accuse

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• Received-Pronunciation: əkyo͞ozʹ
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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈkjuːz/
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• US: əkyo͞ozʹ
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• US: /əˈkjuz/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 K Y UW1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causa Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accūsārelbor. Old French acuserbor. Middle English acusen English accuse First attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِتَّهَمَ (ittahama) — attribute blame to someone
• Asturian: acusar — attribute blame to someone
• Azerbaijani: ittiham etmək — attribute blame to someone
• Azerbaijani: suçlamaq — attribute blame to someone
• Belarusian: абвінава́чваць (abvinaváčvacʹ) — attribute blame to someone
• Belarusian: абвінава́ціць (abvinavácicʹ) — attribute blame to someone
• Bulgarian: обвиня́вам (obvinjávam) — attribute blame to someone
• Catalan: acusar — attribute blame to someone
• Cherokee: ᎫᎯᏍᏗᎭ (guhisdiha) — attribute blame to someone
• Cheyenne: -ho'é'ėšé'tov — attribute blame to someone
• Chickasaw: ishtombohli — attribute blame to someone
• Chinese Mandarin: 指責 /指责 (zhǐzé) — attribute blame to someone
• Chinese Mandarin: 控告 (kònggào) — attribute blame to someone
• Chinese Mandarin: 譴責 /谴责 (qiǎnzé) — attribute blame to someone
• Chinese Mandarin: 指控 (zhǐkòng) — attribute blame to someone
• Chinese Mandarin: 控訴 /控诉 (kòngsù) — attribute blame to someone
• Czech: obviňovat — attribute blame to someone
• Czech: obvinit — attribute blame to someone
• Danish: beskylde — attribute blame to someone
• Danish: anklage — attribute blame to someone
• Dutch: beschuldigen — attribute blame to someone
• Dutch: aanklagen — attribute blame to someone
• Esperanto: akuzi — attribute blame to someone
• Finnish: syyttää — attribute blame to someone
• French: accuser — attribute blame to someone
• West-Frisian: beskuldigje — attribute blame to someone
• Galician: acusar — attribute blame to someone
• Georgian: დაბრალება (dabraleba) — attribute blame to someone
• German: beschuldigen — attribute blame to someone
• German: anklagen — attribute blame to someone
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 (fairinōn) — attribute blame to someone
• Greek: κατηγορώ (katigoró) — attribute blame to someone
• Ancient Greek: κατηγορέω (katēgoréō) — attribute blame to someone
• Hebrew: האשים (he'eshím) — attribute blame to someone
• Hindi: आरोप लगाना (ārop lagānā) — attribute blame to someone
• Hungarian: vádol — attribute blame to someone
• Hungarian: megvádol — attribute blame to someone
• Icelandic: kæra — attribute blame to someone
• Ido: akuzar — attribute blame to someone
• Indonesian: menuduh — attribute blame to someone
• Interlingua: accusar — attribute blame to someone
• Irish: coirigh — attribute blame to someone
• Italian: accusare — attribute blame to someone
• Japanese: 問う (tou) — attribute blame to someone
• Japanese: 着せる (kiseru) — attribute blame to someone
• Kituba: funda — attribute blame to someone
• Kongo: funda — attribute blame to someone
• Korean: 고소하다 (gosohada) — attribute blame to someone
• Latin: accūsō — attribute blame to someone
• Latin: crīminor — attribute blame to someone
• Lingala: funda — attribute blame to someone
• Lithuanian: apkaltinti — attribute blame to someone
• Lithuanian: kaltinti — attribute blame to someone
• Macedonian: обвинува (obvinuva) — attribute blame to someone
• Macedonian: обвини (obvini) — attribute blame to someone
• Māori: whakapae — attribute blame to someone
• Māori: whakatuaki — attribute blame to someone
• Norwegian Bokmål: beskylde — attribute blame to someone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skulde — attribute blame to someone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skylde — attribute blame to someone
• Old English: sacan — attribute blame to someone
• Polish: oskarżać — attribute blame to someone
• Polish: oskarżyć — attribute blame to someone
• Portuguese: acusar — attribute blame to someone
• Romanian: acuza — attribute blame to someone
• Russian: вини́ть (vinítʹ) — attribute blame to someone
• Russian: обвиня́ть (obvinjátʹ) — attribute blame to someone
• Russian: обвини́ть (obvinítʹ) — attribute blame to someone
• Scots: wyte — attribute blame to someone
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir às leth — attribute blame to someone
• Serbo-Croatian: опту́жити — attribute blame to someone
• Serbo-Croatian: окри́вити — attribute blame to someone
• Serbo-Croatian: optúžiti — attribute blame to someone
• Serbo-Croatian: okríviti — attribute blame to someone
• Slovak: obviňovať — attribute blame to someone
• Slovak: obviniť — attribute blame to someone
• Slovak: obžalovať — attribute blame to someone
• Slovene: obtožiti — attribute blame to someone
• Lower Sorbian: do winy dawaś — attribute blame to someone
• Lower Sorbian: do winy daś — attribute blame to someone
• Upper Sorbian: wobwinować — attribute blame to someone
• Upper Sorbian: wobwinić — attribute blame to someone
• Spanish: acusar — attribute blame to someone
• Swedish: anklaga — attribute blame to someone
• Swedish: beskylla — attribute blame to someone
• Tagalog: magbintang — attribute blame to someone
• Tagalog: pagbintangan — attribute blame to someone
• Turkish: suçlamak — attribute blame to someone
• Ukrainian: звинува́чувати (zvynuváčuvaty) — attribute blame to someone
• Ukrainian: звинува́тити (zvynuvátyty) — attribute blame to someone
• Urdu: الزام لگانا (ilzām lagānā) — attribute blame to someone
• Volapük: kusadön — attribute blame to someone
• Yiddish: באַשולדיקן (bashuldikn) — attribute blame to someone