deem

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• Received-Pronunciation: /diːm/
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• General-American: /dim/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -iːm
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• CMU ARPABET: D IY1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English deme, from the verb (see above).

From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”), Finnish tuomita (“to judge”). It is also related to doom.

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حَكَم (ḥakam) — to hold in belief or estimation
• Bulgarian: смятам (smjatam) — to hold in belief or estimation
• Dutch: beschouwen — to hold in belief or estimation
• Finnish: pitää — to hold in belief or estimation
• Finnish: kokea — to hold in belief or estimation
• Finnish: uskoa — to hold in belief or estimation
• Finnish: päätellä — to hold in belief or estimation
• French: estimer — to hold in belief or estimation
• French: croire — to hold in belief or estimation
• Galician: considerar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Galician: xulgar — to hold in belief or estimation
• German: halten — to hold in belief or estimation
• German: erachten — to hold in belief or estimation
• Gothic: 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (dōmjan) — to hold in belief or estimation
• Greek: θεωρώ (theoró) — to hold in belief or estimation
• Hungarian: ítél — to hold in belief or estimation
• Italian: considerare — to hold in belief or estimation
• Italian: valutare — to hold in belief or estimation
• Italian: credere — to hold in belief or estimation
• Japanese: 見なす (minasu) — to hold in belief or estimation
• Lithuanian: manyti — to hold in belief or estimation
• Occitan: considerar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Occitan: jutjar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Occitan: estimar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Occitan: creire — to hold in belief or estimation
• Persian: پنداشتن — to hold in belief or estimation
• Persian: خیال کردن — to hold in belief or estimation
• Persian: فرض کردن — to hold in belief or estimation
• Polish: uznać — to hold in belief or estimation
• Portuguese: considerar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Portuguese: estimar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Russian: полага́ть (polagátʹ) — to hold in belief or estimation
• Russian: счита́ть (sčitátʹ) — to hold in belief or estimation
• Russian: ду́мать (dúmatʹ) — to hold in belief or estimation
• Serbo-Croatian: smatrati — to hold in belief or estimation
• Serbo-Croatian: сматрати — to hold in belief or estimation
• Slovak: uznať — to hold in belief or estimation
• Slovak: považovať — to hold in belief or estimation
• Spanish: considerar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Spanish: concluir — to hold in belief or estimation
• Spanish: estimar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Spanish: identificar — to hold in belief or estimation
• Swedish: döma — to hold in belief or estimation
• Bulgarian: смя́там (smjátam) — to have or hold as an opinion
• Bulgarian: счи́там (sčítam) — to have or hold as an opinion
• Bulgarian: ми́сля (míslja) — to have or hold as an opinion
• Dutch: vinden — to have or hold as an opinion
• Dutch: achten — to have or hold as an opinion
• Esperanto: opinii — to have or hold as an opinion
• French: considérer — to have or hold as an opinion
• French: croire — to have or hold as an opinion
• Galician: considerar — to have or hold as an opinion
• German: erachten — to have or hold as an opinion
• German: ansehen — to have or hold as an opinion
• Italian: considerare — to have or hold as an opinion
• Italian: ritenere — to have or hold as an opinion
• Italian: reputare — to have or hold as an opinion
• Latin: opinor — to have or hold as an opinion
• Lithuanian: manyti — to have or hold as an opinion
• Mongolian: үзэх (üzex) — to have or hold as an opinion
• Occitan: considerar — to have or hold as an opinion
• Polish: uznawać — to have or hold as an opinion
• Portuguese: considerar — to have or hold as an opinion
• Slovak: považovať — to have or hold as an opinion
• Spanish: considerar — to have or hold as an opinion
• Spanish: juzgar — to have or hold as an opinion
• Spanish: judgar — to have or hold as an opinion