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Etymology[edit]
From French déifier, from Latin deificāre, from deus (“god”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.faɪ/, /ˈdiː.ɪ.faɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.ə.faɪ/, /ˈdeɪ.ə.faɪ/
deify (third-person singular simple present deifies, present participle deifying, simple past and past participle deified)
- (transitive) To make a god of (something or someone).
- (transitive) To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.
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to make a god of
- Afrikaans: vergoddelik
- Albanian: hyjnizoj (sq)
- Amharic: መለኮት (mäläkot)
- Arabic: أَلَّهَ (ʾallaha)
- Armenian: աստվածացնել (hy) (astvacacʿnel)
- Azerbaijani: ilahiləşdirmək
- Basque: jainkotu
- Belarusian: абагаўляць (abahaŭljacʹ)
- Bulgarian: обожествя́вам impf (obožestvjávam), боготворя́ (bg) impf (bogotvorjá)
- Catalan: deïficar (ca), divinitzar (ca)
- Cebuano: diosnon
- Chichewa: mulungu
- Corsican: divinizà
- Czech: zbožňovat
- Danish: guddommeliggøre
- Dutch: vergoddelijken (nl)
- Esperanto: diigi
- Estonian: jumaldama, jumalustama
- Finnish: jumaloida (fi), palvoa (fi)
- French: déifier (fr)
- Galician: divinizar
- Georgian: გაღმერთება (gaɣmerteba)
- German: als Gott verehren, vergöttern (de)
- Greek: θεοποιώ (el) (theopoió)
- Ancient: ἀποθεόω (apotheóō)
- Gujarati: દેવતા (devtā)
- Haitian Creole: divinize
- Hawaiian: akua
- Hindi: पूजा करना (pūjā karnā)
- Hungarian: istenít (hu)
- Icelandic: guðdóma
- Igbo: gosi
- Indonesian: mendewakan (id), mempertuhankan, mempertuhan
- Italian: deificare (it), venerare (it), divinizzare (it)
- Kannada: ದೈವೀಕರಿಸು (kn) (daivīkarisu)
- Kazakh: құдайландыру (qudailandyru)
- Korean: 신으로 섬기다 (sineuro seomgida), 신성해지다 (sinseonghaejida)
- Kyrgyz: кудайлаштыруу (qudaylaştıruu)
- Latin: deificō
- Latvian: dievišķot, pielūgt
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- Lithuanian: dievinti
- Luxembourgish: verdéngen
- Macedonian: боготвори impf (bogotvori), обожува impf (obožuva)
- Malagasy: andriamanitra (mg)
- Malay: mendewa-dewakan, mendewakan
- Malayalam: ദൈവമാക്കുക (daivamākkuka)
- Maltese: jiddeifika
- Maori: atua
- Marathi: देवता (devtā)
- Mongolian: бурханчлах (mn) (burhanchlah)
- Nepali: देवता (devatā)
- Norwegian: guddommeliggjøre
- Oriya: ଦେବତା (or) (debôta)
- Polish: ubóstwiać (pl) impf, deifikować
- Portuguese: deificar, endeusar (pt), divinizar
- Punjabi: ਦੇਵਤਾ (devtā)
- Russian: обожествля́ть (ru) impf (obožestvljátʹ), боготвори́ть (ru) impf (bogotvorítʹ)
- Samoan: atua
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: obožavati (sh) impf
- Slovak: zbožňovať, zbožštiť
- Slovene: pobožnovati
- Somali: caqiido
- Sotho: modimo
- Spanish: deificar (es), endiosar (es)
- Swahili: mungu (sw)
- Swedish: avguda (sv)
- Tagalog: bathalain, diyusin, pumoon, poonin, dumyos
- Tajik: илоҳӣ кардан (ilohī kardan)
- Tamil: தெய்வமாக்கு (teyvamākku)
- Thai: บูชาอย่างพระเจ้า, ยกขึ้นเป็นพระเจ้า, ถือเป็นพระเจ้า
- Turkish: tanrılaştırmak (tr), ilahlaştırmak
- Turkmen: hudaýlaşdyrmak
- Ukrainian: боготворити (uk) (bohotvoryty)
- Uzbek: ilohiylashtirmoq (uz), opinmoq
- Vietnamese: phong thần, sùng bái như thần, tôn làm thần
- Welsh: dwyfoli (cy), ddwyfoli, nwyfoli
- West Frisian: fergodlikje
- Zulu: unkulunkulu
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