malice

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From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حِقْد (ḥiqd) — intention to harm
• Arabic: حِقد (ḥigd) — intention to harm
• Armenian: քեն (kʻen) — intention to harm
• Armenian: նենգ (neng) — intention to harm
• Azerbaijani: qərəz — intention to harm
• Bulgarian: злонамереност (zlonamerenost) — intention to harm
• Catalan: malícia — intention to harm
• Chinese Mandarin: 惡意 /恶意 (èyì) — intention to harm
• Czech: zlomyslnost — intention to harm
• Dutch: kwaadaardigheid — intention to harm
• Esperanto: malico — intention to harm
• Faroese: óndskapur — intention to harm
• Faroese: óreinskapur — intention to harm
• Faroese: illskapur — intention to harm
• Finnish: pahantahtoisuus — intention to harm
• Finnish: ilkeys — intention to harm
• French: malveillance — intention to harm
• French: méchanceté — intention to harm
• French: malice — intention to harm
• Galician: malicia — intention to harm
• German: Boshaftigkeit — intention to harm
• German: Böse — intention to harm
• German: Bosheit — intention to harm
• German: Bösartigkeit — intention to harm
• Gothic: 𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌸 (neiþ) — intention to harm
• Greek: εμπάθεια (empátheia) — intention to harm
• Greek: κακεντρέχεια (kakentrécheia) — intention to harm
• Greek: κακία (kakía) — intention to harm
• Hindi: दुर्भाव (durbhāv) — intention to harm
• Hindi: दुर्भावना (durbhāvnā) — intention to harm
• Hindi: विद्वेष (vidveṣ) — intention to harm
• Hindi: कुभाव (kubhāv) — intention to harm
• Hindi: कुभावना (kubhāvnā) — intention to harm
• Hindi: कीना (kīnā) — intention to harm
• Hindi: कपट (kapaṭ) — intention to harm
• Hindi: खोट (khoṭ) — intention to harm
• Hindi: कुनह (kunah) — intention to harm
• Hindi: डाह (ḍāh) — intention to harm
• Hungarian: rosszindulat — intention to harm
• Hungarian: rosszakarat — intention to harm
• Hungarian: malícia — intention to harm
• Icelandic: illgirni — intention to harm
• Icelandic: meinfýsni — intention to harm
• Isoko: ịgrẹ — intention to harm
• Italian: malizia — intention to harm
• Italian: malignità — intention to harm
• Italian: cattiveria — intention to harm
• Japanese: 悪意 (akui) — intention to harm
• Japanese: 毒気 (dokuke, dokke) — intention to harm
• Latin: malitia — intention to harm
• Macedonian: злоба (zloba) — intention to harm
• Macedonian: злонамера (zlonamera) — intention to harm
• Macedonian: пакост (pakost) — intention to harm
• Malayalam: ദുഷ്ടത (duṣṭata) — intention to harm
• Māori: mauāhara — intention to harm
• Māori: kaikino — intention to harm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: argskap — intention to harm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vondskap — intention to harm
• Old English: yfelwillendnes — intention to harm
• Plautdietsch: Groll — intention to harm
• Polish: złośliwość — intention to harm
• Polish: złoba — intention to harm
• Polish: pakość — intention to harm
• Polish: zła wola — intention to harm
• Portuguese: malícia — intention to harm
• Portuguese: malignidade — intention to harm
• Portuguese: maldade — intention to harm
• Romanian: maliție — intention to harm
• Romanian: malițiozitate — intention to harm
• Russian: злой у́мысел (zloj úmysel) — intention to harm
• Russian: зло́ба (zlóba) — intention to harm
• Russian: злость (zlostʹ) — intention to harm
• Russian: зло (zlo) — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: па̏ко̄ст — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: зло̀ба — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: злона́ме̄рно̄ст — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: злу̀рад — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀лӣција — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: зло̀ћа — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: pȁkōst — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: zlòba — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: zlonámērnōst — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: zlùrad — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: màlīcija — intention to harm
• Serbo-Croatian: zlòća — intention to harm
• Spanish: malicia — intention to harm
• Swedish: illvilja — intention to harm
• Thai: เจตนาร้าย — intention to harm
• Thai: ความมุ่งร้าย (kwaam-mûng-ráai) — intention to harm
• Tocharian B: mantālo — intention to harm
• Turkish: kötü niyet — intention to harm
• Turkish: art niyet — intention to harm