heaven

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See heaven.

From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel), and Old High German himil (German Himmel). Accepting these as cognates, some scholars propose a further derivation from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cover, cloud cover, firmament, sky, heaven”).

371 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: qiell — sky
• Albanian: pjetë — sky
• Amharic: ሰማይ (sämay) — sky
• Chungli Ao: kotak — sky
• Arabic: سَمَاء (samāʔ) — sky
• Arabic: فَلَك (falak) — sky
• Aramaic: ܫܡܝܐ (šəmayyā) — sky
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שְׁמַיָּא (šəmayyā) — sky
• Armenian: երկինք (erkinkʻ) — sky
• Asturian: cielu — sky
• Bashkir: күк (kük) — sky
• Bengali: আকাশ (akaś) — sky
• Bengali: আসমান (asman) — sky
• Bengali: স্বর্গ (śorgo) — sky
• Bulgarian: небе́ (nebé) — sky
• Burmese: ကောင်းကင် (kaung:kang) — sky
• Catalan: cel — sky
• Cebuano: langit — sky
• Chechen: стигал (stigal) — sky
• Chichewa: mlengalenga — sky
• Chinese Mandarin: 天空 (tiānkōng) — sky
• Czech: nebe — sky
• Czech: obloha — sky
• Dalmatian: cil — sky
• Danish: himmel — sky
• Dutch: hemel — sky
• Dutch: lucht — sky
• Dutch: firmament — sky
• Dutch: uitspansel — sky
• Esperanto: ĉielo — sky
• Estonian: taevas — sky
• Finnish: taivas — sky
• French: ciel — sky
• Saterland Frisian: Heemel — sky
• West-Frisian: himel — sky
• Friulian: cîl — sky
• Friulian: paradîs — sky
• Galician: ceo — sky
• Georgian: ზეცა (zeca) — sky
• German: Himmel — sky
• German: Firmament — sky
• Swabian: Hemmel — sky
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins) — sky
• Greek: ουρανός (ouranós) — sky
• Greek: ουράνια (ouránia) — sky
• Ancient Greek: οὐρανός (ouranós) — sky
• Hawaiian: lani — sky
• Hebrew: שָׁמַיִם (shamáyim) — sky
• Higaonon: langit — sky
• Hindi: आकाश (ākāś) — sky
• Hindi: गगन (gagan) — sky
• Hindi: अम्बर (ambar) — sky
• Hindi: व्योम (vyom) — sky
• Hungarian: ég — sky
• Hungarian: égbolt — sky
• Hungarian: mennybolt — sky
• Ido: cielo — sky
• Indonesian: langit — sky
• Ingrian: taivas — sky
• Interlingua: celo — sky
• Isoko: idedeghe — sky
• Italian: cielo — sky
• Japanese: 空 (sora) — sky
• Japanese: 天 (ten) — sky
• Kashubian: niebò — sky
• Kazakh: аспан (aspan) — sky
• Korean: 하늘 (haneul) — sky
• Central Kurdish: ئاسمان (asman) — sky
• Northern Kurdish: ezman — sky
• Northern Kurdish: asîman — sky
• Latin: caelum — sky
• Latvian: debesis — sky
• Lingala: likoló — sky
• Lithuanian: dangus — sky
• Low German: Heven — sky
• Macedonian: небо (nebo) — sky
• Macedonian: небеса (nebesa) — sky
• Malagasy: lanitra — sky
• Maltese: ġenna — sky
• Maltese: sema — sky
• Manchu: ᠠᠪᡴᠠ (abka) — sky
• Māori: rangi — sky
• Massachusett: kesuck — sky
• Massachusett: kéesuck — sky
• Middle English: hevene — sky
• Middle English: welken — sky
• Mongolian: тэнгэр (tenger) — sky
• Navajo: wótʼááh — sky
• Norn: Chimeri — sky
• Norwegian Bokmål: himmel — sky
• Norwegian Bokmål: sky — sky
• Norwegian Bokmål: himmel — sky
• Norwegian Bokmål: sky — sky
• Occitan: cèl — sky
• Ojibwe: giizhig — sky
• Ojibwe: giizhigoon — sky
• Church Slavic: небо (nebo) — sky
• Church Slavic: ⱀⰵⰱⱁ (nebo) — sky
• Old Galician-Portuguese: ceo — sky
• Old Turkic: 𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃 — sky
• Pashto: هسک (hask) — sky
• Persian: آسمان (âsmân) — sky
• Persian: سپهر (sepehr) — sky
• Persian: گرزمان (garozmân) — sky
• Plautdietsch: Himmel — sky
• Polabian: nebü — sky
• Polish: niebo — sky
• Portuguese: céu — sky
• Romanian: cer — sky
• Russian: не́бо (nébo) — sky
• Russian: небеса́ (nebesá) — sky
• Scottish Gaelic: speur — sky
• Serbo-Croatian: не̏бо — sky
• Serbo-Croatian: небеса — sky
• Serbo-Croatian: nȅbo — sky
• Serbo-Croatian: nebesa — sky
• Slovak: nebo — sky
• Slovene: nebo — sky
• Slovene: nébes — sky
• Lower Sorbian: njebjo — sky
• Upper Sorbian: njebjo — sky
• Southern Altai: кӧк (kök) — sky
• Southern Altai: теҥери (teŋeri) — sky
• Swahili: mbingu — sky
• Swedish: himmel — sky
• Swedish: sky — sky
• Tagalog: langit — sky
• Tagalog: kalangitan — sky
• Thai: ฟ้า (fáa) — sky
• Tigrinya: ሰማይ (sämay) — sky
• Tumbuka: mlengalenga — sky
• Tumbuka: macanya — sky
• Turkish: gökyüzü — sky
• Turkish: gök — sky
• Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎎𐎎 (šmm) — sky
• Ukrainian: не́бо (nébo) — sky
• Urdu: آکاش (ākāś) — sky
• Urdu: آسمان (āsmān) — sky
• Urdu: گگن — sky
• Vietnamese: trời — sky
• Welsh: wybr — sky
• Yiddish: הימל (himl) — sky
• Yiddish: שמים (shomayem) — sky
• Yucatec Maya: kaʼan — sky
• Zazaki: azmin (diq) — sky
• Zazaki: sema (diq) — sky
• Zazaki: gırazmin — sky
• Zazaki: sapar — sky
• Zulu: izulu — sky
• Abenaki: spemki — paradise and upper-world
• Afrikaans: hemel — paradise and upper-world
• Ainu: リクンモシㇼ (rikunmosir) — paradise and upper-world
• Alabama: abahli iisa — paradise and upper-world
• Amharic: ገነት (gänät) — paradise and upper-world
• Arabic: سَمَاء f جَنَّة f فِرْدَوْس (janna) — paradise and upper-world
• Arabic: الجنة (el-ganna) — paradise and upper-world
• Arabic: جنة (janna) — paradise and upper-world
• Aramaic: ܦܪܕܝܣܐ (pardaysā) — paradise and upper-world
• Armenian: դրախտ (draxt) — paradise and upper-world
• Assamese: স্বৰ্গ (sorgo) — paradise and upper-world
• Assamese: বেহেস্ত (behesto) — paradise and upper-world
• Assamese: সৰগ (xorog) — paradise and upper-world
• Asturian: paraísu — paradise and upper-world
• Azerbaijani: cənnət — paradise and upper-world
• Baluchi: جنت (jannat) — paradise and upper-world
• Bashkir: ожмах (ojmax) — paradise and upper-world
• Bashkir: йәннәт (yənnət) — paradise and upper-world
• Bengali: স্বর্গ (śorgo) — paradise and upper-world
• Bengali: জান্নাত (jannat) — paradise and upper-world
• Bengali: বেহেশ্ত (beheśto) — paradise and upper-world
• Bengali: ফেরদৌস (pherdōus) — paradise and upper-world
• Bulgarian: рай (raj) — paradise and upper-world
• Burmese: ကောင်းကင်ဘုံ (kaung:kangbhum) — paradise and upper-world
• Burmese: လောကနိဗ္ဗာန် (lau:ka.nibban) — paradise and upper-world
• Catawba: hímbare — paradise and upper-world
• Cebuano: langit — paradise and upper-world
• Chechen: ялсамани (jalsamani) — paradise and upper-world
• Cheyenne: séano — paradise and upper-world
• Chickasaw: Aba' Yaakni' — paradise and upper-world
• Chinese Cantonese: 天堂 (tin1 tong4) — paradise and upper-world
• Chinese Mandarin: 天國 /天国 (tiānguó) — paradise and upper-world
• Chinese Mandarin: 天堂 (tiāntáng) — paradise and upper-world
• Chinese Mandarin: 樂園 /乐园 (lèyuán) — paradise and upper-world
• Maore Comorian: pev̄o — paradise and upper-world
• Ngazidja Comorian: mbingu — paradise and upper-world
• Czech: ráj — paradise and upper-world
• Danish: himmel — paradise and upper-world
• Central Dusun: surga — paradise and upper-world
• Dutch: hemel — paradise and upper-world
• Dutch: paradijs — paradise and upper-world
• Dutch: hof van Eden — paradise and upper-world
• Dutch: tuin der lusten — paradise and upper-world
• Esperanto: ĉielo — paradise and upper-world
• Estonian: taevas — paradise and upper-world
• Estonian: paradiis — paradise and upper-world
• Faroese: himmiríki — paradise and upper-world
• Finnish: taivas — paradise and upper-world
• Finnish: paratiisi — paradise and upper-world
• French: ciel — paradise and upper-world
• French: paradis — paradise and upper-world
• French: au-delà — paradise and upper-world
• French: cieux — paradise and upper-world
• West-Frisian: himel — paradise and upper-world
• Friulian: cîl — paradise and upper-world
• Galician: paraíso — paradise and upper-world
• Georgian: სამოთხე (samotxe) — paradise and upper-world
• German: Paradies — paradise and upper-world
• German: Himmel — paradise and upper-world
• Swabian: Hemmel — paradise and upper-world
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins) — paradise and upper-world
• Greek: παράδεισος (parádeisos) — paradise and upper-world
• Greek: ουράνια (ouránia) — paradise and upper-world
• Ancient Greek: οὐρανός (ouranós) — paradise and upper-world
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: gloria — paradise and upper-world
• Gujarati: સ્વર્ગ (svarg) — paradise and upper-world
• Gujarati: જન્નત (jannat) — paradise and upper-world
• Gujarati: વહિશ્ત (vahiśt) — paradise and upper-world
• Gujarati: ફિરદોસ (phirdos) — paradise and upper-world
• Haitian Creole: syèl — paradise and upper-world
• Hebrew: פרדיסא (pardaysā’) — paradise and upper-world
• Hebrew: גַּן עֵדֶן (gan éden) — paradise and upper-world
• Hindi: स्वर्ग (svarg) — paradise and upper-world
• Hindi: वैकुंठ (vaikuṇṭh) — paradise and upper-world
• Hindi: देवलोक (devlok) — paradise and upper-world
• Hungarian: mennyország — paradise and upper-world
• Hungarian: menny — paradise and upper-world
• Hungarian: ég — paradise and upper-world
• Indonesian: surga — paradise and upper-world
• Ingrian: raaju — paradise and upper-world
• Interlingua: celo — paradise and upper-world
• Interlingua: paradiso — paradise and upper-world
• Irish: neamh — paradise and upper-world
• Irish: flaitheas — paradise and upper-world
• Irish: flaithis — paradise and upper-world
• Italian: cielo — paradise and upper-world
• Italian: paradiso — paradise and upper-world
• Japanese: 天国 (tengoku) — paradise and upper-world
• Japanese: 天堂 (tendō) — paradise and upper-world
• Japanese: 楽園 (rakuen) — paradise and upper-world
• Kashubian: niebò — paradise and upper-world
• Kazakh: ұжмақ (ūjmaq) — paradise and upper-world
• Kazakh: жұмақ (jūmaq) — paradise and upper-world
• Kazakh: бейіш (beiış) — paradise and upper-world
• Kazakh: пейіш (peiış) — paradise and upper-world
• Kazakh: жәннат (jännat) — paradise and upper-world
• Korean: 하늘 (haneul) — paradise and upper-world
• Korean: 하늘나라 (haneullara) — paradise and upper-world
• Korean: 천국 (cheon'guk) — paradise and upper-world
• Korean: 천당 (cheondang) — paradise and upper-world
• Korean: 낙원 (nagwon) — paradise and upper-world
• Korean: 락원 (ragwon) — paradise and upper-world
• Central Kurdish: بەھەشت (beheşt) — paradise and upper-world
• Northern Kurdish: cenet — paradise and upper-world
• Kyrgyz: бейиш (beyiş) — paradise and upper-world
• Ladino: גן עדן (gan eden) — paradise and upper-world
• Ladino: Gan Eden — paradise and upper-world
• Latin: caelum — paradise and upper-world
• Latvian: debesis — paradise and upper-world
• Lithuanian: dangus — paradise and upper-world
• Lithuanian: rojus — paradise and upper-world
• Low German: Himmel — paradise and upper-world
• Lutuv: vuoruo — paradise and upper-world
• Luxembourgish: Himmel — paradise and upper-world
• Luxembourgish: Paradäis — paradise and upper-world
• Macedonian: рај (raj) — paradise and upper-world
• Malay: syurga — paradise and upper-world
• Malay: kayangan — paradise and upper-world
• Malay: jannah — paradise and upper-world
• Malay: jannat — paradise and upper-world
• Malay: loka — paradise and upper-world
• Malay: loga — paradise and upper-world
• Malay: sorga — paradise and upper-world
• Malay: adan — paradise and upper-world
• Maltese: ġenna — paradise and upper-world
• Manchu: ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ (abkai gurun) — paradise and upper-world
• Manchu: ᡩᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᠠᠪᡴᠠ (dergi abka) — paradise and upper-world
• Manchu: ᠠᠪᡴᠠ (abka) — paradise and upper-world
• Māori: rangi — paradise and upper-world
• Marathi: स्वर्ग (svarga) — paradise and upper-world
• Marathi: वैकुंठ (vaikuṇṭha) — paradise and upper-world
• Marshallese: aelōn̄in lan̄ — paradise and upper-world
• Middle English: hevene — paradise and upper-world
• Mongolian: ᠳ᠋ᠢᠸᠠᠵᠠᠨ (diwaǰan) — paradise and upper-world
• Mongolian: диваажин (divaažin) — paradise and upper-world
• Navajo: yáʼąąsh — paradise and upper-world
• Ngarrindjeri: Wyerriewarr — paradise and upper-world
• Norwegian Bokmål: himmel — paradise and upper-world
• Norwegian Bokmål: paradis — paradise and upper-world
• Norwegian Bokmål: paradis — paradise and upper-world
• Norwegian Bokmål: paradiser — paradise and upper-world
• Norwegian Nynorsk: himmel — paradise and upper-world
• Norwegian Nynorsk: paradis — paradise and upper-world
• Norwegian Nynorsk: paradis — paradise and upper-world
• Old Occitan: cel — paradise and upper-world
• Odia: ସ୍ୱର୍ଗ (swarga) — paradise and upper-world
• Pashto: جنت (janat) — paradise and upper-world
• Pashto: هسک (hask) — paradise and upper-world
• Persian: بهشت (behešt) — paradise and upper-world
• Persian: جنت (jannat) — paradise and upper-world
• Persian: مینو (minu) — paradise and upper-world
• Plautdietsch: Himmel — paradise and upper-world
• Polabian: nebü — paradise and upper-world
• Polish: niebo — paradise and upper-world
• Polish: raj — paradise and upper-world
• Portuguese: céu — paradise and upper-world
• Portuguese: Paraíso — paradise and upper-world
• Romani: rajo — paradise and upper-world
• Romanian: rai — paradise and upper-world
• Romanian: paradis — paradise and upper-world
• Russian: небеса́ (nebesá) — paradise and upper-world
• Russian: рай (raj) — paradise and upper-world
• Sanskrit: स्वर्ग (svarga) — paradise and upper-world
• Sanskrit: स्वर्गलोक (svargaloka) — paradise and upper-world
• Scots: heiven — paradise and upper-world
• Scots: the guid place — paradise and upper-world
• Scottish Gaelic: nèamh — paradise and upper-world
• Serbo-Croatian: ра̑ј — paradise and upper-world
• Serbo-Croatian: rȃj — paradise and upper-world
• Slovak: nebo — paradise and upper-world
• Slovene: nebesa — paradise and upper-world
• Lower Sorbian: njebjo — paradise and upper-world
• Upper Sorbian: njebjo — paradise and upper-world
• Southern Altai: учмак (učmak) — paradise and upper-world
• Swedish: himmel — paradise and upper-world
• Swedish: paradis — paradise and upper-world
• Swedish: himmelrike — paradise and upper-world
• Tagalog: paraiso — paradise and upper-world
• Tagalog: langit — paradise and upper-world
• Tagalog: kalangitan — paradise and upper-world
• Tamil: சொர்க்கம் (corkkam) — paradise and upper-world
• Tatar: жәннәт (jännät) — paradise and upper-world
• Telugu: స్వర్గం (svargaṁ) — paradise and upper-world
• Thai: สวรรค์ (sà-wǎn) — paradise and upper-world
• Turkish: cennet — paradise and upper-world
• Ottoman Turkish: جنت (cennet) — paradise and upper-world
• Ottoman Turkish: اوچماق (uçmak) — paradise and upper-world
• Ottoman Turkish: فردوس (firdevs) — paradise and upper-world
• Turkmen: jennet — paradise and upper-world
• Turkmen: uçma — paradise and upper-world
• Ukrainian: рай (raj) — paradise and upper-world
• Ukrainian: небеса́ (nebesá) — paradise and upper-world
• Urdu: جَنَّت (jannat) — paradise and upper-world
• Urdu: فِرْدَوس (firdaus) — paradise and upper-world
• Urdu: بِہِشْت (bihiśt) — paradise and upper-world
• Uyghur: جەننەت (jennet) — paradise and upper-world
• Uzbek: jannat — paradise and upper-world
• Uzbek: firdavs — paradise and upper-world
• Vietnamese: thiên đường — paradise and upper-world
• Vietnamese: thiên đàng — paradise and upper-world
• Welsh: nef — paradise and upper-world
• Woiwurrung: tharing-beek — paradise and upper-world
• Yiddish: הימל (himl) — paradise and upper-world
• Yiddish: שמים (shomayem) — paradise and upper-world
• Yiddish: גן־עדן (ganeydn) — paradise and upper-world
• Yucatec Maya: ka'an — paradise and upper-world
• Zazaki: cenet (diq) — paradise and upper-world
• Zazaki: behestan — paradise and upper-world
• Arabic: جَنَّة f فِرْدَوْس (janna) — blissful place or experience
• Bashkir: ожмах (ojmax) — blissful place or experience
• Bashkir: йәннәт (yənnət) — blissful place or experience
• Danish: himmel — blissful place or experience
• Finnish: taivas — blissful place or experience
• French: paradis — blissful place or experience
• Greek: παράδεισος (parádeisos) — blissful place or experience
• Hindi: स्वर्ग (svarg) — blissful place or experience
• Hindi: वैकुंठ (vaikuṇṭh) — blissful place or experience
• Hindi: देवलोक (devlok) — blissful place or experience
• Central Kurdish: بەھەشت (beheşt) — blissful place or experience
• Middle English: hevene — blissful place or experience
• Persian: بهشت (behešt) — blissful place or experience
• Turkish: cennet — blissful place or experience