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Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
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The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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present participle and gerund of backbite
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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From Middle English bakbytynge, equivalent to backbite + -ing.
From Middle English bakbitynge, bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to backbite + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
غِيبَة
(ḡība)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Azerbaijani:
qeybət
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Bashkir:
ғәйбәт
(ğəybət)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Belarusian:
зласло́ўе
(zlaslówje)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Bengali:
গীবত
(gibot)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Irish:
fodhord
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Irish:
cúlchaint
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Italian:
maldicenza
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Italian:
sussurrio
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Italian:
diceria
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Italian:
ciarla
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Japanese:
後指
(ushiroyubi)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Japanese:
陰口
(kageguchi)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Kazakh:
ғайбат
(ğaibat)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Malagasy:
fifosana
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Persian:
دشتیاد
(doštyâd)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Persian:
غیبت
(ġeybet)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Russian:
злосло́вие
(zloslóvije)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Russian:
спле́тни
(splétni)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Tajik:
ғайбат
(ġaybat)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Tatar:
гайбәт
(ğäybät)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Turkish:
gıybet
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Ukrainian:
злосло́вення
(zloslóvennja)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Ukrainian:
лихослі́в'я
(lyxoslívʺja)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Urdu:
غِیبَت
(ġībat)
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
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Vietnamese:
nói xấu sau lưng
— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
