guilt

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɪlt/
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• homophone: gilt
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• homophone: GILT
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• rhymes with -ɪlt
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From Middle English gilt, gult, from Old English gylt (“guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault”), of obscure origin. Possibly related with Old English ġieldan (“to pay, requite, punish”) (whence yield), from Proto-West Germanic *guldijā (whence Middle High German gülte (“debt, fee, financial duty”), Middle Low German gülde, German Gülte), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay for”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”). However, neither the Old English stem form nor its ending -t (instead of -d) fit the continental form.

From Middle English gilten, gylten, from Old English gyltan (“to commit sin, be guilty”), from gylt (“guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault”).

From Etymology 1.

230 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: skuld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Albanian: faj — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Arabic: ذَنْب (ḏanb) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Arabic: خِطْء (ḵiṭʔ) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Arabic: إِثْم (ʔiṯm) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Arabic: جُرْم (jurm) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Arabic: عَيْب (ʕayb) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Arabic: خَطِيئَة (ḵaṭīʔa) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Arabic: ذنب (zanb) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Armenian: մեղք (meġkʻ) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Assamese: দোষ (düx) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Avar: гӏайиб (ʻajib) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Azerbaijani: günah — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Azerbaijani: suç — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Azerbaijani: günahkarlıq — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Bashkir: ғәйеп (ğəyep) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Bashkir: яуаплылыҡ (yawaplılıq) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Belarusian: віна́ (viná) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Bengali: দোষ (dōś) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Bengali: অপরাধবোধ (opradhbōdh) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Bulgarian: вина́ (viná) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Burmese: အပြစ် (a.prac) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Carpathian Rusyn: вина́ (vyná) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Catalan: culpabilitat — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Catalan: culpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Chinese Mandarin: 罪狀 /罪状 (zuìzhuàng) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Chinese Mandarin: 罪疚 (zuìjiù) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Chinese Mandarin: 有罪 (yǒuzuì) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Czech: vina — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Danish: skyld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Dutch: schuld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Esperanto: kulpo — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Estonian: süü — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Finnish: syyllisyys — responsibility for wrongdoing
• French: culpabilité — responsibility for wrongdoing
• West-Frisian: skuld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Galician: culpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Georgian: ბრალი (brali) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• German: Schuld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Greek: ενοχή (enochí) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Hebrew: אַשְׁמָה (ashmá) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Hindi: अपराध (aprādh) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Hindi: क़सूर (qasūr) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Hindi: दोष (doṣ) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Hindi: ऐब (aib) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Hungarian: bűn — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Icelandic: skuld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Indonesian: kesalahan — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Irish: ciontacht — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Italian: colpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Japanese: 有罪 (yūzai) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Japanese: 罪 (tsumi) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Japanese: 責任 (sekinin) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Kazakh: кінә (kınä) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Kazakh: айып (aiyp) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Khmer: កំហុស (kɑmhoh) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Korean: 죄 (joe) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Korean: 유죄 (yujoe) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Korean: 책임 (chaegim) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Kyrgyz: күнөө (künöö) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Kyrgyz: айып (ayıp) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Lao: ຄວາມຮູ້ສຶກຜິດ (khuām hū sưk phit) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Lao: ຄວາມຜິດ (khuām phit) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Latin: culpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Latvian: vaina — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Latvian: vainīgums — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Latvian: vainība — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Lithuanian: kaltė — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Macedonian: вина (vina) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Malay: bersalah — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Malayalam: കുറ്റബോധം (kuṟṟabōdhaṁ) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Maltese: dnub — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Maltese: ħtija — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Mongolian: гэм (gem) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Norwegian Bokmål: skyld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skyld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Occitan: culpabilitat — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Occitan: culpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Church Slavic: вина (vina) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Old East Slavic: вина (vina) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Old English: sċyld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Old English: gylt — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Pannonian Rusyn: вина (vina) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Papiamentu: kulpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Pashto: ګناه (gwənā) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Iranian Persian: جُرْم (jorm) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Iranian Persian: گُناه (gonâh) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Iranian Persian: عِیب (eyb) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Plautdietsch: Schult — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Polish: wina — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Portuguese: culpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Rohingya: háta — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Romanian: păcat — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Romanian: vină — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Russian: вина́ (viná) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Russian: вино́вность (vinóvnostʹ) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Russian: прови́нность (provínnostʹ) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Serbo-Croatian: кривѝца — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Serbo-Croatian: кри́вња — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Serbo-Croatian: krivìca — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Serbo-Croatian: krívnja — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Sicilian: curpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Slovak: vina — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Slovene: krivda — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Lower Sorbian: wina — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Upper Sorbian: wina — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Spanish: culpa — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Swahili: hatia — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Swedish: skuld — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Swedish: skuldkänsla — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Tagalog: kasalanan — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Tajik: гуноҳ (gunoh) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Tajik: ҷурм (jurm) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Tajik: айб (ayb) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Tamil: குற்றம் (kuṟṟam) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Tatar: гаеп (ğayıp) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Telugu: అపరాధభావన (aparādhabhāvana) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Thai: ความรู้สึกผิด (kwaam-rúu-sʉ̀k-pìt) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Thai: ตราบาป (dtraa-bàap) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Thai: ความผิด (kwaam-pìt) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Tongan: halaia — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Turkish: suç — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Turkish: suçluluk — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Ottoman Turkish: صوچ (suç) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Ottoman Turkish: ذنب (zenb) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Turkmen: günä — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Ukrainian: вина́ (vyná) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Ukrainian: прови́на (provýna) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Urdu: قَصُور (qasūr) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Urdu: گُناہ (gunāh) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Urdu: اَپْرادھ (aprādh) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Urdu: جُرْم (jurm) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Urdu: عَیب ('aib) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Uyghur: گۇناھ (gunah) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Uyghur: گۇناھكارلىق (gunahkarliq) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Uzbek: ayb — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Uzbek: gunoh — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Uzbek: aybdorlik — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Vietnamese: điều sai quấy — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Vietnamese: lỗi — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Vietnamese: lỗi lầm — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Welsh: euogrwydd — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Yiddish: שולד (shuld) — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Yucatec Maya: kuch — responsibility for wrongdoing
• Albanian: fajsia — legal
• Armenian: մեղավորություն (meġavorutʻyun) — legal
• Belarusian: віна́ (viná) — legal
• Belarusian: вінава́тасць (vinavátascʹ) — legal
• Belarusian: вінава́тасьць (vinavátasʹcʹ) — legal
• Belarusian: ві́ннасць (vínnascʹ) — legal
• Belarusian: ві́ннасьць (vínnasʹcʹ) — legal
• Bulgarian: вина́ (viná) — legal
• Catalan: culpabilitat — legal
• Chinese Mandarin: 犯罪 (fànzuì) — legal
• Chinese Mandarin: 有罪 (yǒuzuì) — legal
• Czech: vina — legal
• Dutch: schuld — legal
• Finnish: syyllisyys — legal
• French: culpabilité — legal
• Galician: culpabilidade — legal
• German: Schuld — legal
• Hungarian: bűnösség — legal
• Italian: colpevolezza — legal
• Japanese: 有罪 (yūzai) — legal
• Japanese: 犯罪 (hanzai) — legal
• Korean: 범죄 (beomjoe) — legal
• Korean: 유죄 (yujoe) — legal
• Latin: crimen — legal
• Latin: reatitudo — legal
• Latvian: vaina — legal
• Latvian: vainīgums — legal
• Latvian: vainība — legal
• Old English: sċyld — legal
• Polish: wina — legal
• Portuguese: culpa — legal
• Russian: вина́ (viná) — legal
• Russian: вино́вность (vinóvnostʹ) — legal
• Russian: прови́нность (provínnostʹ) — legal
• Sicilian: curpa — legal
• Sicilian: curpavilità — legal
• Sicilian: curpavilizza — legal
• Spanish: culpabilidad — legal
• Tamil: குற்றம் (kuṟṟam) — legal
• Ukrainian: вина́ (vyná) — legal
• Ukrainian: винува́тість (vynuvátistʹ) — legal
• Ukrainian: ви́нність (výnnistʹ) — legal
• Ukrainian: прови́нність (provýnnistʹ) — legal
• Vietnamese: tội lỗi — legal
• Arabic: نَدَم (nadam) — regret for having done wrong
• Armenian: մեղքի զգացում (meġkʻi zgacʻum) — regret for having done wrong
• Belarusian: віна́ (viná) — regret for having done wrong
• Bulgarian: вино́вност (vinóvnost) — regret for having done wrong
• Catalan: penediment — regret for having done wrong
• Chinese Mandarin: 內疚 /内疚 (nèijiù) — regret for having done wrong
• Czech: vina — regret for having done wrong
• Dutch: schuldgevoel — regret for having done wrong
• Finnish: syyllisyydentunne — regret for having done wrong
• Finnish: syyllisyys — regret for having done wrong
• French: sentiment de culpabilité — regret for having done wrong
• Galician: culpa — regret for having done wrong
• German: Schuldgefühl — regret for having done wrong
• Greek: τύψη (týpsi) — regret for having done wrong
• Hindi: अपराधबोध (aprādhbodh) — regret for having done wrong
• Hindi: आत्मग्लानि (ātmaglāni) — regret for having done wrong
• Hindi: दोष-भावना (doṣ-bhāvnā) — regret for having done wrong
• Hindi: दोषबोध (doṣbodh) — regret for having done wrong
• Hindi: अपराध-भावना (aprādh-bhāvnā) — regret for having done wrong
• Hungarian: bűntudat — regret for having done wrong
• Icelandic: sektarkennd — regret for having done wrong
• Italian: senso di colpa — regret for having done wrong
• Japanese: 罪悪感 (zaiakukan) — regret for having done wrong
• Korean: 죄책감 (joechaekgam) — regret for having done wrong
• Latvian: vaina — regret for having done wrong
• Malayalam: കുറ്റബോധം (kuṟṟabōdhaṁ) — regret for having done wrong
• Māori: kaniawhea — regret for having done wrong
• Iranian Persian: پَشیمانی (pašimâni) — regret for having done wrong
• Portuguese: culpa — regret for having done wrong
• Russian: вина́ (viná) — regret for having done wrong
• Russian: чу́вство вины́ (čúvstvo viný) — regret for having done wrong
• Sicilian: curpa — regret for having done wrong
• Sicilian: pintimentu — regret for having done wrong
• Spanish: culpa — regret for having done wrong
• Spanish: remordimiento — regret for having done wrong
• Swedish: skuld — regret for having done wrong
• Tamil: குற்ற உணர்வு (kuṟṟa uṇarvu) — regret for having done wrong
• Tamil: குற்ற உணர்ச்சி (kuṟṟa uṇarcci) — regret for having done wrong
• Ukrainian: вина́ (vyná) — regret for having done wrong
• Ukrainian: почуття́ вини́ (počuttjá vyný) — regret for having done wrong
• Vietnamese: cảm giác tội lỗi — regret for having done wrong
• Spanish: hacer sentir culpable — Translations