salvation

English

Alternative forms

• salvatioun (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English savacioun, from Old French savaciun, salvaciun, from Latin salvatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sælˈveɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

salvation (countable and uncountable, plural salvations)

1. (religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).

   Collective salvation is not possible without personal salvation, but the latter is achievable.

2. The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.

Antonyms

• (in religion): damnation

Related terms

• salvage
• salvatic
• salvationary

Translations

the process of being saved (religion)

• Afrikaans: redding, verlossing
• Albanian: shpëtim (sq)
• Arabic: خَلَاص m (ḵalāṣ), تَطْهِير اَلنَّفْس m (taṭhīr an-nafs)
• Armenian: փրկություն (hy) (pʻrkutʻyun)
• Asturian: salvación f
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: ратава́нне n (ratavánnje), рату́нак m (ratúnak)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: спасе́ние (bg) n (spasénie)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: salvació f
• Cherokee: ᎥᏓᏗᏍᏕᎸᏗ (vdadisdelvdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 救恩 (gau³ jan¹), 救贖／救赎 (gau³ suk⁶), 救赎 (gau³ suk⁶)

  Mandarin: 救恩 (zh) (jiù'ēn), 救贖／救赎 (zh) (jiùshú), 救赎 (zh) (jiùshú)

  Min Nan: 救恩 (kiù-un), 救贖／救赎 (zh-min-nan), 救赎 (kiù-sio̍k)

• Czech: spása
• Danish: frelse c
• Dutch: verlossing (nl) f
• Estonian: pääste
• Faroese: frelsa f
• Finnish: pelastus (fi), pelastaminen (fi)
• French: salut (fr) m
• Galician: salvación (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Erlösung (de) f, Rettung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (naseins)
• Greek: σωτηρία (el) f (sotiría), λύτρωση (el) f (lýtrosi)

  Ancient: σωτηρία f (sōtēría)

• Hawaiian: ola
• Hebrew: גאולה (g'ulá), יְשַׁעֲ
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: megváltás (hu)
• Ido: salvo (io), salveso (io)
• Indonesian: keselamatan (id)
• Irish: slánú m
• Istriot: salvissa f
• Italian: salvezza (it) f
• Japanese: 救済 (ja) (きゅうさい, kyūsai), 救い (すくい, sukui)
• Kashubian: zbawienié
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
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• Khmer: ការសង្គ្រោះ (kaa sɑngkrʊəh)
• Korean: 구원 (ko) (guwon) (救援 (ko))
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: salus (la) f, conservatio f
• Latvian: glābšana f
• Lithuanian: išgelbėjimas m
• Macedonian: спасение n (spasenie)
• Malay: takhlisan, penyelamatan
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: salvazzjoni f
• Manx: saualtys m
• Middle English: savacioun, savement
• Norman: salut m
• Norwegian: frelse (no) m
• Occitan: salvacion f, sauvacion f
• Persian: رستگاری (fa) (rastgâri)
• Polish: zbawienie (pl) n, ratunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: salvação (pt) f
• Romanian: salvare (ro) f
• Russian: спасе́ние (ru) n (spasénije), избавле́ние (ru) n (izbavlénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: saoradh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спасење n

  Roman: spasenje (sh) n

• Slovak: spása f, spasenie n, vykúpenie n
• Slovene: odrešenje n
• Spanish: salvación (es) f
• Tamil: முத்தி (ta) (mutti)
• Telugu: ముక్తి (te) (mukti)
• Thai: ความรอด (kwaam-rɔ̂ɔt)
• Turkish: kurtuluş (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: спасі́ння n (spasínnja), поряту́нок m (porjatúnok)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: قۇتقۇزۇش (qutquzush)
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: sự cứu rỗi
• Welsh: iachawdwriaeth f
• Yiddish: גאולה (geule)

Verb

salvation (third-person singular simple present salvations, present participle salvationing, simple past and past participle salvationed)

1. (rare) To save, in the religious sense; to bring to salvation.

Anagrams

• lavations