dignity

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• /ˈdɪɡnɪti/
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Inherited from Middle English dignyte, from Old French dignité, from Latin dignitās (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from dignus (“worthy, appropriate”), from Proto-Italic *degnos, from Proto-Indo-European *dḱ-nos, from *deḱ- (“to take”). See also decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign. Doublet of dainty. In this sense, displaced native Old English weorþsċipe, which became Modern English worship.

171 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: waardigheid — quality or state
• Albanian: denjësi — quality or state
• Albanian: hir — quality or state
• Albanian: dinjitet — quality or state
• Amharic: ክብር (kəbr) — quality or state
• Arabic: كَرَامَة (karāma) — quality or state
• Arabic: وَقَار (waqār) — quality or state
• Arabic: مَنْزِلَة (manzila) — quality or state
• Arabic: شَأْن (šaʔn) — quality or state
• Arabic: عِزَّة (ʕizza) — quality or state
• Arabic: شَرَف (šaraf) — quality or state
• Aragonese: dinidat — quality or state
• Armenian: արժանապատվություն (aržanapatvutʻyun) — quality or state
• Asturian: dignidá — quality or state
• Azerbaijani: ləyaqət — quality or state
• Azerbaijani: şərəf — quality or state
• Basque: duintasun — quality or state
• Belarusian: го́днасць (hódnascʹ) — quality or state
• Belarusian: дасто́інства (dastóinstva) — quality or state
• Bengali: মর্যাদা (morjada) — quality or state
• Bulgarian: досто́йнство (dostójnstvo) — quality or state
• Burmese: အသရေ (a.sa.re) — quality or state
• Burmese: သိန် (sin) — quality or state
• Catalan: dignitat — quality or state
• Cherokee: ᎠᏢᏉᏙᏗ (atlvquododi) — quality or state
• Chinese Mandarin: 尊嚴 /尊严 (zūnyán) — quality or state
• Coptic: ⲧⲓⲙⲏ (timē) — quality or state
• Cornish: dynita — quality or state
• Czech: důstojnost — quality or state
• Danish: værdighed — quality or state
• Dutch: waardigheid — quality or state
• Esperanto: digno — quality or state
• Estonian: väärikus — quality or state
• Faroese: tign — quality or state
• Faroese: sómi — quality or state
• Faroese: manslæti — quality or state
• Faroese: virðileiki — quality or state
• Faroese: tignarlæti — quality or state
• Finnish: arvokkuus — quality or state
• French: dignité — quality or state
• Galician: dignidade — quality or state
• Georgian: ღირსება (ɣirseba) — quality or state
• German: Würde — quality or state
• Greek: αξιοπρέπεια (axioprépeia) — quality or state
• Ancient Greek: σεμνότης (semnótēs) — quality or state
• Hawaiian: hanohano — quality or state
• Hawaiian: kapukapu — quality or state
• Hebrew: כָּבוֹד (kavód) — quality or state
• Hindi: मर्यादा (maryādā) — quality or state
• Hindi: गरिमा (garimā) — quality or state
• Hindi: इज़्ज़त (izzat) — quality or state
• Hungarian: méltóság — quality or state
• Icelandic: virðuleiki — quality or state
• Icelandic: reisn — quality or state
• Ido: digneso — quality or state
• Indonesian: martabat — quality or state
• Interlingua: dignitate — quality or state
• Irish: dínit — quality or state
• Irish: ardchéim — quality or state
• Irish: gradam — quality or state
• Italian: dignità — quality or state
• Japanese: 尊厳 (songen) — quality or state
• Kazakh: қадір-қасиет (qadır-qasiet) — quality or state
• Khmer: សេចក្ដីថ្លៃថ្នូរ (sackdəy thlay thnou) — quality or state
• Korean: 존엄 (joneom) — quality or state
• Korean: 존엄성 (joneomseong) — quality or state
• Northern Kurdish: rûmet — quality or state
• Kyrgyz: кадыр (kadır) — quality or state
• Kyrgyz: нарк (nark) — quality or state
• Lao: ສັກສີ (sak sī) — quality or state
• Latin: dignitās — quality or state
• Latvian: cieņa — quality or state
• Lithuanian: orumas — quality or state
• Luxembourgish: Dignitéit — quality or state
• Macedonian: достоинство (dostoinstvo) — quality or state
• Malay: maruah — quality or state
• Maltese: dinjità — quality or state
• Manx: mooaralys — quality or state
• Māori: amarutanga — quality or state
• Marathi: मोठेपण (moṭhepaṇ) — quality or state
• Middle English: dignyte — quality or state
• Middle English: deynte — quality or state
• Mirandese: denidade — quality or state
• Mongolian: нэр хүнд (ner xünd) — quality or state
• Norwegian Bokmål: verdighet — quality or state
• Odia: ମର୍ଯ୍ୟାଦା (marjyādā) — quality or state
• Old English: weorþsċipe — quality or state
• Pashto: وقار (weqār) — quality or state
• Pashto: شان (šān) — quality or state
• Pashto: حيثيت (haysyat) — quality or state
• Persian: مَنزِلَت (manzelat) — quality or state
• Persian: شَأن (ša'n) — quality or state
• Persian: وَرج (varj) — quality or state
• Persian: کَرامَت (karâmat) — quality or state
• Persian: وَقار (vaqâr) — quality or state
• Persian: عِزَّت ('ezzat) — quality or state
• Persian: شَرَف (šaraf) — quality or state
• Polish: godność — quality or state
• Portuguese: dignidade — quality or state
• Romanian: demnitate — quality or state
• Romansh: dignitad — quality or state
• Romansh: dignited — quality or state
• Romansh: dignità — quality or state
• Russian: досто́инство (dostóinstvo) — quality or state
• Scottish Gaelic: urram — quality or state
• Serbo-Croatian: достоја̀нство — quality or state
• Serbo-Croatian: dostojànstvo — quality or state
• Sinhalese: අභිමානය (abhimānaya) — quality or state
• Slovak: dôstojnosť — quality or state
• Slovene: dostojanstvo — quality or state
• Spanish: dignidad — quality or state
• Swedish: värdighet — quality or state
• Tagalog: dignidad — quality or state
• Tajik: шаън (ša'n) — quality or state
• Tajik: манзалат (manzalat) — quality or state
• Tajik: виқор (viqor) — quality or state
• Tajik: каромат (karomat) — quality or state
• Tajik: иззат (izzat) — quality or state
• Tajik: шараф (šaraf) — quality or state
• Tamil: கண்ணியம் (kaṇṇiyam) — quality or state
• Telugu: గౌరవం (gauravaṁ) — quality or state
• Thai: ศักดิ์ศรี (sàk-sǐi) — quality or state
• Turkish: haysiyet — quality or state
• Turkish: şeref — quality or state
• Ottoman Turkish: شان (şan) — quality or state
• Ottoman Turkish: ناموس (namus) — quality or state
• Ottoman Turkish: اورند (evrend) — quality or state
• Turkmen: mertebe — quality or state
• Ukrainian: досто́їнство (dostójinstvo) — quality or state
• Ukrainian: гі́дність (hídnistʹ) — quality or state
• Urdu: وَقار (vaqār) — quality or state
• Urdu: عِزَّت ('izzat) — quality or state
• Uzbek: viqor — quality or state
• Uzbek: martaba — quality or state
• Vietnamese: nhân phẩm — quality or state
• Welsh: urddas — quality or state
• Yiddish: ווערדע (verde) — quality or state
• Yoruba: iyì — quality or state
• Dutch: plechtigheid — formality, stateliness
• Finnish: juhlavuus — formality, stateliness
• Finnish: muodollisuus — formality, stateliness
• French: forme — formality, stateliness
• German: Förmlichkeit — formality, stateliness
• Ancient Greek: βάρος (báros) — formality, stateliness
• Ancient Greek: πρόστασις (próstasis) — formality, stateliness
• Hungarian: illem — formality, stateliness
• Irish: ardchéim — formality, stateliness
• Irish: dínit — formality, stateliness
• Irish: maorgacht — formality, stateliness
• Irish: uaisleacht — formality, stateliness
• Māori: amarutanga — formality, stateliness
• Spanish: dignidad — formality, stateliness
• Bulgarian: титла (titla) — high office or rank
• Dutch: waardigheid — high office or rank
• Finnish: arvoasema — high office or rank
• Finnish: arvonimi — high office or rank
• French: rang — high office or rank
• French: dignité — high office or rank
• German: Amt — high office or rank
• Hungarian: méltóság — high office or rank
• Interlingua: dignitate — high office or rank
• Irish: ardchéim — high office or rank
• Manx: ardcheim — high office or rank
• Middle English: dignyte — high office or rank
• Polish: dostojność — high office or rank
• Polish: dostojeństwo — high office or rank
• Russian: зва́ние (zvánije) — high office or rank
• Russian: сан (san) — high office or rank
• Russian: до́лжность (dólžnostʹ) — high office or rank
• Spanish: dignidad — high office or rank
• Spanish: juzgaduría — high office or rank