guile

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• /ɡaɪl/
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* As an English, Scottish, and French surname, borrowed from French guile. * Also as an English surname, variant of Gill. * Possibly also Americanized from the German surname Geil.

From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.

Variant forms.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: mashtrrim — astuteness, cunning
• Bulgarian: хитрост (hitrost) — astuteness, cunning
• Catalan: astúcia — astuteness, cunning
• Chinese Mandarin: 詭計 /诡计 (guǐjì) — astuteness, cunning
• Dutch: slinksheid — astuteness, cunning
• Dutch: valsheid — astuteness, cunning
• Dutch: bedrog — astuteness, cunning
• Finnish: juonikkuus — astuteness, cunning
• Finnish: kavaluus — astuteness, cunning
• Finnish: oveluus — astuteness, cunning
• French: ruse — astuteness, cunning
• French: fourberie — astuteness, cunning
• Galician: astucia — astuteness, cunning
• Galician: argucia — astuteness, cunning
• Galician: artimaña — astuteness, cunning
• German: Gerissenheit — astuteness, cunning
• German: Hinterhältigkeit — astuteness, cunning
• Hungarian: ármány — astuteness, cunning
• Hungarian: álnokság — astuteness, cunning
• Hungarian: csalárdság — astuteness, cunning
• Icelandic: vélabrögð — astuteness, cunning
• Icelandic: kænska — astuteness, cunning
• Icelandic: slægð — astuteness, cunning
• Interlingua: astutia — astuteness, cunning
• Irish: meang — astuteness, cunning
• Italian: astuzia — astuteness, cunning
• Italian: inganno — astuteness, cunning
• Italian: frode — astuteness, cunning
• Māori: rauhanga — astuteness, cunning
• Polish: przebiegłość — astuteness, cunning
• Portuguese: astúcia — astuteness, cunning
• Russian: хи́трость (xítrostʹ) — astuteness, cunning
• Russian: кова́рство (kovárstvo) — astuteness, cunning
• Spanish: astucia — astuteness, cunning
• Swedish: list — astuteness, cunning
• Ottoman Turkish: قورنازلق (kurnazlık) — astuteness, cunning
• Ottoman Turkish: شیطانلق (şeytanlık) — astuteness, cunning
• Bulgarian: измама (izmama) — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Bulgarian: коварство (kovarstvo) — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Catalan: engany — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Czech: záludnost — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Czech: lstivost — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Czech: úskočnost — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Czech: podvod — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Dutch: misleiding — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Finnish: vilppi — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Finnish: huijaus — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Finnish: petkutus — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Finnish: harhautus — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• French: tromperie — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Galician: estrataxema — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• German: Hinterlist — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• German: Täuschung — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• German: Betrug — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Latin: dolus — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Māori: māminga — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Māori: whakaware — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Māori: hīanga — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Middle English: compassement — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Middle English: compassyng — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Polish: podstęp — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Russian: обман (obman) — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Russian: вероломство (verolomstvo) — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Spanish: trampa — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Spanish: engaño — deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
• Bulgarian: мамя (mamja) — to deceive, to beguile
• Bulgarian: хитрувам (hitruvam) — to deceive, to beguile
• Catalan: enganyar — to deceive, to beguile
• Chinese Mandarin: 欺騙 /欺骗 (qīpiàn) — to deceive, to beguile
• Chinese Mandarin: 欺瞞 /欺瞒 (qīmán) — to deceive, to beguile
• Czech: podvést — to deceive, to beguile
• Finnish: juonia — to deceive, to beguile
• Finnish: juonitella — to deceive, to beguile
• Finnish: viekastella — to deceive, to beguile
• French: tromper — to deceive, to beguile
• French: entourlouper — to deceive, to beguile
• Galician: enganar — to deceive, to beguile
• German: irreleiten — to deceive, to beguile
• German: irreführen — to deceive, to beguile
• Icelandic: véla — to deceive, to beguile
• Icelandic: tæla — to deceive, to beguile
• Italian: ingannare — to deceive, to beguile
• Italian: turlupinare — to deceive, to beguile
• Māori: whakaware — to deceive, to beguile
• Māori: hīanga — to deceive, to beguile
• Polish: oszukiwać — to deceive, to beguile
• Polish: oszukać — to deceive, to beguile
• Russian: обма́нывать (obmányvatʹ) — to deceive, to beguile
• Russian: обману́ть (obmanútʹ) — to deceive, to beguile