doubt

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: dout
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /daʊt/
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• Canada: /dʌʊt/
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• rhymes with -aʊt
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• homophone: dought
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• CMU ARPABET: D AW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Italic *du(i)βwos Latin *dubosdenom. Latin dubō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus 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 -tō Latin -itō Latin dubitō Old French doterbor. Middle English douten ▲ Old French doter Old French doutebor. Middle English doute ▲ English dubiousinflu. ▲ Latin dubitōinflu. English doubt The verb is derived from Middle English douten (“to doubt, fear, worry”) [and other forms], from Old French douter, doter, duter (compare Middle French doubter), from Latin dubitāre (“to be uncertain, doubt; to hesitate, waver in coming to an opinion; to consider, ponder”); the further etymology is uncertain, but one theory is that dubitō may be derived from dubius (“fluctuating, wavering; doubtful, dubious, uncertain”), from duhibius (“held as two”), from duo (“two”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 (“two”)) + habeō (“to have, hold”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gheh1bh- (“to grab, take”)). Spelling reformers of the early modern period added the letter b to reflect the Latin root dubitō, but it has never been pronounced in English. The noun is derived from Middle English dout, doute (“uncertainty, hesitation; questionable point; anxiety, fear, reverence”) [and other forms], from Old French doute, dote, dute (“uncertain feeling, doubt”), from doter, douter, duter (“to doubt, fear”) (compare Middle French doubter; modern French douter (“to doubt, suspect”)); see further etymology above. The ESL "question" sense is a semantic loan from Romance cognates: Portuguese dúvida, Spanish duda, Catalan dubte, French doute, Italian dubbio and others, which can all mean "question". Displaced Old English twēo (“doubt”) and twēoġan (“to doubt”).

295 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dyshim — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• American Sign Language: V@NearNose-PalmBack BentV@FromChin — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Arabic: شَكّ (šakk) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Arabic: شُبْهَة (šubha) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Arabic: شك (šakk) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Aragonese: dubda — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Armenian: կասկած (kaskac) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Armenian: տարակույս (tarakuys) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Armenian: երկմտանք (erkmtankʻ) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Armenian: երկբայություն (erkbayutʻyun) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Armenian: երկբայանք (erkbayankʻ) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Armenian: կասկածելիություն (kaskaceliutʻyun) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Assamese: সন্দেহ (xondeh) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Asturian: duda — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Asturian: dulda — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Azerbaijani: şübhə — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Azerbaijani: şəkk — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Bashkir: шикләнеү (şiklənew) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Bashkir: шөбһәләнеү (şöbhələnew) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Bashkir: икеләнеү (ikelənew) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Bashkir: шик (şik) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Bashkir: шөбһә (şöbhə) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Belarusian: су́мнеў (súmnjew) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Belarusian: сумне́нне (sumnjénnje) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Belarusian: сумне́ньне (sumnjénʹnje) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Bengali: সন্দেহ (śondeho) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Bhojpuri: शक (śak) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Bulgarian: съмне́ние (sǎmnénie) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Burmese: သံသယ (samsa.ya.) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Catalan: dubte — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Cebuano: duda — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Chechen: шеко (šeko) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Chinese Mandarin: 懷疑 /怀疑 (huáiyí) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Chinese Mandarin: 疑惑 (yíhuò) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Chinese Mandarin: 疑問 /疑问 (yíwèn) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Czech: pochyba — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Czech: pochybnost — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Danish: tvivl — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Dutch: twijfel — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Esperanto: dubo — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Estonian: kõhklus — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Estonian: kahtlus — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Faroese: ivi — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Finnish: epäily — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Finnish: epäilys — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• French: doute — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Old French: doutance — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• West-Frisian: twivel — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Galician: dúbida — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Georgian: ეჭვი (eč̣vi) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• German: Zweifel — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Greek: αμφιβολία (amfivolía) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Ancient Greek: ἀπιστία (apistía) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Hanunoo: alangan — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Hebrew: סָפֵק (safék) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Hindi: संदेह (sandeh) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Hindi: दुविधा (duvidhā) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Hindi: शक (śak) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Hindi: गुमान (gumān) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Hungarian: kétely — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Hungarian: kétség — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Icelandic: efasemd — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Icelandic: efi — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Icelandic: vafi — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Ido: dubito — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Indonesian: kebimbangan — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Indonesian: keraguan — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Interlingua: dubita — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Irish: aincheas — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Irish: dabht — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Italian: dubbio — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Italian: perplessità — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Japanese: 不審 (fushin) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Japanese: 疑問 (gimon) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Japanese: 疑い (utagai) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Kazakh: күмән (kümän) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Kazakh: шүбә (şübä) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Kazakh: шек (şek) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Khmer: កង្ខា (kangkhaa) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Khmer: សង្ស័យ (sɑɑsɑngsay) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Khmer: វិចិកិច្ឆា (vicekecchaa) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Korean: 의혹 (uihok) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Northern Kurdish: guman — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Northern Kurdish: gûş — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Northern Kurdish: hulhul — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Northern Kurdish: şik — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Northern Kurdish: şube — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Northern Kurdish: şûf — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Kyrgyz: күмөн (kümön) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Kyrgyz: шек (şek) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Lao: ສົງໄສ — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Lao: ສັງກາ (sang kā) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Latin: dubium — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Latin: dubitātiō — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Latin: dubietās — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Latvian: šaubas — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Lithuanian: abejonė — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Lithuanian: dvejonė — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Luxembourgish: Zweiwel — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Macedonian: сомнеж (somnež) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Macedonian: сомневање (somnevanje) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Malay: keraguan — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Malayalam: സംശയം (saṁśayaṁ) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Manx: dooyt — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Manx: ourys — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Māori: kumukumu — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Mirandese: dúbeda — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Mongolian: сэжиг (sežig) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Mongolian: эргэлзээ (ergelzee) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Mongolian: дамжиг (damžig) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Norwegian Bokmål: tvil — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Occitan: dobte — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Old English: twēo — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Oromo: mamii — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Oromo: shakkii — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Pashto: شک (šak) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Pashto: شبهه (šebhá) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Iranian Persian: گُمان (gomân) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Iranian Persian: شَکّ (šakk) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Iranian Persian: شَک (šak) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Iranian Persian: شُبْهِه (šobhe) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Polish: wątpliwość — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Portuguese: dúvida — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Portuguese: incerteza — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Romanian: dubiu — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Romanian: îndoială — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Russian: сомне́ние (somnénije) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Scottish Gaelic: amharas — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-chinnt — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Scottish Gaelic: teagamh — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Serbo-Croatian: су́мња — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Serbo-Croatian: súmnja — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Serbo-Croatian: dvojba — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Sicilian: dùbbitu — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Slovak: pochybnosť — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Slovene: dvom — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Spanish: duda — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Swahili: shaka — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Swedish: tvekan — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Swedish: tvivel — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Swedish: osäkerhet — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tagalog: duda — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tagalog: alinlangan — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tajik: шак (šak) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tajik: шубҳа (šubha) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tamil: சந்தேகம் (cantēkam) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tamil: ஐயம் (aiyam) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tatar: шик (şik) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tatar: шөбһә (şöbhä) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Telugu: సందేహము (sandēhamu) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Telugu: శంక (śaṅka) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Thai: สงสัย (sǒng-sǎi) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tocharian B: sklok — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Tongan: veiveiua — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Turkish: kuşku — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Turkish: şüphe — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Turkish: şek — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Turkish: güman — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Ottoman Turkish: شبهه (şübhe) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Turkmen: şübhe — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Ukrainian: су́мнів (súmniv) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Urdu: شَک (śak) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Urdu: گُمان (gumān) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Urdu: شُبْہَہ (śubha) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Urdu: سَنْدیہ (sandeh) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Uyghur: شۈبھە (shübhe) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Uyghur: گۇمان (guman) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Uyghur: شەك (shek) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Uzbek: shubha — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Uzbek: gumon — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Uzbek: shak — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Vietnamese: (sự, điều, mối) nghi ngờ — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Volapük: dot — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Welsh: amheuaeth — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Yiddish: צווייפֿל (tsveyfl) — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Zazaki: şek — disbelief or uncertainty (about something)
• Arabic: شُبْهَة (šubha) — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Bulgarian: неяснота́ (nejasnotá) — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Hindi: दुविधा (duvidhā) — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Portuguese: dúvida — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Russian: вопро́с (voprós) — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Spanish: duda — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Spanish: dubio — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Tamil: ஐயம் (aiyam) — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Tamil: சந்தேகம் (cantēkam) — point of uncertainty, query, doubt
• Albanian: dyshim tut — to lack confidence in
• Arabic: شَكَّ (šakka) — to lack confidence in
• Armenian: կասկածել (kaskacel) — to lack confidence in
• Armenian: տարակուսել (tarakusel) — to lack confidence in
• Armenian: վարանել (varanel) — to lack confidence in
• Armenian: երկմտել (erkmtel) — to lack confidence in
• Armenian: երկբայել (erkbayel) — to lack confidence in
• Armenian: երկբայանալ (erkbayanal) — to lack confidence in
• Asturian: dudar — to lack confidence in
• Asturian: duldar — to lack confidence in
• Bashkir: шикләнеү (şiklənew) — to lack confidence in
• Bashkir: шөбһәләнеү (şöbhələnew) — to lack confidence in
• Bashkir: икеләнеү (ikelənew) — to lack confidence in
• Basque: duda egin — to lack confidence in
• Basque: zalantza egin — to lack confidence in
• Basque: zalantzatu — to lack confidence in
• Belarusian: сумнява́цца (sumnjavácca) — to lack confidence in
• Bulgarian: съмня́вам се (sǎmnjávam se) — to lack confidence in
• Catalan: dubtar — to lack confidence in
• Chinese Mandarin: 懷疑 /怀疑 (huáiyí) — to lack confidence in
• Czech: pochybovat — to lack confidence in
• Dalmatian: dobitur — to lack confidence in
• Danish: betvivle — to lack confidence in
• Danish: tvivle — to lack confidence in
• Dutch: betwijfelen — to lack confidence in
• Dutch: twijfelen — to lack confidence in
• Elfdalian: twivel — to lack confidence in
• Esperanto: dubi — to lack confidence in
• Estonian: kõhklema — to lack confidence in
• Fang (Bantu): ásóo — to lack confidence in
• Faroese: ivast — to lack confidence in
• Finnish: epäillä — to lack confidence in
• Finnish: kyseenalaistaa — to lack confidence in
• French: douter — to lack confidence in
• Middle French: dubiter — to lack confidence in
• Galician: dubidar — to lack confidence in
• Georgian: დაეჭვება (daeč̣veba) — to lack confidence in
• Georgian: ეჭვის შეტანა (eč̣vis šeṭana) — to lack confidence in
• German: bezweifeln — to lack confidence in
• German: zweifeln — to lack confidence in
• Greek: αμφιβάλλω (amfivállo) — to lack confidence in
• Ancient Greek: ἀπιστέω (apistéō) — to lack confidence in
• Greenlandic: qularpoq — to lack confidence in
• Hebrew: פִּקְפֵּק (pikpék) — to lack confidence in
• Hindi: संदेह करना (sandeh karnā) — to lack confidence in
• Hungarian: kételkedik — to lack confidence in
• Hungarian: kétell — to lack confidence in
• Hungarian: kétségbe von — to lack confidence in
• Hungarian: megkérdőjelez — to lack confidence in
• Icelandic: efa — to lack confidence in
• Icelandic: efast — to lack confidence in
• Ido: dubitar — to lack confidence in
• Indonesian: bimbang — to lack confidence in
• Indonesian: meragukan — to lack confidence in
• Indonesian: ragu — to lack confidence in
• Indonesian: ragu akan — to lack confidence in
• Italian: dubitare — to lack confidence in
• Japanese: 疑う (utagau) — to lack confidence in
• Japanese: 訝しむ (ibukashimu) — to lack confidence in
• Kabuverdianu: diskunfia — to lack confidence in
• Kabuverdianu: deskonfiá — to lack confidence in
• Khmer: សង្ស័យ (sɑɑsɑngsay) — to lack confidence in
• Korean: 의심하다 (uisimhada) — to lack confidence in
• Latin: dubito — to lack confidence in
• Latvian: šaubīties — to lack confidence in
• Lithuanian: abejoti — to lack confidence in
• Lithuanian: dvejoti — to lack confidence in
• Luxembourgish: zweiwelen — to lack confidence in
• Macedonian: се сомнева (se somneva) — to lack confidence in
• Malayalam: സംശയിക്കുക (saṁśayikkuka) — to lack confidence in
• Māori: kumukumu — to lack confidence in
• Māori: raupeka — to lack confidence in
• Mongolian: сэжиглэх (sežiglex) — to lack confidence in
• Mongolian: эргэлзэх (ergelzex) — to lack confidence in
• Norwegian Bokmål: tvile — to lack confidence in
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tvila — to lack confidence in
• Old English: twēoġan — to lack confidence in
• Polish: wątpić — to lack confidence in
• Polish: zwątpić — to lack confidence in
• Polish: powątpiewać — to lack confidence in
• Portuguese: duvidar — to lack confidence in
• Romanian: avea dubii — to lack confidence in
• Romanian: se îndoi — to lack confidence in
• Romansh: dubitar — to lack confidence in
• Northern Sami: eahpidit — to lack confidence in
• Sanskrit: शङ्के (śaṅke) — to lack confidence in
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir teagamh — to lack confidence in
• Serbo-Croatian: сумњати — to lack confidence in
• Serbo-Croatian: sumnjati — to lack confidence in
• Slovak: pochybovať — to lack confidence in
• Slovene: dvomiti — to lack confidence in
• Upper Sorbian: dwělować — to lack confidence in
• Spanish: dudar — to lack confidence in
• Swahili: -shuku — to lack confidence in
• Swedish: tvivla — to lack confidence in
• Swedish: tveka — to lack confidence in
• Swedish: betvivla — to lack confidence in
• Tagalog: alinlangan — to lack confidence in
• Tagalog: duda — to lack confidence in
• Telugu: సందేహించు (sandēhiñcu) — to lack confidence in
• Telugu: శంకించు (śaṅkiñcu) — to lack confidence in
• Thai: สงสัย (sǒng-sǎi) — to lack confidence in
• Tocharian B: klänk- — to lack confidence in
• Turkish: şüphelenmek — to lack confidence in
• Turkish: kuşkulanmak — to lack confidence in
• Ottoman Turkish: شبههلنمك (şübhelenmek) — to lack confidence in
• Ukrainian: сумніва́тися (sumnivátysja) — to lack confidence in
• Urdu: شک کرنا (śak karnā) — to lack confidence in
• Vietnamese: nghi ngờ — to lack confidence in
• Welsh: amau — to lack confidence in