hādēsu)
• Kazakh: Аид m (Aıyd)
• Korean: 하데스 (ko) (Hadeseu)
• Latvian: Aīds
• Lithuanian: Hadas
• Macedonian: Ад (mk) m (Ad)
• Malayalam: ഹേഡിസ് (hēḍisŭ)
• Marathi: हेडीस (heḍīs)
• Mazanderani: هادس
• Occitan: Ades
• Odia: ହେଡ଼େସ୍ (heṛes)
• Persian: هادس (hâdes)
• Polish: Hades (pl) m
• Portuguese: Hades (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਹੇਡੀਸ (heḍīs)
• Russian: Аи́д (ru) m (Aíd), Га́дес (ru) m (Gádɛs)
• Serbo-Croatian: Had m
• Slovak: Hádes
• Slovene: Had (sl)
• Spanish: Hades (es) m
• Swahili: Hade, Hadesi
• Swedish: Hades (sv) c
• Tamil: ஏடிசு (ēṭicu)
• Tatar: Aid
• Thai: เฮดีส
• Turkish: Hades, Tartaros
• Ukrainian: Аїд (Ajid), Аїдоней (Ajidonej), Гадес (Hades)
• Uzbek: Aid
• Veps: Aid

the underworld, the domain of Hades

• Asturian: Hades m
• Catalan: Hades m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冥府 (zh) (Míngfǔ)

• Galician: Hades (gl) m
• German: Hades (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ᾍδης m (Hāídēs)

• Irish: Háidéas m
• Japanese: 冥土 (ja) (meido), 冥界 (ja) (meikai)
• Macedonian: Ад (mk) m (Ad)
• Polish: Hades (pl) m
• Portuguese: Hades (pt) m
• Slovak: hádes m
• Spanish: Hades (es) m
• Swedish: Hades (sv) ?
• Turkish: Hades

the Greek translation of Sheol

• Dutch: hel (nl) f
• French: Hadès (fr) m
• German: Hades (de) m
• Greek: Άδης (el) m (Ádis)

  Ancient Greek: ᾍδης m (Hāídēs)

• Italian: Ade (it) m
• Macedonian: Ад (mk) m (Ad)
• Russian: Аи́д (ru) m (Aíd), Га́дес (ru) m (Gádɛs)
• Swahili: kuzimu (sw)

hell

• Bashkir: тамуҡ (tamuq), йәһәннәм (yähännäm)
• Bulgarian: ад (bg) m (ad)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地獄 / 地狱 (zh) (dìyù), 地府 (zh) (dìfǔ), 陰間 / 阴间 (zh) (yīnjiān)

• Finnish: tuonela (fi)
• Greek: κόλαση (el) f (kólasi)

  Ancient Greek: ᾍδης (Hāídēs)

• Italian: Ade (it) m
• Japanese: 黄泉 (ja) (よも, yomo, よみ, yomi, こうせん, kōsen), 地獄 (ja) (じごく, jigoku)
• Korean: 지옥(地獄) (ko) (jiok)
• Latin: Tartarus (la) m
• Macedonian: ад (mk) (ad)
• Mongolian: ад (mn) (ad)
• Portuguese: Tártaro (pt) m
• Russian: ад (ru) m (ad), преиспо́дняя (ru) f (preispódnjaja), тот свет (ru) m (tot svet)
• Turkish: hades (tr), tartaros, tamu (tr), cehennem (tr)

See also

• Gehenna (from Ancient Greek: γέεννα (géenna))
• Hell
• Pluto
• Tartarus (from Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος (Tártaros))

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Anagrams

• Da'esh, Daesh, Desha, Shade, Shead, ashed, deash, heads, sadhe, shade

Asturian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈades/ [ˈa.ð̞es]
• Rhymes: -ades
• Syllabification: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈa.ðəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈa.ðes]

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Proper noun

Hades

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (the underworld, the domain of Hades)

Galician

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.dɛs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -adɛs
• Syllabification: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m pers

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)

Declension

Declension of Hades

	singular
nominative	Hades
genitive	Hadesa
dative	Hadesowi
accusative	Hadesa
instrumental	Hadesem
locative	Hadesie
vocative	Hadesie

Proper noun

Hades m inan

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Declension

Declension of Hades

	singular
nominative	Hades
genitive	Hadesu
dative	Hadesowi
accusative	Hades
instrumental	Hadesem
locative	Hadesie
vocative	Hadesie

Further reading

• “Hades”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs)

Latin Hadeslbor.

Portuguese Hades

Learned borrowing from Latin Hades, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒis/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒiʃ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɨʃ/ [ˈa.ðɨʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɨʃ/ [ˈa.ðɨʃ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɨʃ/

• Hyphenation: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god of the underworld)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (the underworld, the domain of Hades)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈades/ [ˈa.ð̞es]
• Rhymes: -ades
• Syllabification: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Turkish

Proper noun

Hades

1. (Greek mythology) Hades