divination

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French divination, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin divinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪvɨˈneɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)

1. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
2. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
3. (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:divination

Derived terms

• star divination

Related terms

• divine
• predivination

Translations

act of divining

• Bulgarian: предсказване (bg) n (predskazvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卜筮 (zh) (bǔshì), 占卜 (zh) (zhānbǔ), (by use of the Eight Trigrams in Taoism) 卜卦 (zh) (bǔguà)

• Czech: věštba f, věštění n
• Ewe: afakaka
• Finnish: ennustaminen (fi)
• French: divination (fr) f
• Galician: adivinación (gl) f
• German: Wahrsagerei f, Wahrsagen n
• Greek: μαντεία (el) f (manteía)

  Ancient: μαντεία f (manteía)

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• Hungarian: jövendölés (hu)
• Irish: fáistine f
• Italian: divinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 占い (ja) (uranai)
• Korean: 점 (ko) (jeom) (占 (ko)), 복점 (ko) (bokjeom) (卜占)
• Maori: niu
• Portuguese: adivinhação (pt) f
• Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прорица́ние (ru) n (proricánije), предви́дение (ru) n (predvídenije)
• Spanish: adivinación (es) f, divinación (es) f, sortilegio (es) m
• Swahili: ramli (sw)
• Turkish: kehanet (tr), önbili

art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means

• Bulgarian: гадаене n (gadaene), врачуване n (vračuvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: selvännäkeminen, kaivonkatsominen
• Greek: μαντεία (el) f (manteía), μαντική (el) f (mantikí)

  Ancient: μαντεία f (manteía), μαντική f (mantikḗ)

• Hungarian: jövendölés (hu)
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• Irish: fáistine f
• Italian: oracolo (it) m, divinazione (it) f
• Maori: niu, rata (mi)
• Russian: гада́ние (ru) n (gadánije), ворожба́ (ru) f (vorožbá)
• Spanish: divinidad (es) f
• Swahili: ramli (sw)

indication of future, prediction

• Bulgarian: прогноза (bg) f (prognoza)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: ennustus (fi)
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• Greek: προφητεία (el) f (profiteía)
• Hungarian: jövendölés (hu)
• Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прогно́з (ru) m (prognóz)
• Spanish: divinidad (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} divinizare (ro) f
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See also

• Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination

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Middle French

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination (act of divining)

Related terms

• diviner