English
Etymology
Calque of Latin oculus (“an eye”) + malus (“bad, evil, wicked, injurious”).
Noun
evil eye (plural evil eyes)
- A wicked look that is believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck due to envy or dislike.
- A curse.
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Translations
wicked look
- Albanian: syri i keq
- Amharic: ቡዳ (buda)
- Arabic: عَيْن اَلْحَسُود f (ʕayn al-ḥasūd)
- Armenian: չար աչքն (čʻar ačʻkʻn)
- Azerbaijani: nəzər (az), göz (az)
- Catalan: mal d'ull m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 邪眼 (xiéyǎn)
- Czech: uhranutí
- Dutch: boze oog n
- Esperanto: malica okulo
- Estonian: kuri silm
- Finnish: paha silmä (fi)
- French: mauvais œil (fr) m
- Galician: mal de ollo (gl) m
- Georgian: ავი თვალი (ka) (avi tvali)
- German: böser Blick m
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌴𐌻 (augō unsēl)
- Greek: βασκανία (el) f (vaskanía), μάτιασμα (el) n (mátiasma)
- Hebrew: עַיִן הָרַע (he) f ('áyin hará')
- Hindi: नज़र f (nazar)
- Hungarian: szemmel verés
- Italian: malocchio (it) m
- Japanese: 邪視 (じゃし, jashi), 邪眼 (じゃがん, jagan), 魔眼 (まがん, magan), イーヴィルアイ (īviruai), 凶眼 (きょうがん, kyōgan)
- Kazakh: көз тию (köz tiü)
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- Kikuyu: gĩthemengũ class 7
- Macedonian: урокливо око (uroklivo oko)
- Malayalam: നാവേറ് (ml) (nāvēṟŭ)
- Maltese: l-għajn f
- Norman: mauvais yi m
- Norwegian: onde øyet
- Persian: نظر (fa) (nazar), چشم زخم (fa) (čašm zaxm)
- Polish: złe oko (pl)
- Portuguese: mau olhado m
- Romanian: deochi (ro)
- Russian: сглаз (ru) m (sglaz), дурно́й глаз (ru) m (durnój glaz)
- Scottish Gaelic: (both senses) droch shùil f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: урокљиво око n, урок m, назар m
- Roman: urokljivo oko n, urok (sh) m, nazar m
- Sicilian: occhiu potenti m, malocchiu m, occhiata (scn) f
- Spanish: mal de ojo m
- Swedish: onda ögat
- Tagalog: usog, balis, ohiya
- Telugu: దృష్టి (te) (dr̥ṣṭi), దిష్టి (te) (diṣṭi)
- Thai: นัยน์ตาปีศาจ (nai dtaa bpeesàat)
- Turkish: nazar (tr), göz (tr), kem göz (tr)
- Urdu: نظر (ur) f (nazar)
- Yiddish: עין־הרע (eyn-hore)
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