prophecy

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒfɪsi/
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• General-American: prŏfʹĭ-sē
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• General-American: /ˈpɹɑfɪsi/
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• CMU ARPABET: P R AA1 F AH0 S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English prophecie, from Old French prophetie, from Latin prophētīa, from Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía, “prophecy”), from προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “speaker of a god”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + φημί (phēmí, “to tell”). Displaced native Old English wītgung. Doublet of prophesy.

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: voorspelling — prediction
• Albanian: profeci — prediction
• Amharic: ትንቢት (tənbit) — prediction
• Arabic: نُبُوءَة (nubūʔa) — prediction
• Arabic: تَنَبُّؤ (tanabbuʔ) — prediction
• Armenian: մարգարեություն (margareutʻyun) — prediction
• Azerbaijani: peyğəmbərlik — prediction
• Belarusian: праро́цтва (praróctva) — prediction
• Bulgarian: проро́чество (proróčestvo) — prediction
• Bulgarian: предсказание (predskazanie) — prediction
• Burmese: ဟောကိန်း (hau:kin:) — prediction
• Catalan: profecia — prediction
• Chinese Mandarin: 預言 /预言 (yùyán) — prediction
• Ngazidja Comorian: nubua — prediction
• Czech: proroctví — prediction
• Danish: profeti — prediction
• Danish: spådom — prediction
• Dutch: voorspelling — prediction
• Dutch: profetie — prediction
• Finnish: profetia — prediction
• French: prophétie — prediction
• Galician: profecía — prediction
• Georgian: წინასწარმეტყველება (c̣inasc̣armeṭq̇veleba) — prediction
• German: Prophezeiung — prediction
• German: Weissagung — prediction
• Gothic: 𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌾𐌰 (praufētja) — prediction
• Greek: προφητεία (profiteía) — prediction
• Hawaiian: wānana — prediction
• Hebrew: נְבוּאָה (n'vu'á) — prediction
• Hindi: भविष्यवाणी (bhaviṣyavāṇī) — prediction
• Hungarian: jóslat — prediction
• Hungarian: prófécia — prediction
• Icelandic: spá — prediction
• Indonesian: nubuat — prediction
• Indonesian: nujuman — prediction
• Irish: tairngreacht — prediction
• Irish: fáistine — prediction
• Italian: profezia — prediction
• Japanese: 予言 (yogen) — prediction
• Kazakh: пайғамбарлық (paiğambarlyq) — prediction
• Khmer: ព្យាករណ៍ (pyiəkɑɑ) — prediction
• Korean: 예언 (yeeon) — prediction
• Latin: vāticinium — prediction
• Latin: fatus — prediction
• Latin: prophētīa — prediction
• Macedonian: пророштво (proroštvo) — prediction
• Malayalam: പ്രവചനം (pravacanaṁ) — prediction
• Māori: kupu whakaari — prediction
• Māori: poropititanga — prediction
• Norwegian Bokmål: profeti — prediction
• Norwegian Bokmål: spådom — prediction
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spådom — prediction
• Old Church Slavonic: вражениѥ (vraženije) — prediction
• Old English: wītgung — prediction
• Plautdietsch: Profeetie — prediction
• Polish: proroctwo — prediction
• Polish: przepowiednia — prediction
• Portuguese: profecia — prediction
• Quechua: watuy — prediction
• Romanian: profeție — prediction
• Russian: проро́чество (proróčestvo) — prediction
• Russian: предсказа́ние (predskazánije) — prediction
• Serbo-Croatian: пророчанство — prediction
• Serbo-Croatian: пророштво — prediction
• Serbo-Croatian: proročánstvo — prediction
• Serbo-Croatian: pròroštvo — prediction
• Slovak: proroctvo — prediction
• Slovene: prerokba — prediction
• Spanish: profecía — prediction
• Swahili: utabiri — prediction
• Swedish: profetia — prediction
• Tagalog: hawo — prediction
• Thai: พยากรณ์ (pá-yaa-gɔɔn) — prediction
• Thai: ลาง (laang) — prediction
• Thai: คําทํานาย (kam-tam-naai) — prediction
• Turkish: vahiy — prediction
• Ottoman Turkish: پیغامبرلك (peygamberlik) — prediction
• Ukrainian: проро́цтво (proróctvo) — prediction
• Vietnamese: tiên tri — prediction
• Yiddish: נבֿואה (nevue) — prediction