religion

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• Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/
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• New-Zealand: /ɹəˈləd͡ʒ.ən/
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• rhymes with -ɪdʒən
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• CMU ARPABET: R IH0 L IH1 JH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō Latin relegōder.? ▲ Latin re- Latin ligō Latin religōder.? Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin -iō Latin religiōbor. Old French religionbor. Middle English religioun English religion From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h2leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”).

241 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: адин (adin) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Afrikaans: godsdiens — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Albanian: fe — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Albanian: din — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Amharic: ሃይማኖት (haymanot) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Arabic: دِين (dīn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Chadian Arabic: دين (dīn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Arabic: دين (dīn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Aragonese: relichión — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Armenian: կրոն (kron) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Aromanian: pisti — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Assamese: ধৰ্ম (dhormo) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Asturian: relixón — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Atong (India): thorom — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Avar: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Avestan: 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁 (daēnā) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Azerbaijani: din — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Azerbaijani: məzhəb — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Bashkir: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Basque: erlijio — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Belarusian: рэлі́гія (relíhija) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Belarusian: ве́ра (vjéra) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Belarusian: веравызна́нне (vjeravyznánnje) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Belarusian: веравызна́ньне (vjeravyznánʹnje) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Bengali: ধর্ম (dhormo) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Bengali: দ্বীন (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Bulgarian: рели́гия (relígija) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Bulgarian: вероизповеда́ние (veroizpovedánie) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Bulgarian: вяра (vjara) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Burmese: အယူဝါဒ (a.yuwada.) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Burmese: ဘာသာ (bhasa) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Burmese: ဘာသာတရား (bhasata.ra:) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Buryat: шажан (šažan) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Carpathian Rusyn: релі́ґія (relígija) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Catalan: religió — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Chechen: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Cherokee: ᏗᏁᎸᏙᏗ (dinelvdodi) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Chinese Cantonese: 宗教 (zung1 gaau3) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Chinese: җё (jio) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Chinese: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Eastern Min Chinese: 宗教 (cŭng-gáu) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hakka Chinese: 宗教 (chûng-kau) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Chinese: 宗教 (zh-min-nan) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Chinese Mandarin: 宗教 (zōngjiào) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Wu Chinese: 宗教 (1tson-ciau) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Chuvash: тӗн (tĕn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• West Circassian: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲁⲥⲉⲃⲏⲥ (metasebēs) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Crimean Tatar: din — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Czech: náboženství — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Danish: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dhivehi: ދީން (dīn̊) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dutch: godsdienst — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dutch: geloofsovertuiging — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dutch: religie — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Esperanto: religio — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Estonian: usk — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Estonian: religioon — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Faroese: átrúnaður — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Finnish: uskonto — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• French: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• West-Frisian: religy — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Galician: relixión — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Georgian: რელიგია (religia) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Georgian: აღმსარებლობა (aɣmsarebloba) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Georgian: სარწმუნოება (sarc̣munoeba) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• German: Religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Greek: θρησκεία (thriskeía) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ancient Greek: θρησκεία (thrēskeía) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Greenlandic: religioni — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Gujarati: ધર્મ (dharma) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Haitian Creole: relijyon — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hausa: addini — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hebrew: דָּת (dat) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hiligaynon: relihiyon — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hindi: धर्म (dharm) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hindi: दीन (dīn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hindi: मज़हब (mazhab) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hungarian: vallás — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Hunsrik: Rëlighion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Icelandic: trúarbrögð — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Icelandic: átrúnaður — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ido: religio — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Indonesian: agama — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Indonesian: din — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ingrian: religia — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ingush: ди (di) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Interlingua: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Irish: creideamh — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Irish: reiligiún — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Italian: religione — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Japanese: 宗教 (shūkyō) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Kalmyk: шаҗн (şajn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Kannada: ಧರ್ಮ (dharma) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Kapampangan: kasalpantayanan — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Kapampangan: kesalpantayanan — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Kashmiri: مَزہَب (mazhab) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Kazakh: дін (dın) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Khmer: សាសនា (saasnaa) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Konkani: धर्म (dharma) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Korean: 종교 (jonggyo) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Central Kurdish: ئاین (ayn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Central Kurdish: دین (dîn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Northern Kurdish: dîn — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Northern Kurdish: ol — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Northern Kurdish: ayîn — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Kyrgyz: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ladino: ריליג׳ייון — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ladino: relijion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Lao: ສາດສະຫນາ (sāt sa nā) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Latin: religiō — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Latvian: reliģija — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Lezgi: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Lithuanian: reli̇̀gija — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Livonian: relīgij — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Luxembourgish: Relioun — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Macedonian: религија (religija) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Malagasy: fivavahana — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Malay: agama — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Malay: kepercayaan — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Malay: anutan — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Malay: din — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Malayalam: മതം (mataṁ) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Maltese: reliġjon — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Manx: craueeaght — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Marathi: धर्म (dharma) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Minangkabau: agamo — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Mirandese: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Mongolian: шашин (šašin) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Mongolian: ᠱᠠᠰᠢᠨ (šasin) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Moore: wẽnd so-tũudum — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Nepali: धर्म (dharma) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Norman: r'ligion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Norwegian Bokmål: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Norwegian Bokmål: trosretning — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Norwegian Nynorsk: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Occitan: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Odia: ଧର୍ମ (dharma) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Old English: ġelēafa — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Old English: ǣfæstnes — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ossetian: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Pali: dhamma — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Pali: धम्म (dhamma) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Pashto: مذهب (mazhab) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Pashto: دين (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dari: دِین (dīn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dari: مَذْهَب (mazhab) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dari: کیش (kēš) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dari: آئِین (ā'īn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Dari: آیِین (āyīn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Iranian Persian: دین (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Iranian Persian: مَذْهَب (mazhab) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Iranian Persian: کیش (kiš) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Iranian Persian: آئین (â'in) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Iranian Persian: آیین (âyin) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Middle Persian: dyn' (dēn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Piedmontese: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: rilijin — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Plautdietsch: Gloowe — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Plautdietsch: Reljoon — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Polish: religia — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Polish: wiara — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Polish: wyznanie — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Portuguese: religião — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Punjabi: ਧਰਮ (dharam) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Punjabi: دھرم (dharm) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Romanian: religie — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Romansh: religiun — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Russian: рели́гия (relígija) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Russian: ве́ра (véra) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Russian: вероиспове́дание (veroispovédanije) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Samogitian: viera — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Sanskrit: धर्म (dharma) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Santali: ᱫᱤᱱ (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Santali: ᱫᱷᱚᱨᱚᱢ (dhôrôm) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Scots: releegion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Scottish Gaelic: creideamh — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Scottish Gaelic: diadhachd — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: рѐлӣгија — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: ве̏ра — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: вје̏ра — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: вероѝспове̄ст — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: вјероѝсповије̄ст — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: rèlīgija — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: vȅra — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: vjȅra — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: veroìspovēst — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Serbo-Croatian: vjeroìspovijēst — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Sindhi: مذهب (mẕhb) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Sinhalese: ආගම (āgama) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Slovak: náboženstvo — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Slovak: relígia — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Slovene: vera — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Slovene: veroizpoved — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Slovene: religija — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Somali: diin — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Lower Sorbian: nabóžnina — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Upper Sorbian: nabožina — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Spanish: religión — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Swahili: dini — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Swedish: religion — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Sylheti: ꠗꠞ꠆ꠝꠧ (dórmo) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tagalog: relihiyon — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tajik: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tajik: мазҳаб (mazhab) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tamil: சமயம் (camayam) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tamil: மதம் (matam) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tatar: дин (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Telugu: మతము (matamu) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Thai: ศาสนา (sàat-sà-nǎa) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tibetan: ཆོས་ལུགས — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tok Pisin: lotu — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tok Pisin: rilijin — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Turkish: din — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Turkish: inanç — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Turkish: bağlanç — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Turkish: mezhep — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ottoman Turkish: دین (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Turkmen: din — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Tuvan: шажын (şajın) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Udmurt: оскон (oskon) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ukrainian: релі́гія (relíhija) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ukrainian: ві́ра (víra) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ukrainian: віросповіда́ння (virospovidánnja) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Ukrainian: віровизна́ння (virovyznánnja) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Unami: këntuwe — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Urdu: دِین (dīn) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Urdu: مَذْہَب (mazhab) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Urdu: دَھرْم (dharm) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Uyghur: دىن (din) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Uzbek: din — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Uzbek: mazhab — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Venetan: rełijon — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Vietnamese: đạo — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Vietnamese: tôn giáo — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Walloon: rilidjon — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Welsh: crefydd — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Wutunhua: quilek — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Yakut: итэҕэл (iteğel) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Yiddish: רעליגיע (religye) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
• Zazaki: din (diq) — system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death