destiny

See also: Destiny

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French destinee, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēstinō (English destine).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛstɪni/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

destiny (plural destinies)

1. That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will

   Synonyms: fate, lot

2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

   Synonym: fate

Synonyms

• fate
• orlay

Derived terms

• date with destiny

Related terms

• destinate
• destination
• destine

Translations

predetermined condition; fate; fixed order of things

• Albanian:

  Arbëresh: psorë

• Arabic: قِسْمَة f (qisma), مَصِير m (maṣīr), قَدَر (ar) m (qadar)

  Egyptian Arabic: نصيب m (naṣīb)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَصِير m (maṣīr), قَدَر m (gadar), نَصيب m (naṣīb), قِسْمَة f (gisma)

• Armenian: ճակատագիր (hy) (čakatagir)
• Bashkir: яҙмыш (yaźmış)
• Basque: adur (eu), zori
• Belarusian: лёс m (ljos)
• Bulgarian: съдба (bg) f (sǎdba), у́част (bg) f (účast), орис (bg) f (oris)
• Catalan: destí (ca) m, planeta (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎢᏳᏓᎵᏍᏓᏁᏗ (iyudalisdanedi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 命運／命运 (zh) (mìngyùn), 命运 (zh) (mìngyùn), 氣數／气数 (zh) (qìshù), 气数 (zh) (qìshu), 宿命 (zh) (sùmìng), 運命／运命 (zh) (yùnmìng), 运命 (zh) (yùnmìng)

• Czech: osud (cs) m
• Danish: skæbne c
• Dutch: lot (nl) n
• Esperanto: sorto (eo)
• Estonian: saatus
• Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
• French: destin (fr) m, destinée (fr) f
• Georgian: ბედი (bedi), ბედისწერა (bedisc̣era)
• German: Schicksal (de) n
• Greek: μοίρα (el) f (moíra), πεπρωμένο (el) n (peproméno)

  Ancient: μοῖρα f (moîra), πότμος m (pótmos)

• Hebrew: מזל (he) m (mazal), גורל (he) m (gorál)
• Hungarian: végzet (hu)
• Icelandic: örlög (is) n pl
• Italian: destino (it) m, sorte (it) f, fato (it) m
• Japanese: 運命 (ja) (うんめい, unmei), 宿命 (ja) (しゅくめい, shukumei)
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• Korean: 숙명 (ko) (sungmyeong) (宿命), 운명 (ko) (unmyeong) (運命)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چارەنووس (çarenûs)

• Latin: fatum n, sors (la), fatus m
• Macedonian: судбина f (sudbina), касмет m (kasmet)
• Nepali: भाग्य (bhāgya)
• Norman: destinné f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjebne (no) m

  Nynorsk: lagnad (nn) m

• Old English: wyrd f
• Polish: los (pl) m, przeznaczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fado (pt) m, destino (pt) m, sorte (pt) f
• Romanian: soartă (ro), destin (ro) n
• Russian: судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá), до́ля (ru) f (dólja), у́часть (ru) f (účastʹ), рок (ru) m (rok), уде́л (ru) m (udél)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: судба f, судбина f

  Roman: sudba (sh) f, sudbina (sh) f

• Slovene: usoda (sl) f
• Spanish: destino (es) m, azar (es) m
• Swahili: majaliwa (sw)
• Swedish: öde (sv) n
• Thai: โชคชะตา (th) (chôok-chá-dtaa), พรหมลิขิต (prom-lí-kìt)
• Tibetan: ལས (las)
• Ukrainian: до́ля (uk) f (dólja), льос m (lʹos)
• Venetian: sòrt (vec) f
• Vietnamese: định mệnh
• Volapük: fät (vo)

See also

• doom

See also

• destination

References

• “destiny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• density