relief

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• rĭ-lēf′
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• UK: /rɪˈliːf/
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• /ɹɪˈliːf/
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• US: /rɪˈlif/
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From Italian rilievo, from rilevare (“to raise”), from Latin relevō (“to raise”).

From Old French relief (“assistance”), from Old French relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”). See also relieve.

253 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رَاحَة (rāḥa) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Arabic: تَخْفِيف (taḵfīf) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Belarusian: палёгка (paljóhka) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Belarusian: аблягчэ́нне (abljahčénnje) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Bulgarian: облекчение (oblekčenie) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Catalan: consol — removal of stress or discomfort
• Catalan: alleujament — removal of stress or discomfort
• Chinese Mandarin: 解除 (jiěchú) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Chinese Mandarin: 安心 (ānxīn) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Chinese Mandarin: 救濟 /救济 (jiùjì) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Czech: úleva — removal of stress or discomfort
• Danish: lettelse — removal of stress or discomfort
• Dutch: opluchting — removal of stress or discomfort
• Esperanto: ektrankviliĝo — removal of stress or discomfort
• Finnish: helpotus — removal of stress or discomfort
• Finnish: huojennus — removal of stress or discomfort
• French: soulagement — removal of stress or discomfort
• French: allégement — removal of stress or discomfort
• Galician: alivio — removal of stress or discomfort
• Galician: acougo — removal of stress or discomfort
• German: Erleichterung — removal of stress or discomfort
• German: Entlastung — removal of stress or discomfort
• Greek: ανακούφιση (anakoúfisi) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Hebrew: הקלה (hakala) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Hungarian: könnyítés — removal of stress or discomfort
• Hungarian: enyhítés — removal of stress or discomfort
• Hungarian: csillapítás — removal of stress or discomfort
• Irish: faoiseamh — removal of stress or discomfort
• Italian: sollievo — removal of stress or discomfort
• Japanese: 安心 (anshin) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Japanese: 救済 (kyūsai) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Korean: 제고 (jego) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Korean: 안심 (ansim) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Latin: solacium — removal of stress or discomfort
• Latin: aberrātiō — removal of stress or discomfort
• Māori: whakamāmātanga — removal of stress or discomfort
• Norwegian Bokmål: lettelse — removal of stress or discomfort
• Norwegian Bokmål: lindring — removal of stress or discomfort
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lindring — removal of stress or discomfort
• Polish: ulga — removal of stress or discomfort
• Portuguese: alívio — removal of stress or discomfort
• Quechua: allinyay — removal of stress or discomfort
• Romanian: ușurare — removal of stress or discomfort
• Romanian: alinare — removal of stress or discomfort
• Russian: облегче́ние (oblexčénije) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Scottish Gaelic: faochadh — removal of stress or discomfort
• Spanish: alivio — removal of stress or discomfort
• Spanish: desahogo — removal of stress or discomfort
• Swahili: faraja — removal of stress or discomfort
• Swedish: lättnad — removal of stress or discomfort
• Swedish: lindring — removal of stress or discomfort
• Telugu: ఉపశమనం (upaśamanaṁ) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Ukrainian: поле́гшення (poléhšennja) — removal of stress or discomfort
• Welsh: gollyngdod — removal of stress or discomfort
• Welsh: rhyddhad — removal of stress or discomfort
• Bulgarian: облекчение (oblekčenie) — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Catalan: consol — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Danish: lettelse — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Dutch: opluchting — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Finnish: helpotus — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• French: soulagement — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• German: Erleichterung — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Greek: ανακούφιση (anakoúfisi) — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Hungarian: megkönnyebbülés — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Italian: sollievo — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Japanese: 安心 (anshin) — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Japanese: 安心感 (anshin kan) — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Māori: manawatau — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Spanish: aliviane — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Swedish: lättnad — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• Ukrainian: поле́гшення (poléhšennja) — feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort
• French: relève — release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another
• Polish: wyręka — release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another
• Spanish: relevación — release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another
• Bulgarian: смяна (smjana) — person who takes over a shift
• Czech: zástup — person who takes over a shift
• Finnish: vapauttaja — person who takes over a shift
• French: relève — person who takes over a shift
• German: Ablösung — person who takes over a shift
• Hungarian: helyettesítő — person who takes over a shift
• Hungarian: váltó — person who takes over a shift
• Hungarian: váltótárs — person who takes over a shift
• Hungarian: felváltó — person who takes over a shift
• Italian: sostituto — person who takes over a shift
• Italian: cambio — person who takes over a shift
• Japanese: 交代者 (kōtaisha) — person who takes over a shift
• Māori: rīwhi — person who takes over a shift
• Polish: wyręka — person who takes over a shift
• Spanish: relevo — person who takes over a shift
• Spanish: remuda — person who takes over a shift
• Swedish: avlösare — person who takes over a shift
• Swedish: avlösning — person who takes over a shift
• Bulgarian: помощ (pomošt) — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Bulgarian: подпомагане (podpomagane) — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Czech: (humanitární) pomoc — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Finnish: hätäapu — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Finnish: humanitaarinen apu — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Finnish: apu — humanitarian aid or assistance
• German: Hilfe — humanitarian aid or assistance
• German: Unterstützung — humanitarian aid or assistance
• German: Beistand — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Hungarian: segély — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Irish: fóirithint — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Italian: assistenza — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Italian: soccorso — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Italian: aiuto — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Japanese: 救済 (kyūsai) — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Japanese: 救援 (kyūen) — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Central Kurdish: چار (çar) — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Latin: subsidium — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Meru: gikeno — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Portuguese: auxílio — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Portuguese: assistência humanitária — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Romanian: asistență umanitară — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Romanian: ajutor umanitar — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Scottish Gaelic: faochadh — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Spanish: ayuda humanitaria — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Spanish: auxilio — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Spanish: asistencia — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Swahili: faraja — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Swedish: nödhjälp — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Swedish: bistånd — humanitarian aid or assistance
• Finnish: avustus — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Finnish: apu — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Finnish: hätäapu — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• German: Nothilfe — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Hungarian: segítség — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Irish: fuascailt — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Irish: fóirithint — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Japanese: 救済 (kyūsai) — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Japanese: 救援 (kyūen) — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Latin: subsidium — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Swedish: nödhjälp — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• Swedish: bistånd — aid or assistance offered in time of need
• German: Entsatz — military assistance to break a siege or an encirclement
• Irish: fóirithint — military assistance to break a siege or an encirclement
• Finnish: korvaus — law: court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, redress
• Finnish: hyvitys — law: court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, redress
• Finnish: helpotus — law: court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, redress
• Japanese: 法的救済 (hōteki kyūsai) — law: court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, redress
• Japanese: 賠償 (baishō) — law: court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, redress
• Swedish: skadestånd — law: court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, redress
• Finnish: verohelpotus — reduction in tax
• Hungarian: adókönnyítés — reduction in tax
• Hungarian: adóelengedés — reduction in tax
• Italian: sgravio — reduction in tax
• Japanese: 減税 (genzei) — reduction in tax
• Swedish: skattelättnad — reduction in tax
• Latin: relevium — composition on heir
• Albanian: reliev — type of artwork
• Arabic: نَقْش نَافِر (naqš nāfir) — type of artwork
• Armenian: ռելյեֆ (ṙelyef) — type of artwork
• Armenian: բառելյեֆ (baṙelyef) — type of artwork
• Belarusian: рэлье́ф (relʹjéf) — type of artwork
• Belarusian: барэлье́ф (barelʹjéf) — type of artwork
• Bulgarian: реле́ф (reléf) — type of artwork
• Catalan: relleu — type of artwork
• Chinese Mandarin: 浮雕 (fúdiāo) — type of artwork
• Czech: reliéf — type of artwork
• Danish: relief — type of artwork
• Dutch: reliëf — type of artwork
• Esperanto: reliefo — type of artwork
• Estonian: reljeef — type of artwork
• Estonian: bareljeef — type of artwork
• Finnish: reliefi — type of artwork
• Finnish: korkokuva — type of artwork
• Finnish: kohokuva — type of artwork
• French: relief — type of artwork
• Georgian: რელიეფი (reliepi) — type of artwork
• German: Relief — type of artwork
• Greek: ανάγλυφο (anáglyfo) — type of artwork
• Ancient Greek: ἐκτύπωμα (ektúpōma) — type of artwork
• Hebrew: תבליט (tavlit) — type of artwork
• Hungarian: relief — type of artwork
• Hungarian: dombormű — type of artwork
• Icelandic: lágmynd — type of artwork
• Indonesian: relief — type of artwork
• Irish: rilíf — type of artwork
• Italian: rilievo — type of artwork
• Italian: bassorilievo — type of artwork
• Japanese: 浮き彫り (ukibori) — type of artwork
• Japanese: リリーフ (rirīfu) — type of artwork
• Japanese: レリーフ (rerīfu) — type of artwork
• Khmer: ចម្លាក់លៀន (jom lakk lean) — type of artwork
• Khmer: ចម្លាក់ផុស (jom lakk phos) — type of artwork
• Korean: 부조 (bujo) — type of artwork
• Latvian: reljefs — type of artwork
• Latvian: cilnis — type of artwork
• Lithuanian: reljefas — type of artwork
• Macedonian: релјеф (reljef) — type of artwork
• Norwegian Bokmål: relieff — type of artwork
• Norwegian Nynorsk: relieff — type of artwork
• Polish: relief — type of artwork
• Portuguese: relevo — type of artwork
• Romanian: relief — type of artwork
• Romanian: basorelief — type of artwork
• Romanian: altorelief — type of artwork
• Russian: релье́ф (relʹjéf) — type of artwork
• Russian: барелье́ф (barelʹjéf) — type of artwork
• Serbo-Croatian: рељеф — type of artwork
• Serbo-Croatian: reljef — type of artwork
• Slovak: reliéf — type of artwork
• Slovene: relief — type of artwork
• Spanish: relieve — type of artwork
• Swedish: relief — type of artwork
• Turkish: kabartma — type of artwork
• Turkish: rölyef — type of artwork
• Ukrainian: барельє́ф (barelʹjéf) — type of artwork
• Ukrainian: рельє́ф (relʹjéf) — type of artwork
• Vietnamese: рhù điêu — type of artwork
• Welsh: cerfwedd — type of artwork
• Bulgarian: релефност (relefnost) — apparent difference in elevation
• Bulgarian: изпъкналост (izpǎknalost) — apparent difference in elevation
• Catalan: relleu — apparent difference in elevation
• Finnish: syvyysvaikutelma — apparent difference in elevation
• French: relief — apparent difference in elevation
• Hungarian: kontraszt — apparent difference in elevation
• Hungarian: mélység — apparent difference in elevation
• Japanese: 浮彫的効果 (ukiboriteki kōka) — apparent difference in elevation
• Japanese: 立体画法 (rittai gahō) — apparent difference in elevation
• Belarusian: рэлье́ф (relʹjéf) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Bulgarian: релеф (relef) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Catalan: relleu — difference of elevations on a surface
• Czech: reliéf — difference of elevations on a surface
• Dutch: reliëf — difference of elevations on a surface
• Finnish: pinnanmuoto — difference of elevations on a surface
• Finnish: korkeusero — difference of elevations on a surface
• Finnish: reliefi — difference of elevations on a surface
• French: relief — difference of elevations on a surface
• German: Relief — difference of elevations on a surface
• Greek: ανάγλυφο (anáglyfo) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Hebrew: תבלוטת — difference of elevations on a surface
• Hebrew: תִּבְלֹטֶת (tivlotet) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Hebrew: תבליט (tɑvlit) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Hungarian: domborzat — difference of elevations on a surface
• Hungarian: domborulat — difference of elevations on a surface
• Hungarian: kiemelkedés — difference of elevations on a surface
• Italian: rilievo — difference of elevations on a surface
• Italian: sopraelevazione — difference of elevations on a surface
• Japanese: 起伏 (kifuku) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Japanese: 高低 (kōtei) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Latvian: reljefs — difference of elevations on a surface
• Macedonian: релјеф (reljef) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Malay: bentuk bumi — difference of elevations on a surface
• Māori: āhua matawhenua — difference of elevations on a surface
• Māori: takoto whenua — difference of elevations on a surface
• Portuguese: relevo — difference of elevations on a surface
• Romanian: relief — difference of elevations on a surface
• Russian: релье́ф (relʹjéf) — difference of elevations on a surface
• Serbo-Croatian: reljef — difference of elevations on a surface
• Spanish: relieve — difference of elevations on a surface
• Swedish: relief — difference of elevations on a surface
• Ukrainian: рельє́ф (relʹjéf) — difference of elevations on a surface